Best French Drama Movies of 2021

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Best French Drama Movies of 2021
Best French Drama Movies of 2021
TOP Movies: Happening (2021), Haute Couture (2021), Full Time (2021), CODA (2021), The Worst Person in the World (2021), Parallel Mothers (2021), A Hero (2021), Softie (2021), Between Two Worlds (2021), Petite Maman (2021), Hold Me Tight (2021), The Family (2021), The Braves (2021), Deception (2021), Her Way (2021), Promises (2021), Last Film Show (2021), You Resemble Me (2021), Zero Fucks Given (2021), Secret Name (2021).

List of Best Movies

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 7.4
 11K
Happening (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style: sad, independent film, crying
Plot: abortion, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, pregnancy, post war, feminism, women, abortion rights, chaos, sexual repression, woman, summer ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: france
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Haute Couture (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her ...
Plot: fashion designer, dressmaker, fashion, strong female character, nudity, stealing, friendship, female nudity, transvestite, mother daughter relationship, singing, restaurant ...
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 7.4
 5K
Full Time (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: job interview, labor strike, strike, female protagonist, traffic jam, job, social issues, career, relationship vs career, problem, social problems, chaos ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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 8.0
 162K
CODA (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style: psychological, teen, sad, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, musician, coming of age, family relations, disability, teenager, deafness, fisherman, women, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: persia, hawaii, massachusetts
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Style: thought provoking, art house, funny, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: love, flirting, breakup, cancer, existential crisis, female protagonist, voice over narration, infidelity, male female relationship, drug trip, reindeer, feminist ...
Place: oslo norway
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Parallel Mothers (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Style: dramatic, sincere, tear jerker, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: motherhood, single mother, spanish civil war, lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, child, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lovers apart, life philosophy, justice ...
Time: 2020s, year 2016, 2010s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, madrid
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 7.5
 29K
A Hero (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?
Style: thrilling, suspense, beautiful
Plot: muslim, lonely, debt, european, prison, bad reputation, taxi, gold, rumor, stuttering, social media, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia, maghreb
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 7.1
 1K
Softie (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young ...
Style: social
Plot: coming of age, gay crush, boy, lgbt, gay, teenager, lgbtq, boyhood, little boy, teacher student relationship, blond boy, museum ...
Place: france
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Between Two Worlds (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: society, social issues, research, social problems, hardship, politics, dialectical materialism, city, journalist, working class, female friendship, chance meeting ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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 7.4
 17K
Petite Maman (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, psychological, talky ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: friendship, forest, death of grandmother, magic realism, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, little girl, female bonding, female friendship, father daughter relationship, pyramid, grief ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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Hold Me Tight (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: She is gone, she left husband and children… Or on the contrary.
Plot: women, plot twist, death of daughter, woman, male pubic hair, nudity, photography, bare chested male, death of family, piano, mourning, death of husband ...
Place: france
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 7.1
 401
The Family (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s ...
Style: dramatic, witty, entertaining, captivating
Plot: birthday party, birthday, holiday, church, father son relationship, foster child, christmas, dancing, ping pong, brother brother relationship, judge, foster home ...
Place: france
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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, cute, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love letter, journalism, relationships, extramarital affair, love affair, love, journalist, love story, love and romance, investigative reporter, multiple storylines, coworker ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1965, 2020s
Place: french riviera, london
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 6.8
 463
The Braves (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: dream, dreaming, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, female protagonist, girlfriend, movie actress, ambition, friendship, actress, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
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 5.5
 2K
Deception (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: unhappy wife, cheating wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, unfaithful husband, marital infidelity, lovers, romantic relationship, infidelity, lifestyle, love affair, couple relations, love story ...
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 6.5
 606
Her Way (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, financial problem, life is a bitch, blind ambition, social problems, female protagonist, money problems, family relations, overprotective mother, female nudity ...
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 6.3
 958
Promises (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by inequality, unemployment and slumlords. However, when ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: politics, political activist, political leader, political unrest, ambition, ambitious woman, political campaign, political activism, political party, politician, political intrigue, female protagonist ...
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Last Film Show (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a Summer watching movies from the projection booth.
Style: disturbing, entertaining, captivating, psychological, gujarati ...
Plot: follow your dream, direction and purpose, aspiration, daydreamer, desire for fame, ambitious, dream come true, dream, actor's life, actor, ambition, coming of age ...
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You Resemble Me (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Egypt
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological
Plot: new identity, personality change, sisters, secret, losing-it hero, changing lives, resistance, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, sister, lifestyle change, young
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Zero Fucks Given (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, art house
Plot: flight attendant, stewardess, job, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, drug, capitalism, death of mother, sister sister relationship, drunkenness, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: belgium, dubai
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 6.4
 560
Secret Name (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to ...
Plot: medical, fake identity, world war one, false identity, prostitution, disfigured, german soldier, impersonation, police commissioner, locket, church, presumed dead ...
Time: year 1914
Place: paris france
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 6.4
 22K
Pleasure (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Style: erotic, captivating, underground film, disturbing, hot
Audience: adult
Plot: porn industry, prostitution, sexploitation, prostitute, porn star, seductress, teenage prostitute, interracial sex, sex worker, porn actress, sex work, sexuality ...
Place: los angeles, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 6.6
 7K
Sundown (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot: brother and sister, vacation, rich man, emergency, family relations, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, relationships, marital crisis, marital problem, dysfunctional family ...
Place: mexico
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 6.8
 2K
To Chiara (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy ...
Style: social
Plot: peace, family relations, father, father daughter relationship, hiding place, school, money, bag of money, photograph, sister sister relationship, dancing, family secret ...
Place: italy
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 7.4
 9K
Vortex (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Monaco
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.
Style: cult classic, serious, independent film
Plot: death, dementia, alzheimer's disease, aged person, dialogue, destiny, illness, existentialism, elderly, son, elderly woman, husband wife relationship ...
Place: france
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The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Eugenie has a unique gift: she hears and sees the dead. When her family discovers her secret, at the end of the 19th century, she is taken by her father and brother to the neurological clinic at La Pitié Salpêtrière with no possibility of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, inspirational
Plot: psychiatry, psychological manipulation, rape, mental illness, mental institution, neurology, self sacrifice, medical malpractice, brother sister relationship, father daughter estrangement, female nudity, dead sister ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: france, paris france
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Paris, 13th District (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
Style: sexy, black and white, emotional, romantic, touching ...
Plot: male female relationship, bisexuality, teacher, libertine, friendship, gay lead character, university, relationships, female nudity, interracial relations, gay interest, anonymity ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, france
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Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, jew persecution, family relations, pregnant woman, letter, police arrest, husband wife relationship, body swapping, doll, newspaper, arrest ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: germany, paris france
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Our Eternal Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: To live and to love at the age of 18, immersing yourself in the carefree summer days and nights, losing your best friend suddenly, and realizing that nothing lasts forever. It’s a time of decisive encounters in order to be reborn.
Style: sentimental, romantic, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: death of best friend, teen romance, group of friends, death of friend, death by drowning, summer vacation, grief, guilt, male nudity, 18 year old, flirting, drowning ...
Time: 2020s
Place: marseille
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 6.6
 2K
The Divide (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter with Yann, an angry and injured demonstrator, will shatter each ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbtq, woman, politics, night, lesbian, medical examiner, anger, police violence, lesbian couple, hostage situation, class differences ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
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