1. Tomboy (Tomboy)
A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.
It has an average vote of 7.303 on TMDB.
2. School of Babel (La cour de Babel)
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. Aliyah (Alyah)
Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can join him and change his life. Set on emigrating, Alex has to find money, leave his beloved Paris, end his complicated love life, drop his destructive brother and find his way.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
4. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
5. Poetical Refugee (La Faute à Voltaire)
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
6. Insecure (Qui vive)
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…
It has an average vote of 5.625 on TMDB.
7. Bad Lucky Goat (El día de la cabra)
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s pick-up truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
8. Hippocampe (Hippocampe)
(Hippocampe)
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
9. Cousin
Adam tells us the story of an older cousin, who had cerebral palsy. Adam would go over to play, and they'd dress as superheroes, jump off the shed, and run about the the street with an old shopping trolley. Adam explains his cousin's wayward left arm, his strong right one, his aunt's understanding of her son's rages , and the boy's love of swimming. On Adam's eighth birthday, the cousins are separated by tragedy; it's left to Adam to wonder about his cousin, and if he still smells of licorice.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. The Fish (O Peixe)
"A fisherman, dark-skinned and shirtless, sits in a boat on a quiet river and, before long, catches a fish. The fish gasps for air and the fisherman holds it to his chest until it dies. This sequence—performed by a series of fishermen, of various ages and using various styles of capture—is the spine of the work, interrupted by passages of quiet natural beauty; one shot is a steady, stately pan through scores of trees and empty air behind." - Vinson Cunningham
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. The Search (The Search)
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. Crime Is Our Business (Le Crime est notre affaire)
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
13. Midwives (Sages-femmes)
After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
14. England Is Mine
A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
15. Madeline's Madeline
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
It has an average vote of 5.821 on TMDB.
16. Now or Never (Maintenant ou jamais)
As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
17. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
In 1936, Victor H. Green published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
18. Her Smell
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
It has an average vote of 5.776 on TMDB.
19. The German Doctor (Wakolda)
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
It has an average vote of 6.443 on TMDB.
20. Rosalie Blum (Rosalie Blum)
Vincent Machot knows his life by heart. He shares it between his hair dressing salon, his cousin, his cat, and his too-invasive mother. But life sometimes holds surprises, even for the most prudent of people... He crosses paths with Rosalie Blum by accident. She is a mysterious and solitary woman whom he is sure he has already met. But where? Intrigued, he decides to follow her everywhere, in the hope of knowing more about her.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
