French Films:  Recent Releases
November 2009

L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot began work on what could have been his greatest film.  Cast in the leading roles were two of the best known actors of their generation - Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani.  But three weeks into the shoot, the film was abandoned... [More...]

Release date: 11th November 2009

A l'origine
Philippe Miller is a small time crook who, one day, comes across an abandoned road works.  Seeing an opportunity to make easy money, Philippe hires some men to resume work on the road and passes himself off as the site foreman... [More...]

Release date: 11th November 2009

Trésor
Jean-Pierre and Nathalie have been together for five years.  To celebrate this event, Jean-Pierre decides to buy his wife a very special present, a British bulldog.  Jean-Pierre soon realises that he has a serious rival for his wife’s attentions... [More...]

Release date: 11th November 2009

La Religieuse portugaise
Julie is an actress who, despite having been taught Portuguese by her mother, has never set foot in Portugal.  One day, she is sent to Lisbon to make a film and becomes fascinated by the people she meets, including a nun who prays each night in a chapel... [More...]

Release date: 11th November 2009

Le Concert
Andrei Filipov was once the most celebrated conductor in the USSR.  But when he refused to part company with his Jewish musicians, he was dismissed.  Thirty years on, Andrei is employed by the Bolshoi Orchestra, but as a cleaner.... [More...]

Release date: 4th November 2009

Les Herbes folles
A woman has her bag stolen just as she is leaving a supermarket.  The thief empties its contents over the car park.  A passer-by picks up the purse.  Thus begins an adventure that will change two lives forever... [More...]

Release date: 4th November 2009

La Grande vie
Grégoire is a philosophy teacher.  Patrick is a well-known TV presenter.  Despite his celebrity, Patrick is unhappy.  When Grégoire appears on his show he realises he has found a man who may have the answers he needs to lead a better life... [More...]

Release date: 4th November 2009

La Loi de Murphy
For the past two years, Elias has been working out his suspended sentence as a nurse in a hospital.  With just a few hours to go before he is once more a free man, Fate throws him a potential firecracker... [More...]

Release date: 4th November 2009

Visage
A Taiwanese director is invited to make a film about the story of Salome at the Louvre museum.  Even though he can speak neither French nor English, he insists on casting Jean-Pierre Léaud in the role of King Herod... [More...]

Release date: 4th November 2009

October 2009

Micmacs à tire-larigot
When a bullet lodges itself in his brain, Bazil looks set to lose everything.  He recalls that his father died whilst trying to disarm a bomb in the Moroccan desert.  If only he could take revenge against those who profit via the armaments industry... [More...]

Release date: 28th October 2009

Cinéman
Régis Deloux is an ordinary maths teacher in a typical school.  One day, he discovers that he has a unique ability - to enter and leave films.  When he hears of this, Fernandel gives him a mission: to rescue a woman who is being held prisoner by a psychopath in a silent film... [More...]

Release date: 28th October 2009

Lucky Luke
The man who can shoot faster than his shadow, Lucky Luke is charged with restoring order to Daisy Town.  Once a law-abiding community, Daisy Town is now ruled by bandits and sharpshooters, like Pat Poker, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and Jesse James.... [More...]

Release date: 21st October 2009

Rose et noir
In 1577, the couturier Pic Saint Loup is commissioned by Henry III to create a wedding dress for the marriage of his nephew to the daughter of a Spanish nobleman.  The problem is that Saint Loup's secretary intends using the expedition to avenge the Huguenot Massacre... [More...]

Release date: 14th October 2009

Mademoiselle Chambon
Jean is the model citizen.  His life is without incident but he is content.  Then he meets Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s schoolteacher.  Despite their differences, Jean is strangely drawn to the young woman... [More...]

Release date: 14th October 2009

Divorces!
Valentine and Alex are a happily married couple, lawyers who have made a career of resolving the marital breakdowns of others.  Their relationship appears as solid as a rock, until the day a spot of marital infidelity intrudes and smashes it to pieces... [More...]

Release date: 14th October 2009

Mères et filles
In the 1950s, Louise left her family and hasn't been heard of since.  Fifty years on, her granddaughter Audrey visits her parents and finds an old note book that belonged to her grandmother and which could explain her disappearance... [More...]

Release date: 7th October 2009

Victor
Alice is moved by the plight of her neighbour, an old man named Victor who is about to be evicted from his rooms.  She comes to his rescue by organising a competition in the magazine she works for. The winner will have the privilege of adopting Victor for life!   [More...]

Release date: 7th October 2009

Vivre!
At the funeral of their best friend, Mathieu, seven youngsters, aged between 22 and 26, arrive to pay their respects.  They have never met before and each believes he or she was Mathieu’s only friend...   [More...]

Release date: 7th October 2009

Denis
After the death of his father, Denis, an introverted 30-year-old, decides to look for his father’s former companion.  He hopes that this will help him to come to terms with his traumatic past...   [More...]

Release date: 7th October 2009

September 2009

Au voleur
Isabelle is a teacher, Bruno is a burglar.  Together, they have found lasting happiness, until the day the police begin knocking on their door.  They hide out in a forest to live out their romantic idyll for as long as they can...   [More...]

Release date: 30th September 2009

Ultimatum
It is 31st December 1990.  The ultimatum issued by the United Nations for Iraq to evacuate Kuwait expires in 15 days.  If Saddam Hussein does not withdraw, the Allies have the authority to use military force.  In Jerusalem, tensions are high...   [More...]

Release date: 30th September 2009

Le Petit Nicolas
Nicolas leads an idyllic childhood.  But one day he makes a terrible discovery: his mother is pregnant!  Soon his parents will have a new baby boy to dote over and he will be abandoned in the woods, like Tom Thumb...   [More...]

Release date: 30th September 2009

Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
From the age of 7, Thomas has tried to make contact with his biological mother, Julie.  Finally, Thomas manages to find the woman who abandoned him when he was 4 years old.  But how will he cope now that he has two households, two families?   [More...]

Release date: 30th September 2009

L'Affaire Farewell
Moscow in the early 1980s.   Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system.  He makes contact with Pierre Froment, a young French engineer...   [More...]

Release date: 23rd September 2009

Le Dernier pour la route
Hervé, the head of a press agency, finds that his life and his career are being ruined by his alcohol addiction.  Realising that he risks losing everything, he begins a course of detoxification at a specialist centre in Geneva...   [More...]

Release date: 23rd September 2009

L'Armée du crime
In Paris during the Nazi occupation, a labourer named Manouchian leads a group of young Jewish immigrants, of various nationalities. They are united in a single cause, to oppose the Nazis and liberate France...   [More...]

Release date: 16th September 2009

Rien de personnel
A company arranges a reception, ostensibly to launch a new product, but it soon becomes apparent that this is an exercise for the company’s managers.   With the company heading for a takeover, the employees will have to fight to keep their jobs...   [More...]

Release date: 16th September 2009

Cendres et sang
Since the death of her husband, Judith has lived in exile in Marseilles.  When her cousin invites her to attend her wedding, Judith has no choice but to accept, despite her fears of what may ensue...   [More...]

Release date: 9th September 2009

Le Coach
Chêne is a renowned coach but he is also a gambler who has accumulated huge debts.   Hounded by his creditors, Chêne takes on a contract which may save him.  His job: to turn gauche company director Marmignon into a smart businessman...   [More...]

Release date: 9th September 2009

36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup
Just as a circus company is about to begin its summer season, its owner dies.  The troupe contacts Kate, the daughter of their former boss, and ask her to take her father’s place.  To everyone’s surprise, Kate is willing to resume the life that she abandoned years ago...   [More...]

Release date: 9th September 2009

Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser
Since the break-up of her marriage, Léna has coped as best she may to bring up her two children.  But when she returns to her family home in Brittany, she faces her toughest ordeal.  Her parents have invited her ex-husband to visit...   [More...]

Release date: 2nd September 2009

Les Regrets
When he learns that his mother has been hospitalised, Mathieu returns to the town where he grew up.  Here, he meets Maya, his childhood sweetheart.  A few hours later, Maya telephones Mathieu at his old family home and invites him to call on her...   [More...]

Release date: 2nd September 2009

August 2009

Un prophète
Malik El Djebena is just 19 when he is sent to prison for six years.  Immediately, he falls in with a group of Corsican prisoners who rule the roost.  Malik learns some invaluable lessons and sets about building his own network...   [More...]

Release date: 26th August 2009

Léger tremblement du paysage
The setting is a small village.  It is a happy and peaceful community, at the time when man is making his first steps in space exploration.  These events fire the imagination of two children...   [More...]

Release date: 26th August 2009

Lady Blood
15 years after having given birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka has managed to make a new life for herself.  But then a spate of horrific murders suddenly reawakens memories of her terrible past.  The victims are all mutilated beyond recognition...   [More...]

Release date: 19th August 2009

Partir
Tired of her comfortable middleclass life, housewife Suzanne decides to resume her career as a physiotherapist.  During the building work on her new clinic, she is strangely attracted to the site foreman...   [More...]

Release date: 12th August 2009

Les Derniers jours du monde
Robinson is recovering from a disastrous love affair when he hears that the world is about to end.   With nothing to lose, and with time running out, he throws himself into another amorous adventure...   [More...]

Release date: 12th August 2009

Demain dès l'aube
Anxious that Paul’s obsession in historical battles is taking a sinister turn , his mother implores his brother Mathieu to bring him back to reality.  The only way that Mathieu can do this is by entering Paul’s world...   [More...]

Release date: 12th August 2009

Neuilly sa mère!
14-year-old Sami Benboudaoud has his entire world turned upside down when he is uprooted from the immigrant hotspot where he lives and put into the care of his Aunt Djamila, who inhabits an altogether different sphere, in a posh suburb of Paris....   [More...]

Release date: 12th August 2009

Joueuse
In a Corsican village, Hélène leads an uneventful but contented life.  One day, she sees a couple playing chess and becomes fascinated by the game.  With the help of a strange old man, she learns the rules of the game and soon becomes a talented player...   [More...]

Release date: 5th August 2009


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