French cinema: 2010
Des hommes et des dieux (2010)
Xavier Beauvois
In the 1990s, eight French Cistercian monks lead a peaceful existence in a monastery overlooking the village of Tibhirine in the mountainous hinterland of Algeria...
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Xavier Beauvois
Deux de la Vague (2010)
Emmanuel Laurent
It was a friendship that helped to bring about a revolution in French cinema. A friendship that was born out of a mutual love of cinema and a desire to radically transform an art form that had become tired and complacent...
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Emmanuel Laurent
Donnant, donnant (2010)
Isabelle Mergault
Constant is convicted and sent to prison for a crime which he insists was an accident. After sustaining a head injury, he finds himself in hospital, and an opportunity to escape soon presents itself...
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Isabelle Mergault
Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand...
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Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear...
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Jean-Pierre Améris
Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... (2010)
Pascal Thomas
When Nicolas and Dorothée meet at a folklore festival it is love at first sight. Yet whilst they realise they are made for one another they cannot speak and so most go their separate ways... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
When Nicolas and Dorothée meet at a folklore festival it is love at first sight. Yet whilst they realise they are made for one another they cannot speak and so most go their separate ways... [More...]
Fatal (2010)
Michaël Youn
Fatal Bazooka is more surprised than anyone by his amazing success as a musician. After selling over fifteen thousand discs he has become the most successful rapper in history... [More...]
Michaël Youn
Fatal Bazooka is more surprised than anyone by his amazing success as a musician. After selling over fifteen thousand discs he has become the most successful rapper in history... [More...]
Henri 4 (2010)
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Holiday (2010)
Guillaume Nicloux
Michel Trémois's carefully planned holiday has turned into his worst nightmare. Having managed to miss the last train back to Paris, he finds himself with a nosebleed, stranded in the provincial town where he had hoped to breathe some life back into his stale marriage... [More...]
Guillaume Nicloux
Michel Trémois's carefully planned holiday has turned into his worst nightmare. Having managed to miss the last train back to Paris, he finds himself with a nosebleed, stranded in the provincial town where he had hoped to breathe some life back into his stale marriage... [More...]
L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (2010)
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Hors-la-loi (2010)
Rachid Bouchareb
Driven from their plot of land in Algeria to make way for French settlers, three brothers and their parents are forced to separate... [More...]
Rachid Bouchareb
Driven from their plot of land in Algeria to make way for French settlers, three brothers and their parents are forced to separate... [More...]
Huit fois debout (2010)
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
L'Illusionniste (2010)
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
Imogène McCarthery (2010)
Alexandre Charlot
Imogène McCarthery is proud of her Scottish ancestry, almost fanatically so. Rugby, bagpipes and malt whisky are her three main passions, along with cultivating an undying hatred for the English... [More...]
Alexandre Charlot
Imogène McCarthery is proud of her Scottish ancestry, almost fanatically so. Rugby, bagpipes and malt whisky are her three main passions, along with cultivating an undying hatred for the English... [More...]
Les Invités de mon père (2010)
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Joseph et la fille (2010)
Xavier De Choudens
Having completed a twenty year stretch in prison, Joseph immediately sets about preparing the ultimate hold-up. But he needs an accomplice if the robbery is to succeed... [More...]
Xavier De Choudens
Having completed a twenty year stretch in prison, Joseph immediately sets about preparing the ultimate hold-up. But he needs an accomplice if the robbery is to succeed... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Lignes de front (2010)
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Les Mains en l'air (2010)
Romain Goupil
In March 2067, whilst Milana looks back on her life she recalls the momentous events that took place sixty years ago... In 2009, Milana, an illegal Chechen immigrant, is a pupil in a Paris school... [More...]
Romain Goupil
In March 2067, whilst Milana looks back on her life she recalls the momentous events that took place sixty years ago... In 2009, Milana, an illegal Chechen immigrant, is a pupil in a Paris school... [More...]
Mammuth (2010)
Gustave de Kervern
After turning sixty, Serge Pilardosse is looking forward to a comfortable and well-deserved retirement. He began work at the age of sixteen and he hasn't taken a single day off since, either through sickness or unemployment... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
After turning sixty, Serge Pilardosse is looking forward to a comfortable and well-deserved retirement. He began work at the age of sixteen and he hasn't taken a single day off since, either through sickness or unemployment... [More...]
Le Mariage à trois (2010)
Jacques Doillon
Auguste is a playwright in his fifties who is struggling to put the finishing touches to his latest magnum opus. A few details still need to be worked through, so to help him he invites two actors to his house in the country to help bring the play to life... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Auguste is a playwright in his fifties who is struggling to put the finishing touches to his latest magnum opus. A few details still need to be worked through, so to help him he invites two actors to his house in the country to help bring the play to life... [More...]
Mon pote (2010)
Marc Esposito
Victor, the publisher of a well-known car magazine, is giving a talk about his work in a prison when he strikes up a rapport with one of the inmates, a former crook named Bruno... [More...]
Marc Esposito
Victor, the publisher of a well-known car magazine, is giving a talk about his work in a prison when he strikes up a rapport with one of the inmates, a former crook named Bruno... [More...]
Mumu (2010)
Joël Séria
France, 1947. Despite his protestations, 11-year-old Roger is sent by his bullying father to a boarding school in a small village in Anjou... [More...]
Joël Séria
France, 1947. Despite his protestations, 11-year-old Roger is sent by his bullying father to a boarding school in a small village in Anjou... [More...]
Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (2010)
René Féret
In a rickety carriage, a family of musicians are making their way across a wintry landscape, snuggled together for comfort as they await their arrival at the next palace on their itinerary... [More...]
René Féret
In a rickety carriage, a family of musicians are making their way across a wintry landscape, snuggled together for comfort as they await their arrival at the next palace on their itinerary... [More...]
No et moi (2010)
Zabou Breitman
Lou may be only 13 but she is wise beyond her years. As a result, she has few friends and leads a solitary existence, neglected by her mother, who is dependent on tranquillisers... [More...]
Zabou Breitman
Lou may be only 13 but she is wise beyond her years. As a result, she has few friends and leads a solitary existence, neglected by her mother, who is dependent on tranquillisers... [More...]
Noir océan (2010)
Marion Hänsel
In 1972, three young sailors aboard a French naval vessel are to take part in atomic bomb tests on the Pacific island of Mururoa... [More...]
Marion Hänsel
In 1972, three young sailors aboard a French naval vessel are to take part in atomic bomb tests on the Pacific island of Mururoa... [More...]
Le Nom des gens (2010)
Michel Leclerc
Bahia Benmahmoud is an extroverted young woman who takes her political activism seriously. She has no scruples over sleeping with the enemy, not if she can convert him to her cause... [More...]
Michel Leclerc
Bahia Benmahmoud is an extroverted young woman who takes her political activism seriously. She has no scruples over sleeping with the enemy, not if she can convert him to her cause... [More...]
Nous trois (2010)
Renaud Bertrand
In 1972, Sébastien is six and a half, a sensitive and imaginative child who worships his mother to the extent that he imagines her to be Queen Elizabeth II... [More...]
Renaud Bertrand
In 1972, Sébastien is six and a half, a sensitive and imaginative child who worships his mother to the extent that he imagines her to be Queen Elizabeth II... [More...]
Pauline et François (2010)
Renaud Fely
Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes... [More...]
Renaud Fely
Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes... [More...]
Les Petits mouchoirs (2010)
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]