Bernard Verley

Un renombrado criador de ostras en la bahía de Arcachon es víctima de un intento de asesinato. Sus tres hijas, viendo que la policía no encuentra al culpable, realizan su propia investigación.

"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.

Inside a grand Parisian apartment lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady, lives a monster.

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

Alexandre vive en Lyon con su esposa e hijos. Por casualidad, se entera de que el sacerdote que abusó de él en un campamento de verano cuando era niño, sigue trabajando con menores. En busca de justicia, Alexandre se lanzará a un combate al que se unen François y Emmanuel, otras víctimas del sacerdote, con el fin de liberarse de sus sufrimientos a través de la palabra. Pero las repercusiones y consecuencias de sus testimonios no dejarán a nadie indemne.

En la región central de Provenza, durante una cacería, un cazador de 40 años ,Pascal , es asesinado. La fiscal Elisabeth Richard investiga el caso junto al capitán Charles Jouanic.

Emmanuelle Blachey es una brillante ingeniera que ha conseguido escalar y finalmente entrar en el comité ejecutivo de su empresa, el gigante francés de la energía. Un día, una red de mujeres influyentes le propone ayuda para conquistar la dirección de una importante empresa que cotiza en bolsa. Esto la convertiría en la primera mujer en ocupar un puesto de tal calibre. Pero en las esferas aún dominadas por los hombres, los obstáculos de tipo profesional y personal se multiplican. La conquista se anunciaba triunfal, pero en realidad se trata de una guerra.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), a sus 42 años, conoce a Camille Claudel, una mujer joven desesperada por convertirse en su ayudante. Él rápidamente se da cuenta de su potencial y la trata como una igual en términos creativos. Después de más de una década de trabajo y de relación apasionada, Camille se separa de él, una separación de la que nunca se recuperará y de la que Rodin saldrá profundamente herido. La película también muestra algunos de sus romances con asistentes y modelos así como su larga relación con Rose Beuret.

Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.

Axèle es fotógrafa, Camille, escritora. Las dos se van un año a una estancia en la Villa Medici de Roma. A Camille la acompaña su marido, el reputado escritor Marc Landré. Mientras que una extraña rivalidad se establece entre las dos, Camille se acerca a Axèle. ¿Pero quién es en realidad Axèle? ¿Una artista completa, sin límites, que se confunde con su obra? ¿O el mismo fantasma del lugar? De este año en la Villa Medici, en donde los cuerpos y las almas se liberarán, nadie saldrá indemne...

The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who installs residential security systems. Despite their differences, they immediately fall in love and plan a new life together. Jean intends to leave his long-time partner, Dolorès, but she will stop at nothing to keep him.

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...

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.

De Lencquesaing interpreta aquí a Paul, un escritor que vive solo con su hija, tiene una madre algo entrometida y pierde a su padre; y por si fuera poco además viene a confundir a Ada, una mujer ya establecida, en pareja y con una hija. Pero las cosas nunca son tan simples…

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.

Une prostituée de luxe, un juge d'instruction arriviste, une journaliste idéaliste... Trois cultures différentes, trois êtres n'ayant pas les mêmes valeurs. A travers une histoire et un milieu où la vérité n'est pas toujours belle à connaître, l'amour que ces trois personnes éprouvent les uns pour les autres va devenir meurtrier.

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.

Este corto documental intenta penetrar en la relación que Buñuel establecía con el hecho religioso dentro de su producción.

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

Eloise, una niña de diez años, aparece estrangulada en un pueblo de Bretaña. La policía comienza interrogando a René, profesor de dibujo y última persona que vio a la niña con vida. Aunque René, y sobre todo su mujer, Viviane, enfermera a domicilio, son queridos en el puebio, no son nativos de la región. Una segunda muerte violenta acaba por aterrorizar al pueblo.

The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977.

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first contact with the performance space, rehearsals and lighting to opening night, the entire creative process unfurls in front of our eyes. The film shows us the evolving and ongoing dialogue between Greggory and Chéreau, a dialogue full of crises and magical moments of harmony and insight via which the truth, intensity, complexity, mystery and depth of Koltès’ text gradually emerge to form an implicit bond between these two men. The film also shows Chéreau directing rehearsals for Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" in Salzburg, revealing both the unity of and profound differences between his opera and theater work.

A los tres años Marie perdió a Elisa, su madre, que se suicidó, y sus abuelos la acogieron. A ellos nunca les quiso y siempre intentaba escandalizarlos, hasta que hartos de aguantarla la llevaron a un reformatorio. Allí Marie conoció a la alborotadora Solange, y poco después a Ahmed. Los tres forman una familia. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young teenaged girl tries to get affection from her cold-hearted mother in this gentle French drama. 14-year old Rosine lives somewhere in northern France where the cold rain continually falls. It is a metaphor for her life. Her mother Marie had her when she was only 16 and now wants little to do with her. She spends most of her nights out on the town. Rosine hungers for her mother's love. She is almost obsessed with getting it. She is frustrated because she never does. One day Pierre, her father shows up from the blue and Mare gladly takes him in. Rosine is a good sport and likes that he takes an interest in her. The brief respite from gloom doesn't last as Pierre soon begins to beat Marie and eventually rapes Rosine. The traumatized girl tries to get her mother to admit the incident, to pay attention to the hurting child, but Marie just doesn't care. Marie has no choice but to run away from home and make her own way.

En el palacio donde vive, Stephane Feuvier asesina cruelmente a un hombre. Con la ayuda de su sirvienta, Madeleine finge haber sido violada para escapar de la acusación. Su esposo, el ilustre magistrado George Feuvier, contratará a uno de los mejores abogados de la ciudad para defenderla.

Alice y Elsa son dos hermanas marcadas por la infancia, un tiempo en el que la fuerte relación sentimental entre ellas las mantenía atrapadas en un mundo de crueles juegos. Después de dos años sin verse, Elsa deja a su marido y sus hijas para encontrarse de nuevo con Alice.

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.

París, Reino de Francia, 18 de agosto de 1572. Con el propósito de evitar el estallido de una guerra religiosa, la princesa católica Margarita de Valois, hermana del débil rey Carlos IX, se casa con el rey hugonote Enrique III de Navarra.

A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.

Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest.

In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

En el París ocupado por los nazis, una joven acompañante llamada Sophie Vasseur consigue trabajo con la famosa cantante Irene Brice. Como Carlos, marido de Irene, un hombre de negocios colaborador con los nazis, lucha con su conciencia, Sophie se obsesiona con Irene, asumiendo el papel de sirvienta, además del de acompañante, viviendo su propia vida indirectamente a través de triunfos y asuntos de Irene.

The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.

The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.

Serie de viñetas entrelazadas por un personaje o una situación que conecta una historia con la siguiente. Unos soldados franceses entran a la catedral de Toledo durante la invasión napoleónica. Un capitán besa la estatua de una mujer y destruye la de un hombre. En la época actual, un matrimonio se escandaliza con unas postales que muestran monumentos de París. Un hombre ve pasar unos animales por su cuarto. En una escuela de policías, un gendarme dicta una lección sobre las distintas costumbres antropológicas. Un asesino es dejado en libertad después de matar a 18 personas. Una multitud furiosa asalta un zoológico gritando lemas de la resistencia anti-napoleónica, mientras un avestruz mira directamente al espectador.

A detailed account of the techniques and mechanics of prostitution - Meyer is a philosophy student who supplements her grant, gains insight, and gets laid simultaneously.

Drama about the determined efforts of the wife of a sex researcher to reveal her husband's hypocrisy and get revenge for his humiliating behavior to her.

Frederic está felizmente casado y espera su segundo hijo. Da paseos por París y cultiva su imagen de seductor tranquilo. Un día entra en su despacho Chloé, la antigua novia de un amigo suyo que destaca por sus costumbres nada timoratas. Chloé entra y sale continuamente de la oficina y de la vida de Frederic hasta incitar su curiosidad. Frederic encuentra un trabajo para ella y eso es una excusa para visitarla a menudo. Ella decide seducirle causándole a él un dilema moral...

Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.

Dos trotamundos franceses que, desde las afueras de París, deciden ir de peregrinaje a Santiago de Compostela, conocen numerosos personajes y viven situaciones estrechamente vinculadas a las creencias religiosas

Una mujer joven, Jeanne, espera en un pintoresco café de Paris llamado "Au pan coupé" a su novio, un muchacho de veinte años, Jean, que de repente entra y va hacia ella. Sin saberlo aún, los dos amantes están al final de su amor, porque ese amor, a pesar de su juventud y su pasión, ha llegado a al límite. Sobre todo a causa del pasado, del carácter del muchacho, de su perpetua rebeldía que, a pesar de todos sus esfuerzos, Jeanne no ha logrado apaciguar... Los recuerdos de Jeanne son filmados en color y el presente en blanco y negro. Guy Gilles, el director, eligió esta opción para marcar con más fuerza la muerte presente del amor de Jeanne por Jean.

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.

Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina.

Valses entre personas desplazadas de sus países, confusiones en los sentimientos de Daniel y Guy, marinos de vuelta a Francia después de la guerra de Argelia, y Geneviève, ella también moviéndose entre París y Brest. Jóvenes turbados por sus sueños de libertad y sus vacilaciones entre las seducciones parisinas y las playas soleadas del verano...

La esposa del embajador sueco en Grecia se implica en un triángulo amoroso, pero el hombre que interfiere entre marido y mujer tiene preferencia por el marido.

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.

A women is confused for a sex worker while waiting for her boyfriend.