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- The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.
- Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?
- A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.
- Rob Lowe stars as a high end fashion designer and Jennifer Grey as his dressing room assistant in this charming take on the Cinderella story.
- Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
- Jacques, Pierre, and Michel are three adult friends who enjoy single life until they find themselves stuck with a baby.
- This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
- A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
- Fane wants nothing but a quiet countryside life with the woman and the sweet, brain damaged brother he loves. Envious neighbours however have plans of their own.
- Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer.
- Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
- Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything while he is away. The woman brings her only son, Charles, to live with them and, hopefully, be company to lonesome Thomas. The rich boy and the poor one become enemies from the very first encounter. Moved essentially by jealousy and fear, Thomas decides to turn Charles' life into a hell on Earth, especially after their parents eventually fall in love. As the title suggests, he wants to make it clear to the invader who is the lord of the castle.
- Relentless struggle of the Parisian police against the drug trade.
- A retired English businessman has just been through heart surgery but it has, apparently, done little to relieve his constant pain or improve his long-term survival prospects.
- Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.
- A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a CIA contractor, deals with them. CIA hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out.
- Abel Vichac, a renowned University professor, meets a student in a bar. She claims that her name is Aurore, and that she sent him a paper on his latest book. A few days later, Vichac, who has found Aurore's paper (and her address), turns up at her apartment. This is the start of a period of misunderstanding, romantic confusion and seductive schemes that ends in a major crisis for Vichac and his wife, Aliette.
- Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.
- Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
- The American photography student Josh gets involved in a mysterious and deadly intrigue, when he takes pictures during an attempt on the top model Francesca's life. She visits him and asks him to destroy the pictures, because she wants to be believed dead. But the killers are already know that she's alive and are after her again - right there in Josh's house. So he has to join Francesca in a flight through Paris, without even knowing why they are after them.
- In a lavishly-decorated nightclub in 1938 Paris, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Foxtrot, Charleston, and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush against each other on the dance floor and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task: to clean up the city streets, just when bodies start falling as the Mafia and the spies set deadly traps for each other.
- The movie takes place in a poverty-stricken, rent-controlled neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris. Algerian immigrants, many of whom are in France illegally, the place has earned the nickname of "100%Arabica". It's a rough neighborhood - crime is rampant, gangs of juvenile delinquents roam the streets, and the police are afraid to patrol the area. When the out-of-touch mayor decides that he wants to restore order to the area, he offers a subsidy to Slimane, the imam of the local mosque. If Slimane can get people off the streets, the mayor will continue the payments. Soon the byways of 100%Arabica are almost peaceful - but not because of something Slimane has done. The reason is that a new Rai Band, Rap Oriental, has taken the neighborhood by storm...
- An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
- Solange is unhappy. She's a meter maid in Tours, working in the rain, subject to verbal abuse from those she cites. Her husband Patrick is consumed by the work of finishing their new house: carpet, tile, faucets. He's also a hothead, subjecting Sonange to tantrums. While she's often quiet and withdrawn, she longs to be a singer. When by chance she meets Mylène, an accomplished, beautiful Parisian writer she admires, Solange gives her a demo tape. Mylène is encouraging, a friendship of sorts develops, and when Solange despairs after a series of personal, emotional setbacks, she heads for Mylène's doorstep in Paris. Does a singing career await, and what about Patrick?
- Paris 17, on a Sunday afternoon in the summer. Eleven-year-old Jean joins his two faithful friends to play fast and loose in the almost deserted streets. As they wander through the streets, they enter a theater empty of spectators and begin to play out a Greek tragedy. Back home, Jean is a victim of his father's brutality.
- Four loafers are driving to Rachid's Restaurant, where they will have a nice Royal Couscous. Absorbed as they are by their boozing and singing out loud, they do not see a young scout walking along the road and run over him. The little boy is dead, as they soon realize. So it is now time to put into practice their leader's creed "No trace, no witness".
- Young Martin, a ten-year-old, is chosen by his schoolmaster to recite a complicated, rather esoteric poem in public. Although he volunteered to do it, Martin is scared at this prospect. He is not sure to remember the poem to perfection on D-day. Little by little, the cursed poem pervades his life, which unsettles him all the more as, around him, his family environment is deteriorating. Indeed, his parents start having arguments and seem to be on the verge of divorce. But his father does not let him down. He supports him - although awkwardly at times - and helps him to memorize the abstruse text. Will Martin be able to perform it on stage?
- RIDDLE: "A guy enters a restaurant, sits down, reads the menu and orders some pelican to eat. After he takes a bite, he commits suicide. Why?" That's what Henri & Francis are trying to find out.
- Martin hates dogs. He is nevertheless an advertising executive at Floppy, a dog food company. The pitch he makes for a new advertising campaign scandalizes the management because the central figure is missing: there is no dog. But that is nothing compared to what he learns next: Sally, a young English au pair girl with whom he had a fling, is pregnant to him. Furthermore, she has decided to raise the child on her own. Martin is torn between his guilt and his feelings towards her and so decides to try and win her over once again. Pitfalls await him, notably with his own mother, a pro third world activist who recommends an immediate abortion in the name of limiting the misery in the world, and his ex-wife, who will never forgive him for not having wanted a child when they were in love. By the end of a hectic pregnancy, Martin will finally get to the age of reason, at 35 years of age.