La grand-mère de Laure
The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison arrives in a tiny, remote village in the kingdom of France plagued by famine and leprosy, and ruled by an ageing lord, a former hero from the Crusades, Lord Ocam. Together with his horde of knights, Ocam abducts a young girl from the village in order to exert his droit du seigneur over her. A handful of villagers, backed up by The Stranger, attempt to release her, but they only have until nightfall…
Edith
Gabrielle, the grandmother
Da noite para o dia, Raphaël se vê mergulhado num mundo no qual nunca encontrou sua esposa Olivia. Como ele vai fazer para reconquistar a mulher da sua vida, que se tornou uma perfeita desconhecida?
Sarah
Uma exploração de nove anos das vidas e da convivência de Rodolphe (Paul Vecchiali) e Laurent (Pascal Cervo), pai e filho, dois homens com personalides distintas e com grandes problemas de conexão entre si, apesar do grande carinho que os une.
Yvette
Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) era uma mãe de família com dois filhos e professora de filosofia realizada, até que toda a sua vida começa a ruir. Ela é traída pelo marido, demitida do emprego e perde a mãe. Sozinha aos 55 anos de idade, ela precisa lidar com o abandono e todos os seus conflitos.
Madeleine de Lassay
1997 - An old notable French provincial family falls under the spell of a manipulator with no scruples able to make a whole family become paranoid.
Madame Delalande
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..
Madame de Bressigny
Martin, um endinheirado moderno ex-parisiense apaixonados por Gustave Flaubert que se instalaram em uma aldeia Norman como um padeiro, vê um casal Inglês movendo-se em uma pequena fazenda nas proximidades. Não são apenas os nomes dos recém-chegados e Gemma Bovery Charles, mas o seu comportamento também parece ter sido inspirado por heróis de Flaubert.
Edwige
Um arquiteto e sua esposa vêem seu relacionamento desafiado.
Henriette
Iris (Emmanuelle Béart), uma socialite francesa, contrata como “Ghost Writer” sua tímida irmã Josephine (Julie Depardieu), pesquisadora especialista em Idade Média. O sucesso do livro faz de Iris famosa e desperta a transformação da irmã.
L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
Luís Vaz de Camões, o maior poeta português do Renascimento, debate-se criativamente ao engrenar num estilo de vida hedonístico, coprófago e baralhado pelo consumo de drogas. O filme acompanha o poeta, e a sua amante Dinamene, na altura em que escreve a sua obra-prima, o poema épico "Os Lusíadas". Viaja desde a cacofonia das selvas índicas, rodeado de elefantes alegóricos e macacos que rimam, até à fronteira entre o Céu e o Inferno, onde é confrontado com a sua fantasia: a fama e a imortalidade.
La mère de Cléo
While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped by Afghanistan's only female warlord.
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
Self
A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the cinematographer, Caroline Champetier).
Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention. With a cameo by Barbet Schroeder.
Self
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo cinema to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, and finally reveals how Europe's turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition.
Claras Mutter
Uma atriz de renome descobre que sofre de câncer e que tem apenas alguns meses de vida. Ela decide preparar sua morte e entra em contato com uma clínica suíça que pratica o suicídio assistido. Mas como fazer aceitar sua escolha por seus próximos?
Old Lady
Alex está posando. Uma velha senhora está esculpindo. Seria uma situação normal... Se a senhora não fosse cega e tivesse apenas as mãos para ver. Mãos enrugadas que ela pousa sobre o corpo nu de seu jovem modelo. Alex terá uma experiência de sessão diferente.
Céline
O senhor Oscar parece um importante executivo indo para o escritório ao entrar em sua limusine, mas seu "trabalho" real é um pouco mais complexo: ele tem uma série de compromissos durante o dia, onde encarna personagens, desde uma idosa pedinte, um milionário em estado terminal, até um assassino frio. O objetivo e a motivação de Oscar, no entanto, são misteriosos.
Claire Blick
De volta ao lar depois de uma longa estada no exterior, Paul descobre que sua filha Marie teve uma crise de esquizofrenia e foi hospitalizada. Persuadido de que a origem distúrbio está em seu próprio passado, ele se abre pela vez com Marie a espera de salvá-la.
Madeleine
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Mme Talbot
After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.
A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and spirits of the director and Edit Scob.
Eda Baykan
A retired woman and an antique computer, set in the year 2019
A woman sitting in front of a screen: we do not know if it is day or night outside. In this place, the light of the screens dominates that of time. The inner voice of this woman recounts a solitary and reclusive life and her confusion in front of an old black and white photograph that she has just e
Self
A short documentary about Georges Franju.
Mademoiselle Lainé
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...
Hélène
Three siblings struggle to deal with the recent death of their mother, the end of their childhoods and their unique visions for the future.
Madame Mirepoix
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosses the threshold of a elderly person caregivers’ agency where, faced with an extrovert teenager, a charming man, and a cruel, elderly woman, she takes hold of her existence and encounters love.
Lucy Jüst
Simon, um sujeito meticuloso, sóbrio e calculista, é psicólogo e diretor de Recursos Humanos de uma corporação multinacional alemã sediada na França. Após demitir mais de mil trabalhadores, em um processo de "reengenharia" da empresa para melhor "racionalização" das linhas de produção, é solicitado pelo vice-presidente a investigar, em sigilo, o estado mental de um importante diretor-executivo, que apresentaria um comportamento supostamente estranho.
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successively welcome him to their home, but it is his meeting with Suzanne that will give him a taste for life. She is not of his world, nor of his age, but she will be his last love.
The caretaker
Hélène Brückner
A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.
Mathilde
Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly seduces Pierre, a slightly older man who is working for Mathilde as caretaker for the season. Pierre is initially open to the relationship, but quickly becomes reluctant to become too involved.
La dame du 223
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
Mme Chantal
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.
Self
Ever since the goddesses, gorgons and other sirens of ancient mythology, the strangest creatures, sometimes charming, sometimes terrifying, have continued to haunt our imagination. This documentary shows the disturbing fascination they exert on both filmmakers and the public and rehabilitates an underappreciated continent: the great female icons of horror and wonder in cinema.
Leone
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Mme Arbesault
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Manesquier's Sister
Um ladrão de bancos chega para fazer um trabalho em uma pequena cidade francesa e faz amizade com um professor aposentado de poesia.
Sylvia
Paris, 1830. Às vésperas de uma segunda revolução, a capital está em rebuliço e o barulho da revolta só cresce. Carlos X acaba de abdicar. Vidocq (Gérard Depardieu), o chefe da segurança nacional, persegue uma estranha criatura conhecida como O Alquimista a qual, supõe-se, é responsável por uma série de crimes e raptos. Quando finalmente encontra o inimigo Vidocq é vencido e, horrorizado ao descobrir o verdadeiro rosto do Alquimista, joga-se num poço em chamas. Etienne (Guillaume Canet), um jornalista que pretendia escrever um livro sobre Vidocq, passa então a seguir os últimos passos de seu personagem e acaba tendo surpreendentes revelações em sua viagem ao submundo de Paris.
Première femme veillée
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Fanette
A suburban pavilion, garden gnomes, a bloody scene. Break between Fred and Liza. As happiness never comes alone, Carole, emerges, announces to Liza that she is pregnant with Fred. Liza takes the kid in a wagon stolen from Fred.
Mme de Morangias
Em 1765, durante o reinado de Luís XV, uma misteriosa criatura traz pânico e terror em uma província rural da França. Chamada de a Besta de Gevaudan, ela atacava crianças e mulheres há meses e ninguém era capaz de prevenir suas ações, vê-la com nitidez ou sequer capturá-la. Desesperado em pôr um fim na situação, o rei decide então enviar ao local o renomado biólogo Gregóire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan). Entretanto, Gregóire terá não apenas que lutar contra o monstro mas também contra a ignorância, a conspiração e a intolerância local, recebendo o apoio de duas mulheres, uma aristocrata e uma prostituta.
The widow
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
Laurence
Camille completa nove anos. Ele tinha jurado que, em seu aniversário, iria mostrar aos pais as coisas que filmou com sua câmera: um gato, um cinzeiro, uma janela, uma mulher. Naquele mesmo dia, sua mãe, Ariane (Isabelle Huppert), o encontra no parque. O menino parece perturbado. Está recostado a uma árvore, olhos cravados no chão. Diz que quer voltar para a sua "verdadeira" mãe... Ariane não entende, Camille lhe mostra um endereço de onde afirma ser sua verdadeira casa. No dia seguinte, para entender o que se passa, Ariane cede aos pedidos e leva Camille ao tal endereço. E descobre que lá morava Isabella, uma violinista cujo filho, falecido há algum tempo, teria hoje nove anos.
Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman. The third episode from "The Blindfold" by Siri Hustvedt.
Diane
Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
Oriane de Guermantes
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
La cliente aux taches sur les mains
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything...
Edith
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Jeanne de Béthune
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Couple in car
Situado na ponte mais antiga de Paris, a Pont Neuf, enquanto estava fechada para reparos, este filme é uma história de amor entre dois jovens vagabundos: Alex, um artista de circo viciado em álcool e sedativos e Michele, uma pintora que viveu uma vida nas ruas por causa de um relacionamento fracassado e uma aflição que lentamente a cega. O filme retrata a dura existência dos sem-teto como Alex, Michele e Hans, um vagabundo mais velho sobrevive nas ruas com inteligência. Como os dois lentamente recuperam suas vidas, Michele se torna cada vez mais dependente de Alex, enquanto sua visão se deteriora ainda mais. Temendo que Michele o deixe se receber um novo tratamento médico, Alex tenta manter Michele praticamente como uma prisioneira. As ruas, os céus e os canais de Paris são usados como pano de fundo para a história em uma série de visuais impressionantes que dominam o filme. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Judith
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.
Solange de Boylesve
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
Mme Michel, la libraire
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Doctor
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Madame Bronsky
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
La voyante
Lilette
A travelling company makes its way round the small villages of France. Shot for the program Cinéma 16 broadcast by the French channel FR3, where Franju adapted an argument written by one of his favourite actors, Pierre Brasseur, and worked with his fetish actress, Edith Scob.
Mère Angélique 1
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
La folle
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
Valentine
Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and pretty prostitute who becomes his partner in tango contests.
Voices (voice)
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Sylvie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Lucile Desmoulins
Virgin Mary
Dois peregrinos decidem percorrer o sagrado Caminho de Santiago de Compostela. Durante a travessia, eles encontram personagens bíblicos e confrontam os dogmas do cristianismo.
Actress
Two guys facing problems in relationships and wondering about the living on the capitalist society.
l'infirmière
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
A woman comes home from a long illness (read: a long absence). The city hasn't changed, the man she's returning to has. She will have to learn how to live all over again.
In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.
Jacqueline Favraux
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex (Channing Pollock) whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux (Michel Vitold) unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Anne De La Trave
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.
Marie D'Aubray Boissand
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
Claude Larmentiel
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Edith
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Christiane Génessier
Uma garota sofreu um acidente que acabou a deixando sem face, sobrando apenas os olhos intactos. Seu pai, um renomado cirurgião especialista em transplantes, está determinado a fazer qualquer coisa para lhe dar um novo rosto.
Pascale
Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wanders between the park and the salons, playing the songs he composed on the guitar. He notices strange people around the castle.
The singing mad
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.