Genre: France
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Livid (2011)
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Catherine Jacob, Jérémy Kapone …
Directed by: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Lucie (Chloé Coulloud), a young nurse, is training to work as an at-home caregiver for the comatose Mrs. Jessel (Marie-Claude Pietragalla). When Lucie hears a rumor that there's…
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The Time That Remains (2011)
Cast: Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri …
Directed by: Elia Suleiman
From the creation of Israel in 1948 through the early 21st century, a Palestinian family experiences a myriad of triumphs and tragedies over the course of several generations in this sweeping…
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The Prodigies (2011)
Cast: Jeffrey Evan Thomas, Moon Dailly, Lauren Ashley Carter …
Directed by: Antoine Charreyron
Five teenage prodigies brutally beaten in New York's Central Park plot an apocalyptic revenge against the world. Only master prodigy Jimbo Farrar knows their formidable power. But can he…
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From Paris with Love (2010)
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak …
Directed by: Pierre Morel
While working at the American embassy in Paris, low-level intelligence agent James Reece gets embroiled in espionage when he's pulled into a terrorist plot by high-ranking American…
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Certified Copy (2010)
Cast: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carriere …
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
In Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's captivating meditation on art and love, British writer James Miller meets a beautiful gallery owner in Tuscany and begins -- or possibly continues…
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22 Bullets (2010)
Cast: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin …
Directed by: Richard Berry
Charly Matteï (Jean Reno) hasn't been in the killing business for years. But when he narrowly survives a hit on his own life, he comes out of retirement to exact revenge against the…
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta …
Directed by: Joann Sfar
Eric Elmosnino stars as Serge Gainsbourg in this foreign-language biopic about the life and career of the famed French singer-songwriter who, as a young Jew, survived the Nazi occupation of…
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Rubber (2010)
Cast: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser …
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
In this inventive twist on low-rent revenge flicks, a car tire named Robert rolls through the desert Southwest, using its strange psychic powers to blow everything up. But when Robert spies a…
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Little White Lies (2010)
Cast: François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel …
Directed by: Guillaume Canet
When Max and Vero's friend is seriously injured in an accident, they choose to go ahead with a planned birthday celebration at their beach house -- an event that usually draws a…
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Potiche (2010)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini …
Directed by: François Ozon
Director François Ozon spins a deft social comedy of the French bourgeoisie starring some of that country's most celebrated actors, including Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve and…
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Heartbreaker (2010)
Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier …
Directed by: Pascal Chaumeil
Alex -- along with his sister, Melanie, and her husband, Marc -- earns money by breaking up relationships. But when Alex falls for a client's daughter, Juliette, he must decide if…
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Sarah's Key (2010)
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup …
Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Paris, 1942: To protect her brother from the police arresting Jewish families, a young girl hides him away, promising to come back for him. Sixty-seven years later, her story intertwines with…
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The Tree (2010)
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas …
Directed by: Julie Bertuccelli
After her husband's sudden death, Dawn must provide for her four kids despite her grief, while young Simone is convinced her father's spirit now lives in a giant fig tree in the…
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Love Crime (2010)
Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille …
Directed by: Alain Corneau
French director Alain Corneau delivers a chilling tale of two ambitious women -- a senior executive and her eager young assistant -- whose professional appetites grow dangerously personal as…
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Rio Sex Comedy (2010)
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob …
Directed by: Jonathan Nossiter
Jonathan Nossiter directs this gleefully chaotic comedy that follows three sets of outsiders as they explore -- and to varying degrees get transformed by -- Rio de Janeiro's steamy and…
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Mammuth (2010)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Albert Delpy …
Directed by: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine
Slaughterhouse worker Serge (Gérard Depardieu) is ready to reap his pensioner's rewards but finds that former employers have neglected to declare his earnings. Climbing on his aged…
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Of Gods and Men (2010)
Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin …
Directed by: Xavier Beauvois
A group of French Trappist monks making their home in the Algerian mountains have ample reason to believe they're in danger. But their assumption that there can be common ground between…
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Dumas (2010)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Benoit Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc …
Directed by: Safy Nebbou
Gérard Depardieu stars as famed French novelist Alexandre Dumas in this expansive biopic about Dumas's professional partnership with Auguste Maquet (Benoît Poelvoorde), his…
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Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010)
Cast: Geraldine Pailhas, Pascal Greggory
Directed by: Lodge Kerrigan
A multilayered experimental drama, this film within a film stars Geraldine Pailhas as both an actress playing Grace Slick, lead vocalist of the psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, and…
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White Snow (2010)
Cast: François Cluzet, Olivier Gourmet, Louise Bourgoin …
Directed by: Christophe Blanc
When Finnish mobsters kill his underhanded business partner and then start shaking him down, wealthy car dealership owner Maxime (François Cluzet) decides to bypass the cops and confront the…
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Chantrapas (2010)
Cast: David Tarielashvili, Tamuna Karumidze, Fanny Gonin …
Directed by: Otar Iosseliani
Like every artist, filmmaker Nicolas (David Tarielashvili) craves unfettered freedom of expression. Unable to find it in his native Georgia, he moves to France. But he soon discovers that…
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Roses on Credit (2010)
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Pierre Arditi …
Directed by: Amos Gitai
During World War II, young French couple Daniel (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Marjoline (Léa Seydoux) marry, and after the war ends, their relationship is tested by…
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The Game of Death (2010)
Cast: Laurent Le Doyen, Denis Loubaton, Tania Young …
Directed by: Thomas Bornot
In this study of obedience and authority, documentarian Thomas Bornot pushes reality TV to the bone-chilling limit: He stages a game show in which contestants submit to electric shocks of…
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Carlos (2010)
Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo …
Directed by: Olivier Assayas
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez -- aka Carlos the Jackal -- is an elusive Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassination plots, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle…
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Transfer (2010)
Cast: B.J. Britt, Regine Nehy, Ingrid Andree …
Directed by: Damir Lukacevic
A loving elderly couple (Hans-Michael Rehberg and Ingrid Andree) decides to undergo an astonishingly advanced but ethically dubious medical procedure to extend their lives in this…