French cinema: 2000s
Un homme et son chien (2009)
Francis Huster
For many years, Charles, an elderly professor, has lived with the widow of his best friend. When she tells him that she is about to remarry and that there is no longer any place for him or his dog in her house he is saddened but agrees to go...
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Francis Huster
Un jeu d'enfants (2001)
Laurent Tuel
After inheriting a spacious Parisian apartment from a relative, Marianne Fauvel, a translator, wastes no time moving in with her husband Jacques and their two young children, Julien and Aude...
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Laurent Tuel
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Shortly after the end of World War I, Mathilde learns of the death of her fiancé Manech on the battlefield. Unable to accept this news, she embarks on her own search to find the man she loves and who, she is certain, is still alive, somewhere...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Un monde à nous (2008)
Frédéric Balekdjian
Marc and his young son Noé arrive in a new town, hoping to begin a new life. Noé starts a new school, where he makes new friends, but his father continues to put him through intensive training in combat sports...
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Frédéric Balekdjian
Un monde presque paisible (2002)
Michel Deville
The Second World War and the Nazi Occupation have taken their toll on Jewish families living in Paris. Now that these painful experiences are behind them, one couple, Albert and Léa, set about re-starting their small tailoring business in a busy Jewish district of the capital...
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Michel Deville
Un petit jeu sans conséquence (2004)
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
Un printemps à Paris (2006)
Jacques Bral
Georges leaves prison, after a five-year long stretch, with the intention of making a fresh start. No such hope. His former partner in crime, Pierrot, appears on his doorstep and persuades him to take part in another criminal exploit - to steal a vast jewel collection from a wealthy Parisian woman... [More...]
Jacques Bral
Georges leaves prison, after a five-year long stretch, with the intention of making a fresh start. No such hope. His former partner in crime, Pierrot, appears on his doorstep and persuades him to take part in another criminal exploit - to steal a vast jewel collection from a wealthy Parisian woman... [More...]
Un prophète (2009)
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
L'Un reste, l'autre part (2005)
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Un roman policier (2008)
Stéphanie Duvivier
Lieutenant Emilie Carange leads a small police station in a suburban district with a high immigrant population. After one of her officers is killed in a raid, she is assigned a trainee cop, Jamil Messaouden, and she wastes no time in indoctrinating him in her less than orthodox police methods... [More...]
Stéphanie Duvivier
Lieutenant Emilie Carange leads a small police station in a suburban district with a high immigrant population. After one of her officers is killed in a raid, she is assigned a trainee cop, Jamil Messaouden, and she wastes no time in indoctrinating him in her less than orthodox police methods... [More...]
Un secret (2007)
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Un soir au club (2009)
Jean Achache
Ten years ago, Simon Nardis was a world famous jazz pianist, but the price of fame was more than he was equipped to deal with... [More...]
Jean Achache
Ten years ago, Simon Nardis was a world famous jazz pianist, but the price of fame was more than he was equipped to deal with... [More...]
Un ticket pour l'espace (2006)
Eric Lartigau
Lack of support from a tax weary French public threatens to jeopardise France's programme of space research. The head of the research team, Simon Werburger, comes up with an idea to raise the necessary funding - a new scratch card which will offer two ordinary French citizens the chance to spend a fortnight aboard the space station... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Lack of support from a tax weary French public threatens to jeopardise France's programme of space research. The head of the research team, Simon Werburger, comes up with an idea to raise the necessary funding - a new scratch card which will offer two ordinary French citizens the chance to spend a fortnight aboard the space station... [More...]
Une affaire d'état (2009)
Eric Valette
Nora Chayd is a redoubtable police inspector who has more on her plate than she bargained for when she begins investigating the murder of a prostitute in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
Eric Valette
Nora Chayd is a redoubtable police inspector who has more on her plate than she bargained for when she begins investigating the murder of a prostitute in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
Une affaire de goût (2000)
Bernard Rapp
Frédéric Delamont is a rich and powerful industrialist who takes an almost sadistic relish in exerting his power and influence over others... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Frédéric Delamont is a rich and powerful industrialist who takes an almost sadistic relish in exerting his power and influence over others... [More...]
Une affaire qui roule (2003)
Eric Veniard
Frustrated by his job as a chef in a mundane restaurant, Jean-Jacques hands in his apron and sets about trying to find the money he needs to open his own high-class eatery... [More...]
Eric Veniard
Frustrated by his job as a chef in a mundane restaurant, Jean-Jacques hands in his apron and sets about trying to find the money he needs to open his own high-class eatery... [More...]
Une employée modèle (2002)
Jacques Otmezguine
François Maurey is the managing director of a small but successful IT company. Whilst driving home one night, he encounters a young woman, Florence, who begs him to protect her from her aggressive husband... [More...]
Jacques Otmezguine
François Maurey is the managing director of a small but successful IT company. Whilst driving home one night, he encounters a young woman, Florence, who begs him to protect her from her aggressive husband... [More...]
Une femme d'extérieur (2000)
Christophe Blanc
Françoise and Jacques have been together fifteen years and appear perfectly settled in their comfortable middle-class life... [More...]
Christophe Blanc
Françoise and Jacques have been together fifteen years and appear perfectly settled in their comfortable middle-class life... [More...]
Une femme de ménage (2002)
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (2001)
Christian Carion
Tired of her stressful job as a computer expert in Paris, 30 year old Sandrine decides to make a new life as a farmer. After a two-year training course, she acquires a remote farm in the Rhones-Alps region of France, where she intends to make goats' cheese and run a holiday home for visitors... [More...]
Christian Carion
Tired of her stressful job as a computer expert in Paris, 30 year old Sandrine decides to make a new life as a farmer. After a two-year training course, she acquires a remote farm in the Rhones-Alps region of France, where she intends to make goats' cheese and run a holiday home for visitors... [More...]
Une part du ciel (2002)
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Une semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires) (2009)
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Une vieille maîtresse (2007)
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Va, vis et deviens (2005)
Radu Mihaileanu
In 1984, a humanitarian crisis descends on the Sudan as thousands of Africans fleeing famine swell the make-shift camps. Israel and the United States launch a vast operation to expatriate several thousand Jewish Ethiopians to Israel... [More...]
Radu Mihaileanu
In 1984, a humanitarian crisis descends on the Sudan as thousands of Africans fleeing famine swell the make-shift camps. Israel and the United States launch a vast operation to expatriate several thousand Jewish Ethiopians to Israel... [More...]
La Vache et le président (2000)
Philippe Muyl
Lucas is an eight-year old boy who lives with his father, Romain, on a small farm in Brittany. They own a small herd of cows which includes a young Galloway calf, named Maéva... [More...]
Philippe Muyl
Lucas is an eight-year old boy who lives with his father, Romain, on a small farm in Brittany. They own a small herd of cows which includes a young Galloway calf, named Maéva... [More...]
Vendredi ou un autre jour (2005)
Yvan Le Moine
In 1759, the celebrated actor Philippe De Nohan sets sail on La Virginie with a French theatre troupe to make a tour of the New World... [More...]
Yvan Le Moine
In 1759, the celebrated actor Philippe De Nohan sets sail on La Virginie with a French theatre troupe to make a tour of the New World... [More...]
Vendredi soir (2002)
Claire Denis
Laure has arrived at a tuning point in her life. In her Parisian apartment, she has packed up her belongings and is all set to move in with boyfriend... [More...]
Claire Denis
Laure has arrived at a tuning point in her life. In her Parisian apartment, she has packed up her belongings and is all set to move in with boyfriend... [More...]
Vengeance (2009)
Johnnie To
A man named Costello arrives in Hong Kong, ostensibly to find work as a chef. In fact, he is here to avenge the death of his daughter and her family, who were savagely slain by hired killers... [More...]
Johnnie To
A man named Costello arrives in Hong Kong, ostensibly to find work as a chef. In fact, he is here to avenge the death of his daughter and her family, who were savagely slain by hired killers... [More...]