Best French movies of 2009

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Barr, Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Foïs,
Directors : Christophe Honoré,

Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Driss Ramdi, Salim Kechiouche,
Directors : Mehdi Ben Attia,

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have ...

Actors : Gilbert Melki, Emmanuelle Devos, Cyril Descours, Nina Meurisse,
Directors : Frédéric Mermoud,

Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends ...

Actors : Judith Davis, Marc Chapiteau, Fabienne Babe, Cécile Laloy,
Directors : Sophie Laloy,

Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since ...

Actors : David Strajmayster, Thiam Aïssatou, Jean Dell, Jean-Marie Bigard,
Directors : Roger Delattre,

A recently released convict goes to a small village to lay low for a while. His contact is the local priest. Unfortunately, the priest suddenly dies and the villagers all think that the con is their new village priest.

Actors : Izm, Diane Kruger, Frédérique Bel, Vincent Cassel,

Tony and Jose are best friends and petty crooks, but tension strikes the duo when Jose falls for the rich Clemence and wants to go straight.

Actors : Asia Argento, Olivier Marchal, Anne Coesens, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Gilles Béhat,

A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.

Actors : Frédérique Bel, Valérie Benguigui, Lionel Abelanski, Kad Merad,
Directors : Olivier Baroux,

Tour organizer, Richard Dacier, bites off more than he can chew when he loses at poker to the South African mob. Coming face to face with Africa's cruellest Godfather, Mr. Charles, he is ...

Actors : Julien Courbey, Nader Boussandel, Mourade Zeguendi, Mounir Ait Hamou,
Directors : Nabil Ben Yadir,

Somewhere in modern-day Brussels, Hassan, Aziz and Mounir are three friends who lead a life of pleasant apathy. Calling themselves 'Les Barons', they spend their days loafing around in ...

Actors : Nicolas Marié, Catherine Frot, Bouli Lanners, Albert Dupontel,
Directors : Albert Dupontel,

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property ...

Actors : Jean-Luc Bideau, Capucine Aubriot, Manon Aubriot, Jacob Auzanneau,
Directors : Andrew Kotting,

Part nightmare, part fantasy, Ivul tells the tale of Alex, who bizarrely moves out onto the roof of his house and refuses to come down after a false abuse accusation. From there, he watches...

Actors : Anna Franziska Jaeger, Matthias Schoenaerts, Maria Kraakman, Déborah François,
Directors : Dorothée Van Den Berghe,

A young girl witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam.

Actors : Judith Godrèche, Emmanuel Mouret, Frédérique Bel, Déborah François,
Directors : Emmanuel Mouret,

Has Jean-Jacques an infallible way to seduce women or is he just fantasizing about it? His girlfriend Ariane wants to sort it out.

Actors : Karin Viard, Catherine Frot, Mathieu Amalric, Sergi López,

Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly ...

Actors : Sandrine Blancke, Chris Lomme, Cécile De France, Marie Kremer,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.

Actors : Manon Tournier, Lorànt Deutsch, Sara Forestier, Dominique Pinon,

A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution.

Actors : Florence Muller, Ridan, Jérôme Paret, Denis Podalydès,
Directors : Bruno Podalydès,

We follow the everyday lives of Parisians living in the wealthy suburb of Versailles.

Actors : Laurent Stocker, Léa Drucker, Elie Semoun, Vincent Desagnat,
Directors : David Charhon,

Ugly geek becomes a hunk thanks to a deodorant.

Actors : Nicolas Brioudes, Pom Klementieff, Min Man Ma, Vantha Talisman,
Directors : Nicolas Vanier,

Sixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the ...