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- As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.
- In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.
- A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
- The story of the first bearded lady attraction.
- Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
- A politically-incorrect comedy about the role of black people in French society.
- How could Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and thus of attack, can he dream up to loosen his jailers' grip? On Saint Helena, the far-flung island chosen by his enemies, Napoleon fights a mysterious battle, his last and most important, and one that history has kept secret all these years.
- In a small town in Brittany, Gloria, a mother of three children, sees her life turned upside down when her husband goes to work one morning and never comes back.
- In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
- Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
- In July 1979, during the Summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, a whole family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine's sixty-seventh birthday. Albertine, who was ten years old at the time, vividly recounts this brief but life-changing experience.
- So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
- Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
- What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a security specialist. Michel, who is busted, gladly accepts the deal but proves so inept that he sub-contracts the job to improbable novices. As the factory was a mere branch of a multinational company, it is no bed of roses to find the one who actually made the decision to outsource its activities, but Louise will not give up so easily.
- After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland. There he is discovered by Isolde, Morold's sister, who nurses him back to health together with her mother. Before his identity becomes known, Tristan travels back to Cornwall where the barons are urging King Marke to finally choose a wife for himself. When the king hears of Isolde's beauty he sends Tristan across to bring her back to him as a bride. Isolde is appalled at the way her father welcomes Morold's murderer, and at his desire to marry her off to a strange king. On the voyage back, she wants to poison both Tristan and herself, but the bottle contains a love potion: the two of them fall in love with each other and cannot leave each other, even after Isolde's marriage to Marke. When their relationship is discovered, Tristan is forced into exile in Brittany, where he is given a warm reception by Duke Hoel. The duke's daughter, Isolde Weisshand, tries in vain to win Tristan over. When Tristan hears that the barons have risen up against King Marke he travels back to Cornwall and saves the king's life and crown, but is then forced to go back into exile, seriously injured. Close to death, he sends for Isolde: she is the only person who can save him. However, the spurned, jealous and disappointed Isolde Weisshand foils the two lovers' reunion by telling a lie. Bereft of all hope, Tristan falls on his sword just before his Isolde arrives. She follows him into death, in order to be reunited with him for ever more.
- A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on the shore, trapped just like one of the lost birds. The film depicts their acquaintance and the ensuing tragedy.
- After his mother's death, Pierre decides to leave his village and go to work as a seasonal laborer on the coast. He finds a room at Jeanne's, a captain's wife, and experiences anew each day how different the living conditions are for coastal residents: the men are not at home for a large part of the year, the women must fend entirely for themselves, and yet solidarity among the fishing families is great. Pierre falls in love with beautiful Marie, whose fiancé died during the last big catch. Pierre suspects that it is only as a seaman that he can win Marie and decides to follow the calling of the sea. After some smaller jobs in the port, he finally signs up on the "Charmeuse" and takes part in the fishers' several-month-long "spring catch." On board, he becomes familiar with the harshness of life on the high seas, the friendships and enmities, the quick alternation of joy and suffering, the nearness of death and the many facets of a fascinating and uncontrollable nature, the likes of which he has never seen before. During Pierre's long absence, Marie becomes conscious of her love for him. When Pierre finally returns, the two say "I do."
- The driving license system with points was set up in France in 1992. It consists in withdrawing a certain number of points from the license (which has twelve or six) depending on the seriousness of the offense, sometimes resulting in the retirement of the permit pure and simple. In such a case, point recovery courses are organized to help offending drivers to recover their license. Coline Serreau has undertaken to film this type of courses in various parts of the French territory, allowing their participants to express themselves, at the same time turning the floor over to different personalities, for or against the system.
- Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women...
- A young man returns home to Brittany, France after a mysterious absence of more than ten years, and reunites with the mother and younger brother he left behind.
- Two mothers each try to come to terms with the pain of losing a child after four young scouts and a young man who tried to save them drown, with the inquiry revealing negligence on the part of the supervisors.
- Four years after Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), the director 'Pierre Perrault' ask Alexis Tremblay if he agreed to travel with his wife Marie in the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.
- Charlie, nostalgic sailor, harasses his ex-wife with whom he wishes to reconnect. But she is remarried with William.
- End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
- A travel series for those in the middle years. Twelve well-known presenters on an individual quest in a country of their choosing with the added challenge of existing for three days on a budget of 500 euros.
- Off the coast of Brittany in the 18th century, a young captain must find the courage to confront his childhood hero : a legendary privateer captain, who has become after many years of war a monster plagued by insanity.
- Pierre Perrault emmène Stéphane-Albert Boulais (de 'La bête lumineuse', un de ses films) à la découverte de Saint-Malo et de Jacques Cartier, dans la perspective du 450e anniversaire de la découverte du Canada (1534-1984). Tour de la ville avec guide. Examen des « Relations » de Cartier et témoignages sur le vif de marins malouins, pour tenter de reconstituer son voyage, sa vie, son époque. Dialogue outre-Atlantique entre Saint-Malo et l'Île-aux-Coudres, lieu de mouillage du découvreur. Qui était Cartier? À qui appartient-il? La discussion est ouverte.
- -Released in 1985, this poetic tribute to the St. Lawrence River is the second of two films commemorating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's first voyage to America. Director Pierre Perrault joins a crew of French and Quebec sailors and intellectuals to sail in Cartier's footsteps. This second installment follows their progress along the Lower North Shore of Quebec (Canada).
- When Gloria's husband, David, disappears without a word, she finds herself caught between suspicious in-laws and the police who underestimate the seriousness of the situation.
- A fake identity card leads Gloria to suspect that David was leading a double life. Meanwhile the police start taking David's disappearance more seriously.
- Gloria finds herself increasingly becoming a suspect as her investigation into David's dark past progresses. Meanwhile, a body in a pond frequented by David could hold the answers.
- Police find evidence that further incriminates Gloria, casting doubt over her attempts to keep her life and family together.
- With nothing left to lose, Gloria approaches David's accomplice who claims to know where he is.
- Following a poignant trial and armed with the truth, Gloria must confront her tormentor and fight for her daughter.
- A few years after arresting her brother for murder, a tragedy that caused her to give up her career as a cop, Gwen Garrec finds herself once again in the middle of a criminal case.
- A police captain specialized in Crime History is investigating on the discovery of a corpse found on the beach of Saint-Malo. She tries to convince her temporary teammate that their case would be linked to piracy.
- The year is 1778. Commissaire N. Le Floch is asked to investigate the theft of Queen Marie Antoinette famous necklace . At the same time, the cadaver of a drowned victim is found in the Grand Canal.