French cinema: 2000s
Rumba (2008)
Dominique Abel
Teachers at a school in the country, Fiona and Dom are a couple who share an intense passion for Latin dancing. Their house is filled with trophies from the dancing tournaments they have won over the years...
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Dominique Abel
Sa majesté Minor (2007)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Long ago, many years before Homer, on an imaginary island in the Aegean Sea, there lived a strange creature named Minor. A dumb beast, half-man, half-pig, Minor lives a quiet and happy life in his sty with his affectionate sow...
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
Safari (2009)
Olivier Baroux
It has been thirty years since Richard Dacieris last set foot in the wilds of Africa, but here he is again, acting as a guide for an odd assortment of tourists who are keen to discover the natural wonders of the Dark Continent...
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Olivier Baroux
Sagan (2008)
Diane Kurys
In 1954, without her parents' knowledge, 18-year-old Françoise Quoirez published a novel that was to earn her instant celebrity and a revered place in French literature...
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Diane Kurys
Saint Ange (2004)
Pascal Laugier
At the end of the 1950s, the Saint Ange orphanage is about to close down after the tragic death of one of its child residents...
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Pascal Laugier
Saint-Cyr (2000)
Patricia Mazuy
In 1686, Madame de Maintenon, the last wife of King Louis XIV, founded Saint-Cyr, a private school for the daughters of nobles ruined by the preceding decades of war... [More...]
Patricia Mazuy
In 1686, Madame de Maintenon, the last wife of King Louis XIV, founded Saint-Cyr, a private school for the daughters of nobles ruined by the preceding decades of war... [More...]
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque (2005)
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
La Sainte Victoire (2009)
François Favrat
Xavier Alvarez is a budding architect in Aix-en-Provence who, despite his best efforts, fails to win the recognition and social standing that he aspires to and which he knows he deserves... [More...]
François Favrat
Xavier Alvarez is a budding architect in Aix-en-Provence who, despite his best efforts, fails to win the recognition and social standing that he aspires to and which he knows he deserves... [More...]
Samia (2000)
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
San Antonio (2004)
Frédéric Auburtin
Once the secret services have woken up to the threat of a global terrorist targetting world leaders, police superintendent San Antonio and his faithful assistant Bérurier are assigned to keep a watchful eye on the French ambassador during a stay at a British palace... [More...]
Frédéric Auburtin
Once the secret services have woken up to the threat of a global terrorist targetting world leaders, police superintendent San Antonio and his faithful assistant Bérurier are assigned to keep a watchful eye on the French ambassador during a stay at a British palace... [More...]
Sans rancune (2009)
Yves Hanchar
Whilst attending a Belgian boarding school in the 1950s, 17-year-old Laurent Matagne suspects that his French teacher, Vapeur, might be his father, who is thought to have died in an air raid in 1940... [More...]
Yves Hanchar
Whilst attending a Belgian boarding school in the 1950s, 17-year-old Laurent Matagne suspects that his French teacher, Vapeur, might be his father, who is thought to have died in an air raid in 1940... [More...]
Sauf le respect que je vous dois (2005)
Fabienne Godet
François Durrieux works for a company where everyone is expected to give one hundred per cent all of the time. There is no place for slackers in this efficient, well-oiled organisation... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
François Durrieux works for a company where everyone is expected to give one hundred per cent all of the time. There is no place for slackers in this efficient, well-oiled organisation... [More...]
Sauve-moi (2000)
Christian Vincent
A young Rumanian woman, Agatha, arrives in the French town of Roubaix, hoping to rekindle a love affair with a French doctor whom she met during his last visit to her country... [More...]
Christian Vincent
A young Rumanian woman, Agatha, arrives in the French town of Roubaix, hoping to rekindle a love affair with a French doctor whom she met during his last visit to her country... [More...]
Les Savates du bon Dieu (2000)
Jean-Claude Brisseau
20-something Fred lives with his young wife Élodie in the rundown suburbs and struggles to earn enough to support himself and his young family... [More...]
Jean-Claude Brisseau
20-something Fred lives with his young wife Élodie in the rundown suburbs and struggles to earn enough to support himself and his young family... [More...]
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Julian Schnabel
Chief editor of the fashion magazine Elle and father of two children, Jean-Dominique Bauby is a man to whom life could not have been kinder... [More...]
Julian Schnabel
Chief editor of the fashion magazine Elle and father of two children, Jean-Dominique Bauby is a man to whom life could not have been kinder... [More...]
Scènes de crimes (2000)
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
After their teenage daughter, Marie Bourgoin, suddenly goes missing, the owners of a Parisian inn soon begin to suspect the worst... [More...]
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
After their teenage daughter, Marie Bourgoin, suddenly goes missing, the owners of a Parisian inn soon begin to suspect the worst... [More...]
La Science des rêves (2006)
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child... [More...]
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child... [More...]
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Secret défense (2008)
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Philippe Haïm
Alex heads France's counter-terrorist department, the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security). It is a job that requires his total commitment and it gives him no space for a private life of his own... [More...]
Le Secret (2000)
Virginie Wagon
Marie is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a stable marriage for over ten years with her husband François and has a young son... [More...]
Virginie Wagon
Marie is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a stable marriage for over ten years with her husband François and has a young son... [More...]
Selon Matthieu (2000)
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
Sempre vivu! (2007)
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Les Sentiments (2003)
Noémie Lvovsky
A newly wedded young doctor, François, and his wife, Edith, are about to start a new life together in the country... [More...]
Noémie Lvovsky
A newly wedded young doctor, François, and his wife, Edith, are about to start a new life together in the country... [More...]
Le Septième mensonge (2003)
Stéphane Guenin
It is like a fairytale dream come true. To be married to a rich, world-renowned conductor, to live in a splendid medieval château surrounded by the most picturesque countryside, to live like the lady of the manor..... [More...]
Stéphane Guenin
It is like a fairytale dream come true. To be married to a rich, world-renowned conductor, to live in a splendid medieval château surrounded by the most picturesque countryside, to live like the lady of the manor..... [More...]
Séraphine (2008)
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Martin Provost
On the eve of the First World War, the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in a small French town where he hopes to write and take stock of his life... [More...]
Le Serpent (2007)
Eric Barbier
Vincent Mandel has it all - a successful career as a photographer, a family, a nice house and all the accessories that go with it... [More...]
Eric Barbier
Vincent Mandel has it all - a successful career as a photographer, a family, a nice house and all the accessories that go with it... [More...]
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Si c'était lui... (2007)
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Le Silence de Lorna (2008)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman whose dream is to settle in Belgium with her boyfriend Sokol and open a snack bar. Through a gangster Fabio, she gains Belgian citizenship by marrying a Belgian drug addict, Claudy... [More...]
La Sirène rouge (2002)
Olivier Megaton
Brought up by a cruel and domineering mother, Alice is a deeply disturbed 12-year-old who lives in perpetual fear - and with good reason... [More...]
Olivier Megaton
Brought up by a cruel and domineering mother, Alice is a deeply disturbed 12-year-old who lives in perpetual fear - and with good reason... [More...]