French cinema: 2000s
Paris (2008)
Cédric Klapisch
Pierre, a man in his early thirties, begins to lose hope when he is diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition...
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Cédric Klapisch
Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui
It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist...
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Agnès Jaoui
Les Parrains (2005)
Frédéric Forestier
In 1980, four crooks - Max, Lucien, Serge and Henri - fail to pull off a daring jewel robbery. Max ends up in prison whilst his three partners in crime escape and settle into humdrum, semi-respectable lives...
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Frédéric Forestier
Pars vite et reviens tard (2007)
Régis Wargnier
Overwrought when his fiancée Camille walks out on him, police chief Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg finds himself confronted with a nightmare scenario that he is not well equipped to deal with...
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Régis Wargnier
Partir (2009)
Catherine Corsini
Suzanne has grown tired of her comfortable middle-class existence. Now she is forty she yearns for new challenges and decides to resume her old career as a physiotherapist...
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Catherine Corsini
Pas douce (2007)
Jeanne Waltz
Frédérique is a woman in her mid-twenties who is already sick of life. She has grown to despise all men, having been maltreated by her father and rejected by her lover... [More...]
Jeanne Waltz
Frédérique is a woman in her mid-twenties who is already sick of life. She has grown to despise all men, having been maltreated by her father and rejected by her lover... [More...]
Pas sur la bouche (2003)
Alain Resnais
Paris, 1925. Wealthy businessman Georges Valandray is certain of his wife's fidelity since, he believes, he was the first man in her life... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Paris, 1925. Wealthy businessman Georges Valandray is certain of his wife's fidelity since, he believes, he was the first man in her life... [More...]
Le Passager de l'été (2006)
Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
Since her husband left her, Monique has put everything into running the family farm. She works tirelessly, although the burden is more than she can manage... [More...]
Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
Since her husband left her, Monique has put everything into running the family farm. She works tirelessly, although the burden is more than she can manage... [More...]
Passe-passe (2008)
Tonie Marshall
Irène Montier Duval has a designer bag full of cash and desperately needs someone to drive her to Geneva. Darry Marzouki is an out-of-work stage magician who is at the wheel of an expensive car and is badly in need of money... [More...]
Tonie Marshall
Irène Montier Duval has a designer bag full of cash and desperately needs someone to drive her to Geneva. Darry Marzouki is an out-of-work stage magician who is at the wheel of an expensive car and is badly in need of money... [More...]
Peau d'ange (2002)
Vincent Perez
17-year old Angèle leaves home and finds work as a housemaid to a bourgeois couple in a nearby town. One day, she meets a young man in a suit, Grégoire, who passes himself off as a manager in a music company... [More...]
Vincent Perez
17-year old Angèle leaves home and finds work as a housemaid to a bourgeois couple in a nearby town. One day, she meets a young man in a suit, Grégoire, who passes himself off as a manager in a music company... [More...]
Peindre ou faire l'amour (2005)
Arnaud Larrieu
William and Madeleine are a happily married couple in their early fifties. They live in Grenoble, a picturesque town near the French Alps... [More...]
Arnaud Larrieu
William and Madeleine are a happily married couple in their early fifties. They live in Grenoble, a picturesque town near the French Alps... [More...]
People (2004)
Fabien Onteniente
In one disastrous evening, Charles de Poulignac sees his reputation as the prince of the Parisian jet set decimated by one of his rivals... [More...]
Fabien Onteniente
In one disastrous evening, Charles de Poulignac sees his reputation as the prince of the Parisian jet set decimated by one of his rivals... [More...]
Le Père de mes enfants (2009)
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Père et fils (2003)
Michel Boujenah
Léo, a retired sales rep, brings together his three sons on his 70th birthday in the hope of putting an end to years of estrangement... [More...]
Michel Boujenah
Léo, a retired sales rep, brings together his three sons on his 70th birthday in the hope of putting an end to years of estrangement... [More...]
Persécution (2009)
Patrice Chéreau
Daniel, a man in his mid-thirties, becomes concerned when he realises he is being spied on by an older man he has never met before... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Daniel, a man in his mid-thirties, becomes concerned when he realises he is being spied on by an older man he has never met before... [More...]
Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Le Petit lieutenant (2005)
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Le Petit Nicolas (2009)
Laurent Tirard
Nicholas is a good-natured little boy who could not be happier. He has a mother and father who dote on him and plenty of friends to play with... [More...]
Laurent Tirard
Nicholas is a good-natured little boy who could not be happier. He has a mother and father who dote on him and plenty of friends to play with... [More...]
Le Petit poucet (2001)
Olivier Dahan
Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a little boy named Tom Thumb. He lived on a farm with his parents and many brothers, all of whom despised him because he was so small and puny... [More...]
Olivier Dahan
Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a little boy named Tom Thumb. He lived on a farm with his parents and many brothers, all of whom despised him because he was so small and puny... [More...]
La Petite Chartreuse (2005)
Jean-Pierre Denis
Pascale is an out-of-work actress who lives alone with her eight year old daughter, Eva. She isn't the most attentive of mothers and, one day, she forgets to collect Eva from school... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Denis
Pascale is an out-of-work actress who lives alone with her eight year old daughter, Eva. She isn't the most attentive of mothers and, one day, she forgets to collect Eva from school... [More...]
Petite chérie (2000)
Anne Villacèque
Although she is about 30, Sybille still lives at home with her parents and has never had a boyfriend. On the train to her humdrum job as a bank clerk, she reads cheap romantic fiction and fantasises about the passions she fears she will never know, on account of her plain appearance and shyness... [More...]
Anne Villacèque
Although she is about 30, Sybille still lives at home with her parents and has never had a boyfriend. On the train to her humdrum job as a bank clerk, she reads cheap romantic fiction and fantasises about the passions she fears she will never know, on account of her plain appearance and shyness... [More...]
La Petite Lili (2003)
Claude Miller
Each summer, successful actress Mado spends her holiday in the company of her family at her home in the country. This year, she invites her boyfriend, Brice, a one-time actor who directed her latest film, to stay with her elderly brother, Simon, and son Julien... [More...]
Claude Miller
Each summer, successful actress Mado spends her holiday in the company of her family at her home in the country. This year, she invites her boyfriend, Brice, a one-time actor who directed her latest film, to stay with her elderly brother, Simon, and son Julien... [More...]
Les Petites couleurs (2002)
Patricia Plattner
Christelle is a hairdresser in a small provincial town. Aged 35, she has been married to an older man for almost 20 years, during which time she has been bullied, deceived and taken for granted... [More...]
Patricia Plattner
Christelle is a hairdresser in a small provincial town. Aged 35, she has been married to an older man for almost 20 years, during which time she has been bullied, deceived and taken for granted... [More...]
Petites coupures (2003)
Pascal Bonitzer
Bruno, a Communist journalist, is going through a mid-life crisis. His wife, Gaëlle, walks out on him when she learns that he has a taken a much younger woman, Nathalie, as his mistress... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
Bruno, a Communist journalist, is going through a mid-life crisis. His wife, Gaëlle, walks out on him when she learns that he has a taken a much younger woman, Nathalie, as his mistress... [More...]
La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Le Placard (2001)
Francis Veber
François Pignon has been employed as an accountant at a rubber factory for twenty years. His wife Christine has left him and now he learns that he is about to be made redundant... [More...]
Francis Veber
François Pignon has been employed as an accountant at a rubber factory for twenty years. His wife Christine has left him and now he learns that he is about to be made redundant... [More...]
La Plage noire (2001)
Michel Piccoli
In an unnamed country, a group of revolutionaries say their goodbyes, glad to have seen a brutal dictatorship replaced by a nascent democracy... [More...]
Michel Piccoli
In an unnamed country, a group of revolutionaries say their goodbyes, glad to have seen a brutal dictatorship replaced by a nascent democracy... [More...]
La Planète blanche (2006)
Jean Lemire
There are few places on Earth that are more inhospitable than the Arctic ice cap. It is incredible to think that anything could survive in such extreme conditions, and yet the region is abundant in life... [More...]
Jean Lemire
There are few places on Earth that are more inhospitable than the Arctic ice cap. It is incredible to think that anything could survive in such extreme conditions, and yet the region is abundant in life... [More...]
Plein sud (2009)
Sébastien Lifshitz
One summer, 27-year-old Sam takes to the road in his car, his direction: south. On the way, he picks up a brother and sister, Mathieu and Léa... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
One summer, 27-year-old Sam takes to the road in his car, his direction: south. On the way, he picks up a brother and sister, Mathieu and Léa... [More...]
Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War... [More...]
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War... [More...]