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281) The Workshop
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La Ciotat, the South of France. Antoine attends a summer writing workshop in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned with the fears of the modern world, the young man soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who seems at the same time alarmed and...
282) Someone Is Bleeding
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On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
283) Made in France
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Fascinated and horrified by the rise of 'home grown' radicals in Paris, ambitious journalist Sam goes undercover in an extremist jihadist cell in Paris, determined to uncover the roots of the phenomenon. Events quickly spiral out of control and Sam risks his life as the wildly unpredictable leader of the cell plans an attack in the heart of Paris. Tragically prescient, this acclaimed thriller was pulled from release in France after the 2016 attacks...
284) Number One Fan
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In this French tragi-comedy, Sandrine Kiberlain (*Mademoiselle Chambon*) stars as Muriel, a beautician who, for the past two decades, has been French crooner Vincent Lacroix’s number one fan. She spends most of her free time keeping up with his new songs and his shows. Then one night, she opens her door to find Vincent – her idol – standing on her doorstep. His arrival turns Muriel’s life upside down as she embarks on a journey that even she...
285) Nobody From Nowhere
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Much lauded Oscar-winner Mathieu Kassovitz stars as a kind of twisted Walter Mitty; a man so bored with his own life he begins assuming other people’s identities. Eventually this behavior takes on a sinister tone and begins to spiral out of control… Sebastien Nicolas, is a reclusive loner leading a double life: by day he works as a respectable realtor, by night he creates complex latex disguises in the workshop beneath his seemingly ordinary suburban...
286) Diplomacy
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As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person assigned to carry out this barbaric act is Wehrmacht commander of Greater Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, who already has mines planted on the Eiffel Tower, in the Louvre and Notre Dame and on the bridges over the Seine. Nothing should be left as...
287) Time of the Wolf
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Michael Haneke’s futuristic vision follows a global cataclysm, Anne (Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy...
288) Let the corpses tan
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After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses...
289) 4 Days in France
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On a seemingly ordinary night in Paris, Pierre takes one last look at his lover Paul and steals away, with his Grindr app as his only guide. Paul sets out after him, using his own phone to track Pierre’s movements in a strange and wonderful game of Grindr cat-and-mouse. Nominated for a Queer Lion at the **Venice Film Festival.** *"A sly, sexy and strangely disarming cruise along the queerer backroads of rural France that marks an intriguing debut...
290) In The House
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A teenage boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student and writes about their family in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion unleashes a series of uncontrollable events. Nominated for 6 **César Awards** including Best Actor (Fabrice Luchini), Best Director, and Best Film. Winner of the International Critics' Award at the **Toronto...
291) Maigret Sets a Trap
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Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to murder women at night. Jean Gabin is fantastic as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable whodunnit. Nominated for Best Film from Any Source and Best Foreign Actor (Jean Gabin and Jean Desailly) at the **BAFTA Awards**.
292) Planetarium
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Two sisters living in Paris during the late 1930’s, possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. After a world tour performing seances for socialites, they meet a visionary French producer who hires them to shoot an ambitious experimental film. What they perceive as a perfect opportunity to gain recognition, soon spirals into a game of hidden agendas that tests human limits and social values.
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As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
294) Mood Indigo
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Set in a surreal Paris,Michel Gondry finds inspiration from Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie) and Romain Duris.
295) A Paris education
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Etienne, a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It’s a seemingly idyllic life until complicated matters of the flesh, as well...
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Versailles, August 1715. Back from hunting, Louis XIV feels pain in his leg. A serious fever erupts, which marks the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turns at his bedside sensing the impending power vacuum, the Sun King struggles to run the country from his bed. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and at the **Toronto International Film Festival**....
297) The connection
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Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But Pierre Michel will soon understand that to get results, he...
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