Movie List for "france"

The Innocents (2016)

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns got pregnant. Year 2016.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writer: Sabrina B. Karine (scenario), Alice Vial (scenario), Anne Fontaine (adaptation), Pascal Bonitzer (adaptation), Philippe Maynial (based on an original concept created by)
Actors: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne

The Artist (2011)

An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood’s silent era. Year 2011.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Writer: Michel Hazanavicius
Actors: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell

I Still Hide to Smoke (2016)

Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for … Year 2016.

Generes: Drama
Director: Rayhana Obermeyer
Writer: Rayhana Obermeyer
Actors: Hiam Abbass, Fadila Belkebla, Nadia Kaci, Nassima Benchicou

Jackie (2016)

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy. Year 2016.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Pablo Larraín
Writer: Noah Oppenheim
Actors: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup

Tale of Tales (2015)

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Matteo Garrone
Writer: Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Giambattista Basile (loosely based on the novel by)
Actors: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly

Ana, mon amour (2017)

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty and quickly fall in love. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer
Writer: Cãlin Peter Netzer (screenplay), Cezar Paul-Badescu (screenplay), Iulia Lumânare (screenplay), Cezar Paul-Badescu (inspired by his novel “Luminita, mon amour”)
Actors: Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Tania Popa, Igor Caras-Romanov

Illegitimate (2016)

Two siblings and an illegitimate love. A father who’s a doctor and several accusations. A family in which no one ever drew a line between what’s moral and what’s legal. Not even when it comes to abortion. Year 2016.

Generes: Drama
Director: Adrian Sitaru
Writer: Alina Grigore, Adrian Sitaru
Actors: Adrian Titieni, Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu

The Girl in the Fog (2017)

Special agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old’s disappearance. Year 2017.

Generes: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Donato Carrisi
Writer: Donato Carrisi (novel), Donato Carrisi (screenplay)
Actors: Toni Servillo, Alessio Boni, Lorenzo Richelmy, Galatea Ranzi

Colette (2018)

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Writer: Richard Glatzer (screenplay by), Wash Westmoreland (screenplay by), Rebecca Lenkiewicz (screenplay by), Richard Glatzer (story by)
Actors: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh

Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)

Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father. Year 2016.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writer: Helen Fielding (screenplay), Dan Mazer (screenplay), Emma Thompson (screenplay), Helen Fielding (based on the characters and story created by)
Actors: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips

A Wedding (2016)

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir. Year 2016.

Generes: Drama
Director: Stephan Streker
Writer: Stephan Streker (scenario)
Actors: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi, Nina Kulkarni

Desierto (2015)

A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken border patrol duties into his own racist hands. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, Thriller
Director: Jonás Cuarón
Writer: Jonás Cuarón, Mateo Garcia
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño

Revenge (2017)

Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. Year 2017.

Generes: Action, Horror, Thriller
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Writer: Coralie Fargeat (screenplay by)
Actors: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède

Les Misérables (2012)

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker’s daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. Year 2012.

Generes: Drama, History, Musical, Romance, War
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: William Nicholson (screenplay by), Alain Boublil (screenplay by), Claude-Michel Schönberg (screenplay by), Herbert Kretzmer (screenplay by), Alain Boublil (based on the original stage musical “Les Misérables”), Claude-Michel Schönberg (based on the original stage musical “Les Misérables”), Victor Hugo (based on the novel by)
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried

Elle (2016)

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her. Year 2016.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Philippe Djian (novel), David Birke (screenplay), Harold Manning (french adaptation)
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling

The Gunman (2015)

A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier’s successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself. Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Pierre Morel
Writer: Jean-Patrick Manchette (novel), Don MacPherson (screenplay), Pete Travis (screenplay), Sean Penn (screenplay)
Actors: Sean Penn, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone