Karin Viard

True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor. (imdb)

Thirty-something lifeguard Camille (Karin Viard) is still partying hard and regularly indulging in drugs and casual sex, much to the disgust of her family. After meeting middle-aged Socialist Party official Alexis (Pierre-Loup Rajot) in the street, Camille falls in love with him, even though she learns he is a happily married family man. Determined to be with Alexis, Camille is devastated when he rejects her and impulsively takes up with Ben (Sergi López), a dim truck driver.

After losing his job, Vincent (Recoing) can't bring himself to tell his wife (Viard) and children, so he wanders around France during the day, while they think he's at work, and finds himself on a moral and ethical journey of conscience that challenges the notions he's formed about life. (ThinkFilm)

Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who creates cannibalistic meals for his odd tenants. (imdb)

A pregnant woman discovers she has breast cancer, and must choose between her life and the baby's.

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve... (imdb)

One night at the cinema, Pierre reaches for out to take Anne's hand. She is annoyed and rebuffs him... (imdb)

A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition. (imdb)

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past. (imdb)

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment. When Elise, his sister with three kids and no husband, moves in to his place to care for him, Pierre does not change his new habits. And instead of dancing himself, it is Paris and the Parisians who dance before his eyes. (imdb)

Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on vacation. The young housekeeper they hire knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin forming respect for each other. (imdb)

Parisian friends (two brothers and their one-time girl friends) fly to Corsica for a mountain trek. Cora goes because her psychic says she'll meet a man with a load on his shoulders, which she guesses is a backpack. Nadine goes to be with her lover, Eric, the trek's guide, who is married but promises to leave his wife and daughters soon. The brothers go because Nadine has promised that the beautiful Bernadette will accompany them, plus Louis wants a break from his possessive lover, Jennifer. (imdb)

While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them (imdb)

Down the bottom writer meets former colleague, more wealthy one in a train station. The richer guy's got a problem with his ex and proposes Hitchcockian swap with murderer to money. But does a perfect murder exist?

A CHANGE OF PLANS follows a group of four French couples who converge in an apartment over the course of one lengthy summer's eve and spend the time chatting about life, personal goals, relationships and sex (rottentomatoes.com)

Mr Pujol rules his factory with an iron fist. When he suffers from a stroke, his wife surprisingly takes over... with some unexpected consequences...

A Belge-Francophobe customs officer is forced to team up with a Frenchman during the elimination of the Franco-Belge borders in the 90s.

Described by one source as France's equivalent of John Hillcoat's The Road, this gloomy, apocalyptic chronicle transpires in a desolate future dystopia. Mathieu Amalric stars as Robinson, a man searching desperately for his lost love amid the ruins and vestiges of civilization. (imdb)

Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of his father's employee... More, at the end of the summer all of them will join the same party. (imdb)

Lucien Paumelle has been a human rights activist for decades and his relatives are not astonished when he announces that he is determined to help illegal immigrants by giving them shelter in his apartment. But they are downright appalled when they meet the undocumented aliens for the fist time, a little girl named Sorina and, mostly her mother, Tatiana, a twenty-eight-year old sex bomb. To make matters worse, Lucien offhandedly tells his next of kin that he has just ... married Tatiana

Marion Vernoux spins this breezy romantic comedy about love and society. Hortense is a married chiropractor juggling the responsibilities of home, work, and two or three lovers on the side. Unfortunately, her lover du jour can't be reached while her husband is away on a business trip. Her brother recently married, and while he is picking up the wedding photos to show to his family, he catches the eye of a beautiful lass named Marie working behind the camera store counter.

Melissa, a photographer for the Ministry of the Interior is assigned to document the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit.

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk, in northern France. The factory she worked at has closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. She enrolls in a training course to become a cleaner and soon finds a job at the home of a man whose world is radically different from her own. (mubi.com)

Fifteen-year-old Lulu wonders why her mother is always depressed, sickly and staring at nothing. When she finds a photograph of her mom's younger happier self, she sets out to find what was behind that smile and try to bring it back.

Nicole Garcia's film shows a family through an adult man's figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons too. Jean Paul visits his father all day. After he divorced his life is unexciting and troubled. He has a lot of dark suits, a good car, a big house but he has some debts, and his private life touch bottom. He has to call his brothers and ask them to help . (imdb)

Mathieu Amalric plays a befuddled, womanizing professor whose complicated life takes a turn for the worse following the disappearance of a student, in Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu's wickedly fun comic thriller. (tiff.net)

Mélina is one of the most famous voices in france. In her radio show, she helps people solve their problems, but in real life she lives a solitary life. Until she decides to look for her mother... (festadocinemafrances.com)

Following a botched job interview, Lulu decides not to return home, leaving her husband and their three children in the lurch. On the way, she crosses paths with a variety of people who, like herself, are at the edge of the world. Three decisive encounters that will help Lulu rediscover an old acquaintance she's not seen for years: herself. (imdb)

Marithé works in a training centre and her task is to assist people who are seeking alternative job options. One day, Carole arrives at the centre. She has never completed her studies and is starting to feel overshadowed by her husband, Sam, a talented Michelin-starred chef. It seems that it is not a job that Carole needs, but rather about her asserting her own independence and to leave her husband; and Marithé does all to help Carole to set out down a new path. (Wiki)

A girl, who lives with her deaf-mute parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing. (imdb)

While an assistant at a fashion magazine, Claire Rocher (Karin Viard) meets movie star Elisabeth Becker (Agnès Jaoui). Everything seems to push them apart, their way of life, relationships, wealth and of course fame. When Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant, her life goes into a tailspin. The two women start to bond, or so Claire assumes... (Rotten Tomatoes)

Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Belles familles is a sumptuous, emotionally affecting, and occasionally rollicking tale about a family with a remarkable past. Focusing on the Varenne clan and the magnificent country mansion that was once their home but is now shuttered due to a legal dispute, the director spins a gloriously romantic tale with plenty of humorous asides. (tiff.net)

Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.

Eric, a second-rate sitcom producer, and Fred, the "star" of the series, find a call girl dead after an erotic game gone wrong. Shocked, they agree to try and make the body disappear. Unfortunately Benoit, the young intern of the team, recorded Fred and Eric's secret pact. Now taking advantage of his position of strength, he decides to blackmail the two men while gradually becoming their accomplice.

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble. (imdb)

Knight Godefroy de Montmirail and squire Jacquouille are stranded in 1793. Using trickery to break free from their shackles, both perilously partake in the Montmirail family's run away in the quest for an exiting time-shift. (imdb)

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors. (imdb)

Julien feels like a hostile presence behind him constantly. Alex, his son learns that Eva, a 17-year-old high school girl, forgot to let him know that he was going to be a father. The mother of Eva, Vero, in a dirty past since his birth thinks she will be forced to tear the bag of old to feed the future child. Written by Hugo Van Herpe

Caroline's mother Isabelle is dead. While she stays at her mother's house, her body disappears. (imdb)

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Why should she distrust a friend of her parents' who offers to "tickle" her ? Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past. Written by OM

When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they engage Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy. (imdb)

Eight years ago, Rosemonde killed a man who tried to rape her. Now she has sold her story to a television channel that produces crime victim films. (imdb)

The test is positive! Nicole, 49 year old mom, is pregnant again. Calamity or good news? The whole family is upside down. (imdb)

Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple, engulfed in the harsh world of a big city. At the end of these twenty-four hours, Bruno and Fabienne may have touched on the possible solution to the eternal misunderstanding arising from man's quest for sex and woman's quest for love... (L.H. Wong)

One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.

March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its scope. Among them, Alexandra, a French executive newly arrived from Hong Kong to work in a bank, has to face this nuclear crisis. (https://en.unifrance.org/)

Content with two children in an upper class French marriage, a woman finds herself faced with visions of rape, violence and the supernatural. Her husband, a successful businessman also starts experiencing hallucinations in which he often ends up physically hurt. Their babysitter hangs herself and the children begin acting strangely, their sadistic behavior arousing suspicion. It becomes apparent that the children's bodies have been possessed/inhabited by two dirty, old people. (imdb)

After failing the medical entrance exam, Leopold joins the school of midwives by default, hiding the truth from those around him.

Two estate agents from the Wow agency, along with their assistant, do what they can to display the properties to their best advantage. But their showings are troubled, revealing the domestic, professional and emotional problems of the potential buyers. (mubi.com)

When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years.

In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust “barks loudly”, but does not lack charm… Later, in the corridors of the station, the two strangers make love awkwardly in the booth of a photo booth. At last, on the surface, they will say goodbye. (Mubi.com)

Set in 17th century, Marquise de Sévigné aims to make her daughter brilliant/independent, but controlling her backfires. Mother-daughter experience intense passion. A French literary masterpiece emerges from their turbulent relationship. (imdb)

Alain and Diane have been together for 30 years. Alain is going to do something crazy for Diane, something to restore her vitality, make her heart beat and her youth pulsate. (imdb)

Comedy about the daily operations of a TV shopping channel. (imdb)

Paul Francoeur wins a France presidential election primary for his party. But that victory was rigged. Helped by Paul Francoeur and Marylin, before the press or his opponents find out, César Casalonga must disentangle the conspiracy. (imdb)

Nothing seems to be going right for Christine. Jean is leaving her, Sylvette and Ulrich, her oldest friends, are a little less friendly these days. It's all falling apart. But life is always full of surprises. The lives of two couples, falling in and out of love, as weekends go by. (imdb)