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- The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
- The legendary outlaw and his Merry Men battle evil around Nottingham and Sherwood Forest.
- The legendary "Ape Man" and his scientist friends protect the jungle from environmental threats, in this updated version of the classic story.
- George Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "cr*ppy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story ever told.
- Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant, and he soon gets passionate about senseless cruelties of war while helping out with what he learned from grandpa. Cécile, part of a godsend shipment of Swis staff and supplies, becomes his right hand and true love. After French troops take the village and reinstate senseless abuses, his letters home, published in Geneva by family friend journalist Samuel Lowenthal, whose newspaper gets attacked too, the unprecedented shocking first-hand truth about war cruelty, start enough public commotion to make his plans eventual turn true in the form of the now worldwide indispensable, strictly neutral humanitarian last resort for all in need, the International Red Cross, named after the symbol Dunant devised by painting in blood the Christian symbol French and Austrians had in common as Catholic nations to safely evacuate from Castiglione.
- With the help of a smuggler, a group of illegal immigrants attempt to leave France on a cargo ship headed for Canada. They succeed in sneaking into a container which is deposited at the bottom of the ship's hold.
- One of the Comtesse De Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche.
- Al, a French living in Los Angeles, organized a barbecue for the birthday party of her friend V., whose party is filmed. As Jimmy, Al's boyfriend, does not come and left no news, Al and V. go looking for him.
- Based on a novel by Georges Simenon: After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.
- Michal Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shopping mall. Attracted by a little girl he enters the mall, but once he's in, time and reality are no longer something to rely on.
- Sixty-year-old photographer Elisa has been living alone since her husband died. But when the twenty-five-year-old Clementine enters her life it appears that love is stronger than she initially thought.
- Sasha crosses Marseille from her building on the city's heights to the port. On her way, she encounters men's insistent glances. The city is beautiful, lively, sunny, concrete. Sasha's walk is a tangle of glances, strained silences, and city gusts. Arriving at the Mucem pier, she waits for someone who doesn't come.
- June 5th, 1944: On the eve of the Normandy landings in Cotentin, Mary, a 12 year old girl, is preparing for his first communion. But the ceremony is interrupted by the Germans, They came to arrest the priest. Desperate, Mary dressed in her beautiful white dress, returns home, where she lives with her parents on the river. That evening, John, a Canadian paratrooper US Army, misplaced by a violent storm arises in the family home to seek help. Lost, he must join as soon as its unity. For this it has to cross the marshes and minefields, with the help of Mary insists that as a guide. During this walk, they will get to know and establish a friendship gradually.
- A little tale both cruel and nostalgic but determinedly comic, on the theme of triumphant jealousy.
- When the turmoil of contemporary Russia was settling in the 90th and everyone's existence was starting to resemble some kind of normality, we were wondering what life was like for the generations of Russians who grew up in the midst of oppression,... suffering through wars and revolutions and who during the culmination of their lives, experienced a new world of freedom and democracy and... turmoil. What was it like to go to School in Moscow in the beginning of the thirties? What happened to the students once they graduated and faced the realities of life and how did they... normal, down-to-earth people... weather the storms of their existence? Marina Goldovskaya gives us the answers in this rare and soft spoken story which at its best conveys the loudest of drama.
- Going through a conjugal crisis, Florence Lacaze decides to be unfaithful with an unknown man.
- The highway of the title is a 2,000 mile dirt road in Kazakhstan. Along this route, a traveling family circus journeys in their crowded hand-cranked bus, stopping in villages. The filmmaker accompanies the Tadjibajevs, capturing their quarrels, performances, and intimate moments.
- "On the Tip of the Heart" - is a documentary on the St Peter's Hospital in Brussels, structured around seven doors from the maternity to the morgue. This is an opportunity for the director to ask the audience a question, namely: what is there in common between a medieval city, human life and a hospital?
- Maigret learns from a shady acquaintance that a murder has occurred during a burglary at a dentist's home. Tho his wife has disappeared, neither the suspiciously uncooperative dentist nor his virago mother are talking, and there is no body.
- A stripper starts to report a murder that has not yet happened, but leaves before making the report official. She is found murdered that morning. Complicating matters is the relationship she had with one of Maigret's assistants.
- Maigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.
- A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.
- When Maigret's fellow police officer Lognon is shot in Helsinki, he's forced to travel to Finland in order to investigate Lognon's shooting with the help of a local police officer Ari Vaara. But how are a Swedish art dealer, his French wife and a mysterious Brit involved in the shooting?
- Murder occurs in a family that has fallen from Grace. Maigret is on the case.
- When a French man is accused of murder in Finland and he refuses to talk unless to a French police, Inspector Maigret is once again forced to travel to Finland to investigate the case.
- Young Cécile and her aunt are killed. Maigret must find out who did it.
- Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.
- Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.
- Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.
- Maigret returns to the small village where he was raised, after receiving an anonymous letter telling him that a crime would take place in the town church on All Saints' Day.
- A rich entrepreneur is assaulted and Maigret must find out who did it and why.
- Maigret observes a man dragging a corpse along the ground at night. The man is a judge; Maigret must discover the identity of the dead man.
- Maigret tries to find the person responsible for the death of a harbor master who, after disappearing for six weeks, could no longer speak and had no physical reactions to anything.