Films like Meet the Barbarians
The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this...
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All Together
Film · 2012 · also comedy and dramaFive old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population...
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No Love Lost
Film · 2023 · also comedy and dramaA single father, Étienne, is preparing for his daughter Rosa to leave home, but his life is upended when he sees his long-lost wife, Valérie, on TV, forcing a confrontati...
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SubUrbia
Film · 1997 · also comedy and dramaA group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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Meet the Leroys
Film · 2024 · also comedy and dramaA man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.
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All Three of Us
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaAn Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beating...
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Alice and the Mayor
Film · 2019 · also comedy and dramaThe mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness....
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The Big Hit
Film · 2020 · also comedy and dramaEtienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’...
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A Dog Year
Film · 2009 · also comedy and dramaJon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kenne...
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Chloe and Theo
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to p...
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Wild Oats
Film · 2016 · also comedy and dramaEverything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend t...
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