Henri
In Marseille, Rosa, 60, dedicated her life to family and politics with the same sense of duty. Everyone considers her unwavering, until the day she falls in love with Henri. For the first time, Rosa is afraid to commit. Between the pressure of his family, politics and a desire to indulge in her feelings, the conflict is difficult to sustain.
Restorative justice programs offer a safe space for dialogue between offenders and victims - supported by professionals and volunteers. Among the participants are Chloé, a victim of sexual assault; Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of burglary and snatching; while Nassim, Issa, and Thomas are offenders, convicted of violent robberies. In this emotional and difficult journey, they must overcome resentment to find solace and forgiveness. And perhaps, at the end of the road, some of them might even find healing.
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?
Daniel
Virginie Thévenot, a somewhat special math teacher, takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experiment with a small group of students. She takes a bet: let them do what they want... A spark that will ignite the spirits of teenagers, cause a small revolution within the college, and turn their lives upside down.
Gilles
Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!
Director
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?
Jean-Jacques
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
Rabut
Burgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful memories and reveal untold stories of the Algerian War.
Narrator
Famous educator Fernand Deligny tries to find ways to communicate beyond language with troubled and autistic children in his care.
Richard Benar
Daniel sai da prisão. Ele retorna a Marselha, onde Mathilda, sua filha, acaba de dar à luz. Nicolas, seu marido, um motorista autônomo, está exausto, enquanto Mathilda é assistente de vendas em caráter experimental. Mas uma noite, Nicolas é assaltado por taxistas determinados a reduzir a concorrência desleal.
Le Berger
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Martin
In order to participate with medal options in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, the national coach of France decides to form a basketball team composed mostly of fake mentally retarded. Once in Australia, the fraudsters must fake their disability by living with the other athletes in the Olympic village or by attending the media in the post-match press conference.
Zaremba
De sua infância difícil na Polônia, passando por sua adolescência sob o sol de Nice, até suas proezas como aviador durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Romain Gary viveu uma vida extraordinária. Mas essa ânsia por viver mil vidas e se tornar um grande homem, ele deve a Nina, sua mãe. É o amor louco dessa mãe cativante e excêntrica que fará dele um dos maiores romancistas do século XX. Mas esse amor materno, sem limites, também será seu fardo por toda vida.
Joseph
Em uma pequena baía nos arredores de Marselha, um homem velho espera pela morte em sua pitoresca vila. A fim de acompanhá-lo em seus últimos dias, seus três filhos se reúnem para, ao lado do pai, ponderar sobre o que herdaram de seus ideais e da comunidade espiritual criada neste lugar mágico. A chegada de um grupo a uma enseada próxima irá submeter esses momentos de reflexão a uma intensa turbulência.
Maître Julien Meunier
Le baron Simon-Jacques Le Perthuis des Vauds
Jeanne volta para casa após completar os estudos e passa a ajudar os zelosos pais nas tarefas do campo. Certo dia o visconde Julien de Lamare aparece nas redondezas e logo conquista o coração da jovem, que, encantada, com ele se casa e vai morar. Conforme o tempo avança Julien se mostra infiel, avarento e nada companheiro, o que vai minando a alegria de viver da antes esperançosa Jeanne.
Antoine Mature
Daniel Huot-Marchand
Em meio a um verão sufocante, em uma pequena cidadezinha aparentemente tranquila, a vida quotidiana dos habitantes é perturbada por Josef Bousou. Filho de sucateiros e conhecido encrenqueiro, é apontado pelas pessoas da cidadezinha como a razão principal de todas as suas desgraças até o dia em que é encontrado morto no quintal da casa de sua família.
Hervé Laurent
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...
le chauffeur de taxi / Le metteur en scène
Ariane is having her birthday party but no one comes. She decides to leave at the seaside and take part with her life that disappointed her.
Xavier Lecanu
Xavier e Brigitte, um casal de criadores de gado na Normandia, veem sua vida tranquila perturbada quando Brigitte conhece Stan, um jovem atraente de Paris. Quando ela decide encontrá-lo secretamente em Paris, nada corre como planejado.
Manu
The father
When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.
Honoré Panisse
Fanny, amada e abandonada por Marius, descobre que está esperando um filho dele. Sem condições de garantir seu futuro e o do filho, e com aprovação de sua mãe e de seu avô, César, ela aceita casar com um próspero comerciante 30 anos mais velho, Honoré Panisse, que reconhece a criança e a assume como sua. Panisse traz aos dois prosperidade, reputação social e um futuro confortável. Com o tempo, Marius, consciente de seu amor por Fanny, mas sem qualquer situação financeira estável, retorna e tenta recuperar Fanny, que ainda é apaixonada por ele. Baseado no livro de Marcel Pagnol.
Panisse
A história se passa no porto velho de Marselha, no Bar de la Marine, onde vivem César e seu filho Marius. Marius sonha em embarcar em um dos navios que aportam por lá e partir para países distantes. Fanny, jovem e bonita que trabalha no mercado em frente ao bar, secretamente ama Marius desde a infância, e este, sem admitir, também sempre amou Fanny. Para segurar Marius, cotado para embarcar em um navio de exploração, Fanny revela seu amor por ele e consegue lhe provocar ciúmes se insinuando para o comerciante Panisse, que, muito mais velho, sempre cortejou Fanny. Dividido entre o chamado do mar e seu amor por Fanny, Marius renuncia ao projeto e, a princípio, fica com ela. Porém, obcecado pelo oceano, Marius acaba partindo, sem saber que deixou Fanny grávida para trás.
France, end of the 70s: Alain is the author of several cartoon films. His romantic meeting with a young Iranian student, Jasmine, changes the course of his life. Teheran, 1978: The revolution sweeps away the despised regime of the Shah. Alain has joined Jasmine, their love grows in secret, with the hope that a new life is possible. The introduction of the Islamic Republic will destroy their illusions, and separate the two lovers ... For how long? 30 years later, it is time for Alain to revisit the theatre of his memory. Several faded blue aerograms, Super-8 films ... Not much remains. With his fingertips, from the bottom of the heart, he resurrects the past, image by image. In the restitution of a mysterious and oppressive Teheran, in the helter-skelter of history, beings of paste and blood fight, like many others, for love and freedom.
Ernest
Nantes, França. Em 21 de outubro de 1941, três integrantes do batalhão da juventude do Partido Comunista atiraram no tenente-coronel Karl Hotz no centro da cidade. Como retaliação, Adolf Hitler ordenou a execução de 150 franceses, que eram mantidos prisioneiros. Preocupado com a situação, o comandante von Stülpnagem tenta de todas as formas reduzir o número de mortes exigido. Entre os condenados está o jovem Guy Môquet (Léo-Paul Salmain), que escreveu uma carta de despedida tão impactante que passou a ser estudada nas escolas francesas.
Michel
Apesar de ter perdido o emprego, Michel vive feliz com Marie-Claire. Amam-se há trinta anos, os filhos e os netos preenchem a sua vida, têm amigos muito chegados, orgulham-se dos seus combates sindicais e políticos e as suas consciências são tão transparentes como os seus olhares. Mas esta felicidade vai desmoronar-se juntamente a fechadura da porta perante o assalto de dois homens armados e mascarados que lhes batem, os amarram, lhes arrancam as alianças e fogem com os cartões de crédito de ambos. O choque será ainda mais violento quando souberem que esta brutal agressão foi organizada por um dos jovens operários da sua comunidade...
Paul
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
Monet
Marcel Marx, um escritor aposentado que se exilou voluntariamente na cidade portuária de Le Havre, onde exerce a profissão de engraxate de sapatos, abandonou toda e qualquer ambição literária e vive em um mundo reduzido, formado pelo restaurante da esquina, seu trabalho e sua esposa Arletty. Inesperadamente, o destino coloca bruscamente em seu caminho um jovem imigrante africano ao mesmo tempo em que sua esposa fica gravemente doente. Novamente Marcel deve combater o muro frio da indiferença humana para tentar ajudar o jovem imigrante.
The bisexual swinger
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
André Mazel, father of Jacques
Enquanto caminhava para levar o almoço para seu pai, Patricia conhece Jacques. Ela tem 18 anos, ele 26. Ela é uma moça bela e bem educada, ele é um charmoso piloto de avião. Eles se reencontram pela segunda e última vez em uma romântica noite de luar. Após isso, Jacques é enviado para combater na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Algum tempo depois, Patrícia descobre que está grávida. Seu pai ficará dividido entre seu senso de honra e o profundo amor que sente por sua filha.
Michel Trémois
Martin Beaudinard
Depois de anos vivendo fora da lei, Charly Mattei, resolveu nos últimos três anos se dedicar a família e viver harmoniosamente com sua esposa e seus dois filhos pequenos. No entanto, em uma manhã de inverno ele é encontrado em um estacionamento com 22 balas no corpo e apesar de muitos acreditarem que ele havia morrido, Charly misteriosamente sobrevive. Agora ele sai à caça de Tony Zacchia, o único homem que se atreveria a tentar matá-lo. Zacchia cometeu apenas um erro: ele falhou.
A specialised center is closing its doors. The mentally handicapped inhabitants helped by their educators are taking their destiny in their own hands.
Simon Sarasian
Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet for them by dealing in stolen metal. One night, his accomplice Simon suddenly arrives.
Bruno Couffe
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercise for company executives. Gradually, rumours about the upcoming acquisition of the company start to emerge and everyone finds themselves trying to save their place.
Inspecteur Pujol
Numa Paris ocupada pelas tropas alemãs, o operário Missak Manouchian encabeça uma pequena resistência formada por jovens comunistas. Por sua coragem, vão se tornando lenda de um combate desigual contra as tropas nazis.
Self
"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatural phenomenon crosses all of France: in the streets, one sings everywhere his songs and one expresses oneself only in the language of the poet. In Paris, Antoine de Caunes wakes up to discover the strange "vianic" epidemic, which also affects radio waves and the small screen. A boss of channel proposes to him to organize, for the same evening, a show dedicated to the songs of Boris Vian. Jean-Pierre Marielle tells us the story of this phenomenon, as supernatural as inexplicable. A tribute in songs to the glowing cast.
Étienne
After working with the bank for a long time, Julien decides to open a restaurant with his best friend. Unfortunately, when the bank refuses to grant him a loan, he comes up with a plan.
Albert
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.
Grégoire Duval
Alexandre Darou
Alexandre Dard e Aurore Lalu são um famoso casal de atores que vê uma crise de meia-idade a aproximar-se. Sabendo que a relação entre os dois já teve melhores dias, Alexandre propõe uma viagem aos Pirenéus, convencido que o isolamento será ideal para curar a mulher dos seus ataques recentes de ninfomania. Disfarçados como o Sr. e a Sra. Go, partem com destino às montanhas para reinventar a paixão que um dia os uniu. Mas o aparecimento de um urso búlgaro na região traz consequências inesperadas para o casal…
François
Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, however, Muriel's son is kidnapped, which leads the three to join forces again to get the ransom money.
Louis Renard
Three story-lines run in parallel in a town in Ile de France. Louis, a divorced café proprietor, flirts with every woman he bumps into, but doesn't develop any deeper relationship with them, except a growing affection for Sabine, the prostitute he sees regularly at a local hotel. His sister Agnès is a teacher, and is apparently happily married to Jean-Philippe, but he works very hard and doesn't seem to have been giving her all the affection she needs recently. She bumps into Stéphane, a young man recently returned to the town whom she knew as a child. He is obsessively interested in a young family who live nearby. The film gradually explores the hidden feelings and desires of each of the main characters. Will any of them find happiness?
Manu
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Yves
Il y a des jours où le destin entrecroise les vies, où les solitudes s'animent sous l'effet du hasard, où un événement bouleverse le cours de plusieurs vies. Six personnages vont se croiser, se réunir, s'abandonner, se retrouver alors que rien ne les prédisposait à se rencontrer. Un lien existe pourtant entre eux. Et le destin va se charger de le leur rappeler.
Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Screenplay
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Charles Bénesteau
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Director
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Pierre
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
Michel
This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdown. During a journey to Asia, where Tina attempts rediscover her zest for life, Franck gradually becomes indispensable as a guide, traveling companion and, soon, friend... Will Tina eventually fall in love with him?
Renard
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated by a great local "doctor". In the meantime, his friend Patrick, who has been accompanying and supporting him without knowing that this illness is in fact fictitious, finds himself without a wife or job. The initial situation seems to be reversed; Patrick is out of luck and Sami seems less and less ill.
André Migot
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”).
Claude
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Benjamin Gordes
Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) e Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) cresceram juntos e descobriram o amor. A 1ª Guerra Mundial os separa. Ao fim da guerra Mathilde faz uma incansável busca para encontrar Manech.
Jérémie / Joseph
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
Bruno
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a fixation with the moths that begin to cluster in frightening quantities throughout her apartment, Léa finds herself drawn to a dim-witted fellow employed by a local supermarket, then impulsively decides to follow him home via train. When Léa mysteriously disappears during the days that follow, Jacinthe naturally grows concerned about her friend and decides to investigate.
Self
For over twenty years, Robert Guédiguian has been making films that occupy an essential place in French cinema. In film after film, he evokes the social chronicle of his working-class childhood. We witness an adventure rich in reflections on the film director’s profession, political commitment, the intimate relation between real and fictional characters, and a shared desire to create.
Antoine
Num fim-de-semana de Verão, Antoine e Hélène decidem ir buscar os filhos à colónia no sul de França onde estão a passar férias. Como Hélène está atrasada, Antoine bebe enquanto espera. No carro, exasperado com o calor e o trânsito, Antoine decide sair da auto-estrada e parar num bar. Sob o efeito do álcool começa a conduzir de forma cada vez mais perigosa. Acaba por discutir com Hélène, que decide abandoná-lo e seguir a pé, sozinha na noite. Entretanto, a polícia anda à procura de um criminoso em fuga e Antoine, enquanto procura a mulher, cruza-se na estrada com um estranho indivíduo...
Manu
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Raphaël
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
Aldo
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Patrick Bertil
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.
Daniel
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Homme Apolus
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
Raoul
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Monsieur Hubert
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
(segment "Poitiers, voiture 11")
Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.
Xavier
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
Paul
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Lucien
Two sisters have to deal with the traditional issues of growing up and the unusual problem of caring for an unstable father in the drama Qui Plume La Lune?
Gilbert
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
Robert
Twenty years ago, Robert left his home in the provincial northern town of Boulogne to make it as an actor. His career never amounted to much, as he managed only a couple of acting jobs on TV. Without warning, he returns to his hometown and drops in on his sister who is in the throes of a sordid affair with her married boss. Later, Robert drops in on his younger brother, who is mentally retarded and lives with his elderly mother. As the film progresses, it quietly, sensitively depicts Robert's disruption of the lives of the members of his family.
Marc, le père
In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts), and he's starting to buckle under the strain. And Marc's son Nicolas hasn't decided what to do with his life; he has little interest in farming, but he isn't sure where his real talents lie. One day, after helping his cows give birth to new calves, Marc gets word that he must destroy all his cattle to prevent the spread of Mad Cow Disease. This proves the last straw for Marc, and he commits suicide. Noel doesn't handle his son's death well and ends up in a retirement home, while Marc's wife gets a job as a cashier and Nicolas looks for work (with little success) while searching for a beautiful and mysterious woman to whom he gave a ride.
Henri
A low-income housing estate in the south of France, at the time of the soccer World Cup. The daughter of the leader of an extreme right-wing party sets out to discover the world of the fans.
Joël Patché
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
Gabriel Lecouvreur, 'le Poulpe'
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.
Voyageur de commerce
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
Dédé
No bairro popular de l'Estaque, ao norte de Marselha, Jeanette cria sozinha seus dois filhos com um magro salário de caixa. Ela mora numa casa minúscula que dá para um pátio compartilhado com seus amigos e vizinhos. Já Marius vive sozinho, numa fábrica de cimento desativada.
Denis
Uma família burguesa - incluindo a dominadora e matriarca Madame Menard, a filha rebelde Betty, o filho sem ambições Henri e seu irmão bem-sucedido financeiramente, ainda que perpetuamente irritado, Philippe - se reúne em um restaurante para celebrar o aniversário de Yolande, a esposa tímida de Philippe. À medida que a noite avança, rivalidades amargas e décadas de ressentimentos lentamente se revelam.
Un client
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Jaco
À la vie, à la mort ! (1995) In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret. There is José, the owner, a big-hearted gypsy who loves cars and women's bodies; Joséfa, his wife, the establishment's stripper despite her advanced years and Marie-Sol who climbs the hill every day to visit Notre-Dame de la Garde and beseech Virgin Mary to give her a child. There is Patrick, her husband who has been unemployed for ages but who is kind despite appearances and their friend Jaco who is having a hard time. His wife and daughters hate him for not keeping up on the mortgage repayments. Last but not least is Papa Carlossa who believes that Franco still rules Spain and fantasizes about bumping him off.
In this mainstream French comedy, a television writer creates a hit series based on the experiences of her housekeeper. The writer Nathalie does this in desperation as she has a deadline and is utterly blocked. She goes to Petlet and begins transcribing her memories of the lively goings on in her rural home village. Each memory is an episode in itself, and the show becomes a smash hit, but when Petlet realizes that her boss has been cashing on her life stories and taking all the credit, she gets angry and quits leaving Nathalie with no maid and no one to watch her children. Later Petlet's adult children demand that their mother return to demand credit and a piece of the action. But Petlet remains undecided.
L'inspecteur
Gilles e Christine são dois adolescentes apaixonados e mal compreendidos pelos pais, nessa narrativa sobre amadurecimento, alienação, destruição e identidade. A revolta contra as famílias e a sociedade pode obrigá-los a se distanciarem. Quando os pais de Christine querem interná-la à força, o casal decide fugir.
Jean
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
Le Curé
How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.
Fred
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.
Domrémy
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.
Matthias
Antoni Farrazzi, a seasonal worker in the maintenance of the ski lifts, is called to the resort of Nivance, run by a certain Matthias, who supports the reputation of the resort with a subterfuge. Antoni is going to meet Josefa, a beautiful and amnesiac woman who lives with Matthias and whom he once knew as a child.
On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.
Cochise
Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor.
J.P.
Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.
Le berger
In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.
Dany Péquou
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Moulard
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.
L'ami du dragueur / Le journaliste
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
Dada
A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives.
le second passager
Um alcoólatra desesperado atinge um ponto de virada em sua vida quando conhece uma mulher estranha em uma carruagem: eles fazem amor, mas ela sai. Perseguindo a garota, ele se agarra a ela como se ela fosse sua última chance. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
The journalist
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.
Henri
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
Amédée
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
Jacques
Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.
Photographer (uncredited)
Um homem problemático, François Perrin é mandado embora do time de futebol e depois da fábrica local, ambos dirigidos pela mesma pessoa: Sivardière. Depois, sendo preso por um estupro que não cometeu, Perrin é de repente liberado: necessitam dele para um jogo.
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious situation and steals a few euros here and there from all those lovely people she looks after with such devotion, and who adore her for it… But after an accusation of abuse of a vulnerable person, Maria winds up in police custody.
