Films like La Cérémonie
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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The Swimming Pool
Film · 1969 · also drama and thrillerSet in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their...
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My Little Loves
Film · 1974 · also dramaDaniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his p...
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The Public Woman
Film · 1984 · also dramaAn inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her l...
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The Passengers of the Night
Film · 2022 · also dramaOn election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an...
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The Class
Film · 2008 · also dramaTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
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Out of Control
Film · 2025 · also drama and thrillerJulien and Marie have enjoyed 15 years of seemingly stable marriage until Anaëlle, Julien’s childhood flame, returns. Her sudden presence awakens old insecurities in Mari...
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Between Two Worlds
Film · 2022 · also dramaMarianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She g...
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Thérèse
Film · 2012 · also dramaAn unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
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In the Beginning
Film · 2009 · also dramaFrance, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of w...
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Chaos
Film · 2001 · also dramaA bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to...
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