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- Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy flat; she's loaned hers to a cousin, so she accepts the invitation of Natasha, a music student whom she meets at a party, to sleep in her father Igor's bedroom because he's always with his young girlfriend, Eve. Natasha tells Jeanne a story of a missing necklace and her suspicions of Eve. They all meet at dinner, then again at Igor's country house. Is Natasha scheming to get Igor and Jeanne together alone? Once alone, what determines how they choose to act? And the necklace, what of it?
- A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.
- A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.
- In a future mega city, where most people spend most time hooked up to a virtual world, an agent, employed by a corporation supplying virtual reality, is busy tracking down killers/terrorists, both in the virtual and real world.
- The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.
- An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
- Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.
- Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
- Jeanne leads a very sad life alongside an authoritarian companion secretly humiliated to be only a night watchman in a department store.
- This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society and may be on the rise again; and, it's a look at Marina Zenovich's fascination with Tapie, behaving oddly in spite of her awareness that she's being irrational. Politicians, athletes, friends, companions, and journalists comment on Bernard's charm, his rise to prominence in sports and politics, and his subsequent trouble with the law. Zenovich becomes fixated on her need to interview Tapie, becoming virtually a stalker in her quest.
- Two sisters, separated, then reunited. Mental disorder: Chaos.
- Happily married to Antoine, a sports journalist and the mother of two nice kids, Alice is the successful manager of an advertising agency. One day, while driving to work, her path crosses with Michelle, her childhood best friend. The trouble is that when Alice sees her, she is begging in the street. Distraught at this sight, Alice passes her without stopping. But after many hesitations, plagued with a guilty feeling, she decides to host her former friend until she gets back on track. But, in Alice and Antoine's luxury house tension soon rises between Alice and Michelle.
- A few days in the life of the postal workers at La Courneuve.
- Documentary commissioned by the French Communist Party, on the 60th anniversary of the partisan newspaper L'Humanite,about the role played by that publication and the men at its head, in the working world.
- Down a huge block of flats in a french suburb, three teenagers hang around. Walking or riding mini-motorbikes, they pass the time.
- One year after Abbé Pierre's famous call for help on 1-2-1954 exposing the appalling conditions in which millions of French people barely survived, nothing had changed much. In 1955, the housing crisis was rife and entire families were forced to live cramped in dilapidated buildings or in slums. Jean Dewever, outraged like Abbé Pierre by such an infamous situation, took his camera and made this militant short in the hope of alerting not only the average viewer but also the competent authorities.
- Ever since he was a little boy, Samy has been told that he is a "little prick", he has just turned 18 and has been in detention for three and a half years. And now what do we do ?