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Paris, at the end of the 30s.  Laura (Natalie Portman) and Kate Barlow (Lily-Rose Depp) are two young sister fortune tellers, just finishing a European tour.  Exhausted by the tour and faced with the competition of new practices,, they meet André Korben (Emmanuel Salinger), a big cinema producer.  He is a controversial visionary; the owner of the largest cinema studio in France, using the latest American techniques to keep his company ahead of the pack.  Out of a desire to test his own scepticism and a keen sense of curiosity, Korben invites the two sisters to hold a private séance; the result turns his world upside down.  He is so disturbed that he offers them a contract to try out ambitious experiments on film.  He tells himself that cinema must innovate and surprise to evolve, that he can make the first truly authentic ghost film.  But Laura quickly gathers that Korben has other, more secret reasons for having employed them.  Together they end up forming a strange family as the onset of World War II approaches.

On the night of her 29th birthday, fun-loving Marie meets quiet comic book artist, Paul.  During an evening of drinking and dancing they are drawn to each other, and happily go home together at the end of the night.

When Marie wakes the next morning, it is 12 years later.  She is married to Paul, is the CEO of a large multinational company and has a young son – but no memory of the intervening years.  To make matters worse, her marriage is on the rocks, and Marie must now do everything she can to win back the man she loves.

Master filmmaker and champion of The French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard crafted two of cinema's most dynamic stories in Breathless and Contempt.  Filmed in 1965, Pierrot le Fou (also known as Pierrot Goes Wild and Crazy Pete) is a relentless tale of love-on-the-run.

Ferdinand "Pierrot" Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless) is a man at a crossroads in his life.  His marriage is dull and family life has all but taken over from the spontaneity of past years.  Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina, Alphaville) re-enters his life as a babysitter and Ferdinand seizes an opportunity to escape his drudgery, leaving his wife and family behind to be with the rekindled love of his life.

But his mystery mistress is not all she seems to be and soon Pierrot is caught up in a perilous mix of crime and mayhem, chased through the French countryside all the way to the Mediterranean.

Based on the novel Obsession by Lionel White, Pierrot le Fou is an energetic and subversive journey into the outer reaches of romance in the classic Godard tradition.

Based on a best-selling novel by Olivier Adam (the co-writer of Philippe Lioret's Welcome), Against the Wind is a deeply moving family drama with immense depth and heart.

One morning, Sarah (Audrey Tautou) vanishes, leaving her husband Paul (Benôit Magimel, The Piano Teacher, La Haine) and their young son and daughter reeling, without a word as to her whereabouts or a clue about when she will return.  As time passes, Paul anxiously but tenderly tries to sustain some sense of normalcy and after a year, in an attempt to start over, he reluctantly returns to his coastal home town.  There, he takes a job as a driving instructor, reunites with his estranged brother and befriends a local police officer (Isabelle Carré).  But still he dreams of Sarah, refusing to let go.  Why did she leave, and will she return?

Ignored and neglected by his parents, twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is considered a troublemaker at school, with luck seemingly never on his side, it is Antoine who ends up getting the blame for bad behaviour.  Finding refuge only in his love of cinema, Antoine soon finds it necessary to break free, and discover what the world can offer outside the confines of his everyday life.

Extras: Les Mistons, François Truffaut's 1957 Short Film (18 mins) – Original theatrical trailer – François Truffaut filmography

During the Nazi occupation of France, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), star and owner of a small theatre, stages a new play in an attempt to keep the theatre and Lucas, her Jewish husband, alive.  The atmosphere becomes charged with fear when an anti-Semitic journalist settles into the stalls.

Extras: Introduction to the film – François Truffaut Collection Trailers – Truffaut interviewed upon the film's release (1980) – The Cesar Awards 1981 – An unreleased scene – Original Theatrical trailer

Known for stylistically adventurous films like Last Year At Marienbad, French director Alain Resnais transitions to a self-consciously subdued form in Mélo.  Adapted from the 1928 play by Henri Bernstein, the film follows the evolving love triangle between a violinist's wife and his best friend.  "Mélo" is short for melodrama, and the film offers a wonderful exercise in that tried-and-true form.

On getting engaged, Thomas (Max Boubil) meets his future father-in-law Gilbert (Alain Chabat), married for 30 years to Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain).  Gilbert, disillusioned, feels that he missed out on life by getting married.  He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola (Mélanie Bernier) and to dump everything along with him.  They then drive into a wild new life as big kids, convinced that freedom lies elsewhere.

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One night in a provincial French city, Marc (Benoit Poelvoorde) meets Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) after missing his train back to Paris.  They wander the streets until morning, talking happily about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony.

They arrange to meet again and Marc takes the first morning train back to Paris.  When misfortune befalls Marc and prevents him from keeping the date, he searches for Sylvie.....only to find someone else: Sophie (Chiara Mastroianni).  What Marc doesn't realise is that Sophie is Sylvie's sister.  When Marc and Sylvie inevitably meet again, they find their unparalleled harmony still blossoms.......but is it too late?

In the middle of a winter storm, Ursus, a travelling salesman, saves two orphans who have been lost in the swirling snow and howling winds: Gwynplaine, a young boy who has been facially disfigured with a scar which makes him look like he is constantly smiling, and Dea, a young blind girl.  Many years later, when both are grown, the adoptive family travel together and put on a show where Gwynplaine has become a star.  People come from all around to see "The Man Who Laughs" as he entertains them with his unique comic talents.  This succes begins to open doors for Gwynplaine and bring him celebrity and riches, but at the same time distances him from the two people he has always loved most in the world, Dea and Ursus.  Based on the classic  best-selling book from Victor Hugo, the man who brought Les Misérables to the world.

Nicholas and his family are off to the seaside for a summer vacation, and the result is a film filled with rich humour, moments of childhood nostalgia, hilarious blunders and misunderstandings across three generations.

The first movie adaptation of Goscinny and Sempé's classic series was a worldwide hit, and this second instalment is sure to enchant children and grown-ups alike.

Léa Seydoux (Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Farewell My Queen) delivers on her promise as France's next breakthrough star with her astonishing performance in Sister, Ursula Meier's internationally-heralded and extraordinariily moving new drama about two siblings searching for a place in the world.

12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his restless older sister Louise (Seydoux) at the base of the Swiss Alps.  Every day he takes the cable car to the ski resorts above to pilfer from rich tourists, while Louise drifts through a series of part-time jobs and promiscuity, sometimes disappearing for days on end. In her absence, Simon forges a strong bond with a wealthy tourist and his fragile relationship with his sister fractures into dangerous new territory..........

The basis for hit TV show The Returned, They Came Back is a nail-biting sci-fi thriller.

One morning,  the residents of a small French city wake up to discover thousands of recently dead people walking into town. The reason why is a mystery and there is no time to look into it. Hasty reunions – some passionate, some strained – occur with the survivors.  But can they be reintegrated into society when their jobs have been filled and their partners have moved on?

As officials try to figure out what to do with them, the dead begin behaving in bizarre ways and it becomes apparent that the returnees are not exactly who they used to be.....

There is definitely something boyish about 10-year-old Laure (Zoé Héran), who has recently moved to a new neighbourhood with her parents and younger sister.  It's summertime and all the other local children are playing outside.  Laure's loneliness is breached when she meets Lisa (Jeanne Disson), who adopts Laure into her circle of friends believing her to be a boy.  Laure becomes Michaël, and no sooner has she brought about this 'transformation' than she begins joining in with the frequently boisterous activities.  Sciamma creates a vivid and naturalistic chronicle of childhood, replete with its codes of conduct.  As with so many aspects of the film, the casting and handlign of the almost exclusively non-professional child actors is impeccable.  Newcomer Héran is a revelation and the decision to cast her real-life friends adds both to the drama, the camaraderie and the film's implicit and quite incredible chemistry.

Hélène Régnier (Stéphane Audran, Babette's Feast) is a  good mother with a chequered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne'er-do-well husband (Jean-Claude Drouot, Le Bonheur) and her in-laws blame her for causing her husband's addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from Hélène's custody. Thwarted by the courts they hire a seedy penniless operative, Paul (Jean-Pierre Cassel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), to destroy her reputation. He mooves into her rooming house and begins to insinuate himself into her life, hatching darker and more convoluted plots to implicate Hélène. A harrowing thriller from France's master of suspense. La Rupture ranks among Claude Chabrol 's finest works.

Marianne is a shy 16-yeard-old who lives with her mostly absent mother, a domineering older brother, and two younger sisters of whom she largely takes responsibility for caring.  Left behind at high school where she's told her grades are too poor to continue, Marianne is soon lured out of her shell by three vivacious neighbourhood teens.  Enthralled by their bravado and brash energy, Marianne quickly adopts their flashier look and adapts to theri bolder and often reckless behaviour, making both foolish and brave choices as she struggles towards independence.

Academy Award winner Juiliette Binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career in this dazzling and emotionally rich debut feature from Italian wunderkind Piero Messina, who previously worked as the assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty.  In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna (Binoche) receives an unexpected guest.  Twenty-something Jeanne (the gorgeous Lou de Laâge) has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna's son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together.  But this is news to Anna, and Giuseppe is not yet there.  Despite the disruption to her routine, Anna invites the young guest to stay, and as the two women await Giuseppe's arrival, they slowly begin to form a connection.  Jeanne, dislocated and a little mystified at first, gradually gives in to the charms of the volcanic island.  She swims in the nearby lake and makes new friends, while Anna – watched over by a long-time family friend – comes out of her shell.  Yet still, her son's absence remains unexplained......

Days of Glory tels the story of the unsung heroes of the French World War II defensive.

Despite never having set foot on French soil before, Saïd, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the army along with 130,000 other "indigenous soldiers" to fight for their imperial masters.  But instead of praise and gratitude for their selfless aid, the Algerian soldiers faced a double attack: on one side, their Axis enemies, and on the other, the racist ignorance of their commanding officers.

Forgotten by history and denied their rightful place amongst the heroes of war, Days of Glory tells the story of the French-Algerian defensive, and shows the true extent of their sacrifice.

Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, I've Loved You So Long) stars as Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris with her French husband and teenage daughter.  When Julia is commissioned to write an article about the notorious 1942 Vel d'Hiv Roundup, she stumbles upon a secret which will change her life, and that of her family, forever.

Julia's research draws a connection between the family apartment that she and her husband are renovating, and its former residents, the Jewish Starzynski family.  Resolving to discover what became of them, she finds herself focussing on the fate of their daugher, Sarah, in an investigation that takes her across France and even back to America.  The more Julia discovers, the more she discovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, about herself.

Writer/director Ruben Alves' enormously charming, semi-autobiographical Parisian comedy hit is the story of a loving, hardworking married coule whose long-held dream of returning to their homeland finally comes true – only to be secretely undermined by their overly dependent friends and neighbours.

Maria (Rita Bianco) and José (Joaquim de Almeida) emigrated from Portugal 30 years ago.  Ever since, they have lived in the modest ground floor lodgings of a chic apartment building in Paris, raising their now adult daughter and teenage son, and becoming utterly indispensable to all around them.

When José learns he has inherited the family winery and the couple's dream of returning to Portugal is now possible, they are elated – but struggle with how to tell their loved ones.  However, word of the big news spreads anyway, and soon their family, neighbours, friends and employers are scrambling behind the scenes to find ways to prevent them from leaving......

The Volcano sees divorced couple Alain (Danny Boon) and Valérie (Valérie Bonneton), whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, travelling on the same flight t their grown-up daughter's wedding on an idyllic island in Greece.  The trouble is the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland has just erupted, grounding all flights.  Alain and Valérie must make it to theri daughter's wedding, so they team up – or try their best to!  And hit the road together for an epic journey from Paris to Greece by car, truck, boat, police car, light plane and foot.

Two good-hearted shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Central Asia that no-one has ever heard of are entrusted with a special intelligence operation: destroying the Eiffel Tower!  More naïve than evil the duo has to travel through the most hostile territory imaginable to meet their objective: France!  A France very different from the West they had heard described: Corsican nationalists, over-zealous policemen, dishonest taxi drivers, violent sports fans, crabby employees, unfriendly waiters, Kafkaesque administrations and medical malpractice......they are spared nothing!  Luckily they meet Marianne, a young and pretty reporter who mistakes them for illegal aliens and helps show them another face of France......a hospitable, magnificent and generous land where the living is easy.  Vive la France !

Dolph Springer (Reno 911's Jack Plotnick) awakens one morning to find he has lost the sole love of his live – his dog, Paul.  Desperate to reunite with his best friend and to set things right, Dolph embarks on a journey which spirals into the realm of the absurd.  On his quest, he drastically alters the lives of several severely bizarro characters, including a promiscuous pizza girl (Entourage's Alexis Dziena), a mentally unstable, jogging-addicted neighbour, an opportunistic French-Mexican gardener, an eccentric pet detective (Steve Little of HBO's Eastbound And Down) and most mysterious of all, an enigmatic pony-tailed guru, Master Chang (William Fichtner) who imparts his teachings to Dolph on how to metaphysically reconnect with his pet.  From fearless cinematic surrealist Quentin Dupieux, the director behind the head-exploding Rubber, Wrong is a wholly original and hilariously hallucinatory universe all its own.

Like millions of others worldwide, 40-year-old François Nouel is a Tour de France fan.  Unbeatable on anything to do with the race, he spends as much time as he can on his bike, to escape from a disappointing everyday existence.  At work, he's restricted to bicycle displays.  And things at home are no better: his son thinks he's a loser and his wife berates him for being a coward.  So when his wife discovers on the eve of his holidays that he's been volunteered to work on the Tour, it's too much: she tells him she wants a divorce and leaves with his son.  Then he meets Rémi Pletinckx, a depressive former sports manager who's also at the end of his rope.  Under Pletinckx's influence, François makes up his mind to live his childhood dream: to do the Tour de France.  The race begins tomorrow.  If he leaves now, one day ahead of the pros, he could even get to Paris before them.

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby (Jean Reno – The Professional, Mission: Impossible, Ronin), a brooding outlaw, encounters Quentin (Gérard Depardieu – The Closet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Card), a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him and botches his solo escape, forcing them to make a break for it together.

Unable to shake the cumbersome and clumsily helpful Quentin, Ruby pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the murder of the woman he loved, with the firm intention of getting to his hidden money before they do.

A hilarious buddy movie from one of France's most brilliant writer/directors Tais Toi ! blends fast-paced action with vaudevillian comedy to terrific effect.

Alex and Laetitia are in love.............so what's the problem?

Alex loves Laetitia.  She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex.  She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher.  In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for living, but.........Alex prefers her to keep her own place.  His official line is that they can live together, sure, "but not in the same apartment"!

As Alex desperately attempts to dissuade his gorgeous girlfriend from getting too close, he cooks up a series of situations preventing Laetitia from raising the idea of co-habitation, but which of the two stubborn lovers is going to give in first?

A lighthearted examination of modern relationships, Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours shines a bright line on the absurdities of commitment-phobia.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, and selected as Belgium's official Academy Award entry for Best Foreign Language Film, The Brand New Testament is original and hilarious.  God exists!  He lives in Brussels with his wife and daughter, Ea, and he's a real jerk to them both.  He lives in an apartment and spends most of his time in a giant office where he controls the world through an old computer.  His son, JC, whom you may have heard of, made his escape long ago.  When Ea gets fed up with her fathre, she decides to leave the nest, find her own apostles and write her own brand new testament.  But before she makes her escape, Ea hacks God's computer and leaks to the entire world their date of death by SMS.  Her deed causes worldwide panic and God must scramble to fix it before humanity finds it has no need of him.
 

The French Resistance came in all shapes and sizes!

From the furtive imagination of writer/director Yann Samuell comes the smash-hit adaptation of Louis Pergaud's classic 1912 novel (a book long on the French curriculum and reprinted over thirty times) about the rivalry between children from two villages.

A gang of bys, aged 7 to 14 led by the intrepid Lebrac (Vincent Bres) are at war with the kids of the neighbouring township, their sworn enemies.  In this uncompromising battle of honour and allegiances that's been kept alive for generations, humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme – even if it necessitates fighting naked or accepting the help offered by Lanterne (Salome Lemire) – a girl!  She's the gang's new recruit, a tomboy full of panache and ingenuity – and it seems victory could now just be a skipping stone's throw away.  But it's not easy to wage war without getting caughty by your parents..........

A huge success at the French box office in late 2011 with over 1.5 million admissions, The War of the Buttons is a cheeky family comedy about integration, independence and innocence, about conflicts big and small, and growng up.

The award-winning new film by acclaimed director Catherine Corsini, La Belle Saison (Summertime) is a luminous and evocative romance set in the turbulent '70s, powerfully depicting a story of love, duty and the courage required to pursue happiness no matter the cost.

1971.  Delphine (Izïa Higelin), a twenty-something farm girl of humble means, takes a huge step by packing up and moving to Paris, searching for independence and a life beyond the duties of her rural upbringing.  It's not long before she is drawn to dynamic thirty-something Carold (the extraordinary Cécile de France), who is actively involved in the emerging feminist movement.  Carole lives with her boyfriend, but the two women quickly fall head over heels, and become inseperable.  Their bliss is interrupted, however, when a family emergency forces Delphine back to the farm and to her mother (Noémie Lvovsky), and Carole decides to follow her.  There, the couple has to face a far different reality...

Featuring stunning production design that indelibly captures both the beauty of the French regions and the vibrant streets of Paris in the '70s, the film invites audiences to bask in the glow of a fledgling yet all-consuming passion, in all its throes.  With radiant performances and impeccable direction, La Belle Saison is French cimena at its absolute finest.

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Set during the turmoil and despair of World War II, A Bag of Marbles (also known as Un Sac De Billes) tells the remarkable true tale of two young French Jewish boys, aged 10 and 13, as they attempt the perilous journey to the southern Free Zone, to find relief and freedom from the impending Nazi occupation.  With the aid of a helpful priest the boys are driven to step out of the shadow of evil and use their wits and charm to remain one step ahead of their persecutors, in order to survive.

Based on Joseph Joffo's memoir and directed by award winning filmmaker Christian Duguay, A Bag Of Marbles is a moving story of brotherly love, tenacity and youthful reilience.

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A riveting edge-of-the-seat thriller from French master Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samouraï), capturing the cool charm of 70s Paris, Le Cercle Rouge is a quintessential crime caper considered a "classic cornerstone of the heist genre from a master of the nouvelle vague".

Reformed French criminal Corey (Alain Delon, Le Samouraï) is dragged back into the seedy underworld after a chance encouter with escaped murderer Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté, A Fistful of Dollars).  Joined by the mysterious Jansen (Yves Montand, Jean de Florette), a former policeman with a chequered past, they plot a complex jewellery heist involving a wealthy mob boss.  With Police Commissioner Mattei (André Bourvil, The Longest Day) on their case, he is determined to not only track down Vogel, but bust open the entire operation.

Desecrated graves.  Exhumed corpses which have been placed inside show homes.  The same ritual each time: a woman, a man and a teenager who were strangers in life, make up a new family in death.  In the middle of these bodies, a photo of Paul Maisonneuve.  A police legend, he is compelled to return to work and team up with Sandra Winckler, one of his old students from the police academy.
 

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A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years.  On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff.  Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge.

Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) have the perfect existence: still passionately in love, with a beautiful young son and a wonderful life ahead of them.  But their lives are shattered when, out of the blue, Lisa is arrested for the brutal murder of a colleague.

Found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison, the couple's world collapses into a frenzy of fear and paranoia.  Julien, convinced of his wife's innocence, embarks on a mission so perilous it will risk the lives of everyone he loves: he will stop at nothing to daringly break her out of prison.

With the police tracking his every move, and only his own certainty of his wife's innocence to rely on, how far will Julien go to save her?  And at what cost?