Last Updated on 22 January 2025 by frenchflicks
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Tout le monde ment 2
January 3
A new investigation for the sensitive cases squad, which takes on powerful figures who nobody dares defy. A woman has been stabbed in her flat. She had just lodged a complaint against a famous actor for sexual assault.
Director: Akim Isker (France, 2023)
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Julien Boisselier
Genre: Thriller
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OPJ
January 5
Season 5 premiere. A police captain from Réunion Island serves as a squad commander in a working-class neighborhood of Nouméa, New Caledonia. Intelligent, determined, and an indispensable leader, she’s also a widow, raising two teenagers alone.
Director: Marine Hervé, Florian Thomas (France, 2023)
Cast: Yaëlle Trulès, Antoine Stip
Genre: Political thriller, crime
Virage
January 15
On her return from the Olympics, Frédérique, triple medal-winner in speed skating, decides to take a long hard look at her life and her future. Her partner Antoine, also a skater, feels betrayed. But the competitions continue.
Director: Catherine Therrien (CA, 2021)
Cast: Charlotte Aubin, Émile Schneider
Genre: Drama
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Maria Callas – Renata Tebaldi, la feline et la colombe
January 6
New York, 16 September 1968. Behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Opera, the famous opera singers Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi warmly embrace. It’s the end of a relentless, fruitful, and highly-publicized rivalry, played out in the world’s most prestigious opera houses throughout the 1950s.
Director: René-Jean Bouyer (France, 2014)
Genre: Documentary
Violette Nozière
Based on the true story of Violette Nozière. In post-World War I France, amid significant social and political upheaval, 18-year-old Violette Nozière challenges the oppressive confines of her working-class family, which may have unsettling dynamics, leading to disastrous outcomes.
Director: Claude Chabrol (France, 1978)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Crime, thriller
Awards: 1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winner (Isabelle Huppert), 1979 César Awards Best Supporting Actress Winner (Stéphane Audran)
Mindblow
Markus, a former music show contestant, has been mocked his whole life. At 40, he is offered the opportunity to change his past. Immersed in an alternative reality, he becomes a superstar but loses his love forever.
Director: Eric Andreae (Switzerland, 2024)
Cast: Dimitri Stapfer, Sylvie Marinkovic, Kay Kysela, Helen Wills, Eric Lüthi
Genre: Drama
Le sixième enfant
Franck, a scrap metal merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the way, and serious financial problems. Julien and Anna, lawyers, are unable to have children. The two couples come to an unthinkable arrangement.
Director: Léopold Legrand (France, 2022)
Cast: Sara Giraudeau, Benjamin Lavernhe
Genre: Drama
Toto le héros
When younger, Thomas was convinced that he had been swapped at birth with his neighbour Alfred. In adulthood, he still felt that Alfred enjoyed the happiness that should have been his. Now old, Thomas wonders if he has missed out on his life. He has some big decisions to take…
Director: Jaco Van Dormael (Belgian, 1991)
Cast: Mireille Perrier, Michel Bouquet, Jo de Backer, Bouli Lanners
Genre: Dramedy
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