French cinema: 2000s
Made in Italy (2008)
Stéphane Giusti
Luca Morandi is a young writer who is already on the brink of a midlife crisis. Born in Italy, he has spent most of his life in France, but, at 35, he suddenly realises that he has no cultural identity...
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Stéphane Giusti
Mademoiselle (2001)
Philippe Lioret
Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company...
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Philippe Lioret
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Stéphane Brizé
Jean is a man in his forties who could not be more content with the way his life is going. He is happily married with a son and enjoys his work as a mason...
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Stéphane Brizé
The Magic Roundabout (2005)
Dave Borthwick
Whilst his friends are enjoying an outdoor music concert, Dougal, the world's most follicly endowed dog, looks for his next sugar trip, and ends up crashing a sweet trolley into the Magic Roundabout...
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Dave Borthwick
Magique! (2008)
Philippe Muyl
Ten-year-old Tommy looks up at the sky each night and wonders if his father will ever return. He has never met his father, but he is sure that he is an astronaut, just as he knows that one day he will come back to Earth to see visit his son...
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Philippe Muyl
Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose? (2003)
Eric Lartigau
The small American town of Bornsville finds itself at the centre of an FBI investigation when a striptease artiste, Pamela Rose, is found dead in her hotel room... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
The small American town of Bornsville finds itself at the centre of an FBI investigation when a striptease artiste, Pamela Rose, is found dead in her hotel room... [More...]
La Maison du bonheur (2006)
Dany Boon
Within a surprisingly short time, Charles Boulin's job with a credit agency has turned him into a skinflint of almost pathological proportions... [More...]
Dany Boon
Within a surprisingly short time, Charles Boulin's job with a credit agency has turned him into a skinflint of almost pathological proportions... [More...]
La Maison (2007)
Manuel Poirier
Malo is a forty-something father of three children who is in the process of getting a divorce. One day, whilst out with his friends Rémi and Nathalie, he notices a house which is due to be sold at auction... [More...]
Manuel Poirier
Malo is a forty-something father of three children who is in the process of getting a divorce. One day, whilst out with his friends Rémi and Nathalie, he notices a house which is due to be sold at auction... [More...]
La Maîtresse en maillot de bain (2002)
Lyèce Boukhitine
In a provincial French town, three thirty-something men are without work but find solace in their friendship. The bond that keeps them together is a graffiti sketch of their schoolteacher in a swimming costume, which they painted on a wall when they were children and which they now religiously protect... [More...]
Lyèce Boukhitine
In a provincial French town, three thirty-something men are without work but find solace in their friendship. The bond that keeps them together is a graffiti sketch of their schoolteacher in a swimming costume, which they painted on a wall when they were children and which they now religiously protect... [More...]
Malabar Princess (2004)
Gilles Legrand
After his wife's death, Pierre finds it increasingly difficult to bring up his rebellious eight-year old son Tom. In the end he places the little boy in the care of his grandfather, Gaspard, a train driver who lives in the Mont Blanc region of France... [More...]
Gilles Legrand
After his wife's death, Pierre finds it increasingly difficult to bring up his rebellious eight-year old son Tom. In the end he places the little boy in the care of his grandfather, Gaspard, a train driver who lives in the Mont Blanc region of France... [More...]
Les Marchands de sable (2000)
Pierre Salvadori
On leaving prison after completing a short stretch for a petty crime, Marie makes her way back to the only person she can count on for support, her brother Antoine... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
On leaving prison after completing a short stretch for a petty crime, Marie makes her way back to the only person she can count on for support, her brother Antoine... [More...]
La Marche de l'empereur (2005)
Luc Jacquet
Every year, the emperor penguins leave the ocean that has been their home during the summer months and walk across the frozen Antarctic wastes to their breeding ground on a safe plateau of ice... [More...]
Luc Jacquet
Every year, the emperor penguins leave the ocean that has been their home during the summer months and walk across the frozen Antarctic wastes to their breeding ground on a safe plateau of ice... [More...]
Mariages! (2004)
Valérie Guignabodet
At 25, Johanna and Benjamin have decided that they must forgo the delights of bachelorhood and begin a new life together, one that promises a lifetime of unalloyed marital bliss... [More...]
Valérie Guignabodet
At 25, Johanna and Benjamin have decided that they must forgo the delights of bachelorhood and begin a new life together, one that promises a lifetime of unalloyed marital bliss... [More...]
Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours (2002)
Robert Guédiguian
Marie-Jo is a woman who, in early middle age, appears to have all she could want to lead a comfortable and fulfilled life... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Marie-Jo is a woman who, in early middle age, appears to have all she could want to lead a comfortable and fulfilled life... [More...]
Marie-Line (2000)
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Mehdi Charef
Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage... [More...]
Mariées mais pas trop (2003)
Catherine Corsini
Laurence, aged 20, is ready for love, but she always manages to fall for the wrong guy. After the death of her mother, she engages a private detective to track down her missing grandmother, Renée, who shares none of Laurence's romanticism... [More...]
Catherine Corsini
Laurence, aged 20, is ready for love, but she always manages to fall for the wrong guy. After the death of her mother, she engages a private detective to track down her missing grandmother, Renée, who shares none of Laurence's romanticism... [More...]
Martha... Martha (2001)
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise... [More...]
Mauvais esprit (2003)
Patrick Alessandrin
Failed architect Simon Variot confronts unscrupulous businessman Vincent Porel, accusing him of stealing his design for a state-of-the-art building... [More...]
Patrick Alessandrin
Failed architect Simon Variot confronts unscrupulous businessman Vincent Porel, accusing him of stealing his design for a state-of-the-art building... [More...]
Mauvais genres (2001)
Francis Girod
When a Belgian professor is arrested for molesting children, his son, Bo, is hassled by the police into testifying against him... [More...]
Francis Girod
When a Belgian professor is arrested for molesting children, his son, Bo, is hassled by the police into testifying against him... [More...]
Les Mauvais joueurs (2005)
Frédéric Balekdjian
Vahé Krikorian is an Armenian immigrant who lives in the crowded Sentier district of Paris. Crippled with debts, his father is forced to close the shop where he works and so, to make ends meet, he resorts to playing three card tricks with Sahak and his brother Toros... [More...]
Frédéric Balekdjian
Vahé Krikorian is an Armenian immigrant who lives in the crowded Sentier district of Paris. Crippled with debts, his father is forced to close the shop where he works and so, to make ends meet, he resorts to playing three card tricks with Sahak and his brother Toros... [More...]
Mauvaise foi (2006)
Roschdy Zem
Clara and Ismaël are a happy couple, and when Clara discovers she is pregnant they are overjoyed. But their elation is short-lived... [More...]
Roschdy Zem
Clara and Ismaël are a happy couple, and when Clara discovers she is pregnant they are overjoyed. But their elation is short-lived... [More...]
Meilleur espoir féminin (2000)
Gérard Jugnot
Yvon Rance is the proud owner of a modest hairdressing salon in the small Breton town of Cancale. Since his wife left him some years ago, he has had to bring up his daughter Laetitia by himself and naturally he has become overly protective towards her... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
Yvon Rance is the proud owner of a modest hairdressing salon in the small Breton town of Cancale. Since his wife left him some years ago, he has had to bring up his daughter Laetitia by himself and naturally he has become overly protective towards her... [More...]
Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... (2004)
Laurent Tirard
Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities... [More...]
Laurent Tirard
Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities... [More...]
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski... [More...]
Mercredi, folle journée! (2001)
Pascal Thomas
A typical Wednesday in the busy French harbour town of Nantes. Whilst children enjoy their day off school, the adults carry on with their frantic and increasingly stressful lives... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
A typical Wednesday in the busy French harbour town of Nantes. Whilst children enjoy their day off school, the adults carry on with their frantic and increasingly stressful lives... [More...]
Mères et filles (2009)
Julie Lopes-Curval
Audrey is an independently minded thirty-year-old who has always been intrigued by her family history. It was in the 1950s that her grandmother Louise abandoned her family when her children were still young, leaving no trace as to where she might be going... [More...]
Julie Lopes-Curval
Audrey is an independently minded thirty-year-old who has always been intrigued by her family history. It was in the 1950s that her grandmother Louise abandoned her family when her children were still young, leaving no trace as to where she might be going... [More...]
Mesrine: L'Ennemi public n°1 (2008)
Jean-François Richet
Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media... [More...]
Jean-François Richet
Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media... [More...]
Mesrine: L'Instinct de mort (2008)
Jean-François Richet
Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing... [More...]
Jean-François Richet
Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing... [More...]
Michou d'Auber (2007)
Thomas Gilou
France, 1960. When his mother falls seriously ill, nine-year-old Messaoud proves to be too much of a burden for his father... [More...]
Thomas Gilou
France, 1960. When his mother falls seriously ill, nine-year-old Messaoud proves to be too much of a burden for his father... [More...]
Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Bazil has every reason to hate the armaments industry with every fibre of his being. First his father was killed by an explosive device when he was boy... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Bazil has every reason to hate the armaments industry with every fibre of his being. First his father was killed by an explosive device when he was boy... [More...]