Serge Riaboukine

For the first time, Marie spends her holidays alone with her kids, without her husband. One evening, she is seduced by a strange and fascinating young man, who slowly set a trap for her. Then the night turns into a nightmare...

The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges willy-nilly, until fate puts them face to face with one another. In one version of the film, the main couple is made up of a man and a woman, in the other version, two women.

Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.

Twenty-five years after the assassination of her son Olivier in 1977, Nicole Parmentier asks for a meeting with Eric Gaubert who has just served his sentence for these acts.

Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.

Cuando Gino (Matthias Schoenaerts) conoce a Bénédicte ( Adèle Exarchopoulos), surge el amor a primera vista, apasionado e incondicional. Ella trabaja en el negocio familiar, pero su hobbie es conducir coches de carreras. Él es un chico normal y corriente que esconde un secreto que puede poner en peligro su vida y la de los que le rodean. Juntos tendrán que hacer frente a su turbulenta historia y contra el destino, la razón y sus propios miedos para salvar su amor.

To finish his script, Jonas is ordered by his producer to work with a talented Parisian scriptwriter, whose arrival at his home effects his life in unimaginable ways.

Tras su divorcio, Pauline ejerce como abogado en un pueblo y se enfrenta a su primer caso. Debe defender a un acusado por incendiar intencionadamente su granja, provocando la muerte de su hermano.

A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.

Ernest Krakenkrick and Bachir Bouzouk are about to become pilots in the French army. But after the bad consequences of a test undertaken with the centrifuge, they are forced to give up their dream. They are eventually given the position of baggage handler at Orly-West Airport in Paris. But one night, there is a hostage-taking in the airport and the "Moustachious", a group of terrorists, take hold of the control tower.

En una llanura infinita barrida por el viento, Cochise y Gilou, dos cazadores de recompensas inseparables están buscando un teléfono robado con contenido muy importante. Su camino se cruza con el de Esther y Willy, una pareja en fuga.

Pareja joven recién casada. Pronto viene un niño. Felicidad perfecta. Para su luna de miel, Emma y David eligieron una casa en el bosque. Pero la aventura se convierte en drama: atacada por un hombre enmascarado, Emma escapa a la muerte. Para la policía, sin duda, David es el sospechoso número uno: su extraña negativa a cooperar, su ausencia inexplicable en el momento de los hechos, el testimonio de un vecino, la fortuna que heredaría ... ¿Sabe ella realmente el hombre con el que se casó?

Sigue a tres rockeros que pronto cumplirán los 50 y tendrán que enterrar a su mejor amigo, el cantante del grupo. Por amistad decidirán llevar sus cenizas de gira por Estados Unidos, pero una noche antes de iniciar ese recorrido, un militar se presentará en casa confesando haber sido el amante de su difunto amigo. Entonces, su gira americana dará un giro inesperado

A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to burn it down. But he locks himself in a courtyard by mistake. He stays trapped for days, the neighborhood being deserted. He tries communicating with the few remaining residents and changes from a civilized being to a beast, until finding new perspectives. Will he leave the courtyard, or not?

Arnaud, es un hombre que ama los objetos; le gusta tener , poseer todo lo que se le antoja, lo que ama. Le gusta la sensación y emoción que conlleva la posesión de algo...

Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.

For some time the village was just sentenced to silence and dust. Not a soul out there, not even a noise. However this evening, something is moving again.

Kad, un joven marroquí que vive en las afueras de Toulouse, se ve en la obligación de escapar tras haber engañado a una banda de traficantes de droga. El es enviado con unos "amigos" extranjeros a una asociación humanitaria. Pero la asociación se revela como un lugar de reclutamiento terrorista.

After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever regaining his freedom.

The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness, until a violent event marks their meeting of a strange complicity.

Debut en el largometraje de Nicolas Provost, autor de galardonados cortos. El fim narra la odisea de Amadou, un africano que es arrastrado por el mar a una playa del sur de Europa. El destino lo lleva a Bruselas, donde, lleno de optimismo, trata de labrarse un futuro mejor.

Vincent, un oficial de policía, y su compañero Manuel roban una gran cantidad de cocaína a José Marciano, un despiadado criminal que no tarda en buscar venganza, poniendo en peligro la vida, la carrera y la familia de Vincent.

Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison. Commander Damico promises him freedom in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses. There is no other solution, she is obliged to compel him by force.

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?

March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins...

Marguerite Jeanne Japy was born in Beaucourt, France to a family of fortune. She married French painter Adolphe Steinheil in July 1890. Steinheil did not enjoy much artistic success but made a good living painting society portraits and restoring church windows.In 1897 Marguerite became the mistress of French President Félix Faure .

La ciudad de Marsella está en estado de shock. Angèle, una mujer depresiva y alcohólica de unos cincuenta años, se ha tirado de la ventana de un edificio del centro de la ciudad. Su violenta muerte provoca la vuelta de un personaje de mala fama perteneciente al pasado de la ciudad. Se trata de Romain Garraud, que acaba de salir de prisión tras 15 años encarcelado por la violación de una menor. La víctima, Isabelle, hija de Angèle, tenía 8 años cuando se cometió el delito. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nicolás vive feliz y querido por sus padres, con una pandilla de amiguetes con los que se lo pasa bomba...; no quiere para nada que las cosas cambien. Pero un buen día, Nicolás oye una conversación entre sus padres por la que entiende que su madre está embarazada. Le entra tal terror que se imagina lo peor: le va a caer encima un hermanito que acaparará todos los cuidados de sus padres... hasta el punto de que hasta puede que acabe abandonado en un bosque como Pulgarcito.

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.

Shirley and Dino arrive in Paris to take over a cabaret inherited from their uncle. On the verge of bankruptcy, the establishment is coveted by local hoodlums, ready to do anything to get rid of the new owners. But this is without counting on the inventiveness, innocence and tenacity of Shirley and Dino... who have one week to save their Cabaret Paradis.

Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and even has the same name as the Serge Gainsbourg chanson he’s struggling to learn “Laetitia”. Not so much a passionate love story as a finely woven, laconic film about what it’s like to be just that little bit in love.

André decide suicidarse pero, cuando está a punto de hacerlo, descubre que no es el único: a su lado, una joven está por tomar la misma decisión. André decide salvarla, y este encuentro cambiará totalmente su vida...

En el verano de 1938, en el corazón de la Indochina, colonia francesa, Pierre Balsan escucha las últimas noticias sobre Hitler conquistando Checoslovaquia tras haber invadido Austria. La Segunda Guerra Mundial traerá aún más problemas para Pierre Balsan, apodado El tigre, que va a ser acusado del asesinato de su esposa.

In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.

Christian Lespinglet (Gérard Jugnot), un galerista arruinado, saca de las aguas de un canal a Boudu (Gérard Depardieu), un vagabundo suicida y se lo lleva a casa por algún tiempo. La llegada de Boudu pondrá patas arriba la vida de Lespinglet. El "Huracán Boudu" no sólo interrumpe en su vida cotidiana, sino que amenaza con quedarse indefinidamente... (FILMAFFINITY)

Es la historia de seres humanos que saben perfectamente qué harían en el lugar de otra persona, pero que no lo hacen muy bien cuando les toca a ellos.

In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.

Para Niemans el hombre que encontraron emparedado en un monasterio de Lorena no es una víctima cualquiera. Las marcas esotéricas grabadas a su alrededor y el extraño rito de su sacrificio hacen pensar en algo muy distinto… Paralelamente, en la zona se van multiplicando los asesinatos. En todos los casos unos misteriosos monjes dotados de una fuerza sobrenatural eliminan de manera espectacular a una serie de desconocidos y luego desaparecen sin dejar rastro. ¿Quiénes son estos ángeles del apocalipsis que van sembrando el terror? ¿Qué relación tienen con las profecías de las sagradas escrituras? Niemans y Reda (Benoît Magimel) no entienden nada, hasta que se dan cuenta de que todas las víctimas tienen el mismo nombre y la misma profesión que los apóstoles.

En la mitología germánica, el momento anterior al Apocalipsis, en el que se trastocan los valores y caen las más altas torres, se conoce como "El tiempo del lobo". Una familia de clase media (padre, madre y dos hijos) huye de la catástrofe ocurrida en la ciudad, y se refugia en su casa de campo. Piensan que así lograrán librarse del caos generalizado, pero pronto comprenderán que eso es de todo punto imposible.

A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.

Una ciudad costera del norte de España a la que el desarrollo industrial ha hecho crecer desaforadamente. Un grupo de hombres recorren cada día sus empinadas calles, buscando salidas de emergencia. Son funambulistas de fin de mes, sin red y sin público, sin aplausos al final; viven en la cuerda floja del trabajo precario y sobreviven gracias a sus pequeñas alegrías y rutinas.

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it although their platonic relationship is more about him supporting her in bad relationship choices than anything else. When he sees a beautiful woman called Olga in a bookstore, Julien is smitten and sets about to set up someway of impressing her and winning her affection.

A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon

Tom, español, padre de familia, rondando los cuarenta, un tipo corriente y razonablemente feliz. Sin embargo, a su alrededor todo se tambalea: una compañera de trabajo se ha enamorado de él; su mejor amigo pasa por una mala racha con sus hijos adolescentes; su vecino, policía, está celoso de su esposa.... y todos ellos acuden a Tom. Pero él tiene sus propias preocupaciones. Harto de su trabajo, al llegar a casa cada noche, sus tres hijos exigen toda su atención. Además, la relación con su mujer, Sylvie, no pasa por su mejor momento. Un repentino encuentro con su antigua novia dará un vuelco a su vida: Tom es padre de una niña de 8 años de la que tendrá que hacerse cargo. Después de todo, nadie dijo que vivir fuera fácil... (FILMAFFINITY)

París, 1942. En la Continental Films, productora alemana que realiza películas en la Francia ocupada, dos hombres se enfrentan al mismo dilema que la mayoría de los franceses: ¿es posible seguir trabajando como si no hubiese cambiado nada o hay que negarse a colaborar y abandonar el país? Uno de ellos oculta su apoyo a la Resistencia trabajando como ayudante de dirección, y el otro es un guionista anticolaboracionista.

Grégoire Moulin nació un frío día de invierno, viernes 13, en la clínica Franz Kafka. A las pocas horas se quedó huérfano debido a una tremenda pelea entre sus padres, siendo educado por una abuela chiflada y desagradable y por su tío, alcohólico. Además siempre recibió los golpes de una niña de la que estaba enamorado. A los 35 años, Grégoire continúa viviendo con su abuela, trabaja como funcionario y, obviamente, sigue soltero. Pero la vida ofrece sorpresas (malas en el caso de Grégoire): la muerte de su abuela bajo un pesado armario mientras cazaba moscas, lo lleva a dejar su pueblo y viajar a París, donde conoce a una profesora de danza, Odile Bonheur, de la que se enamora. Pese a sentirse devorado por la pasión, no se anima a abordar a Odile… hasta que se inventa una artimaña y la cita en el Café Penalty.

Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.

Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point of extreme right-wing people. His only goal is to find the youngs who did that to him, even if he looses everything.

Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacrifice the well-being of his constituents in order to make the village more attractive to tourists, which has made him popular with his citizens, but not so much so with outside developers.

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.

Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.

Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her nursing job at a hospital. Françoise quickly refuses to assume responsibility for this new situation beyond her control. She starts going out, living by night… hanging out in new places, ready for chance encounters.

Bruno Sachs es un médico de pueblo que atiende en su consulta todo tipo de enfermedades, incluso psicológicas. En el pueblo sólo hay otro médico, que es mayor que él, y al que manda algunos pacientes. Además, Sachs es cirujano y, con motivo de una operación, conocerá a una mujer capaz de sacarlo de la mediocridad espiritual.

After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.

Hélène and Julien have been married for ten years and feel very close to each other. But a serious problem undermines their marriage: Julien has become impotent following an accident. Hélène bravely makes do, at least until she meets Antoine, a handsome young man with whom she falls passionately in love. Will the couple she forms with Julien survive?

When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she came into contact with through the classifieds in "Le Chasseur Français", a magazine for hunters. But she gets to know Roland, a bachelor farmer who develops an instant burning passion for her. Prepared to do anything for her, he goes as far as to holdup banks to secure the good life she longs for. Although she confesses (wrongly) that she suffers from AIDS, he is in no way discouraged. Séréna accepts to marry Roland but on her wedding night she balks at taking the "midnight exam". She runs away and meets Antoine, a married writer, who hides her in the attic of his house, without his wife knowing it.

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward.

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.

In this French drama, an urban professional gives up his fast-track life in favor of the quiet of country life. Benoit now lives as a toymaker who sells games at his chic Paris art gallery. The film opens with young Lila as she is being released from prison. Immediately, she sets out to see her sister in Brionne, a tiny Normandy town. As soon as he sees her, the rather quiet Benoit falls in love. Eventually, the emotionally scarred young woman falls in love with him too. Soon they move in together, and Lila gets to meet his ne'er-do-well friends. The couple are very happy for a while, but when Benoit's gallery goes belly-up, he begins acting strangely, leaving Lila feeling very unsure. Eventually she leaves him. Benoit then struggles to cope with his depression; after many drunken nights, a lost dog helps him find the peace he has been searching for.

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

Un asesino a sueldo de gran prestigio por la limpieza de sus trabajos, que sólo realiza para clientes muy poderosos que pueden pagar sus servicios, se encarga de educar a un joven a quien le enseña los trucos y secretos de su profesión. Tras el fallido intento de asesinar a una joven falsificadora, la ordenada vida del asesino se va a ver trastocada.

In this disturbing drama, based on a novel by "San Antonio" (Frédéric Dard), Léon (Serge Riaboukine) has a wife who is as near to being dead as she can be and still be among the living, and she has been in this state for some time. He is also the worshipful secretary for an overbearing actor/director, Boris (Jean-Pierre Mocky), a man for whom he will do just about anything. However, his need to care for his wife interferes with performing unlimited services for his adored boss, and it is for that reason that he kills her. For a while, his blissful servitude knows no bounds, but his wife's sister smells a rat, and soon his cozy, masochistic relationship with Boris is endangered. Boris, meanwhile, has a quite lovely wife whom he ignores in favor of humiliating her by openly seducing other women.

An adaptation of Denis Diderot's novel "Jacques le Fataliste".

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.

A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.

Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.