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- In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
- A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
- A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
- Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
- Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
- Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.
- An elderly curmudgeon lets out a room in his large apartment rent-free to a young student - on condition that she does everything in her power to ruin his son's marriage.
- Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
- Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebecca Ryan. Much craziness ensues as she meets the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books, thwarts real international spies, and eventually gets her memory back.
- Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn't making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.
- A fugitive on the run from the law, and carrying several million dollars, hides out in the home of a farm family. The tables turn when the family proves to be even more criminally oriented than he is--and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around.
- The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.
- A kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin.
- This feature is a classic first-love and coming-of-age story set in the exciting political context of 1981.
- A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.
- An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.
- Born in 1943 during German occupation of their French town, Patrick and Marie-José have been best friends; now teens, they experiment with sex, which doesn't seem to bring them closer. Patrick has also taken to American jazz, hanging out at a nearby Army base where he picks up the drums and comes to the attention of a Caberra, a brutish American sergeant who enjoys starting fights with Black soldiers. Caberra gives Patrick a drum kit, talks to him about life, and introduces him around. Patrick meets Trudy, an American teen who loves Buddy Holly. Marie-José is jealous and establishes her own liaison. What of Patrick and Marie-José's pact to be friends forever?
- The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.
- Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
- Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
- A masked lumberjack stalks anyone who enters his woods. Throughout the film we get a variety of people who come in contact with the killer and they don't live to regret it.
- Two bounty hunters (Albert Dupontel and Bouli Lanners) are looking for a cell phone in the french countryside. They meet cowboys, fools and Jesus.
- There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister Ariane, who is as anxious as she is admirable. Yvan is ready to leave... when beautiful Emmanuelle enters his life. She makes babies as easily as she falls in love, and she's accompanied by Léo, the little boy who Yvan's wife had with another man. Yvan is going to have to change his plans.
- Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. Nadia has acquired a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and the couple decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal to pitch in with extra money. She has to leave her son Slimane (Slimane Khettabi) to Yann. Things get even worse when Nadia disappears without a trace.[1] Yann has to sell the building at a low price, not enough to pay all his debts, and has to move with Slimane from his nearby caravan to an unattractive room, which he rents from the buyer. He robs the man and travels with Slimane to Canada. He finds Nadia, she is in custody. He comes to the prison but at first she refuses to accept the visit. The next day she allows him to visit her but to Slimane's regret she refuses to see him, out of shame. She is there for drug possession, but she is innocent. The next time she allows Yann to visit her with Slimane.
- The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this, the captain Duroc will give to the traitor a car filled with explosives. But the whole thing is a double trap. One of the officer of the Service, Leroy, has plan a dreadful blow to discredit his new director. He had chosen Duroc because is not supposed to be an intelligent agent.
- Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything.
- Bénédicte, Martine and Juliette were classmates and from 1968, formed an inseparable trio that wanted to change the world. Fifteen years later, two of them are back in their small native town of Pithiviers. Unfortunately, not Juliette who has just died and for whose funeral they are reunited. But Juliette remains present, not only in Bénédicte and Martine's remembrances, but through her own eighteen-year-old daughter Scarlett, who looks very much like her....
- Documentary about the story of the Rondon castle.
- *SPOILER* Memories of a young woman: when she returns home, she is brutally assaulted by two men. Shattered, she hesitates, then chooses the path of vengeance.
- Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
- During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...
- In 1903, on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gauguin's work was to have on modern art. Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood carver, musician, print maker, journalist and ceramicist. As well as telling the remarkable story of Gauguin's life, Januszczak also celebrates Gauguin's achievements and examines the various accusations of sexual misconduct, familial neglect and racism that are frequently made against him. The film contains many of Gauguin's masterpieces and includes paintings put on show at the Hermitage in St Petersburg which haven't been seen in public since their disappearance during World War II.
- Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?
- Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
- At the age of fifty, the members of Gueules Noires, a leading group in the alternative rock scene, are reforming for a new tour. Their leader, Baku, gave up everything to take over the group and find the stage, his life.
- The water of the canal flows peacefully. Kids play on its bank.They are the children of the lock keeper, who brings them up alone. This family seems to be cut off from the rest of the world, their only connection with it being the barges that stop at the lock. But one day this uneventful life is turned upside down: there is something in the water. Something unusual... something terrible...
- A small village in the center of France. Denis, 20, works as a mason in his father's little firm. One day, Denis' grandmother, a very old woman, will not wake up.
- The film follows the River Loire from its sources in the Mont Gerbier de Jonc in Ardèche to the Loire Estuary where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. In between we will have visited such different landscapes as mountains, valleys, big cities, charming villages, minefields, châteaux, vineyards, shipyards...
- A young filmmaker is in the process of shooting a short film when his attention is diverted by a beautiful woman. He leaves his film shoot to follow this woman through the streets. During his pursuit, he reflects on what dreams mean and their significance in life.
- A young woman who has been overweight since childhood lives an ordinary day in the skin of a fat woman. Mockery, prejudice, discrimination, easy advice, misunderstanding are his daily lot. But today is a particularly difficult day - How will she find the strength to go against prejudice?
- Actor Michel Muller, survivor among the 4115 victim-kids of the July 16-17th 1942 'Vel d'Hiv roundup', his sister, brothers and father do share their memories of the events.
- S'en Sortir - A Better Life: In an austere décor, a writer busily types away under the mischievous yet somewhat indifferent eye of his wife. Clicking of an old typewriter, squeaking of a rocking chair, the persistant ticking of an unseen clock One sentence: Heres to a better life. Dans un décor épuré, un écrivain noircit des pages sous le regard à la fois malicieux et indifférent de sa femme. Crépitement de la vieille machine à écrire, grincement dun fauteuil à bascule, bruit répétitif dune pendule invisible Une phrase : On va sen sortir.