Movies: Les Films Du Rat

1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to w...

Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. In de...

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up...

Beautiful, sad story told from multiple perspectives. A man picks a dahlia before entering his home. His dog senses something is wrong. The housekeeper makes tea before seeing the tragedy. Slowly the elements slot into place....

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In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected....

Ten years after Mondovino, his analysis of the increasingly standardised wine production in France, wine expert Jonathan Nossiter picks up the thread again and shows what it means to be rooted in the soil you're working on. During walks through the v...

This film presents six sequence shots of different faces. A young girl, a young woman, and an elderly woman live through a birth and a death in their own way....

Twelve-year-old Pierre becomes troubled by his older sister's changed behaviour....

A director has been filming his staircase which he has been climbing to the 6th floor for twenty years....

The young French environmentalist and Member of the European Parliament Yannick Jadot wonders how the wounded nuclear beast might still have a bright future ahead after Fukushima. A few weeks after this terrible accident, and while there is no time t...