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French cinema: 2010s

11.6 (2013)
Philippe Godeau

For ten years, Toni Musulin has worked as a security guard, delivering money without incident and without arousing the slightest suspicion...   [More...]

17 filles (2011)
Delphine Coulin

In the small Brittany coastal town of Lorient, Camille, a 16-year-old school girl, is surprised when she discovers that she is pregnant...   [More...]

2 automnes 3 hivers (2013)
Sébastien Betbeder

Arman is 33, lives in Paris and is ready for a change in his life. Things begin to look up for him when he runs into Amélie, a woman of his own age, whilst out jogging...   [More...]

20 ans d'écart (2013)
David Moreau

Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that her personal life is virtually non-existent. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in a rut...   [More...]

3 coeurs (2014)
Benoît Jacquot

Late one evening, Marc, a tax inspector, finds himself stranded in a provincial town after missing the last train back to Paris...   [More...]

38 témoins (2012)
Lucas Belvaux

Louise Morvand returns from a business trip to China and finds that the street where she lives in Le Havre is in a state of shock...   [More...]

3x3D (2014)
Jean-Luc Godard

In the ancient Portuguese city of Guimarães, three internationally renowned filmmakers - Peter Greenaway, Edgard Pêra and Jean-Luc Godard - come together to explore the exciting new phenomenon of 3D cinema and its impact on our perception of the seventh art through three short and highly innovative films...   [More...]

9 mois ferme (2013)
Albert Dupontel

Ariane Felder is a middle-aged woman who conducts herself as scrupulously in her private life as she does in her career as a highly respected magistrate...   [More...]

À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...   [More...]

À moi seule (2012)
Frédéric Videau

For eight years, Gaëlle has been held captive by Vincent. During this time, she has seen no one else - he was her entire world...   [More...]

À pas de loup (2012)
Olivier Ringer

Cathy is a six-year-old girl who believes that she cannot be seen by her parents. She has a chance to test her theory at the end of a weekend at the family's country retreat...   [More...]

À perdre la raison (2012)
Joachim Lafosse

Murielle and Mounir are a young couple who desperately want to get married and start a family. Fortunately, they have a kindly benefactor in Dr Pinget, the man who has looked after Mounir since he was a small boy and come to regard him as his own son...   [More...]

À trois, on y va (2015)
Jérôme Bonnell

Michel, a veterinary surgeon, and Charlotte have been together for many years. Still very much in love, they move into their own house in Roubaix in northern France and they could not be happier...   [More...]

Abus de faiblesse (2014)
Catherine Breillat

Having suffered a brain haemorrhage, Maud wakes up one morning to find that she is paralysed on one side of her body. Bedridden but determined not to give up her career as a filmmaker, she finds an ideal subject for her next film whilst watching a television talk show...   [More...]

L'Adieu à la nuit (2019)
André Téchiné

When her teenage grandson Alex comes to visit her, Muriel is over the moon. It seems he is about to head off to Canada to start a new life, but before he goes he wants to spend a few peaceful days with the one relative he is still on good terms with...   [More...]

Adieu Berthe - L'enterrement de mémé (2012)
Bruno Podalydès

Armand is a mild-mannered 50-something who leads a double life. He manages a pharmacy in a Paris suburb with his wife Hélène but his real passion in life is conjuring, for which he has a natural talent...   [More...]

Les Adieux à la reine (2012)
Benoît Jacquot

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris...   [More...]

Aimer, boire et chanter (2014)
Alain Resnais

In the midst of the Yorkshire countryside, the lives of three couples are about to be violently disrupted over a period of several months by the strange behaviour of their mutual friend George Riley...   [More...]

Ain't Misbehavin (Un voyageur) (2013)
Marcel Ophüls

After an absence of 19 years from our screens, director Marcel Ophüls comes out of retirement to construct a cinematic self-portrait, a substitute for the autobiography he always intended to write but never got round to...   [More...]

Alyah (2012)
Elie Wajeman

Alex is 27 and lives in one of the less salubrious districts of Paris. He makes a dishonest living as a drugs dealer, but most of his hard-earned cash ends up in the pocket of his overly demanding older brother, Isaac...   [More...]

Amer (2010)
Hélène Cattet

At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act...   [More...]

Americano (2011)
Mathieu Demy

Martin is a late thirty-something who lives in Paris with his girlfriend Claire, although the spark has long gone out of their relationship and they live together more out of habit than through mutual need...   [More...]

L'Ami: François d'Assise et ses frères (2016)
Renaud Fely

In Italy at the start of the 13th century, the son of a wealthy merchant has turned his back on riches and now leads a simple life in the service of the poor and infirm...   [More...]

Amour (2012)
Michael Haneke

Georges and Anne are a happily married couple who are now in their eighties. Retired piano teachers, they have a daughter who is also a musician, but she lives abroad with her own family...   [More...]

L'Amour flou (2018)
Romane Bohringer

The actors Philippe Rebbot and Romane Bohringer first met in 2004. They fell in love, lived together in perfect harmony for ten years, and had two adorable children - Rose and Raoul...   [More...]

Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
Xavier Dolan

Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas...   [More...]

Angèle et Tony (2011)
Alix Delaporte

Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents...   [More...]

L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Bertrand Bonello

In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile...   [More...]

L'Art d'aimer (2011)
Emmanuel Mouret

At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity and promise all the delights of paradise...   [More...]

Asphalte (2015)
Samuel Benchetrit

After too strenuous a workout on his exercise bike, professional photographer Sternkowitz ends up in a wheelchair. Unwilling to chip in for repairs to the lift of the apartment block where he lives, he is barred from using it and so only comes out at night...   [More...]



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