French cinema: 2010s
Une bouteille à la mer (2012)
Thierry Binisti
Tal is a young French woman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She is 17 and has reached the age of her first adult experiences - her first love, her first cigarette, her first terrorist attack...
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Thierry Binisti
Une enfance (2015)
Philippe Claudel
In a small industrial town in the east of France, 13-year-old Jimmy has already put his childhood behind him as he takes charge of his impoverished household...
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Philippe Claudel
Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain
In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife...
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Marc Dugain
Une famille à louer (2015)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Paul-André is a shy and introverted forty-year-old. He has money but he is bored beyond belief and ends up concluding that what he needs most in the world is a family...
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Jean-Pierre Améris
Une folle envie (2011)
Bernard Jeanjean
Yann and Rose are young, very much in love and want to have a child. Nine months later, their baby has yet to put in an appearance...
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Bernard Jeanjean
Une mère (2015)
Christine Carrière
Forty-something Marie has a hard time trying to bring up her troublesome 16-year-old son Guillaume by herself. A vicious tearaway easily drawn into a life of crime, the teenager is prone to violent outbursts and looks destined for a spell in prison unless he can change his ways... [More...]
Christine Carrière
Forty-something Marie has a hard time trying to bring up her troublesome 16-year-old son Guillaume by herself. A vicious tearaway easily drawn into a life of crime, the teenager is prone to violent outbursts and looks destined for a spell in prison unless he can change his ways... [More...]
Une nouvelle amie (2014)
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
Une nuit (2012)
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Une part d'ombre (2018)
Samuel Tilman
David is a family man who has everything he could ask for, including a devoted wife Julie and two children he adores. So far he has led an ordinary existence and there is no sign of the dramatic turn of events that are about to overtake him and his family as they return home after their holidays... [More...]
Samuel Tilman
David is a family man who has everything he could ask for, including a devoted wife Julie and two children he adores. So far he has led an ordinary existence and there is no sign of the dramatic turn of events that are about to overtake him and his family as they return home after their holidays... [More...]
Une petite zone de turbulences (2010)
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Une pure affaire (2011)
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Une vie (2016)
Stéphane Brizé
In 1819, a young woman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds leaves the content where she has been educated since childhood and returns to live with her parents on the family estate in Normandy... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
In 1819, a young woman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds leaves the content where she has been educated since childhood and returns to live with her parents on the family estate in Normandy... [More...]
Une vie meilleure (2012)
Cédric Kahn
Yann and Nadia are a couple who are deeply in love. They finally get to realise their dream of running their own business when they open a restaurant on the banks of a lake... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Yann and Nadia are a couple who are deeply in love. They finally get to realise their dream of running their own business when they open a restaurant on the banks of a lake... [More...]
Une vie violente (2017)
Thierry de Peretti
On hearing of the death of his childhood friend and loyal comrade-in-arms Christophe, Stéphane sets off for the island of Corsica to attend his funeral in Bastia... [More...]
Thierry de Peretti
On hearing of the death of his childhood friend and loyal comrade-in-arms Christophe, Stéphane sets off for the island of Corsica to attend his funeral in Bastia... [More...]
Va, Toto! (2017)
Pierre Creton
Through three off-kilter tales which border on the outright surreal, director Pierre Creton casts a mischievous eye over the subtle relationship between human beings and animals... [More...]
Pierre Creton
Through three off-kilter tales which border on the outright surreal, director Pierre Creton casts a mischievous eye over the subtle relationship between human beings and animals... [More...]
Les Vacances de Ducobu (2012)
Philippe de Chauveron
The summer holidays could not have some sooner for Ducobu, a boy for whom school is the most excruciating form of torture imaginable... [More...]
Philippe de Chauveron
The summer holidays could not have some sooner for Ducobu, a boy for whom school is the most excruciating form of torture imaginable... [More...]
Valentin Valentin (2015)
Pascal Thomas
In a small apartment block in Paris, a melancholic 30-year-old named Valentin divides his time between his demanding mistress, his egoistical mother, three girls on the fifth floor and a pretty Chinese girl whose presence in the house across the road has always intrigued him... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
In a small apartment block in Paris, a melancholic 30-year-old named Valentin divides his time between his demanding mistress, his egoistical mother, three girls on the fifth floor and a pretty Chinese girl whose presence in the house across the road has always intrigued him... [More...]
Valley of Love (2015)
Guillaume Nicloux
Isabelle and Gérard, two well-known film actors, keep a strange kind of rendezvous in Death Valley, California. They haven't seen each other for years and it is at the invitation of their son Michel, a photographer who committed suicide six months ago, that they are here, alone together in this awesome landscape... [More...]
Guillaume Nicloux
Isabelle and Gérard, two well-known film actors, keep a strange kind of rendezvous in Death Valley, California. They haven't seen each other for years and it is at the invitation of their son Michel, a photographer who committed suicide six months ago, that they are here, alone together in this awesome landscape... [More...]
La Vanité (2015)
Lionel Baier
David Miller is a retired architect afflicted with an inoperable cancer who has made up his mind to die. To that end, he contacts an association in Switzerland that offers an assisted suicide service and arranges a time and a place for the event to take place... [More...]
Lionel Baier
David Miller is a retired architect afflicted with an inoperable cancer who has made up his mind to die. To that end, he contacts an association in Switzerland that offers an assisted suicide service and arranges a time and a place for the event to take place... [More...]
Venise n'est pas en Italie (2019)
Ivan Calbérac
The Chamodots are a most unusual family. Home for them is a modest caravan, parked in the suburbs of Montargis in northern France... [More...]
Ivan Calbérac
The Chamodots are a most unusual family. Home for them is a modest caravan, parked in the suburbs of Montargis in northern France... [More...]
La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Roman Polanski
Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play... [More...]
La Vérité si je mens! 3 (2012)
Thomas Gilou
It has been almost a decade since we last encountered Eddie, Dov, Yvan and their friends trying and failing to make a killing in the world of ready-to-wear clothing... [More...]
Thomas Gilou
It has been almost a decade since we last encountered Eddie, Dov, Yvan and their friends trying and failing to make a killing in the world of ready-to-wear clothing... [More...]
Victoria (2016)
Justine Triet
Since her egocentric husband David walked out on her, Victoria Spick has been left to bring up their two young children alone - not an easy task when you have a high-pressured career as a criminal lawyer... [More...]
Justine Triet
Since her egocentric husband David walked out on her, Victoria Spick has been left to bring up their two young children alone - not an easy task when you have a high-pressured career as a criminal lawyer... [More...]
La Vie d'Adèle (2013)
Abdellatif Kechiche
15-year-old Adèle is a girl like any other, and like any girl of her age going out with boys is a habit she soon gets into... [More...]
Abdellatif Kechiche
15-year-old Adèle is a girl like any other, and like any girl of her age going out with boys is a habit she soon gets into... [More...]
La Vie d'une autre (2012)
Sylvie Testud
Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is 25. She has forgotten fifteen years of her life. All she can think of is the great romance that lies ahead of her, but she soon discovers that this romance has long fizzled out... [More...]
Sylvie Testud
Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is 25. She has forgotten fifteen years of her life. All she can think of is the great romance that lies ahead of her, but she soon discovers that this romance has long fizzled out... [More...]
Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Violette (2013)
Martin Provost
Violette Leduc, a woman born outside of wedlock at the start of the last century, meets the intellectual Simone de Beauvoir in St-Germain-des-Prés shortly after the war... [More...]
Martin Provost
Violette Leduc, a woman born outside of wedlock at the start of the last century, meets the intellectual Simone de Beauvoir in St-Germain-des-Prés shortly after the war... [More...]
Visages, villages (2017)
JR
The filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR have much in common, in particular their fascination with images and the way these can be used to capture the essence of a location, giving it a voice and identity all of its own... [More...]
JR
The filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR have much in common, in particular their fascination with images and the way these can be used to capture the essence of a location, giving it a voice and identity all of its own... [More...]
Vive la France (2013)
Michaël Youn
Who has heard of Taboulistan? That's the problem: nobody! This is a tiny speck of a country in Asia that no one outside of Taboulistan has ever heard of - and this is something that the patriotic son of the country's president intends to put right... [More...]
Michaël Youn
Who has heard of Taboulistan? That's the problem: nobody! This is a tiny speck of a country in Asia that no one outside of Taboulistan has ever heard of - and this is something that the patriotic son of the country's president intends to put right... [More...]