Jean Champion

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Em 1920, na França, Irene procura o marido, desaparecido durante a Guerra. Seus caminhos se cruzam com os do Comandante Dellaplane, chefe do Bureau de Soldados Desaparecidos. O encontro pode representar uma nova chance para ambos.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

Um patético chefe de polícia, humilhado por todos ao seu redor, de repente quer um novo começo para sua vida - e recorre a meios drásticos para isto.

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…

Sr. Klein, um negociante de artes, se aproveita da situação dos judeus durante a ocupação de Paris para comprar e vender obras dos que querem fugir da França. Ao saber que é suspeito de ser judeu pelas autoridades nazistas, ele procura a identidade de outro Sr. Klein.

Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.

Uma série de situações surreais que criticam os padrões da sociedade: o homem que mostra fotos 'pornográficas' para duas crianças, o atirador que mata as pessoas do topo de um prédio, a falta de educação à mesa, os monges e sua sexualidade, e por aí vai.

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

Um dos filmes que melhor representa as loucuras que se passam em um set de filmagem. Um ator que fica deprimido porque sua noiva sai com um dublê, uma atriz que se entregou às bebidas e não consegue lembrar de suas falas e muitas outras confusões, que o diretor deve fazer de tudo para contornar, até gravarem uma das cenas mais importantes do filme: a que o dia deve ser transformado em noite artificialmente.

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.

O grande ladrão Corey acabou de sair da prisão. Mas, ao invés de seguir a linha da liberdade que respeita a lei, ele se vê de volta ao mundo sombrio do crime, cruzando com um notório fugitivo e um ex-policial alcoólatra. Como esse trio improvável planeja um roubo contra probabilidades impossíveis, sua trilha é perseguida por um inspetor implacável, e a sorte sela seus destinos.

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...

Cherbourg, 1957. Guy Foucher é um jovem de 20 anos que foi criado pela madrinha e trabalha como mecânico de carros. Ele é apaixonado por Geneviève Emery, uma adolescente de 17 anos que ajuda sua mãe viúva no negócio da família: uma loja de guarda-chuvas, que é elegante mas pouco lucrativa. Geneviève também o ama, mas sua mãe acha que ela é muito nova para casar e não vê como Guy pode manter uma família. Ele é convocado para o serviço militar, mas antes de partir Guy e Geneviève fazem amor e ela engravida. Assim ela tem que escolher entre esperar pelo retorno de Guy ou aceitar uma proposta de casamento de Roland Cassard, comerciante de diamantes, que se propõe a criar o bebê como se fosse seu.

Uma viúva, dona de uma loja de antiguidades e o seu enteado vivem perturbados com difíceis lembranças do passado. Um antigo amor volta à vida da mulher e espanta o tédio da sua existência. Já o rapaz é assombrado pela memória das atrocidades que testemunhou durante a guerra da Argélia, quando uma jovem chamada Muriel foi torturada até à morte.

Agnès Varda eloquentemente captura a Paris nos anos sessenta com este retrato em tempo real de uma cantora à deriva pela cidade enquanto aguarda os resultados dos testes de uma biópsia. Uma crônica dos minutos da vida de uma mulher, Cléo das 5 às 7 é uma mistura espirituosa de vérité e melodrama vívidos, apresentando uma partitura de Michel Legrand e cameos (breve participação) de Jean-Luc Godard e Anna Karina.