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French cinema: 2000s

1 Journée (2009)
Jacob Berger

Serge, a radio presenter, begins his daily routine by leaving his family apartment at the crack of dawn so that he can pay his mistress a brief call before setting out for work...   [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)
Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple...   [More...]

17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002)
Christophe Honoré

Traumatised by the tragic death of her husband, Cécile Cassard asks her friend Edith to take care of her infant son whilst she tries to piece her life back together...   [More...]

2 Days in Paris (2007)
Julie Delpy

Fearing that the spark may be going out of their relationship, a New York couple, Marion and Jack, take a holiday in Venice...   [More...]

35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...   [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Olivier Marchal

For the past few months, Paris has been assailed by a series of increasingly violent armoured car robberies. Mindful of public opinion, the chief of police, Robert Mancini, is determined that the culprits be brought to book as quickly as possible and to that end he offers a personal challenge to two of his best men - Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein...   [More...]

36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (2009)
Jacques Rivette

A small circus troupe is about to embark on its summer season when its owner dies suddenly. Realising that their livelihoods are in peril, the members of the circus get in touch with their boss's estranged daughter Kate and urge her to take over the management of the circus...   [More...]

5x2 (2004)
François Ozon

Marion and Gilles have been together for many years but now they have arrived at the mutual decision to end their marriage...   [More...]

7 ans (2007)
Jean-Pascal Hattu

Maïté and Vincent are a young couple who find it hard to bear their enforced separation. Recently, Vincent has been convicted of a crime and sent to prison for seven years...   [More...]

8 femmes (2002)
François Ozon

In the 1950s, rich society belle Gaby lives with her family at their comfortable country residence, tended to by her faithful maids Louise and Madame Chanel...   [More...]

99 francs (2007)
Jan Kounen

Octave Parango is a high-powered advertising consultant who prides himself on the knowledge that he decides what people will want to buy and how they will live their lives...   [More...]

À l'origine (2009)
Xavier Giannoli

Ex-convict Philippe Miller makes his living as a confidence trickster, something he is particularly adept at. Seeing an abandoned road works, he sees an opportunity to make some easy money...   [More...]

À la petite semaine (2003)
Sam Karmann

Having served a five year stretch in jail, fifty-something Jacques returns to his old friends in Saint-Ouen, hoping to make a fresh start...   [More...]

À tout de suite (2004)
Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident...   [More...]

L'Affaire Farewell (2009)
Christian Carion

Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system...   [More...]

L'Affaire Marcorelle (2000)
Serge Le Péron

At the end of a solitary evening, François Marcorelle, a respected magistrate, finds himself in the bedroom of a young Polish woman, whom he met at a Turkish restaurant...   [More...]

Les Amants réguliers (2005)
Philippe Garrel

May 1968. The streets of Paris are ablaze as students and riot police unwittingly re-enact the famous barricade scene from Les Misèrables ...   [More...]

Les Âmes grises (2005)
Yves Angelo

France, 1917. A young schoolteacher, Lysia Verhaeren, arrives in a small town near to the Western Front to take up her first post at an infant's school...   [More...]

Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)
Eric Rohmer

Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd...   [More...]

L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Eric Rohmer

Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant...   [More...]

Anna M. (2007)
Michel Spinosa

Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France...   [More...]

Après la vie (2002)
Lucas Belvaux

Pascal Manise is a dedicated police inspector who is prepared to do anything so that he can supply his drug-addicted wife Agnès with a regular supply of morphine...   [More...]

Après lui (2007)
Gaël Morel

Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death...   [More...]

L'Armée du crime (2009)
Robert Guédiguian

In Paris during the Nazi occupation, a labourer named Missak Manouchian leads a group of young Jewish immigrants, of various nationalities: Spanish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Polish, Italian and Armenian...   [More...]

Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Alain Chabat

Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. She is the proud ruler of a proud people, and there is nothing that infuriates her more than Julius Caesar's continual belittling of her country and its inhabitants...   [More...]

Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright

England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...   [More...]

L'Auberge espagnole (2002)
Cédric Klapisch

A young economics student, Xavier, decides to spend the final year of his university course at Barcelona so that he can learn Spanish and thereby secure a job at the French Ministry of Finance...   [More...]

L'Autre (2009)
Patrick-Mario Bernard

Anne-Marie and Alex have been living together quite happily for several years, but now they have reached a stage in their relationship where they must decide whether they should commit themselves to each other...   [More...]

Avril (2006)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

Avril has spent her entire life in a convent. Shortly after she was born, she was given up to the mother superior, Marie-Josèphe, who agreed to take charge of her upbringing...   [More...]

Le Bal des actrices (2009)
Maïwenn

An enterprising young film director, Maïwenn, decides to make a documentary about actresses. She meets a number of diverse women who have chosen to make the dramatic art their career and becomes increasingly fascinated by their complex lives and personalities...   [More...]



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