Cais das Sombras (1938)

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.

The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s in the labs of France Telecom, is closely linked to Alsace. Alsatians had then in hand the future tools of interactive communication. What remains today of all those minitel years? Like a nocturnal and intimate road-movie, this documentary went to meet the last people who are still interested in the minitel, this strange beige box of access to telematic services, corny today, but pioneers at the end of the last century.

October 2018, France. Macron’s government decrees a tax increase on the price of fuel. A wave of protests starts to grow. Citizens mobilize throughout the country: this is the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement. In Chartres, a group of men and women gather daily. Among them, Agnès, Benoît, Nathalie and Allan commit themselves to the collective struggle. Like a whole nation, they discover that they have a voice to be heard...

This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the french Fifth Republic today. Twenty-one politicians who, from one day to the next, find themselves at the head of a ministry by the grace of a President of the Republic and his Prime Minister. The formation of the government, conflicts of attribution, reshuffles, rumours of appointments, evictions, casting errors: it is all the capricious backstage of the games of power examined here under the angle of confidence and which sheds light on the prestigious but unknown function of minister. An original and instructive political saga on the reality of those who hold or have held this prestigious position.

In May 1943, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the new head of the Reich Central Security Office, gave Hitler a report describing in detail the organization of the French Resistance. Indeed, during the Second World War, most of the Resistance networks had been infiltrated by traitors, the "V Man" (trusted men) in the service of the occupier. The Germans had established treason as a system and recruiting Frenchmen ready to inform on them was one of their priorities. It was these Frenchmen, whose number is estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000, who dealt terrible blows to the Resistance.

Anna, a young journalist, is interested in a cottage in the Landes promoting it through strange advertisements on TikTok. Armed with her new camera and her journalistic experience, she decides to investigate and gradually discovers a multitude of disturbing elements, letting her imagine that people would be held hostage by a disturbed owner. Is this real or just a game?

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.

O dia amanhece normal em um subúrbio operário. Um cego começa a subir a escada de um prédio, até que uma voz se faz escutar: “Cala essa boca!”. Um tiro. Uma porta se abre e um homem sai com a mão na barriga e rola escada abaixo até os pés do cego, apavorado. François, operário, permanece só em seu quarto, que logo será cercado pela polícia.

Henry Frankenstein, um cientista louco, vive obcecado pela ideia de criar um ser, com partes de corpos humanos que vai roubando, e ao qual tenciona dar vida usando a electricidade. O que ele desconhece é que o seu ajudante, o corcunda Fritz, roubou o cérebro de um psicopata para a criatura, que assim se tornará num monstro que usa da violência sem qualquer critério.

Na década de 1920, o ator George Valentin é uma estrela do cinema mudo, mas sua carreira está ameaçada pela chegada do cinema sonoro. Enquanto ele luta para manter seus filmes, Peppy Miller, uma coadjuvante, alcança a fama.

Sonho? Realidade? Subconsciente? Uma aventura surrealista de Luis Buñuel e Salvador Dalí.

Doze estranhos acordam em uma clareira. Eles não sabem onde estão ou como chegaram lá. Eles não sabem que foram escolhidos para um propósito muito específico, A Caçada.

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.

Em uma Inglaterra do futuro, um membro de uma gangue de delinquentes tenta desligar-se, mas é espancado pelos demais e deixado ao abandono para ser apanhado pela polícia. Na prisão, ele é submetido a um tratamento experimental para recuperar criminosos, expondo-os às mazelas que eles mesmos infligiam à sociedade.

Em 480 a.C., Leônidas, o rei de Esparta, comanda seu pequeno batalhão de 300 soldados contra um exército de mais de 1 milhão na Batalha das Termópilas.

Durante o inverno, um homem é contratado para ficar como vigia em um hotel no Colorado e vai para lá com a esposa e seu filho. Porém, o contínuo isolamento começa a lhe causar problemas mentais sérios e ele vai se tornado cada vez mais agressivo e perigoso, ao mesmo tempo que seu filho passa a ter visões de acontecimentos ocorridos no passado, que também foram causados pelo isolamento excessivo.

Apesar de não ter mais os movimentos da perna, o ex-fuzileiro naval Jake Sully ainda sente que pode ser um guerreiro. Sua intuição começa a se tornar realidade quando ele viaja anos-luz até a estação espacial montada no Planeta Pandora. Habitado por grandes seres azuis, os Na´vi, o local tem uma atmosfera fatal para qualquer terrestre. Por isso, oficiais criaram o programa Avatar, em que um corpo biológico, híbrido de humano e Na´vi, pode ser comandado a distância.