Vincent Lindon

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. (imdb)

Having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, Laure is more unsettled than she appears. Needing to get out and have a change of scenery, she jumps in her car to go to have dinner with friends--only to become stuck in a terrible traffic jam. Laure completely forgot about the mass transit strike that has thrown the city into chaos. But Laure feels good in her car, the only place she has for herself right now... (imdb)

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances. (imdb)

Charly wishes a bicycle with all his heart for Christmas. Therefore his disappointment is bigger, when his father presents him a self-built plane. But after his father's death, the plane develops to an own life, further it becomes Charly's new friend and helps him to stand his father's death with magical adventures.

Adapted from his own novel, Emmanuel Carrere directs an engrossing existential thriller, a story about a man who inadvertently loses himself. (Cinema Guild)

An older man and a younger woman find love, with his time in jail the unlikely catalyst. (Allmovie)

As a man (Vincent Lindon) exchanges wedding vows with his pregnant fiancee (Mathilde Seigner), he spies her mother (Catherine Deneuve) and feels an instant attraction.

A fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters! (IMDb)

Actress Nicole Garcia directed L'Adversaire in 2002 and is even more ambitious with this complex story of a range of characters in a French town on the Atlantic Coast. It should be said first that Charlie is a ten year old boy - and that it is not always what he actually says that is important. Rather, as the original title suggests, this is life 'according to Charlie', life through Charlie's perceptions. (habitusnetwork.org)

Bilal is 17 and comes from Iraq. He left his native land shortly after his girlfriend emigrated to England and is now in the midst of an adventurous journey across Europe in order to see her again. (imdb)

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. (imdb)

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)

13th century France. Two brothers, separated long ago, must do battle. Thomas, the mercenary, left the family farm many years ago. When he returns, his mother, the local healer, is dead. She passed on her skills to her younger son, Arnaud. But he has lost his memory after a beating from a gang of ruthless outlaws. And so, Arnaud's young and defiantly resourceful wife, Guillemette, must persuade Thomas to help her in the quest for lost knowledge. (imdb)

At a football match, an unscrupulous photographer, Michel Verdier, takes pictures of a celebrity couple. Magazine editors go with the photos even though the dominant figure in them is a chubby football fan. "So let him sue." When the magazine appears, the fan, Franck Bordoni, is fired since he was supposed to be at work. Bordoni comes to the magazine where, by coincidence, he meets Verdier. Verdier says he knows how to make some money... (imdb)

With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail. (imdb)

An alien lady from a green planet lands on French capital Paris in order to gather information about the status of Earth.

Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son's homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon's request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her delicate and elegant charm. His ordinary life between family and work starts to falter. (imdb)

Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirty-eight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he's commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single.Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation...

When Victor finds out one morning that his wife had left him, he finds that things can only get worse. Having also been fired from his job on the very same day, he ends up searching through a list of friends and family for someone who will listen to his grief and give some advice. (imdb)

Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier are pals. Like father and son. They sip port in bars dreaming of a film they might make. Together. Then just once in a while, they don suit and tie. Play men of power. See how much trouble they can make. For a laugh. They tell a tall story, that's part really personal, part, well - just plain tall. Only, as ever at the movies, there's that excellent question no one can answer: is it really all make-believe? (mubi.com)

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. (imdb)

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect supermarkets in the province. At his first visit the manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. In the same city Martial starts a relationchip with Francine, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. He decides to stay there for a while. (imdb)

In 1968, while Paris is burning with the student revolt, five friends stand out. They have a leader with the code name of Nechayev. They slowly slide to terrorism, together with the other revolutionary network. Some time later, Nechayev is betrayed and disappears in mysterious circumstances in Gibraltar.

Claire, a young magistrate at the law court in Lyon, meets Stéphane, an experienced, disillusioned magistrate who she involves in her fight against over-indebtedness. Something happens between them: a fusion of revolt and emotions, and above all the urgent need to live it all to the full. (mubi.com)

A doctor and his main subject, a boy with a rare disease -- he can't be exposed to sun light and UV rays --, are more than just a specialist and his patient: they are good friends. But this relationship is suddenly threatened when the doc receives an offer he just can't refuse -- a job that he's always dreamed of.

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. (imdb)

Vincent Lindon, Helene Vincent and Emmanuelle Seigner star in this moving drama about a man just released from prison who is faced with a painful decision when his fatally ill mother determines that she wants to die with dignity. (tiff.net)

Two middle-aged Jewish merchants (Charles Aznavour, Ugo Tognazzi) plot to crack a safe with a clergyman (André Dussolier) and some neighbors in Paris.

Set in Belle Époque France, this sensual, fiercely intelligent tale of female sexual awakening announces a talented new cinematic voice. (tiff.net)

Francis Barrucq is a brilliant judge. He has an affair with Marie, a lawyer who works in the same bar in Lyon. The couple goes on holiday in the French Alps together with their spouses.

Container ship captain Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate... her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has been admitted into psychiatric care. Sandra accuses the powerful businessman, Edouard Laporte of being responsible. Determined to find the businessman's weak spot and exact a terrible revenge for the violence done to his family, (mubi.com)

Conflict between a hardened prison inmate and a ruthless prison guard. (imdb)

Three months before her final examinations, the ambitious teachership student Valentine concentrates herself completely on learning. When Jazz musician Edouard wooes her, she agrees on a date though - planning for one night of pleasure only. But when she comes to know him better, she realizes that he isn't as shallow as she thought... so lust turns to love. But between her examination preparations and a tournee with a jazz band almost no time is left to be spent together. (imdb)

Cops Toulon, Simon and Frank celebrate the end of a mission. Back to home, they hit a car. Conclusion: Both victims, including a child. Franck is free. Simon, who was driving and alcohol, fate seriously injured. He will lose everything. His family life. His job as a cop. Six years later, divorced his wife Alice, Simon became a money belt and struggles to keep his role as father to his son Theo, who is now 9 years old. Franck, always a cop, remote stand on it.

An unemployed factory worker is trying to make ends in working-class France. (imdb)

A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century. (imdb)

Employees of a French NGO travel to war-torn Chad with the mission of building an orphanage to rescue orphans; their actual mission might actually be more morally ambiguous.

An account of the famous French sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel. (imdb)

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country. (imdb)

Mathias and Antoine become a modern-day odd couple when they move in together in London. But while establishing house rules is easy, handling relationships with the opposite sex is another matter! (imdb)

Two years ago, the Perrin Industry Factory, 1100 employees, automotive supplier well known, affiliate to the German group Schäfer, signed an agreement asking to senior-managers and workers to accept a pay cut, in order to save the company in exchange of the promise to protect their jobs on at least the next five years. Today, the company takes the decision to close. (imdb)

A journalist is sent by the Vatican to investigate a young girl claiming to be visited by the Virgin Mary.

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.

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)

Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate in the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. (imdb)

Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane : A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. (imdb)

In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a young courtesan, the Charpillon, which attracts him to the point of forgetting the other women. (imdb)

The CEO of a big international wine company must meet again with his clumsy cousin to renew the contract allowing him to manage the brand, going down a rabbit hole of adventures and catastrophes in the process. (imdb)

A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.

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

An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.

The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur. (imdb)

Rejected by others, two solitary outsiders Gaspard and Robinson form a close bond of friendship and retreat to the barren salt marshes of Marseilles to open a seaside café. Gaspard’s wife walked out on him when he lost his job; Robinson was abandoned by his parents when he was a child. When Robinson meets an old woman alone by the side of the road, he takes her back to his home and offers to let her stay. Gaspard is less enthusiastic at the idea of adopting an old woman…

Based on the 2018 book "D'argent et de sang" by journalist Fabrice Arfi about the multi-billion carbon tax fraud that was dubbed "the fraud of the century" by French media. (imdb)

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she's madly in love with, to her father. But David isn't attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. (imdb)

Pierre, a widowed father, struggles as one of his sons becomes drawn to an ideology he doesn't comprehend. His son's change tests Pierre's ability to maintain their bond, set against the backdrop of post-May '68 France.