A monthly online film club to discuss French film
French Cinémathèque
Each month we choose a German film or series currently available to stream, watch it independently, and come together for a hosted conversation with other fans of German film.
Our next meeting will be about Anatomy of a Fall, directed by Justine Triet.
Join us Monday, April 22nd at 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT / 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT.
Popular from France
Lost Highway
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, and inexplicable dreams.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 1997
- Director David Lynch
- Cast Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Richard Pryor
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube
Lupin
Gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2021
- Creator George Kay
- Cast Omar Sy, Hervé Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Clotilde Hesme, Ludivine Sagnier, Soufiane Guerrab
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
CODA
Every family has its own language.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2021
- Director Siân Heder
- Cast Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant
- Genre Drama, Music, Romance
- Available on Apple TV Plus
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
(Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
Normal high school kids by day, protectors of Paris by night!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Korea, Japan • 2015
- Creator Thomas Astruc
- Cast Annouck Hautbois, Benjamin Bollen, Antoine Tomé, Marie Nonnenmacher
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids
- Available on Netflix, Amazon Video, fuboTV, Disney Plus, Spectrum On Demand, DisneyNOW, Netflix basic with Ads
Lucy
Most people only use 10% of their brains. She unlocks the full 100% – and the powers that come with it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Taiwan, Germany • 2014
- Director Luc Besson
- Cast Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk
- Genre Action, Science Fiction
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, FlixFling, AMC on Demand
The Billionaire, the Butler, and the Boyfriend
(L'Affaire Bettencourt : Scandale chez la femme la plus riche du monde)
How did a conflict between the world's wealthiest woman and her daughter spiral into national scandal?
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2023
- Creator
- Cast Liliane Bettencourt, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, François-Marie Banier, Nicolas Sarkozy
- Genre Crime, Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Drops of God
(Les gouttes de Dieu)
A wine mogul's daughter and his student must compete for the chance to inherit the world's greatest wine collection.
- France • 2023
- Creator Quoc Dang Tran
- Cast Tomohisa Yamashita, Fleur Geffrier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV Plus
Alphonse
A chameleon-like man makes it his mission to please women and satisfy all their wishes.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2023
- Creator Nicolas Bedos
- Cast Jean Dujardin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Arditi, Nicole Garcia, Laura Morante, Marie-Christine Barrault
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
High Life
A father and daughter must rely on each other to survive a dangerous mission to deep space.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France, United Kingdom • 2018
- Director Claire Denis
- Cast Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Agata Buzek, Lars Eidinger
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Showtime Apple TV Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
Taken
An ex-spy must pull out all the stops to save his daughter after she is kidnapped by human traffickers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2008
- Director Pierre Morel
- Cast Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV Plus, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
A Kid
(Le fils de Jean)
A man travels to Quebec to attend the funeral of his estranged father.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Canada • 2016
- Director Philippe Lioret
- Cast Pierre Deladonchamps, Gabriel Arcand, Catherine de Léan, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy
La Haine
In the banlieues of France, the immigrant populations' resentment simmers away -- until it starts to boil.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 1995
- Director Mathieu Kassovitz
- Cast Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Souleymane Dicko, Héloïse Rauth
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Return to Seoul
(Retour à Séoul)
A 25-year-old French woman returns to Korea - the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple - for the very first time.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Belgium • 2022
- Director Davy Chou
- Cast Park Ji-min, Oh Gwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Heo Jin, Yoann Zimmer
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Class Act
(Tapie)
In this fictionalized biopic about Bernard Tapie, a relentlessly ambitious working-class man becomes one of France's most controversial public figures.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2023
- Creator Tristan Séguéla, Olivier Demangel
- Cast Laurent Lafitte, Joséphine Japy, Patrick d'Assumçao, Ophélia Kolb, Camille Chamoux, Ivan Murphy
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
New from France
Zoo Piece
A short montage of zoo animals shot with increasing focus on the somber conditions of their imprisonment.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1990
- Director Chris Marker
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Zombi Child
Based on the true story of a Hatian man who was the victim of a voodoo spell in 1962 and how it reflects to the present day within a Haitian girl living in modern day Paris.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2019
- Director Bertrand Bonello
- Cast Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou, Adilé David
- Genre Fantasy, Horror, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Plex,
Passages
After Tomas begins an affair with Agathe, his marriage to husband Martin seemingly falls into disrepair.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2023
- Director Ira Sachs
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Radostina Rogliano, Théo Cholbi
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI, Apple TV, Vudu
Description of a Struggle
(Description d'un combat)
Chris Marker combines still images, archival footage, and literate commentary to create a complex and personal portrayal of Israel.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Israel, France • 1960
- Director Chris Marker
- Cast Alan Adair
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Unfaithful
A man becomes increasingly distraught after he discovers his wife is having an affair with a Frenchman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, United States • 2002
- Director Adrian Lyne
- Cast Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Zeljko Ivanek, Dominic Chianese
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Tori and Lokita
(Tori et Lokita)
The story of two young immigrants with an unbreakable bond of friendship struggling to survive on the margins of society.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2022
- Director Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Cast Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj, Tijmen Govaerts, Charlotte De Bruyne, Nadège Ouedraogo
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Death in Paradise
A pasty English detective is transferred to a tropical paradise and has to adjust to a new form of policing.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France • 2011
- Creator Robert Thorogood
- Cast Ralf Little, Don Warrington, Élisabeth Bourgine
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Pluto TV, Spectrum On Demand, Britbox Apple TV Channel
La Femme Nikita
(Nikita)
She murders so she can live.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1990
- Director Luc Besson
- Cast Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jean Reno, Marc Duret, Jeanne Moreau
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Video, Microsoft Store
Still the Water
(2つ目の窓)
A teenage couple investigates a mysterious occurrence.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Japan, Spain • 2014
- Director Naomi Kawase
- Cast Nijiro Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto, Makiko Watanabe, Jun Murakami
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Illegal
(Illégal)
A single mother risking deportation fights devoutly to reunite with her son.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, Luxembourg, France • 2010
- Director Olivier Masset-Depasse
- Cast Anne Coesens, Alexandre Gontcharov , Milo Masset-Depasse, Natalia Belokonskaya
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus
Martin Mystery
(Martin Mystère)
Stepsiblings Martin and Diana investigate the paranormal and protect Earth from the supernatural.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Canada, Italy • 2003
- Creator David Michel
- Cast Alexis Tomassian, Dorothée Pousséo, Sylvain Lemarie, Yann Le Madic, Laurence Dourlens, Emmanuel Garijo
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on The Roku Channel
Emitaï
During World War II, a village revolts against the French Vichy government simultaneous with the resistance fighting in metropolitan France.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal, France • 1971
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Robert Fontaine, Michel Remaudeau, Pierre Blanchard, Ibou Camara, Joseph Djatta, Dji Niassebanor
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Young Plato
A headmaster at a Belfast primary school uses ancient Greek philosophy to teach his students how to connect with their feelings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, Belgium, France • 2022
- Director Declan McGrath, Neasa Ní Chianáin
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Dead Slow Ahead
A massive freighter circumnavigates the world in an endless quest for, what else? Profit.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, France • 2016
- Director Mauro Herce
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on Metrograph
Other People's Children
(Les Enfants des autres)
When a woman falls in love with a single father, she starts to develop a bond with his daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2022
- Director Rebecca Zlotowski
- Cast Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira-Goncalves, Yamée Couture, Henri-Noël Tabary
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Telescope Recommends
Lupin
Gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2021
- Creator George Kay
- Cast Omar Sy, Hervé Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Clotilde Hesme, Ludivine Sagnier, Soufiane Guerrab
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Le scaphandre et le papillon)
The true story of a man who suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body except for his left eye.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2007
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Children of Paradise
(Les Enfants du Paradis)
This French masterpiece centers around the theatrical life of a courtesan and the four men who love her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1945
- Director Marcel Carné
- Cast Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, María Casares, Marcel Herrand, Louis Salou
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Belle de Jour
(Belle de jour)
Luis Bunuel's erotic masterpiece.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1967
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Girlhood
(Bande de filles)
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2014
- Director Céline Sciamma
- Cast Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré, Idrissa Diabaté, Rabah Nait Oufella
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
24 Frames
An experimental project in which filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami combines photography and filmmaking.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2017
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
Before the Rain
(Пред дождот)
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France, North Macedonia • 1994
- Director Milcho Manchevski
- Cast Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Phyllida Law, Silvija Stojanovska
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
Un Chien Andalou
(Un chien andalou)
A classic avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dali.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1929
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Robert Hommet, Marval
- Genre Fantasy, Horror
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, IndieFlix, Fandor, Tubi TV
The Pianist
Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Poland, Germany • 2002
- Director Roman Polanski
- Cast Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV
Cousin Jules
(Le Cousin Jules)
A beautiful immersive portrait of a blacksmith and his wife living on a small farm in the French countryside.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1973
- Director Dominique Benicheti
- Cast Jules Guiteaux, Felicie
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
The Wages of Fear
(Le Salaire de la peur)
A rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on remote roads where the slightest jolt can be deadly.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1953
- Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Antonio Centa
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Breaking the Waves
A woman's husband, paralyzed after a neck injury, asks her to have sex with other men and then tell him about her experiences.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Sweden, France • 1996
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Raw
(Grave)
When vegetarian Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life, unexpected consequences occur.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Italy • 2016
- Director Julia Ducournau
- Cast Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Child
(L'enfant)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France • 2005
- Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Cast Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Olivier Gourmet, Jérémie Segard, Stéphane Bissot, François Olivier
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Three Colors: Blue
(Trois couleurs : Bleu)
Julie distances herself from everywhere and everyone after her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Poland, Switzerland • 1993
- Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Earth Day 2024
Océans
What wonders await under the surface of the oceans?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland, Spain • 2009
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Pierce Brosnan, Lancelot Perrin
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
The Red Turtle
(La tortue rouge)
Come discover the magic of nature...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Japan • 2016
- Director Michael Dudok de Wit
- Cast Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy, Axel Devillers, Barbara Beretta
- Genre Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
(Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues)
An epic adventure at ground level.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2013
- Director Thomas Szabo
- Cast
- Genre Animation, Adventure, Family
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex,
Animals and More Animals
(Un animal, des animaux)
A unique look into the work behind the animal displays of the Paris Museum of Natural history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1994
- Director Nicolas Philibert
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
Bestiary
(Bestiaire)
When we observe animals, they also observe us.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 2012
- Director Denis Côté
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, OVID, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spamflix, Kanopy
Winter Nomads
(Hiver Nomade)
Two shepherds in Switzerland move 800 sheep 600km over four months with the help of three donkeys and four dogs.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France, Germany • 2012
- Director Manuel von Stürler
- Cast Pascal Eguisier, Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
The Bear
(L'Ours)
He is an orphan at the start of a journey -- a journey to survive.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 1988
- Director Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Cast Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV
March of the Penguins
(La Marche de l'empereur)
In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2005
- Director Luc Jacquet
- Cast Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Morgan Freeman, Torsten Michaelis, Andrea-Kathrin Loewig
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Antarctica: Ice & Sky
(La glace et le ciel)
Portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius, whose groundbreaking research gave us the first clear evidence of man-made climate change.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2015
- Director Luc Jacquet
- Cast Claude Lorius, Michel Papineschi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex,
The Snails
(Les escargots)
A farmer goes to extreme lengths to get his plants to grow - but they aren't the only things growing.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1966
- Director René Laloux
- Cast
- Genre Animation, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel
Modern Life
(Profils Paysans, Chapitre 3: La vie moderne)
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon turns his camera on the farming community of the Cévennes region in southern France.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2008
- Director Raymond Depardon
- Cast Paul Argaud, Marcel Challaye, Germaine Challaye, Jacques Chirac
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
Le Mois de la Francophonie
March is the Mois de la Francophonie, and in recognition, we present a selection of films made and set in countries around the world, including Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Chad, Mauritania, and Switzerland, that are wholly or partly in the French language.
The Brand New Testament
(Le tout nouveau testament)
God Exists. He Lives in Brussels with his teenage daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France, Luxembourg • 2015
- Director Jaco Van Dormael
- Cast Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens, Serge Larivière
- Genre Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Kanopy, Plex,
Incendies
The search began at the opening of their mother's will.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 2010
- Director Denis Villeneuve
- Cast Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Allen Altman, Abdelghafour Elaaziz
- Genre Drama, Mystery, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV
Timbuktu
The peaceful lives of a Timbuktu cattle herder and his family are abruptly upended by the arrival of militant Islamic rebels.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mauritania, France • 2014
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri, Kettly Noel, Hichem Yacoubi
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Tori and Lokita
(Tori et Lokita)
The story of two young immigrants with an unbreakable bond of friendship struggling to survive on the margins of society.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2022
- Director Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Cast Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj, Tijmen Govaerts, Charlotte De Bruyne, Nadège Ouedraogo
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Genesis
(Genèse)
Three teenagers experience the turmoils of young love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2019
- Director Philippe Lesage
- Cast Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Émilie Bierre
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex,
Laurence Anyways
What does it take to live life to the fullest?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 2012
- Director Xavier Dolan
- Cast Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri, Yves Jacques, Anne Dorval
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Kanopy
Almayer's Folly
(La Folie Almayer)
To want something for someone else is to want it for yourself.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France • 2011
- Director Chantal Akerman
- Cast Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo, Sakhna Oum, Solida Chan
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video
Sister
(L'enfant d'en haut)
A young boy steals from rich patrons at a posh ski resort to support himself and his irresponsible older sister.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland • 2012
- Director Ursula Meier
- Cast Kacey Mottet Klein, Léa Seydoux, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson, Jean-François Stévenin, Yann Trégouët
- Genre Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy
Days of Glory
(Indigènes)
The true story of World War II's forgotten heroes.
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- Algeria, France, Morocco • 2006
- Director Rachid Bouchareb
- Cast Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Vudu, Plex,
War Witch
(Rebelle)
Behold, magic is in your soul...
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- Canada • 2012
- Director Kim Nguyen
- Cast Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga, Ralph Prosper, Jean Kabuya
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Hoopla, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex,
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
(Lingui, les liens sacrés)
A single mother goes against the church and the patriarchy to obtain an illegal abortion for her fifteen-year-old daughter.
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- France, Germany, Belgium • 2021
- Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Cast Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro, Briya Gomdigue, Saleh Sambo, Mounira Michala
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video