Anouk is a 14-year-old girl who has a surprise in store for her when she is allowed to shadow her mother Cyrielle for a few days in her work with an insurance company...
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Married to a wealthy baron, Irène de Rysbergue leads a privileged life but she still sees herself as a carefree ingénue, attending parties and generally have a good time...
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After turning sixty, Serge Pilardosse is looking forward to a comfortable and well-deserved retirement. He began work at the age of sixteen and he hasn't taken a single day off since, either through sickness or unemployment...
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As his wife Dora lies close to death in a hospital bed after a horrific car accident, Robert looks back with guilt and tenderness on their brief life together...
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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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Inspired by a lecture, hard-up student Gérard sets about recovering the lost treasure contained in a sunken Phoenician ship off the coast of Corsica...
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A cargo ship leaves Marseilles loaded with Jews, survivors of the Holocaust who hope to begin a new life in the recently founded state of Israel...
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In a small Provençal village, the locals tell a newly installed schoolteacher the story of Manon, a young shepherdess who lives a wild and solitary life in the surrounding hills...
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After the tragic death of his neighbour Jean Cadoret, César Soubeyran purchases his land so that his nephew Ugolin Soubeyran can grow carnations on an industrial scale...
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On leaving prison after completing a short stretch for a petty crime, Marie makes her way back to the only person she can count on for support, her brother Antoine...
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After bumming their way around the Mediterranean, two dropouts in their late twenties, François and Denis, return to France without a sou to their name...
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Every year, the emperor penguins leave the ocean that has been their home during the summer months and walk across the frozen Antarctic wastes to their breeding ground on a safe plateau of ice...
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In Marseille, police superintendent Jordan is waging a determined personal war against the city's drug barons, foremost of whom is Sauveur Meccaci, a gangster of formidable repute...
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Maria Chapdelaine lives with her parents and siblings in a remote corner of Quebec. The nearest town is Peribonka, where, one fine spring day, Maria meets François Paradis, an introverted but likeable hunter...
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After completing her education in a convent, Maria Chapdelaine returns to the family farm in Quebec and is happy to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Robert Gagnon...
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Auguste is a playwright in his fifties who is struggling to put the finishing touches to his latest magnum opus. A few details still need to be worked through, so to help him he invites two actors to his house in the country to help bring the play to life...
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Madame de Bray's overriding concern is to find a suitable husband for her 18-year-old daughter Chiffon. She believes she has found the ideal candidate in a distinguished colonel, the Duke of Aubières, even if he is her daughter's senior by more than thirty years...
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In Brussels, Ferdinand Beulemans is the proud owner of one of the city's leading breweries. He has high hopes of being elected Honorary President of the Brewers' Society, his only serious rival being Monsieur Meulemeester whose son Séraphím is promised in marriage to the Beulemans' beautiful daughter Suzanne...
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Accompanied by her father King George and his royal entourage, Princess Charlotte arrives in Paris for a banquet arranged in honour of her forthcoming marriage to Duke Duillaume of Spatz-Hohenburg...
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At 25, Johanna and Benjamin have decided that they must forgo the delights of bachelorhood and begin a new life together, one that promises a lifetime of unalloyed marital bliss...
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The Heiligenstadt estate in Bavaria has become a private school for the male offspring of the well-to-do. There, the boys have organised themselves into two factions - the Sages, led by the sensible Manfred, and the Brigands, led by the hot-headed Alexis...
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In 1949, Odile le Flem, a woman in her mid-thirties, makes a reluctant return to the small Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her recently deceased father...
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A man named Dumont is on a train heading for Switzerland when he is killed by secret agent Bruno Kerrien. The latter finds what he is after in the dead man's possession - an odd-looking item of jewellery in the shape of a blue panther's head with rubies for its eyes...
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Marie-Line is a down-to-earth woman in her mid-forties who works hard for a living whilst she copes, as best she can, with a failing marriage...
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Marie is a naive 17-year-old orphan who lives with her grandparents. One day, she enters a dolls shop and immediately attracts the attention of its owner, a charming young man named Claude...
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