Jean Gruault

Marguerite (Anaïs Demoustier) e Julien de Ravalet (Jérémie Elkaïm) são irmãos, filhos do Senhor de Tourlainville (Frédéric Pierrot). Muito próximos desde a infância, eles começam a desenvolver uma paixão recíproca quando crescem. A sociedade ao redor, no entanto, não aceita de forma alguma o amor incestuoso, buscando meios de afastá-los um do outro.

That evening, Victor, aged thirteen, does not want to go home. Also, ayoung woman, Sandrine, pushes away the the moment when she will find her lonely flat. Night is falling, in Orléans, shortly before Christmas.

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.

Mohamed Khattab runs a grocery in the area. A sheik, he also preaches the Friday sermon in the local mosque, but in the holiday period leading up to Eid, the «beards » arrive to take over the mosque. The people of Mafrouza discuss this takeover calmly and clear-sightedly. As one of Mohamed Khattab’s close friends comments «The Brothers seek to attract people; if you love someone, you don’t try to attract them, you talk to them directly ». Hurt, Mohamed Khattab keeps his intentions quiet, but he has not given up. What happens next gives him a chance to vent his anger and opposition, as well as express his bond with the film crew, now due to leave, the filming completed, after two years spent in the area.

The people of the Mafrouza shantytown in Alexandria daily reconstruct themselves and the world around them, but they also question the camera, who answers them and thus becomes a character in the film.

Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to remain in Australia, and is equally determined to keep his daughter (Danielle Lyttleton) from learning much about her mother, whom she never knew. Nonetheless, when his brother (Tcheky Karyo) calls urgently from Belgium, requesting his help in saving the family's business there, he returns to his hometown of Verviers. In addition to saving the family business, he comes to have second thoughts about returning to Australia after he has a brief affair with a Belgian woman (Fanny Ardant). Meanwhile, his daughter has made contact with her grandmother (Helene Surgere), and is beginning to learn about her mother.

In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide..

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.

O conde Michel Forbek constrói um castelo onde deseja criar uma sociedade utópica. Anos depois, em uma conferência, encontros amorosos prevalecem sobre a educação, Nora Winkle faz previsões sobre a relação de sua amiga e um grupo de crianças cria uma história fantástica sobre os tempos medievais.

Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to spend a holiday together when Francesca is instructed to shed light on the mysterious death of a girl, Rosa Franceschi, who threw herself from the terrace of her house. Francesca interrogates friends and neighbours of the victim, especially Veronica Marini who, living opposite the victim's apartment, followed the whole story. This is how she discovers her husband's affair with Rosa Franceschi and her involvement in the girl's suicide or murder.

O escritor Henri Laborit apresenta três histórias que ilustram as complexidades do comportamento humano. René é um homem de raízes agrícolas que se torna gerente de uma fábrica têxtil. Janine, ex-atriz e agora estilista, tem um caso amoroso com Jean, um político que enfrenta dificuldades em casa.

Na Inglaterra do século XIX, as irmãs Brontë - Charlotte, Emily e Anne - moram no campo de Yorkshire com o pai e o irmão Branwell, pintor e escritor. Elas enganam o isolamento através da escrita, disciplina pela qual demonstram grande disposição.

Inspired by three Henry James short stories, this is the story of a World War I veteran who works as an obituary writer at the newspaper. Worshipping his deceased wife, he is obsessed with the dead people in his life and soon intends to build a memorial to all of them.

Halifax, 1863. Uma jovem mulher usando o nome de Lewly chega ao local com o objetivo de achar o tenente Albert Pinson (Bruce Robinson), por quem é obcecada apesar dele ele não lhe corresponder o amor. Na verdade ela é Adèle Hugo, segunda filha de Victor Hugo, o grande escritor francês. Esta situação a deixa em um desespero crescente, ficando perturbada e a levando a um processo de auto-destruição.

No início do século XX, Claude Roc, um jovem francês de classe média, faz amizade com a inglesa Anne. Enquanto passa um tempo na Inglaterra com a família de Anne, Claude se apaixona pela irmã dela, Muriel, mas as famílias de ambos impõem um ano de separação sem contato antes de poderem se casar.

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

Por volta de 1750, uma garota é obrigada a fazer votos de freira. Três madres superioras a tratam de formas radicalmente diferentes, desde preocupação maternal até perseguição sádica e desejo lésbico. Ao pedir para renunciar aos seus votos, ela se vê presa em uma armadilha fatal.

At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...

At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...

Em uma terra sem nome, soldados sem escrúpulos recrutam agricultores pobres com promessas de uma vida fácil e feliz. Dois fazendeiros, Michelangelo e Ulysses, partem para a guerra por seu rei. Quando voltam das batalhas, mostram a suas esposas fotografias que supostamente documentam suas viagens.

Em uma terra sem nome, soldados sem escrúpulos recrutam agricultores pobres com promessas de uma vida fácil e feliz. Dois fazendeiros, Michelangelo e Ulysses, partem para a guerra por seu rei. Quando voltam das batalhas, mostram a suas esposas fotografias que supostamente documentam suas viagens.

Baseado no romance de Henri-Pierre Roché, este clássico da Nouvelle Vague narra um triângulo amoroso animado entre dois amigos, um francês e um alemão, e uma mulher sedutora, objeto de sua mútua obsessão, durante 25 anos.

Anne Goupil é uma jovem parisiense estudante de literatura. Encontra-se por acaso com um grupo de teatro que ensaia arduamente Péricles, de Shakespeare, mesmo sem nenhum recurso financeiro. Ao mesmo tempo em que aceita o desafio de atuar na peça, Anne se descobre completamente envolvida numa misteriosa conspiração política cujos adeptos suicidam-se inesperadamente. O apocalipse iminente desestabiliza todas as suas convicções.

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.