The best Christian Sinniger’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Christian Sinniger’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 Christian Sinniger.
Wasabi
6.6/10
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Gemma Bovery
6.4/10
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Fugitives
7/10
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
By the Grace of God
7.2/10
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.
The Vets
5.9/10
In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?
Film Socialisme
5.6/10
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
The Artist and the Model
6.6/10
The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and artist, as they work, speak with simplicity and closeness to everything around them: The life and death, the injustice of the war, youth and old age, the search for beauty in times of horror, the sense and the need for art ...
Marie-Line
6.1/10
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
Baby Blood
6/10
A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. It soon starts demanding blood, and the woman goes searching for victims for her new "baby."
A Parting Shot
6.6/10
A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...
Le lièvre de Vatanen
5.1/10
A Gaumont Columbia Tristar Films release (in France) of a Gaumont presentation of a Biplan Prod., LM Prods., France 2 Cinema, Gaumont (France)/RTL-TVi, Artemis Prods. (Belgium)/Sofilm (Bulgaria) production, with participation of Canal Plus, CineCinema. (International sales: Gaumont, Paris.) Produced by Marc Riviere, Michel Boulau. Executive producer, Farid Chaouche.
Marie Marmaille
7.4/10
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Fair is Fair
5.2/10
Condamné pour un crime qui n'était, selon lui, qu'un accident, Constant réussit à s'évader de la prison où il purge sa peine... Après une fuite aveugle, livré à tous les hasards, Constant finit par échouer dans un coin perdu, près des berges désertes d'un canal.... Se cachant sur une péniche à l'abandon, Constant tente de reprendre son souffle, accalmie de courte durée... Dès l'aube, Sylvia une pétillante jeune femme qui a reconnu l'homme traqué, lui propose un implacable marché : assassiner (puisqu'elle le pense être un tueur professionnel) Jeanne, sa mère adoptive sinon elle le dénonce à la police ! Piégé, Constant ne peut qu'accepter cette périlleuse " mission ". Mais bien loin de tuer Jeanne, Constant la sauve d'un suicide annoncé.
Proper Attire Required
6.3/10
His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces charges of fraud. To save himself from nine months in jail he must find his wife and force her to tell the courts the truth, that though she has married a politically-ambitious American governor and is filing U.S. tax returns, she is technically still married to Richard. But as she lives in America, how can he get to her? Opportunity knocks when Richard learns that she and her husband will be attending an international conference at an exclusive Paris hotel. To get in he will need a disguise.
Lost in Transit
6.2/10
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
