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- A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
- Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.
- Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
- The relationship between a dutiful wife and her incarcerated husband grows increasingly complicated when a curious third party seduces her beyond her husband's reach. (French with English subtitles).
- Vahé, Sahak, and Toros run a bonneteau game on the streets of Paris. They're Lebanese French of Armenian descent. Vahé also works with his father, a cloth merchant, and is in love with Lu Ann, Chinese French, who's broken off their affair. Vahé wants to make things right: with Lu Ann, with his father's business, and with Yuen, Lu Ann's younger brother, who's on the edge of delinquency and owes money to the gang who arranged his passage from China. Vahé tries to be like a father to Yuen, teaching him a work ethic. When Yuen impetuosity puts his own life in jeopardy, Vahé tries to save him. Will Vahé's impulses and hopes die on the streets of Paris?
- Nella and Orfeo, communists, flee Tuscany with their children to escape fascism. Wanting to start their life over in the New World, they embark on a boat for America. They will in fact dock in Marseille, far from the land of their dreams
- October 1980. Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, is the French people's favorite comedian. He performs every night to a packed house at the Théâtre du Gymnase. One day, always inclined to go too far, Coluche announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections. Looked down upon by the professionals of politics, he is soon supported by French voters, who always love when a clown thumbs his nose at the mighty. In a poll published in December, he is even credited with 16% of voting intentions...
- Vincent tries to be a novelist, a broker by day and a writer by night, Raphaëlle is an architect. They have lost the enthusiasm of youth. Raphaëlle seeks in vain to escape Vincent's decline, who destroys himself with alcohol.
- On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
- A giant man-eater swims the banks of Lake Tanganyika. It is the biggest crocodile ever documented. Its gigantic size and thick skin make it invulnerable to gun shot. The only solution is to capture it alive.
- A look at the violent consequences faced by a middle-class family, as seen by three different points of view.
- Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?
- A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.
- Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between the two cafes will be exacerbated during the truckers' strike that blocks the village.
- When the party's official candidate, suffering from cancer, is forced to resign, Michel Dedieu is named to replace him at the last minute. Michel is to be confronted very shortly with his opponent at a TV debate and as he is little known, his campaign committee decides to coach him in a TV studio reproduced in his own home. Michel complies reluctantly. Worse he has a row with his wife, who disappears after having shaken off her bodyguard. The atmosphere is so tense that Dedieu suddenly feels unwell. He is stunned when the doctor he consults tells him he strongly doubts the former candidate really has cancer. Is the new candidate being manipulated then, notably by Georges, the crafty party strategist? Anyway, Michel Dedieu is not going to be anybody's fool ...
- About Liverpool and its music scene. With concert excerpts and interviews from Ian mc Culloch from Echo and the Bunnymen , John Head and Michael Head from The Pale Fountains and Shack, Edgar Summertyme and the Stairs, the Real People and.
- Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.
- Melchior prince heir of a small kingdom of Northern Persia, dream of a white camel. On the occasion of his birthday, the king announced a great surprise. The wise Balthazar found the white camel. According to an ancient prophecy, accompanied by his friends Gaspard and Balthazar, Melchior will leave for a long journey.
- Like many artists Cyril Brody is jobless. In order to get the welfare allowance he must work on a an integration project. He chooses to make a film examining the notion of service. To this end, he sends a letter to twenty persons in his circle of relatives and acquaintances offering them to do them a favor of any type and to have the experience filmed
- Vincent is at his office and would like to go on with his work. But at the moment, he just can't as his mother is monopolizing him on the phone. She is preparing the funeral mass of her deceased mother (and Vincent's grandmother) and solicits her son's contribution - which, being an atheist, he does only half willingly. While he is in contact with his mother, a second phone rings on another line: news is brought to him of the birth of a new child in the family. Oddly enough, the two conversations, one about death, the other a bout a new life, juxtapose and intertwine.
- The Junction is an obscure crossroad in the Gaza Strip, separating the Israeli settlement of Nezarim from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nussierat. Ringed by a teeming Palestinian neighborhood, the Junction became a battleground in September 2000 when the Second Intifada erupted. The violence destroyed many lives there, Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers. Once a busy intersection and a flourishing neighborhood, it is now a desert. The film reaches far into the social fabric of both Israelis and Palestinians to explore the culture of death which both stems from and feeds the violence currently consuming both societies.
- About Cannibalism in reality or fiction. All over the world. As an artistic trend, as a cult-thing, a criminal phenomena or just a different taste.
- About people with dysfunctional physical preferences, in some cases exploited by the entertainment industry, in other cases making a living out of their abnormalities, some faking it, others affected for life.