Critically acclaimed French movies of recent years

Another World(2021)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love ...



Rodeo(2022)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Julia -a young misfit who is passionate about riding- meets a crew of dirt riders who fly along at full speed and perform stunts. She sets about infiltrating their male-dominated world, but an accident jeopardises her ability to fit in.



Brother and Sister(2022)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 41

The story revolves around a brother and sister who are nearing their fifties - Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. They no longer speak to one another and have been ...



The Five Devils(2022)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.



The Divide(2021)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.



The Last Mercenary(2021)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.



Between Two Worlds(2021)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 39

It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.



Peter von Kant(2022)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Film adaptation of cult play "The Bitter Tears."



Coma(2022)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Online behavior and content consumption through the eyes of a teenage girl who immerses audiences into her dreams and nightmares. Navigating between dreams and reality, she's guided by a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber, Patricia Coma.



Rise(2022)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Based on the real life story about the family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league.



The Takedown(2022)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Diakité and Monge as police officers who are the complete opposite, and get paired together to uncover an unexpectedly big criminal case.



Forever Young(2022)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 33

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the ...



Mi iubita, mon amour(2021)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Jeanne is going to celebrate her bachelorette party in Romania, where she meets Nino, which begins a passionate and timeless summer.



Nobody's Hero(2022)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Christmas Eve is ruined by an act of terrorism in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. As the city descend into panic, thirty something Mederic falls in love with older prostitute Isadora.



I Love America(2022)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 27

A single woman who decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. From awkward dates to touching surprise encounters, she understands the journey to love is a journey towards herself.



Deception(2021)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 26

An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.



The Invitation(2022)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.



After Blue(2021)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A chimeric future on After Blue, a planet from another galaxy, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna. The story is of a punitive expedition.



Playground(2021)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 10

When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adult's worlds.



Inexorable(2021)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The lives of a wealthy publisher and her novelist husband are changed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman at their country mansion.




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