Samuel Labarthe

June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees. Odile and her children lose everything. A shaven-headed youth appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage... (imdb)

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs. (imdb)

Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant in their scheme.

Hippolyte, an eccentric notary, sees his marriage to Camille as his one great success. He also believes that love doesn't last, and this flummoxes him as they approach their 15th anniversary. To test her love for him, he promotes her seduction by an anonymous stranger, behaves badly to guests, makes love clumsily, sleeps in the guest room. All this breaks her spirit, and she asks him to move. (imdb)

A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run. (imdb)

A documentary that delves into the creative, often humorous world of audio dubbing a Hollywood motion picture for the international market. (imdb)

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer disappears one night from her village in the Ardennes. Captain Gaspard Deker leads the investigation with local cop Virginie Musso, who knew the girl well. They are helped by Eve, a lonely and mysterious woman. (imdb)

Henry Dunant, a Genevan bourgeois, works for a Swiss company in French Algeria and determines to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for the colonists. On his way to the emperor, he gets stuck in Austrian Castiglione which French troops came to 'liberate'. His letters home, published in Geneva, the shocking first-hand truth about war cruelty, start enough public commotion to make his plans eventual turn true in the form of the now worldwide International Red Cross. IMDB

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019 (imdb)

Agatha Christie's masterful storytelling gets a soupçon of French flair in these attractive, witty mysteries. These French adaptations are a fresh, stylish twist on classic Christie tales. (imdb)