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Browse 51 movies from Les Films Velvet
Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
Mar 2026
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting an odd assortment of quirky characters.
Sep 2025
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
Oct 2019
Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.
Sep 2023
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
Aug 2021
Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.
Aug 2019
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Dec 2022
It is the moment of the first holiday departures, the weather is nice and warm. Leo, aged nine, is alone with his father, his mother has just died. He does not know what he is going to do, tomorrow, or later.
Jun 2012
In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
Sep 2020
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
Nov 2016
Joseph is one of the last coastal shepherds in Corsica. His land is coveted by the underworld for a real estate project but he chooses not to give in. When he leaves the man who came to intimidate him, the godfather’s own son, between life and death, he becomes the prey of a merciless hunt.
Feb 2025
The beach. Everything is there for everyone to enjoy. Only the ocean disagrees.
Jan 2024
Jordan, 14, is bored in the small village of Mornas. His mother, a nurse, is often away, so he keeps himself busy with his best friend Patrick by playing their console, affectionately named Jessica. When Jessica dies, Jordan and his friend decide to fake an illness and set up an online fund to buy a new one. As the lie spreads across the schoolyard, everyone's attention finally turns to them. Their new-found popularity will put their unbreakable friendship to the test...
Jul 2023
Karine and Jimmy are a close-knit couple, still deeply in love after twenty years together and two children. She works in a factory; he is a truck driver striving to grow his small business. When the Yellow Vests movement emerges, Karine is swept up by the power of the collective, the anger, and the hope for change. But as her commitment intensifies, the couple’s balance begins to falter.
Nov 2025
October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.
Feb 2022
Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating with his wife in the Italian Alps. Indifferent to the anger of locals who help police to hunt down migrants, he comes across a woman who fled Afghanistan. Samuel decides to help her reach the border, thinking it will take them a few hours. But an aggressive group of men comes after them…
Jan 2023
Anne Walberg is a celebrity in the world of perfume. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible talent to companies of all kinds. She lives as a diva, selfish, with a strong temper. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who is not afraid to stand up to her. No doubt this is the reason why she does not fire him.
Jul 2020
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Sep 2022
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
Aug 2013
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.
Oct 2021