Nosy village kid Quinquin’s summer is made more interesting by the discovery of a bizarrely mutilated corpse on a nearby beach. The police arrive on the scene, led by the veteran Commandant, who may just be crazy.The summer becomes very eventful as more murders follow, equally bizarre and inexplicable. Voted the Best Film of 2014 by Cahiers du cinéma.

When lovely Londoner Gemma moves in next door to married baker Martin in his quaint but crumbling Norman village, he sees her as the reincarnation of his favorite literary heroine and pursues the parallel in ways that are initially amusing but potentially destructive.

Set in a French-speaking version of Yorkshire, the story takes place during the rehearsals of an amateur production and revolves around the eponymous George Riley. Fatally ill and always offscreen, George still manages to disrupt the lives of all his friends, seducing several of his former lovers, wives, and friends’ wives before springing a final surprise. Winner of two awards at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

A successful but burnt-out Swiss architect journeys with his disenchanted wife to Italy, where he researches the work of his idol Francesco Borromini and encounters an intense young brother and sister who might reawaken his passion for art and love.

When an undercover informant is murdered in an Arab neighborhood, internal affairs sends in two female investigators whose methods are unorthodox, to say the least: boss lady Esther, who likes to slap people around, both in and out of bed, and gangly sidekick Sally, a compulsive voyeur.

Riffing on Houellebecq’s still-unexplained 2011 disappearance, the film has him abducted by three hired kidnappers and taken to a shack next to a junkyard. Held in a bedroom filled with frilly knick-knacks, the author endures a stream of small humiliations with deadpan stoicism and even seems to enjoy being out of the limelight with his working-class captors. Winner of Best Sceenplay at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.

Director Thomas Lilti delivers a scathing inside critique of the French health system. Eager intern Benjamin soon finds his youthful idealism out of place in a Paris hospital plagued by overwork, faulty equipment, budget cuts, and the staff’s creeping apathy. Lilti parallels Benjamin’s story with that of Abdel, an experienced Algerian doctor whose immigrant status consigns him to a menial position and whose compassionate attitude toward patient care makes him all the more vulnerable. Seven nominations for 2015 César Awards, including Best Picture.

One of the rising talents in recent French Cinema, Mia Hansen-Løve comes up with her most ambitious film, a decades-spanning, music-drenched saga set in the Rave scene and based loosely on the exploits of her brother. Beginning in 1992, the film centers on Paul, who is captivated by the sound known as Garage and achieves moderate renown as a DJ before being left behind by youth and fashion.

Mesmerizing and eerie, N: The Madness of Reason takes a ghost’s journey through the African landscape as the spirit of French expatriate anthropologist Raymond Borremans revisits his beloved Ivory Coast, where the cultural encyclopedia that was his life’s work remains unfinished at N.

A haunting docudrama hybrid, Luxembourg’s submission for Academy Awards consideration conveys a transcendent tragedy. An unnamed man narrates the downward trajectory of his life from beyond the grave, from delinquency to the string of fateful decisions and foolhardy moves that tied him inextricably to the opiate that was the elusive love of his life.