French cinema: 2000s
Podium (2004)
Yann Moix
Bernard Frédéric is obsessed with the legendary popular singer Claude François. Believing he is the singer's double, he plans to make a career by performing a tribute act, with the help of his friend, Couscous...
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Yann Moix
Le Pont des Arts (2004)
Eugène Green
Christine and Pascal are two arts students at the university of Paris in the late 1970s. Their harmonious relationship falls apart when Christine begins nagging Pascal for not taking his studies seriously...
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Eugène Green
Le Pornographe (2001)
Bertrand Bonello
In the 1970s, Jacques Laurent was a major director of pornographic films in France. In the early 1980s he gave up film making, frustrated at not being able to make the kind of films he wanted to...
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Bertrand Bonello
Les Portes de la gloire (2001)
Christian Merret-Palmair
Régis Demanet is the leader of a team of door-to-door salesmen who stalk the streets of northern French towns trying to coerce undiscerning householders into buying a bogus encyclopaedia...
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Christian Merret-Palmair
Les Poupées russes (2005)
Cédric Klapisch
At 30, Xavier's private life is as messy and unfulfilled as his professional life. Unable to find a publisher for his novel "L'Auberge espagnole", he has ended up writing scripts for mediocre TV series and works as a ghost writer for a young supermodel...
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Cédric Klapisch
Pour elle (2008)
Fred Cavayé
Julien and Lisa are a married couple who have been leading a perfectly happy life together for some years. They have a young son and couldn't be more ordinary if they tried... [More...]
Fred Cavayé
Julien and Lisa are a married couple who have been leading a perfectly happy life together for some years. They have a young son and couldn't be more ordinary if they tried... [More...]
Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
Laetitia Masson
The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist... [More...]
Laetitia Masson
The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist... [More...]
Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Le Premier venu (2008)
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
Président (2006)
Lionel Delplanque
Despite the army of aides and advisors that are dutifully at his beck and call, the President knows that ultimately he is on his own, one man who has the power to change the world for the better or the worse, depending on his own beliefs and personal ambitions... [More...]
Lionel Delplanque
Despite the army of aides and advisors that are dutifully at his beck and call, the President knows that ultimately he is on his own, one man who has the power to change the world for the better or the worse, depending on his own beliefs and personal ambitions... [More...]
Presque rien (2000)
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
Whilst on holiday in the Atlantic coastal town of Pornichet one summer, 19 year old Mathieu finds himself attracted to a muscular boy of his own age, Cédric... [More...]
Le Pressentiment (2006)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Bénesteau is a barrister who has given up everything - his family, his mistress and his father's inheritance - to live in a poor working class district of Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Bénesteau is a barrister who has given up everything - his family, his mistress and his father's inheritance - to live in a poor working class district of Paris... [More...]
Prête-moi ta main (2006)
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Le Prix à payer (2007)
Alexandra Leclère
To the outside world, Jean-Pierre Ménard has everything a man could want to be happy. He has a well-paid job, a beautiful wife, a daughter, a chauffeur-driven car..... [More...]
Alexandra Leclère
To the outside world, Jean-Pierre Ménard has everything a man could want to be happy. He has a well-paid job, a beautiful wife, a daughter, a chauffeur-driven car..... [More...]
Profils paysans: l'approche (2001)
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
In the year 2000, the journalist-filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the rural France of his happy childhood. Having gained the confidence of several smallscale farmers, many of whom are at or beyond the age of retirement, he gets them to talk about their concerns, be it their mistrust of those they trade with or their anxiety about the future... [More...]
Profils paysans: la vie moderne (2008)
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming... [More...]
Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)
Raymond Depardon
In 2002, the journalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the small farms he visited a few years earlier in Lozère, Ardèche and Haute-Loire, continuing his personal portrait of traditional farmers who are struggling to eke out an existence at the start of the third millennium... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
In 2002, the journalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the small farms he visited a few years earlier in Lozère, Ardèche and Haute-Loire, continuing his personal portrait of traditional farmers who are struggling to eke out an existence at the start of the third millennium... [More...]
Le Promeneur du champ de Mars (2005)
Robert Guédiguian
As he approaches the end of his second term as President of France, François Mitterand agrees to cooperate with a young journalist, Antoine Moreau, on the writing of his biography... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
As he approaches the end of his second term as President of France, François Mitterand agrees to cooperate with a young journalist, Antoine Moreau, on the writing of his biography... [More...]
Promenons-nous dans les bois (2000)
Lionel Delplanque
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..? Evidently not the five actors who are invited to a remote country house to offer their modern interpretation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood... [More...]
Lionel Delplanque
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..? Evidently not the five actors who are invited to a remote country house to offer their modern interpretation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood... [More...]
Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront (2009)
Léa Fehner
At 30, Stéphane becomes depressed when he realises that his life is going nowhere. When a stranger offers him a large sum of money in return for taking his friend's place in prison he readily accepts... [More...]
Léa Fehner
At 30, Stéphane becomes depressed when he realises that his life is going nowhere. When a stranger offers him a large sum of money in return for taking his friend's place in prison he readily accepts... [More...]
Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
Xavier Giannoli
Alain Moreau is a singer in his fifties who earns a modest crust by performing at private functions and lonely heart clubs in his home town, Clermont-Ferrand... [More...]
Xavier Giannoli
Alain Moreau is a singer in his fifties who earns a modest crust by performing at private functions and lonely heart clubs in his home town, Clermont-Ferrand... [More...]
Quand la mer monte... (2004)
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Quartier V.I.P. (2005)
Laurent Firode
Alex is a prison warden who carries out his duties professionally, spurning the crooked activities that some of his colleagues indulge in... [More...]
Laurent Firode
Alex is a prison warden who carries out his duties professionally, spurning the crooked activities that some of his colleagues indulge in... [More...]
Quatre étoiles (2006)
Christian Vincent
When she inherits fifty thousand euros, Franssou, a young English teacher, is uncertain what she should do with her newfound wealth... [More...]
Christian Vincent
When she inherits fifty thousand euros, Franssou, a young English teacher, is uncertain what she should do with her newfound wealth... [More...]
Le Quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois (2007)
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000)
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
The Queen (2006)
Stephen Frears
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31st August 1997 was an event that stunned the world. It seemed inconceivable that the life of this sparkling 36-year-old could be snuffed out so suddenly, so dramatically, in something as banal as a car accident... [More...]
Stephen Frears
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31st August 1997 was an event that stunned the world. It seemed inconceivable that the life of this sparkling 36-year-old could be snuffed out so suddenly, so dramatically, in something as banal as a car accident... [More...]
Quelqu'un de bien (2002)
Patrick Timsit
When Pierre discovers that he needs a liver transplant to save his life, his girlfriend Marie suggests that his brother, Paul, may be a willing donor... [More...]
Patrick Timsit
When Pierre discovers that he needs a liver transplant to save his life, his girlfriend Marie suggests that his brother, Paul, may be a willing donor... [More...]
Quelques jours en septembre (2006)
Santiago Amigorena
In the first few days of September 2001, an American spy named Elliott goes into hiding and arranges a secret meeting with three people: the French agent Irène Montano, his adopted son David and his estranged daughter Orlando... [More...]
Santiago Amigorena
In the first few days of September 2001, an American spy named Elliott goes into hiding and arranges a secret meeting with three people: the French agent Irène Montano, his adopted son David and his estranged daughter Orlando... [More...]