Best French movies of 2020

Actors : Niels Schneider, Vincent Macaigne, Émilie Dequenne, Camélia Jordana,
Directors : Emmanuel Mouret,

Waiting for her boyfriend to join her on a country vacation, three months pregnant Daphne bonds with his cousin Maxime, and their shared intimacy brings them closer together into a full fledged love affair.

Actors : Raphael Romand, Marie Narbonne, Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes,
Directors : Just Philippot,

To save her farm from bankruptcy, a single mother begins a business of breeding edible grasshoppers. Soon she develops a strange, obsessive relationship with them.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Sofia Lesaffre, Samy Seghir, Eriq Ebouaney,
Directors : Julien Leclercq,

Saïd owns a sawmill deep in the woods, which he decides to sell. Little does he know that one of his apprentices was cornered by his brother and forced to hide a large amount of cocaine inside the factory.

Actors : Marie Chevalot, Alexis Victor, Kylian Trouillard, Jules Medcraft,

Follow up to Son of Bigfoot: Father uses his new fame to fight against an Alaska oil company but when he disappears the son, the mother, a raccoon and a bear head North to rescue him.

Actors : Payman Maadi, Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois, Omar Sy,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find out about the truth, they have to make a difficult choice.

Actors : Peter Franzén, Frédéric Franchitti, Gaia Weiss, Romane Libert,
Directors : Mathieu Turi,

A woman gets locked in series of strange tubes full of deadly traps.

Actors : Guillaume Mattera, Ludovic Torrent, Christine Gautier, Anthony Bajon,

In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.

Actors : Dylan Robert, Fanny Ardant, Marine Vacth, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Maïwenn,

After the loss of her grandfather, Maïwenn explores her heritage and her Algerian roots.

Actors : Jean-Pascal Zadi, Tonton Marcel, Fary, Caroline Anglade,

A politically incorrect comedy, about the role of black people in French society.

Actors : Samuel Jouy, Anne Serra, Philippe Katerine, Dany Boon,
Directors : Ludovic Colbeau-Justin,

A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".

Actors : Audrey Fleurot, Arnaud Ducret, François-Xavier Demaison, Caroline Anglade,
Directors : Michaël Youn,

After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in the process.

Actors : Nicolas Cazalé, Annabelle Lengronne, Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovsky,

Everyday, three sex workers cross the border from France into Belgium to practice their trade. At the end of one particularly hot summer, all three share a secret that will bind them together forever.

Actors : Julien Arruti, Philippe Lacheau, Vanessa Guide, Tarek Boudali,
Directors : Tarek Boudali,

Rayane, a clumsy cop, finds that he only has 30 days left. He uses this time to try to become the hero of his police station.

Actors : Isabelle Nanty, Pascale Arbillot, Alexandre Wetter, Thibault de Montalembert,
Directors : Ruben Alves,

A young man seeking his gender identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

Actors : Vincent Dedienne, Alice Belaïdi, Jonathan Cohen, Catherine Deneuve,

Eliott, a naive young adventurer, goes to Guyana in search of the mysterious hidden Otopis. But he'll soon find out that Otopis are not "noble savages", they are jungle gangsters, led by the fierce Albertine.

Actors : Alexandra Lamy, Jonathan Zaccaï, Miou-Miou, Thomas Dutronc,
Directors : Méliane Marcaggi,

Louise who's cheated on by her husband, decides to go to Corsica for a weekend. There, she meets and spends a night with this handsome stranger. But when she wakes up, she finds out that he does not wake up.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Christine Beaulieu, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, Alexandre Landry,
Directors : Martin Laroche,

Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, Le Rire presents a humane exploration of the survivor's syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.

Actors : Lamine Cissokho, David Ayala, Sofian Khammes, Kad Merad,
Directors : Emmanuel Courcol,

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."

Actors : Patrick Bach, Kathleen Renish, Diana Amft, Oscar Douieb,

Little Sioux Yakari sets off to follow the trail of Little Lightning, a mustang. Yakari has a magical encounter with the Great Eagle, his totem animal, who gives him a beautiful feather and the gift of being able to speak with animals.

Actors : Kyan Khojandi, Julia Piaton, Sara Giraudeau, Benjamin Lavernhe,
Directors : Laurent Tirard,

A recently dumped man awaits a reconciliation text message from his ex during a seemingly never-ending family dinner.