French cinema: 2008
Les Grandes personnes (2008)
Anne Novion
To celebrate his daughter Jeanne's 17th birthday, Albert, a divorced librarian, takes her to the Swedish island Styrsö for their summer holiday...
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Anne Novion
Les Hauts murs (2008)
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child...
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Christian Faure
Hello Goodbye (2008)
Graham Guit
Alain and Gisèle Gaash are a happily married couple who, now into their fifties, lead a comfortable existence in Paris...
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Graham Guit
L'Heure d'été (2008)
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier...
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Olivier Assayas
Home (2008)
Ursula Meier
Marthe, Michel and their three children have been living in perfect harmony for ten years. Their house is in the most peaceful spot, miles from anywhere beside a stretch of motorway that was never completed...
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Ursula Meier
L'Homme qui marche (2008)
Aurélia Georges
In the 1950s, Viktor Atemian is a forty-something Russian immigrant who makes a living as a translator in Paris. One day, Victor decides to become a writer, so he sells his apartment and moves into a modest hotel... [More...]
Aurélia Georges
In the 1950s, Viktor Atemian is a forty-something Russian immigrant who makes a living as a translator in Paris. One day, Victor decides to become a writer, so he sells his apartment and moves into a modest hotel... [More...]
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
Philippe Claudel
For 15 years, Juliette has had nothing to do with her family and has lived apart, a solitary and tortured existence. On impulse, she finally decides to renew her acquaintance with her sister, Léa, who has made a successful career for herself and has started a family... [More...]
Philippe Claudel
For 15 years, Juliette has had nothing to do with her family and has lived apart, a solitary and tortured existence. On impulse, she finally decides to renew her acquaintance with her sister, Léa, who has made a successful career for herself and has started a family... [More...]
Inju, la bête dans l'ombre (2008)
Barbet Schroeder
Alex Fayard, a successful writer of crime fiction, arrives in Japan to promote his latest book. He takes advantage of this visit to look up Shundei Oe, the celebrated Japanese writer who inspired him in his career... [More...]
Barbet Schroeder
Alex Fayard, a successful writer of crime fiction, arrives in Japan to promote his latest book. He takes advantage of this visit to look up Shundei Oe, the celebrated Japanese writer who inspired him in his career... [More...]
Je veux voir (2008)
Joana Hadjithomas
The world famous actress Catherine Deneuve is in Beirut to attend a charity gala. Before the gala, she insists on making a tour of Lebanon, so that she can see something of the people and the land that have been ravaged by years of bloody conflict... [More...]
Joana Hadjithomas
The world famous actress Catherine Deneuve is in Beirut to attend a charity gala. Before the gala, she insists on making a tour of Lebanon, so that she can see something of the people and the land that have been ravaged by years of bloody conflict... [More...]
La Jeune fille et les loups (2008)
Gilles Legrand
Since childhood, Angèle has had an affinity with the animal kingdom. In 1918, aged twenty, she makes the decision to become a vet, even though the profession has so far excluded women practitioners... [More...]
Gilles Legrand
Since childhood, Angèle has had an affinity with the animal kingdom. In 1918, aged twenty, she makes the decision to become a vet, even though the profession has so far excluded women practitioners... [More...]
Khamsa (2008)
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Lady Jane (2008)
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Leur morale... et la nôtre (2008)
Florence Quentin
André and Muriel are a happily married French couple who make a comfortable living by claiming refunds on products they buy from their supermarket and later selling the same products in their shop at a discount... [More...]
Florence Quentin
André and Muriel are a happily married French couple who make a comfortable living by claiming refunds on products they buy from their supermarket and later selling the same products in their shop at a discount... [More...]
Les Liens du sang (2008)
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Louise-Michel (2008)
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
Modern Love (2008)
Stéphane Kazandjian
Eric, the writer of a musical comedy, is in love with Anne, but he finds his loyalties are divided when he meets an old flame, Marie... [More...]
Stéphane Kazandjian
Eric, the writer of a musical comedy, is in love with Anne, but he finds his loyalties are divided when he meets an old flame, Marie... [More...]
Musée haut, musée bas (2008)
Jean-Michel Ribes
Just what exactly is a museum? Tourists hasten from one exhibition to another, devouring assorted fragments of culture like pigs gorging on scraps... [More...]
Jean-Michel Ribes
Just what exactly is a museum? Tourists hasten from one exhibition to another, devouring assorted fragments of culture like pigs gorging on scraps... [More...]
Nés en 68 (2008)
Olivier Ducastel
In 1968, Catherine, Yves and Hervé are students at the Sorbonne. Twenty years old, they share the same ideals and are willing participants in the riots that erupt across the capital in that turbulent month of May... [More...]
Olivier Ducastel
In 1968, Catherine, Yves and Hervé are students at the Sorbonne. Twenty years old, they share the same ideals and are willing participants in the riots that erupt across the capital in that turbulent month of May... [More...]
Nos 18 ans (2008)
Frédéric Berthe
In 1990, 18-year-old Lucas has reached the first important milestone in his life: he has finally come to the end of his last year at school... [More...]
Frédéric Berthe
In 1990, 18-year-old Lucas has reached the first important milestone in his life: he has finally come to the end of his last year at school... [More...]
Notre univers impitoyable (2008)
Léa Fazer
Margot and Victor would appear to be the perfect couple. They share not only their private life but also work together in the same prestigious law firm... [More...]
Léa Fazer
Margot and Victor would appear to be the perfect couple. They share not only their private life but also work together in the same prestigious law firm... [More...]
Le Nouveau protocole (2008)
Thomas Vincent
Raoul Kraft is leading a tranquil life as a forester in the Vosges Mountains when he learns that his 18-year-old son has been killed in a road accident... [More...]
Thomas Vincent
Raoul Kraft is leading a tranquil life as a forester in the Vosges Mountains when he learns that his 18-year-old son has been killed in a road accident... [More...]
L'Occitanienne (2008)
Jean Périssé
Who was L'Occitanienne, the mysterious woman that preoccupied the celebrated French writer René de Chateaubriand in his later years... [More...]
Jean Périssé
Who was L'Occitanienne, the mysterious woman that preoccupied the celebrated French writer René de Chateaubriand in his later years... [More...]
Par suite d'un arrêt de travail... (2008)
Frédéric Andréi
Not for the first time, the workers of France are in revolt. Strikes, demonstrations and a general mood of rampant bolshiness bring the entire country to a standstill... [More...]
Frédéric Andréi
Not for the first time, the workers of France are in revolt. Strikes, demonstrations and a general mood of rampant bolshiness bring the entire country to a standstill... [More...]
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... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Pierre, a man in his early thirties, begins to lose hope when he is diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]