PickFlick
Before the Winter Chill

Before the Winter Chill

2013•1h 43m•6.0/10
Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb
6.0/10(82)

They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?

Open in PickFlick

Production

Les Films du 24, Samsa Film, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, Canal+, France 3 Cinéma

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil

Paul

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Lucie

Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti

Lou

Richard Berry

Richard Berry

Gérard

Vicky Krieps

Vicky Krieps

Caroline

Jérôme Varanfrain

Jérôme Varanfrain

Victor

Laure Killing

Laure Killing

Mathilde

Anne Metzler

Anne Metzler

Zoé Gassard

Laurent Claret

Laurent Claret

Denis, le directeur de la clinique

Annette Schlechter

Mme Malek

Jean-François Wolff

Jean-François Wolff

Commandant Xavier Garin

Joël Delsaut

Joël Delsaut

Capitaine Thierry Weiler

Jacqueline Ghaye

Jacqueline Ghaye

Juliette

Pascale Noe Adam

Pascale Noe Adam

Anouk

Lucie Debay

Lucie Debay

Amie de Lou

Recommended

The Dazzled

The Dazzled

6.9
2019
Movie

Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.

The Dazzled

2019
6.9
A Better Life

A Better Life

6.3
2011
Movie

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

A Better Life

2011
6.3
Leaving

Leaving

6.0
2009
Movie

A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.

Leaving

2009
6.0
Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

5.4
2007
Movie

The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

2007
5.4
Miss and the Doctors

Miss and the Doctors

5.5
2013
Movie

Two sibling doctors take on a young diabetic patient and both fall for the girl’s lovely mother, who tends bar at a local watering hole, testing their fraternal bonds and professional relationship.

Miss and the Doctors

2013
5.5
Bad Faith

Bad Faith

5.9
2006
Movie

In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because Clara is Jewish and Ishmael a Muslim. Although not practicing, this difference will gradually sow trouble in their love life.

Bad Faith

2006
5.9
La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan

La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan

8.1
2020
Movie

No overview available.

La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan

2020
8.1
La Bonne Copine

La Bonne Copine

5.0
2005
Movie

No overview available.

La Bonne Copine

2005
5.0
Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

6.5
2013
Movie

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Night Train to Lisbon

2013
6.5
All That Glitters

All That Glitters

6.3
2010
Movie

Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.

All That Glitters

2010
6.3
Love at Second Sight

Love at Second Sight

7.0
2019
Movie

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

Love at Second Sight

2019
7.0
Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

7.0
2013
Movie

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Kill Your Darlings

2013
7.0

Similar Movies

Regeneration

Regeneration

5.5
1997
Movie

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

Regeneration

1997
5.5
Triage

Triage

6.0
2009
Movie

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

Triage

2009
6.0
Good Old Daze

Good Old Daze

7.0
1995
Movie

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.

Good Old Daze

1995
7.0
Daddy and Them

Daddy and Them

5.3
2001
Movie

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

Daddy and Them

2001
5.3
The Willow Tree

The Willow Tree

6.8
2005
Movie

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

The Willow Tree

2005
6.8
Calypso

Calypso

10.0
2025
Movie

A nurse keeps a patient in a coma, but one day his wife and son visit him.

Calypso

2025
10.0
Soul Surfer

Soul Surfer

7.0
2011
Movie

The true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.

Soul Surfer

2011
7.0
Scalpel, Please

Scalpel, Please

7.3
1986
Movie

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death. The film is adapted from a novel by Valja Stýblová, in which the author draws upon her personal experiences as a former neurosurgeon. The protagonist of this drama is an ageing professor, based at a Prague neurological clinic, who is haunted by issues concerning his own principles and values, and also by the case of a young patient, Víťa, afflicted with an inoperable tumour.

Scalpel, Please

1986
7.3
For the Good of Others

For the Good of Others

5.2
2010
Movie

Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.

For the Good of Others

2010
5.2
Xing Lin Chun Nuan

Xing Lin Chun Nuan

5.3
1994
Movie

No overview available.

Xing Lin Chun Nuan

1994
5.3
The Soul Keeper

The Soul Keeper

6.5
2003
Movie

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

The Soul Keeper

2003
6.5
Body

Body

6.2
2015
Movie

A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.

Body

2015
6.2