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Browse 19 movies from Rue de la Sardine
Ernest, 45, is a beekeeper. He leads a solitary life in the mountains and devotes his time to his hives and promoting his starred products. As spring arrives, he discovers that his beehive is infected with a bacterium. He will do everything he can to save it.
Mar 2023
Camille, a promising young actress, is in Antwerp as she's being considered for the lead role in the new film by JBU, a famous Belgian director. But Hugues, her ex, a film critic, is working out of heartbreak to destroy the young woman's career in hateful articles. She invites him to join her in Belgium to talk things out.
Jun 2020
During the 2005 riots, four young suburban high school students hear about the old urban legend of Paupaul, "the rapist of the woods", who's said to attack young people from poor neighborhoods to keep them away from rich ones. As the All Saints' Day vacation loom, they set themselves a challenge: to cross the woods to verify if Paupaul is real.
Jan 2021
This summer, seven-year-old Zoé spends her days in the apartment with her mother, who is there but not really. Zoé's father died recently. There's Gouache, her dog, whom she'd love to train. And then there's Betty, her neighbor, whom she likes.
Jun 2025
Driving his little sky-blue AX, Tony criss-crosses the city of Calais and its outskirts, surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of fences and barbed wire. He sets off in search of Billy.
Sep 2019
Hugues has just left Paris, where he was a film critic, to settle in the Bauges mountains. With an inheritance, he bought a small house which he is now renovating. The repairs are off to a difficult start. Camille, an actress he recently met, comes to visit him.
Jun 2019
A melancholic atmosphere hangs over the Grand Littoral mall parking lot. Florence has just arrived from Brazil and knows no one. William is going for a job interview, accompanied by his son Walter. Some cross paths, others part ways, amidst the cars and shopping carts buffeted by the mistral wind.
Nov 2022
Zélie, 9, admires her big brother Basile who accumulates images like a collector. In the absence of their mother, he involves her in the shooting of his film. But Zélie has to deal with her director’s changing moods.
Oct 2023
In a small seaside town, a couple can no longer love each other. Around them, the townspeople are preparing to celebrate the Sea Festival, even though the fish have long since disappeared.
Jun 2023
On this particular day, Armand Münster, the boss of a caddy factory on the edge of bankruptcy, is drowning in a sea of problems.
Feb 2018
1998. In search of genepi flowers, two cousins in their twenties climb the hills overlooking the Plateau d’Assy, reminiscing about their childhood memories. Through a stroll through the abandoned sanatorium in the area, they also confront the remains of their shared memory, now threatened.
Feb 2025
A few days in the conflictual relationship between two brothers, Romain, a scrap merchant, and Kylian, who has a passion for lazing about.
Feb 2016
It’s winter, and Clem needs to sell her fan, make some money and head out to dinner with her mother. But in the middle of the hustle there was a city.
Jun 2024
During a failed weekend in Amsterdam, William, alone in life, starts to crack under the gaze of his son Walter. Will love, with the help of a tour guide, manage to bridge the gap between the two men?
1814. The encounter between Mathurin Thouars, a lieutenant in Napoleon's army, and a young conscript suspected of simulating epilepsy in order to avoid military service. The two men are both from Brittany but one, already marked by battles, sets out again for the front while the other, who has never known war, may escape it forever.
Dec 2019
Three young women wait, singing. Boredom prompts one of them to tell the other two about a dream she had: a sailor lost on a distant island.
A grandfather with a passion for birdwatching receives a visit from his four grandchildren for the holidays. Everything will be fine.
Apr 2025
Esmée is twelve years old, an age where you hide to exist. Today is her mother's birthday, but Esmée hates Sundays and their promise of identical Mondays. She wants to disrupt the system. While her mother is taking a bath, Esmée discreetly rummages through the medicine box.
Mehdi and Alberto arrive in Blois with the idea of following the Loire River to Angers by bike. A week's vacation. Just as they're about to leave, Alberto's bike needs fixing, which gives them the opportunity to stay in town a little longer. Alberto welcomes this idea, while Mehdi only wants one thing: to leave.
May 2022