In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.
A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.
The Science of Sleep is about a man named Stéphane who struggles with the boundaries between his dream world and reality. He falls in love with his neighbor, Stéphanie, but his insecurities and vivid dreams make it difficult for their relationship to flourish. The movie explores themes of love, art, and the power of the imagination.
Happy End is a dark comedy that revolves around a dysfunctional wealthy French family. The story explores themes of boredom, emptiness, infidelity, and depression. It touches upon topics such as euthanasia, the European refugee crisis, religious extremism, and terrorism. The plot follows the family members as they navigate their personal struggles and dark secrets.
Marguerite and Julien, two siblings, embark on a perilous journey to escape their arranged marriages and pursue their forbidden love for each other. As they hide from the law and society, their bond grows stronger, leading them down a tragic path.
A young person experiences the complexities of love and desire while exploring themes of literature, coming-of-age, and romantic literature. The journey includes elements of young love, masturbation, and self-discovery.
Hold Me Tight tells the story of a woman who navigates through the depths of grief after losing her husband and children. Through the healing power of music, she finds hope and strength to rebuild her life.
Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly, a Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her daughter on a beach. Rama, who is pregnant and in a mixed-race relationship, connects with Coly and plans to write a modern-day retelling of the Medea myth. As she learns more about Coly's life, Rama becomes increasingly anxious about her own life and pregnancy.
The Devils is a drama film set in Marseille, France. It follows the story of a handicapped individual who is on the run from the authorities. Along the way, he forms a bond with a teenage girl. The film explores themes of escape, trauma, and coming-of-age.
The LT-21 virus hits France and starts spreading worldwide. It won't cause a single death. But are we still fully alive when we've forgotten everything? Because infected patients develop total retrograde amnesia. Asia and Gabriel, a couple of doctors, do everything to stop the epidemic and protect the patients held in a hospital under military surveillance.
Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.
Marie, in her forties, lives in the Hautes-Alpes, cut off from her relatives. She only has her lover, Alex, a border policeman. Thanks to him, she smuggles cigarettes between Italy and France for her ' get out. On her way to France, she bumps into Mouneer, a 20-year-old Sudanese migrant, determined to join his little sister. He guesses her trafficking and persuades her to bring migrants across the border.
Anticipating eviction from her retirement home after the death of her son and sole provider, rebellious septuagenarian Émilie decides to take revenge on all those who have wronged her. During her journey of initiation, she cuts to the quick to right the wrongs and is joined by Linda, a cleaning lady with whom she has forged a close bond. She, too, has nothing left to lose and decides to wage war against those who have scorned her. Soon, these two companions are hunted down by a pair of policemen.
Setting out on her own, 25-year-old Alice visits several apartments with the help of real estate agent Julien, a married man with children. They soon fall in love. Around the same time, Alice takes work at Julien's wife Marie's tea shop. Charmed by the interest Alice shows in her, Marie lets her guard down and starts confiding in her. In return, Alice, tells Marie about her affair with a married man. Things come to a head when Julien has a car accident and the affair is exposed.
After a chance meeting on a train, a woman embarks on a passionate affair with a mysterious man, challenging her beliefs and forcing her to confront her desires.
An Open Heart follows a skilled surgeon who faces a series of emotional and professional obstacles while working in a hospital in Paris, France. As he navigates his troubled marriage, impending fatherhood, and difficult surgeries, he must also confront the reality of death and the complexities of love.
Girlfriend or enemy? Does the young cleaning lady Alice really want to protect the well-heeled Hélène from a scandal or rather blackmail her? In any case, Alice not only found her lifeless body and Hélène's wallet in her employer Svende Petersen's home, but also video footage that weighed heavily on Hélène. Because the married to a budding Member Hélène has fled without help from the apartment of her lover, when she became aware that Svende no longer breathes. But now Alice knows her secret. It becomes Hélène's menacing shadow ...
After World War II, many young French women became housewives, convinced that devoting themselves entirely to caring for their families was a noble mission and a means of personal fulfillment.
After eight years of close collaboration with her supervisor, Mathilde suddenly finds herself inexplicably victim of moral harassment by him. In parallel, Thibault has just split up with his girlfriend after a frustrating two-year relationship where they exchanged very little. Mathilde and Thibault have never met, they are just two figures among millions of others. Two people who may bump into each other or who may merely pass each other by. But one day in September, their paths meet.
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer.