Released Date:
2002-12-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (256 Reviews)
Director:
Julie Lopes-CurvalGenres:
DramaFranèois Favrat
Julie Lopes-Curval
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
Released Date:
2004-10-27
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (2213 Reviews)
Director:
Robin CampilloRobin Campillo
Brigitte Tijou
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Released Date:
2005-03-16
Languages:
French, English, Russian, Vietnamese, Mandarin
Countries:
France
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (14437 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques AudiardJacques Audiard (scenario)
Tonino Benacquista (scenario)
James Toback (earlier screenplay: d'après le film "Fingers" ècrit et rèalisè par)
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques' bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend's wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light...
Released Date:
2005-09-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (779 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineGenres:
DramaDominique Barbèris (novel)
Julien Boivent
Anne Fontaine
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
Released Date:
2007-11-14
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1323 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred LotAlfred Lot
Franck Thilliez (novel)
Mèf¨lanie Laurent , guns and other cool stuff .
Released Date:
2009-01-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (662 Reviews)
Director:
Joachim LafosseGenres:
DramaJoachim Lafosse (screenplay)
Franèois Pirot (screenplay)
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Released Date:
2010-05-20
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
(996 Reviews)
Director:
Sam GarbarskiJirè Taniguchi (manga "Harukanaru machi e")
Philippe Blasband (screenplay)
Sam Garbarski (screenplay)
Jèrème Tonnerre (screenplay)
The film, adapted from the Eisner award nominated manga by Jiro Taniguchi, follows Thomas, a cynical and tired French comic artist who, while visiting his old family home, loses consciousness - only to awaken 40 years in the past in the body of his younger self. While here he faces the choice of changing events at the cost of his own future - and to unravel a lifelong mystery, the reason for his fathers mysterious disappearance that he knows will happen a few months after Thomas's arrival.
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