Breval, the commander of a French garrison in the Sudan, persuades the politician François Mourrier of the necessity to construct a dam across the River Niger to improve farming conditions in the region...
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One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. There, he meets Manesquier, a retired teacher who lives alone in a huge house...
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When he is informed of the death of his son Julien, Romain Dupré goes to Canada to identify the body. The dead man turns out not be Dupré's son, but a stranger who, for some reason, is carrying Julien's identification papers...
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Simon Eskanazy is a gay man from a Jewish background who just about scrapes a living as a musician in Paris. To preserve the family name, his Uncle Salomon tries to bribe him into getting married - but Simon refuses...
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After WWII, American bachelor and former GI Fred Barker settles in France with his adopted daughter Cathy and manages a perfume factory owned by his friend Carlo Ferell, whose life he saved during the war...
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To resolve a business matter, Pierre needs to have his brother Raymond released from the psychiatric institution to which he was committed after he attacked his wife Louise...
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The world famous choreographer Evan Evans and his famous ballet company are in Monaco completing their rehearsals ahead of an important European tour...
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Pierre Niox is a busy man. Life is too short to waste on inconsequentialities, so Pierre gallops along like a hyperactive steeplechaser, spending no more time than is necessary on every aspect of his existence...
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Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration...
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In the 1950s, Viktor Atemian is a forty-something Russian immigrant who makes a living as a translator in Paris. One day, Victor decides to become a writer, so he sells his apartment and moves into a modest hotel...
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A well-dressed man in his early thirties is running through a dense wood, pursued by armed soldiers. It isn't long before the soldiers catch up with their prey and shoot him down...
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Paul Exben is a successful lawyer who has everything a man could want to be happy, including a beautiful and adoring wife, and two angelic children...
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1942, Paris under Nazi occupation. Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market. Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque...
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Alfred is madly in love with Nicole, a pretty assistant in a dairy shop, but he is too shy to approach her. Taking pity on the poor man, Don Juan appears and takes it upon himself to instruct Alfred in the delicate art of seduction...
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Jules Bourron is a French businessman who made his fortune in Morocco between 1910 and 1920. In Casablanca, he meets Christiane, an aristocratic widow fallen on hard times, and immediately loses his heart to her...
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Fabio Lino is an ex-actor who finds he can put his acting skills to better use in his current job as a policeman. Benoit Blanc is a successful business man who has more than an eye for the ladies...
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In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict...
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One fine sunny morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a small French town, Nanteuil, are celebrating their liberation from Nazi occupation when a small battalion of German soldiers suddenly shows up...
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Stanislas Dubois runs an advertising agency in Paris. In his line of work, he has to deal with some difficult customers, but few are as imposing as the young woman who comes to him one day, intent on foisting on him a Cézanne painting...
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Honoré is one of the most popular figures in the French port of Marseille. Interviewed by a journalist, he proudly recounts the history of the town, laying particular emphasis on the important part that his ancestors have played over the years...
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It is only when he sets foot in the church where he is to be married that Antoine Fromont comes to his senses and realises that he is making a terrible mistake...
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Jean Simon appears content in his lowly subservience as a barman and general dogsbody at a high-end Biarritz hotel catering for the cream of French society...
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Two out of work actors, Ange and Concepción, meet up during the making of a seedy television commercial. Having shared magic mushrooms together, they fall in love...
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In the late 1980s, Patrick Perrault, a French photographer and journalist, travels to Beirut to make a report on the war that is tearing the region apart...
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On the northern coast of France, between the marshes and the sand dunes, there lives a strange man who ekes out an existence like something from another century...
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