Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet...
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Dr Irène Frachon is a pulmonary specialist who works at a hospital in Brest in northern France. In the course of her work she becomes concerned that the weight-loss drug Mediator, which has been on the market for thirty years, may be causing heart deficiencies in those who take it...
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Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior...
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Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her...
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Like his father and his grandfather before him, Jo Canavaro is a rugby football legend. Unfortunately his 13-year-old son Tom has no interest in the sport and shows a far greater aptitude for maths than he does for rugby...
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Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean...
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The Klein family lives in a remote house on the edge of a forest in the Vosges mountains. Jean, the youngest of two sons, is always causing trouble and one day he is expelled from the family home...
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Gaspard Dassonville is one of those indefatigable career junkies who resolutely refuses to grow old. He may be 63 but he wears his age well and leads an active life as a television producer...
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Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes...
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Max and Léon are two inseparable friends whose sole aim is to get as much fun out of life as they can. Unfortunately, it is September 1939 and the world seems to have given up on the idea of fun...
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In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area...
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It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme...
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11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment...
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In the 1970s, the French government created a new agency known as BUMIDOM to help people from the country's overseas territories settle in mainland France...
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Guillaume had a far from conventional childhood. When he was four or five, his mother would call him into dinner by shouting: "Boys and Guillaume, dinner's ready!" Guillaume knew there and then that he was different from other boys, but he could never tell how he was different...
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The Gare du Nord in Paris is a place where anything can happen. Every day, Ismaël, a student, is fascinated by this constantly busy station...
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One summer, Zak and Seth find themselves alone and without money at their house in the country. The two teenage brothers expect they will have to spend yet another miserable summer holiday with nothing to do, and no money to do it with...
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Martin Joubert has given up his job with a Parisian publishing firm and now runs a thriving bakery in the Normandy village where he grew up...
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In the south of France, in the sweltering heat of August, Geronimo, a young teacher, is committed to easing tensions between young people in the district of Saint Pierre...
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Bertrand, Laurent, Marcus, Simon, Thierry, John, Bastile and Avanish - eight men from very different backgrounds - are all beginning to find life a bit too much for them...
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After a succession of odd jobs, Gary finds work in a nuclear power plant. Here, near to the reactors where the radiation level is at its strongest, he falls in love with co-worker Karole...
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Pierre Blum is a writer in his mid-forties who had his biggest successes at the start of the 2000s. One evening, outside a casino, he meets a stranger, Joseph Paskin, who appears keen to talk to him...
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Not and Jean-Pierre are two brothers who could not be more different. In his forties, Not is proud to be the oldest street punk in Europe, happy to live off the detritus of a diseased society in the company of his faithful dog...
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François Foucault is a highly qualified literature teacher at one of Paris's most prestigious schools, Henri-IV. The forty-something educationalist deplores the quality of teaching in the capital's neglected suburbs and insists that the only way to raise standards is to send better teachers into these benighted schools...
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Théo is a little boy who finds life in his home town of Ronenval unbearably tame. Since the tragic death of his father some years ago, he has had to endure the most deprived of upbringings, and now that his mother has lost her job after being wrongly accused of theft things can only get worse...
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