Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor...
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Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning...
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Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident...
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Revenge is the only thing on François Nolan's mind when he returns to Paris, having spent the past ten years in prison for his part in a bank robbery that went disastrously wrong...
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Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age...
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Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights...
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Under the pretence of researching his next thriller play, writer Antoine Brisebard consults his lawyer friend Adrien Colas on how to commit the perfect murder...
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Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders...
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In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives...
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In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes...
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One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris...
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In 1830, Aurore de Chéroy is a young widow who lives a simple but contented life on her country estate in France. A devout Christian, she devotes herself to charitable works and spurns proposals of marriage from such men as the selfish and cynical Horace de Granville...
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Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle...
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France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon...
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The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam...
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France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France...
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