Movies: Benoît Magimel

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation....

Set in a hamlet in rural France, the story follows a man and his wife, their daughter and an artist neighbor. As the man plans a surprise for his wife’s birthday, inexplicable happenings begin to disrupt the hamlet’s quiet existence before turning in...

An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Parisian house. It's to be a summer of transition, p...

A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her....

The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside....

Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to...

A dramatic love story, set in 1968 in the Gévaudan region. Jacques, in his thirties, is driving at high speed on a steep road. He is drunk. At the same time, in a hospital, Lou, his wife, gives birth to their child, but the delivery goes badly. When ...

La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island....

In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike....

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps....

Four young men try to gate crash a birthday party....

A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility....

Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventu...

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A young pizza-deliverer, Andréa, introduces Laure, a 20 year old girl he barely knows, to his friend David, a wealthy layabout who is looking for models for his porn photo agency. Eager for an easy escape from her dull life, Laure agrees to attend an...

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Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got marri...

A man and a little girl taken hostage during a bank raid end up trapped in a claustrophobic closed environment. This is the start of a painful prychological confrontation between the two prisoners......

Three years after a young girl’s disappearance during a trip to Norway, her passport resurfaces in Greenland. Without telling anyone, her 17-year-old sister embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of her disappearance. Torn between the hope of findin...

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