Claudine Merlin

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. A strange stage director comes from his foreign exile. And lack of funds suddenly reveals the true colors of everyone - in banking, on stage, and everywhere.

In industrial Lyon of the early '50s, a widowed bar-owner listens to radio crime serials, reads detective magazines, and grieves for her daughter, killed two years earlier in a mineshaft accident. Consumed by her loss and unwilling to face the truth, the bar-owner becomes suspicious of the grim patrons in her drab tavern, seeking someone to blame as she contemplates revenge.

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.

Laurent e Loli formam um casal feliz, que leva uma vida confortável em uma cidade ao sul da França. Entretanto a vida deles é alterada quando em frente à sua casa quebra o trailer de Marijo, uma mulher lésbica que vive viajando. Aos poucos Loli e Marijo se aproximam, iniciando um relacionamento sem que Laurent saiba.

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.

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

À beira do oceano, Camille se prepara para o vestibular, sozinha. Ela conhece Joëlle, com muita experiência de vida, que levará Camille por caminhos alternativos, apresentando-lhe a vida, o amor e o sexo.

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.

Um retrato das relações entre as raças ambientado nos Camarões antes da sua independência, na perspectiva de uma garotinha branca e seu empregado negro. A estreia de Claire Denis como diretora.

Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.

Um ladrão estiloso, Bob, conhece e encanta um casal pobre que não para de brigar, Monique e Antoine. Rapidamente atraídos para seu mundo excitante, ambos passam a depender dele. Bob está apaixonado pelo marido, que cede depois de muita resistência, dando início ao verdadeiro ménage.

Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.

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)

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

Após a morte de sua mãe, Marion decide ir morar na casa de seu pai, mas ele rejeita a idéia. O problema é que ela, agora, já se acha uma mulher e está apaixonada pelo padrasto, Remi. Ele luta contra este amor, mas não consegue enganar a si mesmo.

Alphonse encontra um cadáver esfaqueado no metrô por alguém que usou a faca dele. Ele tenta falar com as autoridades, mas o detetive de polícia Morvandieu não quer ouvir. Quando um assassino excêntrico faz amizade com Alphonse, os dois recrutam Morvandieu para cometerem uma série de crimes juntos.

Na Inglaterra do século XIX, as irmãs Brontë - Charlotte, Emily e Anne - moram no campo de Yorkshire com o pai e o irmão Branwell, pintor e escritor. Elas enganam o isolamento através da escrita, disciplina pela qual demonstram grande disposição.

Solange está deprimida, deixou de sorrir, fala muito pouco e não se alimenta direito. Por isso mesmo vive desmaiando. O marido de Solange, Raoul, tenta ajudá-la. E tem uma ideia pouco ortodoxa. Quando conhece Stephane, um estranho, o escolhe para ser amante de sua própria mulher. Mas nem isso resolve. Todos os amigos de Raoul concordam que Solange precisa ter um filho, mas ela também não consegue engravidar nem do marido e nem do amante. Um dia os três decidem ir a um camping e lá Solange conhece um precoce adolescente chamado Christian. De repente ela volta a sorrir.

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.

Laurent, a seemingly normal young man, is looking to join a witches’ sect that resides in a forest near his house. The only thing is Laurent’s wife Aline also needs to join the sect in order to complete his initiation. Aline is understandably reluctant, so the sect’s heads design a series of events designed to break her down.

The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Quatro amigos ao atingirem a meia idade estão satisfeitos com o seu status social, mas alguma coisa nas suas vidas pessoais começa a tornar a existência um peso difícil de carregar. Decidem trancar-se em um final de semana sozinhos em uma mansão e cometer suicídio, mas a forma que escolhem é o mais poderoso paradigma da burguesia europeia: comer; comer até morrer.

Godard examina a estrutura de filmes, relacionamentos e revoluções através da vida de um casal em Paris. Jean-Luc Godard disseca a estrutura da sociedade, de filmes, do amor e da revolução. Ele faz perguntas convincentes: O amor pode sobreviver a um relacionamento? A ideologia pode sobreviver a revolução? Ele também analisa as manifestações dos estudantes franceses na década de 1960, com um olhar crítico, e acaba satirizando visões contemporâneas da história. Uma bateria de pensamentos completos com uma crítica da sociedade moderna e dos filmes.

The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by millionaire Max Topfer, who is startled to discover in her possession a video showing him being shot by a man he doesn’t know. Both the girl, who has total amnesia, and the tape appear to have come from the future. With the aid of bodyguard Helmut, Max Topfer tries to find out why a total stranger is apparently going to kill him on camera.

Ex-terrorista irlandesa, Maria II se junta ao espetáculo de vaudeville da cantora francesa Maria I na América Central, em 1907. Quando se deparam com uma rebelião local, Maria I se apaixona pelo líder Flores e promete continuar a revolução contra os militares, capitalistas e a Igreja.

Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.

Quando a mãe de Zazie vai até Paris encontrar o amante, ela deixa a filha com o tio da menina, Gabriel. Porém, a sobrinha descuidada deixa o apartamento de Gabriel e decide visitar Paris de metrô. Com a greve dos funcionários, a menina fugitiva arranja problemas para o tio em meio ao caos da cidade.

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.