Emmanuelle (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Will Sharpe, Noémie Merlant, and Naomi Watts star in this sultry tale of lost pleasure. While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship? Emmanuelle traces the intimate quest of a woman whose name evokes one of film’s most provocative characters.
Starring:
Noémie Merlant
,
Anamaria Vartolomei
,
Kacey Mottet Klein
,
Will Sharpe
,
Luàna Bajrami
,
Jamie Campbell Bower
Big Kids (
2023) | IMDb:
6.3
Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.
Starring:
Vincent Macaigne
,
Aïssa Maïga
,
Marie Gillain
,
Carole Franck
,
Eric Métayer
,
Laurence Facelina
The Channel (
2023) | IMDb:
0
Natacha (25), a young single parent who works as a fast-food waitress, struggles to raise her 8-year-old son Enzo. Torn between a strong desire for independence and the comfort that her mother Irène unfailingly wants to provide for them, Natacha feels trapped. Her encounter with Walid, who is waiting to save enough money to pay for his crossing to England will open new horizons for her.
Directed by:
Thierry Binisti
For My Country (
2023) | IMDb:
6.4
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.
Starring:
Karim Leklou
,
Lubna Azabal
,
Shaïn Boumedine
,
Laurent Lafitte
,
Samir Guesmi
,
Slimane Dazi
See You Up There (
2017) | IMDb:
7.4
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
Starring:
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
,
Albert Dupontel
,
Laurent Lafitte
,
Niels Arestrup
,
Émilie Dequenne
,
Mélanie Thierry
Directed by:
Albert Dupontel
Young & Beautiful (
2013) | IMDb:
6.7
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Starring:
Marine Vacth
,
Géraldine Pailhas
,
Charlotte Rampling
,
Frédéric Pierrot
,
Nathalie Richard
,
Johan Leysen
Directed by:
François Ozon
Amour (
2012) | IMDb:
7.9
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
,
Emmanuelle Riva
,
Isabelle Huppert
,
Alexandre Tharaud
,
William Shimell
,
Ramon Agirre
The Names of Love (
2010) | IMDb:
7.1
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
Starring:
Jacques Gamblin
,
Sara Forestier
,
Zinedine Soualem
,
Jacques Boudet
,
Carole Franck
,
Michèle Moretti
Directed by:
Michel Leclerc
Russian Dolls (
2005) | IMDb:
7
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Starring:
Romain Duris
,
Kelly Reilly
,
Audrey Tautou
,
Cécile de France
,
Kevin Bishop
,
Olivier Saladin