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Movies: Best "new french extremism" Movies


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Irreversible(2002)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,320 votes)

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Baise-moi(2000)

2.4/5 (with 179 votes)

Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip. They choose to have sex when they please and kill when they need. Leaving a trail of mischief and dead bodies in their wake. Generating a media blitz and manhunt, soon everyone is out to capture the young fugitives.

Martyrs(2008)

1h 39min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,135 votes)

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

High Tension(2003)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 550 votes)

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

Intimacy(2001)

NR
| 1h 59min | Romance / Love, Drama, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 228 votes)

Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.

Enter the Void(2009)

NR
| 2h 41min | Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 790 votes)

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Fat Girl(2001)

NR
| 1h 26min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 86 votes)

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

Inside(2007)

R
| 1h 19min | Horror
3.4/5 (with 334 votes)

Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

Secret Things(2002)

NR
| 1h 55min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 38 votes)

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.

Satan(2006)

1h 34min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 160 votes)

A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.

Frontier(s)(2007)

NC-17
| 1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 331 votes)

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

I Stand Alone(1998)

1h 29min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Directed by Gaspar Noé - With Philippe Nahon, Guillaume Nicloux, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Jean-François Rauger, Olivier Doran, ...
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Trouble Every Day(2001)

NR
| 1h 41min | Drama, Horror, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 68 votes)

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken.

Demonlover(2002)

NR
| 2h 1min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 39 votes)

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

Directed by Olivier Assayas - With Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Naoko Yamazaki, Abi Sakamoto, ...

Pola X(1999)

2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

In My Skin(2002)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama, Horror
3.0/5 (with 52 votes)

Esther's life is panning out nicely. She will soon move in with her boyfriend Vincent and she seems set to get a permanent position at the public relations company where she freelances. All would be fine if Esther didn't accidentally discover a piercing curiosity about her own body.

Humanité(1999)

2h 28min | Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions - because of the accidental death of his own family -investigates the crime. What he finds may create more questions than answers.

Directed by Bruno Dumont - With Séverine Caneele, Emmanuel Schotté, Philippe Tullier

Sombre(1998)

1h 52min | Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

Porn Theatre(2002)

1h 24min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

A tale set in a decaying Parisian porn theatre, where within its dark confines, male patrons -- soldiers, transvestites, married men -- regularly engage in anonymous sex acts. In the ticket booth of the theatre, a wise Italian woman serves as benevolent gatekeeper, observing -- but never judging -- the proceedings occurring under her watchful eyes. One day, one of her regulars engages her in a conversation that leads to an unusual friendship, as these two worldly souls share their common experiences.

A New Life(2002)

1h 42min | Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A young American falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.