Yvonne
Odette Desforges
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
La mère (Brigitte)
Depois que o coração de Jean-Louis para de bater, ele precisa encarar suas questões edipianas e fazer uma pergunta impensável à mãe ou morrer em três dias.
Grand-mère Rose
A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.
Thérèse
Catherine
It is the farm on which Thomas was born. It is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is about to do the same thing, and his father, with whom nothing has ever been possible. He finds there everything from which he had fled twelve years earlier. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his passionate mother.
Hélène, Joseph's mother
Bruno e Malik vivem há 20 anos em um mundo à parte, o de crianças e adolescentes com autismo. Dentro de suas duas respectivas associações, eles treinam jovens de bairros problemáticos para supervisionar esses casos descritos como "hipercomplexos". Uma aliança extraordinária começa.
Alix Saint-Cast
"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.
Odile Debord, François' Mother
Um dia, Alexandre toma coragem para escrever uma carta à Igreja Católica, revelando um segredo: quando criança, foi abusado sexualmente pelo padre Preynat. Os psicólogos da Igreja tentam ajudar mas não conseguem ocultar o fato de que o criminoso jamais foi afastado do cargo, pelo contrário: continua atuando junto à crianças. Alexandre toma coragem e publica sua carta, o que logo faz aparecerem muitas outras denúncias de abuso cometidas pelo mesmo padre, além da conivência do cardeal Barbarin, que sempre soube dos crimes, mas nunca tomou providências. Juntos, Alexandre, François e Emmanuel criam um grupo de apoio para aumentar a pressão na justiça por providências. Mas eles terão que enfrentar todo o poder da cúpula da Igreja.
The first homosexual love story themed movie to receive approval for theatrical release in China. The film follows the initial meeting of, and the subsequent secret relationship between Zhao Jie and Rohmer. They decide to travel to Tibet together. During their travels they are involved in an incident which leads to the death of a child. Although they are not responsible, they feel a lot of guilt. They quarrel about it and end up going separate ways. Later Zhao Jie learns that Rohmer has been in an accident on a glacier and, torn with remorse for not having helped him enough after the earlier incident, Zhao Jie goes to find him.
Nicole
Mère de Sandrine
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.
La Veuve Pons
Doutor Knock é um ex-bandido que se tornou um médico e chega à pequena aldeia de Saint-Maurice para fazer sua fortuna de acordo com um método específico. Isso fará com que os moradores acreditem que eles não são tão saudáveis quanto poderiam pensar. É assim que ele encontrará em cada um deles um sintoma imaginário, ou não, e assim poderá exercer sua profissão lucrativamente. Sob sua aparência sedutora e depois de ganhar a confiança da aldeia, Knock está à beira de alcançar seus objetivos. Mas seu passado o alcança e um velho conhecido perturba os planos do médico.
Pierre's mother
Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri), um organizador de eventos por trinta anos, está prestes a realizar um grande casamento, mas acredita que tudo irá correr como o planejado. A equipe da festa, que será em um imponente castelo do século XVII, já foi selecionada por ele: garçons, cozinheiros, fotógrafo e músicos. Mas o que ele não imaginava era que, em uma noite repleta de emoções, algumas coisas sairiam do controle.
Annick Legay, dite Dadick
Velha demais para o marido, demitida do emprego, Marie-Francine deve voltar a morar na casa dos pais… aos 50 anos! Apesar de infantilizada por eles, é numa pequena lojinha de cigarros eletrônicos da qual vai tomar conta, que ela vai conhecer Miguel que, sem ousar confessar, está na mesma situação que ela.
Mamilette
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag…
Françoise
Samir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. When the contract fails, his business partner and closest friend plans to save their company by sending Samir to represent Algeria at the Winter Olympics! Already broke, and expecting his second child, Samir trains to become the first Algerian cross-country skiing male athlete to participate in the winter games. Samir, the eldest son of an Algerian emigrant must first go back to his father's homeland in order to achieve this goal.
Emilie
During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.
Jacqueline
Annette, 38, answers an ad from Paul, a farmer. She has only met him twice when she and her son Eric move in with him in the dead of winter. There Annette has to face Paul's hostile sister and her own past, which soon catches up with her.
Madeleine
Two sisters meet up late one summer to clear out the house of their deceased grandparents.
Léonie Prouhèze dite La Taupe
Marcelle
Samba veio do Senegal para a França há dez anos e sempre teve empregos de segunda. Alice é uma diretora executiva que tem estado muito estressada nos últimos meses. Ele está disposto a fazer o que for preciso para obter uma autorização para trabalhar, enquanto ela tenta deixar para trás sua vida antiga, trabalhando como voluntária em uma ONG. Ambos lutam para sair do impasse que são suas vidas. Até que o destino os reúne.
Anatole and his wife, both about seventy, have already lived together for fifty years. They still love each other, make love, joke about each other, avoid each other sometimes, laugh and row. Except that one morning, Anatole is discouraged. He has forgotten something important which he tries vainly to remember. Some things come back to him: an old debt, some panties and the name of flowers.
Aunt Anna
Paul é um doce meninão, paparicado e sufocado por suas duas tias excêntricas em Paris desde a morte de seus pais quando ele era criança. Agora com trinta e três anos, ele ainda não fala. Ele se expressa através de ternos coloridos que desafiariam qualquer personagem de Wes Anderson em nerdice chique. As tias de Paul têm apenas um sonho: que ele ganhe concursos de piano. Paul pratica piano com fervor até que ele se submete a intervenções de sua vizinha de cima. Adequadamente batizada como a romancista, Madame Proust aplica em Paul um plano que desbloqueia memórias reprimidas de sua infância e desperta as mais deliciosas fantasias.
Yvette
Com quase 50 anos, Alain é obrigado a voltar a morar com a mãe. Será, forçosamente, uma convivência complicada e explosiva, à imagem da relação tumultuada dos dois. É então que Alain descobre que a mãe está doente e que seus dias estão contados.
Odette Node
Em uma residência paraíso alguns aposentados encontrar-se enfrentar os seus medos do outro e a diferença ...
Charlotte
The film is based on a novel by Anna Gavalda, and adapted for the small screen by M. Langlois and Veronique Lecharpy. The idea that a formal academic school program is traditionally seen as the way for young minds to be formed and molded, yet how many children that are deemed failures by the same system go on to make names for themselves as they discover fields and subjects not taught by the educational establishment world-wide.
Lyse
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, they trade pleasantries rather than confidences -- so Emile is shocked when it turns out his elderly pal watches porn, paints nudes and shags women who are his contemporaries that he meets online.
Nadine
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.
Jeanne Vautrin
Jane
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...
Madame Duval
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
La mère supérieure
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Denise Chartier
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.
Esther Kessler
A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
Martine
Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.
Virginie
Jean, a little embittered and insupportable office worker, is fired for his heinous behavior. Fifty, single and revanchist, he has no friends and finds himself face to face with no future. He then meets Antoine, a young magician adept at meditation. Intrigued by this strange character who responds to his aggressiveness with a resolutely optimistic vision of life, Jean decides to accompany him to La Baule. On the way, despite some unforeseen and surprising encounters, the duo will get to know each other.
Elizabeth
Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacrifice the well-being of his constituents in order to make the village more attractive to tourists, which has made him popular with his citizens, but not so much so with outside developers.
Norma Klarh
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to receive an inoffensive juvenile delinquent but end up with the psychopath Marcus Steckner in their suburban home. The film centers on social criticism of the gap between reality and the bureaucratic assumptions of what reality should be.
Élisabeth
Durante um churrasco entre vizinhos, Ludovic, de 7 anos, escandaliza todos ao aparecer vestido como menina. É uma situação embaraçosa para os pais, novos naquele condomínio chique ao qual querem se integrar. Enquanto Ludovic continua a viver como menina, seus pais custam a aceitar a diferença.
la mère
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
Joséphine
Jimmy (James Nesbitt) e Rudy (Lennie James) planejam um amador assalto a banco, mas são presos em flagrante e mandados para uma prisão de segurança média. Lá engajam-se na realização de um musical, produzido pelo diretor da instituição, sendo que o espetáculo acaba se transformando no primeiro ato de um elaborado plano de fuga. Mas Jimmy não havia planejado se apaixonar pela coadjuvante do musical, Annabel Sweep (Olivia Williams), a bela conselheira do presídio. Com um pé quase do outro lado do muro da prisão, ele é levado a arquitetar um novo desfecho para quando as cortinas caírem.
La mère de Tom
After his fiancee leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons.
Jeanne
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.
Journalist
Após um trágico acidente em que morrem o marido e a filha de uma famosa modelo (Juliette Binoche), ela decide por renunciar à sua própria vida. Após uma tentativa fracassada de suicício, ela volta a se interessar pela vida ao se envolver com uma obra inacabada de seu marido, que era um músico de fama internacional.
Henry's mother
When a plane crashes in his back yard, a wealthy young man (Lambert Wilson) decides he would rather be a pilot than a musician.
Béatrice
Ten year old Noemie, fed up with being shunted from one separated parent's home to another, puts her foot down and demands to stay in one place all the time. The new arrangement, however, turns out to be a nightmare.
Marie-Paule
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Evelyne
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.
Sylvie
Yvonne, the mother
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is.
Odette
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...
Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
Painter
Arlette Olivier
The entire Parisian literary scene is in turmoil: Sandra, a renowned author, has just been found strangled. Her murder is the subject of much speculation in her entourage, and some are tempted to conduct the investigation alone. All the more so as Commissioner Bartillot is obviously more sensitive to the charms of a suspect than to those of the case.
La femme du diplomate
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.
Mme Villebois
Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.
L'assistante sociale
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
La comtesse d'Egmont
French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
Yvonne