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- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, an 18th century painter, decides to use as a model a young washerwoman, Marianne, with whom he ends up falling in love.
- Listen to and experience the beautiful Moroccan-Jewish songs of Shabbat with Moroccan Rabbi Chaim Louk and his cantors at the Buffault Synagogue in Paris.
- A large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt
- A medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
- At the station buffet, two soldiers chat up Sophie. She does nothing to discourage them. On the contrary, she drags to a small hotel. But what a surprise for her to discover that the receptionist is Vincent, her former great love, that she has not seen for two years! They start a new affair together. Which will soon prove destructive...
- In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily. Since one of the patients is planning to "get married" the doctor takes all the patients out on the street and uses the wedding as an excuse. A person "who can not fly" goes out to the streets with them, but he only exists as a person in the minds of the patients. However, trouble starts arising on the first step they take outside the clinic. In freedom the patients (not used to the games of the "normal society") start doing whatever they want to or feel like, not paying attention to and ignoring the chaos they are causing...
- Using footage of her family she has shot on video for over a decade ,the filmmaker offers a personal vision of the complexities of the war in Lebanon.
- Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? Is he avoiding the despairing life his father can't escape from ?
- A political fable. A tragicomedy set in Marseille during the municipal elections of June 1995. In populist northern districts, they rally around the "Nord Ambition" of Bernard Tapie. In pushing for Tapie to take town hall, they count on his support for the northern districts, but difficulties and disappointments follow. Tapie ends up backing the very enemies of his followers, so what happens then? Big fish eat small ones. This is the fourth installment of the Marseille political saga which began with, "Marseille from father to son" (1989).
- The program breaks down the boundaries and tears down walls.
- The predicament of a woman who claims she is pregnant when she isn't. What started out as a mistake becomes a pretence that has to be carried through, with marriage and family relationships depending on the charade. She finds a solution that produces extraordinary consequences.
- Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
- After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kick boxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.
- Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
- When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions
- Modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel. After committing a murder, a young couple on the run find refuge in a remote cottage in the woods, where they become trapped by the perverse hermit who lives there.
- Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.
- Camille is having the time of her life, enjoying all that Paris' decadent nightlife has to offer a young single woman. She parties all night with sexual abandon, then stumbles home at dawn, hungover and ready to do it all over again. But things change when, by chance, she meets Alexis, a married father of two and a militant political activist.
- An Egyptian teenager finds himself at the crossroads of religious fundamentalism and family.
- Drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when people were deprived of their roots and forced to sit and watch their lives slip from their fingers. In a decrepit house that once belonged to a bourgeois family, several families seek shelter.
- While the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval, second generation Algerian immigrant Larbi gets mixed up in the festivities looking for the local girl Bea.
- Victim of a terrible accident, overnight the young Camille Balaise finds himself in another world; that of rehabilitation. His life till now no longer counts, what is to become of him he does not know. Cut off from the outside world, he must adapt to the bizarre universe of corridors, basements and dark passage-ways that make up this strange, sprawling town-like hospital, overseen by the fiery Dr Helpos. Following a dangerous and derisory initiation rite, Camille becomes part of the community known as the "wrecks", those who on the fringes of medical regulation dictate their own laws.
- Aurélie, five years old, is spending holidays with her grandmother with her sister and her young uncle. But one day their father, after fifteen years of absence, returns to the heart of the family clan, disturbing their summer peace.
- During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.
- In Beirut, during the civil war, part of the Lebanese fled to Europe, abandoning their large apartments, their majestic houses and their servants.
- The loss of their mother leads Suzanne and Marie to take care of their father when he thinks he is responsible for them. Despite difficult times, and after some surprising events, the family will be reunited again.
- Jean and Paddy haven't recovered from Ben's death. Ben was Paddy's lover but also Jean's. Their threesome filled their existence. Today, while they still love each other, Jean and Paddy are torn apart.
- The protagonist of the comedy action movie, Anton Chekhov, grew up in an orphanage and dreams of becoming a writer, but he is engaged in robbing safes. The fantastic book he wrote was the beginning of an affair with the girl Vika.
- On her birthday, Juliette begins to worry about the strange cleaner who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.
- Micheline, a somewhat confusing young girl, lives in Paris in a home for young women in difficulty. His grandmother, on the verge of death in hospital, is his only family.
- An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
- Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
- Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
- A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?
- Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
- When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
- An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
- With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.
- The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.
- Vengo is a majestic ode to the artistry and magic of flamenco dancing, set against the compelling backdrop of two gypsy families locked in an age old struggle for power.
- When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, two Israeli soldiers find themselves unable to locate their unit. Eager to take part in the war effort, they join an airborne medical evacuation unit.