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At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.
Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.
A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child.
Unemployed and separated from his wife, François has no choice but to return to live with his mother. To explain his return to the family home at the age of 40, he invents a job at a local firm. But living together becomes complicated.
A meek, mild-mannered man begins to suspect that his beautiful wife is poisoning him after he realizes that his acute stomach aches occur only after he eats at home. As a result, he investigates the death of his predecessor-- his wife's first husband.
Superintendent Becker arrives in a small town in Les Landes to try and win his wife back. Tired of her husband's late hours, she decided to go back to her home region, where she meets old friends. Becker swears he'll do better, and he'll spend more time with his family... But a series of strange murders occurring in the region which forces him to dive into this case. With the help of a young cop, eager to prove himself, the "Parisian" will try and solve the case despite his promise to his wife.
Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, becomes their friend and confidante and then kills them and takes their identity, their job and their apartment. Police investigator Judith Corel serves as bait in an attempt to trap the chameleon killer.
With archival footage from INA commented on by political figures, this documentary traces the history of the debate that has divided the left over secularism, from the emergence of a militant Islam in the late 1980s.
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Directed by Pierre Lary. With Mireille Darc, Christophe Odent, Jean-Marie Winling, Hugues Boucher.
A portrait of Gérard Blain, actor and film-maker, an unclassifiable artist, a lard-head and a free spirit. This documentary, packed with eyewitness accounts and archive footage, looks back at his brief career as an actor, his stormy relationship with the Nouvelle Vague and his uncompromising work as a filmmaker. Above all, it paints the portrait of a man with an irreducible character who claims to have always hated adults and their cynicism, ever since his damaged childhood.
Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
Past 50 and unemployed for two years, formerly an acquisitions-and-mergers specialist, Maxime has been freeloading at his sister's for six months. Her boss Claire, a sexist, has a brilliant ten-year-old son, Jérémy, for whom Maxime is roped into being a full-time male nanny. And this is just the beginning of a progressive nightmare. But Jérémy has an idea...
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge.
Three members of the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, who were captured in the early nineties and cooperated with the authorities in exchange for immunity, tell how they became criminals, what their experiences were within the bloody organization and how they managed to leave it.
Alice is a happily married woman with Christophe, who loves her deeply despite suffering facial deformation. His life changes dramatically following a cosmetic operation, but also that of her husband, a man becomes extremely jealous and possessive.
Following in the footsteps of US writer Jack London, philosopher Philippe Simay travels through the inhospitable lands of the Canadian Far North.
Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart.
After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew, face the demons that haunt them with the help of Françoise Dolto.
Serial killer Guy Georges' hunt by a female captain who created a DNA database that revolutionized the police methods.
A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender of the Civil Rights movement during the sixties and a spokesman for the National Rifle Association in his later years. The extraordinary and controversial public and personal career of one of the greatest film personalities of all time.
A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern concept of haute cuisine, and who also became the main reference point for many generations of future chefs.
Documentary on Godard, spanning his career to date with insights from his collaborators and on-set footage from various films. Produced for the French television program "Cinema Cinemas"
Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
On Christmas Eve, we want everything to be perfect, yet things often go sideways. The holidays are a reality check for everyone, whether life is looking bright or dark. This Christmas, the residents of one Parisian apartment building are going to share an unforgettable holiday. They hardly know one another, only exchanging brief greetings when heading to work or taking out the trash. But this year, when neighbors who are jazzed-up, or depressed, or awed by the magic of Christmas find themselves thrown together, sparks will start flying.
After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver.
Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.
The story takes us from the dear Garrigue to the secondary school where Marcel is first ill at ease because he is a scholarship holder and because he went to the grade school (the other bourgeois pupils had probably a private tutor). A fight against a rich kid ,that augurs badly for what is to follow. (to be followed in "Le Temps des Amours" )
Mr. Muller meets a mysterious woman who apparently knows a few things from his past that he would rather have kept hidden.
A blackmailer threatens to expose secrets about an unsolved murder in Doulac.
Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined husband,in a rigged trial as the result of political negotiations and power struggles.
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.
A young lawyer's murder rocks Aigues-Mortes and triggers the re-opening of a cold case.
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)
A rape victim faces a dilemma: tell the truth about her assault or stay silent and allow her attacker to be falsely convicted for murder.
A dying woman is fighting to choose a new family to keep her four children together, after she's gone.
Young couple recently married. Soon a child comes. Perfect happiness. For their honeymoon, Emma and David chose a house in the forest. But the escapade turns to drama: attacked by a masked man, Emma escapes to death. For the police, no doubt, David is the No. 1 suspect: his strange refusal to cooperate, his unexplained absence at the time of the facts, the testimony of a neighbor, the fortune he would inherit ... Doubt interferes in the spirit of Emma. Does she really know the man she married?
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
A teacher is suspected of engaging in a 'special relationship' with a pupil. When said pupil disappears, the rumour gains momentum. Especially because two years earlier, another of the teacher's teenage pupils also disappeared.
Captain Marie Jourdan invites her friend Commandant Paul Danceny to celebrate her 30th anniversary at the restaurant her husband Pierre just opened. The party is brutally interrupted when agents come to arrest their son Marc for murder.
Hugo reluctantly follows his parents following their transfer to Mayotte. With slums, heat and being white and rich when the majority is black and poor, he struggles to adapt. But he does, thanks to a local girl with whom he falls in love.
Louise, a doctor and mother, is suddenly caught up by her past after the discovery of her step-father's body, 18 years after he went missing.
After 20 years of absence, Captain Fred Carel returns to the small town of Provence where he grew up. With Sara, his former high school friend who became a lieutenant in the local Gendarmerie, he must investigate Antoine Bernier's death.
Alice is a thirty-something woman with a lot of hang-ups. She thinks she's ugly and fat, and her lack of self-confidence prevents her from doing anything, professionally or romantically. After a fall on her head, she wakes up convinced that she has magically become a beautiful girl. Armed with her new-found self-confidence, nothing stands in her way: she lands her dream job and finds love in Benjamin. But what happens if this illusion disappears? Will Alice be able to maintain the self-esteem that has been so lacking up to now?
A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris, Chambord is the castle of all superlatives. Having required nearly 220,000 tonnes of stone to build, the Chateau de Chambord, in the Loir-et-Cher department, is an architectural gem. 156 metres of facade, it has more than 70 staircases, 282 fireplaces and 426 rooms. The castle commissioned by Francis 1st in the 16th century is also the most mysterious. The majestic monument has its share of mysteries: identity of its architect, influence of the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci in its design, location in the middle of marshes in the heart of the forest and even longevity because it has survived through time without being damaged since the beginning of its construction in September 1519.