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French cinema: 2010s

Les Petits ruisseaux (2010)
Pascal Rabaté

After the death of his wife, Emile now leads a peaceful file in contented retirement. He is happy to let the days slip by as he fishes peacefully on the verdant banks of the Loire with his good friend Edmond...   [More...]

La Pièce manquante (2014)
Nicolas Birkenstock

One morning, Paula leaves the family home, abandoning her husband André and their two children, Violette and Pierre...   [More...]

Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018)
Christophe Honoré

In 1993, Arthur Prigent is a twenty-year-old student living in the Breton town of Rennes. Jacques Tondelli is a successful writer who lives in Paris with his young son...   [More...]

Polisse (2011)
Maïwenn

Children are increasingly at risk from abuse, both inside and outside the home, which is why a special police squad has been set up in Paris to protect the city's vulnerable infants...   [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...]

Potiche (2010)
François Ozon

In 1977, Robert Pujol is the owner of an umbrella factory, which he runs with an iron hand. At home, he treats his wife Suzanne and their grown-up children, Joëlle and Laurent, in the same despotic manner as his unfortunate employees...   [More...]

Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely...   [More...]

Présumé coupable (2011)
Vincent Garenq

This film recounts the harrowing exploits of Alain Marécaux, who, along with his wife and twelve other people, was arrested in 2001 for grotesque paedophilic acts of which he was entirely blameless...   [More...]

La Prière (2018)
Cédric Kahn

Thomas is an unsettled 22-year-old who has resorted to taking hard drugs to escape from the world from which he feels increasingly estranged...   [More...]

La Princesse de Montpensier (2010)
Bertrand Tavernier

1562. Under the reign of Charles IX, religious wars continue to rage across France. From an early age, Marie de Mézières has been in love with Henri, Duc de Guise, but her father compels her to marry the Prince de Montpensier...   [More...]

Pupille (2018)
Jeanne Herry

Knowing that she is incapable of bringing up her newborn baby boy herself, a young mother offers it up to the adoption service who are then tasked with finding a suitable home for him...   [More...]

Quand on a 17 ans (2016)
André Téchiné

In the Pyrenees, 17-year-old Damien lives alone with his mother Marianne, a dedicated doctor, whilst his father Nathan is away serving as an army pilot in a war-torn country far away...   [More...]

Queen of Montreuil (2013)
Sólveig Anspach

Agathe, a woman in her thirties, returns to France with the ashes of her husband, recently deceased in a road accident. As she passes through customs at the airport in Paris she makes the acquaintance of an older Icelandic woman, Anna, and her 25-year-old son Úlfur...   [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...]

La Rafle (2010)
Rose Bosch

In 1942, Joseph is 11. A Jew, he must go to school with a yellow star sewn onto his chest. Although he is mocked by some, others treat him kindly and he feels that he and his family have found a safe refuge in Paris...   [More...]

Le Refuge (2010)
François Ozon

Mousse and Louis are a young couple who are deliriously in love with one another. But love is not enough to sustain their happy idyll and so they resort to taking drugs...   [More...]

Rendez-vous à Kiruna (2013)
Anne Novion

Ernest, a renowned architect, lives only for his work. One day, he receives a call from the Swedish police who ask him to undertake a long journey to Kiruna in Lapland...   [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...]

Le Roman de ma femme (2011)
Jamshed Usmonov

Ève, a wealthy young woman, is devastated when her husband Paul goes missing, leaving her with a mountain of debt...   [More...]

Saint Laurent (2014)
Bertrand Bonello

By 1967, Yves Saint Laurent is already established as one of the world's leading couturiers. As he instigates a fashion revolution, YSL becomes the figurehead of a brand the like of which the world has never known...   [More...]

Sauvage (2018)
Camille Vidal-Naquet

Léo is a vulnerable 22-year-old man who is used to living on the streets. To make the money he needs to get by, he is willing to do anything, even selling his body to men he encounters on the streets of Strasbourg and its wooded environs...   [More...]

Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque (2010)
Joann Sfar

In the 1940s, with Paris under Nazi occupation, a young boy named Lucien Ginsburg grows up and finds he shares his father's artistic leanings...   [More...]

Shéhérazade (2018)
Jean-Bernard Marlin

Zachary is a 17-year-old delinquent living in one of the roughest neighbourhoods of north Marseille. His petty criminal exploits have earned him a spell in a juvenile detention centre, but on leaving the centre he finds he has no home to return to...   [More...]

Le Temps de l'aventure (2013)
Jérôme Bonnell

Alix, an actress in her early forties, is performing in a play in Calais. When her paycheque fails to turn up she becomes anxious and takes the next train to Paris, hoping to hook up with her strangely elusive boyfriend...   [More...]

Le Temps de la kermesse est terminé (2010)
Frédéric Chignac

Alex had only intended to spend a few minutes in Kupala, just enough time to fill up his petrol tank. But when his car breaks down he ends up having to stay there for longer than he had planned...   [More...]

La Tête haute (2015)
Emmanuelle Bercot

Unable to cope with her troublesome six-year-old son Malony, single mother Séverine places him in the care of a juvenile court judge, Florence Blaque...   [More...]

Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau (2016)
Olivier Ducastel

In a Parisian sex club, two young men are irresistibly drawn to one another. Surrendering to the physical yearning that suddenly takes possession of them, they are united, body and soul, in a passion that is the most intense either has ever known...   [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...]

Tip Top (2013)
Serge Bozon

After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...   [More...]



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