François Marthouret

Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.

Um dia, Alexandre toma coragem para escrever uma carta à Igreja Católica, revelando um segredo: quando criança, foi abusado sexualmente pelo padre Preynat. Os psicólogos da Igreja tentam ajudar mas não conseguem ocultar o fato de que o criminoso jamais foi afastado do cargo, pelo contrário: continua atuando junto à crianças. Alexandre toma coragem e publica sua carta, o que logo faz aparecerem muitas outras denúncias de abuso cometidas pelo mesmo padre, além da conivência do cardeal Barbarin, que sempre soube dos crimes, mas nunca tomou providências. Juntos, Alexandre, François e Emmanuel criam um grupo de apoio para aumentar a pressão na justiça por providências. Mas eles terão que enfrentar todo o poder da cúpula da Igreja.

A biographical short about French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

Manon limpa cenas de crime para pagar seus estudos e é enviado para uma ilha na Bretanha, onde foi cometido o primeiro assassinato em um século. O crime é investigado por Gregor, um policial que viveu na ilha. Ambos, presos na ilha quando uma tempestade surge, não têm ideia do rumo que as coisas vão tomar.

At the twilight of their lives, Alice and Jean would have been lovers, parents and grandparents. But if this cycle ends peacefully for Alice, Jean, for his part, experiences the slow loss of his physical and mental means.

In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the sanctuary they have created in the south of France. Grégoire Fortin, advisor to the French Minister of Justice, and Domingo 'Txomin' Iturbe, leader of ETA, are forced to negotiate in order to find a solution to the violence that plagues the region.

Herói da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Georges Guingouin foi, contudo, réu de um duplo processo nos anos 1950. De um lado, seus antigos companheiros comunistas enlameiam sua reputação da pior forma possível. Do outro, ex-colaboradores do regime nazista o acusam de crimes cometidos durante a Ocupação.

On June 23, 1959, Boris Vian died of a heart attack while watching the film "I Spit Οn Your Graves", a frivolous adaptation of his novel of the same name, which he released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. Taking as a starting point this fateful date for Vian's relationship with cinema, the documentary looks back at his cinematic experiences, his appearances in several films, his friendship with director Pierre Cast and his many unrealized screenplays. From the post-war period to the dawn of the 1960s, from the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to his apartment in Place Blanche, it is about the portrait of a diverse author who loved cinema with passion.

Simon, assassino de aluguel, está envelhecendo e doente. Ele leva em sua última missão Bernard, um jovem ingênuo, para quem finge ser um técnico em desratização. Bernard lhe servirá como motorista até Cap d'Agde. Uma sociedade improvável e uma última missão que irá revelar-se rica em encontros, emoções e humanidade...

Paris, 1817. Diante do corpo de Saartjie Baartman (Yahima Torres), o anatomista Georges Cuvier (François Marthouret) diz que jamais tinha visto uma cabeça humana tão parecida com a dos macacos. Uma plateia composta por cientistas aplaude a constatação. Sete anos antes, Saartjie deixa a África do Sul como escrava de Hendrick Caezar (Andre Jacobs), sendo obrigada a se exibir em festas de aberrações de Londres. Exibido no Festival Varilux de Cinema Francês 2011

Camille returns from a business trip. Young and rich heiress of a cosmetics company, Cosmos, which she has taken over since the death of her father, she discovers that Vincent, the man who shares his life, took advantage of his absence to leave and move his business without even leaving him a word of farewell. Determined to win back her former lover, she finds an unexpected ally in the person of Zac, Lena's betrayed fiancé, whom she met fortuitously at the Bois de Boulogne, while both were in the process of to spy on their ex. Zac is a broke writer, lacking inspiration: they make common cause to recover their lost loves ...

Every afternoon, Clara climbs aboard a pleasure boat to gaze at Jacques, the gruff, aloof crew chief. When she learns he's leaving, to be replaced by Sophie, she's compelled to talk to him.

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

Esse filme é uma dramatização dos acontecimentos que desencadearam o trágico fim de Lady Di, após um acidente de carro em um túnel de Paris. Uma jornalista suspeita que o choque não foi por acaso.

An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.

Depois que seu amigo, um jovem artista de renome, é assassinado, um homem habilidoso que mora em Londres encobre o crime e tenta manter o nome do amigo a salvo na tentativa de tirar proveito de sua herança e colher milhões no processo.

Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic world took off. Aristotles Onassis also came from a poor Greek family. His ambition took him places where others dare not go and became a shipping magnate whose great wealth bought his entry into an international society he didn't ever dreamed of entering. These two powerful personalities were so much alike that their own passion served to destroy them.

Em Karachi, um marroquino à beira da morte conta a um agente secreto sobre os planos de um ataque islamita de grandes proporções. O Serviço Secreto de uma poderosa nação envia o agente Leon (Maher Khamoun) para descobrir e coletar informações sobre como será esse ataque, qual o alvo e planos do grupo terrorista. Nathalie (Anne Brochet) é uma destacada agente especial do Serviço Secreto francês. Um grande laço é formado entre ela, Leon, que está profundamente infiltrado na organização terrorista, e Bilal (Asil Rais), o chefe dos terroristas islamitas. Através desses três personagens e entre Karachi, Paris e Bruxelas, eles mergulham nos perigosos caminhos do terrorismo internacional. Será que eles conseguirão impedir que esses planos destruidores atinjam seus objetivos?

Ex-policial, Mathieu agora é professor

A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).

Durante a Revolução Francesa, uma aristocrata escocesa e seu ex-amante, o duque de Orleães, se encontram em lados opostos do conflito.

When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.

Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father, Marcel Lemoyne, doctor, took care for wounded members of the Resistance and helped them to find hiding places.Every year Jeanne Lemoyne , the elder sister of Frédéric celebrates his heroism in a square of Lyon. But suddenly François discovers a strange bank account in Switzerland.

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

Just before taking an irrevocable and tragic step, Caroline talks to Claire, her lycée friend. Later, Claire gathers five other school friends, and tells them Caroline's secret. The six agree to wage a guerrilla war against their philosophy teacher, the sarcastic and belittling M. Terrien, the cause of Caroline's despair. After seeking advice from Mayard, the school's guidance counselor and a leftist with a police record, the six look for evidence that could get Terrien fired. They strike gold, and then raise the stakes. Sarah, one of the six, hatches a deadly plan.

Uma família francesa convencional vive em aparente harmonia, até que um dia o pai leva um rato de estimação para casa. Um por um, ao entrarem em contato com o animal, cada membro da família se deteriora e suas perversões sexuais e psicológicas são expostas.

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).

Cécile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. Anne, a mature and cultured friend of Raymond's late wife, arrives at Raymond's villa for a visit.

This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan's first assignment is to kill the gambling rival of the count in a duel; Nathan obeys, but gets wounded in the process. Still he makes it back to his master and is expecting a generous reward. Instead, the count reviles the knight, invokes Louis XIII's ban on dueling, and orders Nathan beheaded. Nathan will have none of that. Despite his bleeding abdominal wound, he escapes into the countryside. Initially he finds shelter with his lifelong friend, a chalk maker; he then goes on to one of his patrons, an artist. Nathan is relegated to living in a humble hut in the wilds. Eventually he meets an impoverished noblewoman, Marhte de Lairac.

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

David, an overly jealous widower haunts Yvan, the ex-lover of his deceased wife, who is also apparently the true father of the couple's surviving daughter. The behavior of the grieving David, self-destructive and abusive at the same time, has grave consequences for Yvan, his daughter and the band of fellow musicians who work with Yvan.

Directed by Véronique Aubouy

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...

August 1917. Two pilots whose aircraft was shot down by the Germans hide in a castle. They meet Justin, the employee, who has just killed his master.

In this mildly explicit sexual drama, the lovely dancer Annabelle (Delphine Zingg) has a passionate relationship with an older man but eventually decides to devote her romantic energies to a younger man with whom she has more in common. Between sex scenes, and philosophical discussions between friends and lovers about love and relationships, the viewer is treated to shots of the lovely dancer mulling over her life at various scenic locations in Paris.

In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs for action, Marquis himself only desires to write his deviant stories in peace.

The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency, Alex. During the party, Alex is playing games in his computer and it looks like the girls have the house to themselves, but there's another guest…. and an accident happens - a fatal accident. This will start a string of murders - all those that were at that party begin to fall one by one. The police intervene, investigations are made, but the killer is like an elusive shadow…

Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.

The entire Parisian literary scene is in turmoil: Sandra, a renowned author, has just been found strangled. Her murder is the subject of much speculation in her entourage, and some are tempted to conduct the investigation alone. All the more so as Commissioner Bartillot is obviously more sensitive to the charms of a suspect than to those of the case.

Jacqui, David and Nathalie are persuaded by a barely known little criminal to do a hold-up in a bank. But they're squealed on, just used as diversion while a group of professional criminals gets away with lots of money. The three youths manage to escape with a hostage and hunt down the gangsters -- but are welcomed with bullets.

French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.

Paul and Sarah are married and have two children. He is a press photographer in a newspaper that rather seeks sensational business. She does not work and it weighs on her, especially since Paul is often called to move, leaving her alone. To make a "scoop", Paul courted Solange, the daughter of a minister who had an accident. One day, Sarah sees them in the street. Jealous and annoyed, she tries to get closer to Paul ...

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.

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.

Anton Ludvik, conhecido como Gerard, é o vice-ministro das Relações Exteriores da Checoslováquia. Ele percebe que está sendo vigiado e seguido. Um dia, ele é detido e colocado numa prisão, em confinamento solitário. Veremos as torturas mentais durante as investigações e como um servo fiel de alto escalão civil, é levado a confessar a traição. Baseado na história verídica do comunista checoslovaco Artur London. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)