Françoise Sagan

Summer 1953. Françoise Sagan, a young French girl, begins writing Bonjour Tristesse. A few months later she becomes a published author, while France is scandalized by her frank description of female youthful sexuality.

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.

As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.

40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Daine Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris...

In the French Basque Country, near Saint-Jean-les-Bains, young man Julien (Noriega) finds a corpse, buried with jewels, in an abandoned car near a ravine. Julien cannot resist the temptation and takes the jewels with him. He later learned from the press that the man in the car was killed. Maria (Galiena), the boarding lady who accommodates Julien, brings him into contact with a healer. Julien and Maria become lovers, cash in on the loot and flee. It is quite obvious that this does not lead to a happy ending and that the opportunistic amateur thief is confronted with professional criminals. Galiena, in particular, as an Italian hotel keeper, Maria, impresses in a beautiful drama written by Valérie Bonnier, Carlos Perez-Merinero, Luis Maria and Robert Valey.

Cécile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. Anne, a mature and cultured friend of Raymond's late wife, arrives at Raymond's villa for a visit.

A love and hatred story based on classic novel by Françoise Sagan.

Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.

A chance encounter on a park bench in early spring. Two takes on waiting and love.

A chance encounter on a park bench in early spring. Two takes on waiting and love.

Love affairs of a couple on hunting week-end.

Love affairs of a couple on hunting week-end.

Love affairs of a couple on hunting week-end.

Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.

París. Lucille, una mujer joven y guapa, vive, rodeada de lujo y placeres, con Charles, un viejo millonario que le proporciona todo lo que desea. Pero Lucille no corresponde a los sentimientos de Charles, que está profundamente enamorado de ella. Un día se tropieza con Antoine, un atractivo e impulsivo estudiante que no tiene donde caerse muerto. En su primer encuentro se muestran muy interesados el uno por el otro, en el segundo aumenta la atracción mutua y en el tercero se convierten en amantes.

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...

Dos jóvenes que viven juntos en un castillo procuran llevar una existencia libre y despreocupada. Esta armonía se verá amenazada con la aparición de un tercer joven, quien llega al castillo en busca de refugio.

Basada en la historia real de Henri Désiré Landru, un hombre residente en París que, durante la I Guerra Mundial, utilizaba la sección de contactos de los periódicos para conocer a mujeres, a las cuales seducía, engañaba y posteriormente asesinaba para poder quedarse con su dinero y sus pertenencias.

Una madura parisina, unida sentimentalmente a un hombre de su edad y muy aficionado a las jovencitas, inesperadamente se enamora de un joven a quien le dobla la edad.

Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.

Una norteamericana que vive en un internado desarrolla una fascinación por un escultor al que ve subida al muro del colegio. La amante de éste le anima a seducir a la colegiala. Una mañana, la joven es testigo de un accidente de coche en que un soldado resulta muerto. El conductor escapa...

Un poeta ve que se acerca la hora de su muerte y decide hacer balance de su vida y de su obra. Entre sueños de inmortalidad y ansias de renacimiento, irá desfilando una serie de surrealistas personajes que darán lugar a un preciso análisis de la inspiración, las fobias y las obsesiones del artista. Parte final de la trilogía órfica de Jean Cocteau: La sangre de un poeta (1932), Orfeo (1950) y El testamento de Orfeo (1960).

Dominique, una estudiante parisina, que tiene un novio llamado Bertrand, se va a la Riviera a pasar unos días con su tío Luc, que está casado con la bella Françoise. Pronto se siente fuertemente atraída por él y empieza un romance entre ambos.

Una adolescente francesa sin inhibiciones y su atractivo padre descubrirán el lado oscuro de la pasión en esta adaptación de 1958 de la novela de Francoise Sagan. Jean Seberg es Cecile, la niña mimada de 17 años de Raymond (David Niven), un rico parisino viudo. Ambos pasan sus vacaciones en una lujosa mansión de la Riviera Francesa. Pero su existencia superficial y hedonista se tambalea cuando Raymond decide casarse con la puritana madrina de Cecile, Anne (Deborah kerr), que no aprueba la aventura de verano de la chica con Philippe (Geoffrey Horne). Para preservar intacto su mundo sin problemas, Cecile planea deshacerse de Anne. Pero de repente sus planes toman un cariz inesperado..