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- DirectorJacob BergerStarsBelinda BeckerSteven WeberJosé Esteban AlendaThe American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure...
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSelim BoughedirMustapha AdouaniRabiah Ben-AbdullahNoura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléAlex DescasSolveig DommartinDah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsLaurence KertekianJule JaphetMathieu BauerIn a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first love, experiences, disappointments and jealousy. Sandrine tries to figure out if she should keep her boyfriend Didier or try with silent Joel, whom she's just met. Riri, Alex and Paulo desperately try to get laid.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsJudith GodrècheMarcel BozonnetThérèse LiotardBeth, a teenager in the midst of a painful moral education, is put in the unenviable position of holding her family together and debasing herself at the suggestion of both her scornful bedridden mother and her no-good boyfriend.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJean RochefortAnna GalienaRoland BertinAntoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fantasy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGérard LanvinPatrick ChesnaisAnnie GirardotHow can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
- DirectorF.J. OssangStarsStéphane FerraraDiogo DóriaJosé WallensteinThe world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.
- DirectorSamy PavelStarsIdit CebulaArmand EloiIrène JacobVincent Van Gogh's family meets soon after the painter's suicide.
- DirectorSabine PrenczinaStarsTim RothMarie MatheronMatthias HabichA young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becomes obsessed with finding out more information about him.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsBulle OgierBenoît RégentFejria DelibaA drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
- DirectorChristian VincentStarsFabrice LuchiniJudith HenryMaurice GarrelThere is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
- DirectorFei XieStarsWen JiangCheng LinHong YueA semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. But his attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street stall selling clothes puts him on the fringe of the black market, and he soon gets lured back into his old neighbourhood gangs. His disenchanted comrades include a nightclub chanteuse as well as an escaped convict.
- DirectorHaowei WangStarsYe TangBai XueLi Zhuang
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsYujing LiangYuqing LiaoLiping LüA married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
- DirectorWenji TengStarsJingyang CaoPeng ChiXi DuanDang Gui saves a woman and her daughter running away from a bandit. When he falls in love with her, she is forced to go back with the bandit and leave her daughter. Dang Gui takes over the responsibility for raising up the girl.
- DirectorYimou ZhangFengliang YangStarsGong LiWei LiBaotian LiIn rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
- DirectorMohamed Abderrahman TaziStarsJillali FerhatiMaribel VerdúZakia TahiriStory of two women in a small fishing village, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. Touria is married to the school teacher, who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. Touria befriends Moira and together they learn how to dance the flamenco.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsTito HaasMirta BusnelliSergio Poves CamposAs an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsMulie JarjuEulàlia RamonAhmed El-MaaroufiAlou, an illegal African inmigrant, send letters to his parents talking about his new life in Spain.
- DirectorOlivier AsselinStarsLucille FluetRonald HouleSerge ChristiaenssensAn old Egyptian silent movie restored with great care and dubbed by a couple of lip-reading deaf mutes relates the story of a young girl wandering in the desert hoping upon an heroic life until she resurrects a dead man with a sneeze. This miracle attracts the attention of a lot of people, especially, from a greedy businessman and from a scientist, both trying to get as much as possible from her.
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsJosé AndradaFranklin CaicedoPaola CardozoA married couple with two children living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires have economical troubles. The father returns to his rural birthplace, where he finds that his father and brother are out of work, so he decides to the city.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- DirectorRobert BiermanStarsNicolas CageMaria Conchita AlonsoJennifer BealsAfter an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.