Fabienne Babe

After 30 years of exile in Paris, Jana travels back to Vilnius. She wants to see again the lake that Paulius, her first love, called “Walden”.

Eighteen-year-old Victor loses his parents in a car accident three months before his baccalauréat. He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a chateau with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.

A theater actress leaves her show to retire with her sick son to her childhood city.

At his grand-mother's death, Jean, a fourteen-year old teenager inherits the file of a mysterious court case from 1895. Fascinated by this archive, both real and fictitious, Jean becomes the judge of a criminal case completed more than a century ago.

A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey.

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat. As they move through security checks, relationships are made and broken, tongues loosen, tension mounts… until finally a riot erupts behind bars.

Una mañana Pierre deja a Paul. Conduciendo en su Alfa Romeo, atraviesa toda Francia, con sus llanuras, montañas, sin destino preciso. Pierre utiliza Grindr, una aplicación de su móvil que le localiza oportunidades de ligue. Pero Paul también recurre a ella para seguir a Pierre. Al cabo de cuatro días y cuatro noches de encuentros -sexuales o no-, ¿volverán Pierre y Paul a encontrarse?

Claire, de 17 años, pasa las vacaciones en Sudáfrica con su familia, pero todos mueren en un accidente, y ella huye, convencida de ser la responsable del drama.

A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.

Una pareja y su sirvienta travesti planean una orgía. Entre los invitados, se esperan La perra, La estrella, El semental y El adolescente. Eso sí, antes de entrar en materia, deberán conocerse unos a otros.

Marie se va de casa para vivir y estudiar piano en el conservatorio de la ciudad de Lyon. Por razones económicas comparte piso con Emma, una amiga de la infancia, que vive sola en su casa desde que murió su padre y le abandonó su madre. Marie se somete a la disciplina cada vez más estricta que le impone su compañera de piso. Emma le fascina, le domina, le confunde; Marie lucha entre su deseo por Emma y su necesidad de escaparse de ella, apoyándose en su amor al piano.

Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.

A survey of various gay cruising sites around France.

Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.

Alice loves those who make her dream. Saleswoman in a video shop where she is bored, she longs for another life. Fortunately, she meets the beautiful Mickey whom she falls in love with. Mickey disappears and leaves Alice without news. Separation acts as a revelation. Finally they meet again. Alice decides to tackle everything and go on an adventure with him.

Dos adolescentes que son amigos comienzan a experimentar sentimientos de amor, durante el verano.

The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.

Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), una mujer de cuarenta años que vive en Niza, hace tiempo que ha perdido sus ilusiones y se dedica a la prostitución para sobrevivir. Sus relaciones con su hija (Maud Forget), una adolescente de catorce años, son crispadas y desesperantes, pero un día se produce un drama que las obliga a huir juntas.

Veteran film director Matty Bonkers, a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin for an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film Mockery, he receives a phone call from his producer lying in intensive care at a hospital. Blau needs a favor for old times' sake. Could Matty finish a porn movie before his legs get broken by Tokyo Tony? Matty reluctantly agrees. On the set he meets movie star and ex-cello-player Inga - and the experience is bizarre spirited uplifting a comédie humaine.

Chantal is employed one summer to look after Paul, 16. He is suffering from an incurable illness that contributes to his violent, aggressive temperament. With Nelly, the family cook, to help, Chantal tries to befriend the young patient. To escape the oppressive reality of her job, Chantal dreams. She dreams of her favorite singers and other popular idols who reassure her the time it takes to sing a few songs.

Based on a notorious novel by Louis Calaferte, this erotic drama concerns a man exploring the boundaries of female sexuality through a variety of sexual encounters with beautiful women he barely knows. La Mecanique des Femmes features copious male and female nudity as the nameless leading character discusses sex and sensuality with his predominantly female supporting cast.

In this mock documentary, television journalist Christie and her camera crew trace the history and nefarious exploits of the new terrors of the French criminal underworld. The "Old School" Gang are four young men who grew up in the same orphanage; led by Letiole, they affect outlandish mid-'70s fashions and a retro-gangster/neo-blaxploitation persona as they rob, loot, and shoot their way through the seamy underbelly of Paris.

Historia de dos gemelos idénticos, el encantador Elliot y el introvertido Beverly. Son las caras opuestas de una misma personalidad: comparten las mismas costumbres, el mismo apartamento y la misma mujer. Pero, cuando entra en sus vidas una mujer especial, el vínculo que une a los gemelos, se ve, por primera vez, amenazado. Y esta amenaza se traduce en el descenso a un abismo de perversión, drogas y locura.

The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying…

La vie est dure, nous aussi is a sentimental comedy with a protagonist who is extremely discreet, extremely solitary and extremely egotistical. Charles, a native of Marseilles, is now living in Paris, and he has to take care of the dog of a girlfriend. He is also an insomniac and a hypochondriac. But he has one virtue: he loves to listen to people. Walking the dog opens up new territories for Charles who is discovering something new each day. One day a girl crosses his path, and he immediately recognizes her as the love of his life. There is one problem. How is he going to find her?

In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a six-month sentence for drug smuggling; he protests his innocence and will do anything to secure an early release. Francky is a hardened criminal who has all but lost his wife and family and who seeks comfort in self-inflicted abuse. Kader is in prison for theft; he is the most philosophical of the three men, he is growing accustomed to prison life and seems to prefer it to the world outside.

A female journalist becomes re-acquainted with an Algerian ex- colleague when she visits Beirut, and begins an affair with him.

En mitad de la noche un grito desgarrador despierta a Justin, un niño de diez años: es su madre que llora la inesperada muerte de su marido. Los demás tratarán de ocultarle la verdad sobre las actividades de su padre, sobre el policía Alex, sobre Marie, la profesora de Filosofía, sobre Juliette y sobre su hermano Jimmy.

A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).

Película francesa

An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son’s young American tutor.

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon—and is also Eloi’s daughter.

A naive, sixteen-year-old boy named Richard becomes involved with a single mother after babysitting her child.

Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline's wager.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

Angelo and two of his buddies set out to rob a Swiss bank, and from the start things don't go well. The man driving the getaway car packed up and left before anyone could connect him with the crime, and Angelo's other partner got shot and killed. The best he can do is grab someone's cash-filled briefcase and take a car and its driver hostage. It turns out that the driver is the daughter of the bank director, so he figures that she's good for ransom money and begins negotiations for that. Meanwhile, the briefcase he took at the bank turns out to have belonged to a man who is willing to hire killers to get it back for him. The situation grows increasingly perilous for him, and he decides to flee the scene but not before he has won the heart of his lovely hostage.

In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success.

Desde el fallecimiento de su abuela, Bruno pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo en soledad, inmerso en su propio mundo imaginario, hasta que un día conoce a Jean-Roger, un chico de su edad que proviene de una familia conflictiva. En la escuela una profesora dará clases extra a Bruno con tal de alejarle de la mala influencia que Jean-Roger ejerce sobre él, lo cual alimentará la actitud agresiva del segundo, que tiene miedo de quedarse sin su único amigo. (

Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.

Año 1985, Berlín Este. Klaus Drittemann es un cantautor que se ve obligado a trasladarse a occidente. Ya en el año 1968, debido a una canción reivindicativa, fue incitado a abandonar el país y a reconocer su provocación, eludiendo a cambio cualquier tipo de proceso, pero entonces se negó por el amor a su patria. Ahora, no obstante y casi veinte años después, triste y desilusionado, elige el mismo camino que realizó su padre Jacob tiempo atrás. Para ello se despide de su hijo Thomas, su padrastro y su madre Rosa. Una vez en el Berlín occidental consigue alojamiento gracias a Lucy Bernstein, quien le ofrece un contrato discográfico para la Taube Records. Klaus también pide su apoyo para poder reencontrarse con su padre, ya que hace mucho tiempo que no sabe nada de él. Lucy le encomienda a Emma de Baen, una mujer francesa que, gracias a su trabajo como periodista, puede ayudarle en una búsqueda que le permitirá descubrir una etapa desconocida y sorprendente de la vida de su padre.

Wahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

En la Alta Provenza, en los dominios de Hurlevent, los hermanos Catherine (Fabienne Babe) y Guillaume Sévenier (Olivier Cruveiller) se ven enfrentados a causa de Roch (Lucas Belvaux), un niño abandonado, que es acogido por el señor Sévenier e incorporado a la familia. La relación entre el salvaje Roch y la exquisita Catherine trasciende las barreras de la fraternidad o el amor convencional, y provoca los celos de Guillaume que hace todo lo posible por denigrar a Roch, y separarlo de su hermana. Durante una escapada clandestina, Roch y Catherine descubren la mansión de los Lindon, una adinerada familia de la alta burguesía. Poco después Olivier Lindon (Olivier Torres) pide la mano de Catherine. Roch, desesperado, huye. Años después reaparece, después de haber hecho fortuna. A pesar de que Catherine esta casada, el tormentoso vínculo que los une sigue intacto...

When her housemate Sara disappears, leaving behind herself a trail of videotaped diaries, Gloria investigates to find out what happened to her with the help of Sara's would be boyfriend, Vittorio