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87
8.0
/104674/
79
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78
/2087/
4.2
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96
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92
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90
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cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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85
8.4
/25142/
81
/711/
81
/660/
4.3
/32473/
94
/95/
90
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83
/29/

The Salt of the Earth (2014)
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
7.6
/15548/
76
/487/
72
/247/
4.1
/51559/
94
/93/
95
/2/
68
/20/

And Then We Danced (2019)
Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.
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Kanopy
79
7.3
/3702/
74
/115/
71
/96/
3.8
/5377/
99
/88/
77
/51/
87
/23/

The Missing Picture (2013)
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.1
/3434/
70
/91/
68
/88/
3.7
/5010/
98
/40/
75
/22/
83
/16/

Ixcanul (2015)
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
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Kanopy
71
7.5
/18611/
74
/444/
72
/704/
3.6
/8681/
72
/113/
82
/624/
59
/30/
cc age 14+

Sarah's Key (2010)
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
6.7
/6156/
68
/553/
66
/633/
3.6
/26379/
86
/42/
74
/2/
64
/8/

Keep an Eye Out (2018)
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
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Kanopy
69
6.7
/812/
65
/26/
59
/46/
3.5
/982/
80
/10/
50
/9/
75
/7/

2 Autumns 3 Winters (2013)
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It’s a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart.
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Fandor
69
6.9
/10605/
72
/216/
69
/350/
3.6
/9015/
73
/82/
68
/312/
58
/26/

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
poster
68
7.1
/32006/
71
/823/
66
/643/
3.5
/13691/
71
/143/
74
/1059/
62
/31/

Micmacs (2009)
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
poster
66
6.5
/1506/
53
/16/
51
/25/
3.8
/1459/
70
/64/
52
/95/
74
/23/

The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
66
7.1
/9836/
74
/387/
75
/1033/
3.6
/9533/
57
/35/
73
/108/
49
/11/

The Round Up (2010)
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.3
/601/
57
/8/
64
/17/
3.5
/474/
94
/16/
47
/27/

La France (2007)
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.
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59
6.5
/3286/
61
/49/
60
/96/
3.2
/869/
57
/65/
66
/172/
53
/24/

After You (2003)
Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man's life and constantly tries to help him, make things better. No matter what Antoine does, he can't get Louis's mind off Blanche, the woman of his dreams, his sole obsession, the reason why he wanted to die... Antoine decides to look for her, but doesn't let Louis know.
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68
59
6.8
/3415/
68
/62/
64
/152/
3.3
/2331/
78
/45/
63
/292/
72
/15/

A Secret (2007)
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
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Kanopy
59
6.4
/2183/
67
/128/
63
/146/
3.2
/2278/
57
/23/
77
/6/
49
/13/

Django (2017)
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
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Kanopy
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54
5.6
/9912/
61
/269/
57
/375/
3.0
/11391/
56
/18/
52
/320/

Satan (2006)
A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.
poster
74
53
6.6
/590/
70
/69/
66
/76/
3.4
/1366/
100
/5/
75

Elementary (2017)
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that learning has no age limit.
poster
Netflix
66
50
6.3
/2291/
64
/98/
63
/74/
3.1
/3562/
81
/16/
69
/11/
66
/6/
cc age 17+

Cities of Last Things (2018)
Three key events during three different time periods, in three seasons, and on three nights culminate to change the life of Zhang Dong Ling.
poster
Hoopla
72
50
7.2
/2529/
76
/264/
74
/620/
3.5
/6239/
69
/1/

Patients (2017)
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
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66
49
6.5
/1315/
63
/180/
68
/225/
3.5
/26909/

Consent (2023)
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.
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49
6.5
/1978/
67
/114/
63
/203/
3.2
/2208/
63
/97/

Frenchmen (2003)
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
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62
46
6.2
/1385/
64
/197/
62
/204/
3.1
/13281/

Second Tour (2023)
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
43
6.1
/2299/
63
/216/
60
/286/
2.9
/3304/
40
/10/
25

De Gaulle (2020)
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
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62
40
6.2
/1268/
53
/19/
56
/18/
3.5
/694/
80
/25/
48
/112/
68
/9/

Heartbeat Detector (2007)
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
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63
39
6.2
/1484/
66
/240/
62
/365/
3.0
/1450/
67
/2/

Roommates Wanted (2016)
When recently widowed, it is difficult to get used to a new life ... This is the case for Hubert Jacquin, who spends most of his time in his huge apartment, depressed, in front of his TV. One day, after a misunderstanding, his life will change. Manuela, a young and bubbly adventurer in search of a dwelling calls his home! At first reluctant, Hubert will quickly get used to the presence of this energy storm, who even manages to convince him to allow two other people to stay. There are many surprises in store for Hubert ...
poster
Netflix
46
38
5.5
/4404/
57
/223/
56
/230/
2.8
/6498/
20
/5/
33
/11/
cc age 18+

Madame Claude (2021)
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
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60
38
6.1
/1032/
59
/88/
61
/215/
3.1
/967/
60

Some Like It Veiled (2017)
Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, he is opposed to his sister's love relationship and decides to remove him at any cost from Armand. To enter Mahmoud and see again Leila, Armand has no choice: he must slip the integral veil! The next day, a certain Scheherazade with a veiled face rings at the door of Leila, and she will not leave Mahmoud indifferent ...
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78
37
6.3
/77/
45
/6/
70
/6/
3.4
/736/

Feminist Riposte (2022)
Documentary that follows the movement of the collage makers throughout France.
poster
73
37
7.2
/1439/
74
/55/
66
/81/
3.7
/1557/
79
/7/

The Day of the Crows (2012)
In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers the neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won't cease to search for the place where his father's love for him is hiding.
poster
42
36
4.8
/6100/
50
/184/
48
/134/
2.7
/1213/
38
/8/
19
/224/

Dante 01 (2008)
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force, Saint-Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.
poster
64
35
6.1
/372/
66
/21/
57
/38/
3.2
/298/
67
/9/
71

Amin (2018)
Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings are sent to Senegal. One day, he meets a woman, Gabrielle, and a relationship is born.
poster
73
33
6.5
/272/
65
/8/
66
/8/
3.5
/1118/
100
/9/

If It Were Love (2020)
Fifteen young dancers of various origins and horizons. They are touring Crowd, Gisèle Vienne's dance piece on the 90s rave scene. Following them from theatre to theatre, the film documents their work as well as their strange, intimate relationships. As the line becomes blurry, the stage seems to contaminate real life – unless the opposite is happening. Little by little dance grows into a troubling journey into our nights, our parties, our loves.
poster
68
33
6.7
/607/
65
/15/
59
/19/
3.4
/267/
92
/13/
55
/5/
73
/8/

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
poster
66
32
6.4
/611/
66
/21/
64
/28/
3.5
/1794/

The Night I Swam (2018)
Snow covered mountains in Japan. Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His 6 year old son is awoken by his departure and finds it impossible to fall back to sleep. In the sleeping household, the young boy draws a picture he then slips into his satchel. On his way to school, still drowsy, he strays off the path and wanders into the snow...
poster
62
31
6.3
/537/
63
/28/
57
/29/
3.3
/4431/

Two Ships (2012)
The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness, until a violent event marks their meeting of a strange complicity.
poster
55
31
5.8
/1805/
62
/71/
56
/128/
3.0
/924/
41
/20/

The Tiger Brigades (2006)
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
poster
61
30
7.0
/1097/
64
/12/
64
/28/
3.4
/319/
43
/7/
61
/33/

The Last Mitterrand (2005)
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
poster
Hoopla
55
30
5.3
/469/
58
/45/
48
/97/
3.1
/1837/
cc age 8+

Sophie's Misfortunes (2016)
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson.
poster
58
30
6.1
/712/
62
/68/
55
/115/
2.9
/7727/
54
/8/

18 Years Old and Rising (2011)
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
poster
MUBI
61
29
6.6
/443/
66
/18/
64
/10/
3.5
/774/
67
/6/
22
/1/
76
/5/

Nana (2011)
Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.
poster
50
28
5.2
/1900/
56
/31/
48
/28/
3.0
/284/
47
/17/
39
/118/

A Few Days in September (2006)
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
poster
60
28
6.1
/1323/
66
/23/
53
/35/
3.3
/358/
57
/36/

The Ring Finger (2005)
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
poster
63
28
6.4
/730/
65
/45/
58
/69/
3.3
/805/

Sparring (2017)
Steve Landry, an aging boxer with more losses than wins, accepts to become a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay relevant.
poster
68
27
7.2
/152/
68
/15/
66
/46/
3.3
/959/

Fracture (2010)
Anna is a young teacher assigned as a substitute at a challenging middle school in the suburbs of Paris. In her class, Lakhdar, a well-behaved and promising student, has suffered a medical mishap and lost the use of his right hand.
poster
54
26
5.4
/243/
50
/28/
57
/31/
2.9
/1777/

Party of Fools (2024)
Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of so-called 'madwomen', Fanni discovers a community of modern heroines who defy her expectations, along with the unexpected friendship of fellow patients. The sumptuous and renowned 'Party of Fools' of the asylum is in preparation. Politicians, artists, and socialites will flock to it. It’s her last hope of escaping the closing trap.
poster
57
26
6.2
/896/
56
/23/
64
/44/
3.2
/271/
42
/37/

Cortex (2008)
Trapped in an old folks home where people keep going missing, an ex-cop must overcome his Alzheimers to find out who is killing people in this jigsaw thriller.
poster
60
24
6.1
/1479/
62
/35/
56
/60/
3.3
/599/
58
/6/

Lily Sometimes (2010)
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.


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