French cinema: 2010s
La Guerre des boutons (2011)
Yann Samuell
In 1960, two small villages in the south of France are at war. The hostilities have been going on for generations, although it is a very peculiar kind of war, fought by the young boys of the two opposing villages...
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Yann Samuell
La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another...
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Valérie Donzelli
Le Guetteur (2012)
Michele Placido
Parisian police chief Mattei has set up an ambush to capture a notorious gang of bank robbers. Just as the operation looks as if it might succeed, a lone sniper appears from nowhere and systematically slaughters most of Mattei's team...
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Michele Placido
Happy End (2017)
Michael Haneke
The comfortably off Laurent family lead a privileged life in Calais, if they did but know it. Unaware of, or totally unconcerned by, the plight of the refugees living in abject squalor at the makeshift camps just a few miles from their home, the Laurents are wrapped up in their own petty concerns, which, typically, revolve around inter-generational conflict, marital infidelity and the right to die...
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Michael Haneke
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living...
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Aki Kaurismäki
Henri (2013)
Yolande Moreau
Henri, a fifty-something of Italian origin, runs a small restaurant near to Charleroi with his wife Rita. When Rita dies suddenly, Henri is devastated... [More...]
Yolande Moreau
Henri, a fifty-something of Italian origin, runs a small restaurant near to Charleroi with his wife Rita. When Rita dies suddenly, Henri is devastated... [More...]
Henri 4 (2010)
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Hippocrate (2014)
Thomas Lilti
Benjamin Barois is 23 and as he embarks on his internship as a trainee doctor in his father's practice he is confident that he has a great career ahead of him... [More...]
Thomas Lilti
Benjamin Barois is 23 and as he embarks on his internship as a trainee doctor in his father's practice he is confident that he has a great career ahead of him... [More...]
L'Hiver dernier (2012)
John Shank
On a remote plateau, Johann struggles to keep going the farm that he has inherited from his father. As winter beckons, his business looks increasingly threatened... [More...]
John Shank
On a remote plateau, Johann struggles to keep going the farm that he has inherited from his father. As winter beckons, his business looks increasingly threatened... [More...]
Hollywoo (2011)
Frédéric Berthe
Jeanne's livelihood as a voiceover artist is put in jeopardy when Jennifer Marshall, the American actress she dubs for a popular television series, decides to give up acting altogether... [More...]
Frédéric Berthe
Jeanne's livelihood as a voiceover artist is put in jeopardy when Jennifer Marshall, the American actress she dubs for a popular television series, decides to give up acting altogether... [More...]
Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
L'Homme fidèle (2018)
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (2010)
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children... [More...]
Les Hommes libres (2011)
Ismaël Ferroukhi
1942, Paris under Nazi occupation. Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market. Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque... [More...]
Ismaël Ferroukhi
1942, Paris under Nazi occupation. Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market. Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque... [More...]
Hors Satan (2011)
Bruno Dumont
On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century... [More...]
Hors-la-loi (2010)
Rachid Bouchareb
Driven from their plot of land in Algeria to make way for French settlers, three brothers and their parents are forced to separate... [More...]
Rachid Bouchareb
Driven from their plot of land in Algeria to make way for French settlers, three brothers and their parents are forced to separate... [More...]
Huit fois debout (2010)
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Ici-bas (2012)
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
L'Illusionniste (2010)
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
Sylvain Chomet
By the end of the 1950s, the music hall is all but dead. Once the most popular of public entertainments, it has now been overtaken by modern distractions - cinema, rock music and that new phenomenon: television... [More...]
Imogène McCarthery (2010)
Alexandre Charlot
Imogène McCarthery is proud of her Scottish ancestry, almost fanatically so. Rugby, bagpipes and malt whisky are her three main passions, along with cultivating an undying hatred for the English... [More...]
Alexandre Charlot
Imogène McCarthery is proud of her Scottish ancestry, almost fanatically so. Rugby, bagpipes and malt whisky are her three main passions, along with cultivating an undying hatred for the English... [More...]
Impardonnables (2011)
André Téchiné
Francis, a French author, arrives in Venice to write his next novel. His first task is to find a place to rent where he can work in peace... [More...]
André Téchiné
Francis, a French author, arrives in Venice to write his next novel. His first task is to find a place to rent where he can work in peace... [More...]
L'Inconnu du lac (2013)
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Les Infidèles (2012)
Emmanuelle Bercot
What makes a man become unfaithful to his wife? This is a question that has vexed philosophers and talk show hosts for centuries, and it is one that two macho 30-something Frenchmen, Fred and Greg, really would like to have an answer to, because infidelity is something they are both desperately addicted to... [More...]
Emmanuelle Bercot
What makes a man become unfaithful to his wife? This is a question that has vexed philosophers and talk show hosts for centuries, and it is one that two macho 30-something Frenchmen, Fred and Greg, really would like to have an answer to, because infidelity is something they are both desperately addicted to... [More...]
Les Innocentes (2016)
Anne Fontaine
In December 1945, Mathilde Beaulieu is a young nurse at a makeshift hospital of the French Red Cross in Poland. The hospital's purpose is to treat fugitives from France before they can be returned to their home country... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
In December 1945, Mathilde Beaulieu is a young nurse at a makeshift hospital of the French Red Cross in Poland. The hospital's purpose is to treat fugitives from France before they can be returned to their home country... [More...]
Intouchables (2011)
Olivier Nakache
Crippled by a paragliding accident, wealthy aristocrat Philippe hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs, as his domestic help... [More...]
Olivier Nakache
Crippled by a paragliding accident, wealthy aristocrat Philippe hires Driss, a young man from the suburbs, as his domestic help... [More...]
Les Invisibles (2012)
Sébastien Lifshitz
They are men and women born between the two wars. The only thing they have in common is that they are homosexuals who chose to live their lives as they wished, at a time when they were censured and rejected by society... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
They are men and women born between the two wars. The only thing they have in common is that they are homosexuals who chose to live their lives as they wished, at a time when they were censured and rejected by society... [More...]
Les Invisibles (2019)
Louis-Julien Petit
Audrey, Manu, Hélène and Angélique are committed employees at a drop-in centre for homeless women in a town in Northern France... [More...]
Louis-Julien Petit
Audrey, Manu, Hélène and Angélique are committed employees at a drop-in centre for homeless women in a town in Northern France... [More...]
L'Invitation (2016)
Michaël Cohen
Raphaël is woken up in the middle of the night by his best friend, Léo. The latter's car has apparently just broken down outside Paris and Léo is phoning to ask if his buddy would help him out in his hour of need... [More...]
Michaël Cohen
Raphaël is woken up in the middle of the night by his best friend, Léo. The latter's car has apparently just broken down outside Paris and Léo is phoning to ask if his buddy would help him out in his hour of need... [More...]
Les Invités de mon père (2010)
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Iris (2016)
Jalil Lespert
One day, Antoine Doriot, a wealthy banker, takes his wife Iris out for a meal at a restaurant in the heart of Paris. As he settles his bill, Iris steps outside to wait for him... [More...]
Jalil Lespert
One day, Antoine Doriot, a wealthy banker, takes his wife Iris out for a meal at a restaurant in the heart of Paris. As he settles his bill, Iris steps outside to wait for him... [More...]