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Les 11 commandements (2004)

François Desagnat

The world is in a bad state, a seriously bad state. Forget Armageddon and all that tepid four men of the apocalypse rubbish. This is the real deal. Human beings no longer know how to laugh. Luckily, God is a resourceful kind of bloke and he (eventually) comes up with the answer: eleven brand spanking new commandments to lighten up the human race... [More...]

15 ans et demi (2008)

François Desagnat

After 15 years in the United States, Philippe Le Tallec returns to France, intending to take care of his daughter Eglantine. He hopes he can make up for lost time but his daughter has too many other interests to spend time with her father. Realising that his parenting skills are not what they should be, Philippe enlists on a training course for fathers in distress..... [More...]

15 août (2001)

Patrick Alessandrin

One August, three friends – Max, Vincent and Raoul – arrive at their rented holiday home, only to find that their wives have gone off on their own, leaving them to look after their children. As the days pass, and the three men struggle to adapt to their new role, nerves soon begin to fray, and they wonder why their wives have abandoned them and if they will ever return… ... [More...]

18 ans après (2003)

Coline Serreau

Having turned 18, Marie agrees to spend her summer holidays with her mother, who has just returned from America with her husband and two sons. The ménage is completed by Marie’s three “adopted” fathers – Michel, Jacques and Pierre. The uncomfortable family reunion is tainted by Marie’s first bitter-sweet encounter with love... [More...]

2 Days in New York (2012)

Julie Delpy

Marion, a young French woman, lives in New York with Mingus, a radio journalist, and their two children from previous relationships. As Marion, a photographer, prepares her latest exhibition, her father and sister decide to visit her. As her father does not speak a word of English and her sister is going through a severe emotional crisis, it proves to be an eventful visit..... [More...]

27 rue de la Paix (1937)

Richard Pottier

Gloria Grand is determined to divorce her wastrel husband Denis so that she can marry her true love, the lawyer Maître Bernard. One of Denis’ mistresses, a Parisian nightclub singer named Jenny Clarens, agrees to support Gloria’s case for divorce, but a short while later her dead body is found in the River Seine... [More...]

3 hommes et un couffin (1985)

Coline Serreau

Pierre, Jacques and Michel are three free-living bachelors who share a luxury flat in Paris. Their routine is abruptly disrupted when a baby girl is deposited on their door step. Whilst Pierre, the unwitting father, enjoys a three week holiday in Thailand, his flatmates are left holding the fort, taking turns to look after the baby... [More...]

3 zéros (2002)

Fabien Onteniente

Football enthusiast Manu sees himself as a talent spotter and sets his sights on a young soccer player, Tibor, with whom he once shared a prison cell. Having learnt that Tibor has signed up with a football club, Manu contrives, with the help of recruitment godfather Colonna, to have him released so that he play in the French national team... [More...]

30° couleur (2012)

Lucien Jean-Baptiste

When he was ten years old, Patrick, a West Indian, was sent by his mother to study in France. Thirty years later, he is a distinguished historian, proud of his achievements and so well-integrated into French society that he has almost lost sight of his racial origins. On hearing that his mother is at death’s door, Patrick immediately heads off for Martinique with his daughter and arrives at the height of the carnival season... [More...]

600 kilos d’or pur (2010)

Eric Besnard

A party of adventurers succeed in robbing a gold mine in the heart of Guyana. However, during their escape their helicopter is forced to set down in the middle of the jungle. The seven crooks must now transport their spoils - six hundred kilograms of gold - on foot through some of the most hostile terrain imaginable... [More...]

8 femmes (2002)

François Ozon

In the 1950s, a beautiful society lady, Gaby, lives with her husband Marcel, a wealthy industrialist, in a remote country mansion – along with her mother, spinster sister Augustine, teenage daughters Suzon and Catherine, and maids Louise and Madame Chanel. One winter’s day, Gaby returns to her house with her daughter Suzon to find that her husband has been murdered – he is lying dead in his bed with a knife in his back... [More...]

99 francs (2007)

Jan Kounen

Octave Parango is a high-powered advertising consultant who prides himself on the knowledge that he decides what people will want to buy and how they will live their lives. He is more powerful than the President of the United States! Working for Ross & Witchcraft, the world’s largest advertising agency, Octave’s life is a riot of hedonistic excess punctuated by moments of creative genius... [More...]

À boire (2004)

Marion Vernoux

Pierre-Marie Archimbault suffers from acute alcoholism. This isn’t only ruining his health and his bank balance; it is also destroying his marriage and his career, as a doctor. When his wife finally throws him out of the family home one Christmas, he heads off for a ski resort, where he hopes to throw off his fatal addiction... [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook who is on the run after having shot dead a policeman. Hoping to recover some money he is owed by some shady associates of his, Michel returns to Paris. Here, he meets up with Patricia, a young student and aspiring journalist with whom he had enjoyed a brief affair in Nice... [More...]

À cause, à cause d’une femme (1963)

Michel Deville

The young and seductive Rémi is a lady’s man of the first degree. He knows that women find his charms irresistible and he exploits the fact to his advantage, oblivious to the hearts he may break along the way. Rémi’s present entourage includes Nathalie, who loves him with indifference, Lisette, who loves him with a childish playfulness, Agathe, who loves him passionately, and Chloé, who loves him with a fierce possessiveness bordering on sociopathic obsession... [More...]

À l’heure où les grands fauves vont boire (1993)

Pierre Jolivet

Adrien is so very close to seducing the woman of his desires when he is suddenly woken up by the telephone. The woman of his dreams is not a figment of his imagination. She exists - an ethnologist who has just made a documentary film - and Adrien is determined to get to know her more intimately. To that end, he sets out to impress her with a collection of Zulu weaponry supplied by a friend who scrapes a living on the black market..... [More...]

À notre regrettable époux (1988)

Serge Korber

On learning of the death of her husband, Hermione learns that he was both a bigamist and a master criminal. Somewhere in the rundown castle where she now lives her husband has hidden his ill-gotten gains in the form of gold bars. But where are they...? [More...]

À nous la liberté (1931)

René Clair

Whilst serving a stretch in prison, Émile and Louis become firm friends and plan a break-out. Although Émile is re-captured by the prison guards, Louis manages to escape and sets about making an honest living. A few years later, Émile finds a way out of his cell and at once falls in love with an attractive young woman... [More...]

À nous les petites Anglaises! (1976)

Michel Lang

France, 1959. When Jean-Pierre and Alain fail their high school exams, their parents cancel their summer holiday in St. Tropez and send them off to Ramsgate in England to study English. Far from being disheartened by the prospect of having to spend weeks in a wet, foggy land, learning an impossible language, the two lads are brimming with enthusiasm... [More...]

À pied, à cheval et en spoutnik! (1958)

Jean Dréville

A man who has devoted his life to animal rights appeals to the Russian government not to send a mouse and a dog into space. When he fails to get the desired result, our intrepid hero must resort to more drastic measures... [More...]

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