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French cinema: 2010

À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...   [More...]

Amer (2010)
Hélène Cattet

At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act...   [More...]

Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
Xavier Dolan

Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas...   [More...]

Au fond des bois (2010)
Benoît Jacquot

In 1865, Joséphine leads a comfortable but dull existence with her father, a successful physician. One day, a scruffy vagabond turns up on her father's doorstep asking for help...   [More...]

L'Autre monde (2010)
Gilles Marchand

Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, teen lovers Gaspard and Marion find a mobile phone which contains a series of cryptic messages...   [More...]

Belle épine (2010)
Rebecca Zlotowski

Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out...   [More...]

Le Bruit des glaçons (2010)
Bertrand Blier

Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat...   [More...]

Carlos (2010)
Olivier Assayas

A legend in his own lifetime, Carlos the Jackal (né Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) was at the epicentre of international terrorism in the 1970s and '80s...   [More...]

Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud

The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation...   [More...]

Copacabana (2010)
Marc Fitoussi

Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself...   [More...]

Copie conforme (2010)
Abbas Kiarostami

A middle-aged French woman travels to Italy to attend a conference at which an English writer, James, is to promote his new book...   [More...]

La Dame de trèfle (2010)
Jérôme Bonnell

Since their parents died, Aurélien and Argine have lived together in their home in a small provincial town, and have become as close to one another as any brother and sister can be...   [More...]

De vrais mensonges (2010)
Pierre Salvadori

One bright spring morning, Emilie receives a love letter, a beautiful but anonymous declaration of love which cannot fail to twang the romantic heartstrings of its reader...   [More...]

Des hommes et des dieux (2010)
Xavier Beauvois

In the 1990s, eight French Cistercian monks lead a peaceful existence in a monastery overlooking the village of Tibhirine in the mountainous hinterland of Algeria...   [More...]

Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand...   [More...]

Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris

Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Le Mariage à trois (2010)
Jacques Doillon

Auguste is a playwright in his fifties who is struggling to put the finishing touches to his latest magnum opus. A few details still need to be worked through, so to help him he invites two actors to his house in the country to help bring the play to life...   [More...]

Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (2010)
René Féret

In a rickety carriage, a family of musicians are making their way across a wintry landscape, snuggled together for comfort as they await their arrival at the next palace on their itinerary...   [More...]

Le Nom des gens (2010)
Michel Leclerc

Bahia Benmahmoud is an extroverted young woman who takes her political activism seriously. She has no scruples over sleeping with the enemy, not if she can convert him to her cause...   [More...]

Pauline et François (2010)
Renaud Fely

Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes...   [More...]

Les Petits mouchoirs (2010)
Guillaume Canet

A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea...   [More...]

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...]

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...]

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...]



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