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DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought. The proud men embrace their unexpected heritage with passion. (imdb)

About to get married, Alice and François decide to reunite their two families. To mark the occasion, they offer their parents an original gift: DNA tests so that each of them can discover the origins of their ancestors. But the surprise turns into a fiasco when the Bouvier Sauvage, a large aristocratic family, and the Martin family, much more modest, discover the results, which are, to say the least... unexpected! Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Quentin, an employee at a urinal company, becomes a hitman for Knok after saving a woman from an armed altercation. (imdb)

François is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. (imdb)

Heirs to a dynasty of cops,sibling detectives Caroline and François have clashing but complementary styles:she believes that swift action wins the day, he believes that haste makes waste-and with every case, old sibling tensions resurface. (imdb)

Biopic of Marinette Pichon, first french female soccer player to sign on to the American professional league, record-woman in number of goals per game and selections for the French national team. (filmaffinity.com)

Max Boublil finally has his dream: he is at the Olympia and begins filming his TV show! However, 5 minutes before the first clap, a phone call shakes things up: his wife tells him that her water has just broken! Between the birth of his first child and his live broadcast, Max does not choose: he rushes to the maternity ward, taking his assistant and a film crew. A totally improvised show is then born before our eyes! (cineserie)

Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise. (imdb)

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.

A woman lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights. (imdb)

A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the inhabitants of Annecy. (imdb)

This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake. (imdb)

1810. Enrique Faber, a Swiss surgeon, lands in Cuba in search for his son. After a few weeks of investigation, he is told that his son was burnt alive in the attack on a plantation led by a slave revolt. Enrique Faber does not believe this. He settles in Baracoa and carries on with his research. (imdb)

A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show. (imdb)

Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent audiences stoke the jealousy even within La Grande Chaîne which he is the undisputed star. His thirst for power is limitless, which displeases the new president of the chain. The war is declared between the two men for the great pleasure of CSG. Power games, networking, manipulations and low shots: the fight will be merciless. (imdb)

Anna, a mainstream TV star with big ambitions, accepts an invitation from her fanclub asking her to spend a weekend with them, in the belief that a director she dreams of working with wishes her to. Her decision soon turns into a nightmare as she is kidnapped by her own superfans who are determined to revive her career. (imdb)

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up. (imdb)

Separated from Diego two years ago, Tamara moves to Paris to begin her studies. Forced to share a flat with Wagner, she finds her ex-lover with his new girlfriend... (wikipedia)

A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook. (imdb)

The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. (imdb)

When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now trapped between his bride, and his lover who in charge of his unwanted marriage. (imdb)

Sybille is a successful actress who's given an opportunity to direct a film based on her own screenplay, by Ingrid and Brigitte who have their own distinct ideas on how to improve the screenplay and who to cast in the lead roles. Pushing aside her acting career and her family Sybille plunges into her new found opportunity. (imdb)

Welcome to the German pen- friends ! (especially the female ones) (imdb)

In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule w/o a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls. (imdb)

Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big". To shut up the gossip, she made a bet with her best friend to go out with the first boy who pass the classroom door. No luck, the boy turns out to be Diego, the most handsome guy of high school.

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 tale of a couple of magistrates, a female judge and her husband advocate who are foster parents of a young teen whose the biological mother is in feud with the female judge, and in the same time begins an affair with the advocate. (imdb)

Jonas, 12 year-old, assumes care for younger siblings after mother abandons them. Isolated in home, they retreat into fantasy world resembling haunted castle, their reality blurring as loneliness consumes them. (imdb)

A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past. (imdb)

She went into a phone shop on the Boulevard Voltaire. She pretends to be interested in new laptops, got the number of the seller and is gone. She recalled the next day, told him she wanted to see him again. Ilan was not suspicious. He was twenty-three years of life ahead of him ...

Carré is the patron of the BRB (Prevention of Banditry Brigade). Three years earlier, he dropped a big mobster Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who swung.

The story of the marriage between Michel and Lena, as told by their daughter Anne, with reflections on the mystery of abiding love.

A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love. (imdb)

Stéphanie grew up in La Courneuve with an absent mother and a brutal stepfather. She struggles in this city where friendship is paramount. One day, she knows it, Stéphanie will leave the city to lead the life she has always dreamed of. (imdb)

A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their ... (imdb)

A fiction. An 11 year old runaway, the oldest daughter of three. An absent mother, an abusive father, a grandmother too pure to imagine what is going on. A field trip, the girl disappears... she has found refuge in a truck; an initiatory journey, a chance meeting, new encounters; a wonderful and tragic road movie with a Scottish truck driver "when love just happens". (imdb)

Max, a 6-year-old girl living with her father, invites Rose, a prostitute, to move into their apartment.

With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes. But even though everyone adores her, brothers, sister and brother-in-law are not on the best of terms and cooperation is not their strong point. (imdb)

Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face (imdb)

Frederic is a young man in social rehabilitation. He has just found a night internship, in an isolated hotel in the mountains when, one evening, he sees his boss, Jacques, together with this son, hiding a car in the parking lot. The day after, he learns that one of the clients left the hotel without notice... (imdb)

This is a fictionalized account of an incident in 1988 New Caledonia, a French colony when Kanak separatists killed three gendarmes and took another group hostage. A young French captain from the elite counter-terrorism group is sent to resolve the crisis and he finds all his skills being tested as he tries to negotiate a successful resolution without any further deaths. (tiff.net)

This program features many celebrities gathered in a restaurant, of which comedian Pierre Palmade is the director, in a multitude of short scenes and humorous sketches which are linked together. (imdb)

The harrowing true story of how French police rounded up civilian Jews living in Paris in order to send 13,000 men, women and children to their deaths at Auschwitz.

A touching politically incorrect comedy and a triumph of happiness over human mediocrity. (imdb)

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. (imdb)

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town. (imdb)

A French assassin-turned-chef travels to Hong Kong in order to avenge a murder. (imdb)

Léon returns to Dostoevsky to film an episode from The Idiot, starring Jeanne Balibar as the femme fatale Nastassia Philippovna, who finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. (themoviedb.org)

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.

As the First World War echoes in the background, Camille lives peacefully in the North-East of France. One day, she receives a letter from her husband, soldier at the war front. He is telling her that he leaves her. At once, Camille leaves her home to find her husband... (imdb)

This peculiar film has no apparent narrative. It is an assemblage of extended vignettes, a few documentarian in style, the rest fiction. (imdb)

The life story of singer Edith Piaf. (imdb)

Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, they encounter an old man and his grandchild who are on a journey to carry out a mysterious, morbid ritual designed to end a conflict between warring clans. (imdb)

Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid of growing up... But he won't be afraid to love them. (imdb)

Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between the two cafes will be exacerbated during the truckers' strike that blocks the village. (imdb)

A writer living with her mother finds her apartment cramped and makes various desperate attempts to battle writer's block.

The Charlie-Prune couple is a hassle. Nothing is going well, it's the breakdown, including on the pillow. The odd jobs, the lousy plans, the failed assaults, in short all the twisted moves that Charlie invents, it no longer works. (imdb)

A police inspector witnesses a male body being washed ashore at a beach near Lisbon/Portugal. He follows the tracks of the deceased, finds a deserted car, a video camera and encounters a misterious woman (Silvie Testud) who all seem connected to the victims death. (imdb)

Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?

Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to begin work as a translator for the giant Yumimoto Corporation. For Amélie, who spent her childhood in Japan, this is a dream come true. But unfamiliar with the customs of the Japanese workplace, she commits a series of cultural missteps and is singled out as a deviant within the company. Unable to stop her downfall, Amélie suddenly stumbles upon her own extraordinary means of liberation. (Cinema Guild Theatrical)

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. (imdb)

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. (imdb)

Follows an actress who travels through time, going from present-day Paris to the Argentine of the 1930s. (diplomatie.gouv.fr)

A pair of mismatched American brothers venture abroad to claim their inheritance in this hilarious, bi-cultural comedy. (IFC Films)

Philippe is 25 years old, he arrives one morning at his sister's house in Arcachon; she hasn't seen him for a long time; in his sister's building, he meets Betty. Betty is 20 years old, a 5-year-old boy, Damien, who lives with her with her parents, whom she loves with a tenderness that is more fraternal than maternal. During this day Betty, Philippe and Damien will meet again. An accident that should have separated them will change their lives... (wikipedia)

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisonniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past")

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls' behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.

A man phones a hotline to get help beating his video game. However, when the police overhear him, things quickly go wrong. (imdb)

The true story of the most sensational crime in French history. (Rialto Pictures)

After falling out with his father, Arab Frenchman Larbi (Amar Ben Abdallah) leaves the family home to find work. But just after his journey begins, he helps drunk dockworker Christian (Clovis Cornillac) to his apartment, drawing a kiss of thanks from Christian's beautiful wife, Bea (Sylvie Testud). Now smitten, Larbi decides to stay around and pursue Bea, against the backdrop of a colorful festival nearby. But the bigoted, jealous Christian will do anything to keep the Larbi away from his wife.

Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions. (imdb)

Isabelle is married to Paul. She has a lover, Pierre. Paul discovers the disorder of desire mixed with lies. He gives in to Marie's advances. From then on, the couple's story evolves in a double lie. They will be forced to make a choice (imdb)