Spy – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:21:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 AN OFFICER AND A SPY ../../../an-officer-and-a-spy/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:55:42 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=24624

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AN OFFICER AND A SPY

| 2019 (US release in 2025) – 132′ – Drama, Period & History, Courtroom, Spy, Film & Literature.
Written by: Robert Harris, Roman Polanski.
Directed by: Roman Polanski.
Based on the Book by: Robert Harris.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Melvil Poupaud, Grégory Gadebois, Hervé Pierre, Didier Sandre, Eric Ruf, Mathieu Amalric, Laurent Stocker, Vincent Perez.
Official Competition Venice International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Jury Grand Prize). Winner 3 César 2020 (Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Costume Design).
In French with English subtitles.
A Vitagraph Films release. |

On January 5, 1895, Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish soldier, is degraded for spying for Germany and is sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military counter-intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honor but his life.

 

 

 

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DEMONLOVER


| 2002 – 120′ – Drama, Thriller, Erotic.
Written by: Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama.
Directed by: Olivier Assayas.
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny, Dominique Reymond, Charles Berling, Abi Sakamoto, Alexis Pivot, Thomas M. Pollard.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2002
In French with English subtitles.
A Max release. |


Although not yet thirty, Diane has a high level job working for a multinational corporation run by Henri-Pierre Volf. In the logic of the diversification of its activities – from real estate to clothing design – the Volf Group is negotiating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, a Japanese company which produces a new form of manga, and its pornographic version, hentaï, in digital 3D images that will outdate and destroy the competition in this extraordinarily lucrative market. Two companies, Mangatronics and Demonlover, battle to obtain exclusive distribution rights to Volf’s new images on the Web. Mangatronics has recruited Diane as a kind of industrial spy to serve its interests by torpedoing the Demonlover contract from within. Should the links between Demonlover and various violent and illegal pornographic sites become known, they would dangerously weaken its relationship with the Volf Group, unaware of the existence of these secret sites. Diane discovers that the sites’ spies – in the form of her seemingly neutral, naive colleagues – have also infiltrated the Wolf Group, which in turn has its own spies keeping tabs. Her increasing knowledge makes her a danger to Demonlover. Soon there is no way out, except to be absorbed into cyberspace, of which she was perhaps already a part right from the start.

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THE EAVESDROPPER

| 2017 – 93′ – Drama, Spy, Thriller.
Written by: Yann Gozlan, Thomas Kruithof, Marc Syrigas, Aurélie Valat.
Directed by: Thomas Kruithof.
Starring: François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian, Alba Rohrwacher, Philippe Resimon, Daniel Hanssens, Bruno Georis.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Cleverly evoking the era of analogue espionage while referencing political events in France, this slow burning thriller takes a man wallowing on the outskirts of society and plunges him deep into the murky heart of power politics, high intrigue, and murder. François Cluzet plays Duval, former accountant, former alcoholic, current burnout with no job prospects. Desperate to get his life back on track, he accepts an unusual offer of employment. Everyday he is to come to a non-descript room, where he will transcribe cassette tapes of intercepted phone calls using an old typewriter. His mysterious employer Clément explains that this ensures that there will be no chance for the material to be digitally compromised. Most of the work is dehumanizing drudgery, but when the tapes reveal something Duval knows he shouldn’t know, he suddenly understands why he has been sworn to secrecy. It’s clear he’s a cog in someone’s machinations, but whose? As the walls begin to close in, Duval’s own paranoia is the only thing of which he can be certain.

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CARÊME

| 2025 – 8 x 45′ – Season 1 –  Series, Drama, French Food & Wine, Period & History, Biopic.
Created by: Ian Kelly, Davide Serino.
Written by: Davide Serino, Olivier Kohn, Ian Kelly, Stefano Sardo, Storm Sigal Battesti, Alessandro Fabbri, Sarah Farkas, Camille Couasse.
Directed by: Martin Bourboulon.
Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Jérémie Renier, Lyna Khoudri, Alice Da Luz, Sigrid Bouazib, Micha Lescot, Pablo Cobo, Gabriel Donzelli, Clothilde Molet.
In English and in French with English subtitles.
An  Apple TV+ release. |

“Carême” follows the thrilling story of the world’s first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême (Voisin), who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe. While he dreams only of becoming the most famous chef in the world, his talent and ambitions attract the attention of renowned and powerful politicians who use him as a spy for France. Determined to escape poverty and fulfill his dream, Carême can choose revenge, or he can have it all — women, wealth, fame — but at what cost? His love? His soul? His life?

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REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND

| 2025 – 87′ –  Action, Thriller.
A Belgium/Luxembourg/Italy/France co-production.
Written by: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani.
Directed by: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani.
Starring: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Céline Camara.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025.
In French with English subtitles.
A Shudder release. |

John D, a septuagenarian living in a luxury hotel on Côte d’Azur, is intrigued by his next-door neighbor who reminds him of the wildest hours on the Riviera during the 1960s. At that time, he was a spy in a rapidly developing world full of promise. One day, this neighbor mysteriously disappears… bringing John face to face with his demons: are his former adversaries back to wreak havoc in his idyllic world?

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FEMALE AGENTS

| 2008 – 120′ – Drama, Action, Thriller, War, Spy, Period & History.
Written by: Jean-Paul Salomé, Laurent Vachaud.
Directed by: Jean-Paul Salomé.
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Maya Sansa, Julien Boisselier, Moritz Bleibtreu, David Capelle, Vincent Rottier, Robin Renucci, Xavier Beauvois.
Official Competition COLCOA 2008.
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

 

May 1944. After the assassination of her husband, Louise flies to London. Being engaged in the French Resistance, she is immediately recruited by the secret intelligence and entrusted with her first mission: the exfiltration of a British agent who is preparing the landing on the Normandy beaches. Louise decides to form a commando of women specially recruited for the needs of the mission.

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GHOST TRAIL

| 2025 – 106′  – Drama, Thriller.
Written by: Jonathan Millet, Florence Rochat.
Directed by: Jonathan Millet.
Starring: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab, Shafiqa El Till, Sylvain Samson, Mohammad Saboor Rasooli, Pascal Cervo, Marie Rémond.
Official Selection Critics Week Cannes 2024 (Opening Night Film), Chicago International Film Festival 2024.
César Award Nominee for Best Feature Film 2025.
In English and in French, Arabic & Turkish with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

Justice knows no border for Hamid (Adam Bessa), who has taken refuge in France after being detained and tortured by the Assad regime in Syria. Exiled and undercover, the mild-mannered literature professor now works as part of a secret group pursuing Assad’s enforcers, who have fled Syria and assumed new identities in Europe – including the guard responsible for inflicting unspeakable abuse upon him. Covertly communicating their life-or-death decrees through a multiplayer video game, the undercover cell operates in broad daylight but wrestles with how far they can push their retribution in a land that only faintly recalls Assad’s atrocities. With his mother now living in a refugee camp in Beirut, Hamid puts on a brave face and extols his new life, but the cracks begin to show as he becomes consumed by the hunt. Hot on the trail of a man at his local university (Tawfeek Barhom) who bears a striking resemblance to his torturer, Hamid is sure that he’s identified the culprit, but can he convince his compatriots that his intuition is dead certain? Sensitively reckoning with recent history, director Jonathan Millet delivers a tense espionage thriller that explores the opaque relationship between justice and vengeance.

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TOTEMS

| 2022 – 8 x 52′ –  Season 1 – Series – Drama, Spy, Thriller.
A France-Czechia-Spain Co-production.
Created by: Juliette Soubrier, Olivier Dujols.
Written by: Juliette Soubrier, Olivier Dujols, Sabine Dabadie, Julien Anscutter, François Uzan, Thibault Valetoux.
Directed by: Jérôme Salle, Frédéric Jardin, Antoine Blossier.
Starring: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson, Ana Girardot, Aleksei Guskov.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime release. |

 

In February 1965, during the Cold War, a Soviet project involving an orbital bomb threatens the geopolitical balance of the world. The French secret service hires Francis Mareuil, an aerospace engineer, to recruit Boris Golubev, the scientist whose research made this bomb possible. In Moscow, the KGB puts Boris under surveillance by forcing his daughter Lyudmila to spy on him.

 

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LIAISON

| 2023 – Season 1 – 6×52′ – Series – Drama, Spy, Mystery, Thriller.
Created by: Virginie Brac.
Written by: Virginie Brac, Oliver Butcher.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins.
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Peter Mullan, Gérard Lanvin, Daniel Francis, Irène Jacob, Stanislas Merhar, Laëtitia Eïdo, Olivia Popica, Patrick Malahide, Eriq Ebouaney, Bukky Bakray.
In English.
An Apple TV+ release. |

 

Two agents — and former lovers — must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening the United Kingdom while also confronting the buried secrets of their destructive relationship.

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OSS 117 CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES

| 2008  –  99′  – COMEDY, SPY
Written by: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-François Halin.
based on the original work by: Jean BruceDirected by: Michel Hazanavicius.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov.
Speciale Presentation COLCOA 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

Academy Award Winner writer/director Michel Hazanavicius’ easy, unpretentious, and stealthily smart comedic style found its perfect vehicle in a send-up that spoofed not just the spies, but the preposterous chauvinism of the ‘60’s. Riffing on the Jean Bruce created character OSS 117, aka Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath – who incidentally predates Ian Fleming’s James Bond – the film is an affectionate, richly detailed period pastiche. And the irresistible, mischievous charm of actor Jean Dujardin was never put to better comic purpose as the man France dispatches to Cairo with one absurdly simplistic mission: to make the Middle East safe. 

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