1. Each and Every Moment (De chaque instant)
Every year, thousands of students – mostly female – embark upon courses that will lead them to become nurses. This film follows the ups and downs of an apprenticeship that will confront them, often at a young age, with human fragility, suffering, illness, the flaws in souls and bodies.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
2. Party Girl (Party Girl)
Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love with her. One day, he asks Angélique to marry him.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. Amin (Amin)
Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings are sent to Senegal. One day, he meets a woman, Gabrielle, and a relationship is born.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
4. Citizens of the World (Lontano lontano)
Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
It has an average vote of 6.785 on TMDB.
5. Odette Toulemonde (Odette Toulemonde)
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
6. Breath of Life (L'ordre des médecins)
Simon is an experienced doctor who rubs shoulders with death on a daily basis as part of his job in an intensive care unit. Like any good professional, he has learnt to shield himself from it. But when his mother is hospitalised in a nearby unit, and is in a critical condition, his private life and professional life clash spectacularly. Simon’s whole world, and all his certainties and beliefs, are shaken to the core – even to the extent of re-evaluating his career...
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
7. O.G.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
It has an average vote of 5.974 on TMDB.
8. We Need Your Vote (Le Poulain)
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
It has an average vote of 5.122 on TMDB.
9. Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca)
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
10. Tricky Old Dogs (Les Vieux Fourneaux)
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
It has an average vote of 5.84 on TMDB.
11. Sauvage (Sauvage)
Léo, a 22-year-old homeless sex worker searches for genuine love on the streets of Strasbourg.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
12. New York Stories
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
It has an average vote of 6.256 on TMDB.
13. Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
Jacques is a writer living in Paris. He hasn't turned 40 but already mistrusts that the best in life is yet to come. Arthur is a student living in Brittany. He reads and smiles a lot and refuses to think that everything in life might not be possible. Jacques and Arthur will like each other. Just like in a lovely dream. Just like in a sad story.
It has an average vote of 6.835 on TMDB.
14. A Man in a Hurry (Un homme pressé)
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.
It has an average vote of 6.482 on TMDB.
15. Little Tickles (Les Chatouilles)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
16. Jappeloup (Jappeloup)
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
It has an average vote of 7.058 on TMDB.
17. The World Is Yours (Le Monde est à toi)
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Border (Gräns)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
19. Life Itself
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
It has an average vote of 7.224 on TMDB.
20. Girl (Girl)
A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
It has an average vote of 7.159 on TMDB.
