Loves, obsessions, and tension that sweep you away without warning. In France, everything seems simple, until it pulls you in by the sleeve.

Normal

Claude Chabrol celebrates the fiftieth film of his rich filmography in the company of his beloved Isabelle Huppert and with a light and cosmopolitan mood of a Hitchcockian mystery.

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Con artists Victor and Betty are a perfect team when it comes to cheating gamblers out of their winnings. They plow Europe's luxury hotels in search of victims and get into a series of misadventures because of a suitcase full of "dirty" money.

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Best Film | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1997
Best Director | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1997

The Swindle

"The Intouchables," with its willingness to satirize anything and its almost brutal honesty, is a masterfully written film featuring a magical acting duo. One of the funniest, most sincere, and moving films you’ll ever see.

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After being confined to a wheelchair due to an accident with a parachute, a billionaire aristocrat chooses the most unexpected candidate as his assistant: a young, recent ex-convict from the poor neighborhoods of the Paris suburbs. Two different worlds collide and, despite their dissimilarities, a true friendship develops.

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globe | 2013
Audience Award | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2012

The Intouchables

The tragic portrait of a charismatic, complex and unconventional woman who lived during conservative times. Everything is contained: Dailida’s grandeur, her glittering talent and natural glamour, her capacity to love passionately and completely and her constant, devastating brushes with death.

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The film chronicles the turbulent life of Dalida, the talented diva of European music, whose star continues to shine despite her tragic death in 1987. She was born in '33 in Cairo and performed her first concert at the Olympia Theatre in Paris in '56, while in the 70s she became the reigning queen of the disco scene. She was married to Lucien Morisse, but like many men in her life, he committed suicide. Dalida took several trips to India looking for inner peace, but was never able to find it.

Dalida

Can a film about education move you to tears? Of course it can, as is evidenced in this award-winning documentary about a school year, that was beloved by audiences in France and is sure to speak to the hearts of all. The young students in the class steal the show.

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In rural France, schoolteacher Georges Lopez educates 12 children, whose ages range from 4 to 11 years old. Over the course of a year, the soon-to-retire Lopez instructs them all in one small classroom with the traditional tools of French teaching: rote repetition and the dictation of literary passages for copying. As the seasons pass, Lopez must keep his students disciplined while preparing the older children for the exams that will determine their educational future.

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Best Editing | César Awards | 2003
Nominated for Best Film not in the English Language | BAFTA Awards | 2004
Best Documentary Award | Valladolid International Film Festival | 2002

To Be and to Have

Leconte's assured, yet delicate, directorial touch creates a world of melancholy and mourning, employing intricate costumes, imposing spaces and moody music. He crafts a film that moves at its own unique pace, while Alan Rickman is brilliant in one of his last roles.

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Germany, 1912. A young man gets a job at a steel plant, and the owner, impressed by his work, makes him his secretary. When his employer’s health worsens forcing him to stay indoors, his secretary moves in with him and his younger wife. He falls in love with her and when his boss announces that he is sending him to Mexico for two years, she makes a promise: when he comes back, she will be his. Eight years later, after millions of deaths and Europe destroyed by war, he returns home.

A Promise

What did the porn industry look like in France in the 80s? An unholy comedy starring Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lelouche takes us deep into a world of pleasure and corruption, where nothing is what it seems.

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As the porn industry explodes in 1980s France, two undercover cops are assigned to infiltrate the scene. As they investigate the corruption that pervades the industry, they become immersed in this seductive world.

Paris Pigalle

The cinematic farewell of Antoine Doinel, alter ego of the legendary Francois Truffault, in a wonderful retrospection of important moments in the inspirational character’s journey. He, who always fights, believes and ultimately wins. The echo of immortal youth.

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Antoine Doinel returns for the last time. His marriage survived his first infidelity, but eventually he got divorced. He works as a text editor, is finally writing his autobiographical novel and he falls in love with a woman who sells records. He meets Colette, his teenage love, and they read his book together on a train journey. Colette, along with his ex-wife, will play a central role in his quest for happiness.

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Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 1979
César Award Best Music | | 1980

Love on the Run

French cinema legend Gérard Depardieu stars in an unusual and touching comedy set in a retirement home that gradually turns into an impromptu and insane family.

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To avoid prison, Milan, 30, is forced to perform 300 hours of community service in a retirement home. His first few weeks are a real hell! But he is quickly adopted by retirees, especially by a group of 7 inseparable people who teach him, each in his own way, his vision of life. As the weeks go by, Milan discovers that the institution is exploiting the vulnerability of its residents. He then decides to organize a great escape, but his troubles are never-ending.

Retirement Home

Loyal to the cinema he has served for over 50 years, the veteran Philippe Garrel trusts black and white, the trials of intimate relationship dynamics and erotic whims, while relying on a playful script that observes with admirable accuracy his story's characters.

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Devastated by a recent breakup with her partner, a 23-year-old woman is forced to take refuge in her father's small apartment in Paris. However, his new young mistress now lives in the same house.

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SACD Prize - Directors' Fortnight | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2017

Lover for a Day

Five female directors present five beautiful, poetic and humorous adventures, which through the art of animation generously share the magic of Christmas.

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In a festive and fairytale atmosphere, animals from all over the world gather to celebrate Christmas and winter.

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Official Selection | Annecy Film Festival | 2024

Animal Tales of Christmas Magic

Haneke, the constant provocateur, has some fun with the demise of the traditional upper-class family as we know it, using murder as the only point of connection in the unbridgeable generation gap, in a perversely ironic best-of that winks at the whole of his oeuvre.

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There’s nothing "happy" about the life of this family. The eldest daughter has taken over the family business from her father because of his advanced age. She has to deal with the potentially catastrophic consequences of a work accident at one of the company's construction sites. At the same time, her brother takes custody of his teenage daughter after the mysterious poisoning of his ex-wife. He too is hiding secrets, which could endanger his second marriage.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

Happy End

Right after Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry continued to walk the thin line between dream and reality, crafting a sweet and touching comedy about people whose dreams are so big that even the thought of pursuing them gives them a panic attack.

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A shy and insecure young man leaves Mexico after his father’s death and settles in Paris. There he meets his charming neighbour, with whom he instantly falls in love. But how can he win her heart, the one he conquers in his dreams but loses in real life? There is only one solution: to erase the boundaries between reality and dreams.

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UCMF Film Music Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2007
Audience Award | Sitges - Catalonian Film Festival | 2006

The Science of Sleep

What if we told you that before "Anatomy of a Fall", Justine Triet made another film with a trial and a dog? But this time in a delightfully offbeat romantic comedy that redefines the genre and gives us an irresistible performance from Virginie Effira.

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Victoria is a criminal lawyer whose love life is null and void. Her old friend Vincent is accused of attempting to murder his girlfriend. The only witness is the victim’s dog. At the same time, she runs into a charming former client.Thus begins a series of cataclysms in Victoria’s life.

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Official Selection - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Nomination for Best Film | César Awards | 2017
Nomination for Best Actress (Virginie Effira) | César Awards | 2017

In Bed with Victoria

One of the most beloved films of European cinema in the 2010s, a family drama full of humor, love, and humanity. A movie that feels like the warmest embrace. Its English-language remake, titled CODA, won 3 Academy Awards - including Best Picture.

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All members of the Bélier family are deaf, except for 16-year-old Paula, who acts as the interpreter for her parents on a daily basis - especially when it comes to managing the family farm. One day, encouraged by her music teacher, she decides to audition for a prestigious vocal choir. A life-defining choice that signals her separation from her family and the inevitable transition into adulthood.

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Nomination for Best European Comedy | European Film Awards | 2015
Most Promising Actress (Louane Emera) | César Awards | 2015
Best Actress (Karin Viard) | Lumiere Awards | 2015
Most Promising Young Actress (Louane Emera) | Lumiere Awards | 2015

The Bélier Family

Luscious images of gastronomic porn, garnished with class-conscious commentary, in a film that pays tribute to the French tradition of crowd-pleasers and leaves every kind of cinephile satisfied - devoted foodies and the less gastronomically inclined alike.

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On the eve of the French Revolution, gastronomy in France is the exclusive domain of the aristocracy. When the highly skilled chef Manceran is dismissed for serving a dish his master did not approve, he resolves to strike out on his own, opening the very first restaurant to offer gourmet cuisine to people of the lower classes.

Delicious

Provocation and scandal has long been Paul Verhoeven’s métier (Basic Instinct, Her), so it’s no wonder that, at 82, he dares to tell the story of a lesbian love affair in a convent, while also making an apt commentary on the different iterations of Faith and the Divine in our lives.

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In the late 17th century, with plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany, as a novice. Capable from an early age of performing miracles, her impact on life in the community is immediate. When Benedetta takes a young woman into her convent in order to rescue her from her abusive family, the two women will engage in a passionate love affair with unpredictable consequences. Based on a true story, as it was written down on the book by Judith C. Brown.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2021
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2021

Benedetta

An impressive directorial debut from Tunisia, in a multi-layered story that begins on the pretext of family drama, leaving a dynamic set of social and political commentary to subtly emerge.

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A couple and their son fall victim of a terrorist attack. 11 year-old Aziz is seriously injured and while the parents do everything they can to find an organ donor to save his life, a family secret will be revealed, endangering their son’s life.

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Best Actor (Sami Bouajila) - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2019
OPANDA Jury Prize | French Film Festival of Greece | 2021
FISCHER Audience Award | French Film Festival of Greece | 2021

A Son

The Birkin VS the Varda family, literally. The French director reflects on a taboo subject in an incredibly paradoxical manner and presents her version of what ideal love might be; rather impossible.

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At her daughter's party, a mother meets one of the girl’s 14-year-old classmates; he is drunk and she helps him get sober. The woman and the teenager start looking for opportunities to meet, which initially means going to arcades with his favorite game, Kung Fu Master. Gradually, however, the relationship turns romantic and their encounters more and more careless, until her daughter sees them kissing. Where will all this lead?

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Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 1988

Kung-fu Master!

Vincent Cassel portrays the emblematic artist of the title with great passion and drive, in a biography that explores the mechanisms of artistic creation and the relationship between civilization and nature, paganism and religion.

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Prior to becoming famous, French painter Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti. His stay at the exotic island shapes his personality and drastically influences his artistic identity, gifting him everlasting fame.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

Un Certain Regard Best Screenplay Award in Cannes Film Festival, for Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi’s apocalyptic film, that dares to talk about class and racial inequalities in today’s moroccan society.

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A twenty-year-old woman gives birth to a child out of wedlock in modern-day Morocco, and now has twenty-four hours to report the father to the authorities in order to avoid punishment.

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Best Screenplay - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
FIPRESCI Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2018

Sofia

Claude Sautet's swan song and his second collaboration with Emmanuelle Béart, was destined to be one of the best French films of the 90s, with an emotional richness that emerges through the professional meetings of 2 people who approach the concept of time in a very different way.

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Nelly is a divorced woman who meets by chance Mr. Arnaud, a mature and wealthy businessman who has just retired. Nelly has a suffocating debt with the apartment she rented with her lazy husband, but Arnaud gifts her 30 thousand francs. Nelly accepts the money and then agrees to type her wealthy friend's memoirs.

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Best Actor Award (Michel Serrault) | César Awards | 1996
Best Director Award | César Awards | 1996
Nomination for Best Foreign Film | BAFTA | 1997

Nelly and Mr. Arnaud

Artists against Nazism, or in other words, Truffault’s idealistic approach to occupied France during World War II. A juicy role for Deneuve and a cheerful tone to accompany her dangerous romance, reminiscent of "Casablanca".

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Paris, 1942. A young man is chosen as the lead in a play at the Montmartre Theater. In fact, he is not just an actor, but also a member of the resistance. His gorgeous, unfriendly co-star, who is also the theater owner, hides her Jewish husband in the basement below the stage. The premiere of the show is extremely successful, but the triumph is tarnished by the criticism of an anti-Semitic theatrical reviewer. Things are becoming dangerous for everyone in the theater.

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1981
Best Film | César Awards | 1981 
Best Cinematography | César Awards | 1981

The Last Metro

With Hitchcockian references that honour the history of horror, Vincent Must Die is a pre-apocalyptic nightmare about our connection to others but also a satire on the fear of otherness that rocked Cannes Critics' Week.

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Random strangers suddenly start attacking Vincent with murderous intent. His everyday life as an ordinary man is turned upside down and as things get violently out of control, he is forced to leave and change his life completely.

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Official Selection - Critic's Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

Vincent Must Die

Inspired by his own family history, director Edouard Bergeon delivers a powerful biographical drama of resilience, set in a dramatic and beautiful countryside, starring Guillaume Canet.

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The Jarjeaus are farmers, father and son. Pierre was 25 when he returned from Wyoming to his fiancée Claire and the family farm. Twenty years later, both the business and the family have grown. Emma and Thomas enjoy country living while helping their parents. Happy days, at least on the surface… But Pierre is exhausted, his debts are piling up and his father isn’t making things easier. Despite the love of his wife and children, Pierre is sinking…

In the Name of the Land

Isabelle Huppert has proven that she can play anything. In Jean-Paul Salome's political thriller based on a true story that rocked France, she gives yet another excellent and multi-layered performance as a fearless syndicalist.

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The true story of Maureen Kearney, a trade union representative for a French multinational nuclear power company who became a whistleblower, risking her life to expose top secret deals that shocked the world.

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Official Selection - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2022