Didier Decoin

Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.

Paul Berthier, an ambitious public prosecutor, is witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl in the Charente but does nothing to help. It starts to look like the girl was murdered, and the case lands on Berthier's desk. Suspicion turns to Guillaume Vauban, the rich son of a local industrialist and ex-boyfriend of the dead girl. Paul Berthier finds himself entangled in a web of lies as he opens the case against Guillaume, who has now been arrested. With a conscience far from clear, Berthier agrees with the judge's decision to remand the young man in custody. Through cowardice Berthier clings to his reputation, determined to save face at any cost. Drunk with judicial power, he's caught in a downward spiral.

The story of Pierre Brossolette, who was a talented student, journalist and a defender of human rights.

In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1942 film.

A great Empire, once famous for its enlightened traditions, is taken over by a ruthless political establishment. Religious fundamentalists and national separatists are tearing at the fabric of its liberal society. Under the influence of his conservative advisors, the Emperor fails to initiate the reforms that could save the Empire from annihilation. One man alone can avert the cataclysm to come. The year is 1888 and the 600-year-old Empire of Austria-Hungary is at a cross-road of history. Crown-Prince Rudolf, son of fabled Empress Sisi, the most beautiful woman of her time, is the man with the vision and the ability to lead his Empire into the 20th century. Yet his enemies, the all-powerful Prime Minister first and foremost, scheme to isolate Rudolf from his father and from access to power. Against the backdrop of one of the most dangerous, exciting and colorful periods in history, at the dawn of the modern age...

Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination.

17세기 프랑스, 열네살의 어린왕 ‘루이 14세’는 실질적 권력을 움켜쥔 어머니와 재상 마자랭의 빛에 가려 우울하고 고독한 유년을 보낸다. 그런 그에게 주어진 것이 있다면 춤과 음악뿐이다. 작곡가 륄리는 그런 루이의 삶과 예술에 동반자가 된다. 그리고 언젠가 왕이 될 루이를 위해 그를 빛나게 할 최고의 음악과 플라토닉, 그 이상의 열정적 사랑을 바친다. 또한 왕실 극단의 몰리에르 역시 날카로운 필치로 왕을 위협하는 존재들인 귀족들의 세태를 풍자하며 루이 14세의 권력과 위엄을 한층 높여준다. 하지만 왕권 유지를 위해 루이 14세는 그들과 거리를 두기 시작한다. 그러나 음악적 야심과 왕에 대한 애증의 감정에서 빠져나오지 못하는 륄리는 파행과 독선을 일삼기 시작하고 이로 인해 그는 왕의 사랑과 신뢰를 잃고 마는데.....

2차 세계대전, 폴란드의 게토 지역에서 카페를 운영하는 제이콥은 계속 가게를 열지 못하고 있다. 어느 날, 제이콥은 야간 통행 금지를 어긴 죄로 독일군에게 불려간다. 제이콥이 독일군의 본부에서 처벌을 기다리는 동안 소련군이 폴란드의 가까운 지역에서 독일군을 물리쳤다는 소식을 전하는 라디오 방송을 듣게 된다. 운좋게 제이콥은 죽음을 면하고 몇 년만에 듣는 뉴스를 가지고 마을로 돌아온다.제이콥은 기쁜 소식을 필요로 하는 사람들과 그 뉴스를 공유해야 겠다고 생각한다. 그 다음 날, 제이콥은 친구 미샤에게 이 소식을 전하게 되는데 이것 때문에 제이콥이 라디오를 가지고 있다는 소문이 퍼진다. 하지만 라디오 소유는 사형이 적용되는 중죄이다. 그렇지만 제이콥은 거짓으로 연합군이 나찌를 물리치고 진격하고 있다는 뉴스를 중계한다. 이런 희망적인 뉴스는 주민들에게 활기와 희망을 가져다준다. 하지만 제이콥은 자신이 전하는 그 소식 때문에 점점 위험에 처하게 되는데...

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.

An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.

Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.

The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.

이번에 새로 선출된 대통령이 취임과 함께 시가 행진 행사를 개최한다. 인파에 둘러싸여 시민들의 환호를 받던 대통령은 갑작스러운 총성과 함께 쓰러지고 만다. 현장은 아수라장이 되고, 사람들은 비명을 지르며 흩어진다. 잠시 후, 인근 건물의 엘리베이터에서 권총으로 스스로 목숨을 끊은 듯한 청년의 시체가 발견된다. 얼마 후, 이 전대미문의 사건에 대한 조사가 마무리되어 결과 발표를 앞둔다. 그런데 지방검사 앙리가 조사위원회의 결과에 동의하지 않고, 결국 사건 조사는 원점으로 되돌아간다. 재조사를 맡게 된 앙리는 저격수의 단독범행 가설에 의문을 제기한다. 미국 대통령 존 F. 케네디 암살과 그 사건의 조사 과정을 모티브로 한 대담한 작품으로, 가상의 도시에서 벌어진 대통령 암살사건을 둘러싼 의혹과 음모, 사건의 진실을 파헤치려는 한 검사의 끈질긴 노력을 그린다. 진실에 다가가려는 검사 앙리 역에 이브 몽탕이 열연했다.