Paris Je T'aime

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 21 Jun 2006 · French

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Not Easily Broken

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 9 Jan 2009 · English

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Elena Undone

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 25 Jun 2010 · English

The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

Angel Face

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 23 May 2018 · French

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.

The Prodigal Daughter

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 25 Mar 1981 · French

A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.

Luna

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 16 Aug 2018 · French

A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.

Departure

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 20 May 2016 · English

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

The Public Woman

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 16 Jun 1984 · French

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

Life in a Year

Movie · 8.2 / 10 · 27 Nov 2020 · English

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Stillwater

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 29 Jul 2021 · English

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

A Perfect Ending

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 1 Jun 2012 · English

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.

Private Fears in Public Places

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 22 Nov 2006 · French

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?