French cinema: 2005
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...
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Géla Babluani
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 ...
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Philippe Garrel
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...
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Yves Angelo
Caché (2005)
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a comfortably settled middle-aged couple who have a nice apartment in Paris. He hosts a popular literary review programme on television; she is a successful writer; they have a teenage son...
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Michael Haneke
Le Couperet (2005)
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family...
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Costa-Gavras
Crustacés et coquillages (2005)
Olivier Ducastel
One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up... [More...]
Olivier Ducastel
One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up... [More...]
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
Jacques Audiard
28 year old Tom Seyr is the son of a small time gangster and seems set to follow in his father's footsteps. He earns his crust through crooked real estate deals with his two thuggish associates Fabrice and Sami... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
28 year old Tom Seyr is the son of a small time gangster and seems set to follow in his father's footsteps. He earns his crust through crooked real estate deals with his two thuggish associates Fabrice and Sami... [More...]
Douches froides (2005)
Antony Cordier
Mikael is an ordinary 17-year old lad from a typical French working class family. With his father unemployed, his mother has become the family breadwinner, but she earns barely enough to make ends meet... [More...]
Antony Cordier
Mikael is an ordinary 17-year old lad from a typical French working class family. With his father unemployed, his mother has become the family breadwinner, but she earns barely enough to make ends meet... [More...]
L'Enfant (2005)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes... [More...]
Entre ses mains (2005)
Anne Fontaine
Claire Gauthier is 30, married with a young daughter and works for an insurance firm in the town of Lille. A good wife, mother and employee, she would appear to be the model of the modern woman... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
Claire Gauthier is 30, married with a young daughter and works for an insurance firm in the town of Lille. A good wife, mother and employee, she would appear to be the model of the modern woman... [More...]
L'Iceberg (2005)
Dominique Abel
Fiona manages a fast-food restaurant in an average town and lives in an average house, married to an average man. One evening, she manages to lock herself in her restaurant's freezer room, and there she must stay until she is let out the following morning... [More...]
Dominique Abel
Fiona manages a fast-food restaurant in an average town and lives in an average house, married to an average man. One evening, she manages to lock herself in her restaurant's freezer room, and there she must stay until she is let out the following morning... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [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...]
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque (2005)
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
Le Temps qui reste (2005)
François Ozon
Romain is young and handsome; he has a successful career as a fashion photographer; and, at age 30, he has everything to live for... [More...]
François Ozon
Romain is young and handsome; he has a successful career as a fashion photographer; and, at age 30, he has everything to live for... [More...]
Ultranova (2005)
Bouli Lanners
Dimitri is an introverted 20-something who sells turnkey houses with his colleagues Phil, a prankster, and Verbrugghe, a moody manic depressive... [More...]
Bouli Lanners
Dimitri is an introverted 20-something who sells turnkey houses with his colleagues Phil, a prankster, and Verbrugghe, a moody manic depressive... [More...]
Un amour à taire (2005)
Christian Faure
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Lavandiers run a thriving laundry business. Jean is the favoured son - he works hard and avoids getting into trouble, unlike his brother Jacques who is serving a term in prison for black marketeering... [More...]
Christian Faure
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Lavandiers run a thriving laundry business. Jean is the favoured son - he works hard and avoids getting into trouble, unlike his brother Jacques who is serving a term in prison for black marketeering... [More...]
Vendredi ou un autre jour (2005)
Yvan Le Moine
In 1759, the celebrated actor Philippe De Nohan sets sail on La Virginie with a French theatre troupe to make a tour of the New World... [More...]
Yvan Le Moine
In 1759, the celebrated actor Philippe De Nohan sets sail on La Virginie with a French theatre troupe to make a tour of the New World... [More...]
Zim and Co. (2005)
Pierre Jolivet
20-year-old Victor Zimbietrovski, known to his friends as Zim, lives in the suburbs of Paris and ekes out a living doing odd jobs... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
20-year-old Victor Zimbietrovski, known to his friends as Zim, lives in the suburbs of Paris and ekes out a living doing odd jobs... [More...]