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French cinema: 2016

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Frantz (2016)
François Ozon

It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme...   [More...]

Ma Loute (2016)
Bruno Dumont

In the summer of 1910, as is their custom, the Van Peteghems, a wealthy family from Lille, come to Slack Bay in northern France for their holidays...   [More...]

Nocturama (2016)
Bertrand Bonello

It is a morning in Paris like any other. The streets and the Metro are crowded as usual with people rushing in to work, scarcely noticing the world around them...   [More...]

Quand on a 17 ans (2016)
André Téchiné

In the Pyrenees, 17-year-old Damien lives alone with his mother Marianne, a dedicated doctor, whilst his father Nathan is away serving as an army pilot in a war-torn country far away...   [More...]

Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau (2016)
Olivier Ducastel

In a Parisian sex club, two young men are irresistibly drawn to one another. Surrendering to the physical yearning that suddenly takes possession of them, they are united, body and soul, in a passion that is the most intense either has ever known...   [More...]

Une vie (2016)
Stéphane Brizé

In 1819, a young woman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds leaves the content where she has been educated since childhood and returns to live with her parents on the family estate in Normandy...   [More...]

Victoria (2016)
Justine Triet

Since her egocentric husband David walked out on her, Victoria Spick has been left to bring up their two young children alone - not an easy task when you have a high-pressured career as a criminal lawyer...   [More...]

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