Cécile de France

Women on Trial (2026)

1972. A landmark trial shakes France as young Marie-Claire is prosecuted for having an illegal abortion with the help of her mother and two other defendants. In a courtroom governed by men, the verdict seems inevitable: prison for the women, while the rapi ...

The Doll (2026)

Eastern France, nowadays. Rémi, who has never recovered from a heartbreak, shares his life with a doll called Audrey. But the day his new coworker, Patricia, arrives at his company, Audrey comes to life. The two women will turn Rémi's life upside down. ...

Louise (2025)

Follows the struggles of Marion in her attempt to reconnect with her family and piece together her fragmented identity after fleeing a troubled childhood. ...

The Residence (2025)

In the near future, during a health crisis, novelist Clarissa Katsef visits the Ludovico Foundation housing complex in search of inspiration. With the help of her AI assistant Dalloway, she finds fresh inspiration as she immerses herself in her writing. ...

Colours of Time (2025)

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by retracing their ancestor's steps. ...

Call of Water (2024)

Sarah, in her forties, is on the verge of exhaustion. Her children, ages 9 and 5, take up all her time and her husband is constantly on business trips. After disappearing on the beach for a few minutes, Simon becomes strange. He spends hours in his bathroo ...

Des baleines, des tortues et des hommes (2024)

Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe (2024)

When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn't know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the "painter of happiness", appearing in mor ...

Second Tour (2023)

A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, who ...

Le Voyage délivré (2023)

From the front room of his apartment a young boy is taken on an extraordinary journey by a big-hearted bird. ...

Wild Seas (2022)

A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm. ...

Rewild, la nature reprend ses droits (2022)

The Young Lovers (2022)

Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre's fam ...

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef. ...

Lost Illusions (2021)

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams. ...

Peaceful (2021)

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while ...

Quand baleines et tortues nous montrent le chemin (2020)

Tu seras mère ma fille (2020)

A Bigger World (2019)

In an attempt to move on from the death of Paul, the love of her life, Korine leaves Paris to undertake a project in Mongolia. But after meeting the shaman, Oyun, her trip takes a different direction. Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. She ...

Rebels (2019)

Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. ...

Lady J (2018)

When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover's plans for revenge. ...

Just to Be Sure (2017)

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an ...

Django (2017)

The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943. ...

Wild Tales From The Village (2016)

A year in the life of an extraordinary village hidden away in the French countryside. ...

Fanny's Journey (2016)

Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains. ...

Summertime (2015)

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader. ...

In Harmony (2015)

After a serious accident on a film shoot, Marc, an equestrian, loses all hope to mount back on. His insurance company instructs Florence to handle his case. This film is the story of their meeting. ...

Le peuple miniature (2014)

Chinese Puzzle (2013)

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well. ...

Möbius (2013)

An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank. ...

Superstar (2012)

An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous. ...

A Butterfly Kiss (2011)

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redo ...

The Kid with a Bike (2011)

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider. ...

Hereafter (2010)

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways. ...

Off Limits (2010)

During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality by the ...

Sister Smile (2009)

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self. ...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his bac ...

Le Temps des cerises (2008)

Le Temps des cerises is a sentimental comedy, full of charm, on the life of two beings whom everything opposes, but which chance brings together. He is a painter and out of inspiration. She is young, pretty, full of life, not very sure of herself. They ha ...

Animals in Love (2007)

Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs. ...

Hand of the Headless Man (2007)

Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platform. She leaps off when suddenly she sees a shadow in the pool. Terrified by this vision, Eva suddenly lose ...

A Secret (2007)

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "A ...

Gone for a Dance (2007)

After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursue his new dream of tap dancing. ...

The Necklace (2007)

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and sh ...

Snow White: The Sequel (2007)

Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that she and the prince were meant to be, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale c ...

Bad Faith (2006)

In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because C ...

The Colonel (2006)

'Reformed Colonel' Raoul Duplan is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Assigned to investigate, Lieutenant Galois receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi, who served under Duplan in Alg ...

The Singer (2006)

Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely ...

Avenue Montaigne (2006)

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and bec ...

Russian Dolls (2005)

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite. ...

Making of 'La confiance règne' (2005)

Confidence Reigns (2004)

Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bou ...

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days. ...

Regarde-moi (en face) (2003)

Antoine lives with his father Gaston. The latter is a voyeur and keeps his son at home through emotional blackmail. Gaston is forced to make a financial agreement with the neighbor across the street, Goran, in order to be able to continue watching Dune, hi ...

High Tension (2003)

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. ...

Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds. ...

I, Cesar (2003)

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and hi ...

A+ Pollux (2002)

Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It's written in the tables of how the world works, right next to the law of series and the constant speed of light. Halvard therefore believes tha ...

Irène (2002)

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter. ...

The Spanish Apartment (2002)

A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship. ...

Every Night (2001)

La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation ...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001)

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his ...

Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana (2001)

Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zo ...