For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby...
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A poet from the 18th century somehow manages to lose himself in time and ends up two hundred years in the future. Here he searches for a professor who alone can end his torment, piercing him with a special temporal bullet that allows him to reborn in the world...
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Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital...
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In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune...
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Unable to cope with her troublesome six-year-old son Malony, single mother Séverine places him in the care of a juvenile court judge, Florence Blaque...
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Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels...
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In a Parisian sex club, two young men are irresistibly drawn to one another. Surrendering to the physical yearning that suddenly takes possession of them, they are united, body and soul, in a passion that is the most intense either has ever known...
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Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal...
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France in the late 1920s. Thérèse is coerced into a marriage with her neighbour, Bernard Desqueyroux, who owns a large rural estate in the Landes region of France...
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Thomas, 32, is the victim of chronic agoraphobia and hasn't left his apartment in eight years. His only contact with the outside world is via his visiophone, which keeps him in touch with his mother, his therapist and his insurance agent...
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September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops...
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After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry...
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Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic...
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After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...
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Boris and Dimitri Pizarnik are two doctors who share the same practice in the Chinese district of Paris. Brothers, they are inseparable, as devoted to each other as they are to the profession which occupies most of their waking hours...
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It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him...
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Paris, during a long hot summer heat wave. Marcel is an old man for whom home is a tiny room beneath the roofs of a Parisian apartment block...
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In the early 1930s, Toni, a young Italian labourer, arrives in France and finds work at a quarry. His landlady Marie takes a liking to him, but he is only interested in another woman, Josepha...
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Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...
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In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth...
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Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy...
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At the time of Louis XIV of France, a brilliant court musician, Marin Marais, reflects on his tutelage under the great viola player, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe...
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Fred is a man alone in Paris. Every day, he goes through the same monotonous rituals at work. Then he wanders around the capital, mentally sifting through the components which make up the world that surrounds him...
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Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience...
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Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café...
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