French cinema: 2016
À fond (2016)
Nicolas Benamou
The departure for the summer holidays is always a miserable experience in France, but for one French family who set out on their annual excursion to sunnier climes a nightmare of unimaginable proportion looms as they hit the highway in their brand-new people carrier...
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Nicolas Benamou
À jamais (2016)
Benoît Jacquot
Jacques Rey is a middle-aged filmmaker who falls madly in love with Laura, a performance artist who is half his age. Rey's entourage is taken by surprise when he suddenly announces he intends marrying his new lover...
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Benoît Jacquot
L'Ami: François d'Assise et ses frères (2016)
Renaud Fely
In Italy at the start of the 13th century, the son of a wealthy merchant has turned his back on riches and now leads a simple life in the service of the poor and infirm...
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Renaud Fely
Arès (2016)
Jean-Patrick Benes
By 2035, France has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A fifth of the population - over ten million people - are without work, and poverty and homelessness are endemic...
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Jean-Patrick Benes
L'Avenir (2016)
Mia Hansen-Løve
Nathalie appears comfortable in her settled life as a mother of two and a teacher of philosophy at a Parisian high school...
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Mia Hansen-Løve
C'est quoi cette famille?! (2016)
Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
Bastien is a 13-year-old boy who, thanks to his mother's inability to settle down with one man, finds himself with eight parents and six siblings... [More...]
Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
Bastien is a 13-year-old boy who, thanks to his mother's inability to settle down with one man, finds himself with eight parents and six siblings... [More...]
Le Cancre (2016)
Paul Vecchiali
Rodolphe is a man in his eighties who stubbornly insists on continuing to live on his own at his house in the south of France... [More...]
Paul Vecchiali
Rodolphe is a man in his eighties who stubbornly insists on continuing to live on his own at his house in the south of France... [More...]
Cézanne et moi (2016)
Danièle Thompson
In 1886, Émile Zola's novel L'Oeuvre is ill-received by his old friend Paul Cézanne, who is unimpressed by what he sees as an unflattering portrait of himself as a failed artist... [More...]
Danièle Thompson
In 1886, Émile Zola's novel L'Oeuvre is ill-received by his old friend Paul Cézanne, who is unimpressed by what he sees as an unflattering portrait of himself as a failed artist... [More...]
La Chute des hommes (2016)
Cheyenne Carron
The daughter of a French atheist and orthodox Russian Christian, Lucie is a young woman with a passion for perfumery. This leads her to undertake a study trip in the Middle East, where she is looking forward to making contact with an unfamiliar civilisation... [More...]
Cheyenne Carron
The daughter of a French atheist and orthodox Russian Christian, Lucie is a young woman with a passion for perfumery. This leads her to undertake a study trip in the Middle East, where she is looking forward to making contact with an unfamiliar civilisation... [More...]
Le Ciel attendra (2016)
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Sonia is an ordinary 17-year-old girl who is easily led into becoming a Jihadist. Fortunately, her involvement in a planned terrorist attack is thwarted by the authorities just in time... [More...]
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Sonia is an ordinary 17-year-old girl who is easily led into becoming a Jihadist. Fortunately, her involvement in a planned terrorist attack is thwarted by the authorities just in time... [More...]
Cigarettes et chocolat chaud (2016)
Sophie Reine
After his wife's death, Denis Patar has had a constant struggle to bring up his two daughters, Janis and Mercredi, by himself... [More...]
Sophie Reine
After his wife's death, Denis Patar has had a constant struggle to bring up his two daughters, Janis and Mercredi, by himself... [More...]
Le Coeur en braille (2016)
Michel Boujenah
Marie is a teenager with a passion for playing the cello. As the end of the school year approaches she is looking forward to entering the Conservatoire so that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a world-class musician... [More...]
Michel Boujenah
Marie is a teenager with a passion for playing the cello. As the end of the school year approaches she is looking forward to entering the Conservatoire so that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a world-class musician... [More...]
Demain tout commence (2016)
Hugo Gélin
Samuel is happy with his life as a carefree bachelor on the French Riviera. With no family commitments to tie him down he is as free as the wind, and has no intention of changing the way he lives... [More...]
Hugo Gélin
Samuel is happy with his life as a carefree bachelor on the French Riviera. With no family commitments to tie him down he is as free as the wind, and has no intention of changing the way he lives... [More...]
Des nouvelles de la planète Mars (2016)
Dominik Moll
Since his divorce, Philippe Mars, a mild-mannered computer programmer, has found it ever more difficult to keep his grip on reality... [More...]
Dominik Moll
Since his divorce, Philippe Mars, a mild-mannered computer programmer, has found it ever more difficult to keep his grip on reality... [More...]
Divines (2016)
Houda Benyamina
Dounia lives with her alcoholic mother in an urban ghetto on the outskirts of Paris, a place where drugs and religion are the only means of escape from a life of unremitting boredom and misery... [More...]
Houda Benyamina
Dounia lives with her alcoholic mother in an urban ghetto on the outskirts of Paris, a place where drugs and religion are the only means of escape from a life of unremitting boredom and misery... [More...]
La Dream Team (2016)
Thomas Sorriaux
Maxime Belloch's success as a footballer has gone to his head somewhat. The best striker Paris-Saint-Germain ever had, his ego has become so inflated that it's incredible he can walk upright... [More...]
Thomas Sorriaux
Maxime Belloch's success as a footballer has gone to his head somewhat. The best striker Paris-Saint-Germain ever had, his ego has become so inflated that it's incredible he can walk upright... [More...]
L'Économie du couple (2016)
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds... [More...]
L'Effet aquatique (2016)
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
L'Élan (2016)
Etienne Labroue
When a strange creature suddenly appears in a small town in the west of France it immediately attracts the attention of the town's residents... [More...]
Etienne Labroue
When a strange creature suddenly appears in a small town in the west of France it immediately attracts the attention of the town's residents... [More...]
Elle (2016)
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Les Enfants de la chance (2016)
Malik Chibane
In July 1942, France is under Nazi occupation. Maurice Gutman, a 12-year-old Jewish boy, finds himself in hospital after accidentally fracturing his leg... [More...]
Malik Chibane
In July 1942, France is under Nazi occupation. Maurice Gutman, a 12-year-old Jewish boy, finds himself in hospital after accidentally fracturing his leg... [More...]
Éternité (2016)
Tran Anh Hung
In France towards the end of the 1800s, Valentine is barely twenty old when she gets married to her beloved Jules. Widowed all too soon, her life is marred by many other tragedies, but her son Henri survives to adulthood and he himself gets married, to Mathilde, and they soon start a family... [More...]
Tran Anh Hung
In France towards the end of the 1800s, Valentine is barely twenty old when she gets married to her beloved Jules. Widowed all too soon, her life is marred by many other tragedies, but her son Henri survives to adulthood and he himself gets married, to Mathilde, and they soon start a family... [More...]
Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
La Fille de Brest (2016)
Emmanuelle Bercot
Dr Irène Frachon is a pulmonary specialist who works at a hospital in Brest in northern France. In the course of her work she becomes concerned that the weight-loss drug Mediator, which has been on the market for thirty years, may be causing heart deficiencies in those who take it... [More...]
Emmanuelle Bercot
Dr Irène Frachon is a pulmonary specialist who works at a hospital in Brest in northern France. In the course of her work she becomes concerned that the weight-loss drug Mediator, which has been on the market for thirty years, may be causing heart deficiencies in those who take it... [More...]
La Fille inconnue (2016)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Le Fils de Jean (2016)
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
La Folle histoire de Max et Léon (2016)
Jonathan Barré
Max and Léon are two inseparable friends whose sole aim is to get as much fun out of life as they can. Unfortunately, it is September 1939 and the world seems to have given up on the idea of fun... [More...]
Jonathan Barré
Max and Léon are two inseparable friends whose sole aim is to get as much fun out of life as they can. Unfortunately, it is September 1939 and the world seems to have given up on the idea of fun... [More...]
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
Le Gang des Antillais (2016)
Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny
In the 1970s, the French government created a new agency known as BUMIDOM to help people from the country's overseas territories settle in mainland France... [More...]
Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny
In the 1970s, the French government created a new agency known as BUMIDOM to help people from the country's overseas territories settle in mainland France... [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...]