Didier Decoin

Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.

Paul Berthier, an ambitious public prosecutor, is witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl in the Charente but does nothing to help. It starts to look like the girl was murdered, and the case lands on Berthier's desk. Suspicion turns to Guillaume Vauban, the rich son of a local industrialist and ex-boyfriend of the dead girl. Paul Berthier finds himself entangled in a web of lies as he opens the case against Guillaume, who has now been arrested. With a conscience far from clear, Berthier agrees with the judge's decision to remand the young man in custody. Through cowardice Berthier clings to his reputation, determined to save face at any cost. Drunk with judicial power, he's caught in a downward spiral.

The story of Pierre Brossolette, who was a talented student, journalist and a defender of human rights.

In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1942 film.

Любовь... не столько счастье, сколько испытание и лишнее потрясение, неумолимо ведущие к трагедии...Наследник австро-венгерского престола Рудольф в любой момент может стать императором. Его жизнь принадлежит Империи. Рудольф несчастлив в браке. Многие дамы хотели бы оказаться рядом с ним, но только баронесса Вечера смогла зажечь в нем настоящее чувство. Их яркая, сумасшедшая любовь была заранее обречена...

Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination.

Франция, вторая половина XVII века. Полновластным правителем великого королевства стал Людовик XIV. Будучи страстным поклонником танца, вдохновляемый музыкой великого Люлли, он жаждет вырваться из пут косности и мракобесия, чтобы превратиться в блистательного Короля-Солнце, изменив себя и свое государство, сделав его священным, незыблемым и вечным. Но, создавая для пышных дворцовых постановок свои бессмертные шедевры, Люлли и его гениальный компаньон Мольер столкнулись с яростным противодействием церкви и двора.

История о забытой Богом земле, отрезанной от всего мира. Черные мундиры заслонили для её жителей солнце надежды, и единственный звук среди всеобщего молчания — прощальный стон уходящих вдаль поездов, увозящих обреченных на смерть. Для того чтобы открыть людям истину в этом страшном мире, вывернутом наизнанку, необходимо солгать. Но тому, кто придумает спасительную ложь, она может стоить жизни.

История Оноре де Бальзака, человека, создавшего свой удивительный мир в литературе, его жизни, наполненной страстью и женщинах, занимавших для него особое место...

Простому парню Хорти достается весьма необычный приз. Ему представляется возможность отправиться в Англию и своими глазами увидеть, как покидает порт величественный «Титаник». Ночь накануне грандиозного события сводит его с загадочной девушкой Мари, горничной с «Титаника». Между ними вспыхивает мимолетный страстный роман. Утром «Титаник» отплывает, унося с собой Мари, но волею случая к Хорти попадает ее фото. По возвращении домой Хорти делится своими «яркими» воспоминаниями с друзьями. На следующий день по просьбе слушателей рассказ повторяется, обрастая новыми деталями. Известие о гибели «Титаника» привлекает еще большую аудиторию, превращая рассказы Хорти в прибыльное шоу. Однако есть в его истории одна необъяснимая загадка, способная разрушить этот красивый миф.

An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.

Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.

The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.

Прокурор Вольнэ берется за дело об убийстве президента Жари. Расследование заключило, что произошло самоубийство. Однако Вольнэ считает, что случившееся — часть секретного плана…