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- DirectorDavid HamiltonStarsPatti D'ArbanvilleMona KristensenBernard GiraudeauA coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
- DirectorJust JaeckinStarsCorinne CléryUdo KierAnthony SteelPhotographer O's lover takes her to a Château, where she is, like other women there, naked, humiliated by whipping, sexual abuse by men etc. When O leaves, her lover gives her to his much older step-brother.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsYves MontandMichel AlbertiniRoland AmstutzConspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.
- DirectorMartine DugowsonStarsRomane BohringerElsa ZylbersteinFlorence ThomassinThe film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
- DirectorChristophe RuggiaStarsBouzid NegnougNabil GhalemGalamelah LagraIn the sixties, around twenty families fled their Algerian village of el-Ouricia, driven by poverty or war. Refugees in Chaâba, a French shantytown, they face the hard learning of integration.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsNarda BlanchetPierette Pompom BailhacheAleksandr CherkasovA noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.
- DirectorArthur JofféStarsHélène de FougerollesTchéky KaryoTicky HolgadoA comedy in which God writes a screenplay and goes to earth to find someone to make the film.
- DirectorLaurent FirodeStarsAudrey TautouFaudelEric SavinHow, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet ?
- DirectorPierre CarlesStarsFrançois LéotardAlain DuhamelAnne SinclairPierre Carles receives an order from a television channel to make a short film on television. The documentary traces the reason why it will never be broadcast on television.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsWilhelmenia FernandezFrédéric AndréiRoland BertinTwo tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.
- DirectorPierre JolivetStarsVincent LindonFrançois BerléandRoschdy ZemA wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does NOT have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work...
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsYvan AttalSerge HazanaviciusKarin ViardIn the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of the day is not going to go as planned at all .
- DirectorBernard FarouxKarl ZéroStarsJean-Luc ReichmannRose ThiéryJean-Pol DuboisMonique Zimmer, in her sixties, killed her lover, Oscar Foulard, cut up the body of the corpse, and is now walking with a suitcase containing Oscar's trunk. This one continues to speak, and comes to testify during the trial of his widow.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DenisStarsSylvie TestudJulie-Marie ParmentierIsabelle RenauldBased on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsLaetitia CastaFrédéric DiefenthalArielle DombasleAt a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsCatherine DeneuveEmmanuelle BéartVincent PerezA lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
- DirectorChristophe de PonfillyStarsChristophe de PonfillyAhmad Shah MassoudMerabuddineThe friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A Valley Against an Empire", made in 1981. Fifteen years later, weakened, isolated, betrayed by many of his own, the "Lion of Panshir" has not surrendered to his new and implacable enemies, the Taliban. While preparing his next offensive, he evokes his commitment and his fights, and bears witness to a history in which he has been one of the main actors for twenty years. At the same time, the director questions the role and power of the media, as well as his own approach as a filmmaker. Commander Massoud was killed in an attack in September 2001.
- DirectorOlivier MegatonStarsPatrick FontanaFéodor AtkineManuel BlancA mentally unstable man who doesn't have a firm grip on reality must investigate whether or not he's a serial killer.
- DirectorCédric KlapischStarsGarance ClavelZinedine SoualemRenée Le CalmChloe, a young woman, is going on holidays. She entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée's care. But one day Madame Renée (an old lady of the neighborhood) can not find the cat. Chloe starts searching the neighborhood... This is the pretext for the exploration of a quarter of Paris and his inhabitants.
- DirectorFrançois DupeyronStarsGérard DepardieuNathalie BayeDidier BourdonThe psychiatrist Marc Laxroix is a studious scientist of the brains of criminals. He has an unhappy and loveless marriage with his wife Marie Lacroix and they have a boy, Léonard Lacroix. Marc has also a mistress, Marianne, who is also his confidante. Marc has secretly built a machine to study the mind of a person to another one in his old house, but he has not tested it yet, and Marianne is the only person who knows. When the serial-killer Michel Zyto is sentenced to life in the institution where Marc works, he decides to study the mind of the psychopath. Then he brings Zyto to use the machine and their minds are exchanged. When Marc asks Zyto to press a green button to restore their minds, Zyto refuses and uses Marc's body to lock up Marc trapped in his body in the institution. Further, he goes to Marc's house to stay with his family. Will Marc retrieve his body?
- StarsJeanne Louise CalmentThis is a documentary about the oldest living human in modern history.
- DirectorMichael RubboStarsTchéky KaryoNina PetronzioChristopher ForrestJo meets a mysterious art dealer who buys some of her drawings and commissions her to make more. She asks some friends for help and sets off to Amsterdam to look for the mysterious man.
- DirectorMichel PouletteStarsMartin DrainvilleZhenhu HanChantal FontaineLouis has always had a dream, to be on television. But when he enters a contest and wins, the first prize involves a cameraman following him everywhere for three months. The only problem is that Louis has a boring life, so the TV executives decide to put some excitement in it.
- DirectorGuy-Philippe BertinStarsFéodor AtkineClaire KeimAlbert DelpyA small French bank must find a way to recover the money embezelled by an employee to fund his film adaption of Checkov's "Three Sisters"
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsMarcello MastroianniAnna GalienaMarisa ParedesTake a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.
- DirectorAlain SchwartzsteinStarsMichèle LaroqueRufusElisabeth MargoniTells the story of how Julie Savigneau's baby is saved after the 18-year-old pregnant mother goes into a coma - following a severe concussion - at the beginning of her sixth month (twenty-one weeks) of pregnancy.
- DirectorCaroline VignalStarsJulie LeclercqCaroline BaehrJean-François GallotteIn this coming of age drama, a teenage hairdresser apprentice looking to lose her virginity befriends classmate that give her advice about sex. When she falls for a guy in school, she begins to learn the lay of the land.
- DirectorHervé HadmarStarsTchéky KaryoMonica BellucciDominique PinonThe torpedo BB and his psychopath right hand Melvin has a plan of robbing a former opera singer for one of his beloved rare fishes and sell it back to him. The opera singer is in love with Myrtille, but is also a crook.
- DirectorDenys ArcandMichel BraultAtom EgoyanStarsJacques AllardDenys ArcandBarbara ArsenaultSix stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsSabine AzémaPierre ArditiPeter HudsonAn examination of the possible consequences of a certain event.
- DirectorJacques-Yves CousteauLouis MalleStarsFrédéric DumasAlbert FalcoJacques-Yves CousteauA documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsLothaire BluteauPatrick GoyetteJean-Louis MilletteThe year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1994, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) has returned to Québec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc (Patrick Goyette), who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Québec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.
- DirectorJérôme BoivinStarsLise DelamareJean MercureJacques SpiesserA white bull terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AndrienStarsFanny ArdantJeremy IronsTchéky KaryoEdouard Pierson, a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia before World War II and was a pilot for the Allies, returns to Belgium in 1955 when his family's wool business faces bankruptcy. He is the single father of a 12-year old girl whom he leaves behind during the trip and whom his family doesn't know about. In Belgium, he meets a beautiful woman, Jeanne, the wife of his family's attorney, and an intense relationship develops. Edouard's relationship with his family has its ups and downs and many secrets are revealed before the movie's conclusion ties everything together.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsJacques BidouAnne Kravz-TarnavskyNarda BlanchetVincent lives in a village. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father.
- DirectorBob SwaimStarsNathalie BayePhilippe LéotardRichard BerryPolice compel a couple of criminals to become its informants.
- DirectorLuc PagèsStarsGad ElmalehCécile de FranceNathalie BoutefeuHalvard is madly in love with his beauty, because Pollux is the woman of his life. But it suddenly disappears - Halvard then has only one idea in mind: to find her at all costs. But this disappearance will create many worries.
- DirectorLouis-Pascal CouvelaireStarsJean-Hugues AngladeJoaquim de AlmeidaCyrille ThouveninFour partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsPatrick DewaereAriel BesseMaurice RonetAfter her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.
- DirectorMichel ReilhacSeries of 12 short movies from the start of the twentieth century, compiled by Michel Reilhac. These movies were the first adult movies, most of them were made in order to explain how sex works to unexperimented young men before their first relation with a prostitute...
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsStefano CassettiIsild Le BescoPatrick Dell'Isola'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsAndré BervilJean KeraudyMichel ConstantinDistrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.
- DirectorJean-Louis DanielStarsGötz OttoAngie EverhartJürgen ProchnowSupermodel Everhart is kidnapped by bad guy Prochnow and rescued by good guy Otto in technopop action.
- DirectorGérald CalderonStarsDidier SandreTake a majestic dive into the heart of the Ocean Origins, thrilled by the magic of the large format and enhanced with spellbinding music, Ocean Origins invites us to an extraordinary adventure: 4 billion years in the ocean, from the beginning of life until that incredible moment when the first vertebrate emerged onto dry land and opened the path to the conquest of the continents. With fascinating footage applying micro and macro-cinematography techniques filming creatures that are stil alive today, Ocean Origins shows how life forms diversified after the first bacteria appeared. Enhanced with spellbinding music composed by Bruno Coulais (Microcosmos, Himalaya) this film is a majestic invitation to dive into the heart of the Ocean Origins.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsThierry LhermitteMarion CotillardSamuel Le BihanIt's been six months since Rachel Siprien disappeared. At the request of Rachel's mother, private detective François takes over the investigation. The young woman, with a complex and multi-faceted personality, is part of a strange network made up of her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, her stepfather and everyone who knows her well or even slightly. François begins to frequent these various friends and acquaintances, and penetrates Rachel's daytime and nocturnal habitat. He spies, asks disturbing questions, and intentionally fills in the blanks left by those he questions.
- DirectorSerge KorberStarsLouis de FunèsGeraldine ChaplinOlivier De FunèsA politician picks up a couple of hitch hikers on the road. After a scary driving accident the car ends up on a tree above the sea.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJessica ParéVictoria SnowJessica MackenzieA young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
- DirectorGérard VienneStarsMichel PiccoliSusan SarandonFilmed over a period of five years, this is a documentary about monkeys, and how their world is not too different from our own. They share with man concerns for the search for affection, the care of children, and the struggle for power.
- DirectorMichel SpinosaStarsClotilde CourauVincent ElbazGéraldine PailhasSummer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms elsewhere, Paul marries Eve and Vincent weds Marie. The 70s are in full swing. Thanks to the pill, women's lives change radically, sexology is in, feminists's voices can be heard loud and clear but unrestricted and free access to abortion has yet to be attained. Against the backtop of a decade marked by sexual liberation, these three girls and two boys will cross each other's paths, love one another, split up and reunite.
- DirectorEmmanuel SilvestreThibault StaibStarsMichel VuillermozIsabelle CandelierPatrick LigardesTo save the local theater from ruin, the teacher from a small village in the South-West is putting on a piece of his composition with a team of trusted men.
- DirectorJean-Claude SussfeldStarsHippolyte GirardotPatrick BouchiteySalomé LelouchThis film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsChanning PollockFrancine BergéEdith ScobFavraux, an unscrupulous banker receives a threatening note signed only "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and seemingly faces his fate.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéMusidoraRené PoyenA twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.
- DirectorChristian de ChalongeStarsClaude RichMaria PacômeHippolyte GirardotA couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.
- DirectorJacques DorfmannPierre MagnyStarsLou Diamond PhillipsToshirô MifuneJennifer TillyIn Canada's North during the 1930s, a young Inuit kills a White trader and is pursued by the police but his father is determined to protect his fugitive son at any cost.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAhmed HafieneHind SabriOumayma Ben HafsiaThe 40-year-old Omrane is in charge to find maid placements in Tunis for the girls from his village. But the most rebel of the girls has escaped and he has to look for her to get her back in the right path. The girl refuses to lose the freedom she just obtained. For her part, the young Fedlah who was enthusiastic by going to town quickly discovers a world where childhood doesn't belong to.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsJean ValmontMichel EliasFrédéric LegrosPiel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
- DirectorWilliam KarelStarsPhilippe FaureChristiane KubrickJan HarlanThis hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements from many key players in NASA and the US government.
- DirectorSerge GainsbourgStarsSerge GainsbourgCharlotte GainsbourgRoland BertinStan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsSimone SignoretSerge ReggianiClaude DauphinThree gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsIsabelle AdjaniBruce RobinsonSylvia MarriottThe story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
- DirectorAnita AssalManuel FlècheJohn HudsonStarsPatrick BouchiteyAlain ChabatFrançois ChaumetteSitting at a cafe terrace, he waits for the one who answered his ad. To seduce her, he will have to listen to her stories, each more crazy than the next.
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsYves MontandMichel PiccoliSerge ReggianiThree friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money. The charming Vincent faces bankruptcy and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce.
- DirectorRobert GuédiguianStarsAriane AscarideJean-Pierre DarroussinGérard MeylanA 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.
- DirectorJulie Lopes-CurvalStarsHélène FillièresJonathan ZaccaïBulle OgierSeaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
- DirectorJacques-Rémy GirerdStarsPierre-Henri DutronMarie-Hélène LeschieraFrançoise MonneretOne cold winter day, the postman Grand-Jacques sees a wicker basket slowly fall from the sky, and inside the basket is a baby! The baby Charlie goes everywhere with his rattle and it holds a number of secrets.
- DirectorIsild Le BescoStarsCindy DavidKolia LitscherLila SaletFollows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo (Kolia Litscher), Launa (Lila Salet), and the youngest, Leo (Cindy David), left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMarie-Josée CrozeJean-Nicolas VerreaultStephanie MorgensternAfter plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsGérard LanvinMichel PiccoliMarie-France PisierIn a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
- DirectorIlan Duran CohenStarsPascal GreggoryNathalie RichardJulie GayetNo wonder Bisexual Attorney Alain is confused. He's bedding his female boss, his guilty of murder client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that 'he can have it all'.
- DirectorNicola SornagaStarsMatthieu MessagierNicola SornagaDinara DrukarovaYoung director Nicola leads a film team to interview Matthieu, restricted to a wheelchair and life in his windmill. Time and missed shots of the four seasons make Nicola realize the futility of his project. The film is more and more out of his control. He progressively falls into a quest of burlesque and poetic illumination.
- DirectorJean ImageStarsDominique PaturelPierre DestaillesSerge NadaudBaron Munchausen is informed by an astrologer cousin of his about the Selenites, an extraterrestrial race which is native to the Earth's Moon ("Selene" in Greek). The Selenites have reportedly discovered the secret to immortality. The Baron organizes an expedition to the Moon, hoping to convince them to share the secret with him. He and his companions arrive just as another alien race invades the Moon, and they are caught up in a war.
- DirectorJérôme Diamant-BergerStarsJulia MigenesSami FreyCharles DennerA famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsPatrick BouchiteyEtienne ChicotBernard CrombeyKlouk drives a station wagon with his friends.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusDominique MézeretteStarsJohn WayneBurt LancasterLana TurnerGeorge Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "cr*ppy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story ever told.
- DirectorEuzhan PalcyStarsGarry CadenatDarling LégitimusDouta SeckSet in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorMosco BoucaultStarsSimone SignoretGérard DesartheIlex BellerIn November 1943, 200 resisters from the Paris region were arrested by the Gestapo. 23 of them were shot on February 21, 1944. They are members of the "Manouchian" group, resisting communists foreigners, Jews for the most part.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsLouis de FunèsMichael LonsdaleClaude GensacA rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsPierre ProthonJean PélégriMarie DecaîtreA man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.
- DirectorRoger PlanchonStarsCarmen MauraMaxime MansionPaolo GraziosiThe title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. It was a dark and violent period, when the Louvre (meaning 'wolves hunt castle', hunting was a major aristocratic pastime), then still the somewhat gloomy royal palace, was the battle field of palace intrigues while the regency was held by queen-mother Anne of Austria but the actual head of the royal government was the aging cardinal Giulio Mazirini ('Mazarin'), the less-known Italian successor of Richelieu, who also introduced to the court and the kingdom a host of his countrymen from whom Louis would learn the passion for Italian culture, especially music which would flourish under the direction of Lully (but that later story is another movie, "Le Roi danse"). The elaborate script sketches the story of French power politics, too complicate and devious to summarize in any detail, but mainly from the viewpoint of the immature king under maternal guardianship, who probably didn't comprehend half of the grave troubles focusing on the strife between the official Catholic church and those claiming freedom of religion, especially for the Huguenots, but in reality mainly driven by personal and family ambitions and the grip of nobles on the kingdom at the expense of the royal power, and climaxing in a full rebellion, known as the Fronde, which forces the royal family to flee for their lives, an experience that may have decided Louis to dedicate his reign to preventing a repeat by establishing absolutism as he did. Some narration is done by Louis's younger brother Philip, the duke of Anjou, who seems smarter but as the spare heir is condemned to life in a golden cage, overshadowed by Louis while any 'disrespect' for his crowned sibling is punishable on the spot by strap lashes administered on his bare behind by a servant.
- DirectorPascal ThomasStarsBernard MenezChristiane ChamaretFrédéric DuruA light comedy where the very particular timbre of Bernard Menez and the accents of the countryside mingle happily and naturally.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsPhilippe NoiretFrançoise BrionMarlène JobertAlexandre, a young and honest farmer under the yoke of an authoritarian wife, works around the clock in the fields. When she dies in a car accident, it's a holiday for Alexandre.
- DirectorRoger CantinStarsMatthew DupuisRoxanne Gaudette-LoiseauJérôme Leclerc-CoutureEvery summer war games are played out between the rich kids and the not-so-rich. To assure a possible win, war leader Marc decided to add another tactic to these games--terrorism.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsJean RochefortClaude BrasseurGuy BedosAs loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?
- DirectorFranck LandronStarsBarbara SchulzAlexandre BrasseurZoé LandronSophie and Olivier are a young married couple who work in Paris as bakers. Out of the blue, they decide to buy a summer house on the seaside, but without actually seing it. When Sophie, along with her two kids, arrives first on the premices, she discovers that they have bought a house located in the midst of a nudist camp...
- DirectorAlain JessuaStarsJean-Pierre CasselClaudine AugerMichel DuchaussoyTwo cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsMichel PiccoliOttavia PiccoloJacques DutroncMiddle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsMarie GillainOlivier SitrukBruno PutzuluThree teenagers plan to steal the necessary funds to open their dream shop in the US, but things get messy.
- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsCoralie RevelSabrina SeyvecouRoger MiremontNathalie teaches Sandrine that sexual transgression can cause violent pleasure and give those who use it a powerful weapon to climb the social hierarchy. They decide to get a job in a bank, a place where victims abound.