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Angel Face

(Gueule d'ange)
2017 | 1 h 48 min
Directed by: Vanessa Filho

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother’s demons in order to get her back.

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Let The Girls Play

(Comme des garçons)
2017 | 1 h 30 min
Directed by: Julien Hallard

Reims, France, 1969. Paul Coutard, an inveterate womanizer and sports journalist at the daily newspaper Le Champenois, decides to organize a women's football match to defy his boss during the newspaper's annual charity fair. His favorite enemy, executive assistant Emmanuelle Bruno, has to help him. Unbeknownst to them, they will put together the first women's football team in France.

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Tomorrow and Thereafter

(Demain et tous les autres jours)
2016 | 1 h 35 min
Directed by: Noémie Lvovsky

Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It's a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.

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Diane Has the Right Shape

(Diane a les épaules)
2017 | 1 h 27 min
Directed by: Fabien Gorgeart

Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be the surrogate mother of their child. It is under these hardly ideal circumstances that she falls in love with Fabrizio.

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Bad Blood

(Mauvais Sang)
1986 | 2 h 5 min
Directed by: Leos Carax

Beneath the scorching heat exuded by Halley's Comet, Paris's population is hit by a virus which kills anyone who makes love without being in love. From then on, two rival gangs will fight each other for the virus' core of genetic material, which should enable them to create a vaccine and save the population.

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Fake Tattoos

(Les Faux Tatouages)
2017 | 1 h 37 min
Directed by: Pascal Plante

Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a teenage girl who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story starts between them, but Theo has to leave the city at the end of summer.

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Keep an Eye Out

(Au poste !)
2017 | 1 h 13 min
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux

In a police station, a suspect taken into custody is interrogated by a police captain.

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So Help Me God

(Ni juge, ni soumise)
2016 | 1 h 39 min
Directed by: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon

So Help Me God is the first feature documentary from the satirical team behind the cult TV series Strip-Tease. Over three years, the directors followed judge Anne Gurwez during criminal investigations, hearings, and crime scene visits. It's not cinema: it's worse!

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Black Tide

(Fleuve noir)
2016 | 1 h 54 min
Directed by: Érick Zonca

Dany, the Arnault family’s teenage son, has disappeared. The case is assigned to François Visconti, a world-weary and disillusioned detective. He sets out to find the missing teenager while he is reluctant to take care of his own son, Denis, 16, who seems to be mixed up in drug trafficking. When Mr. Bellaile, Dany’s French tutor, learns about his former student’s disappearance, he offers his services to the detective. He is very interested in the investigation. Too interested, perhaps...

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Sauvage

2017 | 1 h 39 min
Directed by: Camille Vidal Naquet

Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. Men come and go, but he stays put... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. Then he hits the road. His heart is pounding.

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Gaspard at the Wedding

(Gaspard va au mariage)
2017 | 1 h 43 min
Directed by: Antony Cordier

After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must reconnect with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to return to the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with...

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Guy

2017 | 1 h 41 min
Directed by: Alex Lutz

Gauthier, a young journalist, learns through his mother that he's the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, an aging French pop singer who was famous from the '60s to the '90s. As the old-time crooner embarks on a tour to promote his newly released cover album, Gauthier decides to follow him, behind the scenes, on stage, and on the road, under the pretext of filming a documentary about his career.

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