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French cinema: 2011

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Le Gamin au vélo (2011)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment...   [More...]

La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli

Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another...   [More...]

Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki

Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living...   [More...]

Hors Satan (2011)
Bruno Dumont

On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century...   [More...]

Intouchables (2011)
Olivier Nakache

Crippled by a paragliding accident, wealthy aristocrat Philippe hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs, as his domestic help...   [More...]

Jimmy Rivière (2011)
Teddy Lussi-Modeste

Jimmy Rivière is a young traveller who is perhaps a little too timid and willing to please those around him. Pressurised by his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai boxing and his girlfriend Sonia...   [More...]

Let My People Go! (2011)
Mikael Buch

Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu...   [More...]

Mike (2011)
Lars Blumers

Contrary to what you might think, Mike and his tearaway friends Fred and J-C have plenty to occupy themselves in Kembs, a backwater town in Alsace on the border with Switzerland and Germany...   [More...]

My Little Princess (2011)
Eva Ionesco

In the 1970s, Violetta Giurgiu becomes one of the focal points of the trendy Parisian art world - quite an achievement for a little girl who is not yet a teenager...   [More...]

Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011)
Robert Guédiguian

In Marseille, Michel is a committed trade unionist who has been happily married to Marie-Claire for thirty years. When he learns that his employer is about to make several redundancies, he organises lots to decide who will lose their jobs...   [More...]

Omar m'a tuer (2011)
Roschdy Zem

On 24th June 1991, Ghislaine Marchal is found dead in the cellar of her villa at Mougins. The words "Omar killed me" are written in blood near the body...   [More...]

Où va la nuit (2011)
Martin Provost

Fed up with being a victim, Rose Mayer decides to take charge of her own destiny and murder the aggressive husband who has made her life hell...   [More...]

La Permission de minuit (2011)
Delphine Gleize

Romain is a thirteen-year-old boy who suffers from an exceedingly rare skin condition that makes it impossible for him to tolerate natural light...   [More...]

La Petite chambre (2011)
Stéphanie Chuat

Despite his advanced age and the fact that he suffers from diabetes, Edmond is determined to hold onto his independence. He refuses to move into a retirement home and stubbornly rejects the support of Rose, the young nurse who tries to care for him in his own home...   [More...]

Polisse (2011)
Maïwenn

Children are increasingly at risk from abuse, both inside and outside the home, which is why a special police squad has been set up in Paris to protect the city's vulnerable infants...   [More...]

Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely...   [More...]

Présumé coupable (2011)
Vincent Garenq

This film recounts the harrowing exploits of Alain Marécaux, who, along with his wife and twelve other people, was arrested in 2001 for grotesque paedophilic acts of which he was entirely blameless...   [More...]



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