Olivier Gourmet

After witnessing his estranged son's fatal fall, a subway operator uncovers a bloody heist and reveals skills far beyond those of a public employee.

Unskilled Jean is hired as the assistant to grieving photographer Stéphane. After falling in love with Marie, Stéphane's daughter and muse, the two must hatch a plot to leave Stéphane's haunted world behind them.

From circus to theatre, from anonymity to fame, Chocolat is the incredible true story of how Rafael Padilla Chocolat (Omar Sy), escaped slavery to become the first black stage performer in France. Performing a lead role in a circus pantomime act in Paris, Chocolat shot to stardom with his partner, Charles Footit (James Thiérrée), as the pair's unprecedented double act sent shock waves through conservative Parisian society. However, as their fame grew so did the gambling and discrimination, taking a toll on the duo's friendship and their lives.

At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from good families.

Tiger Brigades tells the story of Inspector Valentin and his Tiger Brigade men as they battle against corrupt civil servants, anarchist gangsters and Constance, the seductive wife of a Russian prince. Amidst a chaotic and murderous web of deceit and greed, their jobs and very lives are on the line as they race against the clock to protect national security, and perhaps even prevent war.

When worker health records don’t seem to add up, an occupational nurse begins to find evidence of her chemical plant’s secret toxic waste dumps.

A woman recovering from a suicide attempt reflects on her strained relationship with her daughter in a series of sessions with her psychiatrist.

Angsty 11-year-old Cyril refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. Although he spends his days desperately searching for him, the patience and compassion of a stranger who agrees to care for him offers the boy a chance to move on.

Chronicles the life of the French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, whose pioneering human rights work is still keenly relevant today.

Paris, in the present day. Hastily painted mysterious symbols are appearing on the doors of apartment buildings all over the city. The rumor of a plague epidemic is spreading through the capital like wildfire. The first body bearing all the symptoms of the terrible scourge is soon discovered. Commissaire Adamsberg, an unusual, intuitive policeman, recently appointed as the head of the Crime Squad, is put in charge of the investigation.

In the climactic second part of the the Mesrine saga, Mesrine continues to author his own legend through the media and his own memoirs, becoming a household name and anti-hero across all of France. As he plans his last and greatest escape, leaving France - and the iconic character he has created- behind, the police begin to close in and his monumental rise begins to shadow the inevitable fall.

Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.

Injecting a dose of neo-noir into melodrama, the Dardenne brothers reinvigorate their signature moral intrigue with a daring detective film. Starring Adèle Haenel in an impressive lead performance, The Unknown Girl is never squeamish about probing French attitudes to race and immigration.

Following a global cataclysm, a family’s countryside home is occupied by other survivors, leaving them no choice but to try and escape to the city.

Based on Flaubert’s acclaimed novel, a young married woman escapes the ennui of her country life through a series of adulterous encounters.