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In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot's Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this 'Bandits en automobile'. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

In the land of Chamoux, there are powerful women from the 2020s who are unable to get a raise, hyper-efficient secret agents who are unaware of their abilities, friends who listen without seeming to, and women who believe in telekinesis. There are girls who count quickly and accurately, girls who speak too softly, and girls who think too loudly. The common thread is Elise Lucide, an insatiable and sensationalist investigative reporter, a pure product of the old-school French media landscape, determined to bring viewers the purest essence of this terra incognita: female humor. From couple's life to palliative care, from schools to Comedy Clubs, Chamouxland is a journey to the limits of the post-modern, post-feminist, and post-Me-Too world.

When Sarah and her best friends Jessica and Chanel arrive at a dreamy Caribbean resort from their Parisian suburb, their goal is not to sip mojitos and dance the bachata. The three 25-year-olds are in fact “coka chicas”, drug mules, hoping to make their dream of opening a nail bar come true through a single drug smuggling hustle. Everything seems to be going to plan until Jessica is stopped by the police while they are boarding the plane back to France. The circumstances of her arrest are suspicious and when Sarah and Chanel start looking for her, she is not to be found at any police station or hospital. Bound by the sacred bonds of friendship the girls decide to stay and find Jessica, far from imagining the magnitude of the secrets they are about to uncover and the danger that will be unleashed…

High in the French Alps, Jacky Caillou lives with his grandmother, Gisèle, a magnetizer-healer recognized by all. As Gisèle begins to pass on her gift, a young woman arrives from the city to consult. A strange stain spreads over her body. Certain that he will be able to heal her, Jacky runs after the miracle.

A young couple, Ines and Fred, have just moved into an apartment with a long corridor. After a few days, Ines hears strange noises and thinks she sees something. Trying to find out more, she gets scratched, but she doesn't know by whom or by what. Fred sees nothing and hears nothing. A tension arises between the two young people who do not understand each other. Is Ines going crazy or is it Fred who refuses to face reality?

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in person.

Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.

During a storm, the animals in a small mountain village start behaving strangely. Emilie, who has just arrived in the valley, and her neighbour Manon decide to investigate. They discover that there's a link between their weird behaviour and the storm's songs – music that only Emilie can hear.

The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist. Then, standing in the centre, he causes the living features of his sketch to appear in the place of his own, which is utterly devoid of whiskers. The change is made so mysteriously that the eye cannot notice it until one sees quite another person in the place of the first. Again another sketch is shown on the board, this one being that of a miser; then an English cockney; a comic character; a French policeman, and last of all, the grinning visage of Mephistopheles. It is almost impossible to give this film a more definite description; suffice it to say that it is something entirely new in motion pictures and is sure to please. (Méliès Catalog)

Michel Desnoyer has turned his private life into a comic stage play. But the volcanic Ecaterina is not at all pleased to find out that Michel's sister is the mistress of the man she loves.

A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants to go far. Simon has no ambition and only one passion: gambling. For several months, Simon has been trying to catch the Djian brothers, young and dangerous bank robbers, in the act. He fails but discovers, through an informer, strange links between Pierre and the Djians, during his investigation which leads him back to the gambling halls. When the Djians finally fall, the treachery of Commissioner Tramoni is revealed.

Virgile and Blanche, both aged 17, correspond by e-mail. Virgile loves Blanche, but Blanche loves a boy named Eustache. Nobody knows the other's thoughts. Virgile talks about life and death and Blanche listens acceptingly. Eustache enters the room in a blue cap. He sees Virgile first, then Blanche. Then Blanche remembers having danced with Virgile and leves the room to join him.

Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to destroy compromising documents, it is the world around him that mysteriously begins to disappear. No one seems to escape this fantastic gear, not even Thomas.

A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.

Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair haven't seen each other in thirty years.

Zina left Algeria to fulfill her childhood dream of driving trucks. At every turn, her cabin becomes a space of freedom and the highway a battlefield.

Loulou is 13 years old. He returns from his training and finds the house empty. He enters his parents’ bedroom and opens his mother’s cupboards...

Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him. Do artists have an expiry date? Do we create our best works in our youth or, on the contrary, does experience allow us to develop a greater mastery of our medium? In this respect, are there important differences between the different forms of art such as music, cinema and literature?

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.

On August 28, 2017, Mireille Darc passed away at the age of 79. She was Audiard and Lautner's favorite actress, the sex symbol of the pop years, a photographer, a woman in love, and a documentary filmmaker. The artist was also the patron of La Chaîne de l'espoir, an association that helps disadvantaged children. Mireille Darc tells her story through a selection of her most intimate interviews. Her loved ones also talk about her: her husband, Pascal Desprez; Anthony Delon; Véronique de Villèle, her personal assistant and friend; writer Lionel Duroy; Professor Deloche; and photographers Richard Melloul and Francis Giacobetti, who made her their model...

Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...

An improbable encounter between Bruno, in his forties marginalized by professional and family setbacks, and Gagic, little street boy, mischievous and pilferer. Bruno will gradually come to the surface, guided by this little solar boy, full of mischief and poetry.

Pings is a short film featuring cute characters in “politically incorrect” situations with an original graphics style. Two of these short films exist, this is the second one with the penguin.

Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.

Fanette, a bisexual stripper from the upper-class, seduces rich men and then blackmail them. Behind a one-way mirror in the room where they have sex is her partner-in-crime who videotapes the deeds.

In the utmost secrecy, the first African space mission is preparing to take off! The crew, from Africa and its diaspora, is set to explore the planet "NARDAL", assessing its potential as a refuge for all Africans should Earth ever become uninhabitable. The problem is that the journey will be long. Very long. And in interstellar missions, the greatest unknown is whether the astronauts will be able to get along.

Maxine is an intern at a car workshop. She works hard toward full-time employment. The reality of the world of work grounds her in her reality: being a woman in a man's world.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

Laurent has to undergo a colonoscopy. Nothing is more worrying than a doctor who tries to reassuring you. However, it is next to nothing: Just a camera which goes in your colon.

In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who becomes rosier

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

Serge is a former successful motocross driver, still recovering from a serious accident. He still hangs around the country circuits, limping. Unable to give up his former life, he does not realize that not only his relationship with his girlfriend Elsa, but his whole life, is falling apart.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

In a vague and futuristic world, people must pay for every single service in their life. When a stripper and a thief meet, they find a meaning within it.

Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her memory stops at the time when she was being courted by Pierre, now the family friend. Unable to bear seeing his wife in love with someone else, her husband tries to restore her memory.

After decades abroad, Iona returns to her childhood home on Fiji, sensing that there she might find the answers to many questions she has about civilisation and its discontent.

On the day of his retirement, Émile, a literature professor in Dieppe, gives his young students one last lesson on literature and love, encouraging them to become the poets of their own lives. A student asks him about his own feelings. Is Émile still in love with his wife? Unable to answer, he discovers, once he returns home, that his wife has left him. He is forced to apply his own precepts to himself. Two encounters and a reunion will then help him reinvent himself.

Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter author, Bourgine, a writer plagued with ambition, Brégaillon and the hero, Marc Fournier Zola Prize winner. Naive, the latter quickly becomes formidable, especially since his wife's infidelities have provided him with the material for a new novel.

JELLYFISH tells the story of two brothers, the greatest of whom is autistic. They live together and do everything together, until the day when the need for emancipation will arise in the little brother. But which one needs the other most?

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times, but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.

Nathan, a journalist is fascinated by Gaby, his mother-in-law, a poet. The latter lives in the same vast estate property as Nathan and his wife. One day a promoter tries to buy parts of the land to build an amusement park and comes up against Gaby's categorical refusal, things get worse: a deputy gets annoyed, a hiker mysteriously disappears while Nathan tries to unravel it all.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

A woman is about to become a grandmother. Nothing has changed in her daily life, and yet... Just like every week, this renowned actress walks to her English lesson. But on the way, and after a succession of unexpected encounters, she sees the extent to which the imminent birth of the child occupies her.

Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.

The sudden presence of a small intruder disrupts the tranquility of a home and reveals tensions that had previously been buried. Is it up to the man in a couple to chase away the mouse?

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.