Having suffered a brain haemorrhage, Maud wakes up one morning to find that she is paralysed on one side of her body. Bedridden but determined not to give up her career as a filmmaker, she finds an ideal subject for her next film whilst watching a television talk show...
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In the midst of the Yorkshire countryside, the lives of three couples are about to be violently disrupted over a period of several months by the strange behaviour of their mutual friend George Riley...
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Marc may be an enthusiastic literature professor, but he is also an inveterate skirt-chaser, and his habit of taking his female students to bed often brings him into conflict with Richard, his departmental head at Lausanne University...
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It is Ariane's birthday but she is lonelier than she has ever been, all by herself in her pretty house. The candles on her cake have been lit...
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Alice is twenty and lives in Bayeux. She is a woolworker who makes clothes with dyes she has created herself. She is unsure what to do with her innate talent until she meets Agnès, a wealthy Parisian woman who helps her to gain admission to a prestigious school of applied arts...
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Antoine's frequent excursions into petty crime bring him into trouble not only with the law but also with a Lyonnaise gang who are now after his blood...
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Pierre is a reluctant invalid. Ending up in a hospital bed with his leg in plaster is not a scenario this spry 60-something would have chosen for himself, but it is what he is saddled with after a stupid accident...
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Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes...
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Dan, Kelliah and Louis are three students at one of France's most important business schools. These young people are being moulded into the elite of tomorrow and are ready to put what they have learned into practice...
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In common with all adolescents of his age, Julien dreams of a life filled with thrills and adventure. But since he is confined to a wheelchair it seems unlikely that such dreams will ever be realised...
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It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital...
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Marek, an illegal immigrant from the Ukraine, is hanging about at the Gare du Nord with his mates when he catches the attention of 40-something Daniel...
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Muriel is a beautician who likes nothing better than to gossip and weave fanciful stories. For the past twenty years, she has been a dedicated fan of the pop singer Vincent Lacroix...
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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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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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Benjamin Barois is 23 and as he embarks on his internship as a trainee doctor in his father's practice he is confident that he has a great career ahead of him...
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After a particularly bad job interview, Lulu misses her train back home and has to spend the night in the Loire coastal town of St Gilles-Croix-de-Vie...
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Henri is a cocky young actor who sees himself as cinema's next great action-adventure hero. For some reason, the world is slow to take advantage of his talents and for the time being he has to make do with dubbing American shows and humiliating himself in television ads...
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18-year-old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of travellers. He is getting ready for his Christian baptism when his half-brother Fred shows up out of the blue, having spent several years in prison...
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17-year-old Aurélien, known to his friends as Mouton, is happily employed at a fish restaurant in Courseulles-sur-Mer, a small town on the Normandy coast...
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Paul is a 50-something call centre employee who has had enough of his miserable non-existence. Married, with children, he lives a crumby life which consists of just one crass, life-sapping mundanity after another...
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Claude Verneuil and his wife Marie are Gaullist bourgeois Catholics, and proud of it. Even though they are staunch traditionalists, they like to think they can move with the times...
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Brigitte and Xavier are cattle farmers in Normandy. Whilst she is a dreamer, with her head always in the clouds, his feet are forever rooted in the mucky ground that is their everyday routine...
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By 1967, Yves Saint Laurent is already established as one of the world's leading couturiers. As he instigates a fashion revolution, YSL becomes the figurehead of a brand the like of which the world has never known...
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Throughout his busy career, Jacques Kaminsky has been so committed to his profession as a war photographer that he has neglected his parental responsibilities...
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