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- DirectorJean LehérisseyStarsMichel VitoldJacques HenleyAndré Reybaz"La Montagne est verte" (Green is the mountain) is the name of a song chosen as the title of this short. It is an historical documentary made in the Antilles about the life of abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, who fought more than twenty years against slavery. First Prix Jean Vigo in 1951, award given in France since that year.
- DirectorHenri SchneiderStarsLuc AndrieuxSerge BentoPaul BiscigliaJojo is a seventeen-year-old factory worker living poorly in Aubervilliers with his grandmother. Dissatisfied with his lackluster everyday life, Jojo dreams of the high life. He starts mixing with shady individuals such as thieves and traffickers. At a time, he even contemplates murdering a rich butcher. Fortunately, his protector Monsieur Charles, a warm-hearted gangster, will stop him from carrying out this crazy plan, thus wasting his young life.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsAlain EmeryLaurent RocheClan-ClanIn the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.
- DirectorGhislain CloquetChris MarkerAlain ResnaisStarsJean NégroniFrançois MitterrandPope Pius XIIA documentary of black art.
- DirectorJean VidalStarsJulien Bertheau
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorAlain JessuaThe film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style.
- DirectorLouis Grospierre
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyMichèle MéritzAfter long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
- DirectorÉdouard LuntzA documentary about the sad plight of those living on the outskirts of Paris.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- DirectorMaurice CohenStarsJean NégroniEvocation of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were slaughtered by a Nazi Waffen SS company, based on a visit to Diors' Museum of the Three Wars" and archive photographs.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsJacques DufilhoYvette EtiévantMichel GalabruThe school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship...eventually.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorFrédéric RossifStarsIrene WorthJohn GielgudSuzanne FlonTo Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
- DirectorRobert DestanquesStarsGilles Quéant
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsFrédéric de PasqualeJosée SteinerOdile GeoffroyAfter twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.
- DirectorGérald Belkin
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsMbissine Thérèse DiopAnne-Marie JelinekRobert FontaineA black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsDorothy McGowanJean RochefortSami FreyA model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with Prince Charming while she is fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
- DirectorChristian de ChalongeStarsMarco PicoLudmila MikaëlAntonio Passalia"O salto" means the leap, more precisely the big leap Potuguese illegal emigrants have to make when they decide to leave their native land. They do it because they cannot put up with poverty any longer or because they want to escape the dictatorship that is rife at home or else to avoid military service and its corollary, colonialist wars in Africa. "O salto" documents the difficult journey of one of these candidates for emigration, Antonio, a serious carpenter, complete from his living place to the Spanish border and its unwelcoming "Guardia Civil" to his walk through the Pyrenees to his his final journey to Paris, by truck, by taxi and by train. It also relates the difficult living and working conditions Antonio experiences once in Paris, softened by the solidarity of his Portuguese brothers.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsMichel TerrazonLinda GutenbergRaoul BillereyAn anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child.
- DirectorLouis RogerStarsFrançois Périer
- DirectorRaoul CoutardStarsPhi LanHuynh CazenasXuan HaA small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.
- DirectorLaurent GomesLouis GomesStarsFlorimond Dufour
- DirectorJean-Louis BertuccelliStarsLeila ShennaAhmed KadriJean-Louis TrintignantIn an Algerian village, the workers of a salt mine go on strike because of low wages. The owner calls the army to control the men, but a young woman cuts off the water to force the troops to retreat.
- DirectorJérôme LaperrousazStarsJack FindlayNanouGiacomo Agostini
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsDanièle DelormeNathalie DelonPatrick PennYoung man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. He goes to bed and refuses stand. Francois is a heroin addict, who has lost the joy of life. Nothing could bring him back from the darkness and despair no mother, no friends, no holidays, no love. One day, he suddenly changes,it becomes cheerful and calm...
- DirectorBernard QueysanneStarsJacques SpiesserLudmila MikaëlA 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.
- DirectorChristian Broutin
- DirectorRené FéretStarsPaul AllioMichel AmphouxRoland AmstutzA young man is put in the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
- DirectorFrank CassentiStarsRoger IbáñezPierre ClémentiLászló SzabóA company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
- DirectorChristian BricoutStarsDidier SauvegrainGérard DarrieuAnnie SavarinJean, an eighteen-year-old from Lille, is a student at the Beaux-Arts. Once again, a strong argument opposes him one evening to his alcoholic father. Jean leaves the family home and starts a wandering night.
- DirectorJacques ChampreuxStarsSidiki BakabaCheik DoukouréDoura ManéFode, Boubacar's father, decides to send his son to Paris to join his older brother Samba. There, for sure, he will become rich and able to send them money. Boubacar leaves the village and his fiancée Awa. The long journey begins.
- DirectorGérard MarxStarsMarcel DelmottePhilippe du Janerand
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsAnne WiazemskyHenri de MaublancXuan LindenmeyerFour chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making).
- DirectorGérard MordillatStarsFrançois CluzetRobin RenucciElizabeth BourgineMaurice Decques is Parisian, born of a mix between a communist father and an anarchist mother. He lives in the Ménilmontant neighborhood since he is a child, even after his marriage with a Hungarian cellist, more sensitive to real communism.
- DirectorMichel ChionStarsElizabeth TamarisKarine SaccoCécile SaccoA short subject about the relationship between a mother and her daughter.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
- DirectorAgnès MerletStarsPascal LibrizziElie SemounAlain Flick
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsRosa-Maria GomesAbdel KedadoucheLuis Rego"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).
- DirectorJoël FargesStarsJean LarroquetteSunayana Panda ShuklaMaurice ShuklaIn Pondicherry in 1951, during the transfer of the French Indian territories from French governance to the Indian union, 3 children from a noble family must choose their destiny: to remain French despite their origin or to integrate India.
- DirectorLaurent PerrinStarsJean-Claude AdelinJessica FordeSimon de La BrosseJean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.
- DirectorFrançois MargolinStarsHélène LapiowerPascal N'Zonzi
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsRoland BlancheSabine HaudepinHenri DéusFrom the very beginning, film comedy focused on the world of work. From exploitation to unemployment, from adaptation to resistance, directors multiplied their points of view on survival in the modern world, especially from Chaplin on. With a humor superceding certain conventions and steering towards an eminently political dimension, Moullet follows three characters in order to build one of the blackest satires about the conflict arising from our everyday relation with work.
- DirectorMarie-Christine PerrodinStarsSébastien DucretJanine SouchonDuring the course of drawing, in a classroom, a little boy gets carried away by his imagination.
- DirectorSijie DaiStarsLiang Yi GuoQuan Ngieu TieuCheung Siang ChangIn August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up a mountainside, make bricks, saw logs, and sing daily to Chairman Mao of his faults. There's camaraderie among the five youths, especially with a young pickpocket named Baimao, and Tian is also drawn to a silent monk who cares for him when he falls ill and the others expect him to die. The camp is remote, so there are no fences or walls. Tian longs to escape.
- DirectorMichel SuchStarsMustapha El AnkaFawzi B. SaichiMichel SuchA man returns to Algeria after the war and recollects what happened there.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsThibault de MontalembertRoch LeiboviciMarianne DenicourtA large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt
- DirectorEric BarbierStarsMaruschka DetmersJean-Marc BarrTolstyIt is 1934, and France is in the grip of the Depression. Against the backdrop of a hard-hit mine, director Eric tells a story of workers and bosses, friends and enemies, and father and son.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsJudith GodrècheJean-Pierre LéaudThomas LangmannAdrien arrives in Paris to stay with his father, Clément, whom he hasn't seen in four years. Clément lives with Louise, a twenty-year-old girl eager for independence and success. After an argument, Louise leaves Clément for Adrien.
- DirectorEmmanuel Descombes
- DirectorAnne FontaineStarsNoraSami BouajilaAlain FromagerZina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?
- DirectorJacques MaillotStarsMyriem RousselAlain BeigelOlivier Py4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsMalek BecharNaguime BendidiDidier BorgaWhat is beautiful about adolescence is that it is a time when everything is still possible. The four main characters are each conditioned by their background and environment, but they refuse to accept any predestination and to fight it. Expelled from schools, spurned by lovers, confined by identity these youngsters just keep on running, frustrated and in flames. Lonely hearts, intoxicated by music and alcohol, by the heat of minds and bodies, burn to ashes.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsMaximilen BaglieriSarah BaglieriAlexandre BelloyA few high school students are organizing a demonstration in the bar where Serge is working as a waiter for his father. He tries to join in...
- DirectorXavier BeauvoisStarsXavier BeauvoisChiara MastroianniRoschdy ZemBenoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.
- DirectorPascal BonitzerStarsJackie BerroyerValeria Bruni TedeschiNatacha RégnierAbel Vichac, a renowned University professor, meets a student in a bar. She claims that her name is Aurore, and that she sent him a paper on his latest book. A few days later, Vichac, who has found Aurore's paper (and her address), turns up at her apartment. This is the start of a period of misunderstanding, romantic confusion and seductive schemes that ends in a major crisis for Vichac and his wife, Aliette.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsDavid DoucheMarjorie CottreelKader ChaatoufA social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed to by Kader, a young Arab man, Freddy, and his friends have an idea: they decide to punish Kader for what they call "such a provocation." After they have raped another girl, Marie finally commits to Kader, which seals his fate.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzStarsYasmine BelmadiPierre-Loup RajotMargot AbascalA few days in the life of Rémi, a kind and decent Franco-African 18-year-old boy, who explores his still-fluid sexuality in contemporary Paris, offering a slight but well-limned slice of life in multicultural France during the late 1990s.
- DirectorClaude MouriérasStarsFrédéric PierrotMuriel MayetteVincent DénériazA family of farmers has to deal with the retarded elder son. He gets everybody bored and tired of him, even his cow to whom he goes to talk to several times a day.
- DirectorNoémie LvovskyStarsSarah-Marie JulichJean-Luc BideauValeria Bruni TedeschiThis story tells of the years of 4 teenage girls. How they live together, how their meeting changes their life, how these years of youth pass and what they become at the beginning of their adult life, which will decide their whole life.
- DirectorPatricia MazuyStarsIsabelle HuppertJean-Pierre KalfonSimon ReggianiMadame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV. With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls.
- DirectorOrso MiretStarsYann GovenOlivier GourmetBrigitte CatillonGuy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsJean-Marie CombellesPierre Louis-CalixteJean SéganiA chronicle of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the men around him!
- DirectorCharles NajmanStarsDominic BatravilleVerlus DelormeErol JosuéDirected by French documentary filmmaker Charles Najman, Royal Bonbon is the tale of a modern-day man who believes himself to be Henri Christophe, liberator of Haitian slaves during the early 1800s. King Chacha (Dominique Battraville) declares himself a ruler and his lady friend (Anne-Louise Mesadieux) a queen. When he is kicked out of Cap-Haitien, he joins up with young boy Thimothee (Benji) for a journey out of town. They end up in the abandoned palace of Sans Souci, which Chrisophe had built himself. Gathering support from the population of the next village, King Chacha lives out his dream as a ruler. Before long, he becomes a tyrant and is overthrown in a revolt.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsJeanne BalibarBulle OgierRenaud BécardAfter the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress. In order to find her, she casts aside her boyfriend Étienne. The mistress is a pianist named Béatrice. Béatrice and Marianne strike up a friendship while reminiscing about the past. They remember Édith Piaf's song : "Hymne à l'amour" and Marianne reconnects with her nanny Ghislaine who was a funny companion when she was young.
- DirectorOlivier TorresStarsOlivier TorresLou Rambert PreissCécile DucrocqIt is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long
- DirectorPatrick MimouniStarsArielle DombasleYvan FahlEva IonescoBorn 23 years ago from the love affairs of Farid Daoudi, a singer who died in the 1980s, Marc gave up his studies to become a flight attendant. A career choice like a snub to his mother's ambitions.
- DirectorJulien SamaniFive seamen on the Irish Sea, five men who have left their families to try to recover, far from any civilization, a primitive state...
- DirectorJérôme BonnellStarsNathalie BoutefeuMarc CittiJudith RémyFanny lives with her brother and his girlfriend in their long time dead parents' house. Fanny needs some medication so that her behavior doesn't bring too much tension to herself and to closed ones.
- DirectorLaurent AchardStarsJulien CochelinAnnie CordyPascal CervoA boy is forced to witness the slow and painful collapse of his family.
- DirectorSerge BozonStarsSylvie TestudPascal GreggoryGuillaume VerdierIn France in the darkest days of the Great War Camille receives an alarming letter from her soldier boyfriend. Disguising herself as a man she sets off to try and find him. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.
- DirectorHélier CisterneStarsJulie DuclosPhilippe DuclosMarie MatheronMay 68, one night, Isabelle, a young high school student, returns home in shock. His parents, overwhelmed, decide to take him to the countryside to escape the Parisian unrest.
- DirectorEmmanuel FinkielStarsElsa AmielNicolas WanczyckiHaci AslanA group of Kurdish refugees tries to get to Great Britain. A female student travels through Europa. A young executive relocates a factory to Hungary.
- DirectorMikhaël HersStarsAurore SoudieuxAdélaïde LerouxDidier SandreNight, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, some empty streets, a shopping mall, a quiet garden, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the train station, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city awakening. Montparnasse.
- DirectorOlivier DucastelJacques MartineauStarsGuy MarchandFrançoise FabianSabrina SeyvecouWhen Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
- DirectorKatell QuillévéréStarsClara AugardeLioMichel GalabruAnna a young teenager comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?
- DirectorDamien ManivelStarsRémi TaffanelElsa WolliastonOn a hot summer afternoon, a teenager finds a stray dog in a local park. He decides to take the dog back to its owner. A fat black woman, half drunk, opens the door and asks him in by way of thanks. They sit down in the living room. The young man feels very ill-at-ease. The lady gives him a large glass of alcohol, he now has to drink with her.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsJacques NolotChristian Milia-DarmezinKenji LevanFollowing the death of the notorious smuggler Louis Mandrin his old friends walk in his footsteps and make him popular by composing and singing songs about him. A 2011 French adventure film won the 2011 Prix Jean Vigo award.
- DirectorLouis GarrelStarsGolshifteh FarahaniLouis GarrelVincent MacaigneLouis is ready to take care of Vincent, and asks Marie to manage by herself, but forgets that for her, this has other connotations
- DirectorVincent DietschyStarsMilo McMullenSerge BozonEstébanPierre and Marion, a couple of Parisian teachers, have a well-regulated existence. When they meet Marion's childhood lover, Rémi, their life lights up with a new light.
- DirectorHéléna KlotzStarsEliott PaquetDominik WojcikNiels SchneiderTwo teenagers spend together a night around the town. One tries desperately to kiss a girl while a desire for his friend overwhelms the other one.
- DirectorYann Le QuellecStarsBernard MenezMaxime DambrinFinnegan OldfieldToday, Andre comes out of his peaceful retirement. The mayor has ordered him to lead a group of cyclists wearing sandwich boards through the mountains to attract people to the opening of the local cinema. Despite his determination, the former postman has trouble controlling his young and impetuous teammates.