French cinema: 2000s
La Bande du Drugstore (2002)
François Armanet
Paris, 1966. Philippe, Marc and Nathalie are three lively adolescents who take full advantage of the freedoms offered by their time...
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François Armanet
Banqueroute (2000)
Antoine Desrosières
One of the lesser known casualties of the 1995 stock market crash is an ambitious young trader named Nicolas Lanson. A man who has grown accustomed to a life of unbridled luxury, Lanson thrives on his bloated bonuses, and this incentivises him to take the kind of investment risks that no sane stockbroker would even consider...
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Antoine Desrosières
Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001)
Bruno Chiche
Barnard Barnich, known to all as Barnie, is a successful 40-something businessman who works in London but lives in Calais with his devoted wife Lucy...
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Bruno Chiche
Bazar (2009)
Patricia Plattner
Sixty-year-old Gabrielle is passionate about her work as an antiques dealer. It is her life, her raison d'être, and so she is understandably shaken when she is evicted from her shop...
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Patricia Plattner
Les Beaux gosses (2009)
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure...
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Riad Sattouf
Bella ciao (2001)
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Bellamy (2009)
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
La Belle personne (2008)
Christophe Honoré
After the death of her mother, 16-year-old Junie goes to live with her cousin, Mathias. Junie's arrival at her new school attracts the attention of several of Mathias' friends, but she only consents to go out with one of them, the timid but amiable Otto... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
After the death of her mother, 16-year-old Junie goes to live with her cousin, Mathias. Junie's arrival at her new school attracts the attention of several of Mathias' friends, but she only consents to go out with one of them, the timid but amiable Otto... [More...]
Belphégor - Le Fantôme du Louvre (2001)
Jean-Paul Salomé
A collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts dating back three thousand years is taken to the Louvre Museum in Paris for analysis and classification... [More...]
Jean-Paul Salomé
A collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts dating back three thousand years is taken to the Louvre Museum in Paris for analysis and classification... [More...]
Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001)
Claude Miller
After making her name as a writer in the United States, Betty Fisher returns to France with her four-year-old son Joseph, leaving her partner Édouard in New York... [More...]
Claude Miller
After making her name as a writer in the United States, Betty Fisher returns to France with her four-year-old son Joseph, leaving her partner Édouard in New York... [More...]
La Beuze (2003)
François Desagnat
Inseparable buddies since childhood, Alphonse Brown and Scotch live in the busy French sea port of Le Havre, just about making ends meet with their petty criminal exploits... [More...]
François Desagnat
Inseparable buddies since childhood, Alphonse Brown and Scotch live in the busy French sea port of Le Havre, just about making ends meet with their petty criminal exploits... [More...]
Bienvenue au gîte (2003)
Claude Duty
Tired of their stressful Parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence... [More...]
Claude Duty
Tired of their stressful Parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence... [More...]
Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)
Dany Boon
Philippe Abrams lives in a provincial town in the south of France with his habitually depressed wife Julie and is happily employed as a branch manager of the French postal service... [More...]
Dany Boon
Philippe Abrams lives in a provincial town in the south of France with his habitually depressed wife Julie and is happily employed as a branch manager of the French postal service... [More...]
Bienvenue en Suisse (2004)
Léa Fazer
After an absence of several years, Thierry returns to his home in Switzerland to attend the funeral of his grandmother, accompanied by his partner Sophie... [More...]
Léa Fazer
After an absence of several years, Thierry returns to his home in Switzerland to attend the funeral of his grandmother, accompanied by his partner Sophie... [More...]
Bon plan (2000)
Jérôme Lévy
One summer, Five French students decide to hike their way across Europe, the aim being to visit 15 great cities without falling out... [More...]
Jérôme Lévy
One summer, Five French students decide to hike their way across Europe, the aim being to visit 15 great cities without falling out... [More...]
Bon voyage (2003)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Paris, 1940. A few days before France falls to German occupation, a famous actress, Viviane Denvers, triggers a series of events that will irrevocably change the lives of herself and those around her... [More...]
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Paris, 1940. A few days before France falls to German occupation, a famous actress, Viviane Denvers, triggers a series of events that will irrevocably change the lives of herself and those around her... [More...]
Bord de mer (2002)
Julie Lopes-Curval
In summer, Cayeux-sur-mer is the perfect picture postcard seaside resort, a haven for holidaymakers who flock here in their thousands to take advantage of the rolling stretch of beach... [More...]
Julie Lopes-Curval
In summer, Cayeux-sur-mer is the perfect picture postcard seaside resort, a haven for holidaymakers who flock here in their thousands to take advantage of the rolling stretch of beach... [More...]
Boudu (2005)
Gérard Jugnot
Christian Lespinglet is the owner of a struggling art gallery in Aix-en-Provence. One evening starts by him trying to seduce his assistant Coralie and ends with him coming to the rescue of a drowning tramp named Boudu... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
Christian Lespinglet is the owner of a struggling art gallery in Aix-en-Provence. One evening starts by him trying to seduce his assistant Coralie and ends with him coming to the rescue of a drowning tramp named Boudu... [More...]
Le Boulet (2002)
Alain Berbérian
Moltès, a rough gangster type serving a long prison stretch for murdering a police informer, has developed a cosy rapport with his warder, Francis Reggio... [More...]
Alain Berbérian
Moltès, a rough gangster type serving a long prison stretch for murdering a police informer, has developed a cosy rapport with his warder, Francis Reggio... [More...]
Bouquet final (2008)
Michel Delgado
Unbeknown to his anti-bourgeois beatnik parents, who had hoped that, like them, he might pursue an artistic career, Gabriel opts to become an undertaker... [More...]
Michel Delgado
Unbeknown to his anti-bourgeois beatnik parents, who had hoped that, like them, he might pursue an artistic career, Gabriel opts to become an undertaker... [More...]
Boxes (2007)
Jane Birkin
Imagine your whole life in boxes. This is what Anna, a 50-something Englishwoman, finds when she moves into her new home on the Brittany coast... [More...]
Jane Birkin
Imagine your whole life in boxes. This is what Anna, a 50-something Englishwoman, finds when she moves into her new home on the Brittany coast... [More...]
Les Brigades du Tigre (2006)
Jérôme Cornuau
In 1907, to counter the rising tide of violent crime in France, a special police unit known as the Mobile Brigade is set up by the Home Office minister Georges Clemenceau (a.k.a... [More...]
Jérôme Cornuau
In 1907, to counter the rising tide of violent crime in France, a special police unit known as the Mobile Brigade is set up by the Home Office minister Georges Clemenceau (a.k.a... [More...]
Brocéliande (2002)
Doug Headline
On the very day that archaeology student Chloé begins her university course on Celtic history she senses she is entering a strange and dangerous world... [More...]
Doug Headline
On the very day that archaeology student Chloé begins her university course on Celtic history she senses she is entering a strange and dangerous world... [More...]
Brodeuses (2004)
Éléonore Faucher
Claire is 17 years old and lives in Angoulême, a town in the south west of France. She finds it hard to get on with her parents and lives alone... [More...]
Éléonore Faucher
Claire is 17 years old and lives in Angoulême, a town in the south west of France. She finds it hard to get on with her parents and lives alone... [More...]
Les Bronzés 3 - amis pour la vie (2006)
Patrice Leconte
Little did they know that when they first met up during their Club Med holiday in 1978, Bernard, Gigi, Nathalie, Jerôme, Popeye and Jean-Claude were set to become friends for life... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Little did they know that when they first met up during their Club Med holiday in 1978, Bernard, Gigi, Nathalie, Jerôme, Popeye and Jean-Claude were set to become friends for life... [More...]
Le Bruit des gens autour (2008)
Diastème
The Festival d'Avignon, one of the cultural highlights of the French calendar, is an appropriate meeting point for artists, romantics and all manner of emotionally disturbed individuals... [More...]
Diastème
The Festival d'Avignon, one of the cultural highlights of the French calendar, is an appropriate meeting point for artists, romantics and all manner of emotionally disturbed individuals... [More...]
C'est la vie (2001)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Dimitri is not yet fifty when he is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Reluctantly, he gives up his comfortable home in Marseille and takes up residence in a hospice, where he will live out the last few weeks that remain to him... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Améris
Dimitri is not yet fifty when he is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Reluctantly, he gives up his comfortable home in Marseille and takes up residence in a hospice, where he will live out the last few weeks that remain to him... [More...]
Cabaret Paradis (2006)
Corinne Benizio
Travelling performers Shirley and Dino cannot get to Paris fast enough when they learn that they have inherited a cabaret nightclub located in the Pigalle district of the capital... [More...]
Corinne Benizio
Travelling performers Shirley and Dino cannot get to Paris fast enough when they learn that they have inherited a cabaret nightclub located in the Pigalle district of the capital... [More...]
Caché (2005)
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a comfortably settled middle-aged couple who have a nice apartment in Paris. He hosts a popular literary review programme on television; she is a successful writer; they have a teenage son... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a comfortably settled middle-aged couple who have a nice apartment in Paris. He hosts a popular literary review programme on television; she is a successful writer; they have a teenage son... [More...]
Le Cactus (2005)
Gérard Bitton
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing - especially when you are a chronic hypochondriac like Sami. He is the kind of person who manages to contract every illness known to man just by hearing about it... [More...]
Gérard Bitton
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing - especially when you are a chronic hypochondriac like Sami. He is the kind of person who manages to contract every illness known to man just by hearing about it... [More...]