Zinedine Soualem

Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.

Después de una experiencia cercana a la muerte, el chef más reconocido de Francia se lanza a la búsqueda del sabor con el que un chef japonés le venció en un concurso en 1978 con un sencillo bol de ramen.

95-96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversitý and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.

Vincent is 13 years old and has a boundless admiration for his father. His father is unemployed and is mainly involved in football, pretending to become a professional trainer soon, and does not take care of his family. Vincent's mother manages everything, until one day, at the end of her tether, she attempts suicide.

Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all the invitations made to him. Until the day when he decides to accept to be made "Honorary Citizen" of Sidi Mimoun, the small town where he was born.But should he again meet with the inhabitants of this city, who year after year became the heroes of his various novels?

Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.

Élise, de 26 años, es una gran bailarina clásica. Sufre una lesión durante una función y le informan que tendrá que dejar de bailar. A partir de ese momento, su vida da un vuelco y Élise tendrá que aprender a reconstruirse...

Rémy y Mélanie tienen treinta años y viven en el mismo distrito de París. Ella acude a múltiples citas fallidas por las redes sociales mientras que él lucha por hallar una conexión con alguien. Ambos son víctimas de la soledad de las grandes ciudades, en una era hiperconectada, donde encontrarse debería ser más sencillo. Dos personas con dos caminos, que sin saberlo, toman una ruta que los llevará hacia una misma dirección…

Yassine es un joven estudiante de Marruecos que viene a París con un visado de estudiante para estudiar arquitectura. Pero por un golpe de mala suerte, suspende los exámenes, pierde el visado y se queda sin papeles en Francia. Para solucionarlo y evitar la deportación, le pide a su mejor amigo, Fred, que se case con él.

Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even more troubled than they are. The world seems about to erupt.

Mélanie, 16 años, vive con su madre. Le gusta ir a la escuela, a sus amigas, tocar el violonchelo y quiere cambiar el mundo. Pero cuando conoce a un chico en Internet y se enamora de él, su mundo cambia a medida que Daesh la recluta gradualmente. Sonia tiene 17 años y casi hizo algo irrevocable para "garantizarle" a su familia un lugar en el paraíso. Estas adolescentes podrían llamarse Anaïs, Manon o Leila, y un día todas podrían ir un poco por el proceso de reclutamiento. Pero, ¿pueden volver alguna vez?

Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.

Mucho tiempo después de su curso de Erasmus en España, Xavier está casado y tiene dos hijos, pero aun así sigue encontrando la vida muy complicada. Cuando su mujer se traslada a Nueva York por razones de trabajo, incapaz de soportar la situación, decide seguirla con los niños. Tercera entrega de la saga que comenzó con "Una casa de locos" y "Las muñecas rusas".

Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.

Adaptación de la novela "La espuma de los días de Boris Vian". Cuenta la historia de una mujer con una enfermedad poco común causada por una flor que crece en sus pulmones. Cuando Colin, su chico, se entera de la enfermedad, comenzará a trabajar en París, mientras que su entorno comienza a fragmentarse y su vivienda está cada vez más deteriorada.

It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and the others didn't only want to create their own television channel, they above all wanted to make a revolution. Thus Télé Gaucho was born, as anarchic and provocative as the main channels were conformist and reactionary. Five years of mayhem, brutal pirate TV demonstrations, drunken parties, and thwarted love.. And that was my idyllic interlude.

French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the anti-terrorist unit, the Home Office has no other choice but to call Franck Barrot, police superintendent well-known for his controversial methods, to neutralize the armed group. His investigation will lead him to the very top level of the terrorist organization: the government itself.

Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist plot.

Un atracador se fuga de la cárcel en busca de su ex-compañero de celda, un asesino en serie decidido a cargarle con todos los crímenes.

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...

Día 1 de enero de 1993: fecha de la creación de la Eurozona. Dos agentes de aduanas -un belga y un francés- se enteran de que sus puestos en la frontera de sus respectivos países están a punto de desaparecer. Para Ruben Vandervoorde (Benoît Poelvoorde), el agente de aduanas belga, la francofobia es una tradición familiar. El agente francés Mathias Ducatel (Dany Boon) es enemigo declarado de Ruben y está secretamente enamorado de su hermana. Para sorpresa de todos, Mathias y Ruben olvidan sus antiguas rencillas y deciden trabajar juntos, peinando las carreteras rurales fronterizas con un vehículo especial de las aduanas internacionales: un Renault 4L a punto de ir al desguace.

La joven extrovertida Baya Benmahmoud vive según el clásico lema: "Haz el amor y no la guerra". Con el fin de convertirlos en su causa, dormirá con sus enemigos políticos, lo que implica una gran cantidad de hombres conservadores. Por ahora ha logrado buenos resultados hasta que conoce a Arthur Martin, de unos cuarenta años. Baya se imagina que con un nombre común (hay más de 10.000 Arthur Martin en Francia), está destinado a ser un verdadero conservador y difícil por lo tanto de convertir. Sin embargo, los nombres son traicioneros y las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen. Baya y Arthur son tan diferentes como dos personas pueden serlo, pero cuando se enamoran, las cosas cambian.

A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.

Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.

An uprising threatens the president's celebratory dinner.

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.

Cedric alias "The Quick" was abandoned at birth by his mother and grew up somehow in the homes of the DDASS. One day his teacher Bernard tells him he has a brother, Matthew, alias "Little M", of whom he knows nothing. Unlike Cedric, Mathieu was raised by a wealthy family in an upscale suburb. The meeting between the two brothers promises to be chaotic. Yet, however big their differences, Cedric and Mathieu have one thing in common: they have not known their mother. The two brothers therefore decide to find her. This is the beginning of a long and perilous journey of initiation in which they will get to know each other ...

Relato de semificción sobre Jean-Claude Van Damme, en el que el actor ironiza sobre su vida y su carrera cinematográfica, convirtiéndose en un personaje real que se encuentra en una situación ficticia, con unas consecuencias ficticias. El gran astro del cine de acción, JCVD, se encuentra disfrutando de un merecido descanso en Bruselas cuando sufre una repentina crisis existencial. De repente la gran estrella de cine que todos conocemos se convierte en un tipo corriente, aquejado de miedos, contradicciones y esperanzas. ¿Cómo puede mantener la leyenda que ha ayudado a construir a su alrededor? ¿Qué hace un hombre de acción cuando la pistola que te está apuntando a la sien está cargada con balas de fogueo? Jean-Claude se encuentra a sí mismo en la encrucijada del fin de su vida como héroe.

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Un hombre enfermo que ve que la muerte se acerca, empieza a considerar y a valorar de manera distinta la vida de los que lo rodean: unos verduleros, una panadera, una asistente social, un bailarín, un arquitecto, un sin-techo, un profesor de universidad, una modelo, un inmigrante ilegal de Camerún. Todos ellos tienen problemas que pueden parecer insignificantes, pero que para ellos son los problemas más importantes del mundo.

Philippe Abrams, el director de una oficina de correos del sur del Francia, intenta obtener de manera fraudulenta su traslado a la Costa Azul pero, una vez desenmascarado, le obligan a trabajar en Bergues, un pueblo junto a la frontera con Bélgica. Aunque cuando llega allí se encuentra con un lugar idílico y gentes encantadoras, a su mujer le asegura que vive en un auténtico infierno.

Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.

Judith Ralitzer, mujer fatal y escritora de éxito busca los personajes para su próximo best-seller. Un asesino en serie se escapa del psiquiátrico. A Huguette, una ingenua peluquera parisina, la abandona su novio en una estación de servicio. Algunos encuentros son más decisivos que otros...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor de la revista Elle en Francia, sufrió en 1995, a la edad de 43 años, un derrame cerebral que paralizó todo su cuerpo a excepción del ojo izquierdo. Utilizando ese ojo para sacar a la luz sus memorias, Bauby describió elocuentemente los aspectos de su mundo interior, desde el tormento psicológico de estar atrapado dentro de su cuerpo a sus historias imaginadas de tierras que sólo había visitado en su mente.

Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one o’clock 8-year-old Vlad feels lovesick for the first time. The day is spent observing, looking, avoiding and meeting each other. One day, three different perspectives: the same evening twilight, the same loneliness. And there is always the stranger who crosses their path. How will Serge, Pietra and Vlad find each other?

Historia de una joven llamada María y del designio divino que cambió para siempre su vida y la historia de la humanidad. Relata su vida en Nazaret, su compromiso con su esposo José, la visita del Ángel Gabriel, un embarazo milagroso y el arduo camino al que ella y José tuvieron que hacer frente desde Nazaret hasta Belén para dar a luz al hijo de Dios.

Un marido de naturaleza tacaña decide, por una vez, ser generoso con su mujer y comprarle una casa de campo. Pero como no puede dejar de intentar ahorrar al máximo, decide pasar por una agencia inmobiliaria, y una contrata de lo menos recomendable, que transforman la sorpresa del regalo en pesadilla.

A businessman gets depressed when his wife leaves him and he learns that his IQ is very low. A friend, a clown in hospitals, wants to cheer him up.

A lifelong fan of Charles Aznavour, a drifting 50-year-old man one day sets out to meet his idol.

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers.

Continuación de "Una casa de locos". Xavier ya es escritor, pero ni su vida profesional ni su vida sentimental marchan bien. Para salir adelante, se ve obligado a aceptar trabajos mediocres (telenovelas, series de televisión). Su caótica vida se complica aún más cuando tiene que cuidar al hijo de su ex-novia y a su abuelo materno. Además, corre el riesgo de perder su trabajo si no viaja a Londres y a San Petersburgo. Pero, paradójicamente, gracias a estos viajes conseguirá poner orden en su trabajo y en su vida amorosa.

Charles Boulin decides to sell his small apartment on Avenue Foch to purchase a little hotel in the western suburbs of Paris. But the hotel happens to be a decaying house in Argenteuil. He wanted to surprise his wife and daughter, but it soon turns into a nightmare when they learn they have move into this shack, during the work, along with unscrupulous workers ...

A small crook manages to crash at a musician's apartment and turns his life upside down.

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.

Caty tiene 27 años y es periodista. Es una joven convencional que no tiene ganas de seguir siendo alguien normal. Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Jean, un ladrón que le propone filmar un atraco a cambio de mucho dinero. Intrigada, acepta seguirle y conoce a la banda que trabaja con Jean. Freddy, llamado Lecarpe, es el mayor del grupo; Loulou, que es violento; y Mouss, quien dirige los interese de unas bailarinas de cabaret. Poco a poco, Caty se acerca cada vez más a ellos. Un día comprende que Jean la utiliza y quiere hacerle participar en un último gran golpe. Un descenso a los infiernos con final impredecible.

La isla de Kiam fue una vez un lugar paradisíaco con un Maharaja amable como gobernante. Pero un día, el malvado Malaw mató al trono de la isla y privó al príncipe heredero Shiva del trono. El insidioso Malaw tenía al príncipe encerrado en un calabozo en el laberinto subterráneo del palacio, y anunció a los residentes de Kiam que mataría a Shiva si solo intentaban rebelarse. Luego, el viejo sabio Swami, ayudado por el programador Agni, entró en contacto con la Luz de Cristal. Eso es lo que llamó una niña llamada Parva, que encarnaba una radiante inocencia y nació de la misma combinación astral que el Príncipe Shiva. Solo ella y su amor podían salvar al príncipe y devolver la paz a la isla de Kiam.

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Aldo Bonnard ve cómo su vida se desmorona: su mujer le pide el divorcio, las deudas se le acumulan y está a punto de ser despedido de su trabajo. Pero, de repente, gana una fortuna con la lotería. Cuando decide darle la noticia a su esposa, descubre que lo está traicionando con su nuevo jefe. Tiene ante sí un espinoso dilema: compartir las ganancias con su esposa y su rival o bien esperar a que se consume el divorcio para anunciar su buena suerte. Elige, naturalmente, la segunda solución y empieza a vivir clandestinamente como un hombre rico.

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agreeing to undress. Until one day, understanding that the blind are decidedly more gifted than the sighted, she decides to cheat on him ...

Javier, un estudiante francés de económicas, decide pasar un año en Barcelona para aprender español. Se instala en una casa donde convive con otros siete estudiantes europeos: un italiano, una inglesa, un danés, un belga, un alemán y una española. Todos los compañeros del piso se encuentran en la misma situación, todos ellos están estudiando en Barcelona gracias al programa de intercambio universitario europeo Erasmus.

En el año 52 antes de Cristo, Egipto, gobernado por la poderosa Cleopatra, ha caído bajo el yugo del Imperio Romano. Y lo peor es que Cleopatra ha decidido entregar su corazón a Julio César, emperador del pueblo más grande del mundo. Harta de los sarcasmos de César, la orgullosa y bella reina hace una apuesta con él: si consigue construir un castillo para él en el espacio de tres meses, en medio del desierto, él reconocerá que el pueblo egipcio es el más grande de todos. Cleopatra confía la misión a Numerobis, un emergente arquitecto vanguardista al que cubrirá de oro si triunfa o arrojará a los cocodrilos si fracasa. Numerobis necesita un milagro para llevar a cabo el proyecto, y el milagro se llama Astérix y Obélix.

Old buddies Eric, Jean and Karim have never really grown up. Spending their listless days and nights in the same Lyon suburb where they were raised, the men are always looking for distractions. So when Jean steals a television camera one afternoon, the trio decide to head into the city in the hopes of pawning it. But their funny idea of an adventure turns out to be a ticket into trouble.

Zouina llega de su Argelia natal, con sus tres hijos. Viene a reunirse con su marido, Ahmed, el cual lleva diez años trabajando en Francia, y al cual ha visto muy poco en todo este tiempo. Aïcha, la madre de Ahmed, viaja con ella. A pesar de la agresividad de sus vecinos, de los constantes reproches de su suegra y de los desconfiados silencios de su marido, Zouina trata de adaptarse a su nueva vida en el exilio. La radio es su único vínculo con la vida y con las mujeres, en este país nuevo. Ya no tiene ningún tipo de relación con Argelia. Un día, se entera por casualidad de que otra familia argelina vive en el mismo pueblo, así que decide encontrarla sea como sea. (FILMAFFINITY)

A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.

Cuando su marido se queda sin trabajo, Chantal acude a un vidente poco recomendable en busca de ayuda.

A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.

Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.

Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point of extreme right-wing people. His only goal is to find the youngs who did that to him, even if he looses everything.

Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.

Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.

A man and a woman whose first names will never be known and who should never meet. He is an immigrant, worker of the vine, she is a fleeing bourgeois who thinks she has committed an irreparable mistake.

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Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.

Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period

Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home who are also pregnant the frequently asked question is whether they will keep their baby or not.

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.

24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence

To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives while becoming lost and contending with such obstacles as bad weather and aching bodies. Both of the female hikers are seeking love, though one of them is involved with their married guide and tries to push him into getting a divorce. The other, a former actress, simply wants the perfect mate. Neither of the two male hikers, one who is involved with an Australian and the other is in love with making money, qualify for her affections.

Para Jean Pierre, agente deportivo y muy liado con sus problemas, este no va ser el mejor día para cuidar a Didier, el perro labrador de su amiga y menos aún para ocuparse de él durante una semana. Al día siguiente, un extraordinario acontecimiento le llevará a una de las aventuras más alucinantes, en la cual su peor pesadilla puede convertirse en la oportunidad de su vida...

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.

Los Ménard se reúnen todas las semanas en el café de Henri, el hijo mayor. Desde allí él, su esposa, su hermano, su cuñada y su madre acuden juntos a cenar al mejor restaurante de la zona, un barrio de la periferia. Sin embargo, un día, un incidente trastoca la cita: Arlette, la mujer de Henri, no aparece. Durante la reunión, se celebra el cumpleaños de Yolanda, la madre, y a partir de ese momento salen a relucir dramáticamente los viejos rencores y rencillas familiares.

Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who persuades her to move into his apartment. He soon takes control over Sandrine's life, organizing erotic rendezvous for her, taking her to her clients and waiting for her until she is through with her task.

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.

Historia sobre la amistad que narra las desventuras de dos hombres que se encuentrna de repente unidos por un accidente, y que se encuentran ambos sin casa y sin trabajo. La experiencia les demostrará que hay cosas que no se pueden comprar con dinero...

Tras una caótica noche de disturbios en un suburbio marginal de París, tres jóvenes amigos, Vinz, Hubert y Saïd, deambulan desocupados esperando noticias sobre el estado de salud de un amigo común que ha resultado gravemente herido al enfrentarse a la policía.

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".

The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical young woman of the X-generation, seems to have no ambition in her life; she lives for the moment and the moment is often self-destructive. Abused as a child, she affects toughness and bravado to disguise her inner fears. Mona, Daisy's seven-year old daughter, is the result of the sexual abuse Daisy suffered while she was a child. Mona was raised by her father, but after he went to prison and his girlfriend rejected her, Mona must return to her mother. The reunion is not joyful and the two must lower plenty of mutual barriers if they are to bond. When Mona's lover Sami is arrested for a shooting, Daisy and Mona go on the lam. To survive they become con-artists and petty thieves. Just as things start to improve, finds out that her new boss has been having her deliver kiddie-porn.

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Hanna Kaufman, es una judía nacida en Estados Unidos y de nacionalidad francesa, pero quiere ser israelita. Poco después de casarse con Victor Bonnet, lo abandona y se va a un kibutz en Israel con un poeta que pronto se cansa de ella. Se instala entonces en Jerusalén y termina la carrera de derecho que había empezado antes de casarse. Josué Herzog, el fiscal general, le ha asignado la defensa de Sélim Bakri, un inmigrante ilegal. Se celebra el juicio y a Sélim lo deportan al Puente Allenby. Hanna que está separada pero no divorciada, se queda embarazada de Josué. Desesperada, llama a Víctor, que sigue enamorado de ella y que no duda en tomar el primer avión para ir a verla. Pero llega en el momento en el que a Hanna la reclama de nuevo Sélim, que ha vuelto a ser detenido, pero esta vez con 2.000 dólares y un informe que contiene todos los títulos de propiedad de la casa que lleva años reclamando.