The Modification
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
Maurice Ronet
Léon Delmont
Emmanuelle Riva
Henriette
Sylva Koscina
Cécile
Luis Masson
Durieu, le commissaire
Frédérique Jeantet
Jacqueline
Bernard Jeantet
Thomas
Patrick Jeantet
Henri
Simone Boris
La secrétaire
Roger Imbert
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
One night, Leo, a Spaniard working in Brussels as a subway driver, sees a young man on the edge of the platform, just before he falls onto the tracks.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Thomas was once renowned as a young tennis prodigy, but never had the career he hoped for. At 37, despite his declining physical fitness and shattered knee he decides to compete in the intense qualifying rounds of the French Open at Roland-Garros for one last attempt at glory. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up, Thomas obsessively pushes forward. He will have to fight his own demons and will ultimately face a determined young player who reminds him of his younger self.