Best French Drama Movies of 2022

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Best French Drama Movies of 2022
Best French Drama Movies of 2022
TOP Movies: Other People's Children (2022), The Son (2022), Saint Omer (2022), Paris Memories (2022), Lie with Me (2022), The Tasting (2022), The Passengers of the Night (2022), Close (2022), Winter Boy (2022), Mother and Son (2022), The Eight Mountains (2022), Brother and Sister (2022), Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022), The Beasts (2022), Athena (2022), More Than Ever (2022), Driving Madeleine (2022), Peter von Kant (2022), Godland (2022), Ride Above (2022).

List of Best Movies

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Other People's Children (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. ...
Plot: nudity, little girl, gynecologist, woman, female pubic hair, sex scene, pharmacy, swimming pool, student, teacher student relationship, horse, horse riding ...
Place: paris france
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 6.4
 15K
The Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: mental health, divorced parents, family conflict, father, teen angst, depression, suicide, couple relations, father and son, love story, ex couple relations, family relations ...
Place: washington d.c., new york
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 6.8
 5K
Saint Omer (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are ...
Style: psychological, captivating, crying
Plot: trial, novelist, jury, female writer, middle aged, courtroom drama, female protagonist, court, framed for murder, writers, accused of murder, writer's life ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Paris Memories (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the ...
Plot: trauma, terrorist attack, memory, illegal immigrant, voice over narration, murder of parents, aftermath, financier, running from police, unfaithful boyfriend, historical event, opera ...
Place: paris france, france
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 7.6
 1K
Lie with Me (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat ...
Style: captivating, psychological, gay cinema
Plot: gay interest, gay, gay sex, male pubic hair, flashback, back in hometown, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, ex boyfriend, love interest, memories ...
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 6.1
 868
The Tasting (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets ...
Plot: restaurant, food, bare chested male, bookseller, newborn, homelessness, sex scene, baby, dinner, car accident, bad singing, safe ...
Time: 2020s
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The Passengers of the Night (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Paris, 1981. The winds of change are blowing on election night and the French storm the streets, elated. But Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to share the general mood of optimism. Her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to ...
Style: crying
Plot: teenage sex, women, sex scene, swimming pool, junkie, unrequited love, job, unemployment, sadness, meaning of life, fall in love, alienation ...
Time: year 1988, year 1984, 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france
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 7.8
 33K
Close (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and ...
Style: dramatic, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, best friend, friendship between boys, coming of age, teenage boy, intimacy, guilt, bullying, suicide, lgbt child, friendship between men, boyhood ...
Place: france, belgium
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 6.8
 2K
Winter Boy (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, homoerotic
Plot: male nudity, coming of age, social problems, life is a bitch, social issues, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, gay sex, male male relationship, teenage boy, teenage sex, homosexual subtext ...
Place: paris france, alps
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 6.7
 415
Mother and Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and ...
Style: captivating, serious, dramatic, sincere, interesting
Plot: mother son relationship, immigrant, single mother, coming of age, brother brother relationship, family problems, family relations, mother, mother and son, brothers, family life, brother ...
Place: paris france, africa
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The Eight Mountains (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, sentimental, exciting, serious ...
Plot: building a house, friendship, friendship between men, father son relationship, mountain, friend, cow, friendship between boys, friends, snow, male bonding, bonding ...
Time: year 1984
Place: alps, nepal, himalaya
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Brother and Sister (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Plot: actress, family issues, theater, drunkenness, car accident, synagogue, resentment, brother, gay couple, emotional breakdown, love, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 2020s
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Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight to a ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, entertaining, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, reindeer, grandfather granddaughter relationship, family relations, christmas spirit, family life, wizard, magical creature, magic, christmas season, father daughter relationship, garbage dump ...
Place: london
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 7.5
 18K
The Beasts (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their ...
Style: interesting
Plot: farmer, mother daughter conflict, rural setting, couples, isolated place, mother daughter relationship, poverty, horse, village, broken down car, murder, contaminated water ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 22K
Athena (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
Style: dramatic, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Plot: gang, gangster, brother, social commentary, tragic event, fighting the system, violence, destruction, anger, family relations, mercilessness, loss of brother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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More Than Ever (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, emotional, existential
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, skinny dipping, love, female protagonist, internet dating, couple relations, relationships, couples, love affair, male female relationship, disease, peace ...
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Driving Madeleine (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.
Style: captivating, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking, exciting
Plot: first kiss, old woman, taxi driver, prison, life, love and romance, woman kills a man, stepfather stepson relationship, american soldier, husband wife relationship, love, mother and son ...
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Peter von Kant (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share ...
Style: stylized, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay crush, gay interest, male nudity, older man younger man relationship, lgbt, lost soul, bare chested male, man dances with a man, actor, actress, dinner ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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 7.2
 7K
Godland (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Plot: priest, male nudity, journey, nordic, photography, bare chested male, guide, death, photographer, missionary, cultural conflict, animal ...
Time: 19th century
Place: iceland
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 373
Ride Above (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
Plot: pregnant woman, pregnancy, childbirth, jockey, newborn, swimming pool, horse race, newborn baby, snow, beach, disability, accident ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 2010s
Place: normandy
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The World of Yesterday (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of France.
Style: psychological, political, thrilling, captivating
Plot: politics, retiring, morality, choice, french politics, president, political intrigue, politician, political election, political candidate, social problems, secret ...
Place: france
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The Worst Ones (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Style: satirical, semi serious, captivating, feel good, thrilling ...
Plot: teenager, child cancer, teamwork, satire, teenage life, mischievous children, children, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, interview, bullying, bad kids ...
Place: france
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The Immensity (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
Plot: unhappy marriage, asthma, lgbt, transsexual, desire for fame, marital rape, domestic violence, love, transgender, violent husband, infidelity, photography ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style: dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cruise ship, shipwreck, rich, class differences, yacht, cruise, model, fashion model, social satire, stranded on an island, jealousy, disability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 2K
Utama (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, Uruguay, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage ...
Plot: farmer, camel, llama, husband wife relationship, homeland, couples, cemetery, death of husband, motorcycle, animal sacrifice, river, ritual ...
Time: 2020s
Place: bolivia
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, War
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A darker version of the classic children's fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.
Style: dark fantasy, fairy tale, 3d animation, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: stop motion, magic, pinocchio, monkey, grief, church, whale, puppet, father son relationship, boy, doll, children ...
Time: 2020s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: italy
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 725
My Small Land (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological
Plot: kurd, adolescence, refugee, teenager, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, social issues, female protagonist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, social problems
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 679
Angry Annie (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
Style: exciting, sincere, funny, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot: illegal abortion, abortion, pregnancy, civil rights movement, pregnant woman, women's wrestling, female protagonist, woman, women, fight
Time: 70s
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 1K
Love Life (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this ...
Style: beautiful
Plot: shakespeare's othello, champion, cat, balloon, dog, mother, father, love, partner, husband, deaf man, accidental death ...
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One Year, One Night (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: psychological trauma, male female relationship, family problems, relationships, family relations, sole survivor, social problems, life is a bitch, marital problem, psycho terror, husband wife relationship, psychological torment ...
Time: year 2015
Place: paris france, france
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