Claude Klotz

A mysterious criminal rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor, his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they've made in their lives, secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own.

An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.

Del tren baja Milan, un hombre solitario, que llega a la ciudad por primera vez. Entra en una farmacia, donde conoce a Manesquier, un profesor de lengua jubilado, Los dos hombres, aunque muy distintos, simpatizan por una simple razón: a cada uno le hubiera gustado llevar la vida del otro. El profesor sueña con ser un aventurero; el aventurero se imagina a sí mismo como un hombre sedentario. Dentro de tres días, Milan tiene que atracar el banco local, y, dentro de tres días, Manesquier tiene que someterse a un triple by-pass. Tienen tres días para conocerse, para creer ilusoriamente que habrían podido llevar una vida distinta.

Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...

Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film. Hoping to discover the mystery behind Sylvain's disappearance, Sam decides to make a documentary and sets off to interview those who knew Sylvain, including elderly Lisa Morain. Through her interview, Sam learns the story of Lisa and Sylvain's doomed love affair on the eve of World War II.

Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed up in the words "kill without hesitation".Because of his intellect and his commitment to the holy war he is handpicked for a deadly assignment in Paris. But in order to get access to the target he has to learn how to merge in, to become an ordinary eleven-year-old. Karim becomes his role model. Karim is the same age as Laïd and grew up in one of the Paris suburbs. He is carefree and "hip" and becomes the perfect teacher in a world of skateboards, rap music and video games.Despite the cultural differences, despite the fact that one of them is an indoctrinated machine and the other one a perfectly ordinary carefree boy, a friendship begins to grow between the two.

Antonine (Jean Rochefort) ha crecido con una secreta pasión: casarse con una peluquera. Ya en la madurez su deseo se hace realidad: se une en matrimonio a una bellísima peluquera (Anna Galiena). La pareja comparte una felicidad perfecta, y su vida es un idilio permanente tan sólo comparable a un sueño.

Daniel es hijo de un taxista de París, y el padre de Lauren es el jefe de una multinacional americana en Europa. Ambos adolescentes acaban de descubrir el amor. Julius St. Toran, un viejo diplomático inglés, les cuenta a los chicos que para que el amor sea eterno es preciso ratificarlo con un beso bajo el veneciano Puente de los Suspiros.

In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.