French cinema: 2000s
Les Savates du bon Dieu (2000)
Jean-Claude Brisseau
20-something Fred lives with his young wife Élodie in the rundown suburbs and struggles to earn enough to support himself and his young family...
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Jean-Claude Brisseau
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Julian Schnabel
Chief editor of the fashion magazine Elle and father of two children, Jean-Dominique Bauby is a man to whom life could not have been kinder...
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Julian Schnabel
Scènes de crimes (2000)
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
After their teenage daughter, Marie Bourgoin, suddenly goes missing, the owners of a Parisian inn soon begin to suspect the worst...
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Frédéric Schoendoerffer
La Science des rêves (2006)
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child...
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Michel Gondry
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned...
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Zabou Breitman
Secret défense (2008)
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Le Secret (2000)
Virginie Wagon
Marie is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a stable marriage for over ten years with her husband François and has a young son... [More...]
Virginie Wagon
Marie is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a stable marriage for over ten years with her husband François and has a young son... [More...]
Selon Matthieu (2000)
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
Sempre vivu! (2007)
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Les Sentiments (2003)
Noémie Lvovsky
A newly wedded young doctor, François, and his wife, Edith, are about to start a new life together in the country... [More...]
Noémie Lvovsky
A newly wedded young doctor, François, and his wife, Edith, are about to start a new life together in the country... [More...]
Le Septième mensonge (2003)
Stéphane Guenin
It is like a fairytale dream come true. To be married to a rich, world-renowned conductor, to live in a splendid medieval château surrounded by the most picturesque countryside, to live like the lady of the manor..... [More...]
Stéphane Guenin
It is like a fairytale dream come true. To be married to a rich, world-renowned conductor, to live in a splendid medieval château surrounded by the most picturesque countryside, to live like the lady of the manor..... [More...]
Séraphine (2008)
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Le Serpent (2007)
Eric Barbier
Vincent Mandel has it all - a successful career as a photographer, a family, a nice house and all the accessories that go with it... [More...]
Eric Barbier
Vincent Mandel has it all - a successful career as a photographer, a family, a nice house and all the accessories that go with it... [More...]
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Si c'était lui... (2007)
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Le Silence de Lorna (2008)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
La Sirène rouge (2002)
Olivier Megaton
Brought up by a cruel and domineering mother, Alice is a deeply disturbed 12-year-old who lives in perpetual fear - and with good reason... [More...]
Olivier Megaton
Brought up by a cruel and domineering mother, Alice is a deeply disturbed 12-year-old who lives in perpetual fear - and with good reason... [More...]
Soeur Sourire (2009)
Stijn Coninx
Jeannine Deckers, better known as Soeur Sourire or The Singing Nun, became an international pop star in the 1960s. Her albums sold by the millions and in 1963 her hit song Dominque overtook the Beatles and Elvis Presley in the charts... [More...]
Stijn Coninx
Jeannine Deckers, better known as Soeur Sourire or The Singing Nun, became an international pop star in the 1960s. Her albums sold by the millions and in 1963 her hit song Dominque overtook the Beatles and Elvis Presley in the charts... [More...]
Les Soeurs fâchées (2004)
Alexandra Leclère
Louise is an aspiring author who currently works in a beauty parlour in Le Mans. Bubbling with optimism and trepidation, she takes the train to Paris for a meeting with a publisher who has expressed an interest in her first novel... [More...]
Alexandra Leclère
Louise is an aspiring author who currently works in a beauty parlour in Le Mans. Bubbling with optimism and trepidation, she takes the train to Paris for a meeting with a publisher who has expressed an interest in her first novel... [More...]
Le Soleil au-dessus des nuages (2001)
Eric Le Roch
For Jean, a fifty-something bachelor, his only pleasure is to make life unbearable for those around him. He insults his neighbour, is rude to strangers, and treats his colleagues at work with contempt... [More...]
Eric Le Roch
For Jean, a fifty-something bachelor, his only pleasure is to make life unbearable for those around him. He insults his neighbour, is rude to strangers, and treats his colleagues at work with contempt... [More...]
Son frère (2003)
Patrice Chéreau
After many years apart, 30-something Thomas returns to his brother Luc with the news that he is suffering from a potentially fatal blood disease... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
After many years apart, 30-something Thomas returns to his brother Luc with the news that he is suffering from a potentially fatal blood disease... [More...]
Le Souffle (2001)
Damien Odoul
David, a 15-year old city boy, spends his summer holiday on his uncle's farm in the Limousin region of France. He passes the time doing chores, listening to music on his personal headphones and relieving himself in the fields... [More...]
Damien Odoul
David, a 15-year old city boy, spends his summer holiday on his uncle's farm in the Limousin region of France. He passes the time doing chores, listening to music on his personal headphones and relieving himself in the fields... [More...]
Sous le sable (2000)
François Ozon
Marie Drillon, a woman in her early fifties, lectures in English literature at Paris university and has been happily married for twenty-five years... [More...]
François Ozon
Marie Drillon, a woman in her early fifties, lectures in English literature at Paris university and has been happily married for twenty-five years... [More...]
Stand-by (2000)
Roch Stéphanik
Having been together for eight years, Gérard and Hélène appear settled in their relationship. Now they are preparing to embark on a new life in Argentina... [More...]
Roch Stéphanik
Having been together for eight years, Gérard and Hélène appear settled in their relationship. Now they are preparing to embark on a new life in Argentina... [More...]
Stupeur et tremblements (2003)
Alain Corneau
Having completed her studies, a twenty-year old Belgian girl, Amélie, returns to Japan, the country where she spent the first five years of her life... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Having completed her studies, a twenty-year old Belgian girl, Amélie, returns to Japan, the country where she spent the first five years of her life... [More...]
Sunny et l'éléphant (2008)
Frédéric Lepage
Sunny, a teenage orphan, lives and works with elephants in the forests of Thailand. His dream is to become a cornac, an elephant driver, but this is unlikely to become reality as he belongs to the wrong tribe... [More...]
Frédéric Lepage
Sunny, a teenage orphan, lives and works with elephants in the forests of Thailand. His dream is to become a cornac, an elephant driver, but this is unlikely to become reality as he belongs to the wrong tribe... [More...]
Sur mes lèvres (2001)
Jacques Audiard
Carla works for a property development company where, on account of her partial deafness, she is teased and abused by her male office colleagues... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Carla works for a property development company where, on account of her partial deafness, she is teased and abused by her male office colleagues... [More...]
Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Sur un air d'autoroute (2000)
Thierry Boscheron
Jeff, a man in his late thirties, is desperate to be near to his former girlfriend, Périnne. As she works at a toll booth on a busy stretch of road, he finds himself a job as a motorway maintenance worker... [More...]
Thierry Boscheron
Jeff, a man in his late thirties, is desperate to be near to his former girlfriend, Périnne. As she works at a toll booth on a busy stretch of road, he finds himself a job as a motorway maintenance worker... [More...]
Survivre avec les loups (2008)
Véra Belmont
Eight-year-old Misha lives with her Jewish parents in Brussels. It is 1942 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Daily, scores of Jews are arrested by German soldiers and loaded onto trains destined for concentration camps in the East... [More...]
Véra Belmont
Eight-year-old Misha lives with her Jewish parents in Brussels. It is 1942 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Daily, scores of Jews are arrested by German soldiers and loaded onto trains destined for concentration camps in the East... [More...]