One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)

A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.

Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch with him but, after several rejections, finds herself descending into despair and, ultimately, hatred.

Claude Duty's feature-length debut Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras (Hypnotized and Hysterical, (Hairstylist Wanted)) is an offbeat comedy about three women. Elodi (Olivia Bonamy) is a struggling single mother. Natacha (Marina Fois) is an upbeat alcoholic hair stylist whose beloved pet cat has disappeared. Marianne (Amira Casar) is drawn to a roguish, sexually adventurous art dealer. Their lives intertwine in a variety of ways. Song and dance numbers, as well as animated sequences, punctuate the film.

Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break

Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he had formed a rock band with Serge and Gisèle's brother, Marc. The latter, abusing his naivety, make him believe that he has been robbed of a briefcase containing a million dollars and that, because of his fault, Marc is in danger of dying. The objective is to force Gilbert to put his incinerator out of order to facilitate the bank robbery. Gilbert refuses at first, then gives in. But he discovers that he has been cheated. To get revenge, he tells the police the date and time of the robbery.

Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.

세상 물정 모르는 순진한 카미유와 일찍 세상을 알아 버린 조엘이 친구가 된다. 카미유는 조엘과 함께 하며 섹스에 눈뜨고, 녹록치 않은 인생의 어두운 밤을 맛본다. 애인에게 버림받은 조엘은 머리 끝까지 화가 나고, 조엘과 카미유는 닥치는 대로 들이받으며 동네를 쑤시고 다닌다. 한편, 갑작스럽게도 에이즈에 대한 공포가 카미유를 휘감는다. 들끓는 분노와 욕망이 세상의 모순과 뒤얽힌 카미유와 조엘의 기묘한 우정을 그린다. 두 남자의 행보를 담은 논쟁적 로드 무비 과 궤를 같이한다. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 서머 스페셜 2017)

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…

A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.

Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over. Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the illegal practices of the policemen. Her persistent investigations, which had cornered Maurin, are leading to Gérard, and also to Nounours as the source of heroin that led to recent cases of deadly overdoses. Nounours promises Gérard increasingly bigger catches which he is intent on realising before he is forced to reveal who Nounours is to judge Lambert.

30대의 매력적인 여성 베티는 프랑스 한 지방도시 호텔 카지노에서 세미나 참석차 들른 기업체 간부 샤티용을 유혹한다. 음료수에 몰래 수면제를 타서 샤티용을 잠들게 한 베티는 자기 아버지뻘 되는 동료 빅토르와 함께 그의 지갑을 털어 달아난다. 캠핑카를 타고 프랑스와 인접국들을 누비며 각종 학회 및 세미나장을 방문해 참석자를 대상으로 사기·절도를 일삼는 베티와 빅토르의 다음 무대는 치의학 세미나가 열리는 스위스의 휴양지 실스 마리아. 그러나 베티는 빅토르에게 예고도 없이 범죄조직 자금운송책인 모리스와 함께 그곳에 나타난다. 스위스 은행에서 거액을 인출해 카리브해 서인도제도로 운반하는 중책을 맡은 모리스는 그 과정에 베티를 방패로 활용할 작정인 반면 베티는 그런 모리스의 환심을 산 후 돈 가방을 빼돌릴 작정이다. 당초 계획에 차질이 빚어져 당혹스러운 빅토르는 평소의 활동 반경을 넘어서는 일에 연루되는 것에 겁을 먹지만 결국엔 베티의 뜻을 따르기로 한다. 모리스와 베티는 예정대로 돈 가방을 들고 서인도제도 과들루프 행 비행기를 타고, 빅토르는 신문지로 채운 가방을 들고 기내 화장실에 숨는다. 베티는 실은 자신과 빅토르가 돈 가방을 바꿔치기하여 훔쳐갈 계획을 세웠다고 모리스에게 미리 실토하듯 언질을 준다. 그러나 실제로 화장실에서 접선한 베티와 빅토르는 가방을 바꾸는 시늉만 한다. 베티의 말을 곧이곧대로 믿은 모리스는 착륙 후 빅토르를 만나자 자신의 가방(돈 가방)과 그가 들고 있던 가방(신문지 가방)을 바꿔 들고 떠난다.

Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.

Recruté comme directeur commercial Paris d'une entreprise américaine de pompes funèbres, Gabriel part trois mois en stage sur le terrain. Il parvient à dissimuler son nouveau job à ses parents et à son amoureuse, Claire, qui voient en lui un grand musicien, jusqu'au jour où il vend des obsèques à prix d'or à un vieux monsieur qui n'est autre que le grand-père de Claire.

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.