The Father
A young bass player and his driver cross Iceland to be auditioned by the singer Björk.
Pére Duval
General Rondot
Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
Dr. Maurice Ténine
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.
Chamberlin
Le capitaine Le Goff
Maître Lambert
Three siblings struggle to deal with the recent death of their mother, the end of their childhoods and their unique visions for the future.
Cingonius Varron
At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants live, is afraid of its enemies, of foreigners, of barbarians. Rome is afraid of the Tyrant and of its own power. And all these fears seem to crystallize in that of fire, more than anything else feared in this megalopolis that so often catches fire. In 64 A.D. the most terrible fire that the city has ever known broke out. It is said that it was set on the orders of Nero, in order to overwhelm the Christians who were accused of it. The watchmen, Celer and Theseus, intervene at the risk of their lives. This fictional documentary tells the story of the adventures of these two "firemen" in Rome during the Empire. An astonishing journey through time, the story of the life of men: customs, family, lifestyle, politics, education, leisure.
Le maréchal
Em meados do século XVIII, as mulheres são fáceis e os homens dedicam-se ao seu esporte predilecto: a guerra. Fanfan (Vincent Perez) é um belo rapaz, ingênuo e sensível, que se engaja no exército de Luís XV.
Adelle (Penélope Cruz), filha de um sargento, prediz que o futuro de Fanfan será glorioso.
Durante as batalhas na Aquitânia, Fanfan salva uma carruagem real do ataque de uma horda: nela estão Madame Pompadour e Henriette, filha do soberano. Tem início o cumprimento da profecia de Adelle...
Poupard
Lafitte
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.
Wanting to prove to his wife that he is cured after his brief stay in a psychiatric hospital, John insists on giving her a microwave oven.
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.
Politician
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
Le procureur Général
Monique Zimmer, in her sixties, killed her lover, Oscar Foulard, cut up the body of the corpse, and is now walking with a suitcase containing Oscar's trunk. This one continues to speak, and comes to testify during the trial of his widow.
Olivo
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Porbus
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view
Porbus
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Le duc de Buckingham
Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.
A Walter é solicitado por parte da sua chefe, Sara, entregar uma carta urgente a Henri de Corinto. No caminho, ele encontra uma bela mulher que ele tinha anado a micar num clube noturno, caída na estrada, atada. Ele leva-a para uma casa de campo para obter um médico, e acaba sendo trancada num quarto com ela. Enquanto ela está a fazer amor com ele, ele tem visões de imagens surrealistas das pinturas de René Magritte. De manhã, a rapariga, Marie-Ange, desapareceu, a casa parece abandonada, e o pescoço dele está a sangrar. Foi tudo apenas um pesadelo?