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- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsVanessa HudgensSelena GomezAshley BensonFour college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.
- DirectorSophie LetourneurStarsMarina FoïsJonathan CohenJacqueline KakouA world traveling pianist and her husband have decided not to have a baby, but then he sees a surprise childbirth on a flight and tampers with her pill.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMathieu AmalricMarion CotillardCharlotte GainsbourgThe story follows a filmmaker (Mathieu Amalric) whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover (Marion Cotillard as Carlotta) just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsLéa SeydouxAnaïs DemoustierAgathe SchlenkerTwo teenage girls bond over drugs, partying, and music after being arrested, trying to find themselves in a difficult world.
- DirectorPierre SchoellerStarsGaspard UllielAdèle HaenelOlivier GourmetThe intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblée Nationale.
- DirectorMiaoyan ZhangStarsXinjiang GuoA boy is in search of his mother in the estuary of the dirty Yellow River. He finds pollution, oppression, drugs and violence and yet he does not lose his will to live.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsAndrée DebarJean-Claude PascalGabrielle DorziatBavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
- DirectorBenoît ForgeardStarsAlka BalbirDariusSylvain DieuaideA slightly edgy director is finding it difficult to finish his film. During a sound effects recording session, he is visited by different characters from his previous films who give him advice. They lead him to tell us three stories: "La Course nue", "Belle Ile en Mer", and "L'Antivirus".
- DirectorStefan LiberskiStarsAmbre GrouwelsCésar DomboyPhilippe RebbotBici, an 18 years old talented rock singer from Liege has a crush on her bandmate, but she has some competition to win him over.
- DirectorMathieu AmalricStarsMuriel MayetteDenis PodalydèsSuliane BrahimA father is looking for the son he hasn't seen for years in this contemporary adaptation of the seventeenth-century play by Pierre Corneille.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsEddie ConstantineMay BrittJean DanetA con man (Eddie Constantine) is approached by a shipping magnate to become one of his security agents.
- DirectorBasil da CunhaStarsAna Clara Baptista de Melo Soares BarrosSusana Maria Mendes da CostaJosé Zeferino da CruzStraight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can't get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts to think that he might have been better off in the clink...
- DirectorMarc'oStarsBulle OgierPierre ClémentiJean-Pierre KalfonThe rise and fall of a pop/rock trio immersed in the counterculture of the 1960's. The rebel Charly, the audacious Gigi and the thoughtful Simon present their stories, thoughts and feelings in countless songs, dealing with audience demands and also the pressures from their business managers. Fame and show business are a constant tightrope.
- DirectorBenoît LamyMweze NganguraStarsPapa WembaBibi KrubwaLandu Nzunzimbu MatshiaKourou comes from a village to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital and the center of World Beat; music is in his heart and he has big dreams. Right away he gets a job as a domestic for Mamou, the loud wife of a club owner, and he falls in love with Kabibi, a virginal young woman who wants to be a secretary. Meanwhile, Nvouandou, the club owner, childless after twenty years of marriage, wants a second wife and determines to marry Kabibi. Mamou pretends to approve of the match, but behind her husband's back, she pushes Kabibi into the arms of Kourou. Can Kourou win Kabibi's hand and fulfill his dreams of being a singer; can Mamou recapture the affections of Nvouandou?
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCharles FarrellGreta NissenJohn BolesAn Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
- DirectorCaroline Deruas-GarrelStarsClotilde HesmeJenna ThiamTchéky KaryoThe story of the relationship between two young artists, a photographer and a writer, but above all the story of personal freedom through the filter of the imagination.
- DirectorPia MaraisStarsJeanne BalibarStefan SternGeorg Friedrich
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsIsabelle HuppertSandrine KiberlainPierre ArditiA young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
- DirectorArnaud BouronAntoon KringsStarsVirginie EfiraKev AdamsEmmanuel CurtilWhen his beloved Queen bee Marguerite is kidnapped, vagabond cricket Apollo who has been framed for the crime, teams up with the other bugs to save the Queen and the entire kingdom.
- DirectorPhilippe LabroStarsClaude BrasseurJean-Claude BrialyGabrielle LazureA well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.
- DirectorBastian GüntherStarsUlrich TukurGarret DillahuntJenny SchilyA German corporate headhunter travels to Houston, Texas, in pursuit of a renowned oil company CEO, only to have his life fall apart.
- DirectorTim SuttonStarsWillis Earl BealConstance BrantleyLarry DodsonA strange singer with God-given talent drifts through his adopted city of Memphis with its canopy of ancient oak trees, streets of shattered windows, and aura of burning spirituality. Surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold hustler, a righteous preacher, and a wolf pack of kids, the sweet, yet unstable, performer avoids the recording studio, driven by his own form of self-discovery. His journey quickly drags him from love and happiness right to the edge of another dimension.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsKenny BeeAnthony ChanPing-Yu ChangThe daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.
- DirectorPascal ThomasStarsLaetitia CastaMathieu AmalricPierre ArditiThanks to the law of 1948 and to her grandmother, the nominal tenant who is always absent, Francesca Cigalone and all her tribe (thoughtless husband, orphan sister, self-centered film maker and his mistress of the day, eccentric granny, friends, friends of the friends, daughter) live on a shoestring in a very big apartment. Which is not to the liking of supercilious bitchy owner Charlotte Falingard, who has been intent for some time on having them evicted for obvious speculative reasons, but suing Francesca is no bed of roses. The lady is tenacious, and she once studied law.
- DirectorMarc FitoussiStarsSandrine KiberlainAudrey LamyClaudio SantamariaAfter being dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline lets herself be dragged along by her sister to a luxurious hotel on the Italian riviera. Instead of indulging in the pleasures of loungeing around and doing nothing, Pauline convinces herself that a crime has been commited in the hotel and starts playing at being detective, carting along a seductive lifeguard with her into her investigations.