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French cinema: 2000s

Mesrine: L'Ennemi public n°1 (2008)
Jean-François Richet

Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media...   [More...]

Mesrine: L'Instinct de mort (2008)
Jean-François Richet

Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing...   [More...]

La Môme (2007)
Olivier Dahan

In 1959, an internationally renowned singer falls ill during her highly publicised tour of America. In the early 1920s, a young girl lives through the most harrowing of childhoods, rejected by her mother, reared in a brothel, and then earning a meagre crust by singing in the streets of Paris...   [More...]

Mon ange (2004)
Serge Frydman

Colette is a prostitute who prefers to make her own way in life after breaking up with her boyfriend. One evening, she receives a phone call from a friend who pleads with her to take charge of her teenage son, Billy...   [More...]

Mon colonel (2006)
Laurent Herbiet

In the mid-1990s, Raoul Duplan, a retired colonel, is found dead at his home in Paris, shot through the head. Not long afterwards, some anonymous letters and pages torn from a diary are sent to the investigators in the police and army who are looking into the murder...   [More...]

Mon fils à moi (2007)
Martial Fougeron

Julien is adored by his mother. He is the centre of her world. Nothing can rival the love that she has for him. But too much love can be a dangerous thing.....   [More...]

La Moustache (2005)
Emmanuel Carrère

One evening, whilst getting ready for a dinner date, Marc takes the momentous decision to shave off his moustache. To his surprise, his wife Agnès fails to see any change in his appearance, and neither do the two friends they spend the evening with...   [More...]

Musée haut, musée bas (2008)
Jean-Michel Ribes

Just what exactly is a museum? Tourists hasten from one exhibition to another, devouring assorted fragments of culture like pigs gorging on scraps...   [More...]

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (2003)
Bruno Podalydès

Accompanied by his loyal friend Sinclair, the reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives at château Glandier to investigate one of his most bizarre cases yet...   [More...]

Naissance des pieuvres (2007)
Céline Sciamma

One summer will forever change the lives of three 15-year-old girls. Whilst watching a synchronised swimming event, Marie becomes obsessed with one of the swimmers, Floriane...   [More...]

Nationale 7 (2000)
Jean-Pierre Sinapi

After a full and active life, a middle-aged man, René, is struck by a muscle-wasting disease and finds himself in a care home for the mentally and physically disabled...   [More...]

Ne le dis à personne (2006)
Guillaume Canet

Over the past eight years, there has not been a single day when Alex has not thought about Margot, the childhood sweetheart that became his wife...   [More...]

Ne me libérez pas, je m'en charge (2009)
Fabienne Godet

Michel Vaujour is one of France's most notorious criminals, although he is more famous for his prison break-outs than his robberies...   [More...]

Ne touchez pas la hache (2007)
Jacques Rivette

General Armand de Montriveau arrives on a Spanish island as part of a French expedition to re-establish the rule of Ferdinand VII...   [More...]

Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser (2009)
Christophe Honoré

Since the break-up of her marriage, Léna has coped as best she may to bring up her two young children single-handedly...   [More...]

Nos enfants chéris (2003)
Benoît Cohen

One day, two ex-lovers, Martin and Constance, run into each other in a supermarket. After several years apart, they find they are now in their early thirties, are married and are just discovering the joys of parenthood...   [More...]

Nous resterons sur Terre (2009)
Pierre Barougier

In the face of dramatic climate change and dwindling natural resources, we have almost reached the point at which the survival of our species is threatened unless we change our behaviour...   [More...]

Nue propriété (2006)
Joachim Lafosse

Since her husband left her for another woman many years ago, Pascale has struggled to keep her family farm in Belgium going, with the support of her two sons, François and Thierry...   [More...]

L'Occitanienne (2008)
Jean Périssé

Who was L'Occitanienne, the mysterious woman that preoccupied the celebrated French writer René de Chateaubriand in his later years...   [More...]

OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius

In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117...   [More...]

OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius

In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII...   [More...]

Panique au village (2009)
Stéphane Aubier

Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion...   [More...]

Papa (2005)
Maurice Barthélémy

Louis would seem to have the best father a boy of his age could ask for - thoughtful, caring, always laughing. And yet, somehow, there seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the two of them...   [More...]

Parc (2009)
Arnaud des Pallières

Georges Clou is a prosperous businessman who is proud of his success. He lives with his family in the south of France, in an immaculate gated residential area named Le Parc, where only the best people live...   [More...]

Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui

It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist...   [More...]

Partir (2009)
Catherine Corsini

Suzanne has grown tired of her comfortable middle-class existence. Now she is forty she yearns for new challenges and decides to resume her old career as a physiotherapist...   [More...]

Le Père de mes enfants (2009)
Mia Hansen-Løve

Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him...   [More...]

Persécution (2009)
Patrice Chéreau

Daniel, a man in his mid-thirties, becomes concerned when he realises he is being spied on by an older man he has never met before...   [More...]

Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud

Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins...   [More...]

Le Petit lieutenant (2005)
Xavier Beauvois

As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting...   [More...]



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