Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
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Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Hell is a rich girl from Paris’ posh neighbourhoods living in the fast lane to compensate the void of her life: sex, drugs & rock’ n’ roll. She meets her male counterpart in the person of Andrea, a seductive young man, and they both fall madly in love.
A young interior designer can no longer stand her job. Like every day, she's the first to arrive at the office, followed by Eric, her arrogant colleague who seems to have it all. Despite the stress caused by her boss demanding a project by the evening, the young woman maintains her facade of a smile. But under pressure, she cracks and reveals her true colors...
An old widow is stuck in her daily routine and her loneliness brings her back to the memories of her late husband.
In the North Finistère, in Brittany, it’s late October, the low season. It’s Célèste’s last day of work as a caretaker at a seaside camping ground. Just as she’s getting ready to leave, a child disappears…
Little Bear is a sleepwalker and she tends to run away at night. Her mother is trying to cure her. But Little Bear doesn’t want to, she wants to understand where does her sleep takes her. Doesn’t she want to runaway from herself ?
During the 2012 French presidential elections, Fred, a man alone, wanders through Paris. Faced with a world that is increasingly false, he'll create his own reality.
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.
Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
November 1989: in Brussels, Victor is looking for Elina, his summer love who mysteriously vanished. He meets Damian, an enlightened English journalist, and Rosie, a punkish Dutch barmaid. Together, they dive into the night, driven by the New Beat fever.
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.
Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family home, with a father who has arranged a job and a fiancée. Reda is eager to please, yet the more he tries the more he veers off course.
Married and with a daughter, Johanna is happy, until the night she unexpectedly gives birth. In shock, she abandons the child. She is now accused of attempted infanticide. Johanna doesn't understand, adamant that she hadn't been pregnant.
Abou Milad, an old itinerant barber, lost his barbershop during the Lebanese civil war. Today, he hardly earns a living by offering his services in the popular cafés of Beirut. One day, he is summoned by a recluse resident of a large old mansion.
Journey of an african migrant through Europe.
Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25 significant cases of drownings are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.
AUGUSTINE and MARTIN. No need of more protagonists; like Adam and Eve they live in their paradise, sealed off from space and time. An interpretation of the phenomena hysteria that tries to lead back the medium film to the roots in photography.
Le bec fin is a renowned institution where two types of customers go: some choose and others are chosen. Roland decided to be chosen. He has an appointment at 9 a.m.
Zoé a lonely young teenage girl, escapes her dad’s disease by spending time within a travelers community leaving a sedentary lifestyle. When her dad passes away suddenly, France, a young rebel gypsy takes her on the road to hold a traditional gypsy wake.
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
With his one-eyed eye, his imposing build and his almost sixty years of age, Raphael knows that he scares people. He lives with his mother in a pavilion located on the vast estate of the manor of which he is the guardian. Since the owners died, he leads a quiet existence. Everything changes the night when the heiress, Garance, returns to the family home.
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
Mathieu is pushed by his parents to take his sister, Melissa, to a party. She has Down Syndrome and has never been to a party before, but wishes to spend the night like other girls. During the evening, Mathieu must fight the shame he feels for Melissa and accept his prejudice against his own sister, for she is a girl who has her own desires, sexuality and dreams of finding love.
A program of six short films from Quebec and France: In love or impertinent, full of hope or anger. Naive, touching, dreamy, dreamed of or missed: youth can take many forms! Between those who grew up too fast and those who missed their chance, there are also those who lost their innocence over time and those who see their youth vanish in an instant.
A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.
Henry and Clement are in a relationship for one month in Paris. The last night before Henry goes back to London, where he studies, Clement comes to his hotel to surprise him. But when he arrives at the door, he hears that Henry is with another man in the room...
A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of June 10, 1944.
A French man's monotonous routine is broken when he begins to suspect that he is living the same day again and again.
Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy, Veronique was injured while rescuing her boss and remains blind. Later, cured by an operation, she denounces the criminal whose voice she recognized and who had taken over the factory.
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city.
Paris, at war. 2026. Night after night, Lucia, a young nurse, cares for the wounded and the dying. One evening, she sees a strange man walking on the water of the Seine river. At that moment, a hope and a troubling desire take hold of her.
A little girl just a few months old is upset by a world that doesn't suit her, a broken world into which her parents have forced her. After the death of her friend the star, she wants nothing more than to cook.
After returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.
In the French consulate in China, Claude Varville declares his love to the consul's wife.
Seyna, a young Cameroonian woman fascinated by French history, dreams of gaining citizenship of the country she so loves as soon as she reaches 18. Will it be just a formality, or a much tougher path?
Community workers, Alex and Stéphanie take five teen dropouts on an educational journey across the Mediterranean. But their skipper happens to be an ex cop with a powerful hatred for youths from the hood.
A man and his wife have a nice little racket of coining false money. While they go out to spend it, their daughter comes across a poor old woman and her daughter, without any money to buy a meat pie. She runs home and gets them one of the counterfeits...but the pie seller knows bad money.
Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.
After loosing her unborn baby on a car accident, Betty seeks for new purposes on a new job caring after a blind boy in a isolated house. Her hopes on a new beginning turn into a nightmare when she uncovers the Alps' dark secrets.
The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative of history and weird tales. The story, set in Sichuan cuisine, is divided into four parts: a funeral banquet more than 4,000 years ago in which a grandmother cuts off her own tail to give to her children and grandchildren; a Spring Festival more than 3,000 years ago in which an ancestor king returns in the guise of a bird and is crucified at the banquet; a Mid-Autumn feast in the 1990s in which the gods gather to pay tribute to a millennia-old poet; and a birthday banquet in which a wandering child meets the gods of the underworld .
In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
A hike between father and son. Joël wants to experience a special day with his 15-year-old son Ethan and show him the upcoming solar eclipse at the same place where he once experienced it with his mother. Since the divorce, they rarely see each other and Ethan is also happy to finally have the opportunity to tell his father about his plans for the future. But with every step they take towards the summit and the eclipse, the mood between them darkens. They find that their attempts to communicate amount to nothing, until their simmering argument finally culminates in a cathartic moment.
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
Hannah is a deaf-mute little girl. However she hears a strange noise in a park one day. Her mother does not believe her but Hannah is becoming more and more obsessed with that experience. She believes that the park wants to communicate something to her. Where will this fascination lead her ?
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
Philip is a computer whiz who wants to make it big. He's after the good life, lots of cash, and lots of women. His chaste and studious fiancee Lili is just not good enough for him. Philip is sponsored by a ruthless "business angel," Jack. Hacking corruption, and seduction are his new weapons. Philip is so successful as to leave Jack behind. His ultimate mistake is to seduce Jack's wife. As Jack's trap is about to close in on him, Lili is the only one who can save him.
Back home during his day off, Marin finds his mother old and weak, just like the house, neglected and dusty. He will try to rebuild his relationship with her mother in these few days.
Kamel, a young Bedouin, is a proud security guard at the Be’er Sheba central bus station. When the Israeli government threatens to tear down his settlement he decides to act. Kamel comes up with a plan to stage a bomb attack, which he will then prevent from happening, making him the hero of the day, hopefully saving his settlement and earning him the respect he's so desperately yearning for.