Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Félix is the manager of a luxurious Parisian hotel and during the first lockdown in March 2020, decides to start a clandestine business. He employs young escorts to cater to a handful of privileged clients who seek refuge in his palace of lust, on a mission to forget the deadly pandemic that is taking hold of the outside world. In a twisted story of complicity, a community of rebels is formed.

Francia, 1935. Un investigador deberá resolver el asesinato de un banquero parisino. De entre una serie de pintorescos sospechosos destaca Madeleine, cuyos deseos de fama y fortuna se pondrán en el camino de la investigación.

Richard es un director cuarentón de cine que se ve presa de la ansiedad en medio de una filmación. Abandona el rodaje y vagabundea en la noche parisina en busca de respuestas, comfort e inspiración. Durante su noche de insomnio, tiene encuentros con mucha gente: algunos perturbadores, algunos con conocidos, otros con extraños. Richard debe confrontar sus miedos y cuestionar sus deseos más profundos antes que amanezca.

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.

Facing Francisco, each protagonist strips off in front of his camera and speak about themselves in a documentary format, animated in rotoscopy with more than 500 blue ballpoint pen drawings.

After “Omelette” and “Les yeux brouillés” shot with a Super 8 camera, Remi starts a newspaper filmed with two HD cameras. One day he meets Dino, a young Marseille artist who falls in love with him. Shortly after their meeting, Dino announces to Rémi that he wants a child.

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.

Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.

Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three « working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses unravel in his imagination.

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?

Con treinta años, sin algo que se pueda considerar un trabajo, y muy tímido para el amor, Rémi está un poco perdido en la vida hasta el día que aparece su doppelgänger, su otro yo, altivo y no muy agradable. ¿Cuál de los dos es el auténtico Rémi?

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here...

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.

Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, who looks forward to a quieter life, some kind of return to nature. His wife, a renowned international pianist, who retired in spite of her young age, has decided to follow him but almost unwillingly. From the very beginning, Thibault, one of Vincent's students, invades his family and slowly the couple, whose desires seem now so far away, falls apart. But Thibault's intentions are not at all motivated by love. And he will do anything to achieve his goal...

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.

Francia /// Vassili es un hombre que se prostituye. Un día, encuentra un joven inconsciente en el bosque y lo lleva a su casa. Se convierten en amantes y cómplices. Se dedican a robar la cartera de sus clientes. Pero cuando aparece la policía, se verán obligados a escapar de París. La huida comienza...

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains…

La misión de Anthony y Julian consiste en proteger a una prostituta del psicópata que mutiló a su chulo y, al mismo tiempo, encontrar pruebas para demostrar que un senador es un loco asesino. (FILMAFFINITY)

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !

Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.

En el ministerio de Defensa, la capitana Eve Catraz dirige el grupo de intervención de los fenómenos psicológicos. En el Vaticano, Monseñor Frank De Kern se encarga de estudiar los milagros y otras manifestaciones paranormales que entorpecen gravemente los intereses de la Iglesia. Ambos acaban formando un curioso dúo de investigadores encargados de desmitificar lo inexplicable.

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds.

A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.

Finales de siglo XIX, "Croûteux Inn" es un hostal en mitad de las montañas de los Pirineos. El establecimiento está a cargo de Martin y Rose, una pareja que tiene la costumbre de pedirle a su hijo adoptado sordomudo, Violet, que asesine a viajeros solitarios para robar sus pertenencias. Hasta que una tormentosa noche, el padre Carnus decide guiar a un adolescente a través de las montañas para llegar al monasterio.

Pierrot, a young boy, does not live in the present. One night, Pierrot finds himself face to face with the old man that he will be himself. A strange journey then begins for the unlikely duo.

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.

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires, since the dead man was someone rather important...

When an important cache of seized heroin is stolen from a regional customs depot and two officers left dead, it becomes clear that there is a mole within the customs services. Commandant Sandra Longo, of internal affairs, is dispatched from Paris to unmask the traitor.

El departamento de la policía de Marsella tienen bajo custodia a un gran criminal belga, mientras esperan su traslado a una cárcel de alta seguridad en el Congo. Desafortunadamente Émilien es engañado por el bandido y este deja al preso irse. Aquí comienza la caza de este criminal, al darse cuenta del error cometido por Émilien, con la ayuda de Daniel y su flamante taxi encuentran la guarida donde se esconde el criminal, es hora de ponerse manos a la obra con la captura de este bandido y quien mejor que el capitán Gilbert para dirigir la misión

Francia /// Pierre, un joven bisexual que vive en la provincia francesa, mantiene una relación incestuosa con su hermana Lucie. Ambos descubrieron desde pequeños a utilizar el poder de su sexualidad y cuando Pierre muere, Lucie busca una explicación a su temprana vida sexual. Basada en un recuerdo del director Pascal Arnold.

Schneider is a cop, a real one. A man of integrity that corruption revolts and disgusts compromise, an intractable citizen and respectful of others like himself. Fallible, it is driven by a powerful ambition: to tirelessly fight evil without ignoring the strength and attractions in him as in other ...

Francia, siglo XVIII. El compromiso matrimonial entre el futuro Luis XVI (Schwartzman) y María Antonieta (Dunst) sirve para sellar una alianza entre Francia y Austria. Con sólo catorce años, la ingenua princesa austríaca se ve obligada a abandonar Viena, su familia y sus amigos para instalarse en la opulenta, sofisticada y libertina corte francesa, donde reinan las intrigas y los escándalos. La joven se rebela contra el aislamiento que representa la corte de Versalles y se convierte en la reina más incomprendida de Francia.

Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to.

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.

Sebastien is a small town boy who moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there. When a friend from back home calls to announce he's coming to Paris, Sebastien confronts some unrequited feelings.

I knew someone who lived in an attic for a long time..He told me that it was because of an upset in love. He didn't want to elucidate! I like this mystery.

Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.

El filme está compuesto de tres partes, respectivamente tituladas: Reino 1. Infierno; Reino 2: Purgatorio y Reino 3: Paraíso. El infierno, de una duración aproximada de siete u ocho minutos, se compone de distintas imágenes de guerra, sin orden cronológico o histórico. Aviones, tanques, buques de guerra, explosiones, fusilamientos, ejecuciones, poblaciones en fuga, campos devastados, ciudades destruidas, etc. Todo tanto en blanco y negro como en color. Las imágenes quedan mudas, acompañadas por cuatro frases y cuatro músicas (piano). El purgatorio, de aproximadamente una hora de duración, se desarrolla en nuestros días en la ciudad de Sarajevo -mártir entre otras - con ocasión de los Encuentro Europeos del Libro. Se trata de conferencias o de simples conversaciones sobre la necesidad de la poesía, de la imagen de uno mismo y el otro, de Palestina e Israel, etc., (FILMAFFINITY)

Antoine loves Clarisse and wants to marry her. Or how a simple story about a lost ring leads a young woman to say yes, finally!

Bruno y Fréderic son los dos hermanos Saltim, de padre italiano y madre francesa. Bruno, el mayor, ocupa un cargo importante en el banco en que su hermano pequeño trabaja de director. Renuncia a postular al cargo de máximo directivo a cambio de que se le proporcione financiación para un teatro de las afueras de Paris. Justo en plenos preparativos de dos nuevos espectáculos : El tío Vania de Tchekov y Ester de Racine, la dirección del banco anuncia recortes de sueldo a sus empleados, cosa que también afecta a Bruno.

Una banda de ladrones llamada "la banda de Santa Claus" están causando estragos, y la policía es incapaz de arrestarlos. El superintendente de policía Gilbert es distraído por una reportera china, ya que estaba escribiendo la historia de su escudra. La esposa del detective Emilien, Petra, se ha embarazado y el conductor de taxi Daniel está en el medio de la crisis entre Emilien y su esposa. Después de una cadena de errores por parte de la policía en la que los ladrones consiguen evitarlos, un reprotero es secuestrado. Se revela que el reportero es el líder de "la banda de Santa Claus". La policía realiza una búsqueda, pero el reportero les tiende una trampa, en la cual el detective Emilien es aplastado. Luego Daniel va y lo rescata en su taxi, luego van a su escondite en en las montañas suizas y arrestan al reportero.

17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives him into a loneliness to which rockmusic not only brings tranquillity and comfort but flings him into the adventure of discovering himself.

During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France’s most desert-like region. The cast is as follows: An astrophysician who works alone with Geraldine in an observatory high in the mountains. He’d like to seduce Geraldine, but she seems to prefer the shepherd who’s been relegated to a shabby hut nearby. A group of filmmakers stuck in the middle of the countryside after their crew went on strike because lunch never turned up. A squadron of stupid soldiers who consider even the most minor incident to be proof of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of France. A maniacal geologist, oblivious of everything, who continues to search for the traces of a tectonic Big Bang in the most inaccessible places.

Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find the dirty trick that will save them.

Amanece en la mañana del 25 de Abril de 1974, cuando Marco, un joven italiano veinteañero y su amigo portugués, Víctor, dejan París en un Citröen de color amarillo. Su destino es Lisboa que, esa misma noche, se ha liberado de una de las dictaduras más duraderas. El deseo de tomar parte en un acontecimiento histórico, que ocurre una vez en la vida, más el entusiasmo de hacer un viaje juntos y la curiosidad de conocer diferentes lugares y gentes, arrastran a estos dos jóvenes a su nueva aventura. Pero la aventura no es está completa sin Claire, que fue la novia de Víctor en sus años estudiantiles de París. Claire está deseando tomar unas pequeñas vacaciones lejos de su rutina, de su marido y de su hijo. El trío compartirá experiencias inolvidables. El mítico Citröen, los maravillosos paisajes que atraviesan, las fronteras que cruzan, los numerosos encuentros que surgen en la carretera, la banda sonora que ofrece la radio: éstos son los ingredientes de un viaje que nunca olvidarán

Anita tiene doce años y está asustada. Se ha escapado de su casa y su madre es una peligrosa asesina que la quiere recuperar a toda costa. La policía no puede ayudarla: es menor de edad y está bajo la tutela de su madre. Hugo tiene cuarenta años y se acaba de retirar de su profesión de mercenario, pero su vida se cruza con la de Anita. Deberá retrasar su futuro unos días para salvar la vida de Anita...

Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack Lesterhoof, a rich businessman who offers to be his interpreter for an important meeting. Maxime accepts. The two men soon become friends. Jack decides to take a break from the routine and accompany Maxime to India.

Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, were excluded from the only nightclub in the region. With nothing else to do they plan to open a competing nightclub in the garage of two of the father of two of them.

Samuel goes to Nice to pass the exam of the School of Fine Arts. He is accompanied by Nordine, uncultivated in art who takes some holidays.

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.

Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging parish priest Father Andre. Sebastien becomes involved in an auto accident that sends him into a coma; after he remains unconscious for three months, Lise begins to panic, desperate for a remedy that medical science can't provide. When she is told of a field in a village in rural France where a miracle is said to have occurred some years before -- an apparition of the Virgin Mary arrived to provide food for a group of starving children -- Lise wants to travel to the site of the miracle to pray for her son. She also insists that Father Andre come along, but the priest is not eager to go, due to his age, his health, and his increasing cynicism about religion. Lise is persistent, however, and before long the two are on the road in search of a much-needed miracle.

A young man encounters three men separately. Three stages of a journey, three moments of apprenticeship.

Taxi 2 cuenta la historia del ministro de Defensa japonés visitando Marsella para conocer las técnicas anti-gangster de los policías de la ciudad. Sin embargo, durante la visita es secuestrado por un grupo trabajando para los yakuza. El joven agente Emilien es designado a rescatar el ministro y la agente y novia Petra, también secuestrada, y devolver el honor a su departamento. Otra vez más, el rápido conductor de taxi Daniel es llamado para ayudarlo con sus dotes de conducción en su Peugeot 406..

Miss Jacobonot, a schoolteacher, has a crush on Jimmy, a student in her class. Jimmy loves to tell stories. But his teachers kick him out of school and sent him to an institute for unsuitable children.

Jeanne, una chica que trabaja en una librería de París, conoce a un joven pintor de origen yugoslavo, y entre ambos surge un amor apasionado.

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed. Its stationmaster, Vincente, is preparing to retire. Many young people have moved out, leaving the children to be brought up by the elderly, including thirteen-year-old Glória and her friend Ivan. Glória's life suddenly changes with the arrival of Vincente's younger brother, Mauro, who has just come out of prison and has some old issues to settle. Mauro begins to charge around the station on his motorbike, while Glória's friendship with Ivan is put to test on account of her attraction to older Mauro.

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…

Pierre Cassou, an accountant with Copy Corp, finds his colleagues increasingly unbearable. He decides to confess his difference in his own way.

Alphonse Dutilleux, a Paris Shoemaker, closes shop and makes his way to the Bois de Boulogne, the male pick-up and prostitution scene. His wife and his son are waiting for him for dinner...

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

In his middle management office, Dubreuil uses erotic messaging. He tries to find the excitement lost.

It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him.

A worker and his boss hold each other prisoner 250 feet above the ground. Let's have laugh before joining the dole queue !

Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things.

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.

Una mala película de terror, proyectada en el Festival de Cannes, se convierte en un éxito de ventas gracias a que todos los proyeccionistas encargados de pasar la película son asesinados.

Prajevitza es un lugar pequeño, agradable, aunque con mucho paro. Dos emigrantes de esta república del Este intentan regresar a casa y descubren con horror que su país no aparece en los mapas de los ferrocarriles franceses. Ahí arranca el enredo cómico de esta simpática parábola sobre la Europa de las nacionalidades.

Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words.

Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words.

Un joven que sueña con ser actor abandona su pueblo natal en el sur de Francia para irse a París. Como es demasiado ingenuo y tiene poca experiencia, pronto chocará con la dura realidad. Se verá entonces obligado a olvidarse de sus sueños y a prostituirse para poder salir adelante.

Paulette, Jean-Christophe's mother, talks too much; after ten years of struggle Jean-Christophe notices that Paulette talks less, but one night he sees his mother's dentures in a tooth glass. Kind friends explain to him that Paulette has passed from the oral stage to the sadistic oral stage. The mother shows her teeth, I love you, I crunch you, it's sure death...

Third part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Third part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Adaptación de una novela de Bernanos. Relato de la agonía espiritual de Donissan (Depardieu), un cura rural que intenta librarse de la desesperación compartiéndola con el decano Menou-Segrais (Maurice Pialat) que tratará de devolverlo al camino del bien. Donissan someterá su cuerpo a atroces mortificaciones, pero no podrá evitar el perseverante acecho del Mal, encarnado en la perversa Mouchette (Sandrine Bonnaire), una joven de 16 años, y en el Diablo, que lo asalta en medio de la noche. El cura sabe que su destino será una batalla sin tregua con lo sobrenatural, que lo hace oscilar entre la santidad y la condenación.

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Nine short films about love.

Second part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Second part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.

First part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

First part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a new relationship ...

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.

This is a documentary on the 70's French porn industry. There are generally two kinds of porn documentaries--those that actually take an insightful look behind the scenes, and those that are just an excuse to show a lot of nudity and XXX porn footage. This is actually somewhere in between. It's generously seasoned with porn footage, but there are also a lot of (fully-clothed) interviews, and they even talk to the owners of porn theaters, some typical porn customers (including some pre-adolescent boys who are walking by the the theater--I wonder what their parents thought of that?), as well as a guy who makes promotional billboards for porn movies although he claims never to have seen one!

A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.

Loosely adapted from de Sade's play "Philosophy in the Bedroom". Set in the present day, a cult of depraved hedonists cavort at a remote, elegant mansion.