French cinema: 2010s
J'enrage de son absence (2012)
Sandrine Bonnaire
Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado's life...
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Sandrine Bonnaire
Jamais contente (2017)
Emilie Deleuze
Aurore is a typically moody 13 year old girl who has good reason to be cheerless when she is held back a year at school. Everything revolts her and so, not surprisingly, she is in a state of constant revolt - against her teachers, her parents, even her classmates...
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Emilie Deleuze
Jamais de la vie (2015)
Pierre Jolivet
Franck, 52, works as a night watchman at a shopping mall in the suburbs. Only ten years ago he was a specialised labourer and union representative, always ready for a fight...
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Pierre Jolivet
Jappeloup (2013)
Christian Duguay
Pierre Durand has high hopes of winning himself a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, such is the confidence he has in his horse Jappeloup...
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Christian Duguay
JC comme Jésus-Christ (2012)
Jonathan Zaccaï
Jean-Christophe Kern, a.k.a. JC, is a filmmaking phenomenon. Aged 15, he was the youngest person ever to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, for his first film, which also took a César...
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Jonathan Zaccaï
Je me suis fait tout petit (2012)
Cécilia Rouaud
There is nothing to keep Yvan in Paris. A 30-something schoolteacher, he is ready to pack up and start a new life somewhere else... [More...]
Cécilia Rouaud
There is nothing to keep Yvan in Paris. A 30-something schoolteacher, he is ready to pack up and start a new life somewhere else... [More...]
Je n'ai rien oublié (2011)
Bruno Chiche
For many years, Conrad Lang has been living off the wealthy Senn family, first through his childhood friendship with Thomas and then as caretaker of their holiday home in Biarritz... [More...]
Bruno Chiche
For many years, Conrad Lang has been living off the wealthy Senn family, first through his childhood friendship with Thomas and then as caretaker of their holiday home in Biarritz... [More...]
Je suis à toi (2015)
David Lambert
Lucas is at the end of his tether. He has no family, no friends, no job, and he barely survives on what he can earn as a male prostitute... [More...]
David Lambert
Lucas is at the end of his tether. He has no family, no friends, no job, and he barely survives on what he can earn as a male prostitute... [More...]
Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (2015)
Guillaume Malandrin
A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage... [More...]
Guillaume Malandrin
A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage... [More...]
Le Jeune Ahmed (2019)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Ahmed is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his mother and sister in a Belgian town. Recently, his mother has noticed a dramatic change in his behaviour... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Ahmed is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his mother and sister in a Belgian town. Recently, his mother has noticed a dramatic change in his behaviour... [More...]
Jeune & jolie (2013)
François Ozon
One summer, Isabelle, 16, is on holiday with her family on the French Riviera. Encouraged by her hedonistic parents, she allows an attractive young man to rob her of her virginity, but she takes no pleasure in the experience and sees no real significance in it... [More...]
François Ozon
One summer, Isabelle, 16, is on holiday with her family on the French Riviera. Encouraged by her hedonistic parents, she allows an attractive young man to rob her of her virginity, but she takes no pleasure in the experience and sees no real significance in it... [More...]
Jimmy Rivière (2011)
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Jimmy Rivière is a young traveller who is perhaps a little too timid and willing to please those around him. Pressurised by his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai boxing and his girlfriend Sonia... [More...]
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Jimmy Rivière is a young traveller who is perhaps a little too timid and willing to please those around him. Pressurised by his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai boxing and his girlfriend Sonia... [More...]
Joséphine (2013)
Agnès Obadia
Joséphine has become fed up with being single. She is nearly thirty and see still hasn't found the man of her dreams... [More...]
Agnès Obadia
Joséphine has become fed up with being single. She is nearly thirty and see still hasn't found the man of her dreams... [More...]
Journal d'une femme de chambre (2015)
Benoît Jacquot
Towards the end of the 19th century, a headstrong young woman named Célestine arrives in a small Normandy town to take up the post of a maid to the wealthy Lanlaire family... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
Towards the end of the 19th century, a headstrong young woman named Célestine arrives in a small Normandy town to take up the post of a maid to the wealthy Lanlaire family... [More...]
Les Jours venus (2015)
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Juillet août (2016)
Diastème
Laura and Joséphine are two teenage sisters who could hardly be more different. With Laura, 14, happy to play the perpetual grouch, Joséphine, 18, has started taking an interest in the opposite sex... [More...]
Diastème
Laura and Joséphine are two teenage sisters who could hardly be more different. With Laura, 14, happy to play the perpetual grouch, Joséphine, 18, has started taking an interest in the opposite sex... [More...]
Jusqu'à la garde (2018)
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Jusqu'ici tout va bien (2019)
Mohamed Hamidi
In an upmarket area of central Paris, Fred Bartel runs a successful publicity agency, Happy Few. To save on his tax bill, this enterprising entrepreneur registers his company's offices in the city's deprived suburbs, but when the fraud is exposed he has no choice but to relocate his entire company to La Courneuve, a far from salubrious district on the outskirts of the capital... [More...]
Mohamed Hamidi
In an upmarket area of central Paris, Fred Bartel runs a successful publicity agency, Happy Few. To save on his tax bill, this enterprising entrepreneur registers his company's offices in the city's deprived suburbs, but when the fraud is exposed he has no choice but to relocate his entire company to La Courneuve, a far from salubrious district on the outskirts of the capital... [More...]
Juste la fin du monde (2016)
Xavier Dolan
Louis is a successful writer who hasn't seen his family for twelve years. Now in his mid-thirties, he finds he has contracted AIDS and has only a short time left to live... [More...]
Xavier Dolan
Louis is a successful writer who hasn't seen his family for twelve years. Now in his mid-thirties, he finds he has contracted AIDS and has only a short time left to live... [More...]
Landes (2013)
François-Xavier Vives
On her husband's death, Liéna Duprat, a woman in her mid-thirties, inherits a vast pine forest in the heart of the Landes department of southwest France... [More...]
François-Xavier Vives
On her husband's death, Liéna Duprat, a woman in her mid-thirties, inherits a vast pine forest in the heart of the Landes department of southwest France... [More...]
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Xavier Dolan
Laurence is a young teacher who is in a seemingly solid relationship with his partner Fred. Whilst Laurence is deeply in love with Fred, he is compelled to break some shocking news to her on his thirtieth birthday... [More...]
Xavier Dolan
Laurence is a young teacher who is in a seemingly solid relationship with his partner Fred. Whilst Laurence is deeply in love with Fred, he is compelled to break some shocking news to her on his thirtieth birthday... [More...]
Légitime défense (2011)
Pierre Lacan
Benoît is an unassuming thirty-something who leads a happy and trouble-free existence with his young family. All this is to change on the day that his father, a cop-turned-private detective, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind him a trashed office and a host of unanswered questions... [More...]
Pierre Lacan
Benoît is an unassuming thirty-something who leads a happy and trouble-free existence with his young family. All this is to change on the day that his father, a cop-turned-private detective, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind him a trashed office and a host of unanswered questions... [More...]
Let My People Go! (2011)
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
La Ligne droite (2011)
Régis Wargnier
Not long after she is released from prison after a five year stretch, Leïla meets Yannick, a young athlete who has recently lost his sight in a car accident... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Not long after she is released from prison after a five year stretch, Leïla meets Yannick, a young athlete who has recently lost his sight in a car accident... [More...]
Lignes de front (2010)
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
La Loi du marché (2015)
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
Lolo (2015)
Julie Delpy
Violette is a forty-something Parisian who leads a hectic but lonely life in the fashion business. She is taking a thalassotherapy course at Biarritz with a friend when she meets Jean-René, a modest computer programmer who is getting over a recent divorce... [More...]
Julie Delpy
Violette is a forty-something Parisian who leads a hectic but lonely life in the fashion business. She is taking a thalassotherapy course at Biarritz with a friend when she meets Jean-René, a modest computer programmer who is getting over a recent divorce... [More...]
Louise Wimmer (2012)
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Low Cost (2011)
Maurice Barthélémy
For the passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Paris Beauvais, their journey gets off to a bad start when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air conditioning... [More...]
Maurice Barthélémy
For the passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Paris Beauvais, their journey gets off to a bad start when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air conditioning... [More...]