In the kingdom of Stinky Scabiouse Village, King Emmanuel 1st ruled spreading terror until the peasant Maxe changed inadvertently the course of History.
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In the kingdom of Stinky Scabiouse Village, King Emmanuel 1st ruled spreading terror until the peasant Maxe changed inadvertently the course of History.
Ruthlessly discarded, Gobi, a young single-use cup, suddenly finds himself plunged into a particularly hostile world: an urban jungle inhabited by strange creatures—waste. Convinced he was abandoned by mistake, he is determined to find Marie, his owner... even though he can’t move!
Blamed by her father for failing to meet his expectations of being a good cheerleader and scorned by her sister for being too childish, Lucie is drawn to the attention of an attractive boy who promises her a night of excitement and revelry. Entranced by his charm, Lucie soon discovers that the young man is, in fact, the devil in disguise. Under his influence, she signs a pact and becomes a "Macrale"—a witch endowed with dark powers in the Walloon tradition. At first, Lucie revels in her newfound abilities, intoxicated by the freedom and strength they bring. However, her initial excitement quickly turns to despair as her dream transforms into a nightmare. Bound by the devil's pact and alienated from her family and friends, Lucie must use her cunning and determination to fight for her freedom and reclaim her place in the world.
As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.
An old merchant gets lost in the forest and arrives at a magnificent garden where he sits and picks some magnificent roses. Suddenly, the hideous Beast emerges from the ground in a burst of flames and condemns him to death unless one of his three daughters agrees to marry him.
A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" by Jules Verne.
Tired of war, they set off on an adventure. The 20th century begins and the children play in the garden until the end of summer. Accompanied by his cousin Louis, his younger brother Ernest, and Marthe, the mischievous little girl, Paul will travel all the way to the Amazon to discover the mystery of Venus.
A man in a wheelchair finds himself pursued by a policeman on a motorbike.
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
"Sur Les Traces De Premier De Cordée", a color documentary from 1952 which will be released the same year as the eponymous photo book published by Arthaud, features Roger Frison-Roche and his sidekick Georges Tairraz II on the Aiguille du Grépon (3482 m) in the Aiguilles massif which overlooks the Chamonix valley. Together they co-produce the images of the ascent. The young Pierre Tairraz, who completed his training in Paris, at the school in the rue de Vaugirard (Cinema promotion in 1953), also took part in this very technical aerial filming as assistant to his father Georges Tairraz II and cameraman.
This brave, lonely man who arrives in Corsica, in a poor village, has no idea that he will have to take in this 9-year-old child whose mother has just died and of whom he is undoubtedly the father. His only hope is to find a place for the child, a place where he can get rid of his mother, a place where the child can stay, grow up, eat his fill and become a man. In this long race on foot through the mountains or by hitchhiking, they successively reject all the solutions that are offered, for the taste of freedom, which is more deeply rooted in them than that of security. This common feeling gradually brings them closer together, and after many incidents, they decide to face life and its uncertain future together.
Far from intensive farming and industrial output, a revolution is already under way; good red meat has become a rare, indeed, luxury product. But where is the world's best steak found? Franck Ribière and his favorite butcher, Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec, generous, charming, and ecological, set out to meet the new players in the field to try to understand what makes a cut of meat good.
Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired drama by Gérard Vergez. The brothers meet her when she is on duty in Turkey -- one brother is stationed there and the other becomes her ambulance driver. Since Marie has just lost her husband in combat, she is not at first open to another relationship but finally begins an affair with the older brother. Jealousy rears its ugly head, and the younger and older brother start to compete for her favors. She is eventually separated from the two brothers after the oldest -- imprisoned for supposed sympathy with the Russians -- is sprung from jail. Marie is later imprisoned herself, and it will be a long time before she is able to find out the fate of those she knew during the days of combat, including the two brothers.
William, eight years old, is used to getting anything he wants. He demands Santa himself as his Christmas present, so his father hires a famous hunter. Will William's rash demand bring an end to the magic of Christmas?
A young boy, living in a village on a giant tree, falls into the depths of the forest where he meets two indigenous beings who will help him return home.
Diane loves coding, but her dream is to become a journalist at the prestigious Nowgazine. When her boyfriend lands the job for himself, war is declared.
A little boy thinks he will have some extraordinary adventures when he goes to a birthday party.
In July 2016, a team goes in search of the island of Utopia, the ideal society depicted by Thomas More in his 1516 book. On board a raft that they built themselves, they go down the Ille-et-Rance canal until they reach the sea, before heading out into the ocean.
Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.
A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of the Camargue. Renaud wants to punish the witch who frightened Livette. But then, meeting the gypsy, he is taken under the strange spell that emanates from her. She arranges to meet him in an isolated hut in the middle of the muddy ponds. Livette, warned of her betrothed betrayal, goes to the place where she is to meet the infidel. But Renaud changed the stakes that line the only fordable passage. And Livette dies, even more from Renaud's betrayal.
The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur, the love affairs of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Bridge of the Sword, the revenge of Morgana until the return of Gilead to the castle of the Fisher King.
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
In Romania, four young people meet a lost traveler. They decide to follow the same path. Through various landscapes and local encounters, their adventure transports us to the Carpathians and describe a drifting generation.
In the far away African country of Tagabombo a millionaire adventurer has died. His ex-wife and a private detective are more than interested in his money.
Veteran Chamonix mountain guide Michel Servoz and the young aspiring guide Patrick Falavier attempt to climb the west face of the Dru in the Mont-Blanc massif. When they are gone for five days, the captain of the gendarmerie in Morteau is worried, but he cannot undertake research for a rescue without the permission of the family.
After reading the book "Guide to Hoggar Climbing," guide Pierre Agresti and his wife Isabelle Agresti set off into the Hoggar massif in the Algerian Sahara and tackled the west face of Garet El Djenoun. After a first attempt in 1967, they successfully reached the summit in 1970 and, with an old camera, made a film that remained unused for 25 years. In 1996, they decided to bring the past back to life through the ascent and encounters with the Tuaregs in the rock salt mines of Amadror. The film was shown in competition at the Trento Film Festival in 1997.
The opera diva Bianca Castafiore spends a few days with Tintin and his friends at Marlinspike Hall, where a mysterious theft is perpetrated.
When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she galvanizes her three other daughters into action.
A year had passed since the last aventure of Olivier and his friends. The day before his birthday, the door through space and time re-opened. This time, Olivier and his friends would have to face El Diablo, who became captain since the last time, and his mens, lost in the middle on the jungle and being hunt down by the spanish army.
Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his father, Patrick Vallençant. After serious training, the adventure begins: they set off from the summit of the Aiguille du Midi, climb the ridge of the three Mont Blancs, bivouac at the Col de la Brenva, cross the Mur de la Côte and reach the summit of Mont Blanc. No child his age had ever before achieved this feat by this route.
Following in the footsteps of Frison Roche, 7 climbers explore the main Hoggar massifs in Algeria. Their main objective is the ascent of the Garet El Djenoun summit via the north ridge, a long climb symbolic of a certain difficulty and a significant commitment, due to its location in the desert. They also attempt the Diedre Agresti, a daring route from the 70s, opened in around ten days on artificial, and unequipped; it is a path that has never been repeated; the objective is to do it free and almost only on wedges, with difficulties up to 7b/c in a sometimes very delicate rock... Excerpts from the film shot in 1970 by Henri Agresti on this same route, allow us to compare the technical and material means of the time to those of today. They also discover the beauty of the Algerian desert, its silence, its rock paintings, the customs of the Tuaregs, etc... a fascinating journey.
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
Marseille, in the height of summer. Pouloulou sets out on a mission, to be in a short video where the dominant themes are — and always will be — good vibes, good vibes, and good vibes.
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Thierry Damilano and his team of Tuareg guides will take you on a trek in the Algerian Sahara, to discover the local culture with a mandatory visit to the hermitage of Father de Foucauld facing Assekrem, then climbing the legendary peaks of the Hoggar massif.
The Nomad wanders through the city of Evry, guided by his imaginary compass, which he believes will lead him to a place where he can forget all his fears.
Jean-Christophe Lafaille is the first mountaineer to attempt the solo ascent of the steep Himalayan face of "Shishapangma". As one of the 14 highest peaks in the world, Shishapangma peak rises over 8000 meters. Jean-Christophe defies the merciless conditions of the Himalayan winter. Without oxygen and exposed to extreme cold, Jean-Christophe, aware of the objective danger, is determined to achieve this long-held dream by reaching the summit by the magnificent British South West face course of 1982, with a new course on the first 1000 meters. He will reach the summit on December 11, some, like the Pole Krzysztof Wielicki, challenge him for the first. Jean-Christophe will be very upset and some of his relatives will be worried to see him then lock himself into an increasingly obstinate quest, some of whom were already guessing the outcome.
In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.
Tintin falls into a dangerous trap after his friends are falsely arrested in a troubled South American country where a revolution is about to explode.
Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...
Edinburgh 1861. Smout, a young boy confined to bed due to his fragile health is secretly joined by his friend Sam. Together, they flee to a colorful world seeking a marvelous treasure. Will Smout's health be strong enough to live this adventure?
Hélène, a recently separated woman in her thirties, takes refuge with her cousin Evelyne in Annemasse. But the flat of this bubbly sixty-something who became blind late in life is invaded by cockroaches. The two decide to set off on an adventure along the shores of Lake Geneva, with no money and no car, but with laughter in their bellies and the hope of a new beginning.
Every night, Solen tells a fantastic story in which she’s the main character to her little sister Luna. However, Luna is far from suspecting that these stories hide a great secret.
The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Mountaineers Roberto Sorgato and Ignazio Piussi relive their 1961 adventure: the first winter ascent of the north face of Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, a formidable Dolomite wall reaching 2,973 meters. During this expedition, Sorgato accidentally fell 60 meters while the climbers were preparing their third bivouac and found himself suspended in mid-air by a rope. Through sheer perseverance, ingenuity, and courage, he managed to pull himself back to his partner. The film, shot eleven years later, is a reenactment with the protagonists playing themselves. The difficulties this climb presents, even for the most experienced climbers, are irrefutably highlighted. The film received the Genziana d'Oro award at the Trento Film Festival in 1973.
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
A ten-year-old girl disobeys her mother to join her friend Charly.
Two Japanese monkeys, Nobu and Hako, have to put aside their differences to survive in their hostile environment.
Maria takes care of her father's sled dogs and watches clips of teenagers skateboarding in L.A. One night, she follows Vincent - the guy who puts up the tiles on the front of her house - to the trailer where he lives. She then finds herself embroiled in some strange business...
A huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A Duckling comes out and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother.
Georges Livanos. A name that hardly evokes anything, or not much, even in the heart of Chamonix, the Mecca of mountaineering. And yet, the one nicknamed “the Greek” in the 1950s, because of his paternal ancestry, was undoubtedly one of the most important French mountaineers of his time. High mountain guide, Yann Borgnet, is also passionate about the history of mountaineering. “The Greek” is one of the “old ones” who particularly marked him. Yann wants to follow in Georges’ footsteps. So the young guide imagines an alpine journey, designed to visit the great routes opened by Livanos. A dive into the heart of an immense vertical heritage, to meet a great, almost forgotten, figure of mountaineering and his heritage.