François Négret

Juliette creció sola con su padre Raphaël en el norte de Francia. Él un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La niña, apasionada por el canto y la música, conoce un verano a un mago que le promete que unas velas escarlatas algún día la sacarán de su pueblo. Juliette nunca dejó de creer en esta profecía.

Nancy, East of France. Summertime. Seeking to escape her troublesome family environment, Sophie, 15, jumps at the chance to get the spare keys to her wealthy friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought deserted for summer, she bumps into her friend's older brother Stéphane, who, as fate would have it, was also planning on staying. But instead of chasing her out, Stéphane will choose to leave the door open as an invitation to a summer Sophie never expected.

Indochina, 1945. Mientras los franceses son acosados tanto por el ejército japonés como por los rebeldes vietnamitas, el soldado Robert Tassen, impulsado por el recuerdo de una tragedia de la que es el único superviviente, emprende la búsqueda del misterioso y cruel Võ Bình Yên, uno de los líderes de la insurrección.

Anna va con su hija de vacaciones a pasar unos días a una gran casa situada en la Costa Azul. Allí tendrá que buscar un tiempo para estar a solas y así escribir el guión de su próxima película. Para ello, deberá evitar a familia, amigos y empleados. Detrás de la risa, la ira y los secretos se encuentran unas relaciones de dominación, miedos y deseos. Llega un punto en el que todas las personas tienen que dejar de escuchar los sonidos de su alrededor para enfrentarse al misterio de su propia existencia.

Dos inspectoras de asuntos internos de la policía, Sally Marinelli (Kiberlain) y su ayudante Esther Lafarge (Huppert), son destinadas a una comisaría fuera de la capital para investigar un caso de corrupción relacionado con la muerte del informador Farid Benamar. En su vida privada son dos mujeres violentas: Esther golpea a su marido, y Sally doma a los hombres. Bajo la atenta mirada de Robert Mendès, el jefe de policía, las dos intentarán resolver el caso, haciendo todo lo contrario de lo que dicta la ética policial. (FILMAFFINITY)

Siglo XVIII. Suzanne, de 16 años, es forzada por su familia a entrar en una orden religiosa, aunque ella aspiraba a vivir en "el mundo". En el convento, se enfrenta a la arbitraria autoridad de las madres superioras. Gracias a su pasión y a su fuerza podrá resistir el rigor de la disciplina religiosa y luchará por conseguir su único objetivo: recuperar la ansiada libertad.

When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.

After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya.

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.

A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.

Georges es el típico burgués: presenta un programa literario en televisión y lleva una vida acomodada con su mujer y su hijo adolescente. Pero, empieza a recibir unos paquetes anónimos que contienen cintas de vídeo, grabadas desde la calle, y unos dibujos inquietantes cuyo significado es un misterio. No sabe quién los envía; sin embargo, las secuencias que aparecen en las cintas se hacen cada vez más personales, lo que sugiere que el remitente le conoce desde hace algún tiempo. Georges siente que una amenaza se cierne sobre él y su familia, pero, puesto que no hay evidencias de delito alguno, la policía se niega a ayudarlo.

The deeds of Jean Moulin, a hero of the French Resistance.

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is travelling, Sébastien has asked Linda to organise the photographs with a view to an exhibition. Mikael invites Linda to reside with him. She accepts. That is the heart of the film – an intertwining of photographs which, juxtaposed by Linda, begin to speak. In parallel with this, Linda receives cassette-letters from Sébastien. A subtle relationship is established between Linda, the young debutante, and Mikael, the man of experience. Mikael goes off to direct his psalm, Linda stays alone. The walls become covered with photographs – wall of happiness, wall of misery – the fight between Good and Evil. Linda learns of the accidental death of Sébastien and stays alone.

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and lonely man. It doesn't take long for the young man to realize that his host is wacko and terrified of dying and is willing to take extreme measures to prevent this from happening. Though billed as a thriller, director Michael Ferry chose to focus on the inner thoughts and fears of the protagonists rather than exciting action sequences. All of the violence occurs off screen.

In 1940, a young teacher who dreams of the Mediterranean is appointed to a remote village in Lozère. Despite the war and the savagery of the world, he awakens in his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But he will have to leave the refuge of childhood and books to become involved in the obligatory violence of the resistance.

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Esta película se apoya en la teoría de que Nefertiti era la princesa de Mitanni enviada a casarse con el faraón Amenhotep III, pero que al final terminó siendo esposa de Akenatón. La historia está basada en el deseo de un arqueólogo por encontrar la manera de reavivar este mito varios milenios después de su muerte.

A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become an actress, is summoned by a director who wants to remount the play and offers her the role of her mother on condition that she finds the text. Immediately, and as if by magic, the father, like the ghost of the opera, reappears and dictates his conditions for access.

Un periodista americano se encuentra en Vietnam en el 57º día de la batalla de Dien Bien Phu entre el ejército francés y las guerrillas Vietminh, la cual acaba con una derrota de las fuerzas francesas y la retirada de Francia de Indochina. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jack y Julie, dos jóvenes de provincias, viven una bonita historia de amor en un pequeño apartamento de París. Como Jack trabaja como taxista por la noche, comparten el día juntos haciendo el amor. Su idílica relación se ve enturbiada cuando Julie conoce a Joseph, el que conduce el taxi de Jack durante el día, y empieza a encontrarse con él por las noches.

“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay by James McManus, it tells the story of when Geoffrey Harrison (Brian Cox), a top executive with British Defence Industries, is kidnapped in Paris and, when held to ransom, his company and the British Embassy are unwilling to meet his captors demands. Wanting to avoid publicity and secure a lucrative French defence contract, matters are made worse when the British and French Governments refuse to negotiate with the kidnappers. Archie Carpenter (John Hurt), Head of Internal Security at BDI, is assigned to investigate the kidnapping, and finds an unexpected ally in an Paul de Vigny (Didier Flamand), an agent with the French MI5. As Harrison’s fate hangs in the balance, Carpenter risks his life in the fight to save him but the nightmare has only just begun…

On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children’s prison, which was destroyed by a mutiny and a fire a long time ago.

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.

Frost es arrestado por asesinato después de ser detenido enterrando a sus víctimas en el jardín. Sin embargo, incluso mientras se encuentra bajo atención psiquiátrica y estricta seguridad hospitalaria, resulta obvio que el Sr. Frost no es todo lo que parece ser, pero no obstante es peligroso.

Un profesor de filosofía descubre a una alumna de diecisiete años, cuya visión del mundo resulta cínica y a la vez lúcida. El profesor se implica en su enseñanza, pero pronto se dará cuenta que lo que le interesa es ella misma, lo cual puede acarrearle serios problemas con el colegio y su familia.

Avoccato, un abogado de poca monta, lleva a su novia Milena a una clínica abortiva. Para poder pagar, el otro novio de Milena, Sapo, le recomienda unirse a la banda de Molecula, un gangster-proxeneta de 19 años que pretende montar un casino. Para ello, se propone desalojar a los vecinos del lugar aterrorizándolos.

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. (

Au revoir les enfants cuenta una historia desgarradora de amistad y pérdida devastadora de dos niños que viven en la Francia ocupada por los nazis. En un internado católico provincial, los jóvenes precoces disfrutan de una verdadera camaradería, hasta que se revela un secreto. Basada en eventos de la propia infancia del escritor y director Malle, la película es una historia sutil, observada con precisión, de coraje, cobardía y trágico despertar.

París, en un futuro cercano. Marc y Hans son dos ladrones que deben dinero a una intransigente mujer americana que les da sólo dos semanas para pagar. Planean robar y vender un nuevo antídoto para curar un virus parecido al del SIDA, que está matando a los que "practican el amor sin amor", pero necesitan un cómplice. Reclutan a Alex, alias "lengua veloz", un chico rebelde que acaba de romper su relación con su novia de 16 años de edad.

French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".

The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Rayenari discovers through dreams that Artaud has been committed to a mental hospital. It will be through this connection that Rayenari will help his friend to recover what he lost.