Joël Lavau

Fanny, amada e abandonada por Marius, descobre que está esperando um filho dele. Sem condições de garantir seu futuro e o do filho, e com aprovação de sua mãe e de seu avô, César, ela aceita casar com um próspero comerciante 30 anos mais velho, Honoré Panisse, que reconhece a criança e a assume como sua. Panisse traz aos dois prosperidade, reputação social e um futuro confortável. Com o tempo, Marius, consciente de seu amor por Fanny, mas sem qualquer situação financeira estável, retorna e tenta recuperar Fanny, que ainda é apaixonada por ele. Baseado no livro de Marcel Pagnol.

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

O milionário Pierre Lavasseur vê o seu reinado ameaçado quando um paparazzo tira uma fotografia comprometedora sua e de sua amante. Agora, o ricaço deve evitar o divórcio a qualquer custo, já que a atual esposa é a acionista majoritária de sua empresa. Seguindo o conselho de seu advogado, Pierre contrata um manobrista para se fazer passar de namorado da amante, na tentativa de esconder o seu caso amoroso.

Em Paris, por quase 18 meses um grupo de assaltantes provocou 9 mortes e roubou quase 2 milhões de euros. Robert Mancini, o diretor da polícia, que foi indicado para um importante cargo, decidiu que seu sucessor será um dos seus auxiliares mais diretos: Léo Vrinks, que é chefe da BRI, e Denis Klein, que comanda a BRB. Aquele que desbaratar esta quadrilha será seu substituto, se tornando o chefe da 36. Acontece que sempre houve uma rivalidade entre a BRI e a BRB, principalmente por causa de Klein, e dois policiais que já foram grandes amigos agora se tornaram rivais. Para vencer eles tentam controlar os fatos, mas às vezes os fatos os controlam.

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.

Baseado no romance homônimo de Émile Zola, o filme aborda os movimentos grevistas de um grupo de mineiros no norte da França do século XIX contra a exploração de que são vítimas. Entretanto, ao se levantarem contra o sistema, passam ser alvos da repressão das autoridades.

Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.

Uma peste desconhecida explode numa cidade sul-americana, onde um médico e uma repórter têm de enfrentar simultaneamente a doença e o governo. Baseado na obra de Albert Camus.

No sul da França, uma família se reúne em sua propriedade no campo para o funeral da matriarca, ao mesmo tempo em que ocorrem as revoltas estudantis de 1968 em Paris. Mesmo com as notícias dos tumultos chegando pelo rádio, a família ainda se concentra em pequenas brigas e assuntos pessoais.

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.