Roland Amstutz

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.

El comisario ha reunido a sus mejores agentes, los intocables, la flor y nata de la policía y les ha prevenido: no lo olvidéis, nadie quiere ver a "El Dobermann" en prisión. ¿Lo habéis comprendido? ¡No se arresta a los delincuentes como ellos, se eliminan! Pero no le escucharon, no lo consiguieron y el comisario buscó la solución más radical; os voy a dar al policía más podrido de todos los policías. El salvador Cristini, la hiena. ¡El enterrador de los malhechores! Él es un cazador y vosotros sois sus perros.

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...

This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?

A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80.

What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is a recent widower. As the story opens, he and his friend Andre (Philippe Nahon) are sharing a drink on Christmas Eve. He takes a yellow scarf from a woman he knows (Laura Morante) and teasingly refuses to return it. Throughout the remainder of the film, the scarf reappears, as does the woman, until they wind up in bed together at the end of the film. Before that happens, Michel wanders around Paris, viewing the festivities with a jaundiced eye which serves to heighten the unattractiveness of those he observes. Later he has dinner with a group at Andre's house, and his poor opinion of human nature is amply supported by the events that occur then.

Directed by Maurice Failevic and Ahmed Rachedi

Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud.

Georges Deblache es un inspector de policía que ha superado la mediana edad y está tan abatido por su vida que se niega a hacerse un chequeo médico, a pesar de que sospecha que tiene cáncer. Su compañero es Didier Theron, quien recientemente se ha casado con una mujer por la que tiene sentimientos de adoración, sentimientos que no le impiden acostarse de manera rutinaria con las muchas mujeres de color que encuentra mientras hace su trabajo. Georges está muy interesado en la apreciada esposa de su pareja, que no es realista, y se abre camino hacia sus brazos, no del todo reacios.

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

A poor french guy, in love with a 50's actresse, meet her husband who send him in an other dimension to fight for her love.

The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.

A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.

Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.

A Red Cross inspection team visits a prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates.

The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.

A young Swiss drug addict (Jacques Zanetti) has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his girlfriend has a new man, and begins to despair of ever coming to trial, or of having another relationship like the one he lost. This fiction film is said to be based on a true story.

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.

El Sur está lejos cuando se es como Serge, profesor en una facultad de París. El Sur, cuando una quiere dejarlo todo como Carol, no se sabe muy bien dónde está. ¿Por qué Serge sigue las huellas de Carol? ¿Qué fuerza lo induce a seguirla, cuando no tienen nada en común?

Una reflexión sobre las relaciones sexuales a través de tres personajes. Denise Rimbaud (Baye) es una editora descontenta con su trabajo que un día decide abandonar a su amante, Paul Godard (Dutronc) e irse a vivir al campo. Paul no quiere abandonar la ciudad, pero no puede vivir sin Denise. El tercer personaje es Isabelle (Huppert), una prostituta que lucha por sobrevivir en la ciudad.

Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.

Un fiscal investiga la clave del funcionamiento de una organización secreta que ha acabado con la vida de un jefe de Estado. Un film basado en el asesinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy y la posterior investigación del magnicidio. (FILMAFFINITY)

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.

Robert, alias Pierrot, es un huérfano que, tras escapar del reformatorio a los trece años, ha sido criado como un hijo por Felicia y León, jefe de una banda que se ha quedado paralítico al ser arrojado desde un tercer piso por sus rivales. En 1945, en plena postguerra, cuando la economía es un desastre y la propia policía se reorganiza a duras penas, Pierrot reúne a un grupo de amigos para organizar una banda. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Recording of the play 1789, a collective creation by Théâtre du Soleil at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes in 1970, edited from several shows.

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.