French cinema: 2000s
La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men...
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Michael Haneke
Plein sud (2009)
Sébastien Lifshitz
One summer, 27-year-old Sam takes to the road in his car, his direction: south. On the way, he picks up a brother and sister, Mathieu and Léa...
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Sébastien Lifshitz
Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War...
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Amos Gitai
Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
Laetitia Masson
The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist...
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Laetitia Masson
Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life....
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Rémi Bezançon
Le Premier venu (2008)
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
Presque rien (2000)
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Le Pressentiment (2006)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Bénesteau is a barrister who has given up everything - his family, his mistress and his father's inheritance - to live in a poor working class district of Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Bénesteau is a barrister who has given up everything - his family, his mistress and his father's inheritance - to live in a poor working class district of Paris... [More...]
Prête-moi ta main (2006)
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Profils paysans: l'approche (2001)
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Profils paysans: la vie moderne (2008)
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)
Raymond Depardon
In 2002, the journalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the small farms he visited a few years earlier in Lozère, Ardèche and Haute-Loire, continuing his personal portrait of traditional farmers who are struggling to eke out an existence at the start of the third millennium... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
In 2002, the journalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the small farms he visited a few years earlier in Lozère, Ardèche and Haute-Loire, continuing his personal portrait of traditional farmers who are struggling to eke out an existence at the start of the third millennium... [More...]
Le Promeneur du champ de Mars (2005)
Robert Guédiguian
As he approaches the end of his second term as President of France, François Mitterand agrees to cooperate with a young journalist, Antoine Moreau, on the writing of his biography... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
As he approaches the end of his second term as President of France, François Mitterand agrees to cooperate with a young journalist, Antoine Moreau, on the writing of his biography... [More...]
Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront (2009)
Léa Fehner
At 30, Stéphane becomes depressed when he realises that his life is going nowhere. When a stranger offers him a large sum of money in return for taking his friend's place in prison he readily accepts... [More...]
Léa Fehner
At 30, Stéphane becomes depressed when he realises that his life is going nowhere. When a stranger offers him a large sum of money in return for taking his friend's place in prison he readily accepts... [More...]
Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
Xavier Giannoli
Alain Moreau is a singer in his fifties who earns a modest crust by performing at private functions and lonely heart clubs in his home town, Clermont-Ferrand... [More...]
Xavier Giannoli
Alain Moreau is a singer in his fifties who earns a modest crust by performing at private functions and lonely heart clubs in his home town, Clermont-Ferrand... [More...]
Quand la mer monte... (2004)
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Le Quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois (2007)
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000)
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
La Question humaine (2007)
Nicolas Klotz
Simon Kessler is a corporate psychologist who works in the human resources department of a Paris-based petrochemicals company... [More...]
Nicolas Klotz
Simon Kessler is a corporate psychologist who works in the human resources department of a Paris-based petrochemicals company... [More...]
La Raison du plus faible (2006)
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Rapt (2009)
Lucas Belvaux
Successful businessman Stanislas Graff discovers the true meaning of horror when a band of thugs kidnap him and subject him to the most degrading and brutal period of captivity... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Successful businessman Stanislas Graff discovers the true meaning of horror when a band of thugs kidnap him and subject him to the most degrading and brutal period of captivity... [More...]
La Régate (2009)
Bernard Bellefroid
Alex is 15 and lives with his father, an oppressive and violent man who, because of his drink problem, has difficulty holding down a job... [More...]
Bernard Bellefroid
Alex is 15 and lives with his father, an oppressive and violent man who, because of his drink problem, has difficulty holding down a job... [More...]
Les Regrets (2009)
Cédric Kahn
Mathieu Lievin is a 40-year-old architect living in Paris. When he learns that his mother has been hospitalised, he makes a hasty return to the provincial town in which he grew up... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Mathieu Lievin is a 40-year-old architect living in Paris. When he learns that his mother has been hospitalised, he makes a hasty return to the provincial town in which he grew up... [More...]
Reines d'un jour (2001)
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Le Renard et l'enfant (2007)
Luc Jacquet
One crisp autumnal morning, a ten-year-old girl on her way to school strays from her path and encounters a wild fox. The girl's fascination for the magnificent creature overrides her instinct to run away and she is impelled to try to get nearer to it... [More...]
Luc Jacquet
One crisp autumnal morning, a ten-year-old girl on her way to school strays from her path and encounters a wild fox. The girl's fascination for the magnificent creature overrides her instinct to run away and she is impelled to try to get nearer to it... [More...]
Rien de personnel (2009)
Mathias Gokalp
A large pharmaceuticals company arranges a lavish reception for its employees, ostensibly to launch a new product. In the course of the evening it becomes apparent to the attendees that this is in fact a training exercise for the company's managers... [More...]
Mathias Gokalp
A large pharmaceuticals company arranges a lavish reception for its employees, ostensibly to launch a new product. In the course of the evening it becomes apparent to the attendees that this is in fact a training exercise for the company's managers... [More...]
Roberto Succo (2001)
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Rois et reine (2004)
Arnaud Desplechin
Nora, the manager of a Parisian art gallery, is about to marry for a third time. Her first husband, Pierre, is dead, her second, Ismaël, has recently been committed, against his will, to a psychiatric establishment... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Nora, the manager of a Parisian art gallery, is about to marry for a third time. Her first husband, Pierre, is dead, her second, Ismaël, has recently been committed, against his will, to a psychiatric establishment... [More...]
Le Rôle de sa vie (2004)
François Favrat
Claire Rocher is a freelance journalist for a fashion magazine who lacks the confidence to make a success of her career and her love life... [More...]
François Favrat
Claire Rocher is a freelance journalist for a fashion magazine who lacks the confidence to make a success of her career and her love life... [More...]