An asylum patient must find her mother amid the guests at a large gala held at the hospital.
Judith Godrèche, who plays her fictional alter ego, returns to Paris after ten years of exile in Hollywood with the intention of making a comeback. Haunted by her past, Judith must confront the realities of her personal ambition and maternal angst with humor and disillusionment.
El vínculo profundo y excepcional entre un caballo y un joven jinete, y su incansable batalla para superar las adversidades tras un devastador accidente.
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?
Delphine
Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.
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Marie (sketch 'Thanatophilie')
Enfrentadas a sus fantasías más ocultas, seis parejas intentan explorar las facetas más oscuras de su vida íntima. Seis puestas en cuestión sobre el acceso al placer. Desde los juegos de rol a la abstinencia, pasando por el exhibicionismo, seis historias distintas alrededor del mismo cuestionamiento sobre lo que es el deseo hoy en día.
Caroline (segment "La réunion de chantier")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
Paula
Paul y Virginia forman una pareja joven y ocupada: él trabaja como diseñador de cómics y ella aprueba sus exámenes para ser maestra. Y la cereza del pastel es que acaban de tener un bebé, un nacimiento que es también la alegría y el orgullo de los padres de la pareja. Ambos buscan con desesperación una niñera, pues no han encontrado un lugar en una guardería, pero al no quedar ninguna otra opción, los abuelos son los primeros en ofrecerse a cuidar del “boutchou”. En Una familia en apuros, los cuatro nuevos abuelos comienzan rápidamente a competir por el control exclusivo del bebé, cada uno con métodos específicos, en una rivalidad que se sale de control. Odile y Raoul, los padres de Virginie, quieren que Paul y Virginie se establezcan cerca de su casa, en el País Vasco. Por otro lado, a pesar de estar divorciados, Paula y Roberto, los padres de Paul, se unen para hacer todo lo posible para mantenerlos en París, cerca de ellos.
Irène Haffner 60 ans
Después de 20 años de matrimonio, María decide dejar a su esposo. Ella se muda a la habitación 212 del hotel al otro lado de la calle, con una vista panorámica de su departamento, su esposo y la vida que compartió con él. Si bien se pregunta si tomó la decisión correcta, muchas de las personas en su vida ofrecen sus opiniones al respecto. Tienen la intención de hacerle saber, si le gusta o no, sobre lo que resulta ser una noche que cambia la vida.
Lucie
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
Nathalie Leproux
A Michel, un entusiasta del jazz, le basta encontrar un album raro para ponerse a escucharlo tranquilamente sentado en su salón. Pero el mundo entero parece tener otros planes para él: su esposa quiere hablarle, su hijo aparece de improviso, su vecino llama a la puerta, incluso su amante requiere su atención. Manipulador y mentiroso, Michel está desesperado por obtener algo de paz, pero hará falta mucha energía para que esa dulce mañana no se transforme en una verdadera pesadilla.
A documentary about Luis Buñuel's 1977 film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, featuring interviews with the leading ladies, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina.
Alice
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Judith
A middle-aged writer is looking for a quiet retreat; a slightly younger female estate agent gives him details of a house a close to Venice.
The courted dominatrix affected by reality TV
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
Marthe
Aude Lettelier
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Denise
Julia
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
Mme Drohne
Cansados de las constantes travesuras de los indisciplinados niños que no aceptan ninguna autoridad, los adultos de Timpelbach deciden abandonar la ciudad para darles una lección. ¡Una ciudad sin padres! No es una mala noticia para todo el mundo. Una vez solos, sin adultos, las dos bandas intentarán hacerse con el control de la aldea, pero se darán cuenta de que no todo es tan fácil como creían, y que cuidarse a sí mismos es más duro de lo que pensaban.
la mère de fil de fer
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
Hélène
Melina Havelock (archive footage)
A tour of the Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only'.
Anna
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
La Reine
Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has no choice but to marry his daughter to a wealthy prince. As preparations are made for a ball that will set the seal on the marriage, the princess discovers that she is in love.
Marie, la mère
París, años 80. Un hombre que acaba de salir de prisión es rechazado por su mujer. En presencia de sus tres hijas, se inicia una violenta disputa que se salda con el suicidio del padre. Con el paso del tiempo las relaciones familiares entre las hermanas se rompen. Sophie, la mayor, casada con un fotógrafo con el que tiene dos hijos, está atravesando un momento difícil. Anne, la más pequeña, estudia arquitectura y mantiene una relación pasional con Frédéric, uno de sus profesores. Céline, que es la única que visita a su madre, que está recluida en una residencia, conoce a un tipo encantador llamado Sébastien, pero no puede ni siquiera imaginar que le revelará un sorprendente secreto que facilitará el acercamiento entre las hermanas y les permitirá superar su pasado.
Chantal Letellier
Chantal Letellier (Carole Bouquet) es lo que se dice "una mujer admirable": abogada progresista, se empeña con todas sus fuerzas en defender a los débiles y desvalidos indocumentados de París. Siendo atractiva y convincente, logra sus objetivos a menudo. Cuando obtiene el permiso de trabajo para un joven arquitecto colombiano, decide contratarlo para hacer pequeños trabajos de rehabilitación en su casa. El arquitecto trae consigo a un equipo de compatriotas sin papeles, que no son precisamente unos especialistas en la materia.
Hélène
Después de haberlo sacrificado casi todo para alcanzar el éxito profesional, Hélène (Carole Bouquet), una madura y bella francesa, decide cambiar radicalmente de vida. Su deseo de ser madre la lleva hasta Argentina en busca de un niño al que adoptar. Allí descubre Nordeste, una región salvaje cuya asombrosa belleza contrasta violentamente con la miseria de sus habitantes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Geneviève Massu
At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do not want it to seem Daniel is receiving any special treatment. Daniel is now faced with the challenge of earning the trust and respect of the other students, who all come from troubled backgrounds.
Hélène
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Béatrice
Mientras son conducidos a otra prisión, dos reos peligrosos consiguen fugarse. Con la policía pisándoles los talones, se refugian en los suburbios, en la hermosa casa de los Rozes. Pero pronto descubrirán que la vida de esta familia no es tan normal como a primera vista pudiera parecer. (FILMAFFINITY)
La reine
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Anne d'Autriche
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
Lulu
Un grupo de amigos se van juntos de vacaciones. Elizabeth, una glamourosa ama de casa, se ofrece a compartir habitación con Julie, una chica soltera, y su bebé. El marido de Elizabeth aprovecha la ocasión para quedarse en la ciudad y pasar una semana con su amante. Vero y Jerôme, viajan con su hijo Loic, aunque no se alojan en el mismo hotel. Muy pronto, Vero se ofrece para cuidar a la hija de Julie, con el fin de convencerla para que ayude a Loic a perder la virginidad. Mientras tanto, Lulu y Jean-Pierre, tienen problemas debido a los obsesivos celos de éste.
Sofia
Hubert Fiorentini es un inspector de policía con unos métodos un poco ortodoxos, pero con un tierno corazón, al que obligatoriamente le darán unas vacaciones forzadas, ya que acaba de pelearse con el hijo del jefe de policía. Dos días después recibe la llamada de un abogado desde Tokyo, informándole que Miko, la mujer de su vida, que había desaparecido hacía 20 años, había muerto. Y lo que le había dejado en el testamento, no era ni dinero, ni presentes, ni nada material; le había dejado a su propia hija, Yumi, una extravagante adolescente, adicta a ir de compras, y con doscientos millones de dólares en su cuenta.
Madame de...
The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family jeweler Remy earrings — a gift from her husband…
Bérénice
An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).
Anna Ghirardi
Jascha Steg, un violonchelista mundialmente conocido, se encuentra en un momento de su vida en el que la gloria ya no significa nada para él. Durante una gira internacional, sus padres, a quienes no ha visto desde hace tiempo, deciden ir a verle actuar. Allí se encuentran con Lulú Kreutz, una antigua amiga de toda la vida. Ella será la encargada de organizar un gran encuentro. Jascha, sus padres, su tío, Lulú y su gran amor, la violinista Anna
Mina
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far enough away that he'll only be able to come home on weekends. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
Viviane
Un abogado defiende a una joven acusada de robo. Con el tiempo, entre ambos surge una historia de amor que lleva al letrado a divorciarse de su esposa.
Louise de Rénal
In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
Lucie Aubrac
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Interviewer
German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director.
Carole Bouquet
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
Kate Swallow
Kate, una atractiva mujer, vive a la sombra de su marido, Alec Bolton, un famoso escritor que en realidad es un hombre egocéntrico e introvertido. Kate sueña con triunfar también con escritora, y acaba manteniendo un idilio extraconyugal con Vanni, un editor estadounidense que está a punto de publicar su primera novela.
Female Guest
La mujer de Paul, cansada de que su voluble marido la engañe, lo abandona. Desde entonces, en lugar de aprovecharse de esta nueva libertad, Paul espera que vuelva, y se cansa de esperar. Pide consejo a su tío soltero, y para él sólo existe una solución: deshacerse de la mujer. Para ello utilizan a Vicente, un marido engañado.
Herself
Part II of a compilation movie featuring European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.
Margherita
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
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En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.
Florence Barthélémy
Bernard Barthélémy es un vendedor de coches que vive satisfecho y está casado con Florence, una mujer bellísima y adorable. Un día llega a su oficina Colette, la nueva secretaria, una mujer poco agraciada y sin atractivo alguno. Inesperadamente, entre ambos se desata una pasión arrolladora que a ellos mismos les resulta inexplicable. Tal vez los misterios de la pasión no sólo sean oscuros, sino también crueles.
Clara
La historia trata de la caída de una dictadura imaginaria. Las clases dirigentes derrocadas se refugian en el Bunker Palace Hotel, construido para esta clase de contingencias; entre ellos se infiltra un espía rebelde.
Princess Soraya
Película que reúne tres historias independientes: "Apuntes al natural", de Scorsese; "Vida sin Zoe", de Coppola; "Edipo reprimido", de Woody Allen. Están dirigidas por tres maestros de nuestro tiempo y ambientadas en Nueva York: 1. Un pintor egoísta y genial mantiene una difícil relación con una aspirante a artista. 2. Una niña millonaria pretende conseguir que sus padres, siempre ausentes, se reconcilien. 3. Un mago hace desaparecer a la dominante madre de un abogado, pero la mujer reaparece en el cielo de Manhattan para seguir entrometiéndose públicamente en la vida de su hijo.
Lucrezia von Planta
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Eleonore
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
Hélène
In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old friends, and at one point they decide to go out and search for one of their childhood buddies, the brunt of several of their practical jokes. In true form, the men opt for playing yet another practical joke on their friend, but their plans backfire when his wife Helene (Carole Bouquet) comes into the picture instead. Her presence forces them to reconsider their shenanigans in a new light.
Isabelle Rodin
Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.
Rals-Akrai
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
Babée Senanques
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
Héméré
Dagoberto I, rey de los Francos, mientras atraviesa un bosque acompañado de sus guerreros, hace un solemne juramento: si consigue salvar la vida, emprenderá una larga peregrinación hacia Roma y, una vez allí, pedirá indulgencia al papa por sus muchos pecados.
Mystère
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.
Laura
The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
Carole
Carol es una mujer joven insatisfecha y exigente con la vida. Para probarse a sí misma se hace pasar por terrorista. Es internada y mantenida en observación en una residencia, a pesar de no estar enferma. El suicidio de un paciente la hará enfrentarse a la realidad y tratar de volver a la normalidad.
Melina Havelock
El agente 007 debe acudir a recuperar el ATAC, un dispositivo militar secreto de guía por satélite, antes de que sea vendido a los rusos.
Nada
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.
Valentine
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
La jeune femme
Comedia negra sobre la soledad y la deshumanización del mundo actual que narra las peripecias de tres hombres: Alphonse Tram, un joven desempleado; su vecino, el policía Morvandieu, y el asesino de la mujer de Alphonse.
Conchita
Durante un viaje en tren, de Sevilla a Madrid, el otoñal caballero Mathieu cuenta a sus compañeros de vagón la historia de sus infortunios amorosos con la bailarina Conchita. A partir de su primer encuentro, Conchita juega con la obsesión de Mathieu, haciéndolo pasar del deseo a la frustración y del amor al odio más furibundo
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