Chasing Johnny (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Johnny, a local activist, is wanted by the police after a robbery gone wrong. Paul, his childhood friend, comes back home after 15 years to find him before the police. Investigator Anna Radoszewski is also on Johnny’s trail. Thus begins a search in which memo- ries and secrets resurface. In a social context that shakes the town, everybody is looking for Johnny, who soon becomes the symbol of a revolt.
Starring:
Léa Drucker
,
Pierre Lottin
,
Bastien Bouillon
,
Marion Barbeau
,
Giovanni Pucci
,
Anne Consigny
Elle (
2016) | IMDb:
7.1
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert
,
Laurent Lafitte
,
Anne Consigny
,
Charles Berling
,
Virginie Efira
,
Judith Magre
John Rabe (
2009) | IMDb:
7.2
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Starring:
Ulrich Tukur
,
Dagmar Manzel
,
Steve Buscemi
,
Daniel Brühl
,
Zhang Jingchu
,
Teruyuki Kagawa
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (
2008) | IMDb:
6.4
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Starring:
Tomer Sisley
,
Kristin Scott Thomas
,
Mélanie Thierry
,
Miki Manojlović
,
Karel Roden
,
Gilbert Melki
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (
2008) | IMDb:
7.4
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.
Starring:
Vincent Cassel
,
Ludivine Sagnier
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Gérard Lanvin
,
Samuel Le Bihan
,
Olivier Gourmet
Directed by:
Jean-François Richet
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (
2007) | IMDb:
8
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Starring:
Mathieu Amalric
,
Emmanuelle Seigner
,
Marie-Josée Croze
,
Anne Consigny
,
Patrick Chesnais
,
Niels Arestrup