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Class Reunion (2025)

Feeling nostalgic about their high school days, Hervé, Maxime, and Jordy decide to host a grand reunion party to reconnect and celebrate their 30-year graduation anniversary. However, their idealised memories clash with reality: no one wants to come, espe ...

An Ideal Father (2024)

Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down when his teenage daughter is murdered. The community has his back but soon rumor spreads and Michel is singled out. From the ideal father, he becomes the ...

Amélie: The Real Story (2023)

The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed. ...

Family (2022)

Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children communication, miscarriage or divorce. ...

Shoot to Live (2022)

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years. ...

Folon (2021)

One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet the artist himself, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005), whose work became controversial because deemed insipid, with its mannerisms, pastel tones and colors, re ...

Mine de rien (2020)

In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come up with the idea of building an "artisanal" amusement park on the site of a disused coal mine. By saving the mine and its memory, they will regain their streng ...

In the Name of the Land (2019)

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and Pierre is exhausted at wo ...

Dance of Chance (2019)

That day, there's tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. Noémie can no longer stand her husband Aldo's infidelities. ...

Noir Enigma (2017)

In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It's an inexplicable murder. ...

Knock (2017)

Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus th ...

Go, Toto! (2017)

A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. ...

Two Snails Set Off (2017)

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "C ...

Brothers (2017)

When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he's been trailing his charismatic brother for his entire life. But during this journey he discovers that he finally has to go his own way, not knowing this decision woul ...

Vive la crise ! (2017)

In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless. ...

Everyone's Life (2017)

Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovel ...

The African Doctor (2016)

1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers ...

Stornoway (2015)

Winter Song (2015)

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat. ...

Soleils (2014)

An old man is entrusted in curing a young girl struck by amnesia. He takes her on a healing trip, eccentric and joyous, to Ouagadougou by way of the Cape, Berlin, Mali, Belgium… In their travels full of surprises, they meet characters both remarkable and ...

We Love You, You Bastard (2014)

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him wi ...

La Déesse aux cent bras (2014)

Vanina leads a very ordered life and and desperately wants to appear perfect to everyone, whatever the situation. Unfortunately for her, everything falls apart when her daughter gets stricken with teen angst, her son goes into a mystical phase and her husb ...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction. ...

The Marchers (2013)

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resis ...

Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité (2013)

Marius (2013)

"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood pedd ...

Not Very Normal Activities (2013)

An isolated house, a young couple, a perverted videographer, a mute. All of which leads to normal activities... but not quite! A parody of Paranormal Activity. ...

10 jours en or (2012)

When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives. ...

My Name Is Bernadette (2011)

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universa ...

La part des anges (2011)

Les Insomniaques (2011)

Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes and more precisely vindicators serving causes they are interested in. But relations between the various me ...

Crédit pour tous (2011)

While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French ...

Colère (2010)

The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal. ...

Colombe (2010)

Freedom (2009)

A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few months and work in vi ...

So Woman! (2009)

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love. ...

King Guillaume (2009)

Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estran ...

My Stars (2008)

Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for them without being recognized. But those star actresses find him a simple stalker fan and make fun of him, b ...

It Had to be You (2007)

In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. He runs into Florence, an old school friend, who invites him to dinner with her husband and two children. ...

His Majesty Minor (2007)

In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans. ...

La Volière aux enfants (2006)

In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while their impoverished mothers had to go to work in factories, refuge rooms were put in place in some towns. ...

Rascals (2006)

The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal 'colony'. It's run by a former prison warden, based on 'rehabilitattion' trough manual labor and strict discipline. Young Reynard, a novice to crime and juvenile detent ...

If You Love Me, Follow Me (2006)

Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn't exactly as he'd planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at ...

Les Irréductibles (2006)

On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job i ...

Red Needles (2006)

September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so majestic mountain which draws up face them very quickly reveals dangerous. All the techniques of orientation ...

One Fine Day (2006)

François Berthier's life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck. ...

Iznogoud (2005)

In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place—melting Djinn, invisibility spell, c ...

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for ...

The Great Role (2004)

When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role afte ...

Madame Edouard (2004)

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, w ...

Bonhomme de chemin (2004)

11-year-old Valentin and his father live alone on their farm. with the boy spending time with Oscar, who meets this lady on the internet, but Valentin is shocked to find her with his father. Now Valentin is at a loss on what to do next. ...

Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)

This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become ...

Tales of the Magic Clock (2003)

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester, driven by clever mechanisms. Nina, the clockmaker's little girl, begins to dream. She is a little street singer ...

Comme si de rien n'était (2003)

Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's total, absolute. But Alix's life catches up with them. During the course of the performance of the play, they'll pretend that nothing has happened. ...

Entrusted (2003)

Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is res ...

That Day (2003)

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other. ...

Hôtel des deux mondes (2002)

Amélie (2001)

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will ...

My Father Saved My Life (2001)

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a cha ...

Train of Life (1998)

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine. ...

Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs R ...

Let There Be Light! (1998)

God comes to Earth in order to make a film. ...

Metroland (1997)

In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni, a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 196 ...

Love, Math and Sex (1997)

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man. ...

Crime à l'altimètre (1996)

A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love. ...

Tendre piège (1996)

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives. ...

The City of Lost Children (1995)

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. ...

Les Miserables (1995)

In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life. ...

Le Mangeur de lune (1994)

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train. ...

L'amour est un jeu d'enfant (1994)

Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neith ...

Poorly Extinguished Fires (1994)

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and qu ...

Delicatessen (1991)

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her fami ...

The Elegant Criminal (1990)

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more ...

Promotion canapé (1990)

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss. ...

The Austrian (1990)

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days. ...

La Goutte d'or (1990)

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father a ...

En attendant Godot (1989)

Two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, meet on stage in a non-place ("Country road with tree") at dusk to wait for "Godot". This man - who will never come - has promised them that he will come to the rendezvous; although it is not clear what he is supposed ...

Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of ...

Ubac (1987)

In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest. ...

Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)

In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnat ...

Side Roads (1983)

The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-b ...

La Chanson du mal-aimé (1982)

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire. ...

The Police War (1979)

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld. ...

Zoo zéro (1979)

Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart. ...

Surprise Sock (1978)

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom. ...

Fire's Share (1978)

Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both. ...

The Goodbye Singing (1977)

In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier an ...

March or Die (1977)

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who i ...

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts ...

The Tenant (1976)

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ...

Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre (1976)

The dream of a man from the East confronted with the realities of the West. ...

La adúltera (1975)

With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in t ...

Trop c'est trop (1975)

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the p ...

Lily, aime-moi (1975)

Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him. ...

Au long de rivière Fango (1975)

Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or ...

Marriage (1974)

Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage. ...

Ce que savait Morgan (1974)

The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the social non-conformity of his employers condemns him to the impossibility of being paid. Yet an emotional relationship develops between master and pupil. Lit ...

A Cloud in the Teeth (1974)

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris. ...

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)

Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her. ...

L'école sauvage (1973)

In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herself. In the smaller classes, group activities were dispensed with: each child did what interested him or her, according to temperament and desire. In other c ...

Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1973)

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From ...

La vie facile (1973)

In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case with a big haul of money they fo ...

The French Calvinists (1972)

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons. ...

As Far as Love Can Go (1971)

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach... ...

Where Did Tom Go? (1971)

Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he man ...

One Way Ticket (1971)

After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer. ...

Troubleshooters (1971)

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him ...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971)

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding f ...

Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)

Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper and her gangster boyfriend come to disturb their peace. ...

The Wedding Ring (1971)

A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden ...

Promise at Dawn (1970)

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in. ...

The Cop (1970)

A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A vio ...

Safety Catch (1970)

A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's ...

Potatoes (1969)

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis r ...

The American (1969)

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends. ...

Erotissimo (1969)

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and ...

Miss Paris et le Majordome (1969)

Mr. Freedom (1969)

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty ...

The Surrounded (1968)

Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These young people belong to this upper-class, snobbish bourgeoisie. ...

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail. ...

Le Point Mort (1967)

Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969. ...