Cinema - French films - 2000s

French cinema: 2000s (Page 1 of 52)

1 Journée (2009)

Jacob Berger

Serge, a radio presenter, begins his daily routine by leaving his family apartment at the crack of dawn so that he can pay his mistress a brief call before setting out for work. On his way, he is convinced that he has knocked someone over. He stops his car, explores the area, but can find no sign of an injured person, so he resumes his journey to his office, somewhat shaken... [More...]

Les 11 commandements (2004)

François Desagnat

The world is in a bad state, a seriously bad state. Forget Armageddon and all that tepid four men of the apocalypse rubbish. This is the real deal. Human beings no longer know how to laugh. Luckily, God is a resourceful kind of bloke and he (eventually) comes up with the answer: eleven brand spanking new commandments to lighten up the human race... [More...]

13 m² (2007)

Barthélémy Grossmann

José, Farouk and Réza are three young men from a rough area of Paris. For them, life is hard and increasingly precarious as they are drawn further and further into crime just to survive. One day, they attack an armoured van and run off with a sack load of cash. The robbery hasn’t gone quite as planned and the three friends end up taking refuge in a cramped hide out, where they intend to stay until things have quietened down... [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)

Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple. When the man dies from a drugs overdose, the woman informs Sébastien that she cannot pay him for his work. Overhearing a conversation, Sébastien learns that his employer had just received a letter containing instructions for a job that would earn him a large sum of money... [More...]

15 ans et demi (2008)

François Desagnat

After 15 years in the United States, Philippe Le Tallec returns to France, intending to take care of his daughter Eglantine. He hopes he can make up for lost time but his daughter has too many other interests to spend time with her father. Realising that his parenting skills are not what they should be, Philippe enlists on a training course for fathers in distress..... [More...]

15 août (2001)

Patrick Alessandrin

One August, three friends – Max, Vincent and Raoul – arrive at their rented holiday home, only to find that their wives have gone off on their own, leaving them to look after their children. As the days pass, and the three men struggle to adapt to their new role, nerves soon begin to fray, and they wonder why their wives have abandoned them and if they will ever return… ... [More...]

17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002)

Christophe Honoré

Traumatised by the tragic death of her husband, Cécile Cassard asks her friend Edith to take care of her infant son whilst she tries to piece her life back together. Following a suicide attempt, she finds herself in the seedier area of Toulouse. As she wanders the streets without purpose she encounters young men who are attracted towards her, but she is incapable of starting a relationship with anyone... [More...]

18 ans après (2003)

Coline Serreau

Having turned 18, Marie agrees to spend her summer holidays with her mother, who has just returned from America with her husband and two sons. The ménage is completed by Marie’s three “adopted” fathers – Michel, Jacques and Pierre. The uncomfortable family reunion is tainted by Marie’s first bitter-sweet encounter with love... [More...]

24 heures de la vie d’une femme (2002)

Laurent Bouhnik

Louis, a disillusioned old man, returns to the French Riviera, the scene of his turbulent adolescence. By chance, he meets a young woman, Olivia, who, after a violent break up with her boyfriend, chooses to tag along with him. Louis recounts a story told to him, more than sixty years ago, by a Mrs Marie Collins Brown after his mother had run off with her lover... [More...]

24 mesures (2007)

Jalil Lespert

One Christmas Eve brings together four total strangers, for an evening that will mark their lives forever. Helly is a young prostitute who hopes that one day she can earn enough money to take back her son, who is currently with foster parents. Whilst looking for business, she meets Didier, a taxi driver who is at the end of his tether... [More...]

25 degrés en hiver (2004)

Stéphane Vuillet

Miguel is a Spanish immigrant who has settled in Brussels. He works for his brother, the owner of a travel agency shop, and is bringing up his young daughter alone after his wife left him to pursue a singing career in America. One day, Miguel is heading to the airport to collect a client when he is caught up in a traffic jam... [More...]

3 zéros (2002)

Fabien Onteniente

Football enthusiast Manu sees himself as a talent spotter and sets his sights on a young soccer player, Tibor, with whom he once shared a prison cell. Having learnt that Tibor has signed up with a football club, Manu contrives, with the help of recruitment godfather Colonna, to have him released so that he play in the French national team... [More...]

30 ans (2000)

Laurent Perrin

In 1974, three friends – Aurelian, Barbara and Antoine – form a small theatre company in Paris. Their plays reflect their concern for Chile, which is suffering under the regime of General Pinochet. A young actress, Jeanne, appears on the scene; she catches the attention of both Aurelian and Antoine before falling for an ageing Chilean actor... [More...]

35 rhums (2008)

Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver. They have lived a peaceful but withdrawn life together - Lionel thinks only of his daughter, and she thinks only of him... [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)

Olivier Marchal

For several months, a gang of ruthless crooks have been getting away with a series of daring and increasingly violent robberies in Paris. Police chief Robert Mancini summons two of his best men, Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein, and offers them an unusual challenge. Whichever of them manages to bring the gang to justice will succeed him upon his retirement... [More...]

36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (2009)

Jacques Rivette

Just as a small circus company is about to begin its summer season, its owner suddenly dies. To save their jobs, the circus troupe contacts Kate, the eldest daughter of their former boss, and plead with her to take her father’s place. To everyone’s surprise, Kate accepts and agrees to drop everything to resume the life that she abandoned many years ago... [More...]

48 heures par jour (2008)

Catherine Castel

Marianne is determined to make a success of her career in advertising. Unfortunately, her ambitions look set to be thwarted by her high-flying husband, Bruno, who expects her to look after their children and take on all the household duties. Out of desperation, Marianne contrives a plan to force Bruno to shoulder his fair share of their domestic arrangements... [More...]

57000 km entre nous (2008)

Delphine Kreuter

Margot and Michel are a married couple who feel they have a mission to show the world that theirs is the perfect happy family. They do this by documenting every aspect of their lives with a camcorder and uploading their homemade videos onto their website. Their site attracts transsexual Nicole and her partner Khaled, who soon find a way of disrupting Margot and Michel’s idea of Utopia... [More...]

5x2 (2004)

François Ozon

After several years together, Marion and Gilles finally decide to put an end to their marriage. Their divorce ceremony over, they meet for one last time in a hotel room. It is one final opportunity to relive former happy moments but it only manages to extinguish forever their passion for one another... [More...]

7 ans (2007)

Jean-Pascal Hattu

When her husband Vincent is sent to prison for seven years, Maïté visits him twice weekly to speak with him and collect his laundry, which she washes and irons assiduously. On one of these visits, Maïté encounters a stranger, Jean, who offers her a lift in his car. Maïté accepts and before she knows what is happening she has embarked on a passionate love affair with a man about whom she knows nothing... [More...]

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