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After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the south Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died a few years later. Or did he? Using a combination of historical record and creative speculation, Antoine de Caunes has created a fascinating portrait of the Emperor's exile. (Empire Pictures)

A shaky camera takes us through Paris: the winding tunnels where the Metro trains run; the glittering neon-lit city streets; on shopping trolleys through stores; up onto abandoned roofs; and into the labyrinth of fear and desire (imdb)

Gérard and Hélène are set to begin a new life together in Argentina. At the last minute, Gérard decides to separate and leaves his partner stranded at the airport. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatised, the abandoned Hélène makes the airport her home. She makes money by working as a prostitute and strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco. It is a precarious lifestyle but she has mastered her dependency on men - or has she? (imdb review)

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve... (imdb)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews.

After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.

A gripping police noir, Le Petit Lieutenant tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives, and developing and unlikely relationship with his superior, a veteran policewoman with a troubled past. But when the body of a drifter is found murdered along the Seine, a seemingly routine investigation suddenly turns violent and forever changes all their lives. (Cinema Guild)

In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne... (imdb)

1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army, along with 130,000 other "indigenous soldiers," to liberate the "fatherland" from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy, Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion. (The Weinstein Company)

Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia (Chiara Mastroianni)... (imdb)

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks. (imdb)

The plot involves a Parisian attorney who travels to Monaco to defend a woman accused of murder. On arriving, he finds that he's been assigned a bodyguard who becomes a major part of the story. He also rather quickly finds himself becoming involved with locals, among them an aggressive young female who does the weather on a local TV channel but has much higher aspirations. (imdb)

Follows police officer Marek, who loses his colleague and best friend during an operation against a drug trafficking network. Transferred to a new department specializing in undercover work, Marek must infiltrate a gang sending large quantities of cannabis resin from the south of Spain to French towns. (movies.yahoo.com)

A strange woman staggers through the streets of Paris before collapsing unconscious on a sidewalk. No one stops for her, except for Sami (Roschdy Zem), an Algerian man jogging by. Nina (Fanny Ardant), the fallen pedestrian, goes out looking for her Sami, and finds her savior dressed up as a drag queen, hustling on a street corner. Drag queen or not, Nina falls in love with him. One day at a time, the two fallen angels help each other pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. (tlavideo.com)

A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does NOT have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work... (imdb)

A mid-age high class teacher's life breaks down on his birthday, when the family finds out about a secret affair, and to be closer to his children he moves to Paris. He moves in to a trash-neighbourhood at the over-wild and rough high school he starts to work in. (imdb)

Four friends - an oyster-farmer, an accountant's assistant, a restaurateur and a blue-collar worker - decide to take on a multi-national agro-chemical company with a turnover of €9bn and which has been polluting their region on a large scale. Having been awarded a paltry amount of compensation, they decide to seek true justice. They have however just 30 days to uncover vital new evidence ... (answers.com)

A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked. (imdb)

A North African immigrant to Paris gets work and finds romance despite his scatty character. (imdb)

A 14-year-old boy, an emergency physician, a cop seeking revenge, a mother who fights for her family, and a man devastated by the death of his wife all see their destinies become woven together. As the physician spends several days between life and death, events follow one after the other, and all of them will be carried along by the shock wave.

After loosing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won. (imdb)

Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse who saves the wrong guy -- a thief (Roschdy Zem) whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety? (imdb)

When she misses the last bus home after a daytrip to Paris, a young woman, Lola, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of the city. She meets up with a young man who persuades her to go with him to a night club, where she takes drugs and gets high. In her drugged state, she forms an attachment to another young man, Emir, a boxer of Arab descent. When Emir's girlfriend, Saida, sees them together, she confronts Lola. (MUBI)

What are adult love affairs ? Two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through. (imdb)

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

Mirko and Stefan are linked since the war in Serbia, in which one saved the other, just like brothers. They move to the French Riviera and accept all kinds of jobs. (festival-cannes.fr)

In Paris, Simon Weiss, a police officer of the BRP begins his night by patrolling in bars. Like every nights, but today, Weiss understand that he is trapped between the thugs and his hierarchy. (Allociné)

When an airstrike kills the mate of a female giraffe at a local zoo in the West Bank, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy must travel to Tel Aviv and secure a companion for the distraught animal, in this wild and heartfelt adventure epic. (tiff.net)

Secular thirty-somethings who never put much credence in adhering to their respective faiths, Ishmael, a Muslim arab and Clara, a Jewish woman, have remained together for four fun-filled years without incidence. When Clara discovers that she has become pregnant with Ishmael's child, however, the couple's carefree romance threatens to grow complicated as their ethnic backgrounds bleed into the forefront of their consciences (Amazon)

An American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew. (imdb)

Marithé works in a training centre and her task is to assist people who are seeking alternative job options. One day, Carole arrives at the centre. She has never completed her studies and is starting to feel overshadowed by her husband, Sam, a talented Michelin-starred chef. It seems that it is not a job that Carole needs, but rather about her asserting her own independence and to leave her husband; and Marithé does all to help Carole to set out down a new path. (Wiki)

Lucas is 46. A great cop, running arms trafficking in Marseille. Maya is 25. A young narc in Paris. As they often do, guns meet drugs. And Lucas will meet Maya. Not necessarily by accident. Busts, heists, informants... their investigations will become entangled. So will their lives. Because their story began long before their meet-up. (imdb)

Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom. (imdb)

Seven long-time adult friends agree to share with each other every message that comes to their smartphones during a dinner party. This is a remake of the Italian movie "Perfetti sconosciuti" from 2016.

When a man & woman discover their spouses are having an affair with each other, they secretly plot to break them up and win them back. (imdb)

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered. (imdb)

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when he reaches a level of success in his career. (imdb)

The movie starts on a beach where sixteen-year-old Lise is enjoying a day in the sun with her family. Suddenly and without any explanation, Lise is taken from her family by the police. The narrative skips ahead two years to the day of her murder trial. After a two-year investigation, Lise is the only suspect for the murder of her best friend, Flora, who was fatally stabbed multiple times the morning after the girls had a sleepover. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)

A couple on their honeymoon in Morocco survive a deadly car accident in the middle of the desert. (imdb)

Fred is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend, does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him and the police is on hot on his heels. (imdb)

A French sailor tries to reunite with his ex-wife after his shipmates tell him she is a movie star.

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe. (imdb)

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue. (imdb)

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret. (imdb)

In the Paris of 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. (imdb)

A French journalists attempts to uncover a scandal about police facilitating and supervising the drug trade in the country.

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother… which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late? (letterboxd.com)

When Abel learns that his mother is about to marry a man in prison he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. But meeting his new stepfather may well offer him a new perspective. (imdb)

In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious. (imdb)

Gabrielle, 30, joins a prestigious TV news programme. She quickly has to find her place in a team of top reporters. Despite the commitment of Vincent, their editor-in-chief, they are faced with the day-to-day challenges of a changing profession, with ever-diminishing resources and new news channels.

It follows the story of the night of April 15, 2019 in Notre-Dame Cathedral alongside firefighters and the impact that it had on different characters across France. (imdb)