May 2012

De rouille et d’os

Homeless and penniless, Ali is unable to cope when he is left holding the baby, more specifically his five-year-old son Sam.  With no one else to turn to, he heads southwards to Antibes so that he can stay with his sister.  After a fight in a nightclub, Ali meets Stéphanie for the first time.  He takes her home and gives her his telephone number.  Only a tragedy could bring the two of them together.  But a tragedy is what comes their way.  When they next meet, Ali finds that his princess is confined to a wheelchair.  She has lost her legs and most of her illusions.  Ali is moved to lend her his support, not out of pity, but out of simple human compassion... [More...] Release date: 16th May 2012

Sea, No Sex and Sun

A coastal resort in Brittany, in the sunny month of July.   Alex, 20, is a seasonal tennis coach who makes the most of his freedom.  Guillaume, 35, is on holiday with his wife and daughter, hoping to reawaken memories of his happy youth.  Pierre, 50, is staying with his two children after his recent divorce.  Three men, from three different generations, have one thing in common: they have desires that can never be satisfied... [More...] Release date: 9th May 2012

Maman

Two love-starved sisters decide to kidnap their mother in order to force her to love them. [More...] Release date: 9th May 2012

Chercher le garçon

One New Year’s Eve, 30-something Émilie signs onto Meet Me, an internet dating website where she hopes to fulfil her new New Year resolution by finding the love of her life.  There is certainly no shortage of candidates on the website.  In addition to all the clowns and cynics there appear to be a fair crop of old-fashioned romantics.   Émilie has no idea what is waiting for her back in the real world... [More...] Release date: 9th May 2012

Chroniques sexuelles d’une famille d’aujourd’hui

The calm of a typical French family is torn asunder when the youngest son, Romain, is caught filming himself doing something naughty in a biology class.  Romain protests that he only did it for a bet, that he was coerced into it by his classmates... [More...] Release date: 9th May 2012

Dépression et des potes

Franck has everything he could want to be happy - a pretty Brazilian girlfriend, an interesting job...  And yet, whilst holidaying in Mauritius, he becomes depressed.  On his return to Paris, he consults a doctor and discovers he is suffering from depression.  When they learn of this, Franck’s friends rally round to try to help him, but they soon discover that they too are all depressed... [More...] Release date: 2nd May 2012

La Cerise sur le gâteau

Amanda suffers from androphobia, an irrational fear of men which ruins every opportunity she has to fall in love.  Her best friend Florence is determined that she will one day enjoy a stable and harmonious relationship with a man.  Amanda agrees to attend Florence’s New Year’s Eve party, on condition that only couples are invited to the party.  The only exception is Maxime, a colleague whom she knows to be gay.  But, at the last minute, Maxime is called away to join his lover in Amsterdam.  Meanwhile, Antoine, only recently separated from his wife, turns up at the party alone... [More...] Release date: 2nd May 2012

Le Secret de l’enfant-fourmi

Whilst travelling in the north of Benin, Cécile comes across a young African mother who, in a state of panic, places a baby in her arms.  Cécile decides to adopt the child and brings him up in France.   When Lancelot is seven years old, Cécile returns with him to his birth country and tries to discover why he was abandoned... [More...] Release date: 2nd May 2012

April 2012

Le Prénom

Vincent is over the moon when he learns he is to become a father for the first time at the age of 40.  Invited to dinner by his sister Élisabeth and her husband Pierre, he meets Claude, a childhood friend.  As they await the arrival of Vincent’s young wife Anna, they discuss Vincent’s future life as a father.  When Vincent is asked what name he has chosen for the unborn child the reply he gives plunges the family into chaos... [More...] Release date: 25th April 2012

Les Vacances de Ducobu

The end of term bell rings and the reluctant pupil Ducobu is already away on his holidays, looking forward to lazy weeks filled with such delights as comic books, ice cream and the Mickey Mouse Club.   But the boy’s dreams are soon shattered when his father proposes an altogether different schedule.  They are going to go on a camping holiday with the Gratin family.  So much for leisure.  It will be up at dawn and long days traipsing around museums or doing endless revision.  And that’s not the worst of it.  It so happens that Latouch and Miss Rateau have also decided to go camping, and they just happen to have chosen the same destination as the Ducobus... [More...] Release date: 25th April 2012

Nino (Une adolescence imaginaire de Nino Ferrer)

Nino une adolescence imaginaire de Nino Ferrer Nino is 16.  When the holidays begin his heart is torn between Natacha, a beautiful young stage actress, and the delightful Nathalie, a girl he has known forever.   The latter will not accept that her ideal man is going to slip from her as easily as her childhood... [More...] Release date: 25th April 2012

Töte mich

Adèle is a fifteen year old girl who desperately wants to die.   Timo has just escaped from prison, where he was serving a sentence for murder.  Wounded, he takes refuge at the farm belonging to Adèle’s parents.  The teenage girl offers Timo a macabre contract.  She will help him to escape on condition that, once he is safe, he will murder her.  Timo has no option but to accept this unusual proposal... [More...] Release date: 25th April 2012

L’Enfant d’en haut

One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it.  From the latter he steals skiing equipment from wealthy tourists which he then sells, at a profit, in his town.  Having lost her job, Louise finds that she is becoming increasingly dependent on her little brother... [More...] Release date: 18th April 2012

Les Fraises des bois

Violette lives in the country with her parents, wealthy Picardie land owners.  Gabriel works as a cashier in a supermarket.  On the face of it, both of these two young people appear to have led ordinary lives without incident, and yet they both have dark secrets and a yearning to escape from their stifling present reality.  Their chance meeting will set them free, but with unexpected consequences... [More...] Release date: 18th April 2012

Cap Nord

An evening party entwined with musical love stories, to the rhythm of Northern Soul... [More...] Release date: 18th April 2012

À pas de loup

In a place and time not so far from our own, a little girl imagines that she cannot be seen by her parents.  To test this theory, she makes up her mind to disappear.  And so begins an extraordinary adventure in which the little girl goes in such of freedom and identity... [More...] Release date: 11th April 2012

Radiostars

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.  Ben makes such an impression on Alex and his cohorts, Cyril and Arnold, that he is soon hired to write material for them.  But no sooner has Ben managed to get his feet back on the ground than disaster strikes: for some reason the radio show’s audience figure has taken a nosedive.  To win back their audience, the four friends set out on a radiophonic road trip that will shatter their certainties about themselves... [More...] Release date: 11th April 2012

Plan de table

A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos.  Is chance about to give fate a helping hand...? [More...] Release date: 11th April 2012

Sur la piste du Marsupilami

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.  With the help of Pablito, a resourceful local guide, he will encounter one surprise after another, but the greatest surprise will be the discovery of the mythical Marsupilami... [More...] Release date: 4th April 2012

Aux yeux de tous

In France, there are over half a million security cameras and webcams.  An anonymous hacker has found a way to access all of these cameras and amuses himself by spying on the illicit habits of the Parisians.  Nothing escapes his all-seeing eye, least of all a terrorist attack at the Gare d’Austerlitz.  As the police divert their attention to an Islamist terror group, the hacker observes who really placed the bomb and decides to track them across the city... [More...] Release date: 4th April 2012

À moi seule

Eight years after she has been abducted by Vincent, Gaëlle is set free and must learn to fend for herself.  Having spent so much time in the company of one person, Gaëlle finds it hard to readjust to normal life.  It is as if she was starting her life all over again... [More...] Release date: 4th April 2012

Le Fils de l’autre

Just when he is about to join the Israeli army for his military service, Joseph discovers that he is not the biological son of his parents.  It turns out that he was swapped at birth with Yacine, the child of a Palestinian couple living on the West Bank.  This revelation comes as a shock to both families and compels them to re-evaluate their convictions, their values and their identities. [More...] Release date: 4th April 2012

Réussir sa vie

An underground filmmaker is struggling to complete his latest film when he is visited by the characters of his previous films.  They take him off into three flights of fancy, three adventures involving young people who are prepared to do anything to make a fresh start in their lives.  The three stories appear to be pieces of a puzzle, but what can it mean...? [More...] Release date: 4th April 2012

March 2012

Rondo

Brussels, in the summer of 1942.  Simon watches in horror as his father is arrested and deported by the Nazis.  He flees to England where he meets up with his grandfather, Abraham, a distant and austere old man who offers him little comfort.   It appears that the two men have nothing in common.  Abraham is devoted to the traditions of his Jewish faith and scorns Simon’s secular education.   When the horrors of the Holocaust are revealed to them, it is Simon who allows his grandfather to come to terms with an unbearable reality... [More...] Release date: 28th March 2012

Mince alors !

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.  Against her will, Nina accepts her husband’s gift of a stay at slimming clinic in Brides-les-Bains.  Here, she meets Sophie, an attractive lawyer from Marseille who is determined to gain control over her body, and Emilie, a mother who has come to realise that, whilst Big is Beautiful, it can play havoc with your love life... [More...] Release date: 28th March 2012

2 Days in New York

Marion, a young French woman, lives in New York with Mingus, a radio journalist, and their two children from previous relationships.  As Marion, a photographer, prepares her latest exhibition, her father and sister decide to visit her.  As her father does not speak a word of English and her sister is going through a severe emotional crisis, it proves to be an eventful visit... [More...] Release date: 28th March 2012

Les Adieux à la reine

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris.  When the court receives news of the taking of the Bastille, noblemen and servants take flight.  Sidonie Laborde, the queen’s personal reader, is unperturbed by the rumours of revolution.  She knows that, under the protection of Marie-Antoinette, no harm can befall her... [More...] Release date: 21st March 2012

Torpedo

At 35, Michel Ressac feels that he is drifting through life, with no clear objective, no 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.  This provides him with the perfect pretext to patch things up with his father, since their only shared interest is a passion for cycling... [More...] Release date: 21st March 2012

L’Oncle Charles

In New Zealand, a wealthy French businessman, Charles Doumeng, has his life overturned when he learns that he has an incurable disease.  Sixty years old, with no family and no heir, and knowing that he has only a few weeks left to live, Doumeng feels a sudden need for affection.  Consequently, he sets out to find the sister that he has not seen for fifty years and who lives in the west of France... [More...] Release date: 21st March 2012

Hénaut président

A communications agency is tasked with performing a makeover on Pierre Hénaut, an honest provincial politician and an improbable candidate for the presidential elections.  It is the job of Thierry Giovanni, the head of the agency, and his colleagues Noémie, Fred and Olivier, to transform Hénaut into a camera-friendly political big beast.  To improve their client’s standing in the opinion polls, they are willing to use any means at their disposal... [More...] Release date: 21st March 2012

Bye Bye Blondie

Gloria and Frances first met in the 1980s.  They could not have been closer, joined together like Siamese twins by their interest in drugs, sex and rock and roll.  But, as they grew up, they drifted apart and went their own separate ways.  Twenty years on, Frances decides to get in touch with Gloria... [More...] Release date: 21st March 2012

Cloclo

This is the story of a French pop legend who died tragically at the age of 39.  Thirty years on, Claude François continues to fascinate, and here we discover why.  Cloclo wasn’t just a phenomenally successful music star, he was also a shrewd businessman and master of self-promotion.  He was also a father and a great lover of women.  This is  the portrait of a complex, multifaceted man who was willing to do anything to be loved... [More...] Release date: 14th March 2012

30° couleur

When he was ten years old, Patrick, a West Indian, was sent by his mother to study in France.  Thirty years later, he is a distinguished historian, proud of his achievements and so well-integrated into French society that he has almost lost sight of his racial origins.  On hearing that his mother is at death’s door, Patrick immediately heads off for Martinique with his daughter and arrives at the height of the carnival season.  For three days, accompanied by his childhood friend Zamba, Patrick will coast on a wave of emotion and madness.  These three days will change his life forever... [More...] Release date: 14th March 2012

38 temoins

On her return from a business trip in China, Louise discovers that the street where she lives has been the scene of a crime.  There were no witnesses; everyone was asleep when the incident happened.   Her husband Pierre was away working, at sea.  Or so it seems.   The police and the press are both investigating the crime.  Then, one night, Louise has a dream.  She dreams that Pierre is speaking to her in his sleep.  Her husband hardly ever talks to her and yet now he seems incapable of stopping himself from talking... [More...] Release date: 14th March 2012

Possessions

Bruno and Marilyne Caron decide to give up their old life in the north of France and make a fresh start in a mountain village.  When they arrive, they find that their chalet is still under construction, but there is no cause for alarm.  Their landlord, Patrick Castang, offers them alternative accommodation until their dream cottage has been completed.  This is the beginning of a long series of disasters as the Carons are forced to move several times, and the couple soon begin to resent the over-attentive support from Castang.  Bitterness and frustration soon turn to hatred... [More...] Release date: 7th March 2012

Nos plus belles vacances

It is July 1976, during the long summer heat wave.  Claude, an Algerian Jew who settled in France fifteen years ago, takes his young wife Isabelle, their two sons and his mother-in-law to Brittany.  It was Isabelle who chose the location, a small village where she was born, after she discovered her husband was having an affair.  The day after their arrival, they join up with some old friends, but the locals regard them with suspicion.   Breton Catholics do not mix easily with Algerian Jews... [More...] Release date: 7th March 2012

Indignados

Illegal immigration is something we hear about every day in the news.  But what lies behind the scare stories and the dry statistics?  In this documentary, director Tony Gatlif shows us what it means to be an illegal immigrant.  Through the eyes of a young woman, we see what it is like to be driven from your own country by the primal impulse to stay alive and then have to come up against a system that fails to recognise your most basic human needs and individual circumstances. [More...] Release date: 7th March 2012

Comme un chef

Jacky Bonnot is a thirty-something good food fanatic who dreams of owning his own restaurant.  Unfortunately, his present situation makes it unlikely that he will ever fulfil his dream.  He just about manages to scrape a living by doing odd jobs which he can barely hold onto.   Then his path crosses that of Alexandre Lagarde, a star chef whose business is threatened by the financiers who own his restaurants... [More...] Release date: 7th March 2012

February 2012

L’Hiver dernier

On a remote plateau, Johann struggles to keep going the farm that he has inherited from his father.  As winter beckons, his business looks increasingly threatened.  The young farmer begins to feel trapped by his inheritance but he tries his best to love the hard, solitary world that he now inhabits.  Alas, the world is changing and Johann’s way of life is soon to become a thing of the past... [More...] Release date: 29th February 2012

Les Infidèles

Seven film directors offer seven permutations on the theme of male infidelity.  (Can there really be as many as that?) [More...] Release date: 29th February 2012

La Mer à boire

Georges, a shipyard owner, can no longer look to his bank for support.  As his fortunes take a turn for the worse, he is prepared to fight to the bitter end to try to save the company to which he has devoted his life. [More...] Release date: 22nd February 2012

La Mémoire dans la chair

After 15 years, Tomás returns to his home country, a country he barely knows and which is still riven by ancient enmities.  He has come back to bury his father, a militant republican who fell foul of Franco’s regime and who ended his days in prison. [More...] Release date: 15th February 2012

La Désintégration

Ali, Nasser and Hamza are all in their twenties and live on a housing estate in the outskirts of Lille.  They meet Djamel, a man who is ten years their senior and who is, in their eyes, someone to be looked up to.  A habitual manipulator, Djamel soon takes control of the three younger men.  He understands better than anyone their anger and disillusionment and intends to make use of their loathing for a society from which they feel permanently excluded... [More...] Release date: 15th February 2012

La Vie d’une autre

Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is 25.  She has forgotten 15 years of her life.  When she awakes she has no idea that the great romance she thinks is before her has already run its course.  She wakes up and realises she has just four days to win back her ideal partner... [More...] Release date: 15th February 2012

Il était une fois, une fois

Willy Vanderbrook, a Franco-Belgian who regards himself a citizen of the world, is required to take the post of caretaker at a luxury Parisian hotel.  He meets up with his childhood friend Serge Luyperts, a disillusioned lemonade magnate who lives with his ex-brother-in-law Frank Vrut, a Wallon separatist with slight psychopathic tendencies.  The three friends plan to pull off the scam of the century, by passing off Willy as the rightful king of Belgium... [More...] Release date: 15th February 2012

Une bouteille à la mer

Tal is a young French woman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family.  She is 17 and has the reached the age of her first adult experiences - her first love, her first cigarette, her first terrorist attack.  When a suicide bomber blows up a café near to where she lives, she writes a letter to an imaginary Palestinian in which she asks pointed questions and refuses to accept that Israel and Palestine must go on being divided by hatred.  She puts the letter in a bottle and asks her brother to throw it into the sea, near to Gaza.  A few weeks later, Tal receives a reply from someone named Gazaman... [More...] Release date: 8th February 2012

JC comme Jésus-Christ

A Palme d’Or at 15, a César at 16, this year JC must take his bac.   But Jean-Christophe Kern, alias JC, is an adolescent unlike any other.  A cross-between Jean-Luc Godard and Justin Bieber, at 17 he divides his time between munching his breakfast treats in front of the telly after school and pursuing a career worthy of Stanley Kubrick... [More...] Release date: 8th February 2012

La Vérité si je mens! 3

Things are looking up for Eddie, Dov, Yvan and their friends.  Not for them the grim prospect of trying to eke out an existence in the less fashionable precincts of Paris.  They are now happily ensconced in the flourishing district of Aubervilliers.   They are still the happy band of friends they have always been; if anything, their friendship has been strengthened by their previous escapades.  But a storm is coming and the old friends risk being torn apart by an ill wind that will test their resources and mutual loyalties to the limit... [More...] Release date: 1st February 2012

Elles

Anne, a journalist on a top women’s magazine, is compiling a report on student prostitution.  Alicja and Charlotte, two Parisian students, talk openly to her about their experiences as prostitutes, without shame or regret.  Far from being shocked at what she is told, Anne finds herself in sympathy with her interviewees.  Before she knows it, her whole life is turned on its head... [More...] Release date: 1st February 2012

Sur la planche

In Tangier, four young women, all aged about twenty, work so that they can survive by day and live by night.  For them, time, space and sleep are rare.  From dawn to night, their pace of life is one long frantic chase... [More...] Release date: 1st February 2012

January 2012

Les Papas du dimanche

When he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him, Antoine walks out on his family and moves in with his old school friend Léo.  With the help of Léo and his wife Léa, Antoine soon comes to terms with his present predicament.  His one regret is that he can only see his children every other Sunday and so he feels that he has become an amateur parent.  But, dismal as things first appear, Antoine soon finds he has something to smile about... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

Café de Flore

It is never easy to say goodbye to someone one has grown to love.  It can take a whole lifetime, perhaps even two...  Between Paris in the 1960s and present-day Montreal there unfolds an epic love story that is as dark and troubling as it is luminous and full of hope.  Its main protagonists are Jacqueline, a young Parisian mother, and Antoine, a Canadian disk jockey... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

Les Chants de Mandrin

After the execution of Louis Mandrin, a well-known outlaw and popular underworld hero of the 18th century, his former partners in crime decide to chance their luck with a smuggling operation in the provinces of France.  Well-armed, the smugglers arrange markets on the outskirts of the villages, where they sell tobacco, fabrics and other precious commodities.  They write songs in honour of Mandrin, which they then print and distribute among the poor folk of the kingdom... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

La Folie Almayer

Somewhere in Southeast Asia, on the banks of a turbulent river, a European clings to his dreams of fortune for the sake of his daughter.  His is a story of passion, madness and perdition... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

Sport de filles

Owing to her natural affinity for horses, Gracieuse has the potential to be a great rider, and she knows it.  When her employer sells the horse that has been promised to her, she is so disgusted that she leaves her job and finds employment on another stud farm.  The farm’s owner, Joséphine de Silène, has no time for sentiment and cynically exploits his trainer, Franz Mann, a one-time champion whose experience is highly sought after by rich horse riders.  Gracieuse soon finds herself pitted against Mann as she struggles to realise her dream, to obtain her own horse and prove her worth as a rider... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

L’Oiseau

Anne has no friends, no children, no lovers.  Her life is a solitary sham.  Then, one day, a little bird flies into her lonely apartment... [More...] Release date: 25th January 2012

L’Amour dure trois ans

Literary critic by day, columnist by night, Marc Marronnier is convinced that love never lasts for more than three years.  His own experiences bear this out.  Having recently divorced, he published a pamphlet in which he puts a compelling case for his thesis.  Then he meets Alice... [More...] Release date: 18th January 2012

Ma première fois

Zachary is an independent 20-year-old who wins women’s hearts as easily as he fails his exams.  Sarah is 18, top of her class but emotionally insecure.  On the face of it, they have nothing in common.  But, for six months in their final year at school, they become infatuated with one another.  It is to be the one great romance of their lives, but will it end happily...? [More...] Release date: 18th January 2012

Et si on vivait tous ensemble?

Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been firm friends for more than forty years.  They have each lived full and happy lives, but when their memories begin to falter and the prospect of moving into a retirement home rears its ugly head, they decide to take a stand against convention.  Not for them the prospect of fading away in miserable anonymity.  They will live together and share their declining years, come what may.  After all, life only begins at 75! [More...] Release date: 18th January 2012

Ici-bas

1943, towards the end of the Occupation.  Sister Luce is an exemplary nun and nurse at a hospital in Périgueux.  Her meeting with a priest involved with the resistance will have a profound impact on her.  It is the start of a passionate affair that will cause her to break her vows and leave her convent.  But Lucie is too quick to give into her passions and disappointment soon follows.  Betrayed, she feels she has been abandoned by both God and man.  One morning, postal workers working for the resistance intercept an anonymous letter addressed to the German commandant... [More...] Release date: 18th January 2012

Dubaï flamingos

Vincent lives in Dubaï.  When his wife Livia goes missing, he is immediately concerned and sets out to look for her.  She may have gone off with another man, or there may be a more sinister explanation.  In a car park, he comes across a young woman in tears.  They strike up an instant rapport and together they begin to scour the region between the city and the desert, a place where dreams and reality melt seamlessly into one another... [More...] Release date: 18th January 2012

Dans la tourmente

Without the knowledge of his employees, the owner of a factory in Marseille is planning to relocate to another region, pocketing two million euros along the way.  When Franck, one of his staff, discovers what is afoot, he is understandably outraged.  With the support of his longstanding friend Max, he decides to go on the offensive... [More...] Release date: 11th January 2012

Parlez-moi de vous

At 40, Mélina has the best-known voice in France.  The host of a night time radio show, she has set herself up as the nation’s agony aunt, cheerfully and cheekily unravelling the personal crises of her listeners.  Everyone knows her voice, but no one knows her face.  In real life, she is something of a recluse.  Anxious to find the mother she has never seen, Mélina tracks her down to a large family living in the suburbs.  She makes up her mind to approach her, without revealing her identity... [More...] Release date: 11th January 2012

10 jours en or

Marc Bajau travels the length and breadth of the country for a well-known clothing label.  He enjoys the freedom this life affords him and the opportunity to meet new people wherever he goes.   But just as he is about to set off for his latest promotion, his most recent amorous conquest walks out on him, leaving him to take charge of her six-year-old son Lucas.  And so begins Marc’s most eventful trek across France, ten golden days that will change his life forever... [More...] Release date: 11th January 2012

L’Orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins

Eléonore is an attractive young girl, about twenty years in age, who has lost both her parents and an arm in a terrible accident.  At present, she lives in an orphanage in Burgundy.  Judge London, a local magistrate, takes an interest in her and invites her to stay at his château, with the intention of adopting her as his own daughter.  Unbeknown to her mysterious protector, Eléonore is in love with Robinson, who works as an illusionist at nightclub belonging to the shady entrepreneur Renaud Duraquet... [More...] Release date: 11th January 2012

Une nuit

Simon Weiss is a Parisian cop who watches over the city’s hotspots each night, imperturbable in the execution of his duty.  He has settled into a comfortable routine and knows exactly what is required of him, but all that changes one unforgettable night.  Caught in the firing line between his police superiors and Paris’s criminal fraternity, Weiss must take on businessmen, gangsters and fellow police officers if he is to survive his worst nightmare... [More...] Release date: 4th January 2012

Une vie meilleure

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.  But their happiness is short lived.  Having been forced to take a job in another country, Nadia must leave her son in the care of Yann... [More...] Release date: 4th January 2012

Un jour mon père viendra

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.  The only thing she lacks is the ideal father to lead her to the altar on her wedding day.  Who is it going to be - Bernard, a glacially cold aristocrat, or Gus, a good-natured swindler? [More...] Release date: 4th January 2012

Beau rivage

Michel Matarasso is a cop, based in Nice, who no longer has any enthusiasm for work, or indeed for life in general.  He finally manages to get himself relieved from his professional duties and he appears content to spend the time that is left to him by ruminating in gloomy solitude.  It is just when he least expects it that a woman enters his life and shatters his newfound calm.  She is Sandra Bandini, a suicide case... [More...] Release date: 4th January 2012

Louise Wimmer

After a painful separation, Louise Wimmer is keen to put her past life behind her.  On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, she lives in her car and has just one objective - to find an apartment so that she can make a fresh start.  With her only assets being her car and her seductive voice, Louise is willing to do whatever it takes to get her life back... [More...] Release date: 4th January 2012

December 2011

Let My People Go!

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot.  The only person who doesn’t know who Ruben is is Ruben himself.   When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go.  Should he follow his people or his heart...? [More...] Release date: 28th December 2011

Corpo celeste

Having grown up in Switzerland, Marta returns to her home village in Calabria with her mother and sister.  Try as she might, she feels like a complete strange in this devastated region of southern Italy.  She is thirteen years old, the age at which she is to be confirmed as a Catholic.  Perhaps the catechism will provide the means by which she will be accepted into this community... [More...] Release date: 28th December 2011

Il Gioiellino

Leda is the pride of the Italian economy, a vast commercial empire run by the Rastelli family which spans five continents.  Under pressure from the laws of global commerce, the Rastellis must resort to all manner of skulduggery so as not to lose their pre-eminent position in the world market - forgery, political influence, corruption...  The Rastellis are a family of entrepreneurs whose fraudulent activities may well bring about their downfall... [More...] Release date: 28th December 2011

La Délicatesse

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, Nathalie’s life suddenly falls apart.  She gets through her present crisis by committing herself to her work.  She could not be a more dedicated employee.  Then, some years after the fateful day she lost her husband, she is taken by the sudden urge to kiss one of her colleagues... [More...] Release date: 21st December 2011

Le Havre

Marcel Marx was once a renowned writer.  These days, he lives in exile in the town of Le Havre, where he works as a shoeshine boy.  It is not the most remunerative of professions, but it brings him close to people and he is content with his life, which he divides between his work, his wife Arletty and the corner bar where he takes his daily tipple.  Then one day, Marcel’s happy routine is suddenly disturbed when his path crosses that of an African child immigrant... [More...] Release date: 21st December 2011

La Clé des champs

Two solitary children come across a small undisturbed lake which exerts a sudden and intense control over them.  It is a magical place, a strange wilderness inhabited by unfamiliar living things, as though in a dream.  As the two children succumb to the mysterious charms of this lonely spot, they get to know one another better and find themselves transformed by what they experience... [More...] Release date: 21st December 2011

Ne nous soumets pas à la tentation

A couple who have lived together so far without incident fall prey to a young woman who seems determined to ruin their lives.  Behind the familiar tale of adultery there lurk dark motives and a very sinister reckoning... [More...] Release date: 21st December 2011

Les Tribulations d’une caissière

Life is far from being a bed of roses for Solweig, a humble supermarket cashier.  No matter how bad her day is, she can find relief by writing about it in her daily blog.  One snowy evening, she meets Charles, her prince charming.  Without realising that Solweig comes from a completely different milieu to his own, the stranger cannot help falling in love with her... [More...] Release date: 14th December 2011

Des vents contraires

Paul’s life is upended on the day his wife Sarah suddenly goes missing.  After a year of fruitless searching, Paul is left a broken man.  His only hope is to start all over again, to move with his two children to Saint-Malo, the town where he grew up.  Some unexpected encounters are about to send Paul in the most unlikely direction... [More...] Release date: 14th December 2011

17 filles

In a small town by the sea, 17 teenage girls at the same school make a group decision that will prove incomprehensible to everyone else in the town.  They will all get pregnant at the same time... [More...] Release date: 14th December 2011

De l’huile sur le feu

Once upon a time in Belleville there were two restaurants situated opposite one another - the Berbère King, owned by the Chouffry family, and the Empire of the Dragon, run by the Zi family.  The two restaurants manage to coexist quite happily until one dark day when Samir Chouffry accuses Mr Zi of having eaten his dog... [More...] Release date: 14th December 2011

Hollywoo

Jeanne is the French dubber for an American actress who stars in a hit television series.   When that actress decides to give up acting, Jeanne fears that her own career may also be over.  Her only hope is to head off to Los Angeles and try to persuade the disillusioned star to go back to her day job... [More...] Release date: 7th December 2011

Livide

In Brittany, one Halloween night, Lucie Clavel and two friends decide on impulse to indulge in a spot of house breaking.  The house they select for their amateur burglary belongs to Deborah Jessel, a mysterious old woman who was once a classical dance instructor.  In the course of an evening that proves to be both tragic and fantastic, Lucie will uncover Deborah’s dark secret... [More...] Release date: 7th December 2011

La Fin du silence

After a fierce family row at an isolated house in the Vosges, Jean, the youngest son, is expelled.  To learn how to kill, Jean joins up with a party of huntsmen.  The following night, the car belonging to Jean’s mother is set alight.  The obvious culprit, Jean goes missing in the woods... [More...] Release date: 7th December 2011

Dernière séance

Sylvian is a young man who has dedicated his life to a local cinema that is now threatened with closure.  He lives in the cinema’s basement and is both projectionist and ticket seller, as well as the one who decides which films to screen.  Every night, he leaves his comfortable little world to perform a murderous ritual... [More...] Release date: 7th December 2011

Carnage

In a public park, two eleven-year-old boys get into a fight in which they both get badly injured.  Naturally, the parents of each child consider that their little treasure is the victim of a malicious assault.  When the parents confront one another, what begins as a mild dispute rapidly escalates into something far more serious.  Who knows where the ensuring carnage will end... [More...] Release date: 7th December 2011

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