Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche • Drama • With Régis Laroche, Philippe Petit, Marie Loustalot • 113 minutes

A gang of small-time criminals in a working-class French suburb stage a daring heist against a mysterious Saudi Prince.

“One of the most fascinating and consistently surprising auteurs t...

Directed by Céline Sallette • Drama • With Charlotte Le Bon • 2025 • 99 minutes

The debut feature of actor-turned-director Céline Sallette, Niki is a vibrant portrait of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (Charlotte Le Bon, star of The White Lotus), one of the most iconoclastic figures ...

Directed by Nicolas Peduzzi • Documentary • 2023 • 93 minutes

Jamal Abdel Kader is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, to listen to their words, to protect them from their own demons. How...

Directed by Yannick Kergoat • Documentary • 2025 • 104 minutes

It’s a scandal that has all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller. A secret meeting by the Eiffel Tower. Millions of euros crossing borders in suitcases. Cash payments to key people close to politicians. A former member of a terroris...

Directed by Antoine Chevrollier • Drama • With Sayyid El Alami, Amaury Foucher • 2025 • 103 minutes

Block Pass is a queer motocross coming-of-age drama—sensitive, deeply felt, and quietly profound—that establishes Antoine Chevrollier as a filmmaker to watch.

Reminiscent of Rebel Without a Cause...

Directed by Sebastien Marnier • Drama • With Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luána Bajrami • 2023 • 104 minutes

In this dread-soaked cerebral thriller from filmmaker Sébastien Marnier (Faultless, The Origin of Evil), a teacher throws himself from a classroom window before the terrified eyes ...

Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng • 2015 • 99 minutes

In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her fur...

Directed by Benoît Cohen • Drama • With Fanny Ardant, Nawid Elham, Pierre Deladonchamps • 2025 • 91 minutes

Celebrated actress Fanny Ardant stars as “France”, a well-to-do widow living alone in her Parisian apartment. When she hears on the radio that an NGO is pairing homeless refugees with thos...

Directed by Farid Bentoumi • Drama • With Zita Harnst, Sami Bouajila • 2023 • 86 minutes

After a fatal accident in her job at the local hospital, a nurse takes charge of the infirmary of the chemical factory where her father has worked for nearly 30 years. As she starts scheduling routine check-...

Directed by Stefan Liberski • Drama • With Benoit Poelvoorde, Camille Cottin • 2025 • 110 minutes

"Tabula rasa and vita nova," exclaims artist Jean-Yves Machond (Benoît Poelvoorde). "A clean slate and a new life." Leaving Brussels and his job as a professor to settle in Normandy, Machond searche...

Directed by Valérie Donzelli • Drama • With Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud • 2024 • 105 minutes

When Blanche (Virginie Efira) meets the charismatic Gregoire (Melvil Poupaud) at a party her twin sister Rose drags her to, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and ...

Directed by Alice Winocour • Drama • With Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin • 2023 • 105 minutes

After an idyllic date night full of red wine and a late-night motorcycle ride home, Mia (Virginie Efira) stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a downpour. Her reprieve is shatt...

Directed by François Ozon • Drama • With Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert • 2023 • 102 minutes

Paris in the 1930s. Struggling actress Madeleine and her best friend Pauline, an unemployed lawyer, live in debt in a cramped flat. Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical...

Directed by Xavier Giannoli • Drama • With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile De France, Vincent Lacoste • 2022 • 150 minutes

Lucien de Rubempré (Benjamin Voisin) is an ambitious and unknown aspiring poet in 19th century France. He leaves his provincial town, arriving in Paris on the arm of his admirer, Lo...

Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes

In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship betwe...

Directed by Éric Gravel • Drama • With Laure Calamy • 2023 • 88 minutes

Julie (Laure Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit st...

Directed by Esther Hoffenberg • Documentary • 2009 • 74 minutes

Discover France, Normandy, the most nuclearized region on the planet. With both humor and seriousness, Esther Hoffenberg explores a well-kept secret: nuclear power and the reprocessing of its waste. What does it mean to live with nu...

Directed by Alexander Sokurov • Documentary • With Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth • 2016 • 87 minutes

Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto stage...

Directed by Laurie Lassalle • Documentary • 2022 • 110 minutes

"I meet Pierrot in the fall of 2018. We protest together in the heart of the "Gilets jaunes" movement. The earth trembles and so do our hearts. Our bodies mingle with thousands of others who express their anger in the street every Sa...

Directed by Denis Imbert • Drama • 2024 • 95 minutes

A celebrated writer with a penchant for extreme experiences and solo treks, Pierre (Jean Dujardin), is a survivor of his own life. He has always done everything on his terms. One drunken evening, he climbs the facade of a building and falls se...

Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 1983 • 71 minutes

Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released – after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1983 – TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT is the story of men and women from Armenia, Poland, and Romania, mostly Jews, who fough...

Directed by Alain Cavalier • Drama • With Patrick Bouchitey, Etienne Chicot • 1976 • 97 minutes

Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss' wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint...

Directed by Alain Cavalier • Drama • With Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant • 1962 • 105 minutes

A hidden gem of 1960s New French Cinema, Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betr...

Directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel • Documentary • 1973 • 89 minutes

Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights was banned as soon it was released. A large-scale game of hide-and-seek ensued, as activists created an underground distribution network,...