The best Anne Benoît’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Anne Benoît’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Anne Benoît.
The Round Up
7/10
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Patients
7.2/10
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
Farewell, My Queen
6.2/10
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
My Little Princess
6.3/10
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
The Ring Finger
6.1/10
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
Lily Sometimes
6.1/10
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Après moi le bonheur
6.9/10
A dying woman is fighting to choose a new family to keep her four children together, after she's gone.
Claire Darling
5.9/10
On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite objects on her front lawn for one splendid garage sale. As a horde of curious bystanders and neighbors fights over the ridiculously underpriced antiques, each object resurrects flashes of Claire Darling’s tragic and flamboyant life. Alerted by her childhood friends, Marie Darling, Claire’s estranged daughter, is forced to come back to the family mansion to stop this sale and unveil the reasons behind her mother’s eccentric decision.
Darling
6.6/10
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get up. Because Darling is naive and fearless, brave and instinctive. Has the life force of a tragic heroine.
Papa
6.5/10
Louis and his Daddy are driving back home. Daddy is a past master at clowning, which does not necessarily make Louis laugh. At times Daddy gets awfully mad, picking on people who don't deserve it. That also does not make Louis laugh. But Daddy IS sweet. He knows how to soothe Louis when he is very very upset. And he can rock-a-bye his baby with a song by Niagara. Daddy has been rather slipshod lately. And ill-shaved. And has had hair-raising nightmares. Louis can burst into tears just because a little girl refuses a sticker he wants to give her. What's wrong with Louis and his Daddy? Written by Guy Bellinger
Not Here to Be Loved
7.1/10
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
Behind the Walls
4.3/10
In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.
Louise Wimmer
6.5/10
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain public housing, Louise scrapes by on a day-to-day subsistence that’s only a few Euros away from skid row.
I Am a Soldier
6/10
A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
The Other One
6.3/10
Anne-Marie has a peaceful break-up with her boyfriend Alex, whom she doesn't love anymore. However, upon learning that another woman has come into his life, she becomes insanely jealous...
Just Before Losing Everything
7.7/10
Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-year-old Joséphine does the same and waits for the bus.
Looking for Her
6.4/10
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
Murder on Devil's Bridge
6.6/10
A town mayor ends his life on Devil's Bridge.
Jugé sans justice
6.1/10
A father is arrested for murder and a kidnap attempt three years ago. Through the police station's one-way mirror, 16-year-old Claire is sure she recognizes Gustavo as the man who tried to kidnap her and killed her father while fleeing.
Ordinary Day
May 1, 1999. Romain's first day in an unknown world, that of porn. In this environment, totally in the hands of women, he is one of the only men. Sometimes disoriented, Romain discovers colorful individuals, tired of their lives and their jobs.
