Isabelle Carré
Isabelle Carré (born 28 May 1971 in Paris) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in Se souvenir des belles choses (2001), and has been nominated a further six times, for Beau fixe (1992), Le... Read full bio →
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La dégustation
Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets Jacques, a fifty-something, grumpy local cellarman.
Délicieux
France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.
De Gaulle
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Un vrai bonhomme
Tom, 16, is a sensitive teenager who is about to enter a new high school after being expelled. He intends to find his place, make friends and seduce the girl he loves. Tom needs the support of his older brother, Leo, a true mentor, who is working to make him a “cool kid”. However, Leo's fraternal benevolence hides a destructive temperament...
Vingt et une nuits avec Pattie
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed by Pattie, who likes to talk about her love affairs with the local men to anyone who'll listen.
Ange et Gabrielle
Gabriell is a single mother, her 17-year-old daughter Claire is pregnant, however the child's father Simon has no desire to be involved with his future baby. When Gabrielle takes matters into her own hands and asks Simon's father Ange for help, an unexpected relationship begins.
Respire
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Marie Heurtin
Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
The Smurfs 2
The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence.
Le jour des corneilles
Boy lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father Courge, a tyrannical giant who reigns triumphant and prevents his son from exploring beyond limited boundaries. Ignorant about the ways of men, the boy grows up wild, with the placid ghosts who haunt the forest his only company.
Du vent dans mes mollets
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Cherchez Hortense
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Des vents contraires
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Les émotifs anonymes
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman?
Tellement proches
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil.
Le refuge
Mousse et Louis sont jeunes, beaux et riches, ils s'aiment. Mais la drogue a envahi toute leur vie. Un jour, c'est l'overdose et Louis meurt. Mousse survit, mais elle apprend qu'elle est enceinte. Perdue, elle s'enfuit dans une maison loin de Paris. Quelques mois plus tard, le frère de Louis la rejoint dans son refuge.
Musée haut, musée bas
A curator terrified of green plants, a ballet of Virgin Saints, a minister of Culture lost in an exhibition of sex organs, a car that has disappeared in the Rembrandt car park, visitors in love with the Impressionists, Gilbert and George, Picasso, Gauguin and Warhol - all are connected with an art museum.
Les bureaux de Dieu
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
Cliente
A married construction worker leads a double life as a male prostitute serving rich ladies.
Le renard et l'enfant
A young girl of about 10 years lives in a solitary peasant's house on the edge of the jurassic mountains in the East of France. One day in autumn, when she is on her way to school through the forest, she observes a hunting fox. Of course, the fox flees from her, but the girl feels a strong desire to meet the fox again.
Anna M.
Atteinte de l'illusion délirante d'être aimée, Anna, jeune femme douce et réservée, se persuade que le docteur Zanevsky est amoureux d'elle. Dès lors, rien, jamais, n'entamera sa conviction... Mais après l'espoir, viendra le dépit, puis la haine...
Quatre étoiles
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury.
Coeurs
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
L'avion
Charly wishes a bicycle with all his heart for Christmas. Therefore his disappointment is bigger, when his father presents him a self-built plane...
Entre ses mains
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him.
Je suis votre homme
A bisexual good-nature girl with a movie critic, a husband who is hoping to win back his wife, a spirited young man with twisted situations a little too excited. A mysterious brothel that offers shock treatments, led by dominatrices, "to relieve all problems of libido".
Holy Lola
The trials and tribulations of a French couple's efforts to adopt an orphan baby in Cambodia.
Les sentiments
Jacques, médecin, et Carole, son épouse, habitent une maison en région parisienne. Dans la maison voisine s'installent François et Edith. Ce dernier doit succéder à Jacques et reprendre sa clientèle.
À la folie... pas du tout
A young woman who is in love with a married doctor becomes dangerous when her attempts to persuade him to leave his wife are unsuccessful. However, when things are seen from his point of view, the real situation becomes clear.
Se souvenir des belles choses
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary.
Ça ira mieux demain
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
Les enfants du siècle
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.
Les enfants du Marais
A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France between the wars. Garris and Riton live in the marshlands along the banks of the Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches.
Beaumarchais l'insolent
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Le hussard sur le toit
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
La reine blanche
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival.
Romuald et Juliette
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.