Immediately after being released from prison, where he has served a short stretch for petty larceny, 30-something Thomas returns to his girlfriend, only to find she is in bed with another man...
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Vahé Krikorian is an Armenian immigrant who lives in the crowded Sentier district of Paris. Crippled with debts, his father is forced to close the shop where he works and so, to make ends meet, he resorts to playing three card tricks with Sahak and his brother Toros...
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The son of a prosperous surgeon, Henri Pasquier is a good-for-nothing playboy who spends most of his time speeding around Paris in his roadster...
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Bored with his humdrum middle-class existence, 40-something university lecturer Pierre walks out on his wife Catherine and his son and settles in London to begin work on his first novel...
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Delphine is a 15 year-old-girl who knows nothing about life. Then she meets Olivia, a girl who seems to know everything. It is through Olivia that Delphine begins to unravel the mysteries of adulthood and in no time she has embarked on her first love affair, with a sexually precocious boy named Laurent...
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One Sunday evening, two men in their twenties roam the streets of the Clichy district of Paris, hoping to pick up a pair of girls they can spend the night with...
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At the Quai des Orfèvres in Paris, Inspector Forbin is interrogating Catherine Racan about Dr Daniély, a man accused of practicing abortion...
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Disillusioned with the French legal system, Max abandons his career as a judge to become a policeman, believing that he will be more effective at bringing criminals to justice...
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Suspecting that his wife, Margaret, is having a secret love affair, Peter Jones, a British ambassador in Paris, engages a private detective to investigate...
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Lacking his usual vitality, Max consults his doctor, who advises him to take a glass of Bordeaux quinine every day. Back home, Max takes the bottle of medicine and pours it into one large glass...
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Paris, 1914. Maxime Cherpray is an ageing Don Juan who, despite being well-bred and well-educated, has little money and lives in a small apartment...
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In the late 1880s, Archduke Rudolph is the crown prince of Austria, a rebellious young man who prefers the company of ordinary folk to that of the nobility...
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In 1921, a shipload of Armenian refugees arrive in Marseilles, hoping to begin a new life. These include six-year-old Azad Zakarian, his father Hagop, his mother Araxi and his two aunts Anna and Gayané...
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It has been two years since Duval lost his job. Recovering from a mental breakdown, he hasn't been able to find work since and he struggles to make ends meet...
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Charles Rouvier is a renowned lawyer and also a well-known womaniser. When he is arrested and sent to prison for two years for helping one of his clients, he becomes obsessed with taking his revenge against women...
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Yvon Rance is the proud owner of a modest hairdressing salon in the small Breton town of Cancale. Since his wife left him some years ago, he has had to bring up his daughter Laetitia by himself and naturally he has become overly protective towards her...
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In the summer of 1960, Marc and Philippe work as supervisors in a French summer camp for boys. Their different methods of treating their young charges reflect their different personalities...
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For Philippe Perrin, a young and ambitious engineer, the construction of a huge dam in the Alps becomes his life's work and he devotes himself to this, his greatest accomplishment...
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Two old friends, Marcel and Pierre, get together one evening for a meal and to reminisce on old times. Marcel is now a world famous virtuoso violinist whilst Pierre has settled down for a quiet life with his wife, Romaine...
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Chief-superintendent Dominique, the head of a crime squad in Marseille, finds himself in a difficult position when his son Gérard becomes mixed up with some racketeers...
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France in 1938. Despite the Munich Agreement, the outbreak of war seems imminent. In a small Parisian hotel, several disparate individuals take refuge from the storm clouds that are gathering over Europe...
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