French cinema: 2004
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...
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Olivier Marchal
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...
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François Ozon
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...
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Benoît Jacquot
Brodeuses (2004)
Éléonore Faucher
Claire is 17 years old and lives in Angoulême, a town in the south west of France. She finds it hard to get on with her parents and lives alone...
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Éléonore Faucher
Calvaire (2004)
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere...
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Fabrice Du Welz
Clara et moi (2004)
Arnaud Viard
Antoine is 33, a struggling actor living in Paris. Outwardly, he appears happy and satisfied with his life; inwardly, he is tortured by solitude... [More...]
Arnaud Viard
Antoine is 33, a struggling actor living in Paris. Outwardly, he appears happy and satisfied with his life; inwardly, he is tortured by solitude... [More...]
Clean (2004)
Olivier Assayas
Emily Wang and Lee Hauser have been in a relationship for many years. He is a 40-something rock singer who is past his prime; she is his promoter, and is finding it increasingly difficult to find him work... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
Emily Wang and Lee Hauser have been in a relationship for many years. He is a 40-something rock singer who is past his prime; she is his promoter, and is finding it increasingly difficult to find him work... [More...]
La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
Claude Chabrol
Since the death of his father, Philippe Tardieu has been the breadwinner and guardian angel for his mother Christine and sisters Patricia and Sophie... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Since the death of his father, Philippe Tardieu has been the breadwinner and guardian angel for his mother Christine and sisters Patricia and Sophie... [More...]
Feux rouges (2004)
Cédric Kahn
At the start of a busy weekend on the roads, stressed insurance agent Antoine and his wife Hélène set out from Paris to collect their two children from a holiday colony in the south-west of France... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
At the start of a busy weekend on the roads, stressed insurance agent Antoine and his wife Hélène set out from Paris to collect their two children from a holiday colony in the south-west of France... [More...]
Garçon stupide (2004)
Lionel Baier
Despite his lack of education, 20-year-old Loïc is convinced that one day he will make something of his life. In the meantime, he earns a subsistence wage in a chocolate factory and spends his evenings meeting up with older men for no-strings sex... [More...]
Lionel Baier
Despite his lack of education, 20-year-old Loïc is convinced that one day he will make something of his life. In the meantime, he earns a subsistence wage in a chocolate factory and spends his evenings meeting up with older men for no-strings sex... [More...]
Holy Lola (2004)
Bertrand Tavernier
Pierre and Géraldine Ceyssac are a French couple who, unable to have children of their own, head off to Cambodia in the hope of adopting an orphan... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Pierre and Géraldine Ceyssac are a French couple who, unable to have children of their own, head off to Cambodia in the hope of adopting an orphan... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
Vénus et Fleur (2004)
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [More...]