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French cinema: 2011

17 filles (2011)
Delphine Coulin

In the small Brittany coastal town of Lorient, Camille, a 16-year-old school girl, is surprised when she discovers that she is pregnant...   [More...]

Les Adoptés (2011)
Mélanie Laurent

Lisa, an aspiring musician in her early thirties, lives in the French town of Lyon with Marie, her adopted sister, and their over-protective mother...   [More...]

Americano (2011)
Mathieu Demy

Martin is a late thirty-something who lives in Paris with his girlfriend Claire, although the spark has long gone out of their relationship and they live together more out of habit than through mutual need...   [More...]

Angèle et Tony (2011)
Alix Delaporte

Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents...   [More...]

L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Bertrand Bonello

In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile...   [More...]

L'Art d'aimer (2011)
Emmanuel Mouret

At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity and promise all the delights of paradise...   [More...]

L'Assaut (2011)
Julien Leclercq

On Saturday, 24th December 1994, the whole of France is stunned by the news that a group of armed Islamic terrorists have hijacked an Air France Airbus-300 and taken the 227 people on board hostage...   [More...]

Avant l'aube (2011)
Raphaël Jacoulot

Frédéric Boissier believes he has put his troubled past behind him when he gets himself a respectable job as a night porter in a luxury mountain hotel...   [More...]

L'Avocat (2011)
Cédric Anger

Léo Demarsan has barely qualified as a lawyer before he secures a prestigious client who is keen to exploit his flair for business law...   [More...]

Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré

In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague...   [More...]

La Brindille (2011)
Emmanuelle Millet

Sarah is 19 and has high hopes of forging a successful career as an artist. Presently, she has a trainee position at a museum in Marseille and couldn't be happier...   [More...]

Chez Gino (2011)
Samuel Benchetrit

Gino, a resident of Brussels for the past thirty years, runs a thriving pizzeria which he bought with his wife Simone's savings...   [More...]

La Conquête (2011)
Xavier Durringer

It is the 6th May 2007, the day of the second round of the French presidential election. As the people of France cast their vote, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy mopes about his home in a bathrobe, alone and dejected, unable to get in touch with his wife Cécilia...   [More...]

Coup d'éclat (2011)
José Alcala

In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds...   [More...]

De bon matin (2011)
Jean-Marc Moutout

One Monday morning, Paul Wertret arrives at the bank where he works, just as he does any other day. But shortly after his arrival at 8 o'clock he takes out a gun and shoots dead two of his superiors...   [More...]

La Délicatesse (2011)
David Foenkinos

Nathalie has everything she could want to be happy. She is young, beautiful and is enjoying the perfect romance. When her husband is suddenly taken from her in a tragic accident, Nathalie's life suddenly falls apart...   [More...]

Des vents contraires (2011)
Jalil Lespert

Paul Anderen, a writer living in Paris, has his life turned upside down when his wife Sarah suddenly goes missing. After a year of fruitless searching, Paul is a broken man...   [More...]

L'Élève Ducobu (2011)
Philippe de Chauveron

The pupil from Hell, Ducobu once more manages to get himself expelled from school. Driven to desperation, his father tells him he has one last chance: if he is sent away from his next school, Saint-Potache, he will be packed off to a boarding school...   [More...]

En ville (2011)
Valérie Mréjen

Iris, 16, lives in a small provincial town. Here, she meets Jean, a 40-something photographer from Paris. They strike up an immediate rapport and begin to nurture a friendship that will transform both of their lives......   [More...]

Escalade (2011)
Charlotte Silvera

Equipped with a bouquet of flowers and a set of disarming smiles, four high school students pay a private call on their headmistress, Alice Nabat, to wish her a happy birthday...   [More...]

Et soudain tout le monde me manque (2011)
Jennifer Devoldère

Family life can be very complicated, especially when you are sixty and your new wife is about to give birth to your third child...   [More...]

L'Exercice de l'État (2011)
Pierre Schoeller

Bertrand Saint-Jean is France's Minister of Transport, an ambitious man who manages to keep his head in an emergency - or so he thinks...   [More...]

La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel

Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet...   [More...]

Les Femmes du 6ème étage (2011)
Philippe Le Guay

In the 1960s, Jean-Louis Joubert is a 40-something stockbroker who lives in an upmarket Parisian apartment block with his wife Suzanne...   [More...]

La Fille du puisatier (2011)
Daniel Auteuil

Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior...   [More...]

Le Fils à Jo (2011)
Philippe Guillard

Like his father and his grandfather before him, Jo Canavaro is a rugby football legend. Unfortunately his 13-year-old son Tom has no interest in the sport and shows a far greater aptitude for maths than he does for rugby...   [More...]

La Fin du silence (2011)
Roland Edzard

The Klein family lives in a remote house on the edge of a forest in the Vosges mountains. Jean, the youngest of two sons, is always causing trouble and one day he is expelled from the family home...   [More...]

Le Gamin au vélo (2011)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment...   [More...]

Les Géants (2011)
Bouli Lanners

One summer, Zak and Seth find themselves alone and without money at their house in the country. The two teenage brothers expect they will have to spend yet another miserable summer holiday with nothing to do, and no money to do it with...   [More...]

La Guerre des boutons (2011)
Yann Samuell

In 1960, two small villages in the south of France are at war. The hostilities have been going on for generations, although it is a very peculiar kind of war, fought by the young boys of the two opposing villages...   [More...]



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