Best French movies of 2005

Actors : Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée,
Directors : Jean-Marc Vallée,

A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father's conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.

Actors : Serge Riaboukine, Gilbert Melki, Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Luc Besson,

A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

Actors : George Babluani, Pascal Bongard, Aurélien Recoing, Fred Ulysse,
Directors : Géla Babluani,

A man takes over a dead man's task but doesn't realize the horror it entails.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg, André Dussollier, Laurent Lucas,
Directors : Dominik Moll,

After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.

Actors : Claudia Coli, Pascal Greggory, Thierry Hancisse, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

The marriage between Gabrielle and Jean begins to fray after the discovery of a letter that belongs to Gabrielle.

Actors : Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jalil Lespert,
Directors : Xavier Beauvois,

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Actors : Lucy Tulugarjuk, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz,

Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking ...

Actors : Philip Craig, Julie LeBreton, Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Charles Binamé,

A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Élodie Bouchez, Jean Dujardin, Bruno Salomone,
Directors : James Huth,

A wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michel Aumont, Valérie Lemercier, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Valérie Lemercier,

A comedy set in the world of European royalty.

Actors : Marianne Fortier, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, Yves Jacques, Serge Postigo,
Directors : Luc Dionne,

After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Olga Kurylenko, Edith Scob, Stipe Erceg,
Directors : Diane Bertrand,

Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, André Dussollier, Catherine Frot, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Pascal Thomas,

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Actors : Maurizio Terrazzano, Dusan Dukic, Tyler Hall, Derek Lebrero,
Directors : Denis Langlois,

An American is found naked and amnesiac in a vacant parking lot in Montreal in 1998. He says his name is James Brighton, but the only thing he's sure of is that he's gay. What happened to ...

Actors : Rémy Girard, Luc Guérin, Patrick Labbé, Pierre Lebeau,
Directors : George Mihalka,

Four years later, Stan invites his men closed in an outfitter retirement. Their goal: to face the team of the legends of the National League.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Benoît Magimel, Nathan Lacroix, Natacha Régnier,
Directors : Harry Cleven,

The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his young son Pierre. Matyas was raised in an...

Actors : Dorotheea Petre, Valentin Popescu, Matthieu Rozé, Nicolae Praida,
Directors : Ruxandra Zenide,

In a small community in the Danube Delta that wavers between old traditions and new material aspirations, a teenager, Ryna, pays a heavy price in a search of her own identity.

Actors : Eric Bougnon, Guillaume Viry, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Jacques Buron,
Directors : Alain Guiraudie,

In the land of Obitania, a bandit, a warrior and a mercenary become involved in a struggle between a wealthy shepherd and his underlings.

Actors : Roméo Botzaris, Nicolas Briançon, Isabelle Carré, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Cédric Kahn,

Charlie is waiting for his Christmas gift , a new bicycle. Instead his father gives him a small toy-aeroplane which he had constructed. After his death the plane reveals its magic powers.

Actors : Mathieu Simonet, Miou-Miou, Elie Semoun, Vahina Giocante,
Directors : Anne Villacèque,

Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.