Best French Movies of 2020 – page 2

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Spring Blossom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: teenage girl, love story, teenager, theatrical troupe, age-gap relationship, age difference, love affair, male female relationship, love interest, relationships, older man younger woman relationship, woman ...
Place: france, paris france
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Bigfoot Family (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bigfoot, Adam's father, wants to use his fame for a good cause. Protecting a large wildlife reserve in Alaska sounds like the perfect opportunity! When Bigfoot mysteriously disappears without a trace, Adam and his animal friends will brave ...
Style: sincere, light, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: young heroes, bigfoot, sasquatch, escapades, save the day, help, animal life, family relations, friendship, teenager, superpower, bear ...
Place: alaska, north america
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 6.5
 9K
New Order (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
Style: tense, captivating, mindfuck, surreal, social ...
Plot: revolution, working class, class differences, male nudity, female nudity, social relations, social problems, class conflict, class struggle, troubled marriage, middle class, family problems ...
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The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend (2020)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A teenager summons the courage to help a friendly robot known as A.R.I. kidnapped by a ruthless lab director working for a powerful corporation seeking to turn him into a dangerous weapon in order to rule the world.
Style: exciting, sentimental, touching, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: robotics, chase, children, robot, runaway, friendship, childhood, destiny, escapades, laboratory, artificial intelligence, imaginary ...
Time: future
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 5.0
 9K
The Owners (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, slasher, dark ...
Plot: abduction, kidnapping, trapped in a building, home invasion, violence, heist gone wrong, danger, survival, captivity, chase, isolation, bad guys win ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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 5.3
 532
Aviva (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A unique exploration into romantic connection and gender dynamics, 'Aviva' tells the story of a relationship between a man and a woman, with each of the two principal characters played by both a man and a woman. It's the story of a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Audience: adult
Plot: female nudity, choreography, male female relationship, relationships, love story, family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, love affair, marriage crisis, troubled marriage ...
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 5.5
 1K
Lovers (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: female nudity, adultery, love affair, vacation, love story, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, ex boyfriend, nudity, drug, love ...
Place: paris france
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 5.4
 1K
Kandisha (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While working on their graffiti pieces in a condemned apartment building, best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana discover a name scribbled on one of the walls — Kandisha. Morjana recognises the name as that of a powerful demon found in Moroccan ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: exorcism, vengeance, violence, paranormal, ghost, murder, death, rescue, urban legend, curses spells and rituals, characters in danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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The Last Journey (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of its generation. But few hours before the start of the Great mission, Paul disappeared.
Style: thought provoking, melancholic, touching, sad, independent film
Plot: astronaut, ecology, hopes, fate of humanity, apocalypse, unfulfillment, loneliness, life is a bitch, destiny, bittersweet, runaway, life philosophy ...
Time: future
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The Morning After (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fed up with her cheating husband, Louise, 45, takes off for a weekend in Corsica. But after a wild night of unbridled passion with a man who winds up dead, Louise is unwittingly mistaken for his secret, longtime girlfriend by his Corsican fearsome ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, psychological, captivating
Plot: forbidden love, love interest, love story, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, adultery, sleeping, mysterious character, night, husband
Place: corsica
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 7.0
 2K
True Mothers (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, ...
Style: captivating
Plot: family relations, children, husband wife relationship, couples, father son relationship, parents and children, kids and family, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, mother son relationship, woman ...
Place: hiroshima japan
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Rosa's Wedding (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind and take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business
Style: social
Plot: female protagonist, wedding ceremony, grieving widower, sibling relationship, workaholic, midlife crisis, young mother, family reunited, town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, sister sister relationship ...
Place: valencia spain
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 6.6
 6K
Mandibles (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.
Style: funny, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, mistaken identity, giant insect, satire, criminal, absurd humor, escapades, silly humor, friends, human animal relationship, animal human communication, extreme ...
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 5.0
 939
Ballsy Girl (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nour is a pleasant and funny person who works as an accountant at a fitness center in Paris. Everybody likes her, but she has no luck in her romantic endeavours because she is overweight with atypical looks. Her close friends try to give her advice, ...
Style: semi serious, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: striptease, overweight, obesity, self doubt, love story, love and romance, lifestyle change, love affair, uncertainty, looking for love, female protagonist, changing lives ...
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 6.7
 52
(S)He (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: (S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, gender issues, gender, parents and children, social issues, social problems, gender roles, life is a bitch, transgender woman, transvestite, society, gender bending ...
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 6.6
 2K
Slalom (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps, has been accepted to a highly selective ski club whose aim is to train future professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned coach, decides to make Lyz ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, semi autobiographical
Audience: teen drama
Plot: skiing, teenage girl, coach, female protagonist, statutory rape, snow skiing, competition, championship, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, teenager, ambition ...
Time: 2000s
Place: alps
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light, funny, humorous ...
Plot: children, father son relationship, lie, parents and children, family life, father and son, kids and family, family relations, deception, con trick, heroes, white lie ...
Time: year 1961
Place: lyon
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The Secret Garden (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. She meets her sickly cousin Colin and the two children find a wondrous ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, sentimental, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: orphan, imagination, estate, old mansion, secret, curse, flowers, gardening, mansion, true love, child, garden ...
Time: 2020s, 1940s, year 1947, 19th century, post world war two
Place: yorkshire, england, india
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Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
Style: independent film
Plot: women, muslim, woman, widow, false accusation, mother daughter relationship, single mother, deaf child, deaf, female protagonist, sign language, judge ...
Place: iran, middle east
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 5.5
 509
My Best Part (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, therapy, actor, mental health, family relations, gay lead character, male nudity, fall in love, society, gay couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Western
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, touching, tense, anime
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, chase, military, gold mine, gold, disguise, golddigger, promise, chore, dead mother, car trunk ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
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 6.5
 9K
Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style: powerful, costume drama
Plot: french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, world war, secret, love, husband wife relationship, saving a life, mother daughter relationship, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1938, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, swiss alps, geneva switzerland, munich germany, switzerland ...
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 5.9
 160
Dreamchild (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, pregnant woman, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, society, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Old Fashioned (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting ...
Style: feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, detective
Plot: mother son relationship, relationship problems, love story, in love, love affair, love and romance, family problems, relationships, love interest, male female relationship, family relations, private detective ...
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Adventures of Rufus: The Fantastic Pet (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: At his grandmother's house, Scott and his friend Emily meet Rufus, a swashbuckling, furry creature who begs them to help restore his fading kingdom. Wizard Abbott's spell book contains the magic healing formula--but Abbott's ancient ...
Style: light, entertaining, sweet, funny, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: magic spell, wizard, library, time jump, grandmother grandson relationship, magic, best friend, fantasy world, obsessive quest, amulet, enemy, trippy ...
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 6.3
 4K
Mama Weed (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one ...
Style: exciting, humorous, disturbing, captivating, touching
Plot: drug dealing, lifestyle, war on drugs, manipulative woman, police dog, police, drug, master criminal, drug lord, drug traffic, double life, money laundering ...
Place: france, paris france
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story: An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.
Style: psychological, captivating, epic, surreal, modern day adaptation
Plot: sex party, mistress, gay interest, lgbt, starting over, family relations, society, redemption, rage, lifestyle, city life, hopes ...
Place: germany, central europe, berlin germany
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 4.3
 30K
Artemis Fowl (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Artemis Fowl the second, a young Irish criminal mastermind, kidnaps the fairy LEPrecon officer Holly Short for ransom to fund rescuing his father. Once a transaction is made, they go onto a hunt for the evil pixie Opal Koboi and rush to save Artemis ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, colorful, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick
Plot: magical creature, fantasy life, fairy, magic, child, elf, genius, mythical creature, fantasy world, dream world, humour, mysticism ...
Time: 2020s
Place: ireland
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How I Became a Super Hero (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, weird
Plot: superhero, superpower, showdown, battles, supernatural ability, supernatural power, fighting the system, fighting crime, life, good versus evil, superheroine, epic battle ...
Time: 2020s
Place: paris france
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 6.3
 2K
The Speech (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks ...
Style: light, feel good, funny, humorous
Plot: family relations, breaking the fourth wall, wedding, dinner, relationships, awkwardness, nothing goes right, socially awkward, nervousness, public speaking, voice over narration, cigarette smoking ...
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