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- Up until the 50-60s in France, young girls aged from 12 to 21, known as ''Lost girls'', were locked up in extremely tough juvenile detention centers run by nuns. There were more than 100 of these establishments across France.
- Loudun, October 1947. Leon and Marie Besnard celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted." A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's--and probably Leon's mistress--claims that on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as 12 other family members, as she finds is the charge against her?
- An extraordinary story of a young woman raised in Switzerland who travels back to Algeria, her birthplace, to meet and kill her natural mother, who abandoned her shortly after birth. Along the way, she is exposed to the brutality of desert life and, in particular, the abuses that men heap upon women in fundamentalist, third world countries. Birth, death and life in general, have little meaning as people struggle for survival. The scenery is stark but at the same time beautiful and the faces of the characters that she meet are marvelous. The film was made in Tunisia, as it does not cast a particularly good light on Algerian men and probably could not have gotten permission to be filmed in Algeria where Sharia is the law of the land.
- Marseille, 1941. Despite the war, young Levilé still hopes to save his mother and sisters in Poland and organize their departure for Argentina.
- The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his young son Pierre. Matyas was raised in an orphanage, and he believes his mother died when he was six. However, he receives a correspondence and discovers that his mother has just passed away and that he has a twin brother, Thomas. Matyas does not recall his childhood with his mother and brother and has problems with blood. When Thomas visits his family, Matyas becomes paranoid, believing that his sibling wishes to takeover his family.
- A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanzac authoritatively leads an important industrial group specializing in wood. Her eldest son, Nicolas, is her named successor, but he dies in a road accident. When the will is read, the family is stunned to learn that he has left his share to Julien, his secret son...
- World War 2 just ended. A wealthy Corsican landlord, with no male heirs is about to marry his favorite daughter to the son of a newly rich former farmer. The daughter is just coming back from Paris where she loves another.
- Occupied France. A young woman is shoved into a car by Germans, then loaded into a boxcar... At the Bussières station, a railway worker, Julien, hears voices inside one of the sealed boxcars of the stopped train. A note slips through a crack. "I'm alive and I love you. Sarah." Julien visits the address on the note and finds a family of Hungarian Jews: two grandparents, and Sarah's son Thibaud, age 4. Julien offers to help with forged papers. They give him Sarah's diary for safekeeping. Later, when he returns, he finds the house ransacked, the grandparents gone. Julien takes Thibaud home. His girlfriend Lucie senses something is wrong. She's right; Julien has fallen for the personality he finds in Sarah's diary...
- A seventeen yr old Laurent finds himself in a school for war heroes children. His french teacher is also his missing WW2 fighter pilot father.
- As the school year approaches, Patrick and Sophie have no idea how to react to Paola, their eldest sister, obviously in full adolescent crises.
- Lucile and Etienne live happily. Lucile is beautiful, energetic, well-balanced and she enjoys her job at an electronics factory. The same is true for Etienne, a dashing Physical Education teacher. The couple have just had a baby and everything seems to be just fine... At least until the day they are told that their son suffers from a severe congenital malformation. Upset by the news, Lucile tries to figure out the reasons why her son is handicapped and launches into a fight for the truth. Which will not please everyone, starting with Etienne...
- Solenn, a young girl with no particular issues, has the feeling of being rejected by her father. Believing to help her, her grandmother confesses a family secret to her: her father is not her real father, he is sterile. So she rejects him.
- George is shooting a film as a teamwork with the students of a Brussels high school. The theme suggested by Saïda and Julie is tricky: they want George to film their own love story. He accepts and tries to impose the issue of lesbian love.
- A watchman in a residence is murdered. There's no clue despite the video surveillance. Police lieutenant Marie Balaguère investigates while prosecutor Elizabeth Brochène has to deal with her ex-husband who lives there with his new girlfriend.
- Philippe Muir find his accountant, murdered. He takes refuge with his sister Blanche Muir who calls the police. Marleau, unusual police officer, leads the investigation. Everything works against Philippe.
- The House of the Meyer Sisters - when a family decides to sell a brewery they are visited by multiple deaths - quirky Captain Marleau investigates
- The Mysteries of Faith - a young woman (of questionable virtue) arrives to stay at a cloister, curiosity is expressed by the nuns to the mother superior. When the woman is found murdered, Captain Marleau arrives to determine the facts.
- The body of a shady businessman is found on the jetty in the port of Toga, in Bastia. The investigation, Commander Gabrielle Monti's first since returning to the country, begins on a tightrope between the past and the present.