Les marcheuses

France. End of the 19th century. Louise Violet 40, a Parisian teacher, is sent on a mission to the French countryside. But in a place where the daily life is linked to the seasons, land and crops, she must first convince parents to send their kids to school. With the help of the mayor, she is gradually accepted by the parents and their children. But soon, her past catches up with her. Despite the obstacles she faces, Miss Violet will give her heart and soul to her belief that education is the key to freedom.

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

เด็กหญิงผู้ถูกส่งไปอยู่สถานเลี้ยงเด็กกำพร้าพร้อมน้องสาว และเฝ้ารอคอยอย่างไร้ความหวังทุกวันอาทิตย์ เพื่อให้พ่อมารับกลับบ้าน นักแสดงคาบาเรต์ไร้พลังเสียง ผู้ต้องร้องเพลงขับกล่อมพวกทหารขี้เมา ช่างตัดเสื้อต้อยต่ำ ผู้ทำหน้าที่เย็บชายผ้าอยู่หลังร้านตัดเสื้อผ้าบ้านนอก สาวน้อยผอมบาง ผู้อยู่ในการคุ้มครองดูแลของเอเตียง บาซอง ท่ามกลางความเกียจคร้านและเสื่อมโทรม ผู้หญิงที่รู้ดีว่าเธอไม่มีวันเป็นภรรยาของใครได้ จึงปฏิเสธคำขอแต่งงานของบอย คาเพล ผู้ชายที่รักเธอ คนนอกคอกผู้ต่อต้านธรรมเนียมอันกดขี่ในยุคของตน ด้วยการแต่งกายตามแบบที่ตัวเองต้องการ…

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.

Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.