Top Cast
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Raymond Rouleau
Dr. Jean Favier
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Micheline Francey
Françoise Favier
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Jean Debucourt
Professor Borand
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Jimmy Gaillard
Dr. Claude Borand
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Jean Davy
Dr. Michel Berthier
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Noëlle Norman
Odette
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Jacqueline Pierreux
Suzy
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Janine Wansar
Jacqueline, Claude's friend
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Thierry Francey
Little André
Overview
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
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When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Starving in Suburbia
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The Girl in the Book
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
A Dry White Season
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.
Declaration of War
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
True Colors
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
The Truth About Emanuel
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
I'm Not Here
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Hardball
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.