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Disney Plus
86
8.0
/107809/
78
/2072/
77
/1728/
4.2
/152298/
95
/112/
91
/1579/
86
/32/
cc age 13+

The Straight Story (1999)
A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
poster
84
7.9
/422632/
76
/10823/
78
/6833/
4.3
/1116364/
84
/264/
87
/10342/
87
/38/
cc age 18+

Mulholland Drive (2001)
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
poster
82
7.6
/28476/
73
/402/
71
/381/
3.9
/18545/
93
/160/
84
/747/
83
/40/
cc age 18+

Vera Drake (2004)
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
poster
82
7.5
/4952/
78
/66/
74
/56/
3.9
/4761/
92
/24/
91
/226/

Ponette (1996)
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.7
/76587/
75
/1678/
74
/1143/
3.9
/59307/
87
/45/
88
/1481/

Open Your Eyes (1997)
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.2
/5402/
74
/73/
69
/139/
3.7
/3522/
96
/24/
83
/39/

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/7173/
70
/155/
70
/142/
3.8
/9913/
100
/10/
87
/76/
83
/19/

Wild Reeds (1994)
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.5
/12142/
71
/168/
70
/162/
3.9
/8431/
82
/93/
81
/176/
72
/31/

All or Nothing (2002)
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.5
/79291/
71
/1664/
72
/1224/
4.1
/298393/
75
/92/
81
/1135/
79
/27/

The Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.9
/1699/
65
/20/
64
/32/
3.5
/806/
76
/37/
79
/7/
82
/15/

Safe Conduct (2002)
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.4
/3105/
73
/49/
70
/58/
3.8
/1863/
81
/16/
78
/17/
78
/13/

It All Starts Today (1999)
In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students.
poster
73
7.0
/5033/
69
/92/
64
/131/
3.2
/2393/
91
/33/
77
/134/
75
/17/

Fear and Trembling (2003)
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
poster
73
6.7
/2391/
63
/26/
61
/51/
3.4
/1447/
83
/12/
78
/9/
79
/17/

Thieves (1996)
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan's dour, stoic son. Ivan's death changes every relationship.
poster
72
6.9
/2348/
62
/24/
60
/50/
3.5
/1301/
93
/15/
79
/25/

My Favorite Season (1993)
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
poster
72
6.9
/5418/
64
/61/
63
/77/
3.4
/1160/
85
/102/
69
/102/
71
/28/

Intimate Strangers (2004)
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.
poster
71
7.2
/45747/
70
/896/
71
/823/
3.7
/31655/
64
/36/
80
/462/
62
/28/

Bitter Moon (1992)
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
poster
77
70
7.5
/13826/
73
/166/
72
/187/
3.8
/4361/
90
/198/

Life Is a Miracle (2004)
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
70
7.1
/16253/
68
/279/
67
/271/
3.8
/28739/
75
/51/
79
/234/
74
/13/

Code Unknown (2000)
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
poster
Kanopy
74
69
7.1
/6111/
74
/231/
71
/273/
3.6
/8122/
83
/65/

La Belle Verte (1996)
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
poster
67
6.2
/2844/
54
/30/
62
/48/
3.1
/1371/
85
/20/
56
/22/
74
/18/

Place Vendôme (1998)
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
poster
Kanopy
72
65
7.0
/4409/
69
/114/
68
/184/
3.5
/2203/
88
/41/
75
/65/
67
/17/

The Well Digger's Daughter (2011)
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...
poster
69
63
6.7
/7264/
62
/107/
64
/124/
3.5
/4672/
75
/24/
73
/100/
73
/15/

Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
poster
62
6.1
/1855/
68
/26/
54
/52/
3.3
/541/
65
/31/
49
/24/
59
/15/

Little Lili (2003)
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
poster
72
58
7.0
/2647/
56
/32/
63
/55/
3.4
/1057/
84
/51/
82
/69/
81
/15/

Chaos (2001)
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
poster
66
57
6.7
/4267/
66
/109/
66
/187/
3.3
/2855/
69
/41/

The Adversary (2002)
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
poster
56
6.1
/6266/
60
/83/
55
/138/
3.0
/1278/
56
/68/
54
/130/
53
/28/

Jet Lag (2002)
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?
poster
Kanopy
61
54
6.3
/5364/
59
/84/
57
/93/
3.1
/2204/
70
/23/
54
/94/
69
/11/

Nathalie... (2003)
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
poster
Kanopy
52
6.2
/1870/
62
/22/
56
/42/
3.2
/1256/
33
/6/
39
/4/

My Man (1996)
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
poster
64
49
6.3
/1954/
57
/32/
59
/87/
3.3
/1203/
71
/21/
70
/38/
66
/15/

Season's Beatings (1999)
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
poster
71
47
6.8
/1780/
69
/61/
69
/121/
3.7
/4704/
79
/19/

The Crisis (1992)
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
47
7.2
/2320/
71
/54/
70
/102/
3.7
/1831/
84
/16/

L.627 (1992)
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
poster
73
45
7.1
/1566/
70
/35/
62
/34/
3.5
/332/
84
/19/
83
/20/
74
/10/

Genesis (2004)
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
42
7.2
/2618/
62
/47/
66
/90/
3.7
/1971/
80
/10/

Captain Conan (1996)
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
poster
60
42
6.5
/2114/
63
/27/
58
/42/
3.3
/927/
43
/42/
68
/34/
59
/15/

The Children of the Century (1999)
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.
poster
60
37
6.2
/1968/
62
/16/
56
/29/
3.3
/762/
64
/44/
48
/13/
68
/24/

Alice and Martin (1998)
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleeing his father's home under troubled circumstances, their lives become intertwined.
poster
Hoopla
59
37
6.7
/1236/
63
/48/
64
/106/
3.4
/1301/
50
/10/
57
/7/
50
/8/

Marius (2013)
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.
poster
MUBI
60
36
6.1
/1683/
65
/32/
63
/40/
3.6
/3389/
42
/12/

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.
poster
Hoopla
60
36
6.8
/1240/
63
/44/
68
/95/
3.4
/1085/
56
/9/
53
/7/
47
/7/

Fanny (2013)
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, persuade her to accept the romantic advances of a much older man. To save face, Fanny accepts to marry Honoré Panisse, a rich merchant of the Vieux Port, 30 years her senior who will recognize her son.
poster
43
35
4.5
/5404/
51
/132/
46
/240/
2.3
/1981/
27
/37/

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
poster
59
33
6.7
/1241/
54
/15/
59
/26/
3.6
/1047/
54
/26/
63
/12/
46
/12/

Esther Kahn (2000)
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
poster
52
32
5.6
/2750/
58
/43/
54
/33/
2.9
/1154/
38
/28/

Speaking of Sex (2001)
A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.
poster
69
31
7.0
/1131/
67
/35/
68
/129/
3.5
/1562/
71
/1/

La scuola (1995)
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
poster
64
31
6.7
/1249/
50
/12/
55
/32/
3.3
/414/
80
/15/
68
/9/

Dry Cleaning (1997)
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
poster
60
31
5.9
/1408/
60
/38/
57
/102/
3.4
/2546/
50

Actors (2000)
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
poster
69
30
6.9
/1457/
65
/21/
69
/44/
3.5
/986/
74
/4/

The Dinner (1998)
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.
poster
44
28
5.2
/2572/
54
/25/
44
/29/
3.0
/538/
28
/25/
37
/109/
37
/11/

God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
poster
62
26
6.6
/1212/
60
/37/
62
/63/
3.3
/837/
56
/2/

The Cousin (1997)
Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over. Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the illegal practices of the policemen. Her persistent investigations, which had cornered Maurin, are leading to Gérard, and also to Nounours as the source of heroin that led to recent cases of deadly overdoses. Nounours promises Gérard increasingly bigger catches which he is intent on realising before he is forced to reveal who Nounours is to judge Lambert.
poster
66
24
6.2
/636/
65
/25/
60
/45/
3.5
/913/
75
/3/

Freedom-Oleron (2001)
39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.


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