Michel Francini

El corazón de París esconde un secreto mortal. Al otro lado del mundo, en Los Ángeles, el embajador Han está a punto de divulgar ese secreto. Tiene en su poder información sobre los mecanismos internos de las Tríadas, el sindicato del crimen más poderoso y más conocido del mundo. El embajador ha descubierto la identidad de Shy Shen, elemento clave del vasto anillo del crimen, y está a punto de revelarlo al Tribunal Penal Mundial, hasta que la bala de un asesino lo silencia para siempre. Las Tríadas harán cualquier cosa para asegurarse de que sus secretos permanezcan enterrados, y solamente existe una esperanza para poder detenerlos… El detective Carter, del departamento de policía de Los Ángeles, y el inspector chino Lee viajan a París para detener una conspiración criminal a nivel global y para salvar la vida de un viejo amigo: la hija del embajador Han, Soo Yung.

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son.

Una compañía francesa de teatro se propone representar una obra en Sarajevo, pero sus miembros son capturados y recluidos en un campo de prisioneros de guerra. Entonces pedirán ayuda a sus amigos más influyentes para que gestionen su liberación.

Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...

After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.

Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely difficult to pin down about anything - especially whatever is bothering her. How they have managed to survive this long is a cause for wonder. When Al gets an opportunity to be cast in a movie role, complete with no-cost occupancy in the casting agent's ugly but fashionable apartment, he jumps at the chance to provide a little material satisfaction for his beloved Elsa. But what exactly does she want?

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?

Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.

A Victor Vauthier parece que la suerte le ha vuelto la espalda. El día que sale de prisión, después de tres meses de arresto, sólo se encuentra con desgracias: vende el apartamento de su ex amante y pierde el dinero en las carreras, trata de vender un yate, que se hunde con el comprador a bordo; intenta consolar a la mujer del presunto ahogado y el marido los encuentra en la cama. Marie-Charlotte, la asistenta social que debe ayudarle a integrarse en la sociedad es, casualmente, la hija del conservador de un museo que alberga un valiosísimo tríptico de El Greco. Víctor llega a la conclusión de que sólo poseyendo tan valiosa obra de arte podrá alcanzar la reinserción social.

A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.

The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.

Un grupo de turistas americanas hace un viaje por Europa, que prevé la visita de una capital por día. Al llegar a París, se dan cuenta de que el aeropuerto es exactamente igual al de Roma, de que las carreteras son idénticas a las de Hamburgo y que las farolas guardan un curioso parecido con las de Nueva York. En resumidas cuentas, el escenario no cambia de una ciudad a otra. Y ya que no pueden conocer París, se conformarán con pasar veinticuatro horas con parisinos de verdad, entre ellos Monsieur Hulot.