Serge Merlin

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").

O jovem jornalista Sebastian Zöllner está escrevendo um artigo sobre o biografia do pintor Manuel Kaminski, um artista esquecido que vive sozinho nos Alpes. Para levantar sua carreira, Zöllner tem o plano de publicar o livro, mas apenas quando Kaminski falecer, a fim de lucrar com as vendas.

Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.

Esta adaptação do romance de Victor Hugo traz a história de dois órfãos, Gwynplaine (Marc-André Grondin), um garoto cuja cicatriz no rosto dá a impressão de que ele está sempre sorrindo, e Déa (Christa Theret), uma garota cega. Em pleno inverno, eles são acolhidos pelo grande Ursus (Gérard Depardieu) e passam a viver com ele. Para ganharem dinheiro, os dois jovens decidem fazer um espetáculo pelas estradas, onde o sorriso de Gwynplaine desperta a curiosidade de todos que passam. Aos poucos, o garoto adquire fama e dinheiro, distanciando-o das únicas duas pessoas que sempre gostaram dele: Déa e Ursus.

Conheça o mau é a história de uma amizade simbiótica entre dois meninos, Wolf e Mando ... Eles se encontram em um banco em uma praça e crescer juntos , compartilhando os mesmos interesses : livros, meninas , política , espiritismo. E então, pouco a pouco, seus caminhos divergem . Uma quebra de promessas ...

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Após deixar a vida de subúrbio que levava com a família, a inocente Amélie muda-se para o bairro parisiense de Montmartre, onde começa a trabalhar como garçonete. Certo dia encontra uma caixa escondida no banheiro de sua casa e, pensando que pertencesse ao antigo morador, decide procurá-lo ­e é assim que encontra Dominique. Ao ver que ele chora de alegria ao reaver o seu objeto, a moça fica impressionada e adquire uma nova visão do mundo. Então, a partir de pequenos gestos, ela passa a ajudar as pessoas que a rodeiam, vendo nisto um novo sentido para sua existência. Contudo, ainda sente falta de um grande amor.

The story of the rogue sorcerer Simon Magus, re-imagined and set in contemporary Paris.

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.

Este conto de fadas acompanha um menino andando pelas ruas de uma nublada cidade portuária povoada por estranhas criaturas aterrorizadas por Krank, um cientista louco que sequestra crianças órfãs para roubar seus sonhos, na tentativa de abrandar o processo de envelhecimento.

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...

This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.

Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.

French TV adaptation of the Golem myth

Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.