Jérémie Renier

La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on society’s lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a teenager (Jérémie Renier) gradually coming to understand the implications of his father’s making a living through the exploitation of undocumented workers. Filmed in the Dardennes’ industrial hometown of Seraing, Belgium, La promesse is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening.

Afghanistan 2014: A French army captain's sanity, and the loyalty of his squad, is tested while on a mysterious surveillance mission in a remote valley. Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival

A guardian angel helps a French peasant who dreams of becoming a master winemaker.

Two French Legionnaires stationed in Afghanistan at the end of a five-year post are on an unauthorized leopard hunt when they stumble into an ambush.

Two fellow priests and friends, Julian and Nicolas, join together on a project to complete construction of a hospital in the slums of Buenos Aires.

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.

A culinary genius becomes a spy in Napoleon-era France, where manipulation is king.

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star. Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

After starting therapy, Chloé falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul. When they move in together, everything seems perfect until some discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she begins investigating, she dives into a dark world of smoke, mirrors, and doppelgangers.

SAINT LAURENT tells a story of the brilliant designer, his indulgent life and the price paid to be at the top of the world of fashion.

Ten years after the end of apartheid, a sense of unease and dread still permeates a South African community at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains, where an unsolved massacre from years before continues to haunt the villagers. In this fraught milieu, a powerful British landowner, Angus bullies his beautiful and bewildered wife Olive and exploits the neediness of his day laborers, including Samuel, who is raising a young son after the death of his French missionary wife. Estelle fights to maintain her spirited sense of self, while carrying for the mentally incapacitated Mattis and sleeping with brutish Angus for money. However, it's in the harshly beautiful killing fields of the South African Great Escarpment that a final reckoning threatens to arrive for all.

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.

Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!

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.

Simon and Helen live in Paris together, they decide to sell a basement in their building. The man who buys it has a troubled past and the couple's life is turning upside down.

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his friend Mani are sent to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

A trophy housewife steps in to manage her husband’s umbrella factory, when he is kidnapped by striking employees, whose union leader is her ex-beau.

Like Passages, this luminous drama from Ira Sachs dives into a web of interlocking relationships unsettled by the sudden tides of life. Led by the queen of angst Isabelle Huppert, Frankie muses on love and art, the small comforts that bring a levity to the weight of mortality.