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- In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
- Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
- It describes the twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Under the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.
- A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.
- Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.
- Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
- A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
- Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
- The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.
- Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
- An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
- When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.
- A woman has had a tough childhood ever since her mother committed suicide. She spent most of her life in an orphanage and makes a living as a small-time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father.
- Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry. Philip warns Anne that the forces that killed Juan will soon do the same to Gerard. Gerard is trying to rehearse Shakespeare's "Pericles", although he has no financial backing. Anne takes a part in the play to help Gerard, and to try to discover why Juan died.
- A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
- Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, conversations about men. This is prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah has long taken for granted as a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, also finishing her liaison with the director, and was about to get an award and start work on a new film and begin a romance with a German writer.
- Lucile, 25, is the beautiful mistress of Charles, a rich, good-hearted businessman. Being a kept woman suits her as she refuses to work. She is grateful to Charles for that but she does not feel true love for him. When she meets Antoine, a charming young man of her age, it is love at first sight. Living with Antoine is not as easy as it was with Charles: Lucile is forced to find a job, which she hates, and she gets pregnant and has to ask Charles for help. After having an abortion, her love for Antoine gradually fades. That is the reason why she comes back to Charles who, full of indulgence, has patiently waited for her.
- Lucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is singing in, but things don't happen as planned.
- Gauthier, a young journalist, learns through his mother that he's the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, an aging French pop singer who was famous from the '60s to the '90s. As the old-time crooner embarks on a tour to promote his newly released cover album, Gauthier decides to follow him behind the scenes, on stage, and on the road, under the pretext of filming a documentary about his career.
- 1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his sister. 4) God in person lands at a remote farm and works miracles there. 5) Pierre learns that his mother is not his mother, but a famous actress. 6) Didier, a bank clerk, teams up with a bank thief after being fired by the manager 7) Jerôme Chambard is invited to Sunday lunch by his friend the bishop and by dint of drinking to their friendship the holy man cannot remember the ten commandments anymore
- Two actors. One play. Can the differences between the two egocentric men be put aside for the sake of friendship and theatre?
- A medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
- Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast .
- Baxter has a nice apartment. It's just that other people keep wanting to use it.
- A French 'videographer' crosses Canada by train from east to west in the snow. This journey leads her to meet the last companion of her ex-husband, an internationally known showman, who is missing.
- Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
- Luc Bondy's final feature film as director draws talent from both stage and screen to bring Pierre de Marivaux's 1737 play into 21st century Paris. Isabelle Huppert commands the screen as Araminte, the wealthy widow who unwittingly hires the smitten Dorante (Louis Garrel) as her accountant. Secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte's manservant Dubois (Yves Jacques), manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and confidante, Marton (Manon Combes). Dorante, by turns pitiable and proficient, but always deferential to his social better, walks a fine line in his quest to arouse an equal desire in the object of his affections. Bulle Ogier delivers a memorable turn as Araminte's mother, who suspects the young man's intentions, but wants to push her daughter into the arms of an aged, hard-up Count (Jean-Pierre Malo). Filmed in part on-site at the Théâtre de l'Odéon-and shot during the daytime, while the same cast performed the play there at night-the film blurs the distinction between stage and screen, offering a new turn on this classic take on the psychology of love.
- Madeleine arrives in Paris looking for a job as an English teacher. She finds a room in a boarding house where she meets and takes interest in Pierre Ruffin, a quiet librarian, who actually lives a double life.
- Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.
- A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.
- This film follows dancer Ulyana Lopatkina, and the art that is her life passion. She dances in Swan Lake and according to specialized critics, she is to date the most beautiful swan they ever seen in the history of classical ballet.
- After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.
- Segment 1: "Bip, piéton de Paris". Bip goes for a facetious walk through the streets of Paris. Segment 2: "In a Silent Way, exercices''. Marcel Marceau does mime exercises. Segment 3: "La cage". The mime finds himself imprisoned in an invisible cage. Segment 4: "Lignage et filiation" and 5: "...Cousinages et parentèles": Marcel Marceau pays tribute to his great predecessors. Segment 6: "La création du monde". The creation of the world evoked through the art of mime. Segment 7: "La bonne nouvelle". Jesus and His message evoked through the art of mime. Segment 8: "Les sept péchés capitaux". The seven deadly sins evoked through Marceau's drawings and his art of mime. Segment 9: "Bip et la marchand de masques". At the fun fair, Bip buys a grinning mask he cannot get rid of. Segment 10: "L'école du mime". A masterclass by Marcel Marceau,at his Théâtre de L'Ambigu mime school. Segment 11: ''Don Juan, mimodrame". Marcel Marceau plays Don Juan - without his usual painted face and clown outfit. Segment 12: "Bip For Ever". Bip's walk is over. He turns his back and moonwalks to where he belongs, poetry.
- George Dandin, paysan fortuné, a acquis un titre de noblesse en épousant la fille d'un hobereau ruiné, Angélique de Sotenville. Mais la jeune femme, mariée contre son gré par des parents sans scrupules, ne cesse de le cocufier. Bafoué, humilié, Dandin est résolu à la prendre en flagrant délit d'adultère... Une comédie-ballet de Molière et Lully, créée à Versailles en 1668.
- This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society and may be on the rise again; and, it's a look at Marina Zenovich's fascination with Tapie, behaving oddly in spite of her awareness that she's being irrational. Politicians, athletes, friends, companions, and journalists comment on Bernard's charm, his rise to prominence in sports and politics, and his subsequent trouble with the law. Zenovich becomes fixated on her need to interview Tapie, becoming virtually a stalker in her quest.
- Emma, newly widowed, reunites with her three childhood friends. Although their grief is immense, they seize this moment of reunion to reveal their hidden dreams and desires, which are to be, at the very least... surprising.
- Impulso tells us one of the most captivating challenges in the history of modern flamenco: the creation of the new show by Spanish dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina for the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.
- Prince Paris of Troy runs away with Queen Helene of Sparta!