Michel Francini

Лос-анджелесского полицейского Джеймса Картера, допустившего грубую ошибку при аресте подозреваемого, переводят в регулировщики движения. Тем временем инспектор Ли получает спецзадание: он должен охранять китайского посла Хана. Хан намеревается разоблачить интриги китайской Триады — самого опасного криминального синдиката в мире. Представители Триады, разумеется, не дремлют. Наших героев снова ждут приключения...

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son.

В этом фильме сталкиваются поэтическое и политическое, вечное и актуальное. Главная тема — ангажированность искусства, каковы его истоки и каково его действие. Фильм состоит из 4-х эпизодов, показывающих «человека искусства» в острых ситуациях современного мира, раздираемого социальными и политическими катаклизмами.

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...

Живущий в изгнании во французской провинции стареющий Казанова влюбляется в молодую девушку Марколину. Заметив, что она совершенно равнодушна к его изысканным ухаживаниям, пожилой ловелас начинает испытывать еще большее желание и готов прибегнуть к любым средствам, чтобы добиться цели...

Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely difficult to pin down about anything - especially whatever is bothering her. How they have managed to survive this long is a cause for wonder. When Al gets an opportunity to be cast in a movie role, complete with no-cost occupancy in the casting agent's ugly but fashionable apartment, he jumps at the chance to provide a little material satisfaction for his beloved Elsa. But what exactly does she want?

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?

Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.

Виктор выходит из тюрьмы, где отсидел три года и сразу же берется за старое. Он продает чужие квартиры, яхты, и даже истребители «Мираж» африканским странам.

A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.

The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.

Юло теряется в парижском аэропорту и встречает группу американских туристов, которые тоже толком не знают, что делать. После чего все они отправляются в путешествие по Парижу, который оказывается городом небоскребов и лабиринтов.