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French cinema: 2005

13 Tzameti (2005)
Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple...   [More...]

À ce soir (2005)
Laure Duthilleul

Awaking early one morning, Nelly finds her husband Manuel is still asleep. A hardworking doctor, Manuel deserves a lie in, so Nelly leaves him in peace...   [More...]

Akoibon (2005)
Edouard Baer

To save his friend from being dismembered piece by piece, small-time con artist Nader must travel to a remote holiday island and deliver Chris Barnes, a faded celebrity, into the hands of a mysterious (and totally ruthless) boss...   [More...]

Les Amants réguliers (2005)
Philippe Garrel

May 1968. The streets of Paris are ablaze as students and riot police unwittingly re-enact the famous barricade scene from Les Misèrables ...   [More...]

Les Âmes grises (2005)
Yves Angelo

France, 1917. A young schoolteacher, Lysia Verhaeren, arrives in a small town near to the Western Front to take up her first post at an infant's school...   [More...]

L'Amour aux trousses (2005)
Philippe de Chauveron

Paul and Franck are two French police officers in the narcotics squad who are the closest of friends. In the course of tracking down a dangerous drugs dealer one of their fellow officers is shot dead and Paul ends up with a serious leg injury...   [More...]

Angel-A (2005)
Luc Besson

28 year-old con artist André lies so easily that he has even convinced himself he is the model citizen. In reality, he is the type that would sell his grandmother for a packet of cigarettes...   [More...]

Anthony Zimmer (2005)
Jérôme Salle

One of the world's most notorious criminals, Anthony Zimmer is doggedly pursued by the police and Russian mafia but he has a knack of evading capture...   [More...]

L'Antidote (2005)
Vincent De Brus

Jacques-Alain Marty is the head of Vladis Entreprises, one of the largest conglomerates in France. His success is compromised by frequent anxiety attacks that cause him to sweat and muddle his words...   [More...]

Aux abois (2005)
Philippe Collin

Paris, in the 1950s. Since his divorce, Paul lives alone in an apartment which he can no longer afford. Unemployed, he cannot even find the money to pay his wife's alimony and he is teetering on the verge of suicide...   [More...]

L'Avion (2005)
Cédric Kahn

Christmas evening, eight-year-old Charly anxiously awaits the return of his father, Pierre, to the family home. Pierre, an aerospace engineer, is often away working on secret military projects, but he has promised his son a bike for Christmas...   [More...]

Backstage (2005)
Emmanuelle Bercot

Lucie, a typical 17-year-old girl, is obsessed with her pop idol, Lauren Waks. How then should she react when, one evening, the pop star should walk into her living room and sing a song for her benefit...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

Camping à la ferme (2005)
Jean-Pierre Sinapi

Six juvenile delinquents from inner city Paris are offered an alternative to the usual short sharp shock of a prison sentence - a month in the country doing odd jobs for the community...   [More...]

Les Chevaliers du ciel (2005)
Gérard Pirès

During an air display at Farnborough, a Mirage 2000 jet goes off the radar. Two French fighter pilots, Antoine Marchelli and Sébastien Vallois, are sent to intercept the plane...   [More...]

Chok-Dee (2005)
Xavier Durringer

Ryan is a juvenile delinquent who lives in the rough suburbs of Paris. He survives in a tough world by pushing drugs and committing minor criminal offences...   [More...]

Combien tu m'aimes? (2005)
Bertrand Blier

The star attraction at Charly's popular nightclub in Pigalle is Daniela, an Italian prostitute that no man can resist, apparently...   [More...]

Le Couperet (2005)
Costa-Gavras

When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family...   [More...]

Crustacés et coquillages (2005)
Olivier Ducastel

One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up...   [More...]

Dans tes rêves (2005)
Denis Thybaud

Ixe's one passion in his life is rap music. His ambition is to be a professional rap artist, but since he lives on a poor housing estate and has no chance of meeting anyone in the music business, the likelihood of this happening is minimal...   [More...]

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
Jacques Audiard

28 year old Tom Seyr is the son of a small time gangster and seems set to follow in his father's footsteps. He earns his crust through crooked real estate deals with his two thuggish associates Fabrice and Sami...   [More...]

Le Démon de midi (2005)
Marie-Pascale Osterrieth

Anna and Julien are an ordinary-looking Parisian couple who have enjoyed the most harmonious of love affairs for fifteen years...   [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...]

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...]

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'Enfant (2005)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes...   [More...]

Les Enfants (2005)
Christian Vincent

After the breakdown of his marriage, fifty-something Pierre resolves to do the best for his two sons - fourteen-year-old Victor and nine-year-old Thomas...   [More...]

Entre ses mains (2005)
Anne Fontaine

Claire Gauthier is 30, married with a young daughter and works for an insurance firm in the town of Lille. A good wife, mother and employee, she would appear to be the model of the modern woman...   [More...]



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