M. Louis
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel
An ex-con, a young woman and two aging mobsters plan a major heist - holding up a cash transportation depot containing 35 million. Needing funds up front, they call in a high-rolling gambler and his two thuggish associates. The team is ready, but they must wait... and then wait some more. Of course, the tension rises...
Pedro
Marcellin runs the vineyards on the property where he lives with his mother. Since the death of his fiancée he thinks only of his work, until the day Willie is caught stealing grapes. The young man will stay and work in the vineyard to pay his debt. Between them, the friendship slowly turns into love, making the bad tongues of the village speak until the drama that will separate them.
Vicente Ramirez
Two rival "brothers-in-law" make a bet that they can stop smoking for 2 weeks. But, it's just not that easy...
Pepe coquillage
Rose was a brilliant student of Fine Arts. Then, she gave up everything for a "beautiful marriage". Now in her thirties, she is experiencing more and more difficulties in her life, which is both materially overprotected and difficult with her three children and an increasingly absent husband. She breaks down, cracks up and tries to imagine how she could broach the subject with her husband before it's too late. To her great amazement, it was Didier who, one evening before going to visit friends, announced that he was leaving and that he had already rented a small studio. After the shock, Rose goes to her father, an old Spanish anarchist, who gives her back the taste for values she thought she had lost.
Carlos
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
The owner of the Mexican hotel
Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.
Michel
A British girl falls for a French man while on vacation.
Fortet
Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.
M. Garcia, le père d'Elisa
A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Southern France. The publicity the book and film helped abolish capital punishment in France in 1981.
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세련된 중년 사업가, 마티유는 7년 전 부인과 사별한 후, '사랑하지 않은 여자와는 절대 섹스를 하지 않는다'는 철학을 가진 남자다. 마티유는, 하녀 콘치타에게 홀딱 반해, 하루가 멀다하고 그녀의 아파트를 드나들며 돈으로 환심을 사려한다. 정작 자신을 데리고 노는 건 콘치타인지도 모른 채. 아슬아슬하고도 감질나게 남자를 농락하던 콘치타는 어느 날 갑자기, 환멸의 편지 한 통과 함께 사라진다. 그후 5개월, 프랑스 파리의 근교 호화별장. 마티유가 우연히 들른 술집에서 재회하게 되는 두 사람. 그날부터 둘의 은밀한 동거는 시작되는데. 콘치타는 기상천외한 팬티를 입고 첫날밤을 치르는가 하면 "나의 모든 것을 주면 당신은 날 사랑하지 않을 것..."이라는 달콤한 변명으로 그와의 잠자리를 거부한다. 그러던 어느 날 마티유는 자신의 집에서 젊은 애인과 놀아나던 콘치타를 발견하고 내쫓는다. 7개월 후, 스페인 세비아의 한 작은 마을. 점점 시들어가던 마티유는 참다못해 콘치타를 찾아간다. 하지만 뜻밖의 사건이 벌어지고. 실오라기 하나도 걸치지 않고 스트립쇼를 하고 있는 콘치타의 충격적인 모습. 그녀의 팬티는 난공불락이 아니었던가? 마티유는 콘치타에게 집을 한 채 사주고 일을 그만 두게 한다. 밤마다 펼쳐질 그녀와의 멋진 밀애를 상상하며. 마침내 그녀의 비밀스런 초대가 있던 날. 콘치타는 철문밖에 마티유를 세워놓고 다른 남자와 정사를 벌인다. 다음날, "당신을 시험해보기 위한 연극이었노라"라 애원하는 콘치타. 하지만 마티유는 파리행 짐을 싼다. 다시 스페인 세비야 기차역. 마티유는 오늘 기차표를 끊은 것이며, 그를 붙잡으려 쫓아온 콘치타는 물을 뒤집어 쓴 것. 그러나 마티유의 이 이야기가 거의 끝날 무렵.
Eight years after May '68, they are all in their forties and all met to live in a small village in Provence: Julie, Simon, Alice, Maria, Gustave, Claude and Claudine.
Missak Manouchian
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
L'agriculteur
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
Stranger
1940년 5월, 독일이 유럽을 침공하자 줄리앙(장 루이 트레티낭 분)은 어린 딸과 임신한 아내를 데리고 피난길에 오른다. 그러나 피난민을 실어나르는 기차에는 여자와 노인들만이 승객 차량에 탈 수 있었고, 남자들은 가축운반 차량에 밀어 넣어진다. 기차는 공포에 사로잡힌 분열된 나라를 가로질러 가고, 줄리앙은 도망 중인 한 유태계 독일 여인 안나(로미 슈나이더 분)를 자신의 아내인 것 처럼 가장해 기차를 탈 수 있게 도와준다. 이를 계기로 두 사람은 곧 사랑에 빠져든다. 자신들의 사랑이 곧 깨어질 수 밖에 없는 것임을 알기에, 그들은 그 무엇보다도 뜨겁고 격렬한 사랑을 나눈다. 얼마 후 줄리앙의 진짜 아내가 나타나고, 안나는 조용히 줄리앙에게서 떠나간다. 3년이 지난 1943년 겨울, 독일 게슈타포가 줄리앙을 찾아와 안나의 신분을 확인해 줄 것과 둘의 관계를 설명할 것을 요구한다. 줄리앙은 목숨을 거는 위험을 감수하며 사랑하는 여인에게 구원의 손길을 뻗는다.
Emilio
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
