Jean-Pierre Améris

John Duxbury, a fifty-year-old man disappointed by his life, sees his wife die from a fatal fall while they are on vacation together. And while an accident is initially thought to be the cause of death, suspicions soon turn to John... especially since a witness claims to have seen him push his wife.

David, un joven campesino de Cantal, acaba de tener una idea: para salvar su finca de la quiebra, va a montar un cabaret en ella. El espectáculo será en el escenario y también en el plato, con buenos productos locales. David está seguro de que solo puede funcionar. Sus familiares, su madre y especialmente su abuelo, son más escépticos.

David, un joven campesino de Cantal, acaba de tener una idea: para salvar su finca de la quiebra, va a montar un cabaret en ella. El espectáculo será en el escenario y también en el plato, con buenos productos locales. David está seguro de que solo puede funcionar. Sus familiares, su madre y especialmente su abuelo, son más escépticos.

Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?

Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?

Angélique makes beautiful chocolates, carefully infused with all the emotion that seems to overwhelm her in daily life. Jean-René runs a chocolate factory that is running out of steam, rather like his own existence. Both seek help from the usual sources: Jean-René favours self-help tapes and Angélique joins a support group, Les Émotifs Anonymes. Romantics Anonymous is an unusual and tender love story in which the obstacles to happiness are not the usual external barriers, but those sneaky little ones we know all too intimately: the ones within.

Leo Cramps, 30, is illiterate. One day, having failed to read instructions, he is the victim of an accident at the factory where he is a worker. Immobilized, he meets his neighbor, a nurse and a single mother passionate about reading.

A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in order to get better ?

A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in order to get better ?

Paul-André es un hombre tímido e introvertido. Es rico pero se siente solo, y decide que lo que necesita realmente es una familia. Violette se enfrenta a perder la custodia de sus dos hijos. Paul-André le ofrece un contrato para 'alquilar' a su familia a cambio de que él pague sus deudas y evite perder a sus hijos.

Paul-André es un hombre tímido e introvertido. Es rico pero se siente solo, y decide que lo que necesita realmente es una familia. Violette se enfrenta a perder la custodia de sus dos hijos. Paul-André le ofrece un contrato para 'alquilar' a su familia a cambio de que él pague sus deudas y evite perder a sus hijos.

Basada en hechos reales que sucedieron a finales del siglo XIX, es la histora de Marie Heurtin, una joven sordomuda y ciega de catorce años que no puede comunicarse con el mundo que le rodea, sumergiéndose por tanto en un horrible mundo de tinieblas. El padre de la pequeña, sin seguir el consejo del doctor que pretende internarla en un manicomio al considerar que Marie sufre idiocia, éste decide llevarla al Instituto de Larnay, cerca de Poitiers, regentado por una congregación de monjas que se ocupan de niñas, adolescentes y mujeres sordas.

Basada en hechos reales que sucedieron a finales del siglo XIX, es la histora de Marie Heurtin, una joven sordomuda y ciega de catorce años que no puede comunicarse con el mundo que le rodea, sumergiéndose por tanto en un horrible mundo de tinieblas. El padre de la pequeña, sin seguir el consejo del doctor que pretende internarla en un manicomio al considerar que Marie sufre idiocia, éste decide llevarla al Instituto de Larnay, cerca de Poitiers, regentado por una congregación de monjas que se ocupan de niñas, adolescentes y mujeres sordas.

Nueva adaptación de la novela de Víctor Hugo del mismo título. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nueva adaptación de la novela de Víctor Hugo del mismo título. (FILMAFFINITY)

Angélique y Jean-René, dos personas extremadamente tímidas, acuden a una terapia de grupo para gente acomplejada y con problemas de comunicación, pero, de repente, se enamoran a primera vista. Sin embargo, su relación se verá entorpecida debido a sus dificultades para relacionarse.

Angélique y Jean-René, dos personas extremadamente tímidas, acuden a una terapia de grupo para gente acomplejada y con problemas de comunicación, pero, de repente, se enamoran a primera vista. Sin embargo, su relación se verá entorpecida debido a sus dificultades para relacionarse.

A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?

A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?

A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.

Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

Serge Perrin is 23 and unusually happy at the prospect of spending the rest of his life in jail for a series of crimes he did not commit. This black French comedy attempts to explain via flashback the twisted reasons why an innocent youth would so cavalierly throw away his freedom.