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The Money Maker (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Writer: Jean-Paul Salomé, Bastien Daret; Stars: Reda Kateb, Sara Giraudeau, Bastien Bouillon, Quentin Dolmaire, Pierre Lottin, Camille Japy, Lolita Chammah, Olivier Loustau, Arthur Teboul, Victor Poirier, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Héléna Sadowy, Julien Massetti, Cédric Weber, Francis Leplay)
Drama about the story of the “Cézanne of counterfeit money” and the French cop on an epic quest to take him down.
The Phantom Of The Opera (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Alexandre Castagnetti; Writer: Alexandre Castagnetti, Camille Fontaine; Stars: Deva Cassel, Julien de Saint Jean, Romain Duris, Dorothée Gilbert, Axel Auriant, Laïka Blanc-Francard, Guillaume Diop, Florence Banks, Pascaline Chotard, Miglen Mirtchev, Sarah Niblack)
Modern-day retelling of the classic.
Rays And Shadows (Les Rayons et les ombres) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Xavier Giannoli; Writer: Xavier Giannoli, Jacques Fieschi, Patrick Godeau, Yves Stavrides; Stars: Jean Dujardin, Nastya Golubeva Carax, August Diehl, Olivier Chantreau, Anna Próchniak, Lucile Vignolles, Chloé Astor, Vincent Colombe, Maria Cavalier-Bazan, Valeriu Andriuță, François de Brauer, Meherio Patoux, Elina Löwensohn, André Marcon, Philippe Torreton)
Drama charts the complex ethical and moral challenges experienced by a journalist and his daughter during the Second World War.
When The Night Falls (La Troisieme nuit) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Auteuil; Writer: Daniel Auteuil, Camille Lugan; Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Antoine Reinartz, Grégory Gadebois, Alicia Dadoun, Victor Bonnel, Eliott Margueron, Laurent Bozzi, Côme Levin, Valentin Dupic, Luàna Bajrami, Grégoire Colin, Yannick Choirat, Jean-Paul Muel, Pascal Rénéric, Emmy Plee)
The story of an attempt to to save over 100 Jewish children from a deportation camp just outside of Lyon.
Words Of Love (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Rudi Rosenberg; Writer: Rudi Rosenberg; Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Nour Salam, Ella Bedoucha, Aïdan Djouadi, Mateo Danila, Charlie Lugassy, Eden Sarfati, Paulette Chetrit, Jacques Sebban, Stephan Chargeboeuf, Selma Alaoui, Franck Lebreton, Valentin Papoudof, Liya Lakhtara)
A mother and daughter's relationship comes under strain when the young girl becomes obsessed with meeting her absent father.
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