French cinema: 2000
Jet Set (2000)
Fabien Onteniente
Jimmy and Fifi are two friends who are happily running a trendy bar in the suburbs of Paris when disaster strikes. As the threat of bankruptcy looms ever nearer, Jimmy decides that desperate steps need to be taken...
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Fabien Onteniente
Là-bas... mon pays (2000)
Alexandre Arcady
French television journalist Pierre Nivel is surprised when, out of the blue, he receives a phone call from an Algerian woman he has not seen for thirty years...
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Alexandre Arcady
Laissons Lucie faire! (2000)
Emmanuel Mouret
In sunny Marseille, twenty-something Lucie makes a living by selling bathing costumes to tourists on the beach. Her boyfriend, Lucien, fancies himself as a policeman, but when he is turned down for the job he does the only thing he can do, which is to get himself hired as a secret agent...
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Emmanuel Mouret
Le Libertin (2000)
Gabriel Aghion
France, in the mid-1700s. Denis Diderot, arguably the greatest philosopher of his age, is labouring on what will be his undoubted masterpiece, The Encyclopaedia...
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Gabriel Aghion
Lise et André (2000)
Denis Dercourt
Lise, a prostitute and single mother, is devastated when her young son, Bastien, is knocked down in a car accident. As her son lies in a coma, she turns to a priest, André, but he, a frail old man who is losing his faith, has nothing to offer her...
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Denis Dercourt
Les Marchands de sable (2000)
Pierre Salvadori
On leaving prison after completing a short stretch for a petty crime, Marie makes her way back to the only person she can count on for support, her brother Antoine... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
On leaving prison after completing a short stretch for a petty crime, Marie makes her way back to the only person she can count on for support, her brother Antoine... [More...]
Marie-Line (2000)
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Meilleur espoir féminin (2000)
Gérard Jugnot
Yvon Rance is the proud owner of a modest hairdressing salon in the small Breton town of Cancale. Since his wife left him some years ago, he has had to bring up his daughter Laetitia by himself and naturally he has become overly protective towards her... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
Yvon Rance is the proud owner of a modest hairdressing salon in the small Breton town of Cancale. Since his wife left him some years ago, he has had to bring up his daughter Laetitia by himself and naturally he has become overly protective towards her... [More...]
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Le Monde de Marty (2000)
Denis Bardiau
Martin Sauvier is a cheerful ten-year-old boy who is coping surprisingly well with his cancer treatment. Preferring to be called by his alias 'Marty', he has boundless energy and has become a firm favourite with the hospital staff... [More...]
Denis Bardiau
Martin Sauvier is a cheerful ten-year-old boy who is coping surprisingly well with his cancer treatment. Preferring to be called by his alias 'Marty', he has boundless energy and has become a firm favourite with the hospital staff... [More...]
Nationale 7 (2000)
Jean-Pierre Sinapi
After a full and active life, a middle-aged man, René, is struck by a muscle-wasting disease and finds himself in a care home for the mentally and physically disabled... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Sinapi
After a full and active life, a middle-aged man, René, is struck by a muscle-wasting disease and finds himself in a care home for the mentally and physically disabled... [More...]
La Parenthèse enchantée (2000)
Michel Spinosa
Whilst on holiday in the Mediterranean in 1969, two friends Paul and Vincent meet and fall in love with two young women, Eve and Alice... [More...]
Michel Spinosa
Whilst on holiday in the Mediterranean in 1969, two friends Paul and Vincent meet and fall in love with two young women, Eve and Alice... [More...]
Petite chérie (2000)
Anne Villacèque
Although she is about 30, Sybille still lives at home with her parents and has never had a boyfriend. On the train to her humdrum job as a bank clerk, she reads cheap romantic fiction and fantasises about the passions she fears she will never know, on account of her plain appearance and shyness... [More...]
Anne Villacèque
Although she is about 30, Sybille still lives at home with her parents and has never had a boyfriend. On the train to her humdrum job as a bank clerk, she reads cheap romantic fiction and fantasises about the passions she fears she will never know, on account of her plain appearance and shyness... [More...]
Pleure pas Germaine (2000)
Alain de Halleux
In an industrial Belgian town, the Bedard family has had more than its fair share of bad luck. The father, Gilles, has been unemployed for some time, and the mother, Germaine, is struggling to keep the family together after the death of their eldest daughter, Rolande... [More...]
Alain de Halleux
In an industrial Belgian town, the Bedard family has had more than its fair share of bad luck. The father, Gilles, has been unemployed for some time, and the mother, Germaine, is struggling to keep the family together after the death of their eldest daughter, Rolande... [More...]
Presque rien (2000)
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Promenons-nous dans les bois (2000)
Lionel Delplanque
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..? Evidently not the five actors who are invited to a remote country house to offer their modern interpretation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood... [More...]
Lionel Delplanque
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..? Evidently not the five actors who are invited to a remote country house to offer their modern interpretation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood... [More...]
Quand on sera grand (2000)
Renaud Cohen
Having reached the age of thirty, Simon, a Jew of Algerian descent, is forced to re-evaluate his life when he discovers that his work as a journalist no longer gives him any satisfaction... [More...]
Renaud Cohen
Having reached the age of thirty, Simon, a Jew of Algerian descent, is forced to re-evaluate his life when he discovers that his work as a journalist no longer gives him any satisfaction... [More...]
Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000)
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Les Rivières pourpres (2000)
Mathieu Kassovitz
An expert in serial killings, Pierre Niemans, is called in to investigate a gruesome murder in the French Alps, not far from an isolated university village... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz
An expert in serial killings, Pierre Niemans, is called in to investigate a gruesome murder in the French Alps, not far from an isolated university village... [More...]
Le Roi danse (2000)
Gérard Corbiau
Whilst conducting a Te Deum in honour of his king, Louis XIV of France, the great musician Jean-Baptiste Lully pierces his toe with his stick... [More...]
Gérard Corbiau
Whilst conducting a Te Deum in honour of his king, Louis XIV of France, the great musician Jean-Baptiste Lully pierces his toe with his stick... [More...]
Saint-Cyr (2000)
Patricia Mazuy
In 1686, Madame de Maintenon, the last wife of King Louis XIV, founded Saint-Cyr, a private school for the daughters of nobles ruined by the preceding decades of war... [More...]
Patricia Mazuy
In 1686, Madame de Maintenon, the last wife of King Louis XIV, founded Saint-Cyr, a private school for the daughters of nobles ruined by the preceding decades of war... [More...]
Samia (2000)
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
Sauve-moi (2000)
Christian Vincent
A young Rumanian woman, Agatha, arrives in the French town of Roubaix, hoping to rekindle a love affair with a French doctor whom she met during his last visit to her country... [More...]
Christian Vincent
A young Rumanian woman, Agatha, arrives in the French town of Roubaix, hoping to rekindle a love affair with a French doctor whom she met during his last visit to her country... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
After their teenage daughter, Marie Bourgoin, suddenly goes missing, the owners of a Parisian inn soon begin to suspect the worst... [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...]
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...]
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...]