François de Lamothe

Um homem acaba de ganhar uma bolada na loteria e faz uma grande proposta para uma prostituta, Daniela (Monica Bellucci, de “Matrix Revolutions” e “Irmãos Grimm”). Ele pagaria o triplo que ela ganharia trabalhando durante cinco anos como prostituta, a troco de casar-se com ele. O filme francês tem a direção do também francês Bertrand Blier (“Pédale dure”, “Os Atores”). Além da ja citada Monica Bellucci, que aperecerá em cenas para lá de sensuais, o elenco tem Bernard Campan (“Three Kings”) e o famoso ator Gérard Depardieu (“Last Holyday”).

The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.

Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Lauren (Diane Lane) é uma garota norte-americana que mora na França com sua mãe e seu padastro. Estudante em uma escola particular de Paris, a menina enfrenta problemas para se adaptar à vida no velho continente. E quando seus desencontros estavam para atingir o limite, Lauren conhece Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), um estudante francês que usa as salas dos cinemas da cidade como refúgio distante de seu pai, alcoólatra e autoritário. Juntos, os dois jovens descobrem um inocente romance juvenil. Enquanto a afeição cresce, o casal faz amizade com Julius (Laurence Olivier), que os encanta com as histórias que conta, os relatos de sua vida. Quando Lauren descobre que terá que voltar para os Estados Unidos, o casal resolve partir para Veneza, em uma viagem de despedida. É na Itália que Lauren e Daniel pretendem consolidar para sempre o sua relação. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Canção Original.

Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence. Patronized by the wealthy and powerful, this elegant house of prostitution featured a top-ranked restaurant and specialized rooms for men with unusual tastes: a railroad carriage room, a stable room, etc. In the story, two young people "on the make" bump into each other as they are arriving in the same rail station. Though attracted to one another, they are deliberately vague about their destinations. He is headed for a diplomatic career, she is an ambitious young prostitute who wants to work at the best house in France. Later, they meet at 122 Rue de Provence.

Na derradeira aparição de Sylvia Kristel no papel principal, Emmanuelle leva uma vida liberal e alegre nas ilhas Seychelles com o seu marido, até a chegada de um jovem cineasta, cheio de idéias para o seu novo filme. É quando o ciúme se interpõe na relação. Emmanuelle agora procura emoções ainda mais fortes.

François, condenado por um duplo homicídio que não cometeu, é liberado da prisão. Agora ele procura os verdadeiros assassinos, em uma cidade onde reina a grande burguesia têxtil.

Deixando a Tailândia, Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) navega para Hong Kong para ir ao encontro de seu marido, Jean (Umberto Orsini), com quem mantêm um casamento aberto. Ao chegar descobre que ele convidara Christopher (Frédéric Lagache) para ficar hospedado na casa deles. Ela tenta seduzir o hóspede mas não obtém sucesso, pois ele prefere a companhia de asiáticas, o que o faz estar sempre no Jardim de Jade, um prostíbulo. Emmanuelle conhece Laura (Florence L. Afuma), com quem Jean teve um caso. Paralelamente ela tem suas aventuras amorosas, mas o futuro lhes reserva a mesma pessoa.

An enterprising young Paris based British prostitute decides to incorporate as an official escort business after learning about corporate practices and business ins and outs from her clients. Searching for people to invest in her scheme, she encounters both interest and setbacks.

A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

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.

François Merlin, escritor de romances de espionagem, projeta seu alter ego, no personagem que ele criou: Bob Saint-Clair, um super espião, inteligente e carismático, cujos feitos heróicos e conquistas amorosas vem compensar sua vida medíocre e frustrada. Ficção e realidade se mesclam, pois François cria seus personagens baseando-se nas pessoas que o cercam. O grande vilão, o Coronel Karpoff é, na vida real, seu editor e a bela espiã Tatiana é Christine, uma estudante de sociologia, vizinha de François.

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.

Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

Alice, a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particulars of her holiday. Within a 24-hour time frame, Alice gets on the wrong boat, winds up in Switzerland where she whiles away the hours at a casino, meets a handsome young German army deserter named Thomas, spends the night with her new acquaintance, pays his sizeable gambling debts, and helps him elude the authorities...

Drama político no qual jovem inglês que vive no Haiti e se apaixona pela filha de um diplomata, enquanto a ilha vive uma rebelião civil. Baseado no romance de Graham Greene.

O matador Jeff Costello é um perfeccionista: ele sempre planeja com extremo cuidado todos os seus assassinatos para nunca ser pego. Uma noite, porém, ele finalmente é surpreendido por uma testemunha, e aos poucos, a partir daí, ele vai sendo cada vez mais pressionado. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

O matador Jeff Costello é um perfeccionista: ele sempre planeja com extremo cuidado todos os seus assassinatos para nunca ser pego. Uma noite, porém, ele finalmente é surpreendido por uma testemunha, e aos poucos, a partir daí, ele vai sendo cada vez mais pressionado. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Charles é enviado à uma cidade da França para desativar uma bomba colocada lá pelos alemães. No entanto Charles é perseguido por alguns alemães e vai parar em um hospício onde os presos se convencem de que ele é o “Rei de Copas”. Sentindo-se na obrigação de ajudar os loucos, ele decide levá-los para fora da cidade.

Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Charles é enviado à uma cidade da França para desativar uma bomba colocada lá pelos alemães. No entanto Charles é perseguido por alguns alemães e vai parar em um hospício onde os presos se convencem de que ele é o “Rei de Copas”. Sentindo-se na obrigação de ajudar os loucos, ele decide levá-los para fora da cidade.

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

A few stories about a marriages and it's problems.

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.

An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.

In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.