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French cinema: 2010s

L'Astragale (2015)
Brigitte Sy

One night in April 1957, 19-year-old Albertine climbs over the wall of the prison where she has been serving a sentence for robbery...   [More...]

Attila Marcel (2013)
Sylvain Chomet

Paul, 33, inhabits a Parisian apartment with his well-meaning aunts Annie and Anna, who have looked after him since he was two and who dream that one day he will become a virtuoso pianist...   [More...]

Au cul du loup (2012)
Pierre Duculot

Not yet thirty, Christina leads a humdrum existence in a humdrum town in Belgium, where she lives with her humdrum boyfriend Marco...   [More...]

Au fond des bois (2010)
Benoît Jacquot

In 1865, Joséphine leads a comfortable but dull existence with her father, a successful physician. One day, a scruffy vagabond turns up on her father's doorstep asking for help...   [More...]

L'Autre monde (2010)
Gilles Marchand

Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, teen lovers Gaspard and Marion find a mobile phone which contains a series of cryptic messages...   [More...]

Avant l'aube (2011)
Raphaël Jacoulot

Frédéric Boissier believes he has put his troubled past behind him when he gets himself a respectable job as a night porter in a luxury mountain hotel...   [More...]

Avant l'hiver (2013)
Philippe Claudel

Paul is a successful brain surgeon who, since he married Lucie, has never known a day's unhappiness. He has a comfortable home, a loving family and a job he adores...   [More...]

L'Avenir (2016)
Mia Hansen-Løve

Nathalie appears comfortable in her settled life as a mother of two and a teacher of philosophy at a Parisian high school...   [More...]

Belle épine (2010)
Rebecca Zlotowski

Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out...   [More...]

La Belle saison (2015)
Catherine Corsini

In 1971, 25-year-old Delphine surprises her farming parents when she turns her back on a life in the country and heads for Paris to make a fresh start...   [More...]

La Belle vie (2014)
Jean Denizot

In the wake of an acrimonious divorce, Yves makes the snap decision to go on the run with his two young sons, Sylvain and Pierre...   [More...]

Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré

In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague...   [More...]

La Braconne (2014)
Samuel Rondière

Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes...   [More...]

Le Bruit des glaçons (2010)
Bertrand Blier

Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat...   [More...]

Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013)
Bruno Dumont

Winter 1915. The renowned sculptor Camille Claudel finds herself incarcerated in an asylum in the south of France. Her family have given up on her and it seems that after a turbulent life she will be forced to live out the rest of her days as a pitiful recluse...   [More...]

Camille redouble (2012)
Noémie Lvovsky

Camille, a 40-something actress, gets an unexpected shock when she returns home one day to find her husband Eric packing his bags...   [More...]

Caprice (2015)
Emmanuel Mouret

Clément, a maladroit schoolteacher, is obsessed with the film star Alicia Bardery, so imagine his surprise, to say nothing of his delight, when the object of his obsession succumbs to his charms and says she is willing to be his partner for life...   [More...]

Carlos (2010)
Olivier Assayas

A legend in his own lifetime, Carlos the Jackal (né Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) was at the epicentre of international terrorism in the 1970s and '80s...   [More...]

Les Chatouilles (2018)
Andréa Bescond

Odette is a happy eight-year-old girl whose one dream is to become a successful dancer. One day, a friend of her parents, Gilbert, a 40-something father of two, persuades her to take part in a seemingly harmless little game in which he begins by tickling her...   [More...]

Comme un avion (2015)
Bruno Podalydès

Michel is a graphics designer in his fifties. He dreams of the French aviator Jean Mermoz when he takes to his scooter, and yet he has never piloted an aeroplane...   [More...]

Comme un homme (2012)
Safy Nebbou

Louis, 16, is the son of the headmaster at the school which he attends and has no history of trouble. His friend Greg, by contrast, is always get himself into deep water on account of his aggressive and rebellious character...   [More...]

Comment j'ai détesté les maths (2013)
Olivier Peyon

So you've always hated maths? You're not alone - it is a subject that has brought misery to countless schoolchildren and left irreparable scars...   [More...]

Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud

The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation...   [More...]

Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia

Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives...   [More...]

Copacabana (2010)
Marc Fitoussi

Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself...   [More...]

Copie conforme (2010)
Abbas Kiarostami

A middle-aged French woman travels to Italy to attend a conference at which an English writer, James, is to promote his new book...   [More...]

Coup d'éclat (2011)
José Alcala

In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds...   [More...]

Coup de chaud (2015)
Raphaël Jacoulot

At the height of a scorching hot summer, the calm of a small French village is disturbed by Josef Bousou, a mischievous thirty-year old who has the mental age of a small child...   [More...]

La Dame de trèfle (2010)
Jérôme Bonnell

Since their parents died, Aurélien and Argine have lived together in their home in a small provincial town, and have become as close to one another as any brother and sister can be...   [More...]

Dans la maison (2012)
François Ozon

Germain Germain is a fifty-something literature teacher in a modern French school who has grown disillusioned with his profession...   [More...]



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