French cinema: 2008
35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis
Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...
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Claire Denis
La Belle personne (2008)
Christophe Honoré
After the death of her mother, 16-year-old Junie goes to live with her cousin, Mathias. Junie's arrival at her new school attracts the attention of several of Mathias' friends, but she only consents to go out with one of them, the timid but amiable Otto...
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Christophe Honoré
Cages (2008)
Olivier Masset-Depasse
Eve and Damien live a passionate love affair that is so intense, so solid that it feels as though it could last for an eternity...
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Olivier Masset-Depasse
Le Crime est notre affaire (2008)
Pascal Thomas
Whilst her husband Bélisaire is content with their peaceful retirement, Prudence is slowly dying of boredom. She pines for a real-life crime mystery that will tax her intellect and bring some excitement back into her life...
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Pascal Thomas
Eldorado (2008)
Bouli Lanners
Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle...
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Bouli Lanners
Élève libre (2008)
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
L'Empreinte (2008)
Safy Nebbou
After her husband left her, Elsa Valentin now leads a settled life in a pleasant suburb of Paris with her infant son, Thomas... [More...]
Safy Nebbou
After her husband left her, Elsa Valentin now leads a settled life in a pleasant suburb of Paris with her infant son, Thomas... [More...]
Entre les murs (2008)
Laurent Cantet
François is a young teacher in a typical French inner city school. His job is not easy, particularly as his students come from difficult backgrounds and find little relevance in what they are taught... [More...]
Laurent Cantet
François is a young teacher in a typical French inner city school. His job is not easy, particularly as his students come from difficult backgrounds and find little relevance in what they are taught... [More...]
La Fabrique des sentiments (2008)
Jean-Marc Moutout
To all appearances, Eloïse, 37, has made a success of her life. Her job as a property lawyer in Paris gives her a decent income, independence and a chic apartment... [More...]
Jean-Marc Moutout
To all appearances, Eloïse, 37, has made a success of her life. Her job as a property lawyer in Paris gives her a decent income, independence and a chic apartment... [More...]
Le Grand alibi (2008)
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
Les Grandes personnes (2008)
Anne Novion
To celebrate his daughter Jeanne's 17th birthday, Albert, a divorced librarian, takes her to the Swedish island Styrsö for their summer holiday... [More...]
Anne Novion
To celebrate his daughter Jeanne's 17th birthday, Albert, a divorced librarian, takes her to the Swedish island Styrsö for their summer holiday... [More...]
Les Hauts murs (2008)
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
L'Heure d'été (2008)
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Home (2008)
Ursula Meier
Marthe, Michel and their three children have been living in perfect harmony for ten years. Their house is in the most peaceful spot, miles from anywhere beside a stretch of motorway that was never completed... [More...]
Ursula Meier
Marthe, Michel and their three children have been living in perfect harmony for ten years. Their house is in the most peaceful spot, miles from anywhere beside a stretch of motorway that was never completed... [More...]
L'Homme qui marche (2008)
Aurélia Georges
In the 1950s, Viktor Atemian is a forty-something Russian immigrant who makes a living as a translator in Paris. One day, Victor decides to become a writer, so he sells his apartment and moves into a modest hotel... [More...]
Aurélia Georges
In the 1950s, Viktor Atemian is a forty-something Russian immigrant who makes a living as a translator in Paris. One day, Victor decides to become a writer, so he sells his apartment and moves into a modest hotel... [More...]
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
Philippe Claudel
For 15 years, Juliette has had nothing to do with her family and has lived apart, a solitary and tortured existence. On impulse, she finally decides to renew her acquaintance with her sister, Léa, who has made a successful career for herself and has started a family... [More...]
Philippe Claudel
For 15 years, Juliette has had nothing to do with her family and has lived apart, a solitary and tortured existence. On impulse, she finally decides to renew her acquaintance with her sister, Léa, who has made a successful career for herself and has started a family... [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...]
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 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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Jean Périssé
Who was L'Occitanienne, the mysterious woman that preoccupied the celebrated French writer René de Chateaubriand in his later years... [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...]
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...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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.... [More...]
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.... [More...]
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...]
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...]