Genre: France
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Nuit de Chien (2008)
Cast: Pascale Greggory, João Baptista, Marc Barbé …
Directed by: Werner Schroeter
Fresh from fighting fascists in the mountains, Ossorio Vignale (Pascale Greggory) arrives in his hometown late one night, hoping to find the woman he loves, Clara, so they can escape the…
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Inju: the Beast in The Shadow (2008)
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Gen Shimaoka …
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Young French writer Alex Fayard (Benoît Magimel) scores a major triumph with his crime novel styled after the work of his literary hero, Japanese author Shundai Oe. But while on a book…
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Louise-Michel (2008)
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners
Directed by: Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern
When a surprise downsizing leaves a group of French toy factory workers angling for revenge, slow-witted Louise (Yolande Moreau) comes up with a bright idea: pool their meager resources and…
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The Girl from Monaco (2008)
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin …
Directed by: Anne Fontaine
Middle-aged lawyer Bertrand (Fabrice Luchini) chafes at the presence of Christophe (Roschdy Zem), a bodyguard assigned to protect him during a dangerous case. Things worsen when Bertrand…
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Zion and His Brother (2008)
Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Tzachi Grad, Reuven Badalov …
Directed by: Eran Merav
Two Israeli brothers, 14-year-old Zion (Reuven Badalov) and 17-year-old Meir (Tzachi Grad), must repair their once-fiercely close relationship and face the secrets they've kept after an…
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Back to Normandy (2008)
Cast: Nicolas Philibert, Anne Borel, Claude Hebert …
Thirty years after assisting director René Allio on a film about a 19th century triple homicide, documentarian Nicolas Philibert returns to the scene of the crime and site of the…
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One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos …
Directed by: Amos Gitai
All his life, Victor (Hippolyte Girardot) has remained in the dark when it comes to his Jewish mother's (Jeanne Moreau) side of the family. She's absorbed in the trial of Nazi…
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Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Cast: Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier …
Directed by: Pascal-Alex Vincent
French 18-year-old twin brothers Antoine (Alexandre Carril) and Quentin (Victor Carril) journey on foot to their mother's funeral in Spain, but romantic entanglements along the way with…
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Skirt Day (2008)
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Yann Collette …
Directed by: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Still reeling from her husband's announcement that he's leaving her, Sonia Begerac (Isabelle Adjani) throws on a skirt and walks head-first into her new job as a teacher. But a day…
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The New World (2008)
Cast: Natalia Dontcheva, Vanessa Larré, Andréa Ferréol …
Directed by: Étienne Dhaene
When her biological clock starts ticking, Lucie (Natalia Dontcheva) tells her lesbian lover, Marion (Vanessa Larré), that she wants a baby. Marion agrees, and the couple embarks on the…
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The Other One (2008)
Cast: Dominique Blanc, Cyril Gueï, Peter Bonke …
Directed by: Patrick-Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic
Fortysomething social worker Anne-Marie (Dominique Blanc) breaks up with her younger boyfriend, Alex (Cyril Gueï), telling him to find someone his own age. But when he embarks on a new…
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The Apprentice (2008)
Cast: Mathieu Bulle, Paul Barbier, Jeanine Barbier …
Directed by: Samuel Collardey
Blurring the line between fiction and documentary, this French film profiles vocational high school student Mathieu, an emotionally guarded teenager who develops a meaningful bond with an…
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Frontier of Dawn (2008)
Cast: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz …
Directed by: Philippe Garrel
Following a passionate affair with high-strung actress Carole (Laura Smet), young photographer François (Louis Garrel) finds contentment with the beautiful Ève…
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Our Forbidden Places (2008)
Directed by: Leila Kilani
Filmmaker Leila Kilani follows four families -- including an aging former prisoner named Hassan and a girl seeking the real story behind her lost grandfather -- on their tumultuous journey to…
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Rumba (2008)
Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz …
Directed by: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
When happy-go-lucky rumba dancer Fiona and her dance-partner husband, Dom (co-directors Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel), suffer a severe car crash, they choose not to let Fiona's…
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The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Cast: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier …
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical…
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Adhen (2008)
Cast: Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche, Abel Jafri, Sylvain Roume …
Directed by: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Surrounded by devout Muslims in the shipping company where he labors in the industrial outskirts of Paris, Titi (Christian Milia-Darmezin) converts to their faith, but soon discovers that…
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Versailles (2008)
Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith Chemla …
Directed by: Pierre Schoeller, Pierre Schöller
Finding it nearly impossible to raise her 5-year-old son, Enzo (Max Baissette de Malglaive), on the streets, Nina (Judith Chemla) makes a shocking decision in this moving French drama. After…
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The Wedding Song (2008)
Cast: Lizzie Brocheré, Olympe Borval, Simon Abkarian …
Directed by: Karin Albou
Muslim Nour (Olympe Borval) and Jewish Myriam (Lizzie Brochere) grew up in the same Tunisian neighborhood and remain best friends as young women in 1942. But when the Nazi occupation affects…
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Aka Ana (2008)
Directed by: Antoine d'Agata
Noted French photographer Antoine d'Agata offers this searing, sexually explicit documentary that chronicles the eerily seductive -- and destructive -- lives of prostitutes in Japan,…
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Let It Rain (2008)
Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Agnès Jaoui …
Directed by: Agnès Jaoui
Returning to her provincial home in the south of France, feminist politician Agathe Villanova (Agnès Jaoui) struggles to reconcile herself with the old-fashioned family she left…
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, Marie-Josée Croze …
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric stars as author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby -- who suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him mute and paralyzed -- in this adaptation of Bauby's…
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La Vie en Rose (2007)
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory …
Directed by: Olivier Dahan
Director Olivier Dahan paints a poignant portrait of legendary Parisian singer Édith Piaf, whose passion for music saw her through a life filled with tragedy. The film follows the chanteuse…
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Persepolis (2007)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Tilly Mandelbrot …
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature Film follows a young woman's childhood in repressive Iran, her adolescence in…
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Love Songs (2007)
Cast: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni …
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
Ismael (Louis Garrel) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) become involved in a three-way relationship when they both fall for Alice (Clotilde Hesme), but the complicated emotional entanglements…