French cinema: 2010s
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...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table (2013)
Guillaume Gallienne
Guillaume had a far from conventional childhood. When he was four or five, his mother would call him into dinner by shouting: "Boys and Guillaume, dinner's ready!" Guillaume knew there and then that he was different from other boys, but he could never tell how he was different...
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Guillaume Gallienne
Grâce à Dieu (2019)
François Ozon
Alexandre Guérin, a bank employee in his mid-forties, leads a harmonious life in Lyon with his wife and children, all devout Catholics...
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François Ozon
Le Grand soir (2012)
Gustave de Kervern
Not and Jean-Pierre are two brothers who could not be more different. In his forties, Not is proud to be the oldest street punk in Europe, happy to live off the detritus of a diseased society in the company of his faithful dog...
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Gustave de Kervern
Grave (2017)
Julia Ducournau
Like the rest of her well-educated, middle-class family, Justine is a committed vegetarian who would never dream of eating meat...
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Julia Ducournau
La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
L'Hiver dernier (2012)
John Shank
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... [More...]
John Shank
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... [More...]
Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
L'Homme fidèle (2018)
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (2010)
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Hors Satan (2011)
Bruno Dumont
On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century... [More...]
Huit fois debout (2010)
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Ici-bas (2012)
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
L'Illusionniste (2010)
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
L'Inconnu du lac (2013)
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Intouchables (2011)
Olivier Nakache
Crippled by a paragliding accident, wealthy aristocrat Philippe hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs, as his domestic help... [More...]
Olivier Nakache
Crippled by a paragliding accident, wealthy aristocrat Philippe hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs, as his domestic help... [More...]
Les Invisibles (2012)
Sébastien Lifshitz
They are men and women born between the two wars. The only thing they have in common is that they are homosexuals who chose to live their lives as they wished, at a time when they were censured and rejected by society... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
They are men and women born between the two wars. The only thing they have in common is that they are homosexuals who chose to live their lives as they wished, at a time when they were censured and rejected by society... [More...]
Les Invités de mon père (2010)
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
J'enrage de son absence (2012)
Sandrine Bonnaire
Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado's life... [More...]
Sandrine Bonnaire
Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado's life... [More...]
Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (2015)
Guillaume Malandrin
A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage... [More...]
Guillaume Malandrin
A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage... [More...]
Jeune & jolie (2013)
François Ozon
One summer, Isabelle, 16, is on holiday with her family on the French Riviera. Encouraged by her hedonistic parents, she allows an attractive young man to rob her of her virginity, but she takes no pleasure in the experience and sees no real significance in it... [More...]
François Ozon
One summer, Isabelle, 16, is on holiday with her family on the French Riviera. Encouraged by her hedonistic parents, she allows an attractive young man to rob her of her virginity, but she takes no pleasure in the experience and sees no real significance in it... [More...]
Jimmy Rivière (2011)
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Jimmy Rivière is a young traveller who is perhaps a little too timid and willing to please those around him. Pressurised by his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai boxing and his girlfriend Sonia... [More...]
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Jimmy Rivière is a young traveller who is perhaps a little too timid and willing to please those around him. Pressurised by his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai boxing and his girlfriend Sonia... [More...]
Journal d'une femme de chambre (2015)
Benoît Jacquot
Towards the end of the 19th century, a headstrong young woman named Célestine arrives in a small Normandy town to take up the post of a maid to the wealthy Lanlaire family... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
Towards the end of the 19th century, a headstrong young woman named Célestine arrives in a small Normandy town to take up the post of a maid to the wealthy Lanlaire family... [More...]
Les Jours venus (2015)
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Jusqu'à la garde (2018)
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Let My People Go! (2011)
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Lignes de front (2010)
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
La Loi du marché (2015)
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]