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Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
Aurora's life suddenly gets complicated after her seven grandkids arrive to her house for vacation.
This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.
Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.
Emile is a contract killer. A hired killer who travels by bicycle and who kills in exchange for a few tickets left in a small mailbox lost in the middle of the fields. This time, the man to be slaughtered is named Gaston Pouget and lives at 7 rue des Peupliers, which is a shed on the edge of a highway. Only here, when arriving on the scene, Emile is surprised by a birthday in honor of Gaston who should arrive soon. Emile was not invited.
Chris Marker's cat and rat.
Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.
Hard to get hard when you're straight and you cheat on your girlfriend for the first time with a lesbian who wants revenge...
A routine work trip for married couple Hana and Kornel suddenly turns into an adventurous struggle for survival. In a remote forest, far from civilization, they are forced to face not only the wilderness, but also the fragile terrain of their long-term, stagnant relationship.
Kader, 11, tries for the first time to make Ramadan fasting. He is joined in this adventure by his friend Rudy who, as a non-muslim, sees this tradition as a new game. The two kids will have to resist against hunger, thirst and boredom.
25 years ago, Leo was born in a monkey orphanage his father was running. When he passed away and the orphanage went to the indonesian locals, Leo felt left out and decided to travel to France, to civilization. His father only tought him poetry and music: he's not a savage but he only sees our world with a kind and naive eye. In France, he'll meet real people, with all their flaws.
A young man can't quite commit to having sex with his girlfriend. Then he meets a mysterious lady in a local bar. Will his girlfriend find out? Will she care?
Two would-be thieves bumble their way through a corner store robbery gone very, very wrong.
Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.
A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.
The author of "Morales" is back with a one-man show, with his humor still as deliciously incorrect as ever. From Fukushima to mosques, from the Roma to grandmothers who want to sleep with their grandsons, no topic is off-limits...
In this comedy, the requirements of living a respectable life grow too great for Maurice, as do the burdens of his well-paid executive position. After getting fired when a business proposal he has worked on is translated very badly to his English boss, he confides that he has lost his job to his wife. When she freaks out about that, he gets into his camper and heads south. There, a group of wandering Arab thieves rob him of everything he has of value but then admit him into their circle, calling him "Mohamed." One of their best scams comes when the newly renamed executive proposes that they rob his Paris home to raise money to start a restaurant. Though they are thieves, these new friends show every evidence of having more loyalty, good cheer, and basic morality than the associates the hero left behind.
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an old book of recipes in the trash, they discover a passion for French cuisine and decide to participate in a televised cooking competition.
Françoise, an actress, is hoping to find true love. At four different stages of her life. Four different ages.
Charles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe, although not that young, is expecting a baby. His daughter Annie, as for her, is pregnant by her fiance. And let's not forget Georges, Fouquet's son, who has seduced Natacha, his close (too close!) collaborator. As if that were not enough, a former mistress of Charles' comes and reveals to him the existence of a son he knew nothing about. But Charles is a man of action and he is not so easily deterred: he WILL take action against this abundance of offspring.
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Oscar Mongoût, a gourmet cannibal, burns with love for a neighbor in his building, the very vegetal Miss Carrot. But this passion seems destined to fail: she is vegetarian, while he has a severe case of vegetable phobia. Things take a drastic turn the evening she invites him to dinner.
Gerard Casanova is the man all the rich and beautiful women call when they want their sexual urges satisfied.
An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son’s secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood.
A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.
Delphine, a saleswoman in a French fry stand, and Roland, a campsite warden, fall in love at first sight. They are in perfect love, but their big dream is to buy a house. Thanks to a friend, who puts together a fake file to obtain a loan, they acquire a piece of land and order a house in kit. From then on, Delphine and Roland will have to foil the traps that will accumulate before The construction of their kit house has become their obsession and a metaphor for the difficulties of their own couple.
A young woman with a vivid imagination breaks down a car in a forest...
A boy is locked into the Bastille metro station and discovers a clown. They both escape from the station and find themselves center stage at the circus.
Tonton (aged 59, with a weak heart), drives his taxi by day. By night, his nephew Jules takes the wheel. They adore each other. This evening, however, Tonton is celebrating his sixtieth birthday in the bar on the corner; for the first time ever, Jules misses the celebration. Tonton doesn't hold it against him though, since Jules -30 and still a virgin- has at last fallen for a woman. The night before she fell asleep in his cab. Not wanting to wake her, the young man left the meter running and dropped off in turn. By dawn, the beautiful passenger had fled without leaving an address...and without paying the bill.
Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.
Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues.
A vaudeville song catches on and becomes so popular that everybody knows it. At first, those who hear it can't help but sing and dance to it. People have their limits, however, and reception to the tune begins to cool.
Wrongly suspecting her husband of being unfaithful, a young mother leaves him alone for a week with their three unruly children.
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district.
An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.
French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.
The adventures of three speed freaks in the fevered atmosphere of the "Bol d'Or", a legendary annual motorcycle race. A testament to the atmosphere of the competition race tracks made by a former journalist.
Two sisters, Emma and Alice, meet again after a long absence. Strangely, they resemble each other more than they think.
Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her.
Ademoka is a headstrong and gifted 15-year-old girl whose big dream is to study. Her status as Lyuli an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan is a serious obstacle to this. She is exploited by her extended family and forced to beg on the streets, she manages to free herself from the family, when they get deported she has to choose between family and education. She gets helped on the way by some oddball characters, who come to her aid against the corrupt system and the patriarchal family.
