Bernard Verley

Christophe Perrin, a renowned oyster farmer in Arcachon Bay, is the victim of a murder attempt. His three daughters rush to his bedside, where he lies wounded and unable to manage L'Héritage, the family oyster farm.

"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.

Inside a grand Parisian apartment lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady, lives a monster.

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

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.

Pascal Achard, caçador quarentão do Lubéron, é morto durante uma caçada. Pela primeira vez, a vice-procuradora Élisabeth Richard conduz a investigação.

A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.

Em Paris de 1880, Auguste Rodin finalmente recebe, aos 40 anos, sua primeira encomenda do Estado: A Porta do Inferno, obra composta de figuras que farão sua glória, como O Beijo e O Pensador. Ele divide sua vida com Rose, sua eterna companheira, quando conhece a jovem Camille Claudel, sua aluna mais talentosa, que rapidamente torna-se sua assistente e, em seguida, sua amante. Dez anos de paixão, mas também dez anos de admiração e cumplicidade compartilhada. Após a dissolução, Rodin continua a trabalhar com determinação. Ele deve encarar a rejeição e o entusiasmo que a sensualidade da sua escultura provoca e assina com seu Balzac, rejeitado enquanto vivo, ponto de partida incontestável da escultura moderna.

Quando Araminte (Isabelle Hupert) contrata Dorante (Louis Garrel) como seu novo secretário, o rapaz da classe baixa se apaixona pela rica viúva, Diante disso, o criado Dubois (Yves Jacques) faz de tudo para que a mulher se apaixone pelo jovem.

Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds with Axèle. But who is Axèle really ? A total artist, who never compromises and confuses herself with her oeuvre ? Or a ghost ? This year at the Villa Medici, where bodies and souls free themselves, no one will come out unscathed.

The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who installs residential security systems. Despite their differences, they immediately fall in love and plan a new life together. Jean intends to leave his long-time partner, Dolorès, but she will stop at nothing to keep him.

Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious scientist who holds the secret to eternal youth...

Mila e Javier, ambos cirurgiões de renome e ambos apaixonados pelo seu trabalho, têm-se amado loucamente durante os últimos dez anos. Eles sempre tiveram muito cuidado em preservar o amor extraordinário que sentem um pelo outro e recusam sucumbir à rotina do dia-a-dia. Mas a gravidez inesperada de Mila, combinada com o aumento da pressão do trabalho no hospital, conduz Javier a beber excessivamente, acabando por ser suspenso do hospital. Enfrentando os seus demónios, Javier deriva para cada vez mais longe de Mila. No entanto, quando o seu relacionamento começa a estar sob séria ameaça, ele está pronto a fazer o que for necessário para a reconquistar.

Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she'd had a child, was even due to get married, and wham... she met Paul... And this Paul was writer to boot, who lived alone with his grown daughter, had an exceedingly intrusive mother, and had the unfortunate idea of losing his father when this story had hardly got off the ground... Life started to gather speed. It was about time.

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.

Une prostituée de luxe, un juge d'instruction arriviste, une journaliste idéaliste... Trois cultures différentes, trois êtres n'ayant pas les mêmes valeurs. A travers une histoire et un milieu où la vérité n'est pas toujours belle à connaître, l'amour que ces trois personnes éprouvent les uns pour les autres va devenir meurtrier.

Jovem muito bonita vive no campo ao lado do marido muito mais velho e paralítico. Ela passeia pela propriedade e, em um desses passeios, conhece um empregado com quem passa a ter um caso que escandalizou a sociedade da época.

Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Bunuel’s close friends and collaborators.

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...

The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977.

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first contact with the performance space, rehearsals and lighting to opening night, the entire creative process unfurls in front of our eyes. The film shows us the evolving and ongoing dialogue between Greggory and Chéreau, a dialogue full of crises and magical moments of harmony and insight via which the truth, intensity, complexity, mystery and depth of Koltès’ text gradually emerge to form an implicit bond between these two men. The film also shows Chéreau directing rehearsals for Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" in Salzburg, revealing both the unity of and profound differences between his opera and theater work.

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

A young teenaged girl tries to get affection from her cold-hearted mother in this gentle French drama. 14-year old Rosine lives somewhere in northern France where the cold rain continually falls. It is a metaphor for her life. Her mother Marie had her when she was only 16 and now wants little to do with her. She spends most of her nights out on the town. Rosine hungers for her mother's love. She is almost obsessed with getting it. She is frustrated because she never does. One day Pierre, her father shows up from the blue and Mare gladly takes him in. Rosine is a good sport and likes that he takes an interest in her. The brief respite from gloom doesn't last as Pierre soon begins to beat Marie and eventually rapes Rosine. The traumatized girl tries to get her mother to admit the incident, to pay attention to the hurting child, but Marie just doesn't care. Marie has no choice but to run away from home and make her own way.

Stephane, the wife of an older, prominent magistrate, coldbloodedly shoots a male visitor in her upscale home, then claims she was defending herself against a rapist. Victim turns out to be Wadek Aslanian, a gangster who's viewed as a modern-day Robin Hood. Paul, the lawyer hired by Stephane's husband, learns more than he really cares to know about his client, thanks to a series of anonymous letters. The notes provide a road map through the sordid areas of Stephane's past, allowing Paul to discover her history as an ex-prostitute, a porno movie performer -- and a frequent cohort of Aslanian. Naturally, Stephane's husband knows nothing about her past. Just as naturally , nothing that Paul discovers keeps him from falling in love with this mysterious woman.

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored housewife, leaves her unfaithful husband Thomas and turns up unannounced to stay with Alice and Franck. Elsa disrupts their life by playing psychological games with them, but they cannot bring themselves to throw her out.

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.

Paris, Reino da França, 18 de agosto de 1572. A fim de evitar o início de uma guerra religiosa, a princesa católica Marguerite de Valois, irmã do fraco rei Carlos IX, casa com o rei huguenote Henrique III de Navarra.

A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.

Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest.

In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

Em 1942, Paris está ocupada pelos nazistas. Sophie Vasseur (Romane Bohringer), uma jovem pianista empobrecida, consegue um emprego com a famosa cantora Irene Brice (Elena Safonova). Charles, o marido possessivo de Irene, é um empresário que colabora com os nazistas e luta com sua consciência. Sophie vai se tornando obcecada por Irene, e assume o papel de criada tão bem como o de acompanhante, vivendo sua vida de forma indireta através dos triunfos de Irene. Quando Irene se muda para Londres, Sophie vai junto, para o desconforto de Charles.

The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.

The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.

Uma série de situações surreais que criticam os padrões da sociedade: o homem que mostra fotos 'pornográficas' para duas crianças, o atirador que mata as pessoas do topo de um prédio, a falta de educação à mesa, os monges e sua sexualidade, e por aí vai.

A detailed account of the techniques and mechanics of prostitution - Meyer is a philosophy student who supplements her grant, gains insight, and gets laid simultaneously.

Drama about the determined efforts of the wife of a sex researcher to reveal her husband's hypocrisy and get revenge for his humiliating behavior to her.

Apesar de ter um casamento feliz, o empresário burguês Frédéric não consegue deixar de pensar na diversidade de mulheres atraentes de Paris que passam por ele todos os dias. Seus flertes e fantasias permanecem inofensivos até que Chloe, uma antiga paixão, aparece no seu escritório.

Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.

Dois peregrinos decidem percorrer o sagrado Caminho de Santiago de Compostela. Durante a travessia, eles encontram personagens bíblicos e confrontam os dogmas do cristianismo.

O relacionamento entre uma mulher e um homem que passou a adolescência em um reformatório.

A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he sees a young girl in front of her home. Although attractive, the woman's face has been badly scarred. He finds out her phone number and the two engage in pleasant conversation. He gets up enough nerve to ask to meet her in person, but the socially inept young man becomes paralyzed with fear. He again summons the courage to meet with her before he is plagued with fear once again.

Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina.

Uma jovem parisiense se apaixona por um marinheiro que conhece durante as férias. Embora o verão os aproxime, o outono os afasta. Eles continuam a trocar cartas e a levar vidas separadas, ele em Brest com os amigos, ela em Paris esperando vê-lo novamente.

The wife of the Swedish Ambassador of Greece becomes involved in a romantic triangle, but the man who comes between husband and wife has a preference for the husband.

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.

A women is confused for a sex worker while waiting for her boyfriend.