Jean-Paul Roussillon

Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. - from IMDB

Power and corruption—and the men who rule with them—are ruthlessly scrutinized in this multilayered French work set in a shadow realm of arms dealers and blood ties. Part Shakespearean family tragedy, part political noir, it recalls such American paranoid thrillers of the 1970s as All the President’s Men and Marathon Man, revealing protagonists who work in the shadows, the unseen kings of the contemporary jungle.

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Lucien, rentré tard du bal des Quat'z'Arts, réveille sa femme Yvonne, qui commence à lui faire une scène. La tempête passée, un valet de chambre sonne à la porte, au moment où les deux époux se couchent. Le messager est porteur d'une bien terrible nouvelle : la mère de Madame est morte.Alors que tout le monde s'active pour se rendre chez la mère de Madame, le couple apprend que le valet vient de commettre une horrible méprise : il s'est trompé de personnes, c'est la mère des voisins qui est morte ! Le valet est vivement chassé et les deux époux repartent de plus belle dans une scène de ménage...

A film about the rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872.

Après s'être séparée pour passer la ligne de démarcation, la famille de Simon (sa femme Léa, sa belle-soeur Mauricette, enceinte de plusieurs mois, la mère des deux jeunes femmes, Madame Schwartz, qui ne parle que yiddish, et enfin Henri, le neveu de onze ans), se retrouve en pleine campagne, accueillie par Maury, un paysan du cru qui les héberge dans l'une de ses dépendances. La rencontre de deux mondes...

Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together...

D'après l'ouvrage Journal particulier de Paul Léautaud, l'histoire d'amour qui naquit entre lui et Marie D., qu'il rencontra au Mercure de France en 1922, à l'occasion d'un article qu'elle faisait paraître.

Un vieil homme, vêtu d'une robe de chambre et chaussé de pantoufles, est abandonné par sa famille sur une aire d'autoroute, un jour de départ en vacances. Il atterrit dans un hospice où un infirmier, Gégène, le surnomme Mischka. Le garde-malades lui propose alors de quitter la sinistre maison de retraite. C'est l'occasion pour lui de faire la rencontre de Jane, l'adolescente fugueuse, et de Joli-coeur, la rockeuse, et de redécouvrir la vie au moment où il est en passe de la terminer.

Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.

On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth, with surprising results. Both Serrault and Rampling are outstanding in this well-directed, well-paced film. On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois was also released as He Died With His Eyes Open and won the Jury Prize at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival.