Critically acclaimed French movies of recent years

Petite Maman(2021)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.



Titane(2021)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys.



Benedetta(2021)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.



Oxygen(2021)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.



Azor(2021)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.



Saint Omer(2022)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.



Athena(2022)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.



Close(2022)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.



The Summit of the Gods(2021)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.



One Fine Morning(2022)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 57

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While stuggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks an affair.



Paris, 13th District(2021)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.



Tori and Lokita(2022)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 54

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.



France(2021)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.



Happening(2021)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 49

An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.



The Restless(2021)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.



Pacifiction(2022)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

On an island in French Polynesia a writer returns to her country after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, she is disoriented and in a creative crisis. Faced with the ...



Disco Boy(2023)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 47

After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the ...



Mother and Son(2022)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 45

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.



Final Cut(2022)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.



More Than Ever(2022)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Hélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and meet a blogger she found on the internet.




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