French movies about musicians

List of the best French movies about musicians selected by visitors to our site: Anthropoid, Brillantissime, The Straight Line, Love Crime, Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, My Piece of the Pie, Special Treatment, Student Services, Les Tuche 3, Only Lovers Left Alive.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
Duration02:24

In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:46

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, sport
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last practice race despite his disability, but to run it must be connected by a wire to guide a person called. It offers Leila to be his guide. Through this project, they will learn to rebuild.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Mexico, Lebanon
Duration01:46

In the sterile setting of a powerful multinational, two young women compete ... Isabelle is working under the orders of Christine, a woman of power she admires unreservedly.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:30

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:49

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration01:35

Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:43

Laura is a 19-year-old university freshman who desperately wants to do well in school. She works a part-time job but cannot make ends meet. One evening in which she is short of funds, she answers a personal ad online by "Joe," 57, who seeks a female student for "tender moments." The pay is 100 euros per hour. Laura pledges to do this just once, and three days later, she goes to a hotel room with Joe. And then her spiral begins.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration02:04

After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France
Duration01:58

    A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

    Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryBelgium, France
    Duration01:42

    Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:28

    Alex is in love with Sandra since childhood but has never dared approach her.He asks Antoine, a lonely writer to help him seduce her, because in his time he was the only one to conquer the heart of the mother.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:15

    Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama
    CountryFrance

    Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:27

    An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance

    An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:25

    Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain
    Duration02:59

    Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreadventure, cartoon, short
    CountryFrance
    Duration00:09

    In a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a brightly colored fantasy world where wars are fought by toys.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration02:18

    A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    Eleanor, thirties, has just lost her father. He bequeathed his house in Brittany in the Cotes d'Armor. She is a photographer, has had some success but business no longer work as before. It is imperative to sell the house. She goes there with Samuel, her former companion which she left some time ago, because she does not feel to go alone and she has not returned since the death of her father. But she is playing with fire - because she knows that their relationship did not exactly appeased, even if it was for some adventures and Samuel lives with Laura. Claire Andrieux, the real estate agent, was busy organizing visits during the two days Samuel and Eleanor will stay in the house. It's a funny weekend that these three are about to spend.A surprising weekend full of surprises, emotions, tensions, memories and shouting matches in melancholy and absurd moments that leave the couple necessarily changed.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryFrance

    After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, short
    CountryFrance
    Duration00:14

    Adrien is a young pianist prodigy. He collapsed psychologically having failed in a renowned competition and henceforth works as a piano tuner. As remedy to this life, he invents a blind person's mask to penetrate into the intimacy of his customers. This subtlety allows Adrien to get back the taste for music. But since he sees things he should not see, Adrien ends up witnessing a murder.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:33

    In the beginning of the 20th century, five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    After a failed plastic surgery, an actress hires a double to replace her on the set - Unaware that it's her twin sister, whom she didn't even know existed.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance

    A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:50

    The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada
    Duration01:55

    A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance

    The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:49

    One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:34

    Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China
    Duration02:35

    Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, history
    CountryFrance

    Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists’ intentions are, just that they are armed and extremely determined. They demand the liberation of their “brothers in arms” and want the aircraft to take off at once. After very lengthy and intense negotiations between the French and Algerian governments, the plane is finally allowed to leave. There are three main characters at the heart of the action: a member of the GIGN, Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat willing to do anything it takes to achieve personal gain from the events, and Yahia Abdallah, a determined jihadist who grew up in the slums of Algiers and was being manipulated by an obscure GIA envoy, Ali Touchent.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:22

    The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Poland
    Duration01:36

    An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.

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