The Age of Man (2007)

Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive, and Mark, a hot 35 years old auctioneer. Everything could work out fine like that, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie the same birthday present: a return ticket to Venice on the Orient-Express, and on the same dates. What will Barnie do? Who will he choose to go with? After thinking that going with Lucie could actually save his marriage, problems are not over: Margot and Mark both show up at Barnie and Lucie's house, pretending to be a couple, and asking Barnie for some explanations. Which he obviously can't give...

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.

Um homem leva sua nora a um passeio ao campo porque seu marido acaba de deixá-la. Vendo a tristeza da jovem, o reservado sogro lhe revela sua secreta vida amorosa.

Alex and Laetitia appear to make the perfect couple. But, as much as he loves his gorgeous fun-loving sweetheart, Alex isn’t yet ready for her to move in with him. Laetitia has other ideas. She has already packed her bags and lets Alex know that she will be taking up residence in his apartment within a few hours. For Alex, this is his worst nightmare come true. In desperation, he persuades his best friend to simulate an attack of depression so that he can move in with him...

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.

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".

Michel é um artista gráfico que trabalha com seu irmão Rémi, e sempre foi fascinado pela ideia de um dia pilotar um avião. Quando descobre que a engenharia de um caiaque é muito parecida com a de uma aeronave, compra um, sem que sua esposa saiba.

Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.

Durante sua viagem de trem com destino à Cote d'Azur, François é abordado por Chiara, uma mulher misteriosa que o convida para passar o fim de semana com ela. Seduzido por sua beleza, ele aceita e acaba apaixonando-se perdidamente. Pouco tempo depois, ele descobre que na verdade ela o está manipulando, fazendo de conta de que ele é seu marido, um homem caçado por assassinos profissionais e perseguido pela polícia chamado Anthony Zimmer.

Adaptado do romance de Iain Levinson, o filme narra a história de Jacques, um homem desempregado que vai tornar-se assassino para escapar da pobreza.

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...

Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.

Arthur, um jovem recém-formado, começa a trabalhar para o ambicioso Ministro das Relações Exteriores. Sua função é elaborar os discursos do ministro, mas também terá que lidar com jogos políticos, a vaidade e as loucuras de seu chefe.

Ismaël (Louis Garrel) perambula sem direção por Paris. Erwann (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) apressa um pouco seu passo. Já Jeanne (Chiara Mastroianni) é condenada à imobilidade e Alice (Clotilde Hesme) anda ao lado de Ismaël, mas ela resolve se afastar do seu caminho para seguir outra história, agora com um rapaz bretão que acaba de conhecer.

E se mostrar soluções e contar uma boa história fosse a melhor maneira de resolver as crises ecológicas, econômicas e sociais que atravessam nossos países? Após a publicação de um estudo que anunciava o possível desaparecimento de parte da humanidade até 2100, Cyril Dion e Mélanie Laurent partiram com uma equipe de quatro pessoas por dez países para entender o que poderia provocar essa catástrofe e, sobretudo, como evitá-la. Durante a viagem, encontraram pioneiros que reinventaram a agricultura, a energia, a economia, a democracia e a educação. Todas juntas, estas iniciativas positivas e concretas, já contribuem para definir o mundo de amanhã…

Uma família burguesa - incluindo a dominadora e matriarca Madame Menard, a filha rebelde Betty, o filho sem ambições Henri e seu irmão bem-sucedido financeiramente, ainda que perpetuamente irritado, Philippe - se reúne em um restaurante para celebrar o aniversário de Yolande, a esposa tímida de Philippe. À medida que a noite avança, rivalidades amargas e décadas de ressentimentos lentamente se revelam.