French cinema: 2008
Paris (2008)
Cédric Klapisch
Pierre, a man in his early thirties, begins to lose hope when he is diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition...
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Cédric Klapisch
Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui
It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist...
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Agnès Jaoui
Passe-passe (2008)
Tonie Marshall
Irène Montier Duval has a designer bag full of cash and desperately needs someone to drive her to Geneva. Darry Marzouki is an out-of-work stage magician who is at the wheel of an expensive car and is badly in need of money...
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Tonie Marshall
Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War...
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Amos Gitai
Pour elle (2008)
Fred Cavayé
Julien and Lisa are a married couple who have been leading a perfectly happy life together for some years. They have a young son and couldn't be more ordinary if they tried...
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Fred Cavayé
Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Le Premier venu (2008)
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Profils paysans: la vie moderne (2008)
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Les Randonneurs à Saint-Tropez (2008)
Philippe Harel
It has been a full decade since Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis survived their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica. Now Mathieu and his brother Louis run a photocopying shop together in Paris, whilst Cora has married a divorcee named Jean-Jacques... [More...]
Philippe Harel
It has been a full decade since Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis survived their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica. Now Mathieu and his brother Louis run a photocopying shop together in Paris, whilst Cora has married a divorcee named Jean-Jacques... [More...]
Rumba (2008)
Dominique Abel
Teachers at a school in the country, Fiona and Dom are a couple who share an intense passion for Latin dancing. Their house is filled with trophies from the dancing tournaments they have won over the years... [More...]
Dominique Abel
Teachers at a school in the country, Fiona and Dom are a couple who share an intense passion for Latin dancing. Their house is filled with trophies from the dancing tournaments they have won over the years... [More...]
Sagan (2008)
Diane Kurys
In 1954, without her parents' knowledge, 18-year-old Françoise Quoirez published a novel that was to earn her instant celebrity and a revered place in French literature... [More...]
Diane Kurys
In 1954, without her parents' knowledge, 18-year-old Françoise Quoirez published a novel that was to earn her instant celebrity and a revered place in French literature... [More...]
Sans état d'âme (2008)
Vincenzo Marano
Martin may be a respected judge but that doesn't mean he is adverse to deviating from the rule of law if it suits his purpose... [More...]
Vincenzo Marano
Martin may be a respected judge but that doesn't mean he is adverse to deviating from the rule of law if it suits his purpose... [More...]
Secret défense (2008)
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Séraphine (2008)
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Le Silence de Lorna (2008)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
Sunny et l'éléphant (2008)
Frédéric Lepage
Sunny, a teenage orphan, lives and works with elephants in the forests of Thailand. His dream is to become a cornac, an elephant driver, but this is unlikely to become reality as he belongs to the wrong tribe... [More...]
Frédéric Lepage
Sunny, a teenage orphan, lives and works with elephants in the forests of Thailand. His dream is to become a cornac, an elephant driver, but this is unlikely to become reality as he belongs to the wrong tribe... [More...]
Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Survivre avec les loups (2008)
Véra Belmont
Eight-year-old Misha lives with her Jewish parents in Brussels. It is 1942 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Daily, scores of Jews are arrested by German soldiers and loaded onto trains destined for concentration camps in the East... [More...]
Véra Belmont
Eight-year-old Misha lives with her Jewish parents in Brussels. It is 1942 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Daily, scores of Jews are arrested by German soldiers and loaded onto trains destined for concentration camps in the East... [More...]
La Très très grande entreprise (2008)
Pierre Jolivet
Naterris, a huge multinational agrochemicals company, is prosecuted for polluting a stretch of water in an unspoiled region of the South of France... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Naterris, a huge multinational agrochemicals company, is prosecuted for polluting a stretch of water in an unspoiled region of the South of France... [More...]
Tu peux garder un secret? (2008)
Alexandre Arcady
Delphine clearly wasn't thinking of her longterm career plans when she let slip, in front of two of her colleagues, that she had been sleeping with her boss... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
Delphine clearly wasn't thinking of her longterm career plans when she let slip, in front of two of her colleagues, that she had been sleeping with her boss... [More...]
Le Tueur (2008)
Cédric Anger
Léo Zimmerman is a successful businessman who is looking forward to spending Christmas with his beloved daughter. His plans look as if they are about to be frustrated when a suspicious-looking young man named Dimitri Kopas shows up in his office and tries to pass himself off as a client... [More...]
Cédric Anger
Léo Zimmerman is a successful businessman who is looking forward to spending Christmas with his beloved daughter. His plans look as if they are about to be frustrated when a suspicious-looking young man named Dimitri Kopas shows up in his office and tries to pass himself off as a client... [More...]
Un coeur simple (2008)
Marion Laine
Félicité may have the appearance of a simpleton but she is a young woman of the purest heart, born to love others even if they cannot love her with the same sincerity... [More...]
Marion Laine
Félicité may have the appearance of a simpleton but she is a young woman of the purest heart, born to love others even if they cannot love her with the same sincerity... [More...]
Un conte de Noël (2008)
Arnaud Desplechin
Abel and Junon Vuillard are a happily married couple with three children who could not be more different. Although a great deal of water has passed under the bridge since, early in their marriage the couple suffered a terrible tragedy which time still hasn't healed... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Abel and Junon Vuillard are a happily married couple with three children who could not be more different. Although a great deal of water has passed under the bridge since, early in their marriage the couple suffered a terrible tragedy which time still hasn't healed... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
Versailles (2008)
Pierre Schoeller
Homeless and jobless, a young woman, Nina, lives on the streets of Paris with her five-year old son, Enzo. In the woods near to the palace of Versailles, she comes across a small hut, which is home to Damien, a young man who has turned his back on the world... [More...]
Pierre Schoeller
Homeless and jobless, a young woman, Nina, lives on the streets of Paris with her five-year old son, Enzo. In the woods near to the palace of Versailles, she comes across a small hut, which is home to Damien, a young man who has turned his back on the world... [More...]