French cinema: 2010s
De bon matin (2011)
Jean-Marc Moutout
One Monday morning, Paul Wertret arrives at the bank where he works, just as he does any other day. But shortly after his arrival at 8 o'clock he takes out a gun and shoots dead two of his superiors...
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Jean-Marc Moutout
De rouille et d'os (2012)
Jacques Audiard
Homeless and penniless, Ali has no other choice but to turn to his sister for help. Accompanied by his five-year-old son Sam, Ali makes his way to his sister's home in Antibes, confident that she will give him a place to stay whilst he tries to get back on his feet...
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Jacques Audiard
De vrais mensonges (2010)
Pierre Salvadori
One bright spring morning, Emilie receives a love letter, a beautiful but anonymous declaration of love which cannot fail to twang the romantic heartstrings of its reader...
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Pierre Salvadori
Le Dernier coup de marteau (2015)
Alix Delaporte
Victor is a 13-year-old soccer enthusiast who lives with his mother Nadia in a trailer park by the sea in Montpellier. Money is short and, unbeknown to the teenager, Nadia has a life-threatening illness...
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Alix Delaporte
Des hommes et des dieux (2010)
Xavier Beauvois
In the 1990s, eight French Cistercian monks lead a peaceful existence in a monastery overlooking the village of Tibhirine in the mountainous hinterland of Algeria...
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Xavier Beauvois
La Désintégration (2012)
Philippe Faucon
Ali, Nasser and Hamza are all in their twenties and live on a housing estate in the outskirts of Lille. They meet Djamel, a man who is ten years their senior and who is, in their eyes, someone to be looked up to... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
Ali, Nasser and Hamza are all in their twenties and live on a housing estate in the outskirts of Lille. They meet Djamel, a man who is ten years their senior and who is, in their eyes, someone to be looked up to... [More...]
Les Deux amis (2015)
Louis Garrel
Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris... [More...]
Louis Garrel
Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris... [More...]
Dheepan (2015)
Jacques Audiard
In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal... [More...]
Diplomatie (2014)
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
La Douleur (2018)
Emmanuel Finkiel
In June 1944, France is still under Nazi occupation. The 30-year-old writer Marguerite Antelme waits anxiously for news of her husband Robert after he is arrested and deported on account of his resistance activities... [More...]
Emmanuel Finkiel
In June 1944, France is still under Nazi occupation. The 30-year-old writer Marguerite Antelme waits anxiously for news of her husband Robert after he is arrested and deported on account of his resistance activities... [More...]
Eastern Boys (2014)
Robin Campillo
Marek, an illegal immigrant from the Ukraine, is hanging about at the Gare du Nord with his mates when he catches the attention of 40-something Daniel... [More...]
Robin Campillo
Marek, an illegal immigrant from the Ukraine, is hanging about at the Gare du Nord with his mates when he catches the attention of 40-something Daniel... [More...]
L'Économie du couple (2016)
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds... [More...]
L'Écume des jours (2013)
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
L'Effet aquatique (2016)
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
Elle (2016)
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand... [More...]
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand... [More...]
Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Améris
Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear... [More...]
En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
L'Enfant d'en haut (2012)
Ursula Meier
One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it... [More...]
Ursula Meier
One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it... [More...]
Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (2012)
Stéphane Robelin
Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been firm friends for more than forty years. They have each lived full and happy lives, but when their memories begin to falter and the prospect of moving into a retirement home rears its ugly head, they decide to take a stand against convention... [More...]
Stéphane Robelin
Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been firm friends for more than forty years. They have each lived full and happy lives, but when their memories begin to falter and the prospect of moving into a retirement home rears its ugly head, they decide to take a stand against convention... [More...]
Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
L'Exercice de l'État (2011)
Pierre Schoeller
Bertrand Saint-Jean is France's Minister of Transport, an ambitious man who manages to keep his head in an emergency - or so he thinks... [More...]
Pierre Schoeller
Bertrand Saint-Jean is France's Minister of Transport, an ambitious man who manages to keep his head in an emergency - or so he thinks... [More...]
Les Fantômes d'Ismaël (2017)
Arnaud Desplechin
Ismaël Vuillard is a fifty-something filmmaker who is struggling to complete a film inspired by the real-life spy exploits of his brother, Ivan Dédalus... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Ismaël Vuillard is a fifty-something filmmaker who is struggling to complete a film inspired by the real-life spy exploits of his brother, Ivan Dédalus... [More...]
La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel
Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet... [More...]
Dominique Abel
Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet... [More...]
Les Femmes du 6ème étage (2011)
Philippe Le Guay
In the 1960s, Jean-Louis Joubert is a 40-something stockbroker who lives in an upmarket Parisian apartment block with his wife Suzanne... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
In the 1960s, Jean-Louis Joubert is a 40-something stockbroker who lives in an upmarket Parisian apartment block with his wife Suzanne... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (2011)
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
La Fille inconnue (2016)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Le Fils de Jean (2016)
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Floride (2015)
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]
Fou d'amour (2015)
Philippe Ramos
In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area... [More...]
Philippe Ramos
In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area... [More...]