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Happiness Is in the Field (1995)
, 1h46Directed by Étienne Chatiliez
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, François Morel
Francis Bergeade, owner of a toilet seats and brushes' factory in Dole, has just turned 65 and his life is a misery. Tax services are harassing him, his snobby wife Nicole despises him, and his daughter whimsically wants to have an expensive wedding. Francis knows only moments of relief while having lunches or dinners in fancy restaurants with his best friend, car dealer Gérard. Stress become too overwhelming and while on a lunch, he suffers an attack from a blocked nerve.
The Artist (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about films, Films about television, Films about dogs, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman, Uggie, Penelope Ann Miller
In 1927, silent film star George Valentin is posing for pictures outside the premiere of his latest hit film when a young woman, Peppy Miller, accidentally bumps into him. Valentin reacts with humor to the accident and shows off with Peppy for the cameras. The next day, Peppy finds herself on the front page of Variety with the headline "Who's That Girl?" Later, Peppy auditions as a dancer and is spotted by Valentin, who insists that she have a part in Kinograph Studios' next production, despite objections from the studio boss, Al Zimmer. While performing a scene in which they dance together, Valentin and Peppy show great chemistry, despite her being merely an extra. With a little guidance from Valentin (he draws a beauty spot on her, which will eventually be her trademark, after finding her in his dressing room), Peppy slowly rises through the industry, earning more prominent starring roles.
The Little Prince (2015)
, 1h46Directed by Mark Osborne
Origin France
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Rachel McAdams, Mackenzie Foy, James Franco, Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, Benicio del Toro
This movie is not a straight adaptation of Saint-Exupéry's novel. Rather, elements from the novel are woven into an original narrative about a young girl who is dealing with her pushy Mother who wants her to grow up too fast.
Upside Down (2012)
, 1h40Directed by Juan Solanas
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Sur une planète fictive, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Jayne Heitmeyer, Blu Mankuma, Vlasta Vrána
The film starts with Adam telling the story of his two-planet home world, unique from other planets or planetary systems as it is the only one that has "dual gravity". This phenomenon of dual gravity allows the two planets to orbit each other in what would otherwise be impossibly close proximity. There are three immutable laws of gravity for this two-planet system:
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
, 2h10Directed by Joann Sfar
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Éric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis, Mylène Jampanoï
The film follows notorious musician Serge Gainsbourg's exploits from his upbringing in Nazi occupied France through his rise to fame and love affairs with Juliette Gréco, Brigitte Bardot and marriage to Jane Birkin to his later experimentation with reggae in Jamaica. It also incorporates multiple elements of fantasy, most significantly with the character called "The Mug", an animated exaggeration of Gainsbourg that acts as his conscience (or anti-conscience) at crucial moments in Gainsbourg's life. The film also includes many of Gainsbourg's more famous songs, which serve as the soundtrack to the film and often serve as plot elements themselves.
Sarah's Key (2010)
, 1h51Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mélusine Mayance, Frédéric Pierrot, Aidan Quinn
In 1942, 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) hides her younger brother from French police by locking him in a secret closet and telling him to stay there until she returns. She takes the key with her when she and her parents are transported to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where they are held in inhuman conditions by the Paris Police and French Secret Service.
War of the Buttons (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Christophe Barratier
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Casta, Jean Texier, Ilona Bachelier, Kad Merad, Gérard Jugnot
The story takes place in March 1944 in a small French village. The children from the neighbouring villages of Longeverne and Velrans have been waging this merciless war as long as anyone can remember: the buttons of all the little prisoners' clothes are removed so that they head home almost naked, vanquished and humiliated. Consequently, this conflict is known as the "War of the Buttons." The village that collects the most buttons will be declared the winner. Meanwhile, Violette, a young Jewish girl, has caught the eye of Lebrac, the chief of the Longeverne kids.
La Belle Époque (2019)
, 1h50Directed by Nicolas Bedos
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Denis Podalydès
Ancien dessinateur, Victor est aujourd'hui un sexagénaire désabusé. Son mariage avec Marianne bat de l'aile et il est désintéressé et dépassé par ce monde moderne trop technologique. Pour lui remonter le moral, son fils Maxime lui paie une soirée organisée par la société de son ami Antoine. Cette société propose à ses clients de revivre l'époque de leur choix, en mélangeant artifices théâtraux et reconstitution historique. Certains clients, fortunés, choisissent ainsi de passer une soirée avec William Faulkner, Adolf Hitler ou avec des aristocrates au XVII siècle. D'abord réticent, Victor accepte quand Marianne le met à la porte. Il opte alors pour replonger dans la semaine la plus marquante de sa vie, celle où il rencontra le grand amour, quarante ans auparavant, le 16 mai 1974, dans le café La Belle Époque à Lyon. Dans cette « mise en scène », Marianne est incarnée par Margot, une comédienne qui vit une relation compliquée et tumultueuse avec Antoine. Ce dernier, ancien scénariste, est très pointilleux et ne supporte aucune approximation de la part de ses collaborateurs. Peu à peu, Victor va se prêter au jeu, jusqu'à se perdre dans ces souvenirs « reconstitués ».
Fatal (2010)
, 1h47Directed by Michaël Youn
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films
Actors Michaël Youn, Stéphane Rousseau, Vincent Desagnat, Armelle, Isabelle Funaro, Ary Abittan
Le film conte l'histoire de Fatal Bazooka, un rappeur bling bling à succès, jusqu'au jour où un chanteur d'« électro-bio », Chris Prolls, vient lui voler la vedette et lui prend sa précieuse place de « numero Uno ».
Round Da Way (2009)
, 1h36Directed by Emmanuel Klotz
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes La banlieue française, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Le thème des vacances
Actors Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Omar Sy, Fred Testot, Gilles Lellouche, Frédérique Bel
À Condé-sur-Ginette, situé en Seine-Saint-Denis, Tony Merguez et José Frelate, deux potes de banlieue, sont prêts à partir en vacances d'été à Santo Rico, mais se font arnaquer et ne pourront pas passer leur vacances comme ils voulaient, et devront rester à Condé-sur-Ginette. Pour rattraper le coup, Tony va tenter de se faire de l'argent en travaillant pour Zoran, la brute épaisse du quartier. Ce dernier l'engage pour vendre de l'herbe. De son côté, José, hébergé chez sa cousine Jenny, se voit proposer par cette dernière de travailler pour le juge Santiépi, le père de Clémence, en effectuant des travaux dans le manoir de celui-ci. Pendant ce temps, Narbé et Sammy partent en vacances, mais pas à Santo Rico. À l'aéroport, les deux amis sont maîtrisés par les agents de sûreté, puis se retrouvent dans un parc aquatique.
Belle maman (1999)
, 1h40Directed by Gabriel Aghion
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Aviation films, LGBT-related films, Films about marriage, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Mathilde Seigner, Vincent Lindon, Line Renaud, Stéphane Audran, Danièle Lebrun
A comedy about the ideal dysfunctional family in modern France, the grandmother is a lesbian, her girlfriend is mentally unstable, her daughter is a free spirit and her granddaughter is a seriously uptight attorney.
Beur sur la ville (2011)
, 1h55Directed by Djamel Bensalah
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes La banlieue française, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Booder, Sandrine Kiberlain, Steve Tran, Josiane Balasko, Issa Doumbia, Gérard Jugnot
At 25, while Khalid Belkacem had wasted his BEPC, its traffic, its BAFA, and even his BCG. He did not expect to become the first "positive discriminated" of the police.
Jimmy P. (2013)
, 1h56Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Psychologie
Actors Benicio del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Elya Baskin, Gina McKee, Joseph Cross, Larry Pine
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Jimmy Picard, un vétéran nord-amérindien de la tribu des Pieds-Noirs, est admis au Winter Veteran Hospital de Topeka au Kansas fondé par le psychiatre Karl Menninger. Souffrant de maux de tête aigus, d'absences et de crises d'angoisse incontrôlables qu'aucun médecin ne réussit à relier à une cause physiologique liée à son accident survenu en France, il est pris en charge par Georges Devereux, un ethnologue français originaire d'Europe centrale, spécialiste des cultures amérindiennes.
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Chico & Rita (2010)
, 1h34Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Peter Appel, Jay Benedict
In present-day Havana, Chico, a shoe-shiner, tunes his radio to the Radio Progreso station, which is playing old Cuban hits on a program called Melodies from Yesterday. As he listens, the station begins to play a romantic arrangement of A Taste of Me (Sabor a Mí) by Mexican composer Álvaro Carrillo (1921–69) which causes him to remember his life back in 1940s Cuba. In 1948 Havana, Chico and his best friend Ramón are struggling dandies in a low-life bar. Ramon arranges a double date for the both of them with two American tourists. They take the women to a bar where Chico falls in love with the band's beautiful lead singer, Rita. Chico attempts to talk to her, but an American tourist refuses to let Rita leave him. Chico and Ramón go to the Tropicana Club with their lady-friends, and sneak in through the performer’s entrance. While walking around, Chico sees upon Rita and her gentleman friend arguing. The Maitre d' overhears that Chico is an accomplished pianist and persuades him to substitute for the main event's missing pianist. Chico fills in, playing at first sight a new piece—Ebony Concerto by Igor Stravinsky. Chico, initially nervous, ends up performing the piece with aplomb, to the delight of the band. Rita finally agrees to ditch her date and flee with Chico on Ramón’s motorcycle and sidecar, along with the Americans. After a dangerous chase, the American man finally crashes into a car dealership, and the others escape. Rita and Chico leave the rest of the party and go to a bar where Chico introduces her to bebop music, which she takes up quickly. Afterwards they go to Chico’s place and spend the rest of the night together. The next day Rita wakes up to find Chico playing a new composition on the piano, which he names "Rita". As they play and kiss, Juana, Chico’s former girlfriend, walks in and picks a fight with Rita. The two women angrily leave Chico, feeling betrayed. However, Chico is still smitten with Rita and begs Ramon to convince her to perform with him for an upcoming radio contest. Ramon pays Rita to sing with Chico but after the contest, Rita leaves Chico without speaking to him. He follows her to the house of a santera, who predicts that Chico will cause her much suffering. That night, the station announces that Chico and Rita have won a month's engagement at the Hotel Nacional. A few weeks later, Chico and Rita are having great success in their performances. Rita’s beauty mesmerizes all the men, which ignites Chico’s jealousy. One of the admirers, Ron, asks Rita to his table to discuss business. He offers to take Rita to New York City to make her a star, where jazz and Latin music are a burgeoning scene. However, Rita insists that the offer must include Chico. Meanwhile, Chico has been watching from a distance and becomes jealous, believing Rita wishes to leave him for Ron. Rita attempts to explain that she is fighting for both of them to go to New York together, but Chico storms off. Rita goes to his apartment and waits for Chico, but falls asleep in the courtyard. She is awakened by Chico stumbling home with Juana. Hurt, Rita agrees to go to New York with Ron, alone. After her departure, Chico becomes depressed and he and Ramon eventually secure the means to go to New York to seek their fortunes as well. Chico and Ramón give Chano Pozo a letter of recommendation they received from his sister in Cuba. Chano is receptive and excited to meet fellow Cubans. However, he is involved in drugs and has a short temper. After discovering he was sold oregano instead of marijuana, Chano attacks the dealer, who later finds him in a bar and kills him. Chico finds work as a party musician, and Ramón as an usher at the Plaza Hotel. At one of his party gigs, Chico runs into a successful Rita again, who is hurt by the racist doubts of her fellow party goers about her upcoming film project. Chico and Rita run away in her new car and spend the night together again. The next day, Ron locates Ramón and proposes a deal to finance his artist-agency business, as long as Ramon finds jobs to keep Chico away from Rita. Ramón complies with his end of the bargain and signs Chico with Dizzy Gillespie, who gives him a gig in Paris and a European tour. Rita becomes a big film star while Chico finds a new girlfriend in Paris. One morning, while playing "Rita" at the piano, the girlfriend's dog, Lily, comes in and sits by Chico. He decides to change the name of the song to "Lily". Back in New York, despite her wealth and success, Rita is still mistreated socially due to her skin color. While being driven to a set, the radio plays a new Jazz hit that she instantly recognizes as the piece Chico composed for her. She is moved to tears when she learns Chico renamed the song. In New York, Rita goes into a bar and sees Chico playing "Lily". She waits for him outside the bar and demands to know who Lilly is. He teases her about the mystery female's identity, but finally reveals that he renamed the song after a dog. The two passionately kiss and make up. A paparazzo captures the kiss in a photograph that appears in the newspapers. Chico and Rita agree to marry that New Year’s Eve, after Rita’s debut in Las Vegas. Chico tells Ramón, who worries that their reunion will ruin his business. Ramón slips a packet of drugs into Chico’s coat, which police discover during a search after a raid on his gig at the Palladium in New York. They arrest Chico, and won't let him make a phone call to Rita, who waits in vain in a Las Vegas motel. Chico is soon deported back to Cuba. Upset, Rita becomes drunk before her New Year's Eve performance, believing that Chico left her again. Despite Ron's urging to not "spoil it all now", Rita deliberately sabotages her career by denouncing the racism of the Hollywood industry and the hypocrisy of being a celebrated black artist. Meanwhile, Chico enters Cuba right at the beginning of Castro's regime, and the new Cuban revolutionary authorities seize his passport. All venues are now forbidden to play jazz because it is "capitalist music." Disappointed with life, Chico gives up music altogether. Sixty years later, when Chico is shining shoes for a tourist, a young man rushes to him and tells him that a famous young singer and her entourage are eagerly asking for him and his jazz music. He reluctantly agrees to meet them and for the first time in years he plays his music for an audience. The singer asks him to record a song with her and Chico agrees. It becomes a big hit and takes him on a world tour, giving him success for the second time. After the tour, Chico is allowed re-entry into the United States. He searches for Rita, starting in New York. He eventually finds Ron in a nursing home and discovers that his friend Ramón has died and learns Rita is in Las Vegas. He goes there and knocks on her door and she reveals that she has stayed for 47 years in the same motel room, working as the motel's housekeeper and waiting for him. The film ends with their reunion.
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Espace détente (2005)
, 1h42Directed by Yvan Le Bolloc'h, Bruno Solo
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Bruno Solo, Yvan Le Bolloc'h, Armelle, Jeanne Savary, Tom Novembre, Thierry Frémont
C'est en France, dans le département reculé de la Veule (numéro 96) qu'une moyenne entreprise, la G.E.S. (Geugène Electro Stim), survit grâce à la fabrication et la vente d'un appareil de stimulation électrique, nommé C14, ancien mais pas cher. La perspective d'un nouveau produit va jeter les managers dans des actions aussi cyniques que pathétiques.