Best French movies of 2010s

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emmanuelle Devos,
Directors : Martin Provost,

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the ...

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Brigitte Roüan, Antoine Laurent,
Directors : Thomas Cailley,

Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of ...

Actors : Kirill Emelyanov, Olivier Rabourdin, Edéa Darcque, Daniil Vorobyov,
Directors : Robin Campillo,

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.

Actors : Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois, Louis Garrel, Jean Dujardin,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.

Actors : Tarik Kopty, Elia Suleiman, George Khleifi, Kareem Ghneim,
Directors : Elia Suleiman,

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Actors : Jisca Kalvanda, Kevin Mischel, Déborah Lukumuena, Oulaya Amamra,
Directors : Houda Benyamina,

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.

Actors : Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Mélanie Laurent,
Directors : Rose Bosch,

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Actors : Armelle Leroy-Rolland, Marion Keller, Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

Actors : Sixtine Murat, Gaspard Schlatter, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz,
Directors : Claude Barras,

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Actors : Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Finnegan Oldfield,
Directors : Bertrand Bonello,

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before to take shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Actors : Delphine Chuillot, Mélusine Mayance, Mads Mikkelsen, David Kross,
Directors : Arnaud des Pallières,

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Actors : Josh Charles, Radha Mitchell, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Pascale Ferran,

In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Actors : François Damiens, Agathe Dronne, Ellora Torchia, Finnegan Oldfield,
Directors : Thomas Bidegain,

When his daughter goes missing from their prairie town east of France, Alain and his young son, Kid, head out to find her. The journey takes the men to some far-off and unsettling places in what begins to feel like an endless quest.

Actors : Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Alice Winocour,

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Actors : Grégoire Monsaingeon, Jean-Christophe Folly, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laetitia Dosch,
Directors : Léonor Serraille,

Broke, with nothing but her cat and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for ...

Actors : Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Hadje Fatime N'Goua, Emile Abossolo M'bo,
Directors : Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up ...

Actors : Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Diplome Amekindra, Hoji Fortuna,
Directors : Djo Munga,

Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get ...

Actors : Steve Blum, Jean Barney, JB Blanc, Chloé Berthier,
Directors : Jean-François Laguionie,

Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.

Actors : Louise Chevillotte, Paul Toucang, Esther Garrel, Éric Caravaca,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.