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French cinema: 2000s

Les Destinées sentimentales (2000)
Olivier Assayas

Jean Barnery is the pastor of a small village in Charente, Shortly after separating from his wife Nathalie, he meets Pauline, the daughter of one of his parishioners who runs a cognac distillery...   [More...]

Deux (2002)
Werner Schroeter

Maria and Magdalena are twin sisters who were abandoned by their mother, a Portuguese immigrant, shortly after they were born...   [More...]

Deux frères (2004)
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Indochina in the 1920s. In the jungles of Angkor, two tiger cubs are born amidst the ruins of an ancient temple, an exotic location which becomes their home...   [More...]

Deux jours à tuer (2008)
Jean Becker

Forty-something Antoine Méliot has everything a man could possibly want to be happy - a well-paid job, a beautiful wife, two adorable children, a nice house, and friends he can always rely on...   [More...]

Deux vies... plus une (2007)
Idit Cebula

Eliane Weiss, a primary school teacher, finds herself increasingly put upon by the demands of her job, her husband, her daughter and her overly possessive mother...   [More...]

Deuxième quinzaine de juillet (2000)
Christophe Reichert

Monique, used to having the upper hand in their relationship, is surprised when her weak-willed and indecisive partner Félix takes the initiative by planning the summer holidays one year...   [More...]

Le Deuxième souffle (2007)
Alain Corneau

In the late 1950s, Gustave Minda, known to all as Gu, is one of France's most notorious hoodlums, but the law catches up with him in the end...   [More...]

Deuxième vie (2000)
Patrick Braoudé

Vincent, a 30 year-old misfit, is unable to decide what to do with his life. Should he marry his girlfriend Laurie and take over his father's shop...   [More...]

Les Diables (2002)
Christophe Ruggia

Since they were found abandoned in the street as small children, Joseph and Chloé have spent most of their lives in care homes or with foster parents...   [More...]

Dialogue avec mon jardinier (2007)
Jean Becker

After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside...   [More...]

Diamant 13 (2009)
Gilles Béhat

Mat is a world-weary cop who has long had his illusions torn from him. Now in his late fifties, one of the least enthusiastic members of the 13th night division, he carries out his professional duties with an almost robotic perfunctoriness...   [More...]

Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001)
Pascale Bailly

Michèle has barely turned twenty and yet already she has made up her mind that her life is a complete failure. Her modelling career seems to be going nowhere and now she is alone, depressed and fed up after breaking up with her boyfriend Bertrand...   [More...]

La Disparue de Deauville (2007)
Sophie Marceau

Jacques, a solitary cop based in Le Havre, is investigating the mysterious death of a man in a sumptuous palace on the Normandy coast...   [More...]

Donne-moi la main (2009)
Pascal-Alex Vincent

Two identical twins, Antoine and Quentin discover they are not so similar as they had thought when they undertake a long pilgrimage to Spain, to attend the funeral of their recently deceased mother...   [More...]

Double zéro (2004)
Gérard Pirès

When a top secret nuclear missile is stolen, the French Security Services quickly arrive at the conclusion that there is a traitor in their midst...   [More...]

La Doublure (2006)
Francis Veber

Wealthy businessman Pierre Levasseur faces a potentially ruinous divorce when a magazine publishes a photograph of him having a tryst with his mistress, the supermodel Elena Simonsen...   [More...]

Douches froides (2005)
Antony Cordier

Mikael is an ordinary 17-year old lad from a typical French working class family. With his father unemployed, his mother has become the family breadwinner, but she earns barely enough to make ends meet...   [More...]

Drôle de Félix (2000)
Olivier Ducastel

Félix is a HIV-positive gay man of mixed race who lives in the northern French town of Dieppe with his partner, Daniel...   [More...]

L'École pour tous (2006)
Eric Rochant

After failing his end-of-school exams, Jahwad was easily drawn into a life of crime, much to the distress of his mother who, over the years that followed, had to get used to frequent visits from the police...   [More...]

Écoute le temps (2007)
Alanté Kavaïté

Charlotte, a young sound engineer, is shocked when she learns that her mother has been murdered at her home in the country...   [More...]

Edy (2005)
Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

The joie de vivre has definitely gone out of Edy's life. He has made a successful career for himself as an insurance agent, but as his retirement comes ever nearer he finds he has less and less enthusiasm for his work...   [More...]

Effroyables jardins (2003)
Jean Becker

Lucien is a little boy who loves his father Jacques but he shrinks in embarrassment every time he sees him perform his clown act for the amusement of others...   [More...]

Les Égarés (2003)
André Téchiné

In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital...   [More...]

Eldorado (2008)
Bouli Lanners

Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle...   [More...]

Élève libre (2008)
Joachim Lafosse

Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition...   [More...]

Éloge de l'amour (2001)
Jean-Luc Godard

A filmmaker Edgar is preparing to make a film about the four stages of love (meeting, passion, separation and reconciliation)...   [More...]

Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc

After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together...   [More...]

Emmenez-moi (2005)
Edmond Bensimon

When his nephew, Benoît, manages to get hold of a video-camera, fifty-something Jean-Claude feels obliged to record a personal message for his lifelong hero, Charles Aznavour...   [More...]

L'Emmerdeur (2008)
Francis Veber

Ralph Milan is a professional killer who is a master of his art. His next target is Randoni, an important witness in a corruption trial due to take place at the Palais de Justice in Nice...   [More...]

L'Emploi du temps (2001)
Laurent Cantet

When he is fired from his job as a high-powered consultant, Vincent hides the fact from his friends and family by pretending to have found a new job at the United Nations...   [More...]



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