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French cinema: 2015

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (2015)
Guillaume Malandrin

A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage...   [More...]

Journal d'une femme de chambre (2015)
Benoît Jacquot

Towards the end of the 19th century, a headstrong young woman named Célestine arrives in a small Normandy town to take up the post of a maid to the wealthy Lanlaire family...   [More...]

Les Jours venus (2015)
Romain Goupil

On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world...   [More...]

La Loi du marché (2015)
Stéphane Brizé

After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket...   [More...]

Marguerite (2015)
Xavier Giannoli

In Paris of the 1920s, Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman who likes nothing better than to indulge her passion for music and opera...   [More...]

Microbe et Gasoil (2015)
Michel Gondry

Daniel, nicknamed Microbe on account of his puny build and long hair, finds an unlikely friend in Théo, a free-spirited loner whose love of petrol-driven engines has earned him the soubriquet Gasoil...   [More...]

Ni le ciel ni la terre (2015)
Clément Cogitore

As the deadline for the withdrawal of his troops from Afghanistan fast approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu is assigned with his unit to a surveillance mission in a remote valley in Wakhan on the border with Pakistan...   [More...]

Nuits blanches sur la jetée (2015)
Paul Vecchiali

A young man named Fédor is spending a solitary holiday in a small port on the Côte d'Azur. He idles away his evenings by walking alone on a pier stretching out into the Mediterranean...   [More...]

L'Ombre des femmes (2015)
Philippe Garrel

Pierre is a filmmaker of modest means who makes documentaries on a shoestring budget with the help of his wife Manon. At the moment, they are making a film about the French Resistance, and this is how Pierre comes to meet Elisabeth, a trainee film archivist...   [More...]

La Tête haute (2015)
Emmanuelle Bercot

Unable to cope with her troublesome six-year-old son Malony, single mother Séverine places him in the care of a juvenile court judge, Florence Blaque...   [More...]

Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015)
Arnaud Desplechin

On his return to France after spending several years in Tajikistan, forty-something anthropologist Paul Dédalus is prompted to looks back on his past...   [More...]

Un Français (2015)
Diastème

Along with his skinhead cohorts Braguette, Grand-Guy and Marvin, Marco likes nothing better than to beat up Arabs and put up posters supporting the Far Right...   [More...]

La Vanité (2015)
Lionel Baier

David Miller is a retired architect afflicted with an inoperable cancer who has made up his mind to die. To that end, he contacts an association in Switzerland that offers an assisted suicide service and arranges a time and a place for the event to take place...   [More...]

Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador

On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers...   [More...]

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