Ludmila Mikaël

Judith Godrèche, who plays her fictional alter ego, returns to Paris after ten years of exile in Hollywood with the intention of making a comeback. Haunted by her past, Judith must confront the realities of her personal ambition and maternal angst with humor and disillusionment.

Cyril is doing his Taï-Chi in a corner of the Domaine du Manoir. A golf club slams into the back of his neck, killing him with a deadly blow. The investigation is entrusted to Maud Arthuis, who is more than 8 months pregnant but widowed.

Jeanne Dorwa, 57, faces early retirement when she falls head-over-heels in love with 35-year-old Pascal, throwing her life and everyone around her into turmoil.

По роману Гилды Пьерсанти "Синие катакомбы. Комиссар Руссо расследует загадочное убийство Максимилиана Мюллера, известного современного художника, чью голову нашли в парижских катакомбах. Позже в его студии обнаружили обезглавленное тело обнаженной женщины. Тайна еще более сгущается, когда следующей ночью в людном месте находят отрезанную голову третьей жертвы. Что это? Серийный убийца? Средневековый ритуал? Или чья-то страшная месть? Лишь один человек, кажется, знает ключ к разгадке – Лидия, жена художника…

1934. Philippe falls in love with Odile, a beautiful stranger, and decides to marry her, against the will of his parents. They would have preferred a more bourgeois bride, ideally from their own milieu: the paper industry in Angoulême. Isabelle, for instance, whom they have known since she was a child, would have been the perfect match. But Philippe sticks to his choice and marries Odile. At first the newly-weds are passionately in love, and the whole family looks forward to the birth of an heir for the Marcenat family. But in vain. Instead, Odile neglects her marriage and devotes herself to drawing, a gift she inherited from her father. Or is her rekindled interest in art classes more the result of her encounter with the charming but mysterious artist François Crozant? Philippe sense that he's losing his wife and becomes madly jealous of François. Meanwhile Isabelle, who's secretly in love with Philippe, is just waiting for the right moment.

По роману Андре Моруа «Превратности любви». Франция, 30-е годы XX века. Филипп Марсена женится на Одиль, очаровательной, но небогатой девушке. Филипп окружает любимую заботой. Их семейная жизнь протекает гладко и безоблачно, даже, несмотря на то, что мать Филиппа не слишком довольна выбором сына. Все меняется, когда Филипп начинает подозревать жену в измене…

Фредерик молодой парень на социальной реабилитации. Он только нашел ночную подработку, в качестве стажера, в изолированной гостинице в горах, когда, однажды вечером, он увидел своего босса Жака и его сына, прячущими машину на парковочной стоянке. На следующий день после этого он узнает, что один из клиентов покинул гостиницу без предварительного уведомления...

Пятнадцатилетняя Селин знает о жизни больше, чем должна знать в своем возрасте. Она блуждает по улицам и выживает, с помощью ее друга Ромэна, благодарного за её вызов и безжалостную практичность. Селин тайно спит в доме сада роскошной виллы, где однажды вечером ее обнаруживает владелец, судья Анри ван Эикк. Несмотря на недоверие его жены Натали, он принимает девочку, и Селин постепенно получает их доброжелательность и привязанность. Хрупкому балансу их взаимного доверия, однако, угрожает серьезная опасность, когда паутина лжи, которую девочка сплела вокруг своих защитников, начинает распутываться, показывая ее реальные побуждения…

Продолжение фильма Сердца мужчин. Алекс, Антуан, Джефф и Маню, четыре друга четыре года спустя. Их отношения с женщинами, их дружба, их общие секреты, чувство вины, их готовность к изменениям, к улучшению...

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.

Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?

Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.

Когда-то Антуан, Маню, Алекс и Джефф были молоды и играли в одной футбольной команде. Сейчас им всем уже за 50, у каждого свое дело, но в личной жизни – никакой стабильности. Измены, бурные романы и мимолетные влюбленности, предательство и потеря близких. Многое готовы претерпеть друзья для обретения постоянной подруги и уютного семейного очага, - даже отказаться от традиционных привилегий «сильного» пола, лишь бы их любили и прощали невинные (?) мужские шалости. Потому что, как откровенно сказал один из героев: «Есть мужчины свободные, а есть другие – счастливые мужчины!»

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.

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.

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.

Esther, a Turkish emigrant, was naturalized French and now lives in Paris. Only her daughter Sarah has followed her. The child grows up in a cold boarding school, far from her mother, whose motives and stubbornness she does not understand, especially since Esther no longer visits or writes to her. Sarah thinks she has been abandoned. In reality, Esther, ill from so many hardships, does not want to reveal her condition to her daughter.

Трогательная история мальчика, пережившего нечеловеческие испытания, но сохранившего искреннюю веру в добрые человеческие чувства.

Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her house.She commits suicide a few moments later in the bathroom with her service weapon.Antoine swears to himself that he won't say a word about this dirty story and returns home. The next day, driven by curiosity, he decides to return to the scene of the tragedy...surprise, the corpse is no longer there...Antoine is not at the end of his troubles...the next day, he returns to the house and discovers another corpse in the bathtub...little by little, he sinks into a crazy story full of murders...He must hurry to elucidate the murders before it's too late.

Thomas, a specialist at breaking and entering, gets out of jail after nine months and finds another man in bed with his girl. In the next 24 hours, he seduces one woman, steals her bracelet, and gives it to another in exchange for felatio. Soon after, he sets eyes on Léa; at first she's just another challenge. She dismisses him, but he's persistent. Finally she decides to love him, but warns him that she's hard to get but harder to get rid of. When he does decide to leave her, she is devastated, but so, it appears, is he, and back he comes. Now all seems wonderful, but his past, in the form of the woman whose bracelet he stole, comes back to haunt him. How will Léa handle it?

Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer.

A scientific working on a serum of youth accidentally take too much and become four years old.

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.

Это правдивая история о судьбе 494 человек из Русской национальной армии под командованием генерал-майора Бориса Хольмстон-Смысловского, перешедших 2 мая 1945 года границу маленького Лихтенштейна…

When Denis returns from Cambodia, his mother tells him that his father has disappeared, apparently a runaway. But the mystery reigns around this case. Denis decides to see Eva again, the woman who encouraged him to leave France, but the young woman also disappears. Little by little, he finds himself trapped by the mystery of her disappearances.

After being burned in romance just one time too many, Quentin has become a master at amiable, superficial relationships. In fact, most people can't help but like him, as he is clearly a sensitive and thoughtful fellow, in addition to being friendly. He frequently pulls up stakes and moves to a new town when things grow too intimate for his liking. Now he has fallen in love with a single mother who makes settling down look more attractive than wandering on. However, achieving the breakthrough to real intimacy will cost him a good deal of pain.

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty

Дьен Бьен Фу - местечко в долине в северо-восточной части Вьетнама, где произошло главное сражение Первой Индокитайской войны 1946-1954 гг. Вьетнамцами, которыми командовал генерал Во Нгуен Зиап, удалось окружить 14-тысячный французский гарнизон Дьен Бьен Фу своей 72-тысячной армией. Сосредоточив на окружающих высотах артиллерию и минометы, вьетнамцы разрушили взлетные полосы и лишили осажденных подвоза боеприпасов. 7 мая 1954 года французы, потеряв около 2 300 чел. убитыми, капитулировали. После этого поражения Франция согласилась на переговоры, завершившиеся признанием независимости Вьетнама и его разделом. Американский репортер оказывается в самом центре этого 57-дневного сражения, которое в конце концов привело к поражению и сдаче французских сил и уходу Франции из Вьетнама...

Матильда — трудный подросток с неустойчивой психикой, которая делает шатким и весь мир вокруг. Задача Франсуа — ее умудренного опытом и летами педагога по философии — проста и очевидна: вернуть девушку в цивилизованное общество, к устоявшимся нормам, ввести ее в круг хрестоматийных ценностей. Он думал, что ступает по податливому песку, в то время как сделал шаг прямо на гребень волны. Вспыхнувшая между ними страсть таила огромную разрушительную силу. И когда Франсуа решил отступить, спрятаться за семьей и обычной жизнью, Матильда преградила ему дорогу…

TV movie by Swiss director Yvan Butler, awarded at the Monte-Carlo festival

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.

Каждое воскресенье старые приятели собираются вместе. Они очень разные люди, у каждого свои проблемы. Винсент разорен и должен кучу денег, Франсуа вынужден наблюдать, как его жена меняет мужчин, Поль - писатель без собственных книг. Проблемы приходят и уходят. С годами меняется все - счет в банке, любовь, карьера... Только не меняется старая мужская дружба.

Хроника отторжения внешнего мира и медленного погружения в полное отрешение, скрупулезное описание постепенного ухода от людей и вещей в зону «риторических мест безразличия»

Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.

THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.

Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.

Director Christian De Chalonge uses a docudrama-styled approach to tell the lonely story of Portugese workers in France. In hopes of avoiding the Army, a boy leaves Portugal bound for Paris to find a job. He meets other Portugese upon his arrival but spends most of his time wandering the streets of Paris when his friend cannot be found. The tedium of the feature overshadows the good intent to bring attention to the plight of immigrant workers struggling to survive in a new country.