Eddy Leroy
Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of forty years that deep down, she has always been... A MAN! Totally blindsided, Jean didn't see this coming. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is too much! But Edith, still the loving wife, make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition and stay a woman until after the elections. But as we know, campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning
Maud Duberry
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.
Christine
Christine (Catherine Frot) es una sintecho que vive en París. Una noche de invierno encuentra a Suli (Mahamadou Yaffa), un niño eritreo de 8 años, sollozando frente a su refugio. Unidos por sus condición de marginales, ambos se embarcarán en un viaje emocional para intentar encontrar en París a la madre del niño.
Ève
Eve creaba las rosas más famosas del mundo, pero ahora está pasada de moda, amargada y al borde de la bancarrota. A Vera, su fiel asistente, se le ocurre una idea brillante y loca que podría cambiar sus vidas para siempre…
Solange
Burgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful memories and reveal untold stories of the Algerian War.
Catherine Frot
Simone
Gilbert (Daniel Auteuil) y Simone (Catherine Frot) viven jubilados en un pueblo del sur de Francia. La partida de Étienne (Bernard Le Coq), su vecino y amante, la falta de dinero, pero especialmente la amargura constante de su esposo, empujan a Simone a huir de la casa. Gilbert entonces se dará cuenta de que está listo para hacer cualquier cosa para encontrar a su esposa, a su amor.
Mme Prioux
Una noche, cuando vuelven a su casa, los señores Prioux descubren con asombro que un tal Patrick se les ha metido en casa a vivir. Por lo visto, el joven está convencido que ha vuelto a casa de sus padres para presentarles a su mujer. Los Prioux, que no tienen hijos, no dan crédito a sus ojos.
Stéphane
Claire
Claire es una maravillosa comadrona con un talento natural para traer niños al mundo. Pero con los años su tierna y delicada artesanía es cuestionada por los más eficientes y modernos métodos de los hospitales. Un día recibe una llamada de Béatrice, la frívola ex mujer de su fallecido padre, que quiere verla con urgencia tras 30 años de mutua indiferencia. Su encuentro conducirá a la revelación de ciertos secretos que darán sentido a una parte importante de sus vidas.
Elle
Una mujer, oficialmente muerta desde hace unos meses, reaparece y comete varios crímenes. La asesina pasa a la acción después de convertirse en confidente y amiga de sus futuras víctimas. El teniente Corel investiga todos estos sórdidos asesinatos en serie. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marguerite Dumont
París, años veinte. Marguerite Dumont es una mujer adinerada, amante de la música y la ópera. Desde hace años canta regularmente frente a su círculo de amigos, pero lo hace absolutamente fuera de tono y nadie se atreve a decirle la verdad. Tanto su marido como sus amigos, se han dedicado siempre a mantener su fantasía. Todo se complica el día que ella decide presentarse frente a un verdadero público en la ópera.
Hortense
Inspirado en la extraordinaria historia real de la cocinera privada del presidente François Miterrand, el film cuenta cómo Hortense Laborie, un prestigiosa chef del Perigord, se convierte en la responsable de las comidas presidenciales del Palacio del Elíseo.
Prudence Beresford
Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious scientist who holds the secret to eternal youth...
Catherine
The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all friends and lead a happy existence. Catherine, director of the establishment's Human Resources, is sent to restructure the hospital and, most importantly, to eventually shut down the maternity clinic, which is losing money. Four women whose age, personalities, and origins are different, but who will form a quartet overflowing with humanity and humor as they join forces to save the clinic. Life, love, friendship, Brittany and... bowling.
Fabienne
Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute she apprehends, begs her to free her not to leave her four-year-old son alone, she hesitates... And why, after Olga has run away and is found dead, Fabienne decides to deal with this matter personally...
Imogène
Elle est rousse. Elle est écossaise. Elle aime le rugby et la cornemuse. Elle vit à Londres, mais se considère en exil. Elle a un fichu caractère et une sacrée descente au whisky. Elle s’appelle Imogène Mc Carthery… du clan des McLeod !
Maniette Thomas
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.
Ombeline
Aunque el fin del mundo se acerca, Robinson Laborde, se recupera poco a poco del fracaso de una aventura amorosa por la que se había decidido a dejar a su mujer. A pesar de la inminencia del desastre, y quizás para enfrentarse mejor a él, se embarca en una verdadera odisea que le lleva por las carreteras de Francia y España.
Prudence Beresford
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Elsa Valentin
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night.
Odette Toulemonde
Odette (Catherine Frot) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser feliz, pero lo es. Balthazar (Albert Dupontel) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser infeliz, pero lo es. Odette es una cuarentona torpe que trabaja en la sección de cosméticos de unos grandes almacenes. Sueña con Balthazar Balsan, su escritor favorito, a quién cree que le debe su felicidad. Balsan es un hombre de éxito, atractivo y seductor que está a punto de aparecer inesperadamente en la vida de Odette. Un cuento mágico sobre dos náufragos de la vida a los que les separa todo...
Héloïse Maton
Ariane Fouchécourt
Melanie deja de tocar piano a los 10 años de edad debido a la actitud de la Presidenta del Jurado del Conservatorio, la Sra Fouchecourt. Diez años más tarde, Melanie llega a ser la nana de los niños de la Sra. Fouchecourt que, impresionada por su sensibilidad por la música, la convierte en su "giradora de páginas"...
Monique
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
Prudence Beresford
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Yseult Lespinglet
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)
Louise Mollet
La brillante y espontánea Louise deja su pequeña casa de campo en Le Mans para visitar a su estirada hermana en París. Las vidas de las dos hermanas parecen mapped out: una vida anodina para Louise, con un hombre del que está perdidamente enamorada; una agitada vida social para Martine, casada con un hombre al que cariñosamente detesta. Louise ha escrito una novela y ha ido a París para reunirse con un editor que pretende publicar su libro. El hecho de ver a su hermana como una escritora de éxito y tres días de lágrimas, risas, recuerdos y recriminaciones entre las dos hermanas hacen que el mundo de Martina se derrumbe a su alrededor.
Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home.
Agnès
A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months.
Audrey
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Jeanne Rivet
Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.
Jeanne Coste
Pascal es un policía de Grenoble, casado con Agnès, profesora y adicta a la morfina, y se sirve de sus contactos para conseguirle la droga. La persona que se la suministra quiere que Pascal atrape a Bruno, un terrorista que acaba de fugarse de la prisión, y deja de facilitarle la sustancia hasta que lo consiga. Entretanto, Cécile, amiga de Agnès, pide a Pascal que vigile a su marido porque cree que le está siendo infiel. Pascal, cansado de ser un instrumento al servicio de la adicción de su mujer, se enamora de Cécile mientras Agnès descubre a Bruno en la residencia de vacaciones de ésta, y logra que le proporcione la droga... Es parte de una Trilogía estrenada a la vez junto con Una pareja perfecta y Escapando. La acción se desarrolla en la misma ciudad, en el mismo periodo de tiempo y con los mismos personajes. Aunque con diversos puntos de vista y distinto ambiente narrativo.
Jeanne
Un matrimonio entra en crisis tras veinte años de feliz convivencia. Cécile es una hermosa maestra que está profundamente enamorada de su marido Alain, un hipocondríaco que está convencido que va a morir. Él no quiere alarmar a su mujer, quien confunde su extraño comportamiento con una infidelidad. Cécile pide ayuda a Pascal, el marido de su amiga Agnès, que es policía, para que siga a su marido en todos sus movimientos. El resultado será totalmente inesperado. Es parte de una Trilogía estrenada a la vez junto con Después de la vida y Escapando. La acción se desarrolla en la misma ciudad, en el mismo periodo de tiempo y con los mismos personajes. Aunque con diversos puntos de vista y distinto ambiente narrativo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hélène
Malika, una joven prostituta, es salvajemente atacada en la calle por un grupo de gamberros justo delante de las narices de una pareja de burgueses, Hélène y Paul, que se ponen a salvo dentro de su coche. Hélène, llena de remordimientos lleva a la joven a un hospital, donde entra en coma. Hélène decide cuidar de ella, abandonando temporalmente a su marido y su hijo.
Sophie
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
Antoinette Bomme
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
Gisèle
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.
Pierrette Dumortier
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.
Isabelle
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though…
Marie-Louise, the mother
Cora is a teenager and has a lot of problems (mostly because of the relationship with her parents). One day she meets Katz, a hypnotizer who makes shows in the whole country, and his assistant Pedro. Then she manages to convince Katz to bring her with him in order to teach her his job. Thus Cora leaves her home without saying any word to her parents and begins a long trip through France with a very tumultuous relationship with Katz and Pedro.
Hélène
Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick is unaware that Helene, his wife for 15 years, intends to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a surprise party. She's invited friends and relatives to spend the weekend at their blue house. Elsewhere down the road, at an identical blue house, Patrick and his other love, Elizabeth, the mother of his two-year-old daughter, are planning an engagement party for the son of their neighbor. Neither woman knows about the other, and this sticky situation requires Patrick to rush back and forth from one blue house to another throughout the evening. The story is told in flashback by Patrick -- from his hospital bed.
Evelyne Bordoni
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Marlène Sasseur
Para Pierre Brochant y sus amigos el miércoles es el día de los idiotas. La idea es simple: cada uno debe llevar consigo un idiota. El que consiga llevar a la cena el idiota más espectacular de todos es el ganador. Esa noche, Brochant está pletóric: ha encontrado una auténtica joya. Un idiota redomado. François Pignon, un chupatintas del Ministerio de Finanzas, es un hombre apasionado por sus construcciones hechas a base de cerillas. Lo que Brochant ignora es que Pignon es un auténtico gafe, un maestro en el arte de provocar catástrofes.
Béatrice Bretty
The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.
Yolande Ménard
Los Ménard se reúnen todas las semanas en el café de Henri, el hijo mayor. Desde allí él, su esposa, su hermano, su cuñada y su madre acuden juntos a cenar al mejor restaurante de la zona, un barrio de la periferia. Sin embargo, un día, un incidente trastoca la cita: Arlette, la mujer de Henri, no aparece. Durante la reunión, se celebra el cumpleaños de Yolanda, la madre, y a partir de ese momento salen a relucir dramáticamente los viejos rencores y rencillas familiares.
Woman with Bookcase
La hermosa Daiga ha emigrado de Lituania a París y está buscando un lugar donde vivir y un trabajo. Theo es un músico con dificultades y su hermano Camille un bailarín travestí. Uno de estos personajes puede estar conectado a un asesino en serie que está aterrorizando todo París.
Martha Hubner
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
Marylin
Darius Caunes no es quien la gente cree que es. Asesinó hace dos años a su esposa, y falsifica billetes de 500 francos. Incluso se ha hecho amigo del inspector de policía que investiga la muerte de su mujer. Es imperturbable, un artista del crimen. Aunque los mejores planes salgan mal, y aunque su ayudante accidentalmente se haga con uno de los billetes falsos y se lo de a un viejo amigo que le ha pedido dinero, Darius se las apaña como gran artista del crimen que es.
La blonde
A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.
Catherine, la mère de Tom
Born with their immune systems damaged, Tom and Lola are doomed to live their lives in isolation, sealed in separate plastic bubbles. However, neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings.
Babette
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.
Cécile
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
Juliette
When he was eight years old, Ferdinand was chosen to play a supporting role along a famous actress. Today, a producer is asking him to write and direct a film about his childhood memories...
Béatrice
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.
Charlotte
After a computer operator has been through a painful relationship, he is determined to look the other way every time any interesting woman enters his life. He has his other loves - photography and model planes - to challenge him anyway. However, one day a car breaks down in front of his house, and a young mother with her 10-year-old daughter come in looking for assistance. The daughter is endearing and would make a terrific subject for a photo contest. As both the young mother and the computer operator studiously ignore the flicker of romantic sparks, it is only a matter of time before the flame either grows or is extinguished.
Jacky
A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.
Mouche
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Donniacha
Véronique
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
Juliette
Babette
El caricaturista Gerard Lauzier escribió esta sátira de psicólogos, su práctica, y la idea de la terapia de grupo, alrededor de Marc (Patrick Dewaere), un psicólogo que necesitan más ayuda que la puede dar. En este momento, Marc vive en el campo con Colette (Anny Duperey), pero no sin dificultades. Él planea llevar a cabo una sesión de terapia de grupo en su casa un fin de semana, algo que pronto se embrolla debido a la repentina llegada de la exnovia de Marc y su amante. Hace varios años, el amante era amigo de confianza de Marc, hasta que no solo le robó la novia, sino también el auto y el dinero. La exnovia, el excompañero y su socio en el un crimen se esconden de la policía, y la su intención es utilizar la propiedad de Marc como escondite. La terapia de grupo, de Marc, y Colette nunca será la misma a partir de este fin de semana...
Arlette jeune fille
El profesor Henry Laborit explica una teoría sobre el comportamiento humano por medio del estudio de tres historias que acontecen paralelamente: René (Gérard Depardieu), empleado en una industria textil, debe afrontar la posibilidad de ser despedido. Janine (Nicole García) es una actriz que, al descubrir que la mujer de su amante está gravemente enferma, decide que él debe estar a su lado en esos momentos. Jean (Roger Pierre) es un polifacético escritor y político que debe tomar una decisión que implica renunciar a su carrera.
