Hippolyte Girardot

An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.

Una carta de amor al mundo del periodismo, ambientada en el contexto de la redacción de un periódico americano en el París del siglo XX, con tres historias interconectadas entre sí.

A yacht, drifting aimlessly off the shores of Brittany. Empty. Diane Granger, managing director of a renowned crisis management consultancy, had gone out sailing alone. What happened? The firm's young consultants, the "heirs", find themselves left to their own devices, forced to confront a pitiless competition alone, without Diane.

The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the USSR . Initially supported by the regime and aimed at providing evidence during the executioners’ trials in the post-war era, the Black Book was eventually banned and most of its authors executed on Stalin’s order. Told through the voices of its most famous instigators, soviet intellectuals Vassilli Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg and Solomon Mikhoels, the documentary, provides a detailed account of the tragic destiny of this cursed book and puts the Holocaust and Stalinism in a new light.

Patience Portefeux es una traductora especializada en escuchas telefónicas para la brigada de estupefacientes de París. Es un trabajo precario y mal pagado. Un día, Patience se dispone a hacer un favor al problemático hijo de una mujer y acaba involucrada en un trapicheo de drogas fallido, lo que le deja con una pila de cannabis en su posesión. Mientras mantiene su trabajo en la brigada anti-droga, Patience cruza al otro lado y se convierte en camello.

1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.

Franck lleva 10 años viviendo al margen de un pequeño equipo de fútbol de provincias. Franck conoce bien a todos los jugadores y les protege y vigila al mismo tiempo. Una noche, conoce a la bella y ambiciosa Salomé, que se ha fijado en un antiguo campeón que ha venido al equipo a acabar su carrera profesional.

Where I've never been to live, Francesca's emotional conflicts, 50, is the only daughter of a famous Turin architect, to whom she visits only on rare occasions. For many years, Francesca lives in Paris with her teenage daughter and her husband Benoît, a financier on her sixty, apparently reserved but paternal and protective about her. Due to a domestic accident that forces the elderly father to bed, the woman flees to Turin to take her parents in the design of a villa on a lake for a young couple. At work he meets architect Massimo, his peer-minded career and engaged in an open relationship with independent Sandra. After a tough first approach, Massimo and Francesca create a strong professional tune that leads to a deep and passionate feeling. For the first time in life, both will have to really confront themselves and their most authentic destinies ...

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.

Un director de cine ve cómo su vida sufre un vuelco cuando su examante regresa cuando está a punto de iniciar el rodaje de su próxima película.

Paul Berthier, un ambicioso fiscal de la República, es el único testigo de la muerte accidental de una joven en la Charente. El caso pronto toma la apariencia de delito y las sospechas recaen sobre el joven Guillaume Vauban, hijo de un rico industrial de la Región y ex novio de la joven.

Coronada en 1633, a los seis años, la Reina Cristina de Suecia fue una joven dirigente, enigmática y brillante, que combatió a las fuerzas conservadoras para revolucionar Suecia al tiempo que experimentaba el amor y exploraba su incipiente sexualidad. Huérfana de padre, rechazada por su madre y criada en una corte luterana dominada por hombres que pensaban que no tenía otra opción que casarse para tener un heredero, Cristina se vio envuelta entre la pasión y la razón. Revolucionaria, estudiosa de las artes y las ciencias, amiga de Descartes, librepensadora, precursora del movimiento feminista. Cristina era al mismo tiempo confusa, inquieta, excéntrica, solitaria, y en la corte todos subestimaban tanto su mente brillante como el despertar de la atracción que sentía por la condesa Ebba Sparre. Dividida por el conflicto que le planteaban sus aspiraciones políticas y sus deseos personales, Cristina tomaría una de las decisiones más controvertidas de la historia.

Benito Sansón es un niño que esconde, bajo una apariencia normal, grandes superpoderes. Su único punto débil es que pierde su fuerza sobrenatural cuando se resfría. Por ello siempre lleva una bufanda de lana alrededor del cuello. Su pueblo, en el sur de Francia, se ve amenazado por una banda de matones liderada por el carismático Poilonez que, bajo la tapadera de una compañía de taxis, pretende saquear la ciudad. Pero no contaba con que Benito Sansón se interpondrá en su camino. (FILMAFFINITY)

Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves.

Gary es un norteamericano que llega a París, se registra en un hotel, deja por teléfono su trabajo y a su mujer, apaga su móvil y comienza una nueva vida.

En la campiña inglesa de Yorkshire, la vida de tres parejas se transforma durante algunos meses, de primavera a otoño, por el comportamiento enigmático de su amigo George Riley. Cuando el médico Colin enseña por descuido a su mujer Kathryn que los días de su pacuente George Riley están contados, ignora que él fue el primer amor de Kathryn. El matrimonio, que interpreta una obra de teatro junto a su grupo amateur local, persuaden a George para que se una a ellos.

Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance seems strong, but it will quickly crack.

"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.

El director de origen griego Costa-Gavras, continúa en la senda de su cine político y reivindicativo con la historia de un hombre que, desde la nada, comenzará un ascenso imparable por los entresijos del mundo de la banca hasta convertirse en una de las personas más poderosas e influyentes del país. El director se embarca en esta sátira crítica en torno al sistema capitalista a partir de un tiburón de las finanzas francesas, Marc Tourneuil (interpretado por Gad Elmaleh, 'La felicidad nunca viene sola') y de su descenso a los infiernos de la corrupción económica y moral. 'Le Capital' es un viaje por las finanzas en un mundo globalizado: por eso el film se mueve por diversas ciudades, por París, Miami, Londres o Tokio. Una película que reflexiona sobre el dinero, el poder, la ambición y la situación actual de crisis monetaria.

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.

Tras la muerte de un famoso dramaturgo, los actores más próximos a él acuden a su casa para hacer una última representación de Eurídice. Son también los intérpretes habituales de Alain Resnais, que ha rodado una película de tintes nostálgicos, que combina teatro y cine: personajes que mudan de piel, espacios que surgen de la nada... Adaptación de la obra "Eurídice" del dramatugo francés Jean Anouilh. (FILMAFFINITY)

Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine of everyday living. But Mila’s unexpected pregnancy, combined with increasing pressure from work at the hospital, drives Javier to drink more heavily and he ends up being suspended. Faced with his demons, Javier drifts further and further away from Mila. Yet, when their relationship is under serious threat, Javier is ready to do whatever it takes to win Mila back.

Miniserie de TV de dos episodios. Narra la historia de Fabrizio del Dongo durante los últimos años del dominio napoleónico en Europa. La tía de Fabrizio, la fascinante duquesa de Sanseverino, y su amante, el conde Mosca, urden un plan para promocionar la carrera del adorado sobrino en la corte de Parma.

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

Francia, 6 de mayo de 2007, segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales. Mientras que los franceses se disponen a votar, Nicolas Sarkozy, seguro de su victoria, pero triste y abatido, permanece encerrado en casa. Durante todo el día intenta inútilmente ponerse en contacto con su mujer Cecilia. Ésta es la historia de un hombre que gana el poder y pierde a su mujer.

March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.

Yuki, una niña de nueve años, se entera de que sus padres se van a separar. Su padre es francés; su madre, japonesa. La idea es que Yuki se vaya a vivir a Japón con la madre, dejando atrás toda su vida en París, incluida a su mejor amiga, Nina. Juntas, Yuki y Nina, urdirán planes para conseguir que los padres de Yuki vuelvan a estar juntos. Sin embargo, la huida parece ser la única solución. Se esconderán en el bosque.

Yuki, una niña de nueve años, se entera de que sus padres se van a separar. Su padre es francés; su madre, japonesa. La idea es que Yuki se vaya a vivir a Japón con la madre, dejando atrás toda su vida en París, incluida a su mejor amiga, Nina. Juntas, Yuki y Nina, urdirán planes para conseguir que los padres de Yuki vuelvan a estar juntos. Sin embargo, la huida parece ser la única solución. Se esconderán en el bosque.

Yuki, una niña de nueve años, se entera de que sus padres se van a separar. Su padre es francés; su madre, japonesa. La idea es que Yuki se vaya a vivir a Japón con la madre, dejando atrás toda su vida en París, incluida a su mejor amiga, Nina. Juntas, Yuki y Nina, urdirán planes para conseguir que los padres de Yuki vuelvan a estar juntos. Sin embargo, la huida parece ser la única solución. Se esconderán en el bosque.

Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious.

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.

Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

Drama sobre las navidades en una familia con una extraña enfermedad genética, que les ha hecho perder ya a un hijo, y que les hará perder otro si no encuentran un donante compatible de médula ósea

Cuando la mujer de Pietro (Nanni Moretti) muere de improviso un día de verano, en ese preciso momento él estaba en la playa salvando la vida de una desconocida. Desde entonces Pietro se dedica sobre todo a estar con su hija y a no hacer nada: empieza a observar el mundo desde otro punto de vista y, poco a poco, va descubriendo el lado oculto de los demás. Sus jefes, sus compañeros de trabajo, amigos y parientes, intentan consolarlo, pero acaban rindiéndose ante su incomprensible e inquietante calma.

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Cincuenta años, tres años después del desempleo, los beneficios disminuyen muy rápidamente ... Gerard está al final de la cuerda cuando se le ofrece un puesto en Indonesia. Para ganarse el favor de su nuevo empleador, Gerard lo invita a cenar en casa. Error fatal ! Aterrorizado ante la idea de no estar a la altura, su esposa Colette le ruega a Alexandre, su vecino, que lo ayude. Gurú de la comunicación, Alexander acepta el desafío y le da un cambio de imagen a la pareja en veinticuatro horas. Apartamento, decoración, estilo de vida, menú de cena, uniformes, cultura ... ¡Todo!

Suzanne es una madre separada que trabaja de narradora en un espectáculo de marionetas. Como dispone de poco tiempo para estar con su hijo Simón, contrata como niñera a Song Fang, una estudiante taiwanesa. Pronto entre ellos dos se establece un mundo propio y lleno de complicidades, en el que juega un papel importante un misterioso globo rojo.

Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.

A pediatrician's chance encounter with an old acquaintance inspires her ill-timed confession to a past drunken sexual daliance while her husband looks for a parking spot.

Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of Realism. This documentary by filmmaker Romain Goupil explores Courbet's life and work, revealing the fiery spirit that drove him to lead rather than follow.

Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann tries to hide from her, and takes on a lawyer to defend her privacy. But this is only the beginning of a mess that simply gets worse and worse, leading to an unexpected, brutal ending.

Constance Reid (Marina Hands) tiene 23 años cuando se casa con Clifford Chatterley, un elegante teniente de la armada Británica, convirtiéndose en Lady Chatterley. Corre el año 1917 y Clifford se va a luchar en el frente de la batalla de Flanders, de donde regresa con una parálisis irreversible. La joven pareja se asienta en una casa cerca de la tierra de su juventud, Chatterley. Abandonándose a sí misma, triste e indiferente, Constance Chatterley se refugia en Parkin, el guardabosques de la zona, lo que supondrá el despertar a la sensualidad para ella, y la vuelta a la vida y sus placeres para él... Aclamada adaptación de la novela "El amante de Lady Chatterley", de D.H. Lawrence.

A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.

Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?

En París, el amor está por todas partes: en sus bares y cafés, bajo la Torre Eiffel e incluso bajo tierra, en el metro. Algunos de los directores más prestigiosos del mundo fueron invitados a contar una historia ambientada en uno de los barrios de la ciudad. El resultado es un caleidoscopio de imágenes sobre la alegría de vivir, sobre extraños e inesperados encuentros y, especialmente, sobre el amor.

Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.

Nueve extraños sin aparente conexión entre ellos, son raptados, drogados, secuestrados, y encerrados juntos en una casa. Las puertas están cerradas con llave y las ventanas tapiadas. No hay salida. Aturdidos y desorientados, son vigilados por alguien de quien sólo conocen su voz a través de un intercomunicador. Allí serán retados en un juego que les hará competir a vida o muerte entre ellos, y cuyo ganador será el único que saldrá con vida.

One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?

Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.

Alex is the perfect snapshot of misogynist some of its charm: he leaves his wife Léa. Selfish, indifferent, absent, he combines all handicaps to Léa's eyes, to end, leaves him.

Simbiosis de tragedia, comedia y melodrama que muestra la historia sentimental de Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), una madre burguesa que lleva una galería de arte, y de su antiguo amante, un violinista (Mathieu Amalric).

Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au caïd du coin, qui, pour le rembourser, leur propose le cambriolage d'une fondation d'art moderne. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu et tout s'enchaîne... mal.

Año 1919. La Gran Guerra ha acabado y el café Rotonde se ha convertido en el refugio de la élite artística: Picasso, Rivera, Stein, Cocteau, Soutine, Modigliani, etc. "Modigliani" es la historia jamás contada de la ácida rivalidad entre Picasso y Modigliani, marcada por la genialidad, la arrogancia y las pasiones. Jeanne Hébuterne es una bella católica, cuyo error fue enamorarse de Modigliani, un judío. El padre de ésta, llevado por el fervor religioso, envía secretamente al hijo de Modigliani y Jeanne, a un convento lejano. Modigliani, tratando de sacar a su familia de la pobreza, se inscribe en el certamen anual de arte y Picasso, guiado por esa rivalidad, se inscribe también... (FILMAFFINITY)

Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.

Golpea sin avisar. Se extiende sin detención. Mata sin compasión... Un nuevo virus mortal se está extendiendo a una velocidad incontrolable, infectando a los humanos por medio de la gripe. Una pista lleva a los científicos al otro lado del mundo donde descubren que este virus está siendo portado por las aves migratorias, por lo que tienen una carrera contrarreloj para localizar una vacuna para este brote epidérmico y pararlo antes de que la epidemia sea una amenaza para toda la población mundial...

Dominique Bazin is a 40-year-old woman, business manager, married to Camille, English teacher. They have three children, including an infant. Dominique, a modern day superwoman, divides her time between her lover Maxime, her work meetings and her family life. Camille is a perfect housekeeper and a caring father, who unknowingly suffers from his routine lifestyle.

Power and corruption—and the men who rule with them—are ruthlessly scrutinized in this multilayered French work set in a shadow realm of arms dealers and blood ties. Part Shakespearean family tragedy, part political noir, it recalls such American paranoid thrillers of the 1970s as All the President’s Men and Marathon Man, revealing protagonists who work in the shadows, the unseen kings of the contemporary jungle.

When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard (Hippolyte Girardot), a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.

A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her friends find her beautiful and funny. The only shadow in this almost idyllic picture is the absence of a child. Unfortunately, she has not yet found the rare pearl who would be a perfect father for her descendants. Determined to remedy the situation, she sets out to find the ideal man. Several male representatives are on the starting line.

Evocation of the life of Jesus Christ.

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.

Ariel es un chico judío francés que viaja a Israel, se hace agente del Mossad, y se encuentra con que su primera misión es robar secretos nucleares… franceses.

Una pareja se conoce y se convierten en amantes durante un verano. No saben mucho el uno del otro, pero no les importa, no les interesa descubrir más allá de su erótica relación, más allá de los misterios que parecen esconder fuera de la habitación del hotel donde se aman.

This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.

In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.

Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.

The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.

Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.

Elise is content being the lover of Alex, a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back.

Manon, la hija de Jean de Florette, ha crecido. Sabe que Le Papet y Ugolin son responsables de la muerte de su padre. Su venganza comienza cuando revela a todo el pueblo secretos guardados desde hace años. Segunda parte de la película "El manantial de las colinas".

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...

Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.

Antoine and Viviane manage an equestrian exploitation on a wild plateau. Viviane, overcome with boredom, finds life and passion in the arms of Vincent, a solitary groom.

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.

A woman is waiting for the bus. A man in a car offers her a lift but she rejects till he points that it is Sunday and the bus is not running on Sundays. In their short travel together through the streets of a deserted Paris the man tries to seduce the woman without apparent success.

En 1911, Charles Saganne, un teniente del ejército francés de origen campesino, tenía todas las cualidades de un héroe de Balzac: ambición, amor y buena presencia. Cansado de la vida de la guarnición, decide ir al Sur, al Sáhara. Allí conocerá la vida y la muerte, la aventura, la libertad, la lucha en el campo de batalla, el fracaso, el sufrimiento y el placer, el amor y la gloria en la campaña de pacificación del desierto, donde un fuerte llevará su nombre. (FILMAFFINITY)

El presidente de la República Francesa ve peligrar su puesto cuando le roban una carta dirigida a su amante, en la que le pide que aborte, por lo que su situación no puede ser más delicada.

Narrator falls in love with a beautiful girl. Unfortunately she isn’t alone: five guys follow her every time no matter where she goes – to work, in park or in bed.

Juliette is a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a marriage of convenience with Marcel , a morose and laconic railway worker whom she does not even know. Now that her own life is permanently changed, her sacrifice does not ultimately help her family and with that sorrow added to her lonely existence, she is trapped into remaining married because of social pressures and soon enough, the birth of a child. There must surely be a way out for her at some point, but when and how that will happen seems completely up to fate alone.

An educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a mastectomy?

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.