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- During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.
- Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
- Violette and François are a couple with a child.As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs,François starts to steal.
- The story of a family is told from 1890 until present times. There are date meetings,wars,separations,betrayals,dramas,comical situations.
- A man goes to Canada looking for his son. The corpse of his son is later discovered by the Canadian police.
- The clumsy son of a deceased police hero joins the police and his task is to protect a reporter from the most famous gangster of Paris.
- A young filmmaker is struggling to get his autobiographical screenplay made into a film.
- Fabrice divests himself of all possessions :,he's got nothing but his soul,against the raging elements.
- A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
- A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.
- The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
- A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous novel. His aim is to adapt the work for the screen but several elements of the novel he finds difficult to comprehend. The author, Jeanne, is initially cautious of relaying information, insisting the presumably autobiographical book in no way relates to her personal life. However, eventually she takes the man into confidence to tell the background of Benvenuta. She paints the picture of a musical virtuoso who against her better judgment becomes involved with an Italian magistrate. It's a no-holds-barred passion of hot temperaments doomed to a miserable conclusion.
- A mysterious written message meant for a woman living in Saigon is passed on by a female missionary and a French soldier before they die.
- (1859, Savoy Alps) Joseph is a peddler who leaves his mountain village to travel through Northern Italy to sell cotton, thread, lace and trinkets. His road will be strewn with pitfalls and encounters, sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic.
- Exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, a powerfully impudent look into the world of gambling addicts, Suzie is cast among a stylish milieu of gamblers on a Portuguese island.
- In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
- When Peter (Nick Mancuso), Margaux's (Catherine Deneuve) American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy (Christopher Lambert) and Michel (Richard Anconina), and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
- Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
- A documentary tracing the international network of the Dole Pineapple Corporation.
- Pierre and Mathilde meet again after having been separated for ten years. They realize that they can not live without each other, but not under the same roof.
- Antoine loves Thérèse. He is a shepherd and tends the animals with his uncle Séraphin. Thérèse works in the village with her mother. One day, a landslide buries Antoine and Séraphin.
- This film is an update of Jean Cocteau's Orpheus, set in the world of 1980s rock.
- Foster, a cynical art critic, becomes more human thanks to his relationship with the young homosexual Claude.
- Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity.
- A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
- A scientist is busy searching for an ancient woman, and does not pay attention to modern ones. Until a day when a businesswoman decided to seduce him in order to use his sensational discoveries for commercial purposes.
- The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, it's a breath of fresh air in the form of real life, reality finally joins the dream.
- Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
- This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther is a veterinarian who is certain that her sister has been murdered by her brother-in-law. She convinces two members of the Academie Francaise, the prestigious institution that protects the virginity of the French language, to investigate. Both men are enamored of the woman and are quite willing to enter into competition for her favors. As might be expected from academicians of any ilk, they are inept at digging into a murder mystery and bumble their way through one incident after another. Corpses continue to pile up (not in front of the camera, however) while the two men are sidetracked by their interest in language. Given their positions, they do not want that murdered either.
- A sweet and sexy thug actually a wolf in a sheep clothing and a violent and abusive cop with rugged good looks and verging on criminality are inflamed with uncontrollable desire by the provocative and suggestive attitude of the latter's young wife. When she decides to go AWOL with the thug, the infuriated possessive and humiliated cop throws himself in a car chase after them under the scorching sun.
- On the evening of May 10, 1981, at the Bastille, five friends met Marie, a young pregnant woman.
- The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
- Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. They start to work for Briand and his wife Elaine as a gardener and a babysitter with the sole objective of wreaking havoc on their lives and avenging Bronsky's disabilities.
- At 40, François finds a little by chance a childhood friend, Leo. Twenty-five years earlier, they and their boyfriend Kuntchinsky formed a funny trio. They decide to make a "surprise" to Kuntchinsky and break into his villa near Grenoble.
- Gérard and Thierry are business partners who are accused of stealing a safe from a wealthy tycoon in this situation comedy. A practical joke backfires when the two make their colleague Daniel believe he has won the lottery. The owner of the safe calls the police, who chase after the scheming duo. The two steal the safe a second time to cover the loss of the money taken in the first burglary. Monique is the sultry police commissioner and former flame of the robbery victim who investigates the bizarre case.
- The roman catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes depicted in an anticlerical way: hypocrisy, superstition and business.
- A woman who hasn't seen her father in 18 years, learns of his death and goes to his estate in France to carry out his wishes. She then learns that her father was a thief who after getting caught and going to prison and upon his release was approached by an insurance company, who wanted him to use his talents in helping them recover some valuables that had been stolen, which became his new job. Now that he is gone, he wants her to continue his work.
- Costa, a projectionist in a porno cinema, plunges into a dark story of abduction, following a phone call that was not intended for him. Is Mome Pralier dead? Has the ransom been paid? Who killed Baumgartner? What's the doc up to in his clinic? AND SURTOUT - who is Irena? - and how far will she take Costa?.
- A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.
- Simon is a police officer at the Crime Repression Brigade. His boss, Pierre Tramoni, was his colleague for a long time before he became director of the Brigade. Tramoni is brilliant. He wants to move up fast and he's making it. Simon, for his part, likes the street, its odors, its mysteries. He's a hunter. For a few months, Simon and his men have been following a dangerous gang of young hoods; the Dijan brothers. Their goal: to catch them red-handed. In conducting his investigation, Simon discovers strange links between Tramoni and the gangsters he is after. The relationship between Simon and Tramoni takes another turn as Simon carefully prepares a ploy to uncover his boss' covert actions.
- In an isolated seaside cinema on a cliff, a beautiful young woman has a one night stand with the mysterious manager. Her older husband gets in a jealous fight with the lover, but when threatened by a bizarre motor gang, to survive both should cooperate as 'Intimate Enemies'.
- A revengeful nurse switches a girl and a boy at birth. They are raised in two radically different families. When the switch is revealed many years later, the now teenagers and families need to cope with their new environments.
- Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.