Afterword - French 2000 - present
A list based primarily on this article in Sight and Sound.
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- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouMathieu KassovitzRufusDespite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.
- DirectorJames HuthStarsJean DujardinClovis CornillacÉlodie BouchezA wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinLouise MonotRüdiger VoglerAnother mission of world-known French secret agent leads him to exotic Brazil.
- DirectorArnaud LarrieuJean-Marie LarrieuStarsMathieu AmalricHélène FillièresPierre PelletA shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she has become a successful executive, his career has gone nowhere, and their relationship is coming to an end.
- DirectorArnaud LarrieuJean-Marie LarrieuStarsSabine AzémaDaniel AuteuilAmira CasarAn affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
- DirectorSiegrid AlnoyStarsSasha AndresCarlo BrandtPierre-Félix GravièreEchoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsZoé AuclairLea BridarolliBérangère HaubrugeA look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
- DirectorRobin CampilloStarsGéraldine PailhasJonathan ZaccaïFrédéric PierrotThe lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsAdrien MichauxNatacha RégnierAlexis LoretParis in the seventies. A depressed graduate student hears music that will change his life; he becomes fascinated by the singer.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsAdrien MichauxAlexis LoretLaurène CheilanAn ogre keeps in his castle two children, whom he intends to eat. A knight and his companion will try to save them, and will be assisted by the ogre's wife, who thus will also get rid of her husband. A medieval story in contemporary settings.
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsJean-Marie CombellesPierre Louis-CalixteJean SéganiA chronicle of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the men around him!
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsThomas SuireLaurent SoffiatiThomas BlanchardA scintillating metaphysical tale, the film follows the picaresque adventures of Basile, an angst-ridden French teenager who is convinced that he will die if he falls asleep. This leads him on a road trip that becomes a hallucinatory odyssey as Basile encounters murder, sex and intrigue- assuming that some or all of it isn't a dream. Whether Basile's excursion is reality or fantasy, innocent or malevolent, grand ideas mesh with bizarre occurrences to create a fascinating, surreal journey of discovery, chance and mystery.
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsÉric BougnonGuillaume ViryPierre Louis-CalixteIn the land of Obitania, a bandit, a warrior and a mercenary become involved in a struggle between a wealthy shepherd and his underlings.
- DirectorPhilippe GrandrieuxStarsMarc BarbéElina LöwensohnGéraldine VoillatA sexually frustrated serial killer takes a liking to a woman he comes across.
- DirectorPhilippe GrandrieuxStarsZachary KnightonAnna MouglalisMarc BarbéThe story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsJeanne BalibarBulle OgierRenaud BécardAfter the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress. In order to find her, she casts aside her boyfriend Étienne. The mistress is a pianist named Béatrice. Béatrice and Marianne strike up a friendship while reminiscing about the past. They remember Édith Piaf's song : "Hymne à l'amour" and Marianne reconnects with her nanny Ghislaine who was a funny companion when she was young.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsDina FerreiraEmilie LelouchGuillaume VerdierAt the start of the new millennium, mysterious things are going on in Paris. People are disappearing, just like that, without explanation.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsJehnny BethAurélien WiikMorgane HainauxAfter the death of Renaud, her boyfriend, Armelle can't possibly take him out of her mind. Her sister advises her to see a medium, in whose house she meets a boy who strangely looks like Renaud...
- DirectorJacques NolotStarsMathilde MonéHenri GardeyJacques NolotJacques Pruez, supporting actor, returns to the country to attend the last days of his mother. A prisoner of his past, Jacques, roams the streets at night and relives the moments that made him different from other members of his family.
- DirectorJacques NolotStarsVittoria ScognamiglioJacques NolotSébastien VialaIn a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair.
- DirectorJacques NolotStarsJacques NolotJean-Pol DuboisMarc RioufolA portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsHabib BoufaresHafsia HerziFarida BenkhetacheIn southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsOsman ElkharrazSara ForestierSabrina OuazaniKrimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsSami BouajilaÉlodie BouchezBruno LochetA young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
- DirectorSandrine VeyssetStarsDominique ReymondDaniel DuvalJessica MartinezA woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm an egotistic and authoritarian individual, who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.