In the Beginning

2009

French

7.1

♡ 5

Action

Crime

Drama

Xavier Giannoli Director

Gérard Depardieu as Abel

Corinne Masiero as Corinne

Marie Gili-Pierre as Employée CGI

François Cluzet as Philippe Miller / Paul

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?

Marguerite

2015

French

6.9

♡ 8

95%

73%

Action

based on a true story

Comedy

concert

Drama

husband wife relationship

Xavier Giannoli Director

Théo Cholbi as Diego

Pierre Peyrichout as Invité 1 / Spectateur cabaret

Aubert Fenoy as Kyrill Von Priest

Lubos Veselý as Régisseur opéra comique

Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.

Lost Illusions

2021

French

♡ 17

93%

based on novel or book

Xavier Giannoli Director

Gérard Depardieu as Dauriat

Vincent Lacoste as Etienne Lousteau

Edouard Michelon as Henri de Marsay

Cécile De France as Louise de Bargeton

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

The Apparition

2018

French

♡ 3

73%

Xavier Giannoli Director

Anatole Taubman as Anton Meyer

Aurore Broutin as Cécile

Vincent Lindon as Jacques Mayano

Gérard Dessalles as Stéphane Mornay

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.