In the French seaport of Lorient, there's a trend at school for the girls to get pregnant.

A cat with a double life becomes embroiled in a tale of animated adventure on the rooftops of Paris.

An L.A.-Mexican quest movie with a palpably personal edge, as director Mathieu Demy revisits the California he knew as a child.

Desire and its complications, as mapped out in a witty all-star portmanteau of linked vignettes by writer-actor-director Emmanuel Mouret.

Sandrine Kiberlain gives her best performance yet in Yves Caumon's subtle, intelligent drama about a woman who walks alone.

The superb Jean-Pierre Darroussin plays a banking executive driven off the rails in Jean-Marc Moutout's incisive and angry indictment of the financial world.

An anarchic yet sophisticated comedy involving a fairy and a receptionist at a seaside hotel.

Philippe Torreton gives a superb performance in Vincent Garenq's no-holds-barred docu-drama about a man unjustly accused in a notorious paedophilia trial.

Laurent Achard's stylishly nasty horror set in a small town cinema that's seen better days.

Corinne Masiero turns in an astonishing lead performance in this French drama about a woman on the skids fighting for dignity and survival.

The latest collaboration between Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval is a politically engaged portrait of youth that avoids condescension and hand-wringing, managing to be intensely romantic and sincere.

Vincent Cassel gets back to the roots of Gothic, in Dominik Moll's suitably torrid adaptation of the legendary novel about good, evil and dark desire.

A witty, snow-steeped French comedy thriller that riffs on the Marilyn Monroe legend, as a mystery writer unravels the death of a small-town beauty.

Mathieu Kassovitz's auteur comeback combines the pleasures of a thriller with serious political heft.

Mathieu Amalric gives classic French theatre a twist by wittily updating Corneille's play as a modern intrigue set in the CCTV present.