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French cinema: 2012

Mince alors! (2012)
Charlotte de Turckheim

Nina is young, pretty - and round. Unfortunately, her husband Gaspard only has eyes for women with stick-insect waistlines, particularly since the couple moved to Paris to sell bathing costumes for the ultra-thin...   [More...]

Mobile Home (2012)
François Pirot

Having broken up with his girlfriend, Simon returns to his home village where his parents are enjoying a peaceful retirement...   [More...]

Les Mouvements du bassin (2012)
Hervé P. Gustave

Hervé is a solitary man who lives only for his lessons in self-defence. Having been dismissed from his job at a zoo because he depressed all the animals, he finds work as a night watchman in a factory...   [More...]

Le Nez dans le ruisseau (2012)
Christophe Chevalier

Tasked with making a documentary to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie, a television journalist, visits the Swiss town of Confignon which he once visited...   [More...]

Nos plus belles vacances (2012)
Philippe Lellouche

When she discovers that her husband Claude is having an adulterous affair, Isabelle insists they take a holiday together in her home village in Brittany...   [More...]

L'Oeil de l'astronome (2012)
Stan Neumann

In the summer of 1610, one of Galileo's famous telescopes arrives in Prague, the capital city of the Germanic Empire. For a period of ten days, Johannes Kepler, mathematician and astronomer to Rudlolf II, has the privilege of using the telescope to study the night sky...   [More...]

L'Oiseau (2012)
Yves Caumon

Anne's life has become one of monotonous routine. She lives alone, has no need for friends and repels anyone who may have amorous designs on her...   [More...]

Ombline (2012)
Stéphane Cazes

After assaulting a police officer, Ombline finds herself in prison, serving a three year stretch. She is twenty and, with no one to offer her comfort or support, she faces the future without any hope that things will improve for her...   [More...]

L'Oncle Charles (2012)
Étienne Chatiliez

In his career as a businessman, Charles Doumeng has amassed a huge personal fortune, but, alas, he has no one to bequeath it to...   [More...]

Paradis perdu (2012)
Ève Deboise

Lucie is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her father, Hugo, in a remote region of southern France. It has been a year since Lucie's mother abandoned her family and they have heard nothing of her since...   [More...]

Populaire (2012)
Régis Roinsard

For a young woman growing up in France in the mid-to-late 1950s, opportunities for leading your own life, free of parental restraint, are few and far between...   [More...]

Possessions (2012)
Eric Guirado

Tired of their humdrum life in the north of France, a young couple decide to move to a mountain village. Marilyne and Bruno Caron are not well off but they can afford to rent a small chalet in what seems to them to be idyllic surroundings...   [More...]

Le Prénom (2012)
Alexandre de La Patellière

Vincent is a thriving real estate agent in his forties who could not be happier when he becomes a father for the first time...   [More...]

Quelques heures de printemps (2012)
Stéphane Brizé

When he is released from prison after serving an 18 month sentence for drugs smuggling, Alain Evrard has no choice but to move back in with his elderly mother, Yvette...   [More...]

Radiostars (2012)
Romain Lévy

After a series of emotional and professional setbacks in New York, aspiring comic Ben returns to Paris, where he meets Alex, a star presenter on a radio breakfast show...   [More...]

Réussir sa vie (2012)
Benoit Forgeard

An underground filmmaker is struggling to complete his latest film when he is visited by the characters of his previous films...   [More...]

Les Saveurs du Palais (2012)
Christian Vincent

Hortense Laborie is regarded as the finest chef in the Périgord region of France. To her immense surprise, the President of the Republic summons her to the Élysée Palace and places her in charge of preparing his private meals...   [More...]

Sea, No Sex and Sun (2012)
Christophe Turpin

As ever, Carnac, a small seaside resort in Brittany, is a magnet for holidaymakers hoping to unwind and enjoy the sun during the long summer months...   [More...]

Le Secret de l'enfant fourmi (2012)
Christine François

After separating from her partner Didier, Cécile sets out to look for him in North Benin. In the course of her seemingly futile journey across the country, she encounters a young African woman, who places a baby in her arms before running off in a state of panic...   [More...]

Les Seigneurs (2012)
Olivier Dahan

Patrick Orbéra was once a star football player. Now in his fifties, he is a sad wreck of a man. Unemployed, alcoholic and penniless, he isn't able to see his daughter Laura...   [More...]

Stars 80 (2012)
Frédéric Forestier

Such is their enthusiasm for the music of the 1980s that Vincent and Antoine decide to create their own company, hiring out doubles of the stars of that colourful decade to the whole of France...   [More...]

Sur la piste du Marsupilami (2012)
Alain Chabat

When Dan Geraldo, a reporter looking for his next scoop, arrives in the South American country of Palombia, he can have no idea of the adventures that lie in store for him...   [More...]

Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)
Claude Miller

France in the late 1920s. Thérèse is coerced into a marriage with her neighbour, Bernard Desqueyroux, who owns a large rural estate in the Landes region of France...   [More...]

Torpedo (2012)
Matthieu Donck

At 35, Michel Ressac feels that he is coasting through life, with no clear aim or achievements to reassure him. All that changes when, one morning, he receives a phone call notifying him, that he has won a meal with his idol Eddy Merckx, the world famous cyclist...   [More...]

La Traversée (2012)
Jérôme Cornuau

Sarah Arendt and her eight-year-old daughter Lola are enjoying a peaceful holiday on a remote Scottish island when disaster strikes...   [More...]

Un enfant de toi (2012)
Jacques Doillon

Aya and Victor have been together for several years and enjoy a happy life with seven-year-old Lina, Aya's daughter from a previous relationship with another man, Louis...   [More...]

Un jour mon père viendra (2012)
Martin Valente

Chloé finally has everything she could want to be happy. She is soon to marry the man of her dreams, a former tennis champion who is now a successful businessman...   [More...]

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...   [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...]

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...]



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