Jean-Michel Noirey

One wanted to be an actress, she evokes her first love... The other seeks in the figure of the father-teacher, the origin of her vocation. A waitress in a bar knows that she is destined for a singing career. A peripatetic woman is still looking for an impossible love. A butcher's daughter learns to count while putting on her red tutu. A woman born in Meudon believes herself to be Italian. A young girl runs away from her mother who wanted a boy. An old girl inherits a house in the Somme Bay but she hates water. A young woman, in order to escape the violence that destroyed her family, has taken the path of exile from central Africa. Yet another woman discovers her responsibilities as a mother late in life. All of them will introduce themselves. Stories are told. The word gets out. The men are the direct witnesses, the counterpoints.

One wanted to be an actress, she evokes her first love... The other seeks in the figure of the father-teacher, the origin of her vocation. A waitress in a bar knows that she is destined for a singing career. A peripatetic woman is still looking for an impossible love. A butcher's daughter learns to count while putting on her red tutu. A woman born in Meudon believes herself to be Italian. A young girl runs away from her mother who wanted a boy. An old girl inherits a house in the Somme Bay but she hates water. A young woman, in order to escape the violence that destroyed her family, has taken the path of exile from central Africa. Yet another woman discovers her responsibilities as a mother late in life. All of them will introduce themselves. Stories are told. The word gets out. The men are the direct witnesses, the counterpoints.

One wanted to be an actress, she evokes her first love... The other seeks in the figure of the father-teacher, the origin of her vocation. A waitress in a bar knows that she is destined for a singing career. A peripatetic woman is still looking for an impossible love. A butcher's daughter learns to count while putting on her red tutu. A woman born in Meudon believes herself to be Italian. A young girl runs away from her mother who wanted a boy. An old girl inherits a house in the Somme Bay but she hates water. A young woman, in order to escape the violence that destroyed her family, has taken the path of exile from central Africa. Yet another woman discovers her responsibilities as a mother late in life. All of them will introduce themselves. Stories are told. The word gets out. The men are the direct witnesses, the counterpoints.

Caroline Jeune, a gendarme captain, takes on her first murder. An 18-year-old Kurdish woman, Sabrya, was murdered on her way home from the choir she sang in.

Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.

Police Commander Louise Chaland is investigating the murder of a controversial sculptor with the help of her son Sylvain, who has become a priest. The body was discovered alongside one of his works, which has been daubed with Latin inscriptions. They soon establish a link with the disappearance of a relic of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the city of Tours. Their investigation leads them to a shelter for the needy, run by François Delcourt and his daughter, who was in love with the murdered artist. Clues start to reveal the disturbing fascination some inhabitants of Tours have with the missing relic. Louise and Sylvain will discover the rich historical and religious heritage of the city as the secular mother and pious son come to some sort of a reconciliation.

Lisa, a mother of two, is gradually being consumed by her alcoholism while her husband Vincent is busy with his career and underestimates the gravity of the situation, simply avoiding the subject.

The unidentified body of a homeless man was found on a dune of the Somme. Fatally shot shotgun ... shot in the back. Pure accident? Homicide concealed? Intentional killing otherwise called "murder"? The local Gendarmerie Brigade is in charge of the case, under the direction of the Substitute Aurore Debac. To investigate the death of Vagabond of the Somme Bay, Dawn relies on the persistence of Staff of the Gendarmerie, non-standard methods, BEAUJOUR Paul, newly arrived, who knows nothing about codes region ...

As férias de Adrien e Léa e seu irmãozinho, Théo, começam muito mal, com o pai confessando que pretende abandonar a família. Os três jovens vão viajar à casa do avô, que nunca conheceram antes. No início, o idoso é grosseiro e pouco compreensivo com os novos netos, mas, aos poucos, os adolescentes descobrem que o avô foi um homem libertário e acostumado aos costumes livres da geração hippie.

Violette lives in the country with her parents, wealthy Picardie land owners. Gabriel works as a cashier in a supermarket. On the face of it, both of these two young people appear to have led ordinary lives without incident, and yet they both have dark secrets and a yearning to escape from their stifling present reality. Their chance meeting will set them free, but with unexpected consequences...

It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.

Durante uma noite de patrulha dois policiais noturnos ferem um trabalhador jovem que havia ferido sem motivo aparente um dos seus colegas. Injustamente acusados decidem provar sua inocência e investigar a droga responsável pela loucura do agressor.

1942, Joseph tem onze anos. E numa manhã de junho, ele deve ir à escola, com uma estrela amarela costurada no peito. Recebe o incentivo de um traficante de segunda. E as provocações de um padeiro. Entre benevolência e desprezo, Jo, seus amigos judeus como ele, e suas famílias, descobrem a vida numa movimentada Paris, no Butte Montmartre, onde encontraram refúgio. Pelo menos eles acreditam nisso, até esta manhã de 16 de julho, onde sua frágil felicidade balança. É quando ocorre o evento chamado de La Rafle em francês. A prisão indiscriminada de uma grande quantidade de pessoas, sem muita justificativa, uma espécie de Rapa. Do Vélodrome d'Hiver, onde 13.000 detidos são amontoados, ao campo de Beaune-La-Rolande, de Vichy ao terraço do Berghof, La Rafle segue os verdadeiros destinos das vítimas e dos carrascos. Dos que orquestraram, confiaram, fugiram e dos que se opunham. Todos os personagens do filme existiam. Todos os eventos, mesmo os mais extremos, ocorreram no verão de 1942.

After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will make a fresh start and forget about his past. But that would be forgetting about Murphy's law and its string of problems.

In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who discovers the reality of war and leaves for the front in order to restore the sullied honor of his father who was executed for desertion.

Ruby é um ladrão que, após esconder seu roubo mais recente, é capturado e preso em uma cadeia. Lá ele conhece Quentin, um homem tagarela e tapado que se torna seu amigo. Ruby consegue fugir, sendo obrigado a levar Quentin consigo. Já fora da prisão, Ruby passa a perseguir seus antigos parceiros de crime, para se vingar da morte da mulher que amava e também para recuperar o dinheiro roubado antes que eles o encontrem.

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.

Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a large isolated house. Séléna is the only person who knows that Elsa was guilty of the murder of her uncle, a wealthy shipowner. Fascinated by the young woman’s beauty, he offers her a strange deal: in exchange for his silence, he demands that she dines with him every night for a year.

A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.

Irene is an ordinary married woman living in Amiens, in the North of France. She works in a bank where, one day, she finds herself duty-bound to strip a client of her credit card and check book for ten years. Later on, while walking in a park Irene notices a mysterious homeless woman wearing a yellow coat. At a time she witnesses her shoplifting in a store. One night, on her way back home, she is attacked by the mysterious woman.

Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's already too late for escape?

A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.

The American photography student Josh gets involved in a mysterious and deadly intrigue, when he takes pictures during an attempt on the top model Francesca's life.

Drunk, Betty is feeling worse and worse, the previous evening is slowly coming back to her: her husband and her husband's family had criticized her harshly, had sent her away. But Betty hadn't wanted to get married in the first place. She knows that she always ruined everything, that she drinks to much, that she has had several affairs. Laure, who is taking care of her, suggests that Betty stay with her in the hotel where she lives, as long as Betty would like. Laure, too, finds solace and companionship in alcohol.

The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, na França ocupada, uma mulher de baixa escolaridade cria seus dois filhos em um apartamento cheio de ratos. Ela é Marie Latour. Em 1941, seu marido retorna da Frente, fraco demais para manter um emprego. Depois de um episódio envolvendo sua vizinha, Marie descobre que pode fazer abortos clandestinos para sustentar sua família.

A funny comedy about the adventures of two criminal friends in Saint-Tropez.