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- The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.
- An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
- A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
- In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?
- Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis: their four daughters' spouses--David, Rachid, Chao, and Charles--have decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they imagine their lives elsewhere.
- After convincing their sons-in-law to settle with them in Chinon, Claude and Marie encounter all their co-parents-in-law, while the entire family is about to celebrate Claude and Marie's 40-year wedding anniversary.
- In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
- Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
- France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
- The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
- A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
- Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era.
- Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebecca Ryan. Much craziness ensues as she meets the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books, thwarts real international spies, and eventually gets her memory back.
- In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters.
- The (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course.
- Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
- A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
- A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
- When Gabriel and Emilie meet totally by chance, they don't know it is the start of a long story. A story that Emilie tells Gabriel to explain why she refuses an innocent, meaningless kiss.
- After the death of Cardinal Mazarin, young king Louis XIV decides to assert his power to control the aristocracy.
- Fritz Ducharrel has to fight real estate sharks in order to save the money received from land value tax.
- A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
- An anonymous painting from the Fontainebleau School hangs in the Louvre. The mysterious pose whereby two young women sit in a bath, one holding the nipple of the other between finger and thumb, has baffled all the experts.
- Victor, in his forties, professor of literature on vacation and amateur forecaster at Météo-France, is a will-o'-the-wisp, a sympathetic dilettante, who lets himself live with the wind, alongside his companion, Anne, who is beginning to tired of it. In this road movie in the form of a sentimental chronicle that is both burlesque and melancholy, he will tour the places of his past. He will find "what has become" of his friends. He will especially meet his former companions. They all regret it, but they all also have something to reproach him for: perhaps because they loved this being who was so amiable, dreamy, unpredictable, but above all elusive... Who knows?
- 'After a road trip gone wrong, two lovers live life in opposite extremes, leading them into separate lives of flight and fancy that hinge on that one moment in time.
- Julien dreams of adventure. But when you live in a wheelchair, such dreams are difficult to fulfill. To do so, Julien challenges his father to compete with him in the "Ironman" triathlon in Nice. A whole family comes together and reconnects in an attempt to see this incredible exploit through.
- The story of Camille Lepage, a French photojournalist who was killed at age 26 in the Central African Republic.
- Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent...
- In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
- A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.
- An old widower with a quiet and pleasant daily routine rediscovers the thrills of sentimental adventures.
- Ulysses, a secluded artist who mysteriously retired a few years ago, meets Mona, a young art student full of life. The encounter will change them both.
- An aging gangster escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde who asks him to kill her uncle because he guards her money but prevents her from using it.
- Henri wants to adapt the novel Adolphe by Benjamin Constant for the cinema. He finds the filming locations and asks Hélène to play in the film. And the irony of fate will make them experience the same drama as the hero of the film.
- Paul a young man shared between the promise of a new relationship, and the memory of a finished story ..
- The story of a father and son who live in polar opposite worlds and seem to be constantly at odds. But life brings city-dwelling Anthony back to the side of Marcel, his ailing wine-grower father.
- A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.
- When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
- During the Spanish Civil War, three men were arrested and imprisoned by General Franco's troops. Pablo is a worker friend of the anarchist Ramon; Tom is a member of the International Brigades; and Juan, still a teenager, is the brother of a militant. Sentenced to death, they spend their last night together in the prison. A Belgian doctor joins them to comfort them. The three are given an offer: one can be saved in exchange for a denunciation of their cause and information on the Republicans.
- Follow the camera to French best scenery
- At 25 years old, Jean-Christophe Markovic is at the top of his career as a professional basketball player. Though courted by the most prestigious teams in Europe, Jean-Christophe surprisingly decides to join his former club which has recently been promoted to the highest level. His ultimate goal? The French national team.
- An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.
- Commandant Gardefort (Jacques Dufilho), horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker (Claude Giraud), who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.
- Souad just passed her diploma as a beautician and got employed in a classy beauty salon. Luck is with her.
- The young deputy Xavier Durmont investigate a case of waste disposal involving a minister. He then becomes the target of slander orchestrated by the mysterious Armand.
- Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
- A visual representation of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows word Sonder.