Directed byOlivier Peyon OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsIsabelle Carré, Ramzy Bedia, Maria Dupláa Roles Producer Rating67% C’est en Uruguay que Sylvie retrouve enfin la trace de son fils, enlevé il y a quatre ans par son ex-mari. Avec l'aide précieuse de Mehdi, elle part le récupérer mais arrivés là-bas, rien ne se passe comme prévu : l'enfant, élevé par sa grand-mère et sa tante, semble heureux et épanoui. Sylvie réalise alors que Felipe a grandi sans elle et que sa vie est désormais ailleurs.
, 1h56 Directed byAlan Rickman OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance ThemesPolitique, Political films, Films about royalty ActorsKate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Ehle Roles Producer Rating64% After having been appointed by King Louis XIV of France on a project for the gardens of Versailles, landscaper Monsieur André Le Nôtre interviews various contractors for embarking on this project, one of whom is a woman with an unconventional sense of gardening, Sabine de Barra. When noticing her move a plant pot in his garden prior to her interview, André confirms Sabine is not a conformist in gardening, which she explains during the interview as wanting to give something uniquely French and not simply abide by the past.
, 1h40 Directed byFabienne Godet OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy-drama ThemesMedical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Piano, Films about disabilities, Photographie ActorsBenoît Poelvoorde, Ariane Labed, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Jacques Spiesser, Julie Moulier, Marie-Armelle Deguy Roles Producer Rating64% À Bruxelles, Antoine, la quarantaine un peu usée, est photographe sur commande. Il mène sa vie entre la bouteille et des réparties ironiquement désabusées. Il s'occupe également de Matéo, le petit garçon d'une voisine qu'il garde, fait travailler et qu'il éduque avec sa façon de voir la vie. Les notes de l'étude Révolutionnaire de Chopin à travers la cour lui font remarquer une étudiante dans un appartement en face. Un soir de 31 décembre, alors qu'il la suit au bout de son objectif, il la perd avant de la retrouver sur le toit à esquisser quelques pas de danse et qu'elle se jette dans la cour. Antoine prévient les secours et l'accompagne à l'hôpital : Elena n'a finalement que quelques fractures. Il découvre une personnalité idéaliste et exigeante. Leurs fêlures les font se rapprocher. Elena, qui a repris sa thèse sur l'archéologie égyptienne sous-marine, est également éducatrice dans un centre pour délinquantes. Leur relation, platonique, va les aider à retrouver une confiance en eux et éclaircir leurs vies respectives.
, 1h33 Directed byRoger Michell OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ActorsJeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Olly Alexander, Xavier de Guillebon, Judith Davis Roles Producer Rating63% Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg Burrows (Lindsay Duncan) are a married academic couple from Birmingham advancing in age and tension. To mark their 30th wedding anniversary, the two embark on a trip to the place they honeymooned three decades ago: Paris, France. Hoping to rejuvenate their marriage, the couple arrives in Paris only for things not to go as planned. Eventually, the two bump into Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), with whom Nick went to university and who is now a successful writer, and attend a dinner party of his that ultimately opens up a new view of life and love for the aging couple.
, 1h35 Directed byJulie Gavras GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance ActorsWilliam Hurt, Isabella Rossellini, Doreen Mantle, Kate Ashfield, Aidan McArdle, Arta Dobroshi Roles Producer Rating56% A couple, Adam (Hurt) and Mary (Rossellini), are both heading into their sixties, but react to this differently. A retired teacher, Mary begins to make adjustments to their home to make it more practical for their age. Adam is defensive to any changes and fiercely defends his progression as an architect. They live in London, next door to Mary's mother, Nora who raised her daughter in Italy. Mary worries about an incident of memory loss and her doctor prescribes her to keep active. Adam, insulted by an offer to design a retirement home, instead turns his attention to the proposal of a young associate, Maya (Dobroshi) to participate in a competition to design a new museum. Adam becomes nocturnal, working on the project over-night with young associates. Mary becomes used to an increasingly empty home, but attracts an admirer at the gym.
GenresDrama ActorsDiane Kruger, Ludivine Sagnier, Denis Ménochet, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Spiesser, Anne Benoît Roles Producer Rating60% La mort brutale d'une mère, terrassée par un accident vasculaire cérébral au volant de sa voiture, laisse ses deux filles dans le deuil. Clara, très rigide et stricte, va devoir s'occuper de sa sœur Lily, fille sauvageonne, immature, fantasque et désinhibée. L'aînée, femme modèle citadine mariée à Pierre, un avocat plein d'avenir, décide de quitter la capitale et son foyer pour se consacrer à Lily restée seule dans la maison familiale à la campagne. Clara sous l’influence de Lily remet progressivement sa vie en question et se prend à goûter à une certaine liberté.
, 1h47 Directed byFabienne Godet OriginFrance GenresDrama, Documentary Roles Producer Rating66% Ancien braqueur fiché au grand banditisme, Michel Vaujour a toujours préféré la fuite à la prison, l’aventure à la soumission, la liberté à la loi. En l’espace de 30 ans, il aura passé 27 ans en prison – dont 17 en cellule d’isolement – et sera parvenu à s’en échapper à cinq reprises avant d’obtenir une libération conditionnelle en 2003.
, 1h37 Directed byAlexis Dos Santos OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance ActorsDéborah François, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, Richard Lintern, Katia Winter, Alex "Al" Weaver Roles Producer Rating63% The film tells the story of a couple of young people trying to deal with their life problems. A 20-year-old boy from Spain, Axl, travels to London to find his father who left during his childhood and who Axl doesn't remember anything about. A Belgian girl, Vera, came to London to overcome a recent breakup. They both try alcohol, random sex encounters, dancing, and music, but neither of them finds what they are looking for - until one day they meet and are then ready to move on with their lives.
, 1h39 Directed byNicolas Saada OriginFrance GenresDrama, Thriller, Spy, Romance ThemesSpy films ActorsGuillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas, Stephen Rea, Hippolyte Girardot, Archie Panjabi, Vincent Regan Roles Co-Producer Rating58% Vincent, un ancien étudiant de Sciences Po, marginal et délinquant, est bagagiste dans un aéroport. Avec son collègue, il a l'habitude de fouiller les valises. C'est alors qu'il se trouve embarqué dans une affaire d'espionnage. Des agents de la DST lui proposent de séduire Claire afin de surveiller les agissements de son mari, un homme d'affaires.
, 1h53 Directed byChristian Carion OriginFrance GenresDrama, Thriller, Spy ThemesSpy films, Politique, Political films ActorsGuillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Willem Dafoe, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina, Fred Ward, Alexeï Gorbounov ou Aleksey Gorbunov Roles Producer Rating68% In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet spies, to the government of France, then under the newly elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist in coalition with the Communist Party. Grigoriev (code-named Farewell by the French intelligence service) hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses Pierre Froment, a naïve French engineer based in Moscow, as his unlikely intermediary. After the first transfer of information, Pierre confides in his wife Jessica, who is adamant about his stopping to preserve their family. Grigoriev persuades Pierre to continue without telling Jessica. He will accept neither money nor defection as a reward, but sometimes requests small gifts from Pierre's trips to France, such as a Sony Walkman and Queen cassette tapes for his son, some cognac, or books of French poetry. As Farewell's prodigious output blossoms, the French are bewildered by the sheer scale and yield of top Western technology transferred covertly to the Soviets.
, 2h18 Directed byÉrick Zonca OriginFrance GenresDrama, Thriller, Crime ThemesFilms about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs ActorsTilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Jude Ciccolella, Bruno Bichir Roles Producer Rating69% In California, an alcoholic named Julia (Tilda Swinton) is out of control, partying every night, and waking up in unknown homes with no memory of the previous night. Her reckless behavior costs her her job and she begins to go broke. She soon meets a mother, Elena (Kate del Castillo), at an AA meeting. Elena takes Julia into her apartment after finding her passed out on the pavement one night. The following morning Elena explains that she wants to kidnap her son Tom (Aidan Gould) from his wealthy grandfather and asks Julia to participate for $50,000. Julia declines, but after some time changes her mind. She visits an old friend to ask for his cooperation, but her offer is refused. She rides to the Mexican border, kidnaps the little boy and blackmails Elena's father-in-law for $2 million. The police discover her whereabouts and she flees, accidentally crashing her car through the wall dividing United States and Mexico. There, the boy is kidnapped in turn by Mexican kidnappers. Her friend Mitch (Saul Rubinek) arrives in Mexico and gives Julia the ransom money. During the exchange, the Mexican kidnappers escape with the money, leaving the boy safely with Julia.
, 1h29 Directed byAsif Kapadia OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Thriller, Crime, Romance ThemesFilms about magic and magicians ActorsMichelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean, Donald Moffat, Charles Durning, Patricia Arquette Roles Producer Rating60% The film opens up with a voiceover of a woman named Saiva telling the listener that a shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she cared for. While she and a young woman named Anja are camping in a subarctic region of Siberia, in desperation, she takes one of her sled dogs and slits after calming it, slits it throat, foreshadowing the shaman's prophecy about her birth. She and Anja then set out to relocate their camp. On the way, they almost get caught by Soviet/Russian soldiers. Fearing the worst, Saiva ventures out with Anja into the far north to the arctic tundra, passing abandoned telephone wire trees and to the area where she believes no one would ever find them. After a long paddle north, they pitch camp on a beach, where they set up their yurt.
, 1h30 Directed byFabienne Godet OriginFrance GenresDrama ThemesFilms about the labor movement ActorsOlivier Gourmet, Dominique Blanc, Julie Depardieu, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Michel Portal, Jean-Marie Winling Roles Producer Rating62% Après avoir pris en chasse les trois occupants d'une voiture, un automobiliste s'arrête sur le parking d'un hôtel-restaurant, où il tente de reprendre ses esprits. Il est alors abordé par une jeune femme, qui lui demande de bien vouloir la conduire à la gare... Quelque temps plus tôt. La quarantaine, François Durrieux vit à Nantes avec son épouse, Clémence, et leur fils unique, Benjamin. Cadre supérieur dans une imprimerie locale, il se soumet sans broncher au rythme de travail soutenu imposé par le directeur, Dominique Brunner. Son ami Simon Lacaze, qui refuse de sacrifier sa vie privée, est d'ailleurs le seul employé à oser s'opposer à certaines des directives patronales.