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Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and lightness to the household.
The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together
On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets in motion a string of events culminating with the aforementioned car crash. Dysfunction abounds.
Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
A young German officer's life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness after falling for an innocent young singer. French version of Ophuls' Liebelei.
Hélène is a forty-year-old woman who becomes amnesic after a period in a coma. She then discovers that she lives with Nicolas, her husband. A stranger to a life she is supposed to know perfectly, she meets Nelle, a home care assistant, who brings a breath of fresh air into her monotonous life.
Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.
1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
A self-centered engineer tries to win back his wife after she takes a new lover.
Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him discover the feeling he has always wanted to ignore: love.
Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen.
The brave and moody François, a window washer by trade, has fallen head over heels in love with a delicious woman he spotted while working on the 17th floor of a building. From that moment on, all his dreams turn to the woman he doesn't dare approach. Fortunately, he finally meets her in Perros-Guirec, after following her on a train journey. She calls herself a chatelaine; he introduces himself as a writer. Will love triumph over these pious lies?
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
Diane pays for the discovery of her origins with the blood of a friend, and seals her fate: rather than the husband chosen by her family, she gives her hand to vengeance.
"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lovers— almost all the male characters of the "Comédie Humaine“— will finally find love. The real one. The great one.
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
During a party with friends, a game is started. The goal is simple: to chug as many drinks as possible. Matthieu and Noah are the only ones still standing...
On a Sunny day, a young man, reading on a bench is interrupted by a young and handsome woman. He is shy when she seems to be enterprising. She takes the man his book and go. The young man starts to chase after her and will maybe find love.
Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads and in particular for Adrien, a filmmaker who turns their home into his office, studio and love-nest. When their mean landlady tries to evict them all and Martin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful vamp, Francesca comes up with some original and entertaining solutions in the defense of her and everybody else's happiness.
“I’m dying to live.” These words from Saint Teresa of Ávila are said by Mother Aloïse Osée when she is about to separate forever from Don Jerome.
Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
Antoine and Viviane manage an equestrian exploitation on a wild plateau. Viviane, overcome with boredom, finds life and passion in the arms of Vincent, a solitary groom.
Eighth series of short films from "Les Inshortables" with five works on issues dealing with the LGBTQIA+ community. From the bustling streets of Beirut to the homes of Brazil, these stories explore love, ambition, and the twists and turns of fate. Experience Mohammad's transformation on a construction site, Louis' grief over unrequited love, and Paul's challenges in fatherhood. Discover the secrets revealed when guests disrupt the lives of Rafa and Matheus, and follow Leo's descent into paranoia and obsession.
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.
When she asks for a divorce, Elisa knows she's losing everything that made her daily life during ten years of marriage. The worst is that she may lose her children, claimed by her husband. She had only few months to rebuild. Find a job. Prove to the judge she can hold her family... A rebuilding that leads her to push her own limits, to put herself in danger, to learn how to trust people again and to discover a new herself... and, eventually, to fall in love again.
Gab has a well-ordered life: a fiancée, a wealthy family. Leïla, who struggles to juggle her studies, odd jobs, and a brother to support, does not allow herself to live her own life... When Gab meets Leïla, it is a clash of worlds, the beginning of a great love story that will collide violently with reality.
Emma is bringing up her son Oscar alone. Her life is divided between her work, her voluntary work as a public writer, her lover and her son. Oscar gradually sinks into melancholy, his existential questions echoing those of his mother.
A young woman admires wedding dresses through the window of a specialty store. She imagines herself in each of the dresses on her wedding day. Which one will she choose?
Jeanne and Hugo are tango dancers. When Jeanne conceals the reality of her coming death, she decides to find a new partner for her lover, and maybe a new lover. Her sister Sacha suddenly returns in her life.
The Allure of Paris. A 1912 romantic silent short film from Pathé.
A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
The start of summer is approaching. Arthur, a 20-year-old student, sees his best friend from college, Tony, preparing to leave for Canada. The idea of finding himself far from Tony suddenly awakens a much deeper attachment in Arthur. He will have to succeed in confronting his feelings and the views of others before it is too late.
Clarisse meets Marc, a young surgeon. She spends the night with him in his mansion. In the morning, she realizes that she has been fooled. She's now held against her will. Marc forces her to play the part of his deceased wife. After an operation, he gives her a new face. Clarisse becomes Hélène. But can we erase an identity so easily?
Adrien does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their improprieties, and he is rabidly pro-military. Adrian, kicked out of his military school for his own improprieties (and hiding that from his father), is naturally drawn to Vicky a beautiful divorced woman and friend of the family who is staying at their mansion. The family tutor, a man of ordinary background (with some ideas which seem radical in this household) is similarly smitten. On the basis of their shared attraction, the two men form a friendship. Meanwhile, the object of their affection finds it diverting to toy with them.
This short tells the story of one crab who became a jilted lover. Even among crustaceans, love stories can end badly.
The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.
A journalist with various personal problems invents an adventure hero whose adventures he recounts in a daily soap opera.
A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain.
A painter and his model. A couple. A gaze. A painting that captures a moment, an emotion. The Portrait of a Bird.
Emmanuelle and Mirra love each other and dream of having a child born only of their love. When Mirra suddenly becomes pregnant, in spite of all biological plausibility, the surprise is total and the joy at its height. For Emmanuelle, however, things are less clear-cut.
The peaceful lives of Antoine and the dowser Noé are disrupted by the irruption of a woman they find crying on the side of the road.
Claude, a photographer in search for inspiration, makes a living by taking medical pictures for a surgeon specialized in eyelids reconstruction. One day, Frida is standing in front of his camera. Claude's artistic search will then confront Frida's deepest wounds.
Sam is a shy, mysterious and inconspicuous teenage girl, who falls in love with Troy, leader of an ultraviolent teenage gang, who does not feel physical pain, nor knows what love is. Together, against everyone and everything, they will face a series of obstacles trying to separate them, meanwhile figuring out what love and pain are. Debuting at Curtas, French filmmaker Elsa Rysto presents a love story mediated by ultraviolence, in a modern variation on the classic story of Bonnie and Clyde – or of the more contemporary Mickey and Mallory from “Natural Born Killers”. “Love Hurts” is a simple yet sensitive narrative about the so-called growing pains.
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.
A woman in love prepares a delicious meal for her lover. Be he does not expect the revelation she is about to tell him.
Myriam Monette, a not very conformist and slightly whimsical Miss Weatherwoman, is now forty years old, has a new boyfriend and a new mandate at Channel Météo (also called Channel M). On the surface, nothing has changed. In reality, nothing is the same anymore. Like a green lawn on a summer day suddenly covered in snow, Myriam went to bed a confirmed single “adulteen” and woke up in love, living with someone else and undergoing major changes.
Two friends are hiking to a place that is dear to one of them. Their journey, however, drags on.
Salomé et Cyril are studying in an engineering college. They invent a machine "The Hemisphere", capable of removing all inhibitions.Unable to find someone to test the machine, Salomé agrees to test herself the machine.She is projeced in a corridor with doors opening on erotic scenes in which she evolves without any inhibition....
A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
A young poster artist sees an older married woman among the audience of a Parisian movie theater and falls madly in love with her.
It starts like a fairy tale: there is a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anaïs and Guillaume. But it's a little more complicated than that actually ...