France Films 2008
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1. The Wave (2008)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich
Votes: 115,095
2. Martyrs (2008)
R | 99 min | Horror
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin
Votes: 106,398
3. Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret
Votes: 44,958 | Gross: $1.48M
4. JCVD (2008)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Valérie Bodson, Hervé Sogne, Rock Chen
Votes: 40,307 | Gross: $0.47M
5. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,117 | Gross: $0.48M
6. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,425 | Gross: $3.77M
7. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
R | 113 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche
Votes: 35,291 | Gross: $0.55M
8. Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Asterix and Obelix compete at the Olympics in order to help their friend Lovesix marry Princess Irina. Brutus also tries to win the game with his own team and get rid of his father Julius Caesar.
Directors: Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon
Votes: 32,535 | Gross: $1.00M
9. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan
Votes: 31,237 | Gross: $0.28M
10. The Oxford Murders (2008)
R | 108 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter
Votes: 30,665 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Three Monkeys (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal
Votes: 23,003 | Gross: $0.04M
12. I've Loved You So Long (2008)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill
Votes: 20,709 | Gross: $3.17M
13. Flame & Citron (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind
Votes: 19,941 | Gross: $0.15M
14. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 19,008 | Gross: $0.24M
15. The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Thriller
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers, and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry
Votes: 14,778 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Dragon Hunters (2008)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters!
Directors: Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Philippe Nahon, Amanda Lear
Votes: 13,356
17. Paris (I) (2008)
R | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A ex-dancer has a heart problem and even with a transplant, he may still only have a few months to live. Time's spent looking at people/life in Paris from his balcony. His single mom sister moves in with her 3 kids to look after him.
Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Romain Duris, Joffrey Platel, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 12,874 | Gross: $1.01M
18. Tokyo! (2008)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo.
Directors: Leos Carax, Michel Gondry, Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Ayako Fujitani, Ryô Kase, Ayumi Ito, Nao Ômori
Votes: 11,869 | Gross: $0.35M
19. The Broken (2008)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After seeing herself drive down the street, Radiologist Gina McVey unravels a mystery centered around a broken mirror.
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud, Michelle Duncan
Votes: 11,302
20. The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
114 min | Drama
Five key days in a family's life.
Director: Rémi Bezançon | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François, Marc-André Grondin
Votes: 9,951
21. Anything for Her (2008)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Director: Fred Cavayé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal
Votes: 9,767
22. LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
When Lola's boyfriend is unfaithful to her on his summer holiday, she dumps him and flirts with his best friend as punishment. But as their class prepares to leave on an excursion to London, the relationship heats up.
Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Christa Théret, Jérémy Kapone, Marion Chabassol
Votes: 9,629
23. Lorna's Silence (2008)
R | 105 min | Drama
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.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj
Votes: 9,170 | Gross: $0.34M
24. Summer Hours (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Family
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Votes: 8,169 | Gross: $1.64M
25. Female Agents (2008)
TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain
Votes: 7,953
26. The Beautiful Person (2008)
Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias' high school and class after her mom's death. She meets his friends. The boys want to date her - even her handsome, young Italian teacher.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Esteban Carvajal-Alegria
Votes: 7,969
27. A Christmas Tale (2008)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny
Votes: 7,563 | Gross: $1.06M
28. Lemon Tree (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavory
Votes: 6,879 | Gross: $0.57M
29. Nunta muta (2008)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu, Alexandru Bindea
Votes: 7,019
30. Seraphine (2008)
Unrated | 125 min | Biography, Drama
In 1912 German collector Wilhelm Uhde rents a flat in Senlis to write and take a break from Parisian life. He hires a 48-year old cleaning lady, Séraphine. Some time later, he notices a small painting on wood at a local notable home.
Director: Martin Provost | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 6,544 | Gross: $0.88M
31. The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Director: Olivier Marchal | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal, Francis Renaud
Votes: 6,508
32. Vinyan (2008)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
Director: Fabrice du Welz | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Petch Osathanugrah, Julie Dreyfus
Votes: 6,026
33. Dante 01 (2008)
R | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A prisoner is brought to psychiatric detention space station orbiting a prison planet. He was exposed to aliens and gained healing power. A new doctor wants to experiment on the 7 prisoners/patients.
Director: Marc Caro | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Linh-Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, Simona Maicanescu
Votes: 5,980
34. Involuntary (2008)
98 min | Drama
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down - or failing to do so - are explored.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Villmar Björkman, Lola Ewerlund, Maria Lundqvist, Henrik Vikman
Votes: 6,476
35. Dorothy Mills (2008)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychiatrist is assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan
Votes: 5,981
36. The Headless Woman (2008)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud
Votes: 5,728 | Gross: $0.10M
37. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 5,277 | Gross: $0.18M
38. Última Parada 174 (2008)
Unrated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chronicle of a real-life bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro that occurred on June 12, 2000.
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Michel Gomes, Cris Vianna, Marcello Melo Jr., Gabriela Luiz
Votes: 5,582
39. Cash (2008)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
After his brother is killed, Cash allies with a famous thief to pull of the biggest robbery in history.
Director: Éric Besnard | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino, Alice Taglioni
Votes: 5,075
40. Home (II) (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.
Director: Ursula Meier | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd
Votes: 5,030
41. Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
Director: Juraj Jakubisko | Stars: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson
Votes: 4,692
42. Afterwards (2008)
R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die.
Director: Gilles Bourdos | Stars: Romain Duris, John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly, Pascale Bussières
Votes: 4,126
43. Secret Defense (2008)
100 min | Thriller
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Haïm | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Vahina Giocante, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Mehdi Nebbou
Votes: 3,733
44. Johnny Mad Dog (2008)
98 min | Drama, War
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | Stars: Christophe Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Joseph Duo, Dagbeth Tweh
Votes: 3,534
45. Süt (2008)
102 min | Drama
Yusuff has a hard time defining his adulthood. In one hand, there are his mother's expectations while on the other hand his passions.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Melih Selcuk, Basak Köklükaya, Riza Akin, Saadet Aksoy
Votes: 3,350
46. Love Me No More (2008)
85 min | Drama, Romance
The back story is a marvelous and gorgeous social commentary on the type of generous actions we could all take - to enrich our often-solitary elder-citizens' lives.
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze, Pierre Vaneck, Cristiana Reali
Votes: 3,497
47. Don't Look Down (2008)
R | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira, schools a young man in Tantric lovemaking.
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Antonella Costa, Leandro Stivelman, Hugo Arana, Mónica Galán
Votes: 3,339
48. Palermo Shooting (2008)
124 min | Drama
After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch
Votes: 3,192
49. Faubourg 36 (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Music, Musical
When Chansonia, a nightclub, is shut down by the landlord, the stage manager Pigoil is forced to look for a new job. He finds hope when he discovers a young woman with a lovely singing voice.
Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder
Votes: 2,936 | Gross: $0.85M
50. Pandora'nin Kutusu (2008)
112 min | Drama
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Ünsal, Övül Avkiran
Votes: 2,977
51. De l'autre côté du lit (2008)
93 min | Comedy
To save their marriage, a man and a woman decide to exchange their lives for a year.
Director: Pascale Pouzadoux | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Dany Boon, Antoine Duléry, Roland Giraud
Votes: 2,839
52. Skirt Day (2008)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
'Skirt Day' is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adjani's first film in five years.
Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Khalid Berkouz, Yann Ebongé
Votes: 2,709
53. 2 Alone in Paris (2008)
94 min | Comedy
Everybody in Paris has vanished exept a clueless cop and the robber he's been pursuing for years.
Directors: Ramzy Bedia, Eric Judor | Stars: Ramzy Bedia, Eric Judor, Hafid F. Benamar, Élodie Bouchez
Votes: 2,747
54. Louise hires a contract killer (2008)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion ... See full summary »
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel
Votes: 2,595
55. All My Life (2008)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
For Rami, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, as long as he keeps to himself. But when his longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, ... See full summary »
Director: Maher Sabry | Stars: Seham Saneya Adelsalam, Mehammed Amadeus, Janaan Attia, Ayman
Votes: 2,554
56. La fille de Monaco (2008)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Bertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman's mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Stéphane Audran, Gilles Cohen
Votes: 2,357 | Gross: $0.60M
57. Eldorado (2008)
TV-MA | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. He doesn't call the police and decides to give the young man a lift home to his parents.
Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy
Votes: 2,211 | Gross: $0.01M
58. À l'aventure (2008)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A sexually unsatisfied young woman decided to pursue various sexual experiments and scenarios.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Carole Brana, Arnaud Binard, Nadia Chibani, Lise Bellynck
Votes: 2,329
59. Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou (2008)
125 min | Drama
To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob
Votes: 2,064
60. Go Fast (2008)
110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Van Hoofstadt | Stars: Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet, Jocelyn Lagarrigue, Julie Durand
Votes: 2,013
61. La siciliana ribelle (2008)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama
The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Amenta | Stars: Veronica D'Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Marcello Mazzarella, Mario Pupella
Votes: 1,902 | Gross: $0.07M
62. Let it Rain (2008)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Jaoui | Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Pascale Arbillot
Votes: 1,917 | Gross: $0.11M
63. Cztery noce z Anna (2008)
87 min | Crime, Drama
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Redbad Klynstra
Votes: 1,913
64. Service (2008)
R | 87 min | Drama, Romance
The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.
Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Coco Martin
Votes: 1,920 | Gross: $0.06M
65. Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Not Rated | 147 min | Music, Romance
Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Andreia Santos
Votes: 1,824
66. Rumba (2008)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn... See full summary »
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy | Stars: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy
Votes: 1,813
67. Disco (2008)
103 min | Comedy, Music
Didier Travolta (Franck Dubosc) is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while in Britain. The mother of his son refuses to... See full summary »
Director: Fabien Onteniente | Stars: Franck Dubosc, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel Le Bihan
Votes: 1,666
68. Stella (2008)
103 min | Drama
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
Director: Sylvie Verheyde | Stars: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard, Karole Rocher
Votes: 1,620
69. The Country Teacher (2008)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. The gruff principal asks what he's running from and predicts he'll be gone in six months.... See full summary »
Director: Bohdan Sláma | Stars: Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovská, Ladislav Sedivý, Marek Daniel
Votes: 1,518 | Gross: $0.05M
70. Comme les autres (2008)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay?
Director: Vincent Garenq | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pilar López de Ayala, Pascal Elbé, Anne Brochet
Votes: 1,421
71. Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Twin 18-year-olds hitchhike to their mother's funeral in Spain. The journey changes their lives forever.
Director: Pascal-Alex Vincent | Stars: Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier, Samir Harrag
Votes: 1,356 | Gross: $0.00M
72. Salt of This Sea (2008)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov
Votes: 1,460 | Gross: $0.01M
73. Frontier of the Dawn (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz, Olivier Massart
Votes: 1,292
74. Karamazovi (2008)
110 min | Drama
A film that examines the relationships between lives on both sides of the proscenium, Petr Zelenka's Karamazovi finds a Prague-based theatrical ensemble arriving in Krakow, Poland - where ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Zelenka | Stars: Michaela Badinková, Jerzy Michal Bozyk, Igor Chmela, Malgorzata Galkowska
Votes: 1,253
75. Crime Is Our Business (2008)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!
Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 1,190
76. Liverpool (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A merchant sailor returns to his home in Tierra del Fuego after spending most of his life at sea.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal
Votes: 1,199
77. A French Gigolo (2008)
104 min | Drama, Romance
A married construction worker leads a double life as a male prostitute serving rich ladies.
Director: Josiane Balasko | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré, Josiane Balasko
Votes: 1,169
78. Snijeg (2008)
100 min | Drama
Post traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.
Director: Aida Begic | Stars: Zana Marjanovic, Jasna Beri, Sadzida Setic, Vesna Masic
Votes: 1,148
79. Dying God (2008)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
With the help of local pimps head by Chance, a corrupt cop will have to face his own demons to put an end to a series of brutal rapes and murders of the most weirdest kind, but in the end may not be human.
Director: Fabrice Lambot | Stars: James Horan, Lance Henriksen, Erin Brown, Agathe de La Boulaye
Votes: 1,108
80. Ugly Melanie (2008)
93 min | Comedy
This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice.
Directors: Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit | Stars: Marilou Berry, Frédérique Bel, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Joséphine de Meaux
Votes: 1,091
81. Me Two (2008)
84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Ranu, a shy accountant, suddenly discovers a completely opposite personality living in his head: 80's singer Gilles Gabriel.
Directors: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Lavaine | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Alain Chabat, Marina Foïs, François Damiens
Votes: 1,103
82. Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
Director: Nicolas Bary | Stars: Raphaël Katz, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léo Legrand, Baptiste Bétoulaud
Votes: 1,111
83. Wild Blood (2008)
148 min | Biography, Drama
The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Alessio Boni, Luca Zingaretti, Maurizio Donadoni
Votes: 1,024
84. A Pain in the Ass (2008)
86 min | Comedy
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit, Pascal Elbé, Laurent Paolini
Votes: 1,025
85. Private Lessons (2008)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Jonas Bloquet, Jonathan Zaccaï, Claire Bodson, Yannick Renier
Votes: 1,037
86. Le nouveau protocole (2008)
92 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
Director: Thomas Vincent | Stars: Clovis Cornillac, Marie-Josée Croze, Dominique Reymond, Stéphane Hillel
Votes: 1,022
87. Hooked (2008)
84 min | Drama
The story of some ordinary people who undergo a relationship crisis, as well as a consciousness crisis - people who find themselves in an extreme situation and give up their principles.
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Ioana Flora, Maria Dinulescu, Alexandru Georgescu
Votes: 991
88. Les liens du sang (2008)
106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favorite.
Director: Jacques Maillot | Stars: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme, Marie Denarnaud
Votes: 986
89. Inju, la bête dans l'ombre (2008)
105 min | Mystery, Thriller
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Gen Shimaoka, Ryo Ishibashi
Votes: 972
90. 8 (2008)
100 min | Drama
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
Directors: Jane Campion, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders | Stars: Nigist Anteneh, Tefera Gizaw, Fekadu Kebede, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Votes: 976
91. Empty Nest (2008)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the emptiness felt when ones children have left home and there are no longer any barriers to exposing marital difficulties.
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth, Inés Efron, Arturo Goetz
Votes: 927
92. Mark of an Angel (2008)
95 min | Drama
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression, in the midst of a divorce from her husband of twelve years, develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party ... See full summary »
Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Catherine Frot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wladimir Yordanoff, Antoine Chappey
Votes: 906
93. Mes stars et moi (2008)
88 min | Comedy
A movie fan tries to work with his favorite celebrities.
Director: Laetitia Colombani | Stars: Kad Merad, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Mélanie Bernier
Votes: 893
94. Sagan (2008)
117 min | Biography
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her ... See full summary »
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar, Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 888
95. Last Hour (2008)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Thriller
How would you react if three years after the death of your father, you receive a letter signed by him inviting you to visit an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere in China? Curious in ... See full summary »
Director: Pascal Caubet | Stars: DMX, Michael Madsen, Pascal Caubet, David Carradine
Votes: 866
96. Cortex (2008)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A retired police inspector is stricken with Alzheimer's and decides to move into a residential clinic where he is puzzled by the sudden deaths of several patients.
Director: Nicolas Boukhrief | Stars: André Dussollier, Marthe Keller, Julien Boisselier, Chantal Neuwirth
Votes: 868
97. Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)
116 min | Drama
A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action.
Director: Rithy Panh | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Randal Douc
Votes: 868
98. Agathe Cléry (2008)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Musical
The ultimate nightmare for a racist? Becoming as black as the people she abhors. This is exactly what happens to Agathe Cléry: she's struck down with a rare disorder of the adrenal cortex glands that causes the skin to darken inexorably...
Director: Étienne Chatiliez | Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Dominique Lavanant, Isabelle Nanty
Votes: 856
99. School's Out (2008)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.
Director: Frédéric Berthe | Stars: Théo Frilet, Valentine Catzéflis, Michel Blanc, Arthur Dupont
Votes: 815
100. The Wedding Song (2008)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, History, War
The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
Director: Karin Albou | Stars: Lizzie Brocheré, Olympe Borval, Najib Oudghiri, Simon Abkarian
Votes: 855 | Gross: $0.03M
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