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Fr. 2024. Drama by Carine Tardieu with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pio Marmaï, César Botti. A bookseller develops an emotional bond with the partner and children of her neighbor, who died in childbirth.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2024. Musical drama by Jacques Audiard with Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez. Thanks to a female lawyer, a Mexican drug trafficker obtains the operation that will make him the woman he has always dreamed of being.
Runtime: 130 min.

Anatomy of a Fall

V.O.: Anatomie d'une chute
Fr. 2023. Drama by Justine Triet with Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado Graner, Swann Arlaud. A visually impaired boy attends the trial of his mother, accused of murdering his father, who was found dead in the snow near the mountain chalet where they lived.
Runtime: 151 min.

The Night of the 12th

V.O.: La Nuit du 12
Fr. 2022. Crime drama by Dominik Moll with Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg. In Savoy, two policemen, obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman, are increasingly disturbed by their discovery of the misogyny that surrounds them.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2021. Drama by Xavier Giannoli with Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste. In Paris, during the Restoration, an ambitious provincial poet becomes a formidable cultural journalist, courted by both liberal and royalist circles.
Runtime: 150 min.

Bye Bye Morons

V.O.: Adieu les cons
Fr. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Albert Dupontel with Albert Dupontel, Virginie Efira, Nicolas Marié. A terminally ill hairdresser and a suicidal programmer join forces to find the child that the former had given up for adoption at the age of 15.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2019. Social drama by Ladj Ly with Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga. A police officer’s first day in a poor suburb is marked by a dramatic incident that could jeopardize the careers of his corrupt colleagues.
Runtime: 105 min.

Custody

V.O.: Jusqu'à la garde
Fr. 2016. Drama by Xavier Legrand with Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Léa Drucker. Having obtained partial custody of his 11-year-old son, a taciturn man tries by all means to keep in touch with his wife and his nearly grown daughter.
Runtime: 94 min.

BPM - Beats Per Minute

V.O.: 120 Battements par minute
Fr. 2017. Social drama by Robin Campillo with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel. In 1990, a 26-year-old gay man joins the Paris branch of the AIDS movement ACT UP, where he falls in love with one of the group’s most radical members.
Runtime: 140 min.
Fr. 2016. Dramatic comedy by Paul Verhoeven with Isabelle Huppert, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling. Raped in her home by a hooded man, a business person refuses to press charges and conducts her own investigation to discover the identity of the attacker.
Runtime: 131 min.
Fr. 2015. Social drama by Philippe Faucon with Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza Noah Aïche. An Algerian newcomer from the suburbs of Lyons, who is bedridden because of a fall down a flight of stairs, writes to her daughters in Arabic what she is unable to express in French.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2014. Drama by Abderrahmane Sissako with Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiti, Abel Jafri. A nomadic father who accidentally caused the death of a fisherman falls into the hands of jihadists who have seized power in the nearby town.
Runtime: 100 min.

Me, Myself and Mum

V.O.: Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!
Fr. 2013. Comedy by Guillaume Gallienne with Guillaume Gallienne, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian. Due to the way his mother always distinguished him from his brothers, a boy grows up thinking he is a girl.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Michael Haneke with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. Paralyzed on her right side after a failed operation, a former piano teacher is cared for at home by her husband, who is in his 80s.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman. When talking pictures first come out, a very popular silent film actor is forgotten while one of his fans who has become an actress becomes famous.
Runtime: 100 min.
14A

Of Gods and Men

V.O.: Des hommes et des dieux
Fr. 2010. History by Xavier Beauvois with Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin. The story of the seven French monks of Tibhirine, killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria in 1996.
Runtime: 122 min.

A Prophet

V.O.: Un Prophète
Fr. 2009. Mores drama by Jacques Audiard with Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. Forced by the leader of Corsican prisoners to kill a snitch, a young, illiterate Arab prisoner with no family is admitted to the latter's gang.
Runtime: 155 min.

The Beat That my Heart Skipped

V.O.: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Jacques Audiard with Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham. A schemer from father to son decides to prepare a piano audition to become a concert performer like his deceased mother.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Barbarian Invasions

V.O.: Les Invasions barbares
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. A wealthy young financier tries to ease the last days of his father, an academic dying with cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2001. Biography by Roman Polanski with Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Ed Stoppard. During World War II, a famous Polish-Jewish pianist manages to survive by staying hidden near the Warsaw ghetto.
Runtime: 148 min.

Amelie

V.O.: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Fr. 2000. Fantasy comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Serge Merlin. A young waitress in Montmartre who works to spread happiness around her is reluctant to commit to a romantic relationship.
Runtime: 120 min.
14A

Hate

V.O.: La Haine
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez. A soldier who is also a poet and has a prominent nose helps a young nobleman win the heart of his cousin, with whom he himself is secretly in love.
Runtime: 138 min.

Goodbye Children

V.O.: Au revoir les enfants
Fr. 1987. Drama by Louis Malle with Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejto, Philippe Morier-Genoud. In 1943, a student attending a religious boarding school befriends a Jewish classmate who is registered under a false name to hide him from German authorites.
Runtime: 104 min.

Three Men and a Cradle

V.O.: 3 Hommes et un couffin
Fr. 1985. Mores comedy by Coline Serreau with Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier. Three hardened bachelors sharing a large apartment must become adoptive fathers of a baby dropped off on their doorstep.
Runtime: 106 min.

To Our Loves

V.O.: À nos amours
Fr. 1983. Psychological drama by Maurice Pialat with Maurice Pialat, Sandrine Bonnaire, Cyril Collard. The emotional and family difficulties of a teenager who does not believe in love.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1982. Crime drama by Bob Swaim with Richard Berry, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard. A police officer pressures a former gangster to be his informant.
Runtime: 100 min.

Quest for Fire

V.O.: La Guerre du feu
Can. 1981. Adventures by Jean-Jacques Annaud with Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman. In prehistoric times, three cave people face various perils to find fire for their tribe.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Last Metro

V.O.: Le Dernier Métro
Runtime: 131 min.
Fr. 1979. Chronicle by Roman Polanski with Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson.
Runtime: 170 min.

Monsieur Klein

V.O.: Mr. Klein
Fr. 1976. Social drama by Joseph Losey with Alain Delon, Michael Lonsdale, Juliet Berto. A man who takes advantage of the German Occupation to get rich tries to prove that he is not a Jew.
Runtime: 122 min.
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