The Town Is Quiet
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
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.
A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
They knew each other, separated, found each other again. Immersion in archives in four decades of tumultuous relationship between the Spanish filmmaker and his favorite male performer.
After participating in a séance, young Laura begins to behave strangely. Alarmed, her parents ask Father Olmedo, one of the few exorcists authorized by the Vatican to intervene in cases of demonic possession, for help.
Dans la famille Duval, il y a Robert, le père chauffeur de taxi, Marie-Jeanne, la mère un peu perchée, et les enfants : Albert, brillant mais colérique, Raphaël, un jeune homme doux et rêveur, et Fleur, l'ado rebelle. Le portrait de leur famille s'esquisse sur une douzaine d'années, à travers cinq journées particulières.
Jean-Pierre Ménard, las de voir sa femme lui refuser le "devoir conjugal", décide de lui couper les vivres en instaurant une nouvelle règle entre eux.
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
A small town trivia master's livelihood is threatened when a famous friend reappears on Trivia Night after a five-year absence.
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Une ville au bord de l'Atlantique, hors saison. Trois jours, sept personnages, sept vies en mouvement, en quête d'elles-mêmes, qui se croisent, se ratent, se frôlent, se percutent et qui en se quittant, ne seront plus jamais les mêmes.
A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a tragic ending.
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Germain, 45 ans, quasi analphabète, vit sa petite vie tranquille entre ses potes de bistrot, sa copine Annette, le parc où il va compter les pigeons et le jardin potager qu'il a planté derrière sa caravane, elle-même installée au fond du jardin de sa mère, avec laquelle les rapports sont très conflictuels. Il n'a pas connu son père, sa mère s'est retrouvée enceinte de lui sans l'avoir voulu, et le lui a bien fait sentir depuis qu'il est petit, à l'école primaire son instituteur l'a vite pris en grippe, il n'a jamais été cultivé, il est resté « en friche ». Un jour, au parc, il fait la connaissance de Marguerite, une très vieille dame, ancienne chercheuse en agronomie, qui a voyagé dans le monde entier et qui a passé sa vie à lire. Elle vit seule, à présent, en maison de retraite. Et elle aussi, elle compte les pigeons. Entre Germain et Marguerite va naître une vraie tendresse, une histoire d'amour « petit-filial », et un véritable échange...
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Condamné à six ans de prison, Malik El Djebena ne sait ni lire, ni écrire. À son arrivée en Centrale, seul au monde, il paraît plus jeune, plus fragile que les autres détenus. Il a 19 ans. D'emblée, il tombe sous la coupe d'un groupe de prisonniers corses qui fait régner sa loi dans la prison. Le jeune homme apprend vite. Au fil des "missions", il s'endurcit et gagne la confiance des Corses. Mais, très vite, Malik utilise toute son intelligence pour développer discrètement son propre réseau...
L'exploration d'un lourd secret de famille et l'histoire d'une passion, à travers le voyage intérieur de François, un enfant solitaire qui s'invente un frère et imagine le passé de ses parents. Le jour de ses 15 ans, une amie de la famille révèle au jeune François une vérité bouleversante, mais qui lui permet enfin de se construire.
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled 3 years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos.
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything...
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.
You will discover the history of the palace as well as the masterpieces it houses. This is the most complete tour imaginable, covering the gardens, the royal apartments, the Hall of Mirrors, the Petit Trianon, the Royal Chapel and the Opera. This private visit will enable you to see the treasures which astound the 10 million people who visit the castle and gardens every year.
Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home.
Ruiné, le jeune baron de Sigognac rejoint une troupe de saltimbanques, devient comédien et se fait rebaptiser capitaine Fracasse. Il va ainsi parcourir la France du XVIIe siècle, des Landes à Paris, au détour de nombreux guet-apens et d'intrigues amoureuses. D'après le roman de Théophile Gautier.
In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the bus breaks down. In the second episode, one of them confronts the possibility that her father, long presumed to be among the Six Million, in fact survived; but is he her father?
Auguste est arrêté sur l'île de Saint-Pierre et condamné à mort pour assassinat. En attendant l'arrivée de la guillotine et d'un bourreau, il est placé sous la surveillance du capitaine. La femme de celui-ci s'intéresse de près au sort de Neel, en qui elle voit bonté et simplicité. Elle décide de se battre pour obtenir sa réhabilitation.
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.
An old woman in rest home suffering from dementia flashes back to her youth as a policewoman and her relationship with a colleague.
En 1529, Thomas More, juriste britannique, succède au cardinal Wolsey comme chancelier d'Henri VIII. D'amis que sont le roi et son ministre, ils vont devenir ennemis du fait du refus de Thomas de consentir au remariage du roi. Thomas ira jusqu'au martyre, avec prudence et sans fanatisme.