French cinema: 2000s
Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)
Yvan Attal
Vincent and Georges are two 40-somethings who are both beginning to hanker after a more exciting love life. Each man feels he is trapped in a long-term relationship with a woman who, on the face of it, would appear to be his ideal partner...
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Yvan Attal
Indigènes (2006)
Rachid Bouchareb
In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, around 200 thousand natives from French colonial Africa are recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces...
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Rachid Bouchareb
Les Invasions barbares (2003)
Denys Arcand
When he learns that his father, Rémy, is in the final stages of terminal cancer, businessman Sébastien reluctantly hastens to his bedside in a Montreal hospital...
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Denys Arcand
J'ai tué ma mère (2009)
Xavier Dolan
Hubert Minel is a 16-year-old French Canadian student who lives in Montreal with his mother, Chantale. Since her husband walked out on her nine years ago, Chantale has struggled to bring up her son single-handedly, but he shows her little gratitude for her efforts...
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Xavier Dolan
J'attends quelqu'un (2007)
Jérôme Bonnell
In a small provincial town, bar owner Louis is pursuing a clandestine affair with a prostitute, Sabine. Even though he is a paying client, Louis has fallen in love with Sabine, but dares not let anyone know this, not even his sister, Agnès...
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Jérôme Bonnell
Je crois que je l'aime (2007)
Pierre Jolivet
Lucas is 43, a successful businessman who is used to being in control and getting what he wants. He hasn't yet come to terms with his wife leaving him, so he his is far from ready to start another relationship... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Lucas is 43, a successful businessman who is used to being in control and getting what he wants. He hasn't yet come to terms with his wife leaving him, so he his is far from ready to start another relationship... [More...]
Je l'aimais (2009)
Zabou Breitman
For twenty years, Pierre has been carrying with him a secret that he has been unable to share with anyone. One evening, he decides he must confide the one great tragedy of his existence in his step-daughter Chloé... [More...]
Zabou Breitman
For twenty years, Pierre has been carrying with him a secret that he has been unable to share with anyone. One evening, he decides he must confide the one great tragedy of his existence in his step-daughter Chloé... [More...]
Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (2005)
Stéphane Brizé
After his divorce, Jean-Claude Delsart finds he has lost his zest for living. Now in his fifties, increasingly estranged from his son Jean-Yves, he finds his work as a bailiff dishearteningly dull and has no enthusiasm for starting new relationships... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
After his divorce, Jean-Claude Delsart finds he has lost his zest for living. Now in his fifties, increasingly estranged from his son Jean-Yves, he finds his work as a bailiff dishearteningly dull and has no enthusiasm for starting new relationships... [More...]
Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante (2009)
Claude Miller
Thomas was four when he and his younger brother were adopted by Yves and Annie Jouvet. When he is twelve, he becomes obsessed with finding his biological mother, Julie... [More...]
Claude Miller
Thomas was four when he and his younger brother were adopted by Yves and Annie Jouvet. When he is twelve, he becomes obsessed with finding his biological mother, Julie... [More...]
Je veux voir (2008)
Joana Hadjithomas
The world famous actress Catherine Deneuve is in Beirut to attend a charity gala. Before the gala, she insists on making a tour of Lebanon, so that she can see something of the people and the land that have been ravaged by years of bloody conflict... [More...]
Joana Hadjithomas
The world famous actress Catherine Deneuve is in Beirut to attend a charity gala. Before the gala, she insists on making a tour of Lebanon, so that she can see something of the people and the land that have been ravaged by years of bloody conflict... [More...]
Joueuse (2009)
Caroline Bottaro
Hélène is a woman in her forties who leads a contented but routine life in a small Corsican village. Happily married to Ange, she has a 15-year-old daughter, Lisa and works as a hotel chambermaid... [More...]
Caroline Bottaro
Hélène is a woman in her forties who leads a contented but routine life in a small Corsican village. Happily married to Ange, she has a 15-year-old daughter, Lisa and works as a hotel chambermaid... [More...]
La Journée de la jupe (2009)
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Sonia Bergerac is a teacher in an ordinary inner city high school on the outskirts of Paris. She is about to start a lesson on Molière when her class is disrupted by unruly pupils... [More...]
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Sonia Bergerac is a teacher in an ordinary inner city high school on the outskirts of Paris. She is about to start a lesson on Molière when her class is disrupted by unruly pupils... [More...]
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
Khamsa (2008)
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Lady Jane (2008)
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Liberté-Oléron (2001)
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Les Liens du sang (2008)
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Lili et le baobab (2006)
Chantal Richard
Lili, a thirty-something photographer, accepts a commission to take some photographs of a town in Senegal. Here, she befriends a secretive local woman, Aminata and, despite the language barrier, Lili develops a liking for the country and its people... [More...]
Chantal Richard
Lili, a thirty-something photographer, accepts a commission to take some photographs of a town in Senegal. Here, she befriends a secretive local woman, Aminata and, despite the language barrier, Lili develops a liking for the country and its people... [More...]
Loin (2001)
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
Louise-Michel (2008)
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Lourdes (2009)
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Mademoiselle (2001)
Philippe Lioret
Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company... [More...]
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Stéphane Brizé
Jean is a man in his forties who could not be more content with the way his life is going. He is happily married with a son and enjoys his work as a mason... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
Jean is a man in his forties who could not be more content with the way his life is going. He is happily married with a son and enjoys his work as a mason... [More...]
La Marche de l'empereur (2005)
Luc Jacquet
Every year, the emperor penguins leave the ocean that has been their home during the summer months and walk across the frozen Antarctic wastes to their breeding ground on a safe plateau of ice... [More...]
Luc Jacquet
Every year, the emperor penguins leave the ocean that has been their home during the summer months and walk across the frozen Antarctic wastes to their breeding ground on a safe plateau of ice... [More...]
Marie-Line (2000)
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Martha... Martha (2001)
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... (2004)
Laurent Tirard
Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities... [More...]
Laurent Tirard
Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities... [More...]
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Mères et filles (2009)
Julie Lopes-Curval
Audrey is an independently minded thirty-year-old who has always been intrigued by her family history. It was in the 1950s that her grandmother Louise abandoned her family when her children were still young, leaving no trace as to where she might be going... [More...]
Julie Lopes-Curval
Audrey is an independently minded thirty-year-old who has always been intrigued by her family history. It was in the 1950s that her grandmother Louise abandoned her family when her children were still young, leaving no trace as to where she might be going... [More...]