Filmographies - films at UST by Country: France

A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.

An extremely conservative French judge discovers that she's pregnant. The father's a career criminal currently wanted by the authorities for murder and she more than disapproves of the choices he's made in his life up to the present. What on earth is she to do?

A security guard seeking revenge for humiliation at the hands of his boss and the system. He plans his sting as he plans his life--meticulously. It takes a year to leave his wife and break with his only friend. One year to perfect his solo heist, taking advantage of flaws in the system that he knows inside and out. Based on a true story.

22 year-old Sébastien leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbor's house he overhears a conversation about a forthcoming package which promised to make the household rich. Sensing the opportunity of a lifetime Sébastien intercepts the package which contains a series of veiled instructions. Following the cryptic clues he assumes a false identity and manages to slip through the grasp of the encroaching police as he ventures deeper towards the unknown. The closer he gets to his destination the less he understands. Ultimately he comes face to face with a disreputable ring of clandestine gamblers placing bets on a depraved game of chance where the spoils are unimaginable millions and the losses are counted in lives.

A true story of the kidnapping of a 23-year old man from a Paris suburb. When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because he's Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of "The Gang of Barbarians".

Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building, and together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. Lionel is on edge when Jospehine's friendship with Noe begins to evolve into a romantic relationship.

In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne.

On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little, is integrated into the circus and the lives of its performers--all the while trying to discover the secret that led to Kate's sudden departure."

Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable. After a dispute with Zorg's boss they leave and Betty manages to get a job at a restaurant. She persuades Zorg to try and get one of his books published but it is rejected which makes Betty fly into a rage. Suddenly Betty's wild manners starts to get out of control.

In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists go to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates, and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.

Struggling with complicated family dynamics and a full-blown mid-life crisis, a small town chemist is forced to reassess his tangled love life. When his grandmother Berthe dies, he is faced with the profound existential question--do we burn Granny or bury her?

The film is a romantic drama based on the controversial true story of Jeanne De La Motte Valois, a countess whose name was stripped from her by the Royal Family during the late 18th Century. The story of her fight to restore her name and proper place in society is filled with mystery, intrigue and desire, with an infamous diamond necklace at the center of it all.

Drama about a celebrated writer on the brink of being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature who sets off for Sweden from Switzerland by motorcycle. During the journey he encounters the scene of a terrible accident involving his estranged son Paul (who was on his way to his father having heard the news of the award). The two end up driving to Stockholm together as they try to patch up their relationship.

Alex, a Parisian drug dealer, longs to make a new beginning by opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv with his cousin and make "aliyah", the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, but he must face conflicts that include leaving the city he loves, drug dealing, his complicated love life with a new woman, and a troubled older brother whom he is always financially rescuing.

Walter Orsini lives and speaks loudly, making grand gestures. He loves fishing, cooking, and fine wines--a lot. He loves his twenty-year old daughter Clemence, madly. What he doesn't love, though, is lying. How will he react when he finds out that those around him, whom he loves, have been lying to his face?

Georges and Anne, retired music teachers in their eighties, have a time-tested love. But as Anne's health fails, Georges becomes her caregiver, and the couple's bond is tested like never before.

Jeanne, a married, 35-year-old osteopath with a 7-year old son meets a dancer named Marie at a party. While Marie is much younger than Jeanne, there is an immediate chemistry between them. The two soon become close friends and Jeanne decides to start taking a dance class taught by Marie. But when Marie starts to fall in love with Jeanne and decides to kiss her, Jeanne discovers that she too loves Marie. Jeanne must now choose between the family life she currently maintains and her new love.

A thief is on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer is hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past. Now fate is bringing them together in the unfolding present. Halfway around the world, in a mysterious and enchanted village, they will each seek a way to literally save their lives, while discovering a love that will radically change them both.

Hotel America: Hélène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away.
I don't kiss: Pierre breaks away from his family life in rural France and moves to Paris where he finds it harder than expected to become an actor. He rejects the help of an older gay man and lives on the streets, where he meets a young female prostitute.
My favorite season: Set in beautiful southwest France and marked by the symbolic passage of seasons, this film explores the turbulent relationship between Emilie and her brother Antoine during a particularly emotional eruption of their long-time dysfunctional family.
Wild reeds: Set in southwest France in 1962. François is uncertain of his sexuality as he finds himself more attracted to his classmate Serge than to his platonic girlfriend Maïté. An older boy, Henri, is drawn into the circle, further complicating relationships. Through their passage into adulthood, the four experience a series of sexual and political conflicts as they explore the mysteries of the human heart.

Anna,a shy introverted woman who works at the National Library in Paris and lives with her mother, becomes obsessed with an orthopedic surgeon who helped her recuperate following an attempted suicide. She is convinced that the married doctor is in love with her and that they are meant to be together. But when the doctor thinks otherwise, Anna takes matters into her own hands trying to prove his love by stealing his mail, calling him at every hour of the night, planting evidence in his apartment and stalking him. Soon enough though, after multiple attempts at convincing the doctor that he loves her, her obsession quickly turns from disappointment into hatred.

Jacques, a journalist with a reputation as an impartial investigator, is recruited by the Vatican to determine the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village. Upon his arrival, he meets the young and sensitive Anna, who claims to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Confronted with opposing views from all sides, Jacques gradually uncovers the truth and finds his belief system profoundly shaken.

When Camille, a middle-aged bookstore owner, loses her son, Mathieu, in a fatal car accident, she seeks comfort in Mathieu's close friend, Franck. However, as their relationship deepens, Camille's family begins to disapprove, especially since Franck was responsible for the car accident.

Set in the tumultuous days of 1971 France. Three years after the massive civil unrest of May 1968, high school student Gilles' dreams of life as a painter and filmmaker are tested by his political awakening and growing feelings for fellow revolutionary and classmate Christine. When a guard is injured during an act of protest, Gilles and Christine are forced to leave Paris for the summer, but their romanticized idea of "going on the lam" slowly comes undone as Gilles' personal ambitions begin to clash with Christine's political ones.

On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little, is ingratiated into the circus and the lives of its performers--all while trying to discover the secret that led to Kate's sudden departure.

In Paris, 19-year-old Augustine suffers a seizure that leaves her partially paralyzed and is sent to a hospital specializing in the then-fashionable ailment of "hysteria". She captures the attention of renowned neurologist Dr. Charcot after she has another attack that appears to give her intense physical pleasure. He begins using her as his principle subject, hypnotizing her in front of his fellow doctors. As she displays her spectacular attacks, the lines between doctor and patient become blurred. Based on a true story from the late 19th century.

Follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

A legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his fourteen year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather of the murder.

While traveling on business in New York, a French author discovers that a charming and seductive American has replaced her usual photographer.

Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship even though Julien senses that there is something different about his new friend.

Originally produced as individual motion pictures in France and the United States, these seventeen short films epitomize the avant garde movement between 1928 - 1954. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century.

Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century.

Includes three silent experimental films with music scores: Symphonie diagonale (1924), L'Etoile de mar (1928), and Entr'acte (1924). The films exemplify the cinematic Dada movement of 1921-1929 in France and Germany.

Five short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
Uberfall : (ca. 1929, Germany) / by Erno Marzner

Lucie presumes that her husband Paul, an older neurosurgeon, is having an affair. Indeed, Paul's recent behavior has been strange, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.

A tale of a downward spiraling gay gigolo, struggling to cope with his advancing age, poverty, loneliness, writers block, and the increasing complications of HIV disease. When his wealthy benefactor dies after thirty years of lavish support, his inheritance is challenged by the benefactor's family, leaving him destitute. Underscoring his every move is the fear of being forgotten, or worse: dying back where he started--on the streets.

Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist who is at odds with his manager/wife as to where his career is headed. Precisely because Jessica doesn't know how celebrated these people are, her guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their lives has a transforming effect on them and ultimately her.

Babette, a superb French chef, lives an anonymous life among a pious congregation on the desolate coast of Denmark. As housekeeper and cook to two elderly, religious women, she's never called on the prepare anything very exciting. Then, one day she wins 10,000 francs and decides to spend it all by creating the most memorable meal ever consumed, even though her guests will have no idea what they're eating.

The true story of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves in order to survive the enemy invasion and try bring their family back together.

Sixteen year old Nathan is the new kid in high school. One night while attending a party he falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. Sneaking away from the crowd, they find themselves out of sight, and eventually work up the courage to kiss each other, but someone takes notice. Soon a picture is published on Facebook, and a storm of bullying and rejection takes over their lives.

A bio-pick about the passionate life of the great French novelist, Honore de Balzac, who was ignored by critics and harassed by debt-collectors and sustained by the Russian countess whom he loved his entire life.

Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.

Bluebeard tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. Princess Marie-Catherine must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate

Italy, 1932. Nella and Orfeo, a young couple and their children, Bianca and Oreste, flee their small village in Tuscany and fascism with the dream of sailing to America. But fate takes them to Marseilles in France, where they settle.

It all happened way up in the French Alps, 1943, where the snow is pristine, where chamois and marmots frolic, where soaring peaks scrape the clouds. A solitary orphan Sébastien, living on the mountainside with a kind but gruff caretaker, meets a stray dog, Belle, and so begins a story of enduring friendship. This film tells the story of how Sébastien tamed Belle and their extraordinary adventures helping refugees flee Nazi Germany for the safety of Switzerland.

Years ago, Henri Husson lusted after Severine, a young housewife who satisfied her less than wholesome erotic desires by working afternoons at an upscale brothel while avoiding intimacy with her husband. While Henri knew Severine's secret, he never told her if he did (or did not) reveal her secret life to her wheelchair-bound husband, and she's long wondered if he ever betrayed her confidences. One day, while attending a concert, Henri is startled to see Severine in the audience, and he arranges a candlelight dinner. However, while Henri is as sly and randy as ever, he discovers Severine is a changed woman--after more than thirty years and the death of her husband, she's a mere shadow of her former self is considering joining a convent for retirement.

A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.

Betty is a novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement," a boy she kidnapped off the street. At first, Betty is cold towards him, but soon decides she wants to keep him. The plot thickens with the entrance of the boy's mother and her unsavory circle of friends.

Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love these people so much that he must devise a strategy, with the help of the natives, to keep his left-behind wife from discovering his secret.

Axel Munthe, a scientist and architect, is so obsessed by the power and beauty of the sun that he drives himself to blindness. A photographer searching for locations comes across his villa and discovers the energy held there. Slowly their two lives become unalterably intertwined as she becomes infatuated with his work and loses sight of where his life ends and hers begins.

Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.

Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frederic is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Fr?d?ric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an amiable ex-con, a shady reporter and several bottles of heavy water that absolutely, positively must not fall into the hands of the Germans.

Boudu, a Parisian tramp, takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations by seducing the women of the house.

A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.

Season 2 picks up four months after the end of Season 1. Malotru has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA. He delivers highly classified information to his CIA contact, Dr. Balmes ... , during fake psychoanalysis sessions. In exchange for Malotru's cooperation, the CIA has guaranteed that they will rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned by Syrians in a secret location. The CIA's pressure upon Malotru intensely increases when a French jihadist, recently named an Islamic State officer, is threatening France with a bloody massacre. Meanwhile, Marina Loiseau begins her own dangerously clandestine mission in Iran.

Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all of their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?

In Season 4 of 'The Bureau,' Malotru is hiding out in Moscow while being relentlessly pursued by the CIA and DGSE (France's Directorate-General for External Security). In order to survive he explores a collaboration with the Russian secret service. Back in Paris, the 'Bureau of Legends,' the most confidential branch of the DGSE, is in the crosshairs of JJA ... the new Director of Internal Security within the DGSE. JJA feels very strongly that The Bureau is due for a big shake-up: believing it had been under Malotru's influence for far too long. The Bureau nevertheless goes ahead and launches two large-scale operations: one to infiltrate Russian hackers in Moscow, the other to track French jihadists across the Middle East. Both missions push the Bureau agents to their limit, and up against the unavoidable shadow of Malotru.

In season 5, JJA, Director of Internal Security, has taken over managing the Bureau as Marie-Jeanne is testing her fieldwork skills on the ground in Egypt. The DGSE will be shaken up by rumors published about Malotru's fate: is he really dead? What role did DGSE and the CIA play? In the end, Malotru, dead or alive, will never stop confronting each one of his own dead ends, in Sinai, in Jeddah, Phnom Penh, Moscow, Cairo and in Paris.

Follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, [the film] compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families in this urgent portrait of resistance, the power of mobilization, and the mysteries of faith.

A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.

Two narratives weave together in a meditation on love. Set decades apart in Paris and in Montreal, the two stories share subtle yet profound links through their characters--a mother and son, and a divorced couple.

Strong-minded but naive Driss makes his living in Tangier doing odd jobs while dating a young European antiques dealer. His attention is increasingly drawn to Fouad, a reclusive cafe owner who excoriates his fellow Moroccans as lazy and lacking ambition. Driss pursues a friendship with Fouad despite his friends' efforts to dissuade him and becomes a victim of the man's underhanded, treacherous nature.

Eve and Damien are a couple in love, until Eve is injured in a road accident. Even though she soon gets over her physical injuries, the psychological trauma lingers and prevents her from speaking. No form of treatment works. The couple runs out of steam because, for the first time, Damien doesn't understand her. He distances himself until he finds comfort in another woman's arms. Eve wants to prove to him that she can be just like before.

It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

In October of 1941, two Nazi officers are gunned down in Nantes by members of the French Resistance, the first instance of German blood to be shed in this region. In retaliation, Hitler orders 100 Frenchmen to be shot. Instead of innocent civilians, it was later arranged that 100 political prisoners would die, selected by the district administrator from a camp in Brittany where Guy Môquet and others like him are incarcerated. Môquet himself was guilty of distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. The harshness of Hitler's order leaves the inhabitants of the camp in disbelief. Môquet, at age 17, is the youngest of all the prisoners to be executed. As they stand before a German firing squad, the prisoners are forced to grapple with their consciences and reflect on the impact they and their comrades have had on the resistance against the Nazis.

A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.

This is the story of Victor and his 14-year-old son Felix who together travel from town to town living on odd jobs. Victor meets women along the way and Felix reflects on his father's actions--but can't forgive him for his mistakes.

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting. One of the twentieth century's most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.

After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each in this tender and finely-textured saga.

Marguerite Duras is one of the most widely read French novelists today. She had a celebrated love affair with Yann, her much younger muse and apprentice. The film also offers an insight into the heart and mind of one of the world's literary figures.

Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains how he became obsessed by her and how she tantalized him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her.

Jean-Baptiste is a French painter who has requested to be buried in his hometown of Limoges. When he dies, his friends take the train from Paris to Limoges to attend his funeral. During this journey, they all review their lives and relationships.

Brother and sister Lucie and Pierre share an intimate relationship which is torn apart when Pierre is found murdered; after the investigation drags, Lucie becomes determined to find the killer herself.

Meet Maria, a woman dissatisfied with her marriage who, after a heated argument with her husband of 20 years, spends the night in room 212 of the hotel across the street from their home. There, she has a bird's eye view of her apartment, her husband, and her marriage. In this comic romp, she confronts her past lovers and relationships on one magical night, fantasizing about the lives she could've lived and wondering if she's made the right decisions

Marithe works in a training center and her main responsibility is to assist people seeking alternative job options. One day, Carole arrives at the center, looking for new professional opportunities. She can no longer stand the pressure of working with her talented Michelin-starred chef husband, Sam, nor does she want to live in his shadow. She's never finished her studies and thus reaches out to Marithe to turn her life around.

When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.

A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.

Antoine is a 33-year old modern male, searching for the love of his life while at odds with the scarier reaches of commitment. Then he meets Clara. She's beautiful, generous, and has an air of freedom about her that causes Antoine to immediately fall for her. Their romance develops quickly, seemingly a perfect love affair between soulmates, but when life deals them an unforeseen blow, their relationship faces a test it may not survive.

Nicolas is an insecure child plagued by visions of disaster. On a class trip to the ski country, Nicolas is befriended by the class bully. When one of Nicolas's visions mirrors a true-life murder, they set out to solve the crime.

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.

Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend, Arthur Capel.

Paris 1913. At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres The Rite of Spring. Coco Chanel is mesmerized... But the revolutionary work is too modern: the enraged audience boos. A near riot ensues. Seven years later, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again -- now a penniless refugee living in exile after the Russian Revolution... Coco offers Stravinsky and his family the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to continue his work.

"On a bustling Paris streetcorner, four separate lives intersect... interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend Georges, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant."--Container.

In a little town in Breton, a ten-year-old girl is found murdered. René, an artist by profession and the girl's art teacher, is the last person to have seen her, and he is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge of the enquiry. In this provincial village where everyone knows one another, René soon becomes the primary suspect in the eyes of his neighbors. The suspicion threatens to destroy his life and marriage.

Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille the reincarnation of Isabella's dead son?

In May 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast. Among them, there is Paul, the village mayor. He leads the group and seeks to maintain a minimum of order and republican spirit in this nomadic life. Traveling with them is a German boy named Max, whose father opposed the Nazi regime.

Middle-aged graphic artist Michel ... is seized by a sudden crazy impulse and orders a canoe and paddles--everything he needs for an adventure. His wife Rachelle ... encourages him to set out alone on his escapades. So what if he's never rowed a boat in his life? Adventure is adventure! His big trip on the water turns out to be full of surprises and unexpected encounters.

Self-taught aspiring chef Jacky has the talent, but not the luck. Star chef Alexandre Lagarde is in danger of losing his reputation, along with his beloved restaurant. Fate brings the two together and helps them along a journey through the world of French haute-cuisine.

Celebrity has unexpected consequences for everyone who lives in its shadow, as the family, friends and hangers-on of a famous writer discover. Lolita's father is a writer whose fame has made him so self-centered he has no clue the effect his egotistical behavior has on everyone around him. Now that she has grown up, Lolita becomes even more determined to make him notice her - especially since she's discovered a talent of her own and would like his approval. There are people who she thinks will help her, but she always winds up competing against them for her father's attention. And when she meets a guy who likes her for herself, Lolita finds she may actually be more like her father than she would ever have imagined.

Vittorio De Sica's version of the play "Les séquestrés d'Altona" by Jean Paul Sartre. Albrecht von Gerlach, an aging German industrialist, wants his son, Werner, to take over the family business. However, Werner has a sense of justice and refuses, as he knows that the company helped to build the Nazi war machine that caused the deaths of millions of people.

When Michel, an uninspired inventor from Belgium who trades on the success of his father, discovers he is adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada under the guise of selling one of his pointless inventions. In the rural village of Saint-Cecile, a kindly priest introduces Michel to Louis, a kindred spirit who drives an electric car. Louis and Michel seem to have much in common -- a coincidence, or not?

On holiday in Brittany, Félice has an idyllic romance which results in the birth of her daughter, Elise. Through a mix-up over her address, she loses touch with Elise's father, Charles, and becomes obsessed with the lost love of her life. She finds it impossible to settle with another man and wavers between two unsatisfactory relationships, while holding onto the dream that Charles may one day return.

Gaspard ..., a recent university graduate, arrives at the seaside in Bretagne for three weeks' vacation before starting a new job. He's hoping his sort-of girlfriend, the fickle Léna ..., will join him there; but as the days pass, he welcomes the interest of Margot ..., a student of ethnology working as a waitress for the summer. Things start to get complicated when the spoken-for Margot encourages Gaspard to have a summer romance with her friend, Solene ..., and he complies. When Léna turns up, and scheduling complications abound, Gaspard will have to make a choice.

The well-ordered life of Jeanne, a high school philosophy teacher, suddenly spins into disorder when a young stranger she meets at a party involves her in a devilish scheme. Natacha, a pianist with a penchant for subtly playing her elders, invites Jeanne to father's home, hoping to make a match of the two and send her father's current lover, Eve, packing. But when Eve arrives at every "chance" meeting between Jeanne and Natacha's father, fireworks of an entirely different sort erupt, and everyone is forced to examine his or her own philosophies on love, relationships and other affairs of the human heart.

A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterward, she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on a whim or is there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye?

When Odile visits her family home on the coast of Brittany for the first time since she was a girl, she is confronted by tragic memories of her father's accidental death. Faced with ghosts from her past and unsettled by new encounters, Odile slowly loses her grip on reality and experiences a shift that will change her life forever.

For summer vacation, Marc and Beatrix take their two kids to the seaside house of Marc's youth, where their daughter takes up with a biker and their son roams the beach with his best friend, who is in love with him. Things get steamier when Beatrix's lover Mathieu shows up, and Marc's old flame appears.

Set in Lyon in the 1950s, this is the story of Madeleine and Lena who are trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency. Their relationship deepens into a dependency that eventually bursts the confines of the provincial society around them.

Set during the 1997 papal visit to Paris, 23-year old Jonah, a young musician and father to a newborn son, learns at the last minute that he must complete an obscure Jewish custom within three days without fail.

Within the sterile offices of a major multinational corporation, two women enter a power struggle rife with sexual tension. Isabelle is an executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination...a dangerous game that reaches the point of no return.

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, can tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won't allow them.

Encompassing fairy tales, romances, legends, fables, parables, and anecdotes, "The thousand and one nights" is a composite of popular oral stories that developed over several centuries, mainly during the Empire of the Caliphate. This program scrutinizes the wonderfully audacious tale of Scheherezade and what it tells the attentive reader about the dreams of Arab men and women during the empire's golden age. Recurring themes such as hunger for adventure and a desire to be free from tradition are explored, as well as a conception of power that glorifies self-control and disparages violence.

Jean-Francois Sauvageau lives in a remote suburb with his 12-year-old daughter, Julyvonne. One day, Julyvonne goes out for a long walk and discovers a place in the countryside that she's never seen before. At the edge of the forest, she discovers something horrific, but is more intrigued by it then horrified. She goes home, but doesn't mention it to her father. One evening, on his way home, Jean-Francois hears a heavy thudding sound, and he, too, encounters the horror.

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center ... . Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam ... is seeking sole custody of their son Julien ... to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine ... pleads his case as a scorned dad whose son has been turned against him by his vindictive mother. Unsure who is telling the truth, the appointed judge rules in favor of joint custody. A hostage to the escalating conflict between his parents, Julien is pushed to the edge to prevent the worst from happening.

Cyrano, a master swordsman and poet, feels he can not woo his beloved Roxane due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian, Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind, and not for his beauty, which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart?

Genevieve, the village nurse, finds Céline, a confused girl with suicidal tendencies, wandering the ward of the hospital one morning. A bond forms between the young girl and the older woman until one day Genevieve realizes that Céline has special healing powers.

Set in Paris, France, during the winter. Six individuals struggle to hold on to the relationships with those they care most for. Dan has recently finished service in the Army, but rather than deal with his emotional issues, Dan prefers to drink. While he barely communicates with his girlfriend Nicole, she's convinced they will still marry and decides to ignore his problems. Lionel is a bartender who has become increasingly isolated and cut off from his friends as he looks after his father Arthur. Arthur, however, is in failing health and has little appreciation for his son's sacrifices. Thierry is a real estate salesman who has fallen for one of his co-workers, Charlotte.

Caroline, a divorced screenwriter, returns home to visit her father who is recovering from a serious operation. While his wife pampers and overprotects him, Caroline realizes that restricting a man who has enjoyed life to its fullest may do more damage than good. With her help, Daddy furtively finds his way back to the local bar. Nursing a scotch, he recalls stories from his past which bring the father and daughter closer together.

René and his lover Patric live in an old ballroom on the coast in Northern France. When Patric goes away for work, René begins to obsess on a picture of two brothers in dresses that hangs on the wall of the ballroom. He then begins hearing things and seeing things in the old space and begins to question his sanity.

Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.

A young artist searches the winding streets of Strasbourg in search of an old love. During the summer, he spends his afternoons sketching in an outdoor cafe. He is looking for a woman he met several years earlier. Amidst a buzz of conversation and activity, he sketches the many beautiful women around him, any one of whom could be her. Then one afternoon, he thinks he sees her, and sets off through the city to confront his memory.

Middle-aged musician Antoine suddenly decides to end his career. After several days of aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. Mathilde is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with the management of the building. After she discovers a crack in her living room wall, her worry gradually turns to panic--what if the building were to collapse?

Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things never go according to plan, family and the pursuit of love are always worth the fight.

Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.

Tom is a man in his early thirties who finds himself caught between two very different worlds. Tom loves music, and longs to have a career as a concert pianist; he also has talent, and is taking advanced music lessons from Miao-Lin. But Tom supports himself working as a collection agent for his father, Robert, a mid-level gangster and loan shark, as well as helping Sami and Fabrice, two of Robert's cronies who put together crooked real-estate deals. Tom's hair-trigger temper makes it easy for him to adapt to the violent life of a gangster's muscle man, but he wants to give his creative side a chance to grow, and struggles to get his skills in order for an audition with a concert promoter interested in his music. Tom is also walking on a wire with his employers by having an affair with Aline, Fabrice's wife, and is forced to mediate a bitter feud between his father and a Russian gangster, Minskov.

Re-creates all of the drama that surrounded that climactic moment in June 1940 when De Gaulle and Churchill stood together during the darkest days of World War II to confront the Nazi threat and broadcast the historic first call of resistance to an occupied Europe.

In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants! But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan!

Three generations of women--grandmother Eka, her middle-aged daughter Marina, and granddaughter Ada--share a flat in T'bilisi, the capital city of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Theirs is an accidental matriarchy, as Eka's only son, Otar, is in France. A trained doctor, he sends money home from his jobs as an undocumented laborer. Eka lives for his occasional letters and telephone calls, so when he is killed in an accident, Marina and Ada weave an intricate web of deception to spare the old woman from heartbreak. But what will happen when Eka decides to visit Otar in Paris?

"Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may."--Container.

The film starts with Olympia and her classmate Leo enjoying their first romantic encounter at a weekend dance. At school the following Monday, Geraldine, a jealous rival, publicly outs Olympia's mother. Olympia is shocked, as her mother, Martine, has never actually admitted being a lesbian. Olympia confronts her mother with questions about Olympia's father, who is now openly gay, but Martine is dismissive; in her world it's never quite the right time to speak about such matters with her daughter. Sensing a deception and fed up with 'issues' surrounding her mother's sexuality, Olympia turns to her father in Paris. After voicing her distress, she returns home only to find her mother making love with another woman. Her mother's indiscretion, her tenuous situation at school, and her troubled relationship with Leo all drive Olympia to desperate measures.

After an early release from prison, due to the help of prison reformer Germain Cazeneuve, ex-safe cracker Gino Strabliggi returns to his wife after ten years of being away. However, after a fatal car accident kills Gino's wife and a ban, by statute, prohibits him from returning to Paris, Gino decides to move to the south of France with the help of Germain. Gino finds work as a printer and remarries to a women named Lucie who works as a bank officer. However, Gino's past catches up to him when a cop begins to stalk him, and Gino's ex-gang starts checking out Lucie's bank.

Emilie puts her heart into running her busy hair salon in the sunny south of France. When she receives anonymous love letters, she decides to forward them to her heart-broken mother in the hopes of spicing up her love life. This leads to messy entanglements and a slew of misunderstandings when the secret admirer is revealed.

Set in Geneva at the World Chess Championships, a senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized tournament. What the two opponents hope will be a personal grudge match turns into a politically manuevered competition. Both become pawns in a much larger game in a taut Cold War test of wills.

Things can only improve for Michèle and Francois after their one-night stand ends with her suicide attempt. The aspiring 'top model' turns to find meaning in her life. When she learns that Francois is Jewish, she becomes obsessed with Judaism, but her attempts to convert confound the non-practicing Francois and his family.

Set in the summer of 1944 as the Allies march toward Paris, this historical drama depicts the relationship between General Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris ordered by Hitler to prevent the French capital from falling into Allied hands--or leave "a field of rubble"--and the Swedish consul-general, Raoul Nordling, who tries to prevent the senseless destruction of Paris.

When the Morels' seventeen-year-old daughter Lea fails to return home after a night out celebrating her birthday, the family is unexpectedly thrown into their worst nightmare. Mother Florence tries to remain strong for her other children, while father Julien begins an investigation of his own.

What could be more perfect than coming home to marry your childhood sweetheart? Police officer Marie Kermeur returns to the beautiful craggy island of Ty Kern, off the coast of Brittany, to marry Christian, the man she grew up with on the island. But wedding planning turns into funeral preparations as the island becomes the stage for strange, nightmarish happenings. One by one, members of Marie's and other well-known local families die in mysterious circumstances.

Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Veronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond. The two were born on the same day and each senses that somewhere there exists another person with whom their lives are intertwined.

The film opens with a tale about the last survivor of the extermination of the Jews, who laments not writing an ending account of the horrors he witnessed. In the second tale, a young historian is doing research on the concentration camp that operated in Drancy, outside of Paris. On discovering that the place is still used as a low-rent housing complex, the young woman conjugates the story of the extermination of the Jews of Europe in the present and this discovers that the world she lives in is the world of the Fina Solution. In the final tale, a ship's captain recounts a journey up an uncharted river towards a little-known civilization.

When two girls invite a man to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.

Felix, is an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. On his journey he is forced to confront the anger he feels toward his father for abandoning him, and the fear and shame he has, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world.

Madame de is forced to sell discreetly a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre, in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to be lost, the story of their possible theft hits the newspapers, prompting the jeweler who bought them to sell them back secretly to Andre, who then gives them to his mistress Lola as she prepares to leave for a holiday in Constantinople. There, the earrings again change hands as Lola pawns them to cover her gambling losses. They are purchased by Donati, an Italian diplomat on his way to France to meet with Andre. Of course, the earrings soon find their way back to Louise.

Arriving from all over Eastern Europe, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the man is willing to do anything for some cash. What Daniel intends only as sex-for-hire leads to a home invasion--and then an unexpectedly profound relationship.

Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

Julia is an American journalist living in Paris with her husband Bertrand, assigned to cover the anniversary of France's 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in World War II. She's stunned to discover that Bertrand's family apartment was the scene of an unspeakable incident committed during the war. His family has been concealing a secret, and a young French girl named Sarah holds the key to unlock the truth.

A broken-hearted sixty-something woman is facing serious financial troubles with the family restaurant she has been forced to run. She sets off on a quick trip to try and get her thoughts in order, and ends up on a voyage that forces her to confront her past, and opens up the possibility of discovering a new romance.

Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.

Tells the story of Yann Kermadec, a sailor determined to win a grueling 3-month-long solo around-the-world yacht race. His dreams come true at the last minute when he replaces the star skipper before the start of the Vendée Globe. After several days of racing, Yann, who is in the lead, discovers a teenage stowaway. The young man's presence disrupts Yann's journey.

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods.

Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond.

Follows the story of an expatriate Russian and his French wife as they return to the Soviet Union in 1946 and learn to live in the post-war Soviet Union. The story eventually revolves around the struggle of Marie to decide if she should stay or leave.

Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, Etre et avoir takes a warm look at primary education in the French heartlands.

When Claude is put into an assisted living home, his friends bust him out and start a cranky commune together, thinking they can care for each other better than anyone else. The group is joined by a graduate student who films their experiment for his research project, while also acting as a de facto caretaker. They all discover the joys of communal living, at least until old jealousies and the infirmities of age begin to pull the group apart.

Eli, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes ... without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family is on the verge of falling apart.

A young Arabic couple, Zano and Naima, leave Paris with no money, jobs, or connections, and travel to their ancestral home of Algeria, in search of re-connecting with their roots. While traveling they encounter Leila and Habib, an Algerian couple traveling to France. Leila gives Zano and Naima a letter of introduction to her family, and after a long journey they eventually arrive in Algeria and are befriended by Leila's brother Said. Now with Said as a guide, Zano and Naima explore the city and immediately discover a land that is truly removed from the culture they had left in France.

Fabio Montale a crime squad detective who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. Unfortunately, the city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia--all standing in the way of justice. After his friends start to mysteriously disappear, Fabio is pulled into Marseille's crooked underworld to uncover the truth and protect the ones he loves.

When mother and daughter Astrid and Audrey--lawyers specializing in family law--make the perilous decision to work together, they deal with clients from a divorcing couple fighting over their bulldog to shady fertility trade dealings. Additionally, all the women in the firm have complicated lives which threatens the peace of the business.

Named the best French film of 2016 by the César Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary. Fatima is a complex, uplifting film that is one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and memorable portraits of the contemporary immigrant experience

When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.

Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives with his wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up, on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house ultimately transforms everyone's life.

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Meihua, a Chinese painter, comes to Paris from the southern reaches of the Yangtze River where she is immediately drawn to Stephanie, a French photographer. What begins as a mutual admiration leaves the two women to confront the realization that they share a passion for more than the arts.

It's a summer holiday weekend in Paris. Antoine, an insurance salesman, and his wife Helene are off to the south of France to pick up their children from camp. While they are on the road they begin to quarrel and Antoine pulls over for a drink at a bar along the highway. When he returns, Helene is gone and he is forced to continue the journey without her. He eventually gives a hitchhicker a lift, but soon suspects that the young man may be a fugitive from the police, and might also have met his wife earlier that evening.

Thirty-year-old Alice is a sailor about to embark on a journey she will not soon forget. Leaving her fiancé Félix ashore, she joins the crew of an old cargo ship, the 'Fidelio,' as a mechanic. Once on board, Alice discovers that she is replacing a man who has just died and that Gaël, the first great love of her life, is the ship's captain. Lulled by life aboard the ship and entranced by the limitless horizon of the wide open ocean, Alice succumbs to desire and begins an affair with Gaël. But she soon faces a difficult choice about what will make her truly happy: an unfettered life at sea, or grounded happiness at home?

Jean-Luc Godard presents a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a filmic essay on the state of contemporary Europe, international politics, and Western history. In the tradition of his acclaimed political and essayistic films, Godard explores a wide range of contemporary cultural, political and historical themes with his distinctive and innovative cinematic style.

A tale of two men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families.

Examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel and Jenny separate, despite the affection that still binds them. A new love develops between Gabriel and young designer Anne as they overcome their fears and uncertainties. At his publishing job, much of Gabriel's emotional energy is spent on his close friend Adrien, a once-promising novelist whose recent writing failed to repeat the critical and commercial success of his early novels. Jenny, who remains friends with Adrien, embarks on a new relationship with Jeremie. When an old illness reappears, Adrien must come to terms with an early death; he begins an affair with 15-year-old schoolgirl Vera. The personal tragedy of Adrien's death impacts the fabric of friendships, as the individuals in the group reflect on death, life, and the future.

André is forced to leave his secret love, Barbe, to serve as a soldier. On his last night of freedom, he witnesses Barbe and another local sleeping together in a parking lot. A twist of fate forces the two men to fight side by side.

For ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troop from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France.

Two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their personal choices and lifestyles, leading to consequences none of them could foresee.

Frank Riva [is] an ex-undercover cop called in from retirement after 25 years of exile to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of his brother in a drug sting operation. He soon finds himself back on the trail of the notorious Loggia crime family, who had put a bounty on his head during the French Connection days. Frank is forced to pick up the pieces of a life he left behind a quarter of a century ago: his old flame Catherine, Nina Rizzi, the daughter he never knew, and Xavier Unger, his former partner, now chief of the Paris police. He must also put together a new team to confront the Loggia gang: Superintendent Lydie Herzog, his nominal superior, the headstrong Captain Hervé Sebastian, and rookie computer whiz Juliette Janssen.

Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage. In this hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics, he takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage.

A single mother abandons her young child and travels to the French Montpellier coast where she falls into an affair with a female thief. Meanwhile, a police detective grows increasingly obsessed with finding her.

Using a political protest and race riots as cover, a group of young Parisians pull off a robbery, then flee and hide out in a country inn near the French border. There they encounter a neo-Nazi innkeeper and his cannibal family, who are bent on preserving the master race.

Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.

A young Frenchman, in search of a legendary Gypsy singer, is taken in by a Gypsy community in Romania where he learns their ways of talking, drinking, dancing, and cursing. At first the villagers distrust and dislike Stephane, but he soon ingratiates himself into their community, assimilating into their world and falling in love with Sabina, a dancer whose allure is matched by her fiery personality.

Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon tires of their simpler life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favorite novel.

Based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence. The nephew proved her right by strangling her.

In 19th centure France, miners' Maheu, roguish Chaval, and troubled newcomer, Etienne, ply their spine-cracking trade deep in the underground, but start to resent the ruthless demands of a greedy mining company. Mired in coal dust and misery, the workers, now struggling to feed their families, soon plan a revolt, rising up in an epic struggle for better pay and conditions. Steeled by the unwavering support of his loyal wife, the robust Maheu becomes the indomitable of the strike, fighting power and authority to liberate his community.

The story of a miner's strike that destroys one family, yet plants the seeds of change for future generations.

In the '60s bourbon and money flowed freely in the Parisian neighborhood of Pigalle. The city came alive at night behind closed curtains and in the company of prostitutes. Georgia, alias Gigola, was a temptress who seduced women by presenting herself as a refined young man. Still haunted by the suicide of her first mistress, Georgia falls in love with enchanted women, like Cora, a young barmaid, or Odette, a wealthy member of the elite class.

Set in the 1930's, Gilles' Wife is a haunting tale of love and betrayal in a small mining town on the outskirts of France. It is the story of Elisa, a devoted wife who begins to suspect her husband Gilles is having an affair with her younger sister. Determined to save her marriage, Elisa undertakes a strange and disquieting battle to recover what she has lost, and to become once again, Gilles' wife.

Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme, a teenage girl in Paris, starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires, she finally decides to take matters into her own hands.

Fusing the Biblical story of Ruth and the Jewish legend of the Golem, 'Golem: The Spirit of Exile' tells the story of an immigrant family whose sons are murdered and patriarch dies, and whose widow forges a friendship with her daughter-in-law. Set in Paris in the 1990s, the two women are evicted from their home and must find a way to get through their difficult situation with the help of the golem.

After Nicolas' father dies in a car accident his mother is arrested for drug trafficking and sent to jail. While living in a foster home Nicolas is befriended by another whose father is in the same jail as Nicolas' mother. The two boys decide that instead of letting their parents wait out their convictions that they would try to break them out of jail.

Part 2 of a six-part video series filmed in the south of France, which introduces the necessary components of contemporary conversational French for beginners and spotlights cultural aspects of France.

Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces" his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive.

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich, and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis' fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis' gay brother, Paul. The two strangers gradually develop an unusual and deeply moving relationship as Ozon continues his unique exploration of the nature of family and blood ties.

Sandrine is a successful Parisienne who tires of her job in the rat race and decides to buy Adrien's isolated farm with the caveat that he remain onsite for a period of time. A touching story of growth and change and of the glorious ability of nature to stir the depths of one's heart.

A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

Julien is a man who repairs clocks and is in the process of blackmailing a woman known only as Madame X. Julien is in love with Marie, who he once met at a party and has dreamt of ever since. When they bump into each other in the street Marie is keen to renew their acquaintance and soon moves into Julien's rambling old house. It becomes apparent that there's something strange about Marie. Madame X helps Julien gradually realize that he has to uncover Marie's secret - and by doing so face losing her.

Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.

A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel, and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment.

Three brothers fight for Algeria's independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.

Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, falls in love with the beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda. When Esmeralda is arrested for lewd dancing, she catches the eye of Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral. Further unwanted affections are lavished upon her by a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's love is reserved for a handsome soldier. When a mob accuses Esmeralda of being a murderer and a witch, Quasimodo must rescue her by claiming sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

Chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici ... who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri ... a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clarici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia ... as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna ... and the fascist tenets he once accepted without question being to waver in his mind.

Juliette, a frail, haunted ex-doctor who's a shell of her former self, is released from prison after serving 15 years for an unspeakable crime. With nowhere else to go, she comes to live with her loving but estranged sister Lea. Together the sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey back from life's darkest edge.

A wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.

Francis, 60, arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next crime novel. When he meets Judith, a former model much younger than himself, it is love at first sight. But writer's block and growing jealousy push Francis to desperate measures.

Set in 19th-century Paris. Feminist author, George Sand, is a bohemian who wears men's clothing and has several lovers. However, when George hears the music of composer, Frédéric Chopin, she decides to transform herself in order to capture the heart of Chopin.

The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they realize that their enemy is not necessarily the Germans.

Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane's past lover.

This film is about a young girl transforming into a woman. The story starts in a her adolescence at a mysterious boarding school only for girls. There, she takes exotic classes like botany and ballet, and also enjoys lots of playtime. But she is not alone in this coming-of-age story, as all the girls at the school are also going through this transformation. As soon as she feels comfortable at the school, the girls keep disappearing one by one.

Inspector Bellamy tries to go on vacation but murder travels with him, not to mention his black sheep of a brother, his bored wife, and enough suspects to fill a cruise ship. A suspenseful mystery in which even the inspector has a motive no one would suspect.

When her marriage falls apart, Agnès Le Roux moves back to the South of France from Africa to live with her mother, Renée, owner of the Palais de La Mediterranée casino in Nice. There, Agnès falls in love with Maurice Agnelet, a lawyer and Renee's business advisor, who is ten years her senior. Maurice continues to have relationships with other women, but Agnès remains madly in love with him.

When Driss, an ex-con from the projects, is hired to take care of an eccentric French aristocrat named Philippe, his newfound job quickly becomes an unpredictable adventure. Speeding a Maserati through Paris, seducing women and paragliding over the Alps are just the beginning, as Driss turns the often humorous world of upper-class Parisian society upside-down. As this unlikely duo overcomes adversity of every flavor in this true story, they also shatter their preconceptions about love, life, and each other.

Jean Diaz, a scientist who, after witnessing the unspeakable horrors of the battlefield during the First World War, dedicated his life to ensuring that history doesn't repeat itself. Diaz eventually invents a device that promises to bring an end to war forever. However, with World War II on the horizon, the government instead opts to use the machine against its enemies rather than for peace.

Moderato cantabile Focuses on Anne, a wealthy bored housewife believes she has witnessed a murder in a quayside bistro. Rushing to the scene of crime, she strikes up a conversation with Chauvin, an employee of her husband who also saw the crime. The troubled woman continues to return to the cafe, increasingly identifying herself with the murdered victim and becoming obsessed with Chauvin.

A man called La Rocca: Roberto's goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band.

Weekend at Dunkirk: In June 1940. On the beaches of Dunkirk which have been mercilessly shelled by the German bombardments, thousands of French and English soldiers are waiting to depart for England. Julien abandons his three friends to attempt to embark at Bray-Dunes with the English aboard a freighter, when he meets the beautiful Jeanne who is being tormented by a couple of ruthless soldiers. Together, Julien and Jeanne attempt to navigate the war-torn countryside, and to forge a romance in the face of human barbarity.

The story of Jean Cadoret, a man who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land.

Remorques: Laurent is a salvage-boat captain who rescues a merchant vessel from a storm-tossed sea. The vessel's far-from-grateful captain manages to skip without paying Laurent his salvage money, leaving behind his wife Catherine. Tending to Catherine's injuries until they reach port, Laurent falls in love with the woman, despite the fact that he is already married to the seriously ill Yvonne. It takes a lot of doing, but Laurent eventually ends his affair and allows his own wife to expire, believing that he's been 100% faithful.
Lumière d'été: A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Le ciel est á vous: The wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession, and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman.

In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission.

Always in a hurry, Jeanne is a beautiful young woman with a profusion of boyfriends. Then one day, she meets Olivier, the true love she's been searching for. When Olivier tells Jeanne that he's HIV positive, she refuses to get upset. Her devotion to Olivier is intense and unswerving.

One night, Pierre shares a secret with his daughter-in-law, Chloé. A secret that has haunted him for two decades, forcing him to confront himself, his contradictions and choices, his manhood and his failings. The secret of his love for Mathilde, for whom he wouldn't make a sacrifice, choosing instead to take the safer, easier path. In one night, we discover the life of a man who didn't take a chance. In a heartbreaking weekend shared by a man and his daughter-in-law, memories flood back in waves of nostalgia and regret.

For years, Conrad Lang has been living off the Senn family. At first a childhood playmate of Thomas, he later became the house keeper of their summer residence. The family used him as a handyman and Conrad seemed satisfied with it. As his health slowly deteriorates, he starts telling Simone, the wife of the family heir, memories from his early childhood which do not seem to stick quite exactly to the official family version. Conrad's stories seem to seriously trouble Elvira, the family's matriarch, as if this harmless fool somehow had the means to destroy her. A special friendship grows between Conrad and Simone, leading her to confront Elvira on his behalf--but Elvira is much more dangerous than she seems.

Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and returns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language production of Ulysses, Valance struggles to master the dialogue and his own emotions.

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single with a small child, living in a nearby suburb. Traumatized by years of emptiness and longing for his mother, he starts an ambiguous relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.

Set in France during World War II. Paulette, a five-year-old refugee from Paris is taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle, the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her best friend, and they create a cemetery in which Paulette's dog is interred, along with other animals and insects, some of whom the children kill themselves. The Dolle family is too busy feuding with the Gouards, their neighbors, to notice the absence of the children. Eventually, authorities locate Paulette and insist that she be placed in an orphanage for legal adoption.

A dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the isle of Corsica. Hélène comes upon a couple engaging in a chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter, leads her to seek the tutelage of an American doctor--a liaison that transforms both of their lives.

A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.

Resentful young Parisian chambermaid Celestine finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she must humbly submit to the iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress while rebuffing the groping advances of Monsieur and contending with her fascination with the brooding gardener, Joseph.

With spectacular visuals as a backdrop, this sweeping family adventure film based on Jules Verne's classic thriller centers on an expedition into the Earth's dark core, led by Professor Lindenbrook (James Mason) and his star student (Pat Boone). Along the way, they encounter giant prehistoric reptiles, magnificent glowing crystal caverns, a fierce magnetic lightning storm--and even the lost city of Atlantis.

Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.

Considered Truffaut's greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman.

Laurent, a 23 year-old student, shares an apartment with his best friend, Carole, using their relationship to deflect questions about his private life. This perfect ruse falls when he meets and falls in love with Cedric, a young man completely comfortable with and unburdened by his homosexuality.

Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.

Jean-Marc Faure is a brilliant doctor. He is married to Christine, a charming woman, and they have two wonderful children. Surrounded by friends he's known since his days at medical school, he is constantly talking about the latest developments in his field. His work often requires him to attend conferences in Switzerland, lectures at the University of Dijon, and affluent discussions with colleagues at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He lives a charmed life. One day, the unimagineable happens. Jean-Marc murders his wife, two children, his parents and then commits suicide. What the investigation reveals is even more difficult to believe.

In 1981, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French engineer based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. In turn, Grigoriev begins leaking highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S. to Froment.

An eager rookie homicide squad inspector, Franck, investigates a murder of a woman who was found with her throat cut. He unearths parallels of this murder with previously unrelated cases--beginning an eight-year hunt for Serial Killer 1.

Story based on the recollections of Francoise d'Aubigne, Marques de Maintenon, wife to Louis XIV, the King of France. This is also the story of 17th-century Versailles.

Though happily married to his wife, Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of Parisian women who pass him by every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until Chloe, an old flame, shows up at his office and presents the first genuine threat to his marriage.

Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Duke of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendship unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates--including the possibility of her own.

A handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago, 'perhaps at Marienbad,' but she claims not to remember him. He haunts her mind with images by mixing memory and fantasy, fear and desire.

A poetic comedy about a group of children in a French village as they grow from children to adolescents to adulthood. Truffaut interweaves vignettes of puppy love, school days, bragging rights, trips to the movie house, loving parents and one boy's escape from child abuse, as he explores the range of young emotions from humor to fantasy to the serious side of life.

In German-occupied Paris, poet and factory worker Missak Manouchian led a courageous group of immigrant fighters to sabotage the Nazi regime. Made up of young Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Italians, Spaniards and Armenians, this heroically ragtag group committed nearly all acts of armed resistance in the capital between March and November 1943, before a series of arrests broke their ranks.

"Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so."--imdb.com.

Antoine attends a summer writing workshop at La Ciotat, France, in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the town's industrial past, a form of nostalgia to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned with the fears of the modern world, the young man soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who seems at the same time alarmed and captivated by Antoine's violence.

Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.

Anna suffers nightmares and periods of extreme confusion so great that she's barely able to recognize her husband. Doctors are stumped until Anna discovers scars on her scalp and is convinced that her face has been reconstructed, but by whom?

Tells the story of Vincent, a middle-class family man recently fired from his drab, middle-management job. Unable to tell his family about his firing, Vincent spends his workdays driving around the French countryside - "business trips" he tells his wife - keeping intact the reassuring routine of going to work and coming home to his wife and kids. As his family grows suspicious of his evasive behavior, Vincent is forced to spin a new tale, pretending to get a job working for the U.N. In a bid to keep the money coming in, he recruits old friends to invest in an imaginary emerging-markets investment scheme. Vincent also falls in with Jean-Michel, a black market dealer whose ignominious past serves as an ominous warning for Vincent's present course. Despite his efforts to maintain an undisturbed surface, Vincent's wife begins to suspect something amiss.

François Fournier is a troubled ten-year-old who has been in foster care since he was four. But his is a "temporary placement," meaning that his parents can come back for him any time. They never do. The story begins with François being shuffled from one foster home to another, as his insecurity leads him to engage in increasingly destructive behavior. He is placed with an older couple named Thierry, the newest addition to a ménage that includes Mrs. Thierry's mother, a very young girl, and a high-school age boy. They aren't afraid to share their lives with this new houseguest, and the impressionable boy seems to be settling down. For François, things just are what they are--and he's usually "temporary." A fascinating portrait of childhood, which is also an indictment of a failing social system.

Bruno, a down-and-out petty thief who reaches rock bottom when he sells his newborn son on the black market. In a bid to redeem himself in the eyes of his girlfriend Sonia, the baby's mother, Bruno goes against all odds to bring their baby home.

Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot.

Algeria, 1959. Young lieutenant Terrien takes command of an outpost in Algeria, a country fighting for its independence from France. He befriends a local young boy joining his platoon and a disillusioned veteran. War and its atrocities will quickly put his moral values to the test.

In 1963, a soulful stranger and veteran of the Algerian war, Antoine, arrives at the small Breton island of Ouessant to become the new keeper of the lighthouse. He replaces Emile, the tower's adored deceased patriarch, despite the locals' feeling that the job should have gone to one of their own. Easygoing and good-humored about the community's animosity towards him, Antoine eventually bonds with sullen, unfriendly Yvon while they work together at the offshore lighthouse. Back on shore, Antoine also develops a deep attraction for Emile's daughter Mabe, who just so happens to be Yvon's wife.

Krimo, a streetwise teenager who doesn't have much to say either to his mother or his girlfriend Magali, plays tough guy with his friends, but Krimo has a creative side he doesn't share with everyone. One day, after Magali has given him his walking papers, Krimo sees a pretty girl named Lydia arguing with a shopkeeper over the price of a dress. On an impulse, Krimo lends Lydia the money to pay for it and learns that she's going to wear it in a school play, a classic drama of the 18th Century. Intrigued, Krimo tags along to Lydia's rehearsal and finds himself increasingly fascinated with both the girl and the play. When the show's leading man makes noises about dropping out, Krimo takes his place. However, not everyone is convinced Krimo has what it takes to pull off the role, including Lydia's best friend, Frida.

In a small town, Helene is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frederic, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors no such illusions as she prepares her legacy. After her death, her children realize what she anticipated as they come to terms with their inheritance's place in their own lives. In the resulting disposition of their mother's assets, treasured heirlooms of a romantic family past drift away even as their changing modern world confronts the value of their memories.

Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Frederic, his wife Frederique, and their entire clan are spending another summer in their family house deep in the verdant Provencale countryside. A solitary gay man, Hugo, has moved in next door. After a convivial dinner, Frederic and Hugo stay up on the terrace until dawn, exchanging their radically different visions of love. Entirely unaware of their exchange, Frederique nonetheless notices a distance opening up between her and her husband, and a powerful bond developing between Frederic and Hugo a bond which grows stronger daily.

Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.

It could be said that Paul Exben has the perfect life - great career, big house, wife and two sons. But when he finds out that his wife has eyes for an old friend, Paul makes a fatal error and kisses that perfect life goodbye. Escaping alone to an isolated coast, Paul steals the life he thought he always wanted, but pays for it with everything he leaves behind.

A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries, and conspiracies surrounding the paintings.

On her birthday, Jeanne, learns from her mother that her father is Indian, a Hindu she met on her travels. An 'Untouchable,' her mother says. Intending to find her father, Jeanne sets out on her own for the vastness of India. In the hope that she will find what she is looking for, she immerses herself into the jumble and life of a continent that is totally foreign to her. Eventually, she befriends a young man who acts as a guide, assisting her and introducing her to the mysteries of India.

When Louis, a loner who lives in a forest near the French-Swiss border, suffers a mild heart attack, he travels to Geneva to buy a new heart on the black market. After receiving the new heart Louis decides to travel to South Korea, where he buys a boat and sails it to his former home, an island south of Tahiti. Once there he attempts to find the son he fathered decades earlier when he lived there.

Pierre and Manon are a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre's documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter. When Pierre takes a lover, he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain. When Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband.

A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?

Penpusher = Gratte-papier: A day like any other in the Parisian metro - or so it seems. A young man reads. A young woman is seated next to him. They have nothing in common, yet they will be introduced in an unexpected fashion.
My mother, story of an immigration = Ma mère, histoire d'une immigration: This is a story of her mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris. The story of an immigrant mother. It also is the story of three generations of women: her mother's, Zehira; her daughters'; her granddaughters'.
One voice, one vote = Je suis une voix: In the run-up to the 2007 presidential elections, a look at the importance of voting. This animated short is based on a series of interviews with ordinary people leading up to the 2007 French election.
The last day = La dernière journée: On July the 1st 2005, the 1867 Schneider and Co. power hammer no. 125 ceased operating at the former smithy of the Brest military harbour. This is the story of the machine and its workers' last working day.
L'origine de la tendresse: Elise is a quiet and solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no moment is devoid of meaning.
Kitchen: A woman, her husband and two lobsters. A recipe that turns sour ...

Eliane settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father. Traumatized by the knowledge that her mother was raped by three Italian immigrants before she was born, Eliane thinks she is on a trail of vengeance when she is courted by a young garage mechanic, whose father, now dead, was an Italian immigrant who owned a mechanical piano, the only clue to the identity of her mother's aggressors.

Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.

Frenhofer, an artist, resumes painting the imaginary portrait of the film's title which he had earlier abandoned when his obsession with the work threatened his relationship with the model, whom he subsequently married. When a young painter, Nicolas, visits with his girlfriend, she agrees to model for the painting. A disturbing relationship develops between her and Frenhofer.

After 16-year-old Junie's mother dies, Junie transfers to a new school, mid-year. At her new school she falls into a love triangle with a fellow student, Otto, and her Italian teacher, Mr. Nemours.

Carole and Delphine fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole.

A law student is attracted to a girl he sees in the street and wanders the area hoping to see her again. While there, he stops in for cookies at a Paris bakery and becomes interested in a brunette who works there. Is he truly interested or is she just a sweet diversion?

When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to each other for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test their love and their loyalties.

Train engineer Jacques Lantier is attracted to Severine, the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. When Roubaud is in danger of losing his job, Severine offers herself to her husband's boss. In a fit of jealous rage, Roubaud kills his boss. Lantier is witness to this, so Severine promises herself to him if he'll keep quiet. Eventually Severine tries to get Lantier to kill Roubaud. Sick of the whole affair, Lantier murders Severine and then kills himself.

"La Cage au folles" is the name of a nightclub run by a pair of aging gay men, one of whom has a son. The son wihses to marry a woman whose father is the chief of the Department of Morals. In order to help the couple, the boy's "parents" make an attempt to curb their life-style, with comedic results.

In a move to make his parter, Renato, jealous, Albin waits in a local cafe--dressed as a woman--hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy...who uses him as a courier of secret microfilm! Now on the run from agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm...with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these spies or does he have to sustain this charade--as a woman--forever?

Portuguese immigrants Maria and Jose have been living in a small apartment in an exclusive district of Paris for 30 years. Maria is the caretaker for the building and José is a handyman. When they inherit a house in Portugal, they have a chance to return to their homeland, but nobody wants them to move. Just how far will their family, neighbors, and employers go to hold them back?

Simon is obsessed with Ariane and keeps her as his willing captive. She tolerates his elaborate desires, his endless interrogations and surveillance. Still Ariane is able to maintain her own reserve of privacy, her own mental and physical freedom. Although often affectionate to Simon. Ariane prefers women and so leads a double-life. But this only magnifies Simon's pain until his obsessive desires culminate in devastation and tragedy

Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when the ladies' man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and jealousy.

Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this thriller. Julien is a middle-age salesman embroiled in a love affair with a married woman who, after a round of sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation--but just what exactly happened?

After unsuccessfully searching for a French businessman's missing daughter in Mexico, Campana, a dedicated detective, is reluctantly partnered with accident-prone accountant Perrin, a would-be detective presumed to be so maladroit that he will accidentally lead Campana to the missing girl.

This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls in love with the gutsy nine-year old girl (who is head of the orphan gang), and together they run a gauntlet of fantastical dangers as they join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from the madman's master plan.

An art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a "collector" of men.

Explores that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic period when poor and working-class Parisians rose up against the "bourgeois" French national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself in Versailles. As the historical drama unfolds, it is also "covered" by two television news crews - one from "National TV Versailles" which broadcasts the official version and the other from "Commune TV," giving voice to the rebellious Communards.

Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to the French presidency through the lens of his unraveling marriage to then-wife Cecilia. This lampoon depicts the future president as a bold and unashamed virtuoso of political combat, whose inattention to his disintegrating domestic partnership emerges as his chief vulnerability.

Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.

Beth is 17 years old, she lives at home with her mother and a younger brother. Her mother is the mistress of a wealthy man they have been taught to call "uncle," and he has paid for their apartment all these years. Now that Beth is becoming a woman, "uncle" has indicated that he would like to transfer his attentions to her, which it not something that is agreeable to her. Meanwhile, Beth's teen-aged boyfriend has begun making unreasonable demands on her, and she is trying to break up with him.

Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of François Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates tensions between Pignon and his former flatmate Richard and his love interest Émilie. Ultimately, Levasseur's wife discovers the truth and decides to play games with her husband.

A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper.

After the death of her soul mate, Nathalie takes refuge in her work and gives up all hope for social connections. As she struggles to rekindle her passion for life, one day, without any reason, she kisses Markus, a quiet and gentle co-worker. Much to Nathalie's surprise she finds love and joy in the most unexpected of places...right in front of her eyes.

Caught up in the political revolution sweeping France in the early 1970s, Fernando and Marie reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves full time to radical activism. This comes as a shock to their precocious nine year-old daughter, Anna, who struggles to understand her parents' newfound ideals.

Thriller about a street junkie who is arrested and rather than going to jail is sent to a secret government training center for assassins. She is transformed into a sleek, calculating bombshell with a license to kill. When she rejoins the real world she falls in deeply in love with a man who knows nothing about her. Now she must choose between the deceitful maneuverings of her dual identity or a life-threatening mission that will shape her life.

Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the day.

Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Her husband, Gérard, a businessman and philanderer, hates the campaign and feels vindication when a nasty leaflet circulates about their family history. His son, Fraṅois, just back from the U.S., is in love with his step-sister Michèle, and she with him, although something is amiss besides their being cousins. Watching it all is their elderly Aunt Line, who has her own haunting memories. A death in World War II and a death on election night collapse time in the perpetual present and bring unexpected expiation. There is a lot to celebrate.

French farm girl Camille is awaiting news of her husband, who is fighting at the front. After she receives an enigmatic letter ending their relationship, she dresses up as a boy and joins a wandering regiment in search of her estranged love. Skirting the edges of battlefields, the platoon haunts the screen like shell-shocked specters, awakening for four uncannily beautiful musical numbers played on homemade string instruments.

A handsome photographer, Francois arrives at the apartment of Carole, a gorgeous rising celebrity. Carole's new husband is away in Hollywood all the time, and she and Francois begin a passionate affair.

A hotel clerk falls in love with a fairy who grants him three wishes. After the first two wishes come true, she mysteriously disappears. Determined to get her back, Dom searches everywhere, hoping to reunite with his one true love.

Set in the south of France. When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, opens a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish and couscous, his new endeavor comes in conflict with the rest of the family members.

Set during World War I. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in an escape attempt.

Set during World War I. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in an escape attempt.

New couple Romeo and Juliette must face the ultimate test when they discover that their newborn son has a brain tumor. Gathering their friends and family together, they confront this ordeal together as a form of warfare. Through tenacity and dedication, Romeo and Juliette begin to surprise even themselves in their ability to not only fight for the life of their child but also for each other.

Said is an Arab, Hubert is black, and Vinz is a Jew, all of them young, unemployed and living in a dreary, troubled Paris suburb, largely inhabited by poor immigrant families. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. The film focuses on one day in the lives of these three hoodlum friends and the result is a brutal, harrowing study of the cyclical nature of violence.

Said is an Arab, Hubert is black, and Vinz is a Jew, all of them young, unemployed and living in a dreary, troubled Paris suburb, largely inhabited by poor immigrant families. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. The film focuses on one day in the lives of these three hoodlum friends and the result is a brutal, harrowing study of the cyclical nature of violence.

During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven, and struggles to find a way to make a living with his words.

A tale of love, temptation, and betrayal. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia as they struggle with fidelity and the temptation to give up their art for an easier life.

While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past--the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with her.

The film follows the story of an obsessed woman who will stop at nothing to avenge her husband's death. Julie, a beautiful young bride, has just married her childhood sweetheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony, her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught, Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible. One by one, Julie sees to their demise, and, with each murder more bone chilling and diabolically clever than the last, the question is not who will be next--but rather how they will meet their ghastly end

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

"What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc of his wife, Agnes, one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves the moustache off. Thus begins a tragic odyssey that leads Marc to question every relationship in his life, and even his own identity. Marc's journey into darkness begins when Agnes returns home. At first, he playfully tries to conceal what he's done. When he finally reveals his bare face to her, with a flourish, her reaction is...nonexistent. She baffles him by appearing not to notice the change. Confused, he says nothing, and they proceed with their plans for the evening. When the couple's friends Serge and Nadia also fail to make note of the change in Marc's appearance, he begins to get angry, believing that Agnes is playing an elaborate prank on him. In the car on the way home, he loses his temper, and it's her turn to be baffled. What moustache? How can she have noticed that he shaved his moustache when he's never had one? While Agnes begins to question her husband's sanity, Marc frantically searches for evidence of his former facial hair. Things only get worse for Marc, as no one at his job remembers him having a moustache either, and before long, he discovers that there are other details of his life that only he remembers.

Set in the last days of the quest for the Holy Grail. King Arthur's knights return to Camelot, their ranks badly reduced and their morale gone. Lancelot in particular feels responsible for the failure of the mission, due to his love affair with Queen Guinevere. The discouragement that Lancelot brings back to the court foreshadows the end of the Round Table ranks.

Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution.

In a Paris suburb nicknamed Little Jerusalem, a family of Sephardic Orthodox immigrants shares a low-income apartment. Beautiful, teenaged Laura distances herself from her family's religion and her own burgeoning desire by devoting every waking moment to intellectual discipline and secular philosophy. Mathilde, Laura's married older sister, worries that strict observance of the Torah's marital codes has driven her husband Ariel into the bed of another. When Laura falls under the spell of Djamel, a handsome Muslim journalist, and Mathilde discovers that her worst fears are true, the two very different sisters find themselves in very similar crises.

The story revolves around Mado, a movie-star past her prime who owns an elegant chateau in the serene French countryside. Mado's lover Brice is a successful director who continues to cast Mado in his films. Her son Julien, an aspiring filmmaker, despises his "sell-out" mother, but at the same time yearns for her approval. Lili, Julien's girlfriend is intent on escaping the lowly life of a poor country girl and dreams of stardom.

The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments

The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of European cinema's most iconic real-life couples, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider reunited for this film, bringing a palpable erotic chemistry to their performances as the bronzed and beautiful vacationers whose summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance ... and his eighteen-year-old daughter ... unleashing a gathering wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence. A paragon of 1960s modernist cool thanks to the effortlessly chic clothes and a loungy Michel Legrand score, 'La piscine' dives deep to reveal sinister undercurrents roiling beneath its seductive surfaces.

A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life.

Married to a much older man, the Princesse de Clèves falls in love with the Duc de Nemours, who loves her. The princess, to save herself from this love, confesses to her husband, imploring him to save her from her desire.

Against the backdrop of the Catholic/Protestant wars of 16th century France, Marie de Mézières finds herself married to a prince she does not love, haunted by a suitor from her childhood, and advised by a nobleman harboring his own forbidden desire for her. The princess must struggle stay alive in the intrigue of this political and romantic web of duty, passion, religion and war.

The life of a fifteen-year old changes forever when he makes a promise to a dying man.

Simon Kessler, is a psychologist working for a multinational petrochemical corporation, SC Farb. His successful role in a corporate downsizing proved to SC Farb's director that Simon is perfect for a delicate situation concerning the firm's head-office in Germany. The Germans want a report on a CEO named Mathias Just, who they fear is unfit for his role. But Just becomes aware of Simon's investigation and challenges Simon with confidential information relating SC Farb to crimes against humanity reaching back to WWII.

Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.

Thirty-something Adèle is devastated after a painful breakup. With no close friends or family, her distant cousin, Rachel, reluctantly takes her in and attempts to salvage Adèle's personal and professional lives. Adèle bounces from one man to the next in search of her perfect companion, until she finally recognizes the man who may hold the answer to her broken heart.

Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

In 1760s France, Suzanne is a girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path, shuffling from convent to convent, and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues to resist imposed religious values and the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family. Her uncle Fouan has just decided to divide everything that he has amongst his two sons and his daughter, hoping that he can then spend the rest of his life at ease. But the details of the division only create bitterness, rivalry, and intrigue.

A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony--abandoned by his mother at 6, in and out of juvenile court since--from himself and his violent ways.

While performing for the musical Conservatory examination board, young pianist Melanie finds her concentration altered when the chairwoman of the jury, Mme. Fouchecourt, herself a famous concert pianist, carelessly signs an autograph for a fan, causing Melanie to fail the exam. Years after her dreams of becoming a professional pianist are ruined, Melanie is still haunted by the past. So she sets up a plan to seek revenge on Mme. Fouchecourt, by becoming the woman's live-in nanny. Soon Melanie gains the trust of Mme. Fouchecourt to the extent that she requests Melanie to sit in on her recitals and become her personal page turner.

A handyman named Germain befriends Margueritte, a 95-year-old woman. The two couldn't be more different, with Germain bewildered by the literature that gives Margueritte such pleasure. Slowly the two form an unusual and intense bond, leading them to a greater understanding of their place in the world, and in each other's lives.

Determined to fall in love, 15-year-old Adele is focused on boys. But it's a blue-haired girl she meets on the street who really piques her interest. Soon, Adele is exploring her desire for girls as she negotiates her way to becoming a woman.

Abandoned by her mother, Piaf grew up in her grandmother's brothel and her father's circus. While singing on the streets of Paris as a teen, Piaf is discovered by club owner Louis Leplee, and this chance encounter changes the woman's life. Middleweight boxer, Marcel Cerdan, captures her heart and gives her something to live for, besides her music, at least for a while. Her powerful voice takes her all over the globe, but it can't guard her from the pain and suffering she can't avoid.

Two women search for the men they love in the aftermath of World War I in France. They encounter an imperious army officer, Major Dellaplane, a man obsessed with accounting for France's war casualities. The army wants to forget the mass of missing men and has ordered Dellaplane to find one certifiably French unknown soldier to honor with burial under the Arc de Triomphe. In the course of his mission, Dellaplane learns the fate of the women's loved ones and a shocking secret that may determine the fate of the women themselves.

Michele works at a fish market to help support her long-time unemployed husband, her heroin-addicted daughter and infant grandchild. For help she turns to an ex-boyfriend with connections to the criminal world who helps her feed her daughter's habit. One day Michele meets Paul, who has given up a life of endless strikes to become a taxi driver. In the same town, Vivian, an unhappily married music teacher starts an affair with Aberamane, a North-African ex-con who confronts prejudice no matter which race it springs from.

With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone's lives forever, including the young man's mother, Marie-France, who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job, as Thomas's assistant, without him knowing about her connection to his past.

Alone in a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for his new play, writer-director Thomas ... is distraught that no one has what it takes to play the lead female character: a woman who enters into an agreement with her male counterpart to dominate min as her slave. Entry pushy, foul-mouthed, desperate and ill-prepared actress Vanda ... who is a whirlwind of erratic--and it turns out, erotic--energy. When Thomas reluctantly agrees to let her try out for the part, he is stunned and captivated by her transformation: not only is Vanda a perfect fit, but she apparently has researched the role exhaustively, learned her lines by heart and even bought her own props. The likeness proves to be much more than skin-deep, and as the extended 'audition' builds momentum, Thomas moves from attraction to obsession until the balance of power between director and actress shifts completely.

Maiwenn follows several types of actresses through her project: Karin, who is full of herself despite her very relative celebrity and already sees herself in Hollywood; Charlotte, the experienced cultivated older actress who has lost her joie-de-vivre; Melanie, the narcissistic, fashionable and successful young actress who stages her life as a suite of cliches; Marina, the comedian who wants to change direction and play more dramatic roles; Romane, the once famous actress who must now resort to hosting product showcases in order to make it into the tabloids, and many others. At the same time, Maiwenn also has to cope with her family life and her boyfriend Joey, who reproaches her for not being there enough for their young son. Confused feelings that Maiwenn will experience when meeting and then kissing Estelle will blur things further.

The story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere.

A building worker accidentally discovers the skeleton of a newborn baby. Detective Jacques Deveure is placed in charge of the investigation into the child's death, and his findings force him to confront some unusual people. As the investigation progresses, he uncovers evidence of numerous shady dealings, revealing a less than savory underbelly of the private lives of people in his small town.

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.

Lagadere, a superb swordsman, vows to avenge the murder of his dashing friend, the Duke of Nevers. He is left to raise the Duke's daughter as his own and to restore her inheritance.

When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from American hedge fund manager Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda for destruction.

An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother's true nature.

Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.

Robert has been secretly spying on his neighbor Juliette. Once Robert admits to Juliette what he's been doing he finds out that she shares his attraction; when she leaves her fiancé for him. However, when Juliette's fiancé ends up missing Robert is accused of murder.

Martin is not like other children. Neglected by his parents, he watches the extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home from a distance. When gay brother Didier discovers that his lover will marry a local woman, all hell breaks loose and the family disintegrates, with terrifying results. Martin decides to take matters into his own hands.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a Jewish director is forced to hide in the basement of his theatre while his wife stars in its latest production.

Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.

Amelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Am?lie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.

Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.

It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing. This surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re-discovering life and love in the countryside.

Jérôme, who already has plans to marry a diplomat's daughter by summers end, spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and her long-legged half sister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jérôme's moral crisis.

"Pierre ... a onetime darling novelist disgusted with the publishing world, lets a duplicitous government insider ... tempt him into ghostwriting a manifesto designed to transform the landscape of French public opinion--a shift with risky consequences for the activist ... with whom he soon becomes involved."--Publisher's website.

French actor Maurice thinks he has landed an important film role after years of obscurity and rushes home to tell his beloved wife Perla the news. But when he discovers the role actually went to a famous American instead, he takes on the role of his life to make sure Perla, who is ill with cancer, doesn't find out.

In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers--a handsome renegade and a beautiful countess--find their only chance for survival in each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement ... and passion!

An 11-year-old girl is so bored with her life that she plans to kill herself, until she finally meets intriguing people in her apartment building and starts to question her suicidal plans.

Twenty six year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots, and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality into a hitherto orderly life.

Baya is an extroverted liberal who lives by the slogan 'Make love, not war.' She seduces right-wing men to convert them to her political causes - and so far she's gotten exceptional results. That is, until she meets Arthur, a middle-aged scientist, and the sparks fly.

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. The only way they can save the land from the unspeakable fright is to unearth a dark power, reveal a deadly secret, and face their greatest fears.

Legendary actor Michel Serrault stars as Julien, an ornery butterfly collector. When eight-year-old Elsa moves in next door, she adopts Julien as her grandpa. When Julien travels to the Alps on an expedition, he discovers an uninvited guest - Elsa!

Antoine, an ambitious young rookie cop from Normandy, joins an elite plainclothes crime unit in Paris. He is happy, but misses his wife, who prefers the countryside and has stayed behind. His co-workers, drinking buddies, and mentors include cynical veteran Mallet and Moroccan Muslim Solo. Antoine also develops a close relationship with his supervisor, Inspector Vaudieu, a recovering alcoholic who develops maternal feelings towards Antoine. When the body of a Polish drifter is found murdered along the Seine, a seemingly routine investigation suddenly turns violent and changes Antoine's life forever.

The film is narrated from the perspective of young Nicolas who is content with his life, is loved by his family, and has fun with his school friends. One day, his classmate Joachim discovers his mother is pregnant and he is soon to have a little brother. Joachim laments about the extra responsibilities and the possible neglect as the baby will receive all the attention. That night, Nicolas overhears his parents talking and suspects his Mum is having a baby, and they will abandon him in the woods like Tom Thumb. Nicolas enlists the help of his friends to get rid of the baby by hiring a gangster to kidnap it, resulting in hilarious misadventures and laughs along the way.

Set during the Algerian War, [the film] follow Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although he does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torture when captured. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with a woman who he does not know is fighting for the other side.

Francois Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbor comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that Francois is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in Francois Pignon's life-- and other people too - is drastic!

Vincent, a successful forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. He is invited to dinner at the apartment of his sister, Elisabeth, and brother-in-law, Pierre, where he catches up with his childhood friend, Claude. Whilst waiting for Anna, his younger spouse, his fellow guests happily bombard him with questions on his fast approaching fatherhood, but when his hosts ask Vincent what name he has chosen for his future offspring, his response plunges the family into chaos.

Gregoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all, a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Gregoire's reserves, both financial and emotional, reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested and their world is forever changed.

Delphine's travelling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday so Delphine, a Parisian secretary, is at a loose end. She doesn't want to travel by herself but has no boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cherbourg but after a few days the self-pitying Delphine returns to Paris. She trys the Alps but returns the same day. At the beach she chats with an outgoing Swedish girl but when friendship appears to bud Delphine bolts back to Paris. On her way a young man catches her eye; perhaps a sunset and the sun's green ray await.

The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.

Historical drama about Louis XIV of France, centering on his passion for dance and music. The shy heir to the throne has his destiny altered when musician Jean-Baptiste Lully and the famed playwright Molière enter his life. Recognizing the young king's talent for dance, they compose and stage ballets that glorify Louis' image. The film includes many recreations of dance, drama, and opera of the era.

Set in 1830's France, this is the story of an ambitious man of humble birth, his spiritual misguidance and his struggle to succeed in a world dominated by the snobbish thinking partisans of absolute monarchy.

Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.

A homeless artist, Michele, who is losing her sight finds herself drawn into a passionate relationship with a troubled street performer, Alex. Despite all obstacles, they find love and shelter on the famed Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris. But in time, their unlikely love will be tested as the Michele's secret past catches up with her.

Regular Lovers is a paean to France’s near-revolution of May ’68 and its aftermath. François is a student-slash-poet grappling with the tumult—and the doomed romance—of the infamous Parisian riots. After the movement implodes, everyday reality hits with a crash: François is hauled in for draft-dodging, falls in love with aloof sculptor Lilie, while the well-heeled Antoine can only pass the opium pipe. Regular Lovers is a re-imagining of a misunderstood “golden” age, crafted with a combination of bitter nostalgia and an austere yet romantic vision of Paris by night and day.

Set in an enchanted, mythical forest in 5th century France, Astrea and Celadon are two star-crossed lovers that are kept apart by their feuding families. After Astrea thinks she witnesses Celadon flirting with another belle, she regretfully sends him away. Surrounded by rivals, nymphs and druids, the two must overcome jealousy, temptations and other-worldly obstacles to keep their passion alive.

Hervé and his mulleted best mate Camel are fourteen and in possession of some serious hormones. They're forever fantasizing over the girls in their class, but can barely work up the guts to talk to them. So when Herve inexplicably catches the eye of cool-girl Aurore, he's suddenly pushed straight into the strange world of hand-holding, tongue-kissing and heavy petting. But his first girlfriend, his unquenchable libido, and his best friend are set on a collision course, and before long Hervé is forced to choose between them.

Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to her children, to her husband, and to herself, above all. She soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness, especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood's senior club as a birthday present. Although reluctant at first, she decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the younger computer science teacher, who is far from being insensible to her charms.

In 1964 Paris, Madeleine works as a shoe salesgirl and a part-time prostitute. She falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she picks up, and the two continue to see each other for years despite Madeleine's marriage to another man. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter Vera has romantic trouble of her own: she is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an unobtainable American musician.

The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

A young French couple asks an American girl to join them in this contemporary musical. The three walk the streets of Paris, party, read, and sleep together. Sometimes it's lighthearted, sometimes there are jealousies. When one dies, the other two must come to terms with death, new relationships, and possible commitments.

Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music.

When her teenage son runs away and her husband refuses to hunt for him, a frantic mother calls on two old lovers to help. This odd couple makes a hilarious search on the Riviera, bickering and competing as they defeat gangsters and motorcycle toughs to rescue the boy.

From renowned animator and storyteller Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress , Azur & Asmar) comes a dazzling and magical new film, that is certain to delight kids, families and animation fans of all ages. Silhouetted characters are set off against exquisitely detailed backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns, as the film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, the African plains and even the Land of the Dead. In Ocelot's celebrated storytelling, history blends with fairytale as viewers are whisked off to visit enchanted lands full of dragons, sorcerers, shape-shifting werewolves, captive princesses, and enormous talking bees - and each fable ends with its own ironic twist.

Realizing that her lover (Jean) is losing interest in her, a society lady (Helene) gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute (Agnes). After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past, but the ending has more than one surprise twist.

A sweeping epic spanning three decades and a world war. The film follows the life and loves of Jean Barnery, a provincial gentleman and reluctant heir to his family's porcelain empire.

Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.

A biographical history of the love affair between George Sand and Alfred de Musset that scandalized their families, friends and the salons of Paris in nineteenth century France.

Araminte is a wealthy widow who unwittingly hires the smitten Dorante as her accountant. Secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte's manservant Dubois, manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and confidante, Marton.

Vincent's mother always refused to reveal the identity of his father, but the teenager finally learns, to his dismay, that it's Oscar Pormenor, an egotistic and cynical Parisian publisher.

France, 1915. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men, including two sons, are off at the front. Hortense reluctantly brings on an outsider, the hard-scrabble teenage orphan, Francine, to help her daughter Solange. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred especially when the men return from the front on short leaves.

Gallienne plays himself from child to teenager to man, charting an awkward path with a domineering mother who raised him to be gay before he had a chance to define his own sexuality.

The lives and loves of several completely opposite men and women artfully intersect in what becomes a delightfully funny web of romantic entanglements! While negotiating differences in wealth and status, style, and taste, this vivid collection of characters mix and match in outrageously volatile combinations! Internationally acclaimed for its sexy comic sophistication-- expect the unexpected from this uncommonly entertaining motion picture!

A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.

In German-occupied Paris, an unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes meets Salim, and is moved by his singing voice and strong personality. When Younes discovers that Salim is Jewish, he stops collaborating with the police and transforms into a freedom fighter.

Warsaw, December 1945: the Second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.

This epic set during the Napoleonic Wars of autumn 1810 chronicles a multitude of characters--soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, young and old--as their everyday lives are torn apart by war. Dragged through hills and valleys, between ruined villages, and across charred forests and devastated crops, none can escape the chaos of the times, no matter their station. The idealistic lieutenant Pedro de Alencar; Clarissa Warren, the malicious little English girl; the shady dealer Penabranca; the vindictive Sergeant Francisco Xavier; and the lusty prostitute Martírio will all follow different paths to the lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal, where the Duke of Wellington has built fortified lines--and where this battle will decide each of their fates.

Set in the early part of 19th Century France. The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Michel is an honest union rep who has the unenviable job of deciding which of his workers will be laid off. Settling on a lottery system, he puts his own name in the box and ends up out of a job. When Michel and his closest friends fall victim to a violent home invasion, he is compelled to find the assailants, but what he uncovers forces him to question his entire belief system.

Genevieeve, 17, lives with her widowed mother who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are in love and want to marry. Her mother disagrees, thinking Genevieeve is too young and Guy is not wealthy enough. Guy leaves for a two year army leave and Genevieeve is pregnant. She still loves Guy, although she receives little news from him. Because the baby needs a father, she marries Roland Cassard, a rich gem dealer, who fell in love with her at first sight and promises to bring up the child as his own.

Xavier has given up his aspirations of a career in international finance, but his new path as a writer is not going as well as he hoped. His novel about his experiences in Spain has yet to be published, and lately he's been writing scripts for a French soap opera. When Xavier lands an assignment writing an autobiography for fashion model Celia Shelburn, he finds himself traveling between Paris and London. In London, Xavier becomes reacquainted with Wendy, whom he met during his time in Spain, and he attempts to form a new relationship with her. However, Xavier is also interested in Celia. Needing romantic advice, Xavier turns to his lesbian friend, Isabelle, who offers her understanding of women as well as a spare bedroom in her flat. Xavier also gets pointers from his ex-girlfriend Martine, who has a child and is trying to sort out her own romantic troubles.

Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.

Having returned to life, the living dead now cohabitate with the living. One morning, a small French city wakes up to discover groups of recently dead people walking into town. No one knows the cause and there's no time to find out. After tearful and sometimes strained reunions, the returnees look to resume their old lives. But their jobs have been filled, widowed partners have moved on, and Social Services struggles to cope with their various needs. And, although healthy and energetic, the returnees seem somehow different from before.

English Title: Bastards
Following his brother-in-law's suicide, sea captain Marco goes AWOL to rescue his estranged sister and teenaged niece from a powerful, wealthy businessman, who just so happens to be his lover's husband. But Marco's attempt at heroism is soon thwarted as he delves further into the hellish world his sister has involved herself in, and the deception from those he trusted most.

On a dark, foggy night, a student meets a sailor who agrees to tell the young man the story of his life for three Danish crowns. The sailor's adventures from continent to continent are extraordinary, because he sails aboard a cursed ship with a ghostly crew. The threads of the story overlap and interweave as the sailr takes the student on a fantastic voyage with the exotic characters through strange landscapes.

Jean-Claude and Pierrot live on instinct, spending their days harassing women and committing petty crimes. Their adventures lead them to a beautician, an ex-con, and a teenager desperate to escape bourgeois life. Dodging the cops, jilted women, and their own libidos, Jean-Claude and Pierrot are perpetually on the verge of death or imprisonment, and they don't seem to mind.

A lyrical medieval fantasy set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love.

A bourgeois family arrive at their weekend home in the country, only to find that the house is already occupied by another family. Within the space of a few minutes, father Georges has been shot dead, their car and supplies seized, and mother Anna, teenage daughter Eva and 10 year-old son Ben are forced out into the night to fend for themselves. Their desperate journey takes them through a hostile, post-apocalyptic landscape littered with dead livestock. Eventually joined by a teenage runaway, the family proceeds to a derelict railway depot where they join a fragile group of survivors awaiting a passing train to transport them to a better place.

A successful fashion photographer learns that he has a malignant brain tumor. Hiding his diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a short stay with his grandmother, his vulnerability is met with a big heart and sound advice. A chance encounter with a roadside cafe waitress results in an unusual bargain that provides a happy, playful dimension to the proceedings.

Set in 1922, this film opens with Proust on his deathbed remembering his life. Gradually his own experiences give way to the characters in his novel.

Follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in Finland with his Nordic companion. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and quarrels exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family.

Set in modern day Paris, France. Seven-year-old Simon is dealing with the increased strain on his relationship with his loving mother, Suzanne, who is preoccupied with a court case involving a tenant downstairs. When a Taiwanese film student, Song, is hired to help care for Simon, an extended family is formed. The two become completely dependent on each other, yet both are lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon that follows them around Paris.

The story of a couple whose affair begins as a purely sexual arrangement. They share no personal information, including their names. It was a perfect relationship until they fell in love.

Théodore, the mayor of a village in occupied territory during WWII, takes in a 9-year-old orphan, P'tit Claude, while Ms. Lundi, the teacher, gets to know the Gypsies who have come to the village for the harvest and persuades them to send their children to school. Among them is Taloche, with whom P'tit Claude strikes up a friendship. Meanwhile, pressure from Vichy is growing. The Gypsies are first forbidden to travel, then transferred to internment camps. Horrified by their fate, Théodore and Ms. Lundi fight for their freedom.

The Life of Emile Zola explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France's oppressed. Zola is a hugely successful French author who risks all his success and comfort to come to the defense of the unjustly jailed Captain Dreyfus.

Lili, a French freelance photographer, accepts an assignment to photograph the remote village of Agnam, in the Senegalese desert. For the first time in her life, Lili is out of her element and experiences being different. However, she strikes a friendship with Aminata, a young woman, who has no family in the village. Once back to France, Lili has a hard time resuming her past life and she often visits Moussa, an immigrant from Agnam, who works in the Nuclear power plant nearby. One day, Moussa tells Lili that Aminata has given birth to a baby boy and because the child is fatherless, they will both probably be kicked out of the village. With sheer determination and compassion, Lili will manage to change local customs, help her friend, and find her own path in the process.

In 1954 a reclusive ex-soldier is thrown into the woes of rebellion when he's ordered to escort a villager accused of murder to prison during the Algerian War. As their journey leads them through a deadly fire-fight between settlers and rebels, the two men on opposite sides of the conflict must join forces to survive.

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom, the affable, but annoying tramp who won't leave her alone.

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited, Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.

Set in French Indochina in 1929. A poor French teenager is sent to a Saigon boarding school. While there she begins an affair with a 32-year-old wealthy Chinese man. However, they both soon realize their love cannot last, because of her mentally-ill mother and drug-addicted brother would not approve of an interracial affair. But then neither would his family, since in order to inherit his father's wealth, he must not break from a traditional Chinese arranged marriage.

Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel landlady, and her sister, Okayo, both desire him, and fight each other over him. Set in Edo-period Japan.

Leolo Lozone is a 12-year-old dreamer with a life-preserving ability to recreate the world according to his imagination. Whether dealing with his scatterbrained brother or plotting the murder of his grandfather, Leolo is an incorrigible misfit touched with a lovable streak of madness. From a wild romance with his sexy next door neighbor to incredible visits to the bottom of the sea, Leolo takes refuge in a fantasy world of poems and reams where he can triumph over even the strangest of tragedies.

Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel by Gustave Flaubert which transformed the Romantic era.

Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs which threaten to destroy her and everyone around her

A fish tells the story of 25-year-old Bibiane Champagne who accidentally hits a man while driving one fateful rainy summer night. The 53-year-old victim is a fishmonger who is left on the highway and returns home to slowly die. Plagued by guilt and in order to erase all clues, Bibiane sinks her car into the river. Surviving the ordeal, she is given a second chance as she emerges from the water and must finally come to terms with her life.

As Sandra Paoli's murdered uncle lies dying in her arms, the young criminal lawyer feels something for the first time: the craving to kill. Appointed by her uncle as successor, she agrees to head up the Corsican Mafia. The position transforms her from a conventional mob lawyer into a fearless matriarch ready to consolidate power and wreak vengeance. The Paoli blood running through her veins guides her as she seduces, surprises, calculates, kills and manipulates.

In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man, André, when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.

After turning 60, working-class man Serge decides to retire and is ready to reap his pensioner's rewards. He runs into the implacable wall of bureaucracy after finding out that his former employers have neglected to declare his earnings. To receive full benefits he needs to go back to them and gather the missing affidavits. Encouraged by his wife, our hero climbs his old 1970s Mammoth motorcycle and sets off on a trip to recover lost wages and buried memories.

Ten years after the tragic events of Jean de Florette, Manon (Jean's daughter) seeks revenge against those she holds responsible for her father's death.

A Catholic engineer in his early thirties lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife, but when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged.

1921, not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manages a school for deaf girls. Based on a true story.

Physicist, chemist, and pioneer in the study of radioactivity, Marie Sklodowski Curie spent her life setting precedents. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice. As the first female professor at the University of Paris, she had to overcome the condescension and antagonism of France's male-dominated academic establishment. She also courted controversy of the sort that still threatens to quash the careers of public figures today. This film covers the most turbulent years of Curie's life, between 1905 and 1911.

In a small port outside of Marseilles, an animated circle of friends and neighbors join to share in the funny, colorful and off-beat love story of Marius and Jeannette. The vivacious, loud-mouthed Jeannette first meets Marius when he catches her trying to steal paint from the grounds of the cement factory he was hired to guard. Although it's a precarious beginning, the two quickly turn their initial attraction into a budding romance. However, just as their relationship begins to flourish, the warm-hearted Marius retreats with no explanation. Troubled with Marius' mysterious withdrawal, Jeannette's spirited neighbors decide to intervene with hopes of helping the two unlikely lovers save their romance.

Drama exploring the relationship between Emilie and her brother Antoine during an emotional eruption of their dysfunctional family

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.

Melo tells the story of Marcel and Pierre, two friends who are also concert violinists. While Marcel has gone on to stardom, Pierre has settled into a family life with his wife Romaine. But all is not perfect; Pierre is unaware that Romaine is having an affair with Marcel. Romaine is consumed by guilt and eventually takes deadly measures to end her infidelity.

Marguerite Duras must navigate the Resistance and the Gestapo to uncover the whereabouts of her imprisoned husband, Robert Antelme. After he's deported to Dachau in the midst of Nazi-occupied France, she becomes friendly with French collaborator Rabier to gain information at considerable risk to her underground cell. But as the months wear on, she must begin the process of confronting the unimaginable.

Mika, wife of celebrated pianist André Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a carwreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume. Also a pianist, she harbours a suspicion that she may be André's daughter.

With the age of feudalism in decline, 16th-century Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do French horse merchant Michael Kohlhaas is a loving husband and family man leading a peaceful existence, until a ruthless nobleman steals his horses, setting off a chain of irreversible events. Kohlhaas resorts to extremes after these crimes destroy his livelihood and trust in the law, igniting a rampage through the countryside in his quest for justice.

Evokes the intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of a tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

Moliere is a playwright who's in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Moliere's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Moliere becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's wife, Elmire. But, soon after, the confrontation between Elmire and Moliere turns seductive. Jourdain enlists the aid of a well-connected and scheming acquaintance to help him pursue the widowed marquise.

A TV heartthrob embarks on a journey with a clear mission in mind: to convince his old friend and once great actor to return to the stage in the lead of Molière's 'The misanthrope.' But for three years this friend has lived in solitude, avoiding the pressures of the limelight. Can he be coaxed out of retirement or will his misanthropic ways get the better of him?

Unlikeable antiques dealer François always gets what he wants, but there's one thing he's never had: a friend. Challenged to a bet by his business partner, François must find someone who will pose as his best pal in just 10 days. Enlisting the assistance of charming taxi driver Bruno, François goes to outrageous lengths to be a likeable guy.

Admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident, Tony becomes dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers while looking back on a turbulent relationship she experienced with megalomaniac Georgio who is this man that she loved so deeply, and how did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, the physical work of healing may finally set her free.

Set in a French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a lonely life of work as a tailor and scorn from his neighbors. Hire's only comfort is an occasional night out bowling and the admiration of his neighbor, Alice, a young woman who is having an affair through un-drawn curtains across the way. But when police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, bringing him face to face with Alice.

An elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish boy in a working class section of Paris.

After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died a few years later. Or did he? Using a combination of historical records and creative speculation, Monsieur N creates a fascinating portrait of the Emperor's exile and the implication that Napoleon escaped St. Helena so cleverly that his disappearance has remained undiscovered to this day.

Monsieur Vincent is about the journey of St. Vincent de Paul, who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor to queens and princes. St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among the peasant and the nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil.

As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart.

The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny movie [film]. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar and the enigmatic Sarah--his muse and steadfast source of strength--lingers in the shadows.

The blockbuster French television series 'Murder in...' sweeps you along to the great sites and regions of France. Cops chase down the criminals against stunning backdrops: lush forests, remote islands, rocky coastlines, beaches with clear blue water and grand ranches. Sure, there's a murder or two, but along the way you'll get to know French cuisine, unique characters and centuries-old history and legends. When crime happens, best to approach it like 'Murder in...' detectives: pull into a café in some 400-year-old town and discuss the evidence over wine or good coffee. Come visit some of the world's most beautiful, mysterious places. Vive la France!

The blockbuster French television series 'Murder in...' sweeps you along to the great sites and regions of France. Cops chase down the criminals against stunning backdrops: lush forests, remote islands, rocky coastlines, beaches with clear blue water and grand ranches. Sure, there's a murder or two, but along the way you'll get to know French cuisine, unique characters and centuries-old history and legends. When crime happens, best to approach it like 'Murder in...' detectives: pull into a café in some 400-year-old town and discuss the evidence over wine or good coffee. Come visit some of the world's most beautiful, mysterious places. Vive la France!

The blockbuster French television series 'Murder in...' sweeps you along to the great sites and regions of France. Cops chase down the criminals against stunning backdrops: lush forests, remote islands, rocky coastlines, beaches with clear blue water and grand ranches. Sure, there's a murder or two, but along the way you'll get to know French cuisine, unique characters and centuries-old history and legends. When crime happens, best to approach it like 'Murder in...' detectives: pull into a café in some 400-year-old town and discuss the evidence over wine or good coffee. Come visit some of the world's most beautiful, mysterious places. Vive la France!

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Invited to present his first feature film 'My life with James Dean' in Normandy, the young director Géraud Champreux has no idea this film tour is about to change his life. From wild stampedes to woeful screenings, from trawler trips to drunken evenings, Géraud ends up finding inspiration in this unlikely town at the end of the earth.

In the 1950's, Louise walked out on her family when her children were young. She dropped off the face of the Earth. Her daughter, Martine, stayed in the small northern town where she was born and went on to become a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, an independent thirty-something, comes home to visit her parents. By chance she finds a notebook belonging to her grandmother. A diary that might finally explain the mysterious departure. Will the journal reveal the unspoken truths that have always hung over the family's relationships? Will Audrey find answers to her questions about her own future?

Lola, a West Indian woman, brings her two lovers together in a suprise meeting to announce that she is pregnant and doesn't know which one of them is the father. A Jewish bike messenger and a rich African Muslim immediately hate each other in a rivalry fueled by their racial conflict and jealousy. Despite their differences, they share an apartment with Lola as they enthusiastically await the blessed event.

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But friendships with the son and daughter of Louis XV offer her an opportunity to challenge the established social order.

Already a general in the French Army, Napoleon at age 25 lives a scandalous lifestyle, having relationships with many women and known for his "no-holds barr" mentality when trying to conquer another country. The film is about Napoleon's love life and his many women. From first love, marriage and betrayal with Josephine, whom he married at the age of 26, his secret love for the patriotic Marie Walewska, whom he had a illegitimate child with and his second and final marriage to Marie-Louise, the Archduchess of Austria. Maria and Napoleon would remain married until his death, but she would not join him in exile. All of this while seeking the percfect heir and building the ultimate empire.

Napoleon's life is depicted from his youth as a soldier in the French Army until his final exile to the island of Elba.

An unnamed expressionless woman lives with her equally expressionless friend Isabelle Granger and her troubled elementary school-aged daughter Nathalie Granger and younger no problem child. The women are concerned that Nathalie is reported by her teacher to have behaved exceedingly violent, and the seemingly well-heeled Isabelle decides to transfer her daughter to the more progressive school, Datkin, but is upset to learn that they will not force Nathalie to take piano lessons--even if mommy insists she continue with her lessons, as the concerned parent seems to think that stopping the lessons would ruin her daughter's life. At home, Nathalie appears to be a docile child who seems content just playing with her frisky cat or seems serene when playing with her playmate Laurence by the nearby pond.

Tell No On tells the story of pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife, Margo, eight years earlier. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One."

Set in 1823, Paris, General Armand de Montriveau discovers the flirtatious, but married, Antoinette de Langeais. Montriveau repeatedly tries to seduce Antoinette only to fall into Antoinette's games. Only after Montriveau has decided to seek revenge on Antoinette does Antoinette begin to fall in love with him.

Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful assistant Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals. From seedy taverns to the hallways of Versailles, from brothels to prisons, he tracks and stakes out suspects, questions witnesses, gathers evidence, foils traps, and unveils plotters.

Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful subordinate Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals.

A brilliant young Parisian police commissioner solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals.

A group of tense, shifty adolescents prowl the streets and subways of Paris, learning through carefully delineated sequences that they're already well underway with a bombing plot. And then it becomes something familiar, yet altogether different, as these subversives tuck away inside a shopping mall and lose themselves in consumer culture.

Notre Dame de Paris is a French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre Dame de Paris by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The story is one of love and Quasimodo's secret feelings for the beautiful Esmeeralda. Quasimodo is in love with the bohemian girl; but she loves Phoebus, the fiance of Fleur-de-Lys. Frollo, the priest of Notre-Dame cathedral, feels uncontrolled and violent desires for Esmeeralda: jealous, he steals Phoebus. However, the bohemian girl is wrongly found guilty. Quasimodo manages to free her and takes her to one of the cathedral towers. Sadly, the story ends with both Esmeralda and Quasimodo dying.

Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, Notre Musique is a reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell (represented by modern war) and then moves to Purgatory (set in Sarajevo). Finally, Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from the United States. At the same time, the film also follows the parallel stories of two Israeli Jewish women, one drawn to the light and one drawn towards darkness.

Pascale lives with her adult twin sons... in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. However, al that is about to change. Pascale has fallen in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover -- a countryside B&B that they aspire to own together. But what would seemingly be a happy time in her life takes a turn for the worse as she finds herself unable to rise from the shadow of her ex-husband and selfish children. In a bid for survival, Pascale leaves the house in the hands of Thierry and François, never suspecting that in her absence, long-buried resentment and rivalry will boil over, igniting a war between the brothers.

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

October 17, 1961 is a forgotten night, erased from the French history books. While de Gaulle was preparing to negotiate the end of the Algerian war, the chief of the Paris police, Maurice Papon, ordered the arrest of more than 11,000 Algerians who had been called upon by the FNL to demonstrate peacefully against the daily abuses of the police force and the curfew to which they were subjected. The final death toll of the confrontation was several hundred protestors. The French state remained silent about what was one of the bloodiest raids in the history of France.

1968. A group of revolutionary hippie students led by Catherine and Yves start a commune devoted to 'free love,' nudism, and anarchy. Born in 68 takes its characters on a journey of rebellion, enlightenment, and change, providing a rare glimpse into the history of those who revolted against the mainstream. The need for freedom and personal accomplishment compels them to take actions that push them in separate directions. 1989. Catherine and Yves' children are young adults confronting a world that has changed profoundly. The end of Communism and the explosion of the AIDS virus call into question the militant legacy of the preceding generation.

Marie returns to a rundown Venezuelan house in the jungle where she spent summers as a child. Her return ignites memories of a summer when her adolescent sexual curiosity led to a surprising encounter.

Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is the French spy considered by his superiors to be the best in the business. The year is 1967, and he's been sent on a mission to Rio de Janeiro to find a former high-ranking Nazi who went into exile in South America after the war. His eventful investigation takes him all across Brazil, accompanied by a charming Israeli agent who is also hunting for the Nazi.

Based on a true story, the film tracks France's greatest financial scandal and Jérôme Kerviel, the low-profile young trader who was held responsible. When all was said and done, the Société Générale bank suffered a huge loss. Kerviel was fired, sued, arrested, and imprisoned, making him the most famous Frenchman to ever sit in front of a Bloomberg Terminal and pay the price.

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire ... has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town ..., discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder.

While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross and change in Paris.

English and French with English subtitles
18 short films present different perspectives of life in Paris, France. Some of which include; The racial tensions and paranoia of the city felt by an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's upper-class neighborhood. An American actress finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop unknowingly encounters the affections of another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. An elderly couple tries to add spice to their sex life. An American actress falls in love with a blind French student. A grieving mother is greeted by a spectral cowboy while she looks for her son. A housekeeper longs for her own child as she tends to the infant of her wealthy employer. A postal worker from Colorado shares her thoughts on her visit to Paris in broken French.

Etienne ... a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend ... in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It's a seemingly idyllic life of the mind--until more complicated matters of the flesh, as well as jealous creativity, intrude

Memory and death connect psychiatrist Mathias Freire and police captain Anaïs Chatelet as they investigate a series of murders inspired by Greek mythology, beginning with the discovery of the body of a man wearing a bull's head found at the Saint-Jean train station in Bordeaux, France.

A princess flees marriage to her father by wearing his prized donkey skin as a disguise. When a neighboring Prince comes to town, a romance is born.

To Paint of Make Love asks the question, "Is there life thirty years after marriage?" The kids have gone abroad to study. The shadow of retirement is on the horizon and a social life consists of seeing the same friends for drinks to organize the following Sunday's game of golf. For William and Madeleine, An affluent, middle-aged couple, their uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.

A stylized film adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes' 12th century Arthurian romance featuring the knight Perceval.

Marjane is precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl who was nine years old during the Islamic Revolution when the fundamentalists first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. She cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send her to school in fear for her safety and, she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself alone and horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, although it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.

Sixteen-year-old Tom is sent to a group home when his mother goes into a coma after a car accident. He is forced to cope with other young punks as well as a stern headmaster. He sneaks away from the group home and dedicates himself to helping his mom.

Motion picture based on Racine's classic French drama, which was based on the Greek legend of Theseus, who returned from war with the Minoans to become king of Athens, and took Phedre, daughter of the vanquished King Minos, to be his wife. Phedre falls in love with Theseus' son Hippolyte, who does not return her love. In anger she prays to Neptune to destroy him, but when Hippolyte is in fact killed after fighting a sea monster, Phedre kills herself in remorse.

Motion picture based on Racine's classic French drama, which was based on the Greek legend of Theseus, who returned from war with the Minoans to become king of Athens, and took Phedre, daughter of the vanquished King Minos, to be his wife. Phedre falls in love with Theseus' son Hippolyte, who does not return her love. In anger she prays to Neptune to destroy him, but when Hippolyte is in fact killed after fighting a sea monster, Phedre kills herself in remorse.

Based on the Greek legend of Theseus, who returned from war with the Minoans to become king of Athens, and took Phèdre, daughter of the vanquished King Minos, to be his wife. Phèdre falls in love with Theseus' son Hippolyte, who does not return her love. In anger she prays to Neptune to destroy him, but when Hippolyte is in fact killed after fighting a sea monster, Phèdre kills herself in remorse.

Pickpocket is about an arrogant young pickpocket who deems himself above the laws and conditions of ordinary men. Michel, a rather bland-looking young man with a perpetually blank face, haunts the subways, city streets, and racetracks to ply his trade. He plays a game of wits with a fatherly police inspector and walls his heart off from the affections of a quiet young woman, Jeanne, who looks after his dying mother.

Set in the 1960s in the south of France. When Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne, an ex-lover of Ferdinand's, as a baby-sitter, his life changes forever. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to leave his bourgeoisie lifestyle behind and run away with her. The couple ends up getting caught in the middle of a mysterious gun-running scheme involving Marianne's brother.

Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.

Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.

As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien reviews old family documents and finds a distressing "Aryan declaration" authored by his late father. This new discovery throws Victor's conception of his family's history into darkness. His mother, Rivka, keeps a stubborn silence about the past, while Tania, his sister, defends their father's declaration. At the same time, Victor's wife and children grow concerned about his increasing distraction. Burning with the need to unearth the truth, Victor takes his family to the tiny village where Rivka's parents were forced to hide during the war.

Sent to live with her relatives, Ponette experiences the hopes, dreams and fears of a child following the loss of a parent. Ultimately, it is her faith, love and strength of character that enables Ponette to triumphantly overcome her tragedy.

France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and a testament to their love.

An amusing look at a circle of friends in Paris and their romantic difficulties

Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, a housebound "trophy housewife" steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death. As he hopes for its arrival, he plunges into deep reveries, with dreams as melancholic as they are joyous, taking him back to his youth and even to a conversation with Azrael, the Angel of Death, who reveals the future of his children. As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the poignant secret of his life comes to light: a wonderful story of love which inspired his genius and his music.

Rousseau is a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, troubled by writer's block. Candice Lecoeur is a local beauty gracing the famous Belle de Jura cheese packaging who has gotten it into her head that she might well be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The two will meet in the coldest village in France, but only after Candice has been found dead.

In her mid-thirties, Anne still knows practically nothing of her family's past. After her mother's death, Anne discovers old photos and letters that convince her to take a closer look at her parents' life after the concentration camps of World War II. Her research reveals the existence of a mysterious uncle everyone seems intent on forgetting entirely. As she closes in on a discovery she didn't expect, her father grows ever more ill, and may take the family secret to his grave. In a journey that stretches from post-war France and to the 1980s, Anne's destiny intertwines with her father's past until they form a single, unforgettable story.

Luis is happily single, enjoys his job, and is pampered by his mother and sisters. All that changes when his family decides he should get married. Luis hatches a plot to avoid their plans: he'll hire the "perfect" woman to stand him up at the altar.

Franck is serving a prison sentence after successfully robbing a national bank. Before he got caught he managed to hide the money. Now, more than just the police are looking for it. His cellmate Jean-Louis promises to look after Franck's family when he gets out, but a man named Manuel tells Franck that Jean-Louis is a suspected serial killer. Upon learning that his family might be in danger, Franck escapes from prison while police officer Claire and her team take up the chase.

Based on a true story, a man wrongly accused of an unspeakable crime battles to prove his innocence. Torn from his family and entangled in a legal nightmare, Alain's life is turned completely upside down. Jailed, he is forced to fight against prosecutors eager for convictions.

Pepe le Moko is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows he is safe in this labyrinthine netherworld, where he is surrounded by his fellow thieves and cutthroats. Police inspector Slimane, who has developed a grudging respect for Pepe, bides his time, waiting for Pepe to try to leave the Casbah. When Gaby Gould, a Parisian tourist, falls in love with Pepe, the inspector hopes to use this relationship to his advantage. He tells Gaby that Pepe has been killed, knowing that the heartbroken girl will return to Paris--and that Pepe will risk everything to go after her.

Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for his rap band, but he must accept drug money for the sake of his project. Discovering Islam and love, he bears with the harsh loss and paybacks of delinquency, until he finds the strength to express himself through music and slam-poetry and ultimately becomes a major artist of the French music scene. Based on Adb Al Malik's real-life experiences.

Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendezvous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.

France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago and Philippe d'Orleans is the new regent. This film is a description of the court in this famed period of transition where the French Revolution smolders.

Rachida lives and teaches in an old neighbourhood in Algeria. Like most of the people in Algeria, she thinks she is far removed from the bloody conflict the country is in, until one day she is attacked by a terrorist group. The terrorists ask her to plant a bomb in her school. After refusing, they shoot her in cold blood. Miraculously, she is saved and seeks refuge in a neighbouring village and must overcome succumbing to her anger and hate and be the schoolteacher she was born to be.

Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.

In 1877, a wealthy family employs Angèle-Marie, a young peasant, as a live-in wet nurse. An affectionate relationship soon develops between Angèle-Marie and the young mistress of the household, Charlotte. But the husband, feeling alienated by his wife after the baby's arrival, takes a dim view of the developing rapport between the two women and his seeming exclusion from family decisions.

Simon Hirsch is a fifty-year-old travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression. Then he meets Mickey, a young cop to whom he takes an instant liking. Alas, the friendship proves to be short-lived. Shot while performing his duties, Mickey ends up in the hospital in a coma, and Simon is his only a visitor. Having grown impatient with the polices half-hearted attempts to find his friends killer, Simon begins his own investigation. He soon finds himself on the trail of a pair of social misfits, aging gambler Marx and mentally-challenged youngster Johnny. To clear his gambling debts, Marx has no option but to work as a contract killer for a ruthless gangster. Unable to pull the trigger himself, he allows Johnny to perform the killings.

Nina moves to Paris to become an actress, once there she befriends Paulot, a real estate clerk infatuated with her. Though Nina intends to be true to Paulot, she begins a relationship with Paulot's roommate, Quentin, a self-centered actor who performs in live sex shows. After an affair with Nina, Quentin dies under questionable circumstances. Nina's search for answers to Quentin's sudden death leads her to Scrutzler, the theater director who had once cast Quentin in Romeo and Juliet. Scrutzler has similarly suffered a loss in his life: his Juliet was also his wife, who also died unexpectedly. Scrutzler casts the inexperienced Nina as Juliet and before long, both individuals find a common emotional ground.

Tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy when a girl miraculously enters his world. Blazing with life, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. At the same time, Jean also falls under the spell of the free-spirited Andrée. Their home and majestic countryside grounds reverberate with familial intrigue, as both Renoirs become smitten with the enchanting and headstrong muse.

A highly skilled assassin, Lucrèce, is in search of a new life and accepts one final hit posing as the lead soprano for a Swiss opera company preparing for a performance of Handel's "Messiah" for a music festival. Her mark: a co-performer whose business dealings threaten the interests of a powerful corporation. But things don't go as planned....

Frank's dad, a laborer, saved his whole life to give him a good education. Now, back home with a management job at his dad's company, Frank is torn between his old life and new responsibilities. Thinking he understands both sides, he gets in the middle of a union dispute that risks his reputation and his father's future

Filmmaker Leo, whose amorous encounter with a free-spirited shepherdess from the French countryside results in a baby he's forced to raise, finds himself on a series of unexpected and unusual encounters. At the same time, struggling to find inspiration for his next film, Leo will do whatever it takes to stay standing.

A seemingly random group of people find themselves in a state of confusion as they attempt to return home. What they don't know is that they have been dead for several years, and no one is expecting them back. Buried secrets emerge as they grapple with reality, struggling to reintegrate with their friends and families. But they aren't the only ones back from the dead. Their arrival coincides with a series of gruesome murders that resembles the work of a serial killer from the past.

In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.

France, 1809: the charming Captain Neuville ... is set to marry the naïve Pauline ... when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline grows sick with worry, and her sister Elizabeth ... decides to write letters on Neuville's behalf to cheer her up. Eventually, Neuville returns home in glory and is welcomed as a hero, but unbeknownst to everyone, he is a penniless war deserter. A suspicious Elizabeth is determined to expose the real Neuville, and the two imposters find themselves in a ruthless fight!

This ensemble drama weaves together three seemingly unrelated stories: a French teen who gets into a serious car accident and its affect on the teen's family and girlfriend, the staff at a hospital, and a middle-aged woman who needs a heart transplant.

Moved by the difficulties faced by peasants living in the mosquito-ridden swamplands near Lyon, aristocratic engineer Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) devises a plan to drain the boggy land. But to gain an audience with King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier) in Versailles, he learns he must impress the royal court with his verbal wit. Drawn into a world of ever-shifting alliances where words are used as weapons, the Marquis begins to lose sight of his noble intentions.

Judith Ralitzer, novelist and femme fatale, is seeking characters for her next best-seller. Meanwhile, a serial killer has just escaped from a high-security prison. Their paths are about to cross.

The year is 1794, and the French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase. Marquis de Sade, now 50, has bribed his way into the phony sanatorium of Picpus to escape persecution. During his stay he finds he has lost neither the outbursts of cunning provocation, nor his cruel sense of humor. Especially when he meets his ideal prey -- the young and innocent Emilie de Lancris.

A bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.

Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged, adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Slow Motion is a parody of modern life and revolves around three characters who are all at turning points in their lives: a country girl who comes to the city to become a prostitute, a woman who decides to give up her city job to pursue an idyllic life in the country, and a television director, separated from his wife and daughter, and at the end of his tether.

One rainy night, Chris Cross rescues Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, Kitty lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.

Six directors release six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. Includes: Saint-Germain-des-Pres: An American girl in Paris, in love with the myth of the Left Bank, is picked up by two different men who give her the same line; Gare du Nord: A young wife, bored with her mild, unambitious husband, dreams of wealth and romance. On her way to work she has a chance encounter with a man who offers her everything she has ever wanted; Rue Saint-Denis: A battle-fatigued hooker returns to the home of her reluctant customer, a virginal dishwasher; Place de l'Etoile: A timid salesclerk believes he has accidentally murdered a fellow pedestrian. In flight, he has to cope with the madness of traffic in Paris; Montparnasse and Levallois: A woman dears she has mixed up letters to her two boyfriends, one a modern sculptor and the other a garage mechanic; La Muette: Fed up with his bourgeois parents' endless bickering, a young boy decides to exclude them from his life by means of earplugs.

Set in 13th century France, Etienne de Bourbon, a Dominican friar is sent by the Pope to seek out heretics in a small French village. Upon his arrival he meets a forest woman named Elda. Elda is respected in the village because she performs ancient healing rituals and understands the secrets of nature. However, as an inquisitor, Etienne must investigate Elda's rites and practices and in doing so reveal the conflict between ancient customs and religious dogma.

Set in 13th century France, Etienne de Bourbon, a Dominican friar is sent by the Pope to seek out heretics in a small French village. Upon his arrival he meets a forest woman named Elda. Elda is respected in the village because she performs ancient healing rituals and understands the secrets of nature. However, as an inquisitor, Etienne must investigate Elda's rites and practices and in doing so reveal the conflict between ancient customs and religious dogma.

Paris, 1993. Jacques ... is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of the turmoil in his life and the world. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur ... an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man.

For years, Marie and Jean have spent their vacations at their country home. One day at the beach, Marie falls asleep while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Marie notifies the authorities and even after an extensive search, no body is found. Did he drown or did he just run off?

A forgotten European song contest singer, fading away in a French pâté factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.

Season 6 begins with the shocking discovery of a dismembered human torso in a pile of garbage in Paris. Police Captain Laure Berthaud returns from maternity leave to reunite with her colleagues Gilou and Tintin, and together they tackle the complex investigation. A high-profile criminal trial tempts lawyer Joséphine Karlsson, and Judge Roban faces a rapidly escalating health crisis.

Season 1 begins with a beautiful young woman found dead at the public dump, her face beaten to a pulp by her killer. Leading the investigation, Pierre Clement, young recently-named public prosecutor, teams up with Police Captain Laure Berthaud and examining magistrate Judge Roban. They try to solve the horrendous crime before them: a muddy affair, combining prostitution, drugs, business, and politics.

Season two begins with a burnt corpse found in the trunk of a car, a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. Prosecutor Pierre Clement, Police Captain Laure Berthaud, and examining magistrate Judge Roban investigate the murder and soon find themselves up against the criminal machine that lies behind it.

As season 3 of this French police thriller begins, the mutilated body of a young woman is found on an abandoned railway track. Police Captain Laure Berthaud sees the case as an opportunity to restore a tarnished reputation and leads her squad on the hunt for what she believes to be a deranged serial killer. Meanwhile, Judge Roban investigates a bribery scandal involving a prominent political figure.

Season 4 begins with an investigation by Captain Laure Berthaud into the accidental bombing death of a young left-wing extremist who was active with a group that offered support to illegal immigrants. With her usual zeal for subverting authority, defense lawyer Josephine Karlsson stands with the immigrants but finds that her anti-establishment choices this time could backfire, big time. Meanwhile, Judge Roban discovers dysfunction in the judiciary, but powerful voices will stop at nothing to silence him.

Season 5 begins with the double murder of a woman and a girl that plunges our characters into the world of organized crime, narcs, and gangs. Captain Laure Berthaud, facing a personal crisis, pursues as her primary suspect a man who is the husband and father of the victims and investigates an ATM-robbing gang who could somehow be involved with the murders. Meanwhile, eager to expose police manipulation in the death of an officer, Judge Roban and Josephine Karlsson find themselves working together. The brutal investigations that link them all reveal unexpected connections between some and irrevocable breaks between others.

Follow the story of newfound supermodel Tina Menzhal as seen through the eyes of the hordes of television cameras who follow her every move as she catapults from ordinary small-town life to celebrity status. Tina becomes the focus of top fashion photographer Bruce Taylor, who invades and occasionally saves her life with his documentary camera. She is also taken under the wing of New York super-agent Renny Ohayon, who molds her into a marketable commodity. Every move and everyone connected to this super-model sensation is placed under the ever watchful eye of the media; especially Tina's romances with power-hungry restaurateur Barry Levine and marriage to UN ambassador Blaine de Castillon.

Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. She makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom he owes money -- a scheme that involves Carla's keen skill as a lip reader.

The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.

Follows a young French-Algerian student, Karim, on a sociological quest to find gay Muslims. Through his investigations, Karim meets a number of gay Arabs, but it is flight attendant Farid who leaves a lasting impression. While the friendship between Karim and Farid slowly intensifies, Karim is forced to confront the fact that his investigation will not only reveal the history and culture of gay Muslims, but also his own homosexuality.

When the religious charlatan Tartuffe insinuates himself into the household of the wealthy but credulous Orgon, it is not long before he takes over, acquiring the deed to the property, disinheriting Orgon's son, and becoming betrothed to Orgon's daughter. But when clever Elmire, Orgon's wife, trips up the imposter, Orgon throws him out-only to find himself arrested and his family evicted instead. A last-minute intervention by the King restores order and metes out justice. This play was suppressed twice before permission was given to perform it freely.

Posing as a holy man, the unctuous, cunning and evil Tartuffe, insinuates himself into the home of Orgon. Tartuffe almost succeeds in driving the son away, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and depriving Orgon of all his possessions.

"Antoine has held a torch for his first love Cecile for 30 years. Traveling to Tangiers, he hopes to rekindle their romance but is discouraged to learn that is now married to a Moroccan doctor several years her junior. Determined to have her fall in love with him again, Antoine ignores her protests and continues his pursuits..."

After losing his job as senior executive in a large chain store, Jerome is determined to start his own new business, despite the concerns of his wife. Their son Ugo, though only eleven, already shows great promise as a future tennis pro, and hopes to get accepted to the national training center at Roland-Garros. Father and son are very close emotionally yet unable to really understand each other.

St. Therese de Lisieux, a young woman who found personal joy and spiritual liberation within the restrictive traditions of an austere religious order. Wishing to dedicate her life to Christ, Therese enters a cloistered convent of Carmelite nuns at the age 15. But shortly after joining the order, she finds her devotion to the Lord tested by a grim battle against the debilitating effects of tuberculosis, for which she refuses any treatment.

Therese has married wealthy but arrogant Bernard Desqueyroux, and is now part of his oppressively traditionalist family. When Bernard's younger sister Anna falls madly in love with a Portuguese man, Therese is tasked by the family to persuade Anna to forego the planned nuptials. But as she witnesses Anna's determination to keep her lover by her side, Therese finds her own desire to free herself from the provincial conventions that threaten to keep her forever repressed.

Thérèse, a housewife in 1920s France, is suffocating in her arranged marriage to a boorish landowner. When her best friend falls madly in love, Thérèse sees first-hand the power of passionate love and what is missing in her own life. Yearning to break free from the fate imposed upon her, she resorts to extreme measures in a desperate bid for freedom.

Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.

A provocative tale of romance, lust, desire, and intrigue based on the lives of 17th century French composer Sainte Colombe and his protege, Marin Marais.

Leo is HIV-positive. His family worries that Marcel, the youngest, is too young to deal with the news. They exclude him from discussions of Leo's health, until Leo decides not to take the arduous medical regimen and now must explain himself to Marcel.

Claire has it all: a perfect husband, two adorable kids, and a rewarding job as a judge. Celine, an impoverished acquaintance, is being sued by credit agencies and Claire gets involved in her case. When Claire is diagnosed with inoperable cancer, she refuses treatment and tells no one, hoping to spare her family and use her time left to fight for the working poor.

Examines issues of race, art, and romance both gay and straight in modern France through a quartet of very diverse young friends united by a common factor: their unrequited love for one another.

Hulot is working as a designer for a major French automotive firm and is struggling to finish his latest project in time for an international auto show in Amsterdam -- a compact recreational vehicle that features everything from an electric razor and a collapsible couch to a built-in barbecue grill. While the car is completed shortly before the show opens, it doesn't run just yet, so Hulot and his mechanic load the car into a truck and with an American public relations officer in tow, they hit the road for Holland. But what should be a simple trip from Paris to Amsterdam becomes increasingly complicated thanks to flat tires, breakdowns, traffic jams and multi-car pileups, and the well-intentioned M. Hulot does little to make things easier.

Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer, and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings, grief, and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously, and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living.

A seductive story of forbidden love and the unknowable mystery of coincidence. A young model whose chance meeting with an unusual stranger leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy. As her knowledge of the man deepens, she discovers an astonishing link between his past and her destiny.

The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness; his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life. Finally, he recalls his university life and returning home to party with his sister and shifting circle of friends.

Bernard has an attractive wife, a stable career as a car dealer, and two loving children. But his perfect life spirals out of control when he falls madly in love with his new secretary, Colette, a plain looking middle-aged woman. Seemingly a happily married man, Bernard cannot understand what is happening to him. But his age has suddenly made him more vulnerable, a state of emotion that he eventually realizes Colette is able to connect with.

The time is 1984. The place is Paris. A young, handsome man arrives and strikes up a platonic relationship with a wealthy doctor, Adrien, who exposes him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple who have just had their first child. An unplanned love affair at the onset of a new, unnamed epidemic upsets the tranquility of their lives. The four friends are confronted with the end of the sexual revolution; each facing new possibilities.

A dysfunctional family eats together one night a week. On this Friday family politics and fights disrupt a birthday party.

Fifteen-year-old Camille and her carefree boyfriend Sullivan are in the throes of a passionate romance. When he leaves her in order to travel, she is at first devastated, but in the following years she develops and discovers on her own what the world has to offer. When the two reconnect some eight years later, they try to reconcile their new lives and loves with an intense desire to revive their old relationship.

Charles Swann is a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th-Century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed with Odette, a courtesan who cares more for money than Swann's passion for her. In time they marry, but Swann soon realizes his desire for her is based purely on physical lust for someone with whom he has no rapport, or even much affection, and the relationship begins to erode the social acceptance has Swann struggled to achieve. Meanwhile, the Baron de Charlus finds himself similarly attracted to a young man who does not share his desires.--allmovie.com

When Gabriel and Emilie meet randomly in the street, it's the start of a long story, a story used to explain why Emilie must refuse an innocent kiss. She relates the tale of two best friends, Nicolas and Judith - she happily married, he single and starved for affection. When the two contrive a cure for his loneliness, a naive kiss sparks an emotional chain reaction.

Marc is a happily married and successful real estate agent. In a strange twist of fate, he shows a house to Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up. Reunited. they spend a tumultuous night together before she disappears. Later, Marc learns that Cathy was killed in a bombing years before. So who is Cathy?

Mrs. Dufresne is the matriarch of a small land-owning family who try to survive by working on rice fields located dangerously close to the ocean. Driven to fight against both nature and corrupt bureaucrats, she devises an imaginative scheme to build a dam against the sea with the help of the villagers.

Baptiste is a loner. A gifted primary teacher living in the south of France, he knows how to bring their schoolwork alive for his pupils but never remains in the same job for more than a term. His unremarkable appearance masks cracks, even violence. When he is left unwittingly in charge of Mathias one weekend by the child's negligent father, the boy takes Baptiste to his mother Sandra, a dazzling but fragile woman who works on the beach near Montpellier.

Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou is regarded as the first film produced from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between artist Salvador Dali and director Luis Bunuel, the film is a tale of unfulfilled desires and moments of intense violence; a razor slashing a woman's eye in extreme close-up; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting donkeys across a room; and ants swarming around a hole in a man's palm.

Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.

Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this film follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.

Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas when they learn she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their family.

To survive Nazi-occupied 1940's France, Marie turns to illegally aborting pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Marie moves her family to a posh apartment. Completely seduced by her lifestyle, Marie ignores her shell-shocked husband Paul. Things take a disastrous turn after one of Marie's "customers" dies and her husband turns her over to the authorities. Inspired by the real-life of Marie-Louise Girard, who was executed in 1943 by the Vichy Government, who'd declared abortion as a Crime against the State because it diminished the number of potential soldiers.

Less than a hundred kilometers separate Jerusalem and Gaza. Jerusalem is home to Tal, a 17-year-old recent French immigrant, and Gaza is the home of Naïm, a 20-year-old Palestinian confined there. After witnessing a bombing at her local café, Tal refuses to accept that only hatred can exist between two peoples. She slips a message into a bottle and tosses it into the Gaza Sea. From such a beginning, can a friendship follow?

Charlotte is a young married woman having an affair with an actor. When she discovers that she is pregnant, she must decide which man is the father and which man she will stay with. In Godard's hands, however, the film, described as 'a film about a woman's beauty and the ugliness of her world,' is also a biting critique of consumer culture and the media constructed obsession with image.

François Ozon's psychological drama about Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, passes away leaving behind her husband, David, and a newborn baby. One day Claire drops by David's house unexpectedly, and finds him feeding his baby with a bottle while dressed in his dead wife's clothes. He explains that Lea was aware of his predilection, and his relief that he's able to share his secret with someone moves both of them to create a female persona for him named Virginia. As David begins to identify more strongly as Virginia, this leads to confusing and conflicting feelings in Claire, and causes a rift between her and her husband.

Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.

A Jewish survivor of WWII and his wife re-establish their tailoring shop in 1946 Paris, hiring a small group of other Jewish survivors. As the group works together, they learn each other's stories, and grow to share their burdens and joys as they attempt to regain a semblance of the peaceful lives they once had.

In 1910 Paris, an inventor, his camera-crazy best friend and a madcap monkey make a big mistake when let loose in the professor's laboratory! With lotions and potions spilling everywhere, the troublesome trio accidentally create Franc, a musical talent of monstrous proportions. With the help of the singer Lucille, the team are on a mission to protect their new friend from the wannabe mayor, Commissioner Maynott, who has a plan to increase his popularity by capturing Franc and revealing him to be a scary monster to the people of Paris.

Sentenced to six years in prison, 19-year-old Malik has his sneakers stolen right off his feet during his first venture into the exercise yard. Caught between the Corsican and Arab-Muslim factions, Malik--a bilingual, French-born Arab--winds up being seen by the Corsicans as an Arab and by the Arabs as a Corsican. To survive, Malik works as an errand boy for the Corsican crime boss who dominates the prison, César Luciani. Before long, Malik can speak to, or eavesdrop on, everyone in the prison.

A young boy who has a vivid imagination dreams up a brother for himself and a better past for his family. On his 15th birthday he finds his dreams shattered when he uncovers a shocking secret that ties his family to the Holocaust.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses, and secrets of the characters as they come under the pressures of war.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

Chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees, or activists.

A couple goes for a summer-long visit with a fellow couple in Rome, only to witness their friends' marriage start to crumble. Brooding painter Frederic has growing suspicions about his movie star wife Angele. Friends Paul and Elizabeth see the tension rise between the couple--and also begin to draw apart as Paul devotes more and more time to the needy Frederic. Will the tragic event bring Paul and Elizabeth closer, or will it doom their relationship as well?

Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo go on holiday in Provence with their estranged grandfather, whom they have never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holiday they dreamed of, especially since their parents have just announced that they are splitting up. But despite the initial disappointment and the inevitable clash of generations, over the course of their turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by the other.

Youssef is a Muslim, Jojo is Jewish and Giuseppe is an Italian Catholic, and they are best of friends until each of their daughters swears to lose their virginity by a certain date. To make matters worse, each daughter sets her sights on a boy of a different religion, thus challenging an inviolable taboo and causing a rift between their fathers. As the families resolve their differences, the Six Day War breaks out in the Middle East, which will divide Jews and Arabs the world over.

Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.

A separated couple journey to Death Valley after receiving a mysterious letter from their dead son in the expectation that he will appear to them at a certain place and time in the desert.

Chérif's life is going nowhere in a hurry. When is arrested for the umpteenth time, his mother strikes a last-chance deal with a judge to send the juvenile to live with his aunt and uncle and attend vocational school. Chérif discovers that his even straighter-laced cousin Thomas is actually part of a local gang of taggers, who roam the night bombing walls and overpasses in the shadow of a mysterious tagger whose death-defying works have made him a legend.

Camille is returning to Paris after leaving her stuffy boyfriend Pierre and residing in Italy. Her Italian theater company has brought her to France, where the show is run by her lover, director, and co-star Ugo. Ugo is concerned with the show's poor attendance, but also busy searching for a long-lost play by an Italian playwright. While on his quest, he discovers the beautiful young Do, a student who offers to help him. Do's mother has a library that may contain the lost play, and Ugo runs into her possessive half-sibling Arthur, a shady man pursuing an affair with Pierre's wife Sonia, who also has a questionable past. After a brooding dinner at Pierre and Sonia's home, tensions mount in everybody's relationships and their romantic journeys are similarly tested.

Saartjie Baartman, a South African slave, was exhibited in public halls and theaters in London in 1808. Due in part to her enormous posterior, she attracted the attention of French anatomists, who declared her the missing link between man and ape. Known as the "Hottentot Venus," Baartman became an icon in the slums, ending up as a sexual slave in Paris and the subject of scientific study.

On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the 70's, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three foreing women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their colorless jobs and marriages. They find what they are looking for in Legba an enigmatic local adonis whose beauty and passion has them enthralled. It is this passion that will lead them away from the guilded cage of tourism and will open their eyes to the poverty stricken and dangerous world of Haiti at the end of Duvalier's notoriously violent regime.

Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.

After discovering that her husband of fifteen years is having an affair, an emotionally distraught concert pianist named Ann vows to cut all ties with her shattered life. She sells her belongings, deconstructs her identity and embarks on a life-changing journey throughout Europe that leads her to Villa Amalia--a quaint homestead on the shores of Italy where anything is possible.

Depicts the life of 20th-century French writer Violette LeDuc, from her beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship of Simone de Beauvoir, she achieves admiration, renown, and controversy for her novels and memoirs.

Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia.

Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, this film opens with a who's who of French acting royalty being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. There, the playwright appears on a TV screen from beyond the grave and asks his collaborators to evaluate a recording of an experimental theater company performing a play that they themselves appeared in over the years. As the video unspools, these seasoned thespians begin acting out the text alongside their youthful avatars.

From Poland to Paris to Tel Aviv, an intimate and personal story of the quests of three contemporary Jewish women whose lives and intertwining destinies create a moving and poignant story of survival.

Anne-Sophie, an upper class girl down and out in love. She tries to find solace with her ex-boyfriend in a shanty eastern district of Paris, only to find him with another woman. Sisters Léa and Aurélie have a knack for petty crime and a reputation that have the police turning their heads, especially the detective dating their mother. In the middle of one of their cons, they find Anne-Sophie in dire straits. Reluctant to lend a helping hand, Léa argues with Aurélie until the three strike a deal that will take them on a path of mischief and mayhem.

Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.

Napoleon Bonaparte, inspiring his people with his military and political genius as well as his revolutionary fervor, becomes within a few brief years Emperor of France and master of Europe. After 15 years of victory, in 1812 he meets with disaster in his Russian Campaign. In 1813, defeated by the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England at Leipzig, Napoleon is driven to the very gates of Paris where he awaits his destiny. In March 1815, he makes dramatic escape from Elba in exile for his last and desperate bid for ultimate power and glory, which culminates in his narrow defeat by Wellington on the bloody fields of Waterloo.

Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a traffic cop. Kamel is a contract killer who receives his orders via the internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by their disparate lines of work and a persistent cybersnooping hacker who stumbles upon the site where Kamel receives his murderous contracts.

Maria, an expatriate from France whose family has operated a profitable coffee plantation for several generations and who is determined to bring in the coffee harvest despite being urged to evacuate as government forces close in to rout rebels in the area. Maria's workers end up leaving but she insists on staying as she is confident that her land will be protected by her friend, Cherif, the town mayor. Though things don't get much better as one of the rebel leaders, known as the boxer, is hiding, injured, on the plantation, whom the regular army is looking to capture.

A Year in Provence captures a year in the lives of the British couple Peter and Annie Mayle as they move to southern France. The Mayles both revel in and endure what for most would be a fantasy experience: leaving dull jobs, acquiring an old farmhouse in Provence, and attempting to write a novel in the midst of bucolic countryside, gourmet food and drink, and interesting people. The Mayles brave mistral winds, truffle season and the Mafia that surrounds it, exasperating neighbors, constant summer guests, an attempt at old-fashioned winemaking, and a Father Christmas drama--all while trying to renovate their kitchen.

A dramatized look at the life and times of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, including his career with Christian Dior's Paris fashion house, his longtime relationship with Pierre Bergé, and the founding of the Yves Saint Laurent Company.

A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.

Three Auschwitz survivors, and dear friends, meet again after having lost touch with each other after the liberation of the camp. Inspired by a true story.

Gaelle ..., kidnapped at the age of ten, is suddenly released by her kidnapper Vincent, after eight years of captivity during which they had been "everything" to each other. Just as she had to earn freedom day-by-day against him, she has to do so again, now facing her parents and a world she is only just discovering.

Louis and Emile are a pair of convicts whose lives take decidely different paths after prison. Emile works his way up the ladder of capitalism, becoming a phonograph factory boss, a job that finds him overseeing a bleak outfit of automatous drones. Louis, on the other hand, lives the life of a poverty-stricken vagabond. Despite their contrasting lots, the pair meet up again later in life, and Emile finds his carefully laid plans upset by the Louis's return.

Lili is an impulsive, free-spirited art student living a staid existence with her father in 1970s Paris. When she meets a mysterious young Moroccan man at a nightclub, she falls instantly in love. Soon she learns he was involved in a botched bank robbery -- where a man was killed -- and without hesitation allows him and his accomplice to hide out in her apartment. The two embark on a wild spree throughout France, Spain, Morocco, and Greece, in a contemporary joy ride.

Daniel Lefebvre, a dedicated teacher in a blue-collar French town who struggles to make a difference in the lives of his young pupils. Although it's an uphill battle as he attempts to surmount a variety of obstacles -- including neglectful parents, bureaucracy and societal ills -- Daniel remains committed to giving his students a quality education.

Structured in two parts, the film opens in Paris, where the young artist Edgar is developing a project on the four stages of a love affair- meeting, sexual passion, separation. and rediscovery. During the casting process, Edgar discovers a beautiful young woman who he is convinced he has met before. In the second part, set two years earlier, Edgar interviews an elderly couple- former Resistance fighters during the war- only to find that their memories are being bought up for a Steven Spielberg blockbuster. Linking the two parts is Edgar's relationship with the enigmatic woman he met and re-encounters.

The subtle details of human behavior and the issues of guilt, innocence, law enforcement, and racial perceptions are highlighted in this unprecedented look inside the French legal system.

"It took Hitler less than ten months to conquer Europe. This two-part series is an astonishing 'play by play' told by three of its major players: France, England and Germany. Inspired by newsreels, each country reveals the 'truth' to its citizens. Between September 1939 to June 1940, we view how each side saw the inexorable plunge Europe took into chaos."--Container.

Since the mid-1990s, more than 20,000 refugees have died in the Mediterranean en route to Europe. This film looks at efforts by Boats4People, a Euro-African aid organization, to provide passage for the many thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe by water today, as well as raise awareness and public support for their cause.

This program combines a visual biography of Arthur Rimbaud with excerpts from key texts, forging a unique study of the poet's personality and examining his relationship with his mother and with Paul Verlaine. Images and footage of the settings in which Rimbaud grew up, worked, loved, traveled, and lived out his final years provide a backdrop for readings from "Le bateau ivre," Une Saison en Enfer, and several other works and letters.

An in-depth look at the murder of a young gay man, who was taunted before being viciously beaten and thrown in a pond, where he drowned, by three French skinheads. Explores the social and psychological roots of homophobia and other hate crimes.

For thirty years, despite worldwide protests, the idyllic Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia was used as a site for France's nuclear tests. Despite repeated assurances by the French government that the blasts posed no danger, today this once pristine locale is contaminated by radiation and many of its inhabitants suffer from cancer and other diseases. 'Blowing Up Paradise' uses color archival footage to chronicle France's explosion of various nuclear devices, in violation of the international test ban treaty, from the first test in 1966 to the last in 1995. Interviews with former and current French government officials, scientists, and nuclear advisors illuminate France's political agenda of the era as well as its continuing denial of responsibility for the social devastation wrought and its refusal to pay any compensation to former test workers. The film also vividly portrays the protests of French nuclear policy in the region, including the actions of a Polynesian anti-nuclear terrorist group, riots in the streets of Moruroa, and years of anti-nuclear activism by Greenpeace environmentalists. 'Blowing Up Paradise' also shows the increasingly aggressive French efforts to counter such efforts. In the most notable incident, in 1985, the Greenpeace ship 'Rainbow Warrior' was bombed and sunk by French Secret Service, resulting in the death of a Greenpeace activist. In a later violent incident, as seen in amateur video recorded by those on board, 150 armed French Marines stormed a Greenpeace ship and arrested its crew members. 'Blowing Up Paradise' reveals that the Moruroa Atoll, having undergone a complete social transformation, is today a politically destabilized society. The area remains a militarized zone and has been described by scientists as a nuclear waste dump in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Even worse, it is predicted that radiation leakages will eventually occur. 'Blowing Up Paradise' thus becomes an atomic version of 'Paradise Lost,' with the 'sins' of past nuclear tests weaking potentially global catastrophe in the future.

Several eras in European history is portray in this film as the story jumps from one time period to another. Though the time period changes, the parade of sex, violence, and bitterly ironic humor remain the same. A group of modern-day snipers perched on a rooftop open fire on unknowing passers-by down below. The ruler of an ancient kingdom journeys to lead his troops into battle after putting his wife in a chastity belt -- not knowing she has a key and revenge on her mind. Arms dealers in Paris eat, drink, and are merry as they enjoy the spoils of their deadly trade. And a Soviet policeman in the Communist era decides to show his son what he does for a living, treating him to a day of watching father beat and torture innocent people.

David Macaulay presents the building of a Gothic cathedral through combining location sequences and animation. The film provides a tour of some of France's most famous cathedral locations: Chartres, Reims, Amiens, Bourges, Beauvais, Notre Dame de Paris, Laon, and the Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis. This program discusses 13th century culture and how churches were a center of life.

Follows an exclusive expedition into the Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient pictorial art ever discovered. The film provides a view of nearly inaccessible, pristine works dating back over 30,000 years ago--almost twice as old as any other known to exist.

In November 2001, Chris Marker became intrigued by the sudden appearance of grinning yellow cat paintings on Paris buildings and began to document them , as well as other incidents and protests in the city of Paris while he filmed. The creator is eventually revealed to be an art collective known as Mr. Chat.

Nowhere is more chicken breast eaten than in Europe and North America, a development due primarily to the wellness craze. The industry is only delighted to serve this trend, as the breast fillet is highly profitable. But what to do with the scorned remainder of the chicken? Thighs, wings, backs and innards are produced in the abattoirs of South America, the USA, Asia and Europe but no-one there will eat them and so thousands of tons of this meat are exported yearly to developing countries. In Ghana, these imports amount to 90,000 ton of frozen chicken parts annually. And the meat is cheap, far cheaper than anything available locally. The result is that local markets in Africa are being destroyed and people are becoming ill due to the lower-quality meat.. The film team follows the chicken pieces on their complex route from Germany, France, the Netherlands and Brazil to Africa. Taking the examples of Ghana and Togo, the devastating consequences that these exports are having on those markets and the resultant suffering of the local small farmers becomes abundantly clear.

By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.

Portraits of the shopkeepers along the Rue Daguerre, a street in Paris, provide an informal investigation into French culture and society. After studying the different stores and what they sell, and interviewing the owners about their childhoods and marriages, the film concludes with a series of static "daguerreotypes," in the style of photographer Louis Daguerre.

Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.

After coming across a notice in the journal "Nature" that a portion of mankind may become extinct before the end of the 21st century, filmmakers Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent and four others begin an investigation into the causes of such a disaster and possible solutions to avoid it. They meet pioneers who are re-inventing in the areas of agriculture, energy, economy, democracy, and education.

Documentary about French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Filmmakers, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, capture Derrida's private and professional life on camera to illustrate the processes that influence his work and our way of understanding the limits of history, language, art, and film. The film combines excerpts of his speaking to groups, interviews, and biographical materials.

Explore the country where love, art and pleasure are considered national treasures. Visit the northern regions, with stops at Chartres Cathedral and Normandy's World War II battleground. See Paris, the "city of light," and the royal palace at Versailles. Tour the vineyards of Champagne, Burgundy and Bordeaux. Watch French chefs prepare mouth-watering delicacies. View the spectacular French Alps and the pastoral region of Provence.

This historical tour of the world's most fabled and famous tower begins with the engineer behind it, Gustave Eiffel. When it was first built, just over a century ago, it provoked outrage and ire. The challenges and breakthroughs of its construction are examined.

A seven-part series providing a study of the major epochs in European history from the Greeks and Romans to the fall of communism.

Food Beware visits a small village in the mountains of France, where the town's mayor had decided to make the school lunch menu organic, with much of it grown locally. Will this experiment win safe food work? Featuring interviews with children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists and researchers, we learn about the abuses of the food industry, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical solutions that we can all take part in.

Rudy Maxa tours France's Carcassonne, the Pyrenees, Bordeaux, and the Dordogne discussing popular tourist attractions, historical background, and practical information about traveling in France.

Rudy Maxa tours France's Champagne region and Normandy discussing popular tourist attractions, historical background, and practical information about traveling in France.

Paris: grand and intimate: After marveling at masterpieces in the Louvre and strolling the Champs-Elysées, we explore a delightful Parisian neighborhood. We meet a pipe organist, drop by a butcher shop, design our own perfume, and cruise the Seine; Highlights of Paris: from Monet to crème brûlée: We scale the Eiffel Tower, then savor classic treats -- from steak tartare to crème brûlé. We marvel at Monet, Manet and company in the Orsay Gallery, then retrace the city's history from the revolution to its extravagant belle époque; Normandy: war-torn yet full of life: After exploring the half-timbered charm of Rouen, we reflect on Monet's lily ponds, then set up an easel at Honfleur's harbor. We remember sacrifice on the D-Day beaches, and hike with pilgrims to the island abbey of Mont St. Michel; Provence: legendary light, wind and wine: We climb Roman ruins in Nîmes, poke around a papal palace in Avignon, and savor vivid views immortalized by van Gogh in Arles. Crossing acres of lavender and vineyards, we explore the Côtes du Rhône and more wonders of the South of France; French Riviera: uniquely chic: In fairytale Monaco we listen to the graceful reshuffling of personal fortunes at the casino. The we follow in the footsteps of 19th century aristocrats along Nice's promenade des Anglais, and visit the picturesque artist hangouts of Chagall, Matisse and Picasso; France's Alsace" We drive up Alsace's Route de Vin for miles of vineyards, half-timbered villages and feudal fortresses. We travel to Verdun to walk its WWI trenches before visiting Reims Cathedral to marvel at Chagall's stained glass. Our final stop is Epernay, the bubbly birthplace of champagne; Burgundy: profoundly French: If you're looking for the quintessential French culture, you'll be able to savor it in Burgundy. We'll slow down to float on a canal barge, visit a medieval hospital and monastery, appreciate fine Burgundy wine, slurp a few escargot, and eat very, very well; France's Dordogne: The Dordogne River Valley is an unforgettable blend of man-made and natural beauty. We'll gaze at prehistoric art, take an idyllic canoe rise, wander through castles, enjoy a country market, and even visit a foie gras goose farm.

In this program, historians examine a selection of primary sources with which to consider the impact of the French revolution. Among the documents are examples of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary money and petitions of grievances from 1789, which give a minutely detailed record of the common man's problems.

Encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization...vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands.

Rudy Maxa tours the French Riviera, the region of Burgundy, and the Loire Valley discussing popular tourist attractions, historical background, and practical information about traveling in France.

This program demonstrates the enormous range and variety of the uses of television advertising in France, using extensive footage from actual advertisements. Analysis are provided by producers, directors, and members of the '89 Cannes Broadcast Commercial jury, together with interviews with those responsible for sponsoring, commissioning, evaluating, creating and producing television commercials.

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting by giving freely brushed colors primacy over line. They also took the act of painting out of the studio and into the modern world, capturing the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting "en plein air." Painting realistic scenes of modern life, using short brush strokes and pure and unmixed colors, the Impressionists found a different way of seeing. Theirs was an art of immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of light expressed in a bright and varied use of color.

In this rare 1967 documentary... Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir intimately discuss their work, their lives, and the role of public intellectuals in modern society. Having always refused to be interviewed together for French TV, for this film they agreed to appear together for the first time, and to talk to Canadian journalist Madeleine Gobeil and Les Temps Modernes editor Claude Lanzmann. Filmed in his Montparnasse apartment, Sartre discusses, among other things, his reasons for refusing the Nobel Prize in Literature, the moral as well as sociological reasons for his opposition to the Vietnam War, and the seeming contradiction between such political involvements and his then-current project on Flaubert. Simone de Beauvoir takes us onto the Paris streets to show us her birthplace, childhood school, and cafes where she and Sartre met with friends and colleagues. She discusses her memoirs as well as such influential books as The Second Sex, and passionately expounds on her ongoing commitment to women's liberation.

The film tells the story of Joan of Arc. Battles: describes her early life, hearing the voices, and the victory over the English. Prisons: describes her capture, imprisonment, trial, and execution.

While visiting Beirut to attend a glamorous gala, iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve insists :Je veux voir" ("I want to see"), referring to the carnage wrought against innocent Lebanese civilians during Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006. "I feel it's impossible to stay on the fringe," she adds, and she means it. Filmmakers Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas know first-hand the devastation Deneuve and chauffeur-actor Rabih Mroué will witness. They arrange a meeting between the two actors-captured on camera-before they embark together on a surprisingly gorgeous two-hour drive to southern Lebanon, returning in time for her appointed engagement. The simplicity of the plot is in stark contrast with the ravaged landscape seen through the car window. I Want to See is not the usual Hollywood scenario of a self-aggrandizing movie star meeting with a facilitator to find the right charity for his or her marketing image. Instead, with a mix of scripted drama and spontaneous travelogue, this mesmerizing and innovative film resonates with sincerity and curiosity and takes the viewer through a stunning landscape torn apart by decades of war.

The story of a 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. This powerful, visually stunning epic of one of history's fascinating heroines features spectacular action and unforgettable drama.

Joan of Arc's story is viewed through her own eyes and told through her own words. Based on the actual testimonies of the legendary peasant-girl-turned-soldier.

Louis XIV was both the first and the last absolute monarch. This program shows Versailles and its political purpose and the arbitrary applications of despotism: revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deportation of Huguenots, persecution of Jansenists, and the relationship between the king and the Church which gave rise to the anti-clericalism of the Revolution. When Louis XIV died, new political concepts were swirling about. The program covers the echo of Montesquieu, conflicts between the parliaments and the king, the Encyclopédie, the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau, and the satires of Beaumarchais. Amidst the intellectual and political turmoil, financial difficulties beset the crown and Louis XVI convoked the États-Généraux, which had not met since 1614.

C'est pas soricer is a French educational television program that originally aired from November 5, 1994 to present.
Le néolithique: in this section the history of the humanity, the invention of the houses and agriculture is presented.
Les Gaulois: in a Gallic village, Fred and Jamy present the Celtic civilization from its origins to the conquest of the Gaul by Julius Caesar.
Les templiers partent en croisade: Fred and Jamy will show the history of the crusades and the Knights.
Les mayas: after visiting the city of Calakmul in the Mexican jungle, the sorciers retrace the history of the disappearance of this civilization.

A compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels, produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War II. From the small town of Vichy in Central France, Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their Nazi overlords in creating pro-Nazi propaganda. They skillfully produced a strange alternative history of the war years in order to turn public emotion against the Allies and the Jews.

Go behind the scenes during one season at the famed Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille, where drama unfold every day. It turns the spotlight on great passions and tells the story of life at one of the most prestigious performing arts venues in the world. Featuring magnificent performances by Bryn Terfel and Benjamin Millepied, amongst many other top artists, find out what happens before the curtain is raised at these legendary venues.

A former schoolteacher in rural France, Suzette has always had a fraught relationship with her son, Jean-Yves. Michel Gondry, the director and nephew, appears as interviewer and sometimes moderator throughout the film, using his camera to explore the rich and often difficult family history.

Employees of Bull Worldwide Information Systems discuss business and cultural practices in France and the United States.

In his day, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was hailed as the 'Hero of Two Worlds.' For a century or more he was universally admired in the U.S. and became a household name. He was the subject of worshipful biographies and the only foreigner, ever, to have more than 30 American towns named in his honor. This naming fad continued for more than a hundred years after his fight for the American cause. Why was Lafayette so beloved in his 'adopted'' country? The record strongly indicates that he won his reputation by merit, proving himself courageous in battle and resourceful behind the scenes, advancing the cause of America and forging its crucial alliance with France. All that -- between the ages of 19 and 21! Perhaps his most enduring quality was his steadfast support through a long, eventful life, of the core principles of democracy and freedom for everyone: man or woman; Catholic, Protestant or Jew; white, black, or Indian. Lafayette: The Lost Hero has been filmed using an innovative mix of documentary techniques, structured around the quest of his descendant, Sabine Renault Sabloniere, to discover the truth about the elusive story of her ancestor.

A portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 25 villages in the idyllic French Pyrenees.

Martin is not like other children. Neglected by his parents, he watches the extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home from a distance. When gay brother Didier discovers that his lover will marry a local woman, all hell breaks loose and the family disintegrates, with terrifying results. Martin decides to take matters into his own hands.

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, 'Le Joli Mai' documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.

This documentary looks at European colonialism in Africa through the lens of Christian evangelism, in the 19th and 20th centuries, as a model for the relationship between Africa and western countries today. The history of German missionaries, specifically in the 1904 genocide of the Herero people, is also discussed by African and German historians and theologians, revealing how colonialism destroyed African beliefs and social systems and replaced them with European ones. The film also focuses on the role of African Christians in Namibia's struggle for independence in 1990.

Explores the mind and motivations of Pablo Picasso as he creates twenty works before the camera. Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera records. He begins with simple works and progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene, until at last the work is complete.

This documentary charts 20 years of the French national soccer team, Les Bleus, whose ups and downs have mirrored those of French society.

Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color.

Explores the sites and architectural masterpieces of the capital of France. Learns the history of these famous monuments of Paris.

A reflection on art, life and the movies, The Beaches of Agnes is a magnificent film from the great Agnès Vard, director of The Gleaners and I and Cleo from 5 to 7, a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave.

After traveling the world alongside migrating birds and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays, filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. As the ice retreated and the landscape evolved, the cycle of seasons was established, and wild creatures occupied their new kingdom--until the arrival of man.

In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix, played by the stunning Emmanuelle Devos makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train, she meets a mysterious English stranger. Drawn toward him, she follows him, loves him, for a few hours, before facing what could be a new life.

Inherited from Maria Montessori in 1907, the Montessori Method is a child-centered educational philosophy that celebrates and nurtures each child's desire to learn--an approach valuing the human spirit and full development: physical, social, emotional and cognitive. The Montessori Method is increasing in popularity both in the U.S. and abroad. Curious to see how the Method works first hand, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6) and observes. He meets happy children, free to move around, working alone or in small groups. Some read, others make bread, do divisions, laugh or sleep. The teacher remains discreet.

A documentary about Mali's ancient culture and the place of that culture in the modern country. The film is constructed in six sections: ritual arts, culture on display, style, architecture, contemporary artists and music.

First King of France to be born in Versailles and orphan from almost his whole family, Louis XV succeeded his great-grand-father Louis XIV at the age of five. Known as "Louis the Beloved," Louis XV is a king traumatized by his childhood, generous and sophisticated, but unable to modernize France.

Depicts the lives of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, their loneliness of power, their doubts, their misunderstanding of a changing, revolutionary country, and the last hours of the French monarchy.

Charles Boyer presents the history of the building that is the Louvre, the persons who lived in it, built it and remodeled it; discusses significant historical events and shows some of the art treasures housed in the Louvre.

This documentary offers the opportunity to reconsider the life and legacy of one of the legendary figures of modern African history. Like Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba is remembered less for his lasting achievements than as an enduring symbol of the struggle for self-determination. This is a personal reflection by acclaimed fimmaker Raoul Peck on the events of Lumumba's brief twelve month rise and fall is a moving memorial to a man described as a giant, a prophet, a devil, "a mystic of freedom," and "the Elvis Presley of African politics.

Dramatization of part seven of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, in which narrator Marcel attends a reception for the new Princesse de Guermantes and discovers his life's true vocation in the process. This dramatization is accompanied by interviews with Professor Michel Butor, of Geneva University, and translator Terence Kilmartin, that analyze the novel's philosophical exploration of time, memory, and individual creativity.

The documentary is an introduction to the life and work of Marcel Proust, with emphasis on his struggle to create the 3,000-page masterpiece "Remembrance of Things Past" (A la recherche du temps perdu). Through the use of rare archival footage, dramatizations of key scenes from Proust's life, and interviews with writers Dame Iris Murdoch, Shelby Foote, and writer-critic Roger Shattuck, this program places Proust's personal struggles and accomplishments in a historical context.

In this vintage interview of the 20th century French author, Marguerite Duras, she talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself bring to life those formative years in Vietnam.

Deep in the heart of France, a community of farmers spend their days herding sheep, milking cows and pondering contemporary life. Director Raymond Depardon has been filming the farmers for over 10 years gradually gaining their trust and letting his camera roll to capture observations and outbursts. With wonderful intimacy Depardon creates a film that illuminates the farming experience.

Deported [in 1944] at the age of thirteen, Simone Lagrange survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. Forty years later, she was a key witness in the trial that convicted Klaus Barbie of crimes against humanity. In this film, Simone Lagrange agrees to tell her story: her chil[d]hood in Lyon and her arrest by Klaus Barbie, her deportation to Auschwitz on Train 76 and the death marches, her struggle to survive and how she built her adult life.

The destiny of a simple life as a seaside restaurant employee for 17-year-old Aurelian (David Merabet), nicknamed "Mouton" (sheep) is torn away one tragic night. What remains are his various "friends" and their continued lives around the seaside.

Framed by the grand sweep of history, woven from intimate accounts of and by the man himself, this program is a tale as grand as any novel, a story of passion, vaunting ambition, and pride ending in exile and loss.

The Battle of Waterloo is re-enacted with thousands of troops and historically accurate portrayals of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte and their respective military tactics. After Napoleon escapes from Elba, Marshal Ney and French troops are ordered to re-capture the Little Emperor. Instead, Napoleon persuades them to join him in conquering all of Europe. As Napoleon and his troops advance on Brussels, war is declared on Napoleon himself. The episode provides a chronological reenactment of the marshaling of British and Prussian troopps, Napoleon's successful offensive tactic of 'divide and conquer' and the ensuing battle at Waterloo. There Napoleon makes the uncharacteristic decision to attach immediately and is ultimately defeated by the combined Prussian and British forces. The back and forth campaigns of this battle are re-enacted in detail. Napoleon is fully disgraced, orders his retreating troops to be fired upon by his own artillery, and eventually surrenders and is exiled. The defensive success of the Duke of Wellington saves Europe from French dominance and guarantees the Duke's eventual appointment as Bristish Prime Minister.

The history of the Normans is a chronicle of the roots of modern society, religion and politics. This landmark three-part series presents the epic story of the Normans as it has never been told before. With new historical and archaeological evidence, expert commentary and stunning visuals, this informative and entertaining series chronicles the saga of The Normans.

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Amiens, located north of Paris and built in the forty-nine years after 1220, offers an extraordinary vision ofGothic space and structure, expressing the zenith of medieval technical prowess. Through film images, digital modeling and animation, these films reveal how the Cathedral is encoded as an image of heaven, the way it was built, and why it nearly collapsed.

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire ... has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town ..., discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder.

A stop-motion animated film about toys coming to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live.

Rudy Maxa tours the French region of Provence and the city of Paris discussing popular tourist attractions, historical background, and practical information about traveling in France.

From 1905 to 1930, Paris was the center for innovation and experiment, the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of the arts throughout the Western world. On-camera, dramatic and historic moments are recalled by participants in these legendary events, including Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, and many more. The film traces who came to Paris and why, whom they met, what they made there, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work.

This program thoroughly maps out the transformation of Paris during the 19th century from a stifling, congested city of narrow and winding streets to an aesthetically pleasing model of industrial age modernity.

The documentary covers the long and extraordinary life of Picasso, beginning with the first period of his life in Málaga, La Coruña, and Barcelona and continuing in Paris, Villauris, and Vouvenargue. It follows the development of the artist through the pink and blue periods, surrealism, cubism, sculpture, and ceramics. An artist who excelled in all styles and all media and remained, regardless of where he was, Spanish to the core.

In 1976, filmmaker Rene Allio used a notorious Normandy crime as the foundation for his film I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother. The film drew detailed a triple homicide that had taken place 140 years prior, and its cast was comprised almost exclusively of homegrown talent. Now, over 30 years later, Pierre Riviere's assistant director Nicolas Philibert travels back to the shooting locales to find out just what has become of the amateur actors who appeared in that film.

Filmed on location at British and French historical sites, this three-part series delves into the art, literature, and politics of 18th- and 19th-century Europe--telling the tumultuous story of Romanticism and its reshaping of Western culture.
Part 1: Examining the birth of Romanticism through the lenses of art and uprising, this program illustrates the political and cultural roots of the movement. The film begins by describing the significance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his influence on the French Revolution, and his belief that civilization and governmental systems suppress the individual human spirit. Linking Rousseau's philosophy to the emergence of New World political ideals and the American struggle for independence, the program also studies the writings and illustrations of William Blake, the collaboration of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the notions of freedom advanced by all three poets.
Part 2: After the chaos of the French Revolution, the concept of liberty became associated with nature rather than political events. This program analyzes the Romantic fascination and identification with the power of the natural world. Shedding light on William Blake's early childhood experiences in the countryside, the film also explores the work of John Clare--conveying how both poets revered the sublime power of the earth's environment and exalted a rural way of life rapidly yielding to urbanization and the Industrial Revolution. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is also featured--highlighting its cautions against science, technology, and the exploitation of nature's wild innocence.
Part 3: Viewing life in strictly corporeal terms was abhorrent to Romantic sensibility. This program examines attempts by Romantic poets to transcend the physical world and expand the limits of human imagination--presaging 20th-century notions of the unconscious. Illustrating how the idea of transcendence effectively became the religion of Romanticism, the film reflects on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-inspired composition of "Kubla Kahn," Lord Byron's defiance of social and sexual mores in pursuit of inner truth, John Keats' worldly fragility and literary immortality, and Percy Shelley's legendary incarnation, in death, as the ultimate Romantic symbol--a disembodied heart.

For centuries the historical records of the Inquisition have been locked away to become the subject of legend. In 1998 the Vatican opened these archives for the first time ever. Secret Files of the Inquisition unveils the incredible true story of the western world's most potent religion and its determination to maintain power at any cost. From the pages of secret documents hidden in European archives comes a tale of faith and fervor, of torture and courage, of the fight for human rights and religious tolerance.

Profiles a remarkable HIV and AIDS support project in Bamako, Mali, and three brave women who work tirelessly on behalf of the infected community.

A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amelie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amelie's downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?

The film recovers for the present a detailed history of Sankara's brief four-year rule and his revolutionary program for African self-reliance as a defiant alternative to the neo-liberal development strategies imposed on Africa by the West, both then and today. Sankara, a charismatic army captain, came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, in a popularly supported coup. He immediately launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this rebirth, he even renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, Land of Upright Men. As soon as he took office, he reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of chauffeur-driven Mercedes and 1st class airline tickets. Like many revolutionary leaders, he banned unions, a free press, anything which might stand in the way of his plans for the immediate and radical transformation of society. He was one of the first to recognize that key to the development of Burkina Faso and Africa was improving the status of women. He was the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions and to recruit them actively for the military. He outlawed forced marriages and encouraged women to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant. He launched a nation-wide public health campaign vaccinating over 2 1/2 million people in a week, a world record. He was also one of the first African environmentalists, planting over 10 million trees to retain soil and halt the growing desertification of the Sahel.

Features a series of authentic French television commercials illustrating contemporary French tastes, attitudes, and lifestyles.

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. They also happened to be best friends. This film documents their combative and creative relationship during their time as writers for the Cahiers du cinema, their work on The 400 blows and Breathless, and their dramatic falling out following the worker and student strikes of May 1968. It also presents the unique bond both filmmakers shared with the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, who started his career as a child and grew up with Godard and Truffaut as brilliantly bickering father figures. Includes clips of over 30 films.

A tour of Paris, France.

Presents the history, design, architecture and interior of the palace and gardens at Versailles.

Traumatized by the political troubles when he was a child, King Louis XIV decides to enforce his power by transforming a simple hunting lodge built on swamps into one of the most beautiful castles in the world: Versailles.

Filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through rural France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.

Vive le tour!: A commemoration of his country's most watched sporting event as well as a personal reflection on one of his favorite pastimes."
Humain, trop humain: Turning his lens on the inner workings of the Citroen auto factory in Rennes, Brittany. Focuses on the faces and bodies of the assembly liners with great empathy, emphasizing, through sheer duration, the intense, monotonous labor required to bring the sparkling new cars to the public.
Place de la republique: Malles takes a more direct approach to the lives of working people, simply training the camera and microphone on anyone who happens to stroll by one short stretch of sidewalk in a working-class neighborhood of Paris. Malles asks them questions about themselves and playfully comments on the camera's role in the film.

As a Jew born in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during World War II, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage relates the story of how the village successfully shielded 5,000 Jews from the Nazis.

Investigates the crucial role engineering has played in the two-thousand year history of the French capital. Eugene Houseman spearheaded the evolution of Paris in the late 18th century, producing the infrastructure, wide boulevards, and grand buildings that give the city its singular charm. Top French historians, engineers, and archaeologists analyze his work as well as the complex feats of the pre-Houseman years, from the construction of King Philippe's wall and the innovative methods of purifying the Seine in the 13th century to the "revolt of the dead" in 1785. The program also examines the existing Parisian structures at the time of the French Revolution.

In less than 20 years, allergies have become a planet-wide plague. Whereas we thought our immune systems protected us, we now know they can turn against us. Whereas we thought we had identified the health hazards, we are now discovering that even the most inoffensive products can be dangerous. Cosmetics, detergents, foodstuffs, drugs, plants, the air we breathe, or a simple kiss can, at some point, trigger an allergy in any person, at any age, in any country. But do we really know what allergies are? Are we aware of all substances that can trigger this immune response? Can we explain why some people become allergic while others do not? Can we eliminate the plague? 400 million people worldwide suffer from allergic rhinitis and another 300 million have asthma. Allergic diseases rank 4th on the list of diseases according to the WHO and could become 3rd in the next few decades. What are the factors responsible for the scourge of global allergies?

Depicts 11th century Europe by dramatizing the life of Adémar de Chabannes, a monk who wrote a remarkable chronicle of the early years of the millennium and its calamities, famine, and war. Shows, through Adémar's eyes, the whole range of 11th century life, with all its hysteria, religious zeal, and visions of the coming of the end of the world and the Apocalypse from St. John's Revelations.