Alpha (2025)
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Daguerrotype (2016)
When an assistant to a daguerreotype photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.
Free Men (2011)
In 1940s Paris, a young Algerian is blackmailed by the police into spying on a mosque and finds his life changing forever.
Grand Central (2013)
A complex romance set against the backdrop of the nuclear power industry.
Heal The Living (2016)
Drama about lives connected by an organ transplant.
Mary Magdalene (2018)
An interpretation of the Biblical story of the woman who travelled with Jesus.
The Mauritanian (2021)
A detainee at the US military's Guantanamo Bay detention centre is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defence attorney for his release.
Napoleon (2023)
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Our Children (2012)
A couple's relationship becomes strained under pressure from one of their adoptive parents.
The Past (2013)
A couple meeting to finalise their divorce find themselves in difficult emotional terrain.
A Prophet (2009)
An illiterate teenager struggles when he is sent to jail, but after embarking on a series of "missions" for a gang leader, he begins to hatch plans of his own.
Samba (2014)
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs...
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