The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Marie Lemaire is poisoned during a dinner that brings together an association of merchants. She is the heiress of her recently deceased husband, François, who was the owner of the largest glass factory in the city. All the guests are potential suspects and the investigators must sort out the real from the fake, detect motives and verify alibis. Olivia Rousseau, one of the guests, ex-mistress of François Lemaire who left her to marry Marie, is dead at her home. In a letter, she declared that she had poisoned Marie and killed herself in the same way.
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
Yoyes, the first woman to hold responsibility positions within ETA, returns from exile in Mexico and try to rebuild her life. But her return is not easy.
Julie Martial, impetuous and headstrong young editor, receives large red envelopes crimes committed just 24 hours later. Marc Simon, of the homicide squad, try to make the connection between the victims, who do not know and apparently have nothing in common. The case caused an outcry in the press, which refers to "the murderer with the ink stamp." Because the murderer signs his crimes with a number branded on the forehead of its victims. While Marc Simon and his men face this conundrum, Julia receives a letter of great concern: this time, the mass murderer describes his own death ...
Anne's ex-husband, a corrupt policeman, breaks one night in this house, in violation of a restraining order. During the discussion, the man accidentally falls down the stairs and dies instantly. But when the police show at home, the body is gone and Anne proves to be the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of her ex-husband.
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
In 1892, Jean Jaurès, a republican deputy from the bourgeoisie, supported the miners' strike in Carmaux, in the south of France.
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
This one-act play is followed by three other short stories: A Well-Typed Letter, A Pair of Slaps, The School for Lies. This series of sketches successively tells the story of a guy who thinks he's Napoleon (at least with his mistresses), a traveler struggling with a very enterprising typist, a slap orchestrated by a devilish trio, and a writer who gives two apprentice actresses a rather unusual audition.
In 1993, Sophie, a young French diplomat, disembarked from the military plane that brought her to Sarajevo. She is taken in charge by an officer of the blue helmets: the commander Michel Mercier. The day after her arrival, as she exited a school, a sniper shot children in front of the peacekeepers, who had orders not to shoot back. The wounded children were taken to hospital. Sophie devises a plan to evacuate the children, who are in constant danger of death, to France...
During the Occupation, a kid is taken in by his old grandfather, wrongly considered a collaborator.
In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major financial newspaper. Forestier manages to find him a position at the newspaper. With his friend's support, Georges does everything he can to climb the social ladder. He relies mainly on his undeniable charm to win the favor of influential women who can introduce him to the wealthy circles he covets. Georges benefits in particular from the support of Madeleine, the wife of the newspaper's editor-in-chief. His numerous conquests in high society soon earn him the nickname "Bel Ami."
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her hope is that time has healed the open wound of hostility between herself and her alcoholic older brother Adrien. Amelie dusts off an ancient motorcycle, revs it up, and practices riding inside the immense sphere of metal latticework constructed by her late father. The local popularity of this stunt suggests a broader appeal plus profits, so soon the act goes on the road, where emotions spin out of control.
Twelve-year-old Mathieu is haunted by the death of his father, who died accidentally when he was two. On each anniversary of his death, the young boy becomes withdrawn and unusually taciturn. This attitude worries his grandmother, but not his mother, Agathe, a general practitioner, who prefers not to overreact. Things get complicated when Mathieu, fascinated by his history teacher's tales of cursed kings, decides to create his own family tree and convinces himself he is the descendant of a family of men who die young.
A man is murdered in Laguiole, Aveyron, Aubrac country. The young Elisabeth Richard, deputy prosecutor of Rodez, is handling the case. She has to deal with the hostility of a police officer, promoted on his own strength and not keen on the idea of being subjected to a young woman. Elisabeth especially has to unravel the tangles of ancestral antagonism and family secrets in order to unmask the culprit. The film is both a criminal investigation and a social painting.
Sébastien Lacassagne, 35, owner of a wine estate, was assassinated with a statuette in his house. The investigation conducted by Prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and Captain Caroline Martinez reveals many gray areas in the victim's life.
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
Fred Bonnemaison, a driven and self-centered Parisian food writer has to return to his home town, Lyon, when his mother, a lively octogenarian, runs away to join a community of free-thinking widows.
Gérard Travers has known Minou since childhood. After completing his military service, he moved in with her, in all honor, until he could find something better. Together, they establish a protocol for living harmoniously as roommates without stepping on each other's toes, but little by little, Gérard becomes irresistibly attracted to Minou and vice versa. They realize that they've always been made for each other.
In the year of change in Eastern Europe, in a remote village, the regular movie show, scheduled once a week, terminates due to the motor courier’s being killed in an accident. The children find the scattered film containers, and along with the old reels left in their place they play the films they have seen so often before.
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.
A young lawyer's murder rocks Aigues-Mortes and triggers the re-opening of a cold case.
60-something Henri meets 50-something Lila, and sparks fly - until they both must reconcile their very different lives and backgrounds.
Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother when they were children. She serves as the wife and mother to both and, tired of this situation, she wants to go to Marseille to find a job, and then live there.
Vatelin and his wife Lucienne love tender love. Rédillon, a friend of the couple, has been courting Lucienne for years. Pontagnac, notorious womanizer and friend of the husband, has only been courting her for a few hours ... And Vatelin is enjoying this unusual situation. Everything spoils when Maggy returns, a very old English mistress of Vatelin who blackmails her by suicide if he refuses an appointment ... Lucienne has always sworn that she would take a lover as soon as proved her husband's infidelity. Who will be elected, who will be the turkey?
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
Camille Fauvel, a former medical examiner and now crime novel writer has returned to Granville and she preparing a new novel. In the morning she was jogging on the beach and discovered the corpse of a man who has been tortured.The police captain Damien Bonaventure and the district attorney arrive at the beach where they meet Camille Fauvel.She explains them that the man has been tortured according to an old Viking ritual.Camille proposes to do the autopsy of the corpse and the district attorney agrees with this idea.
Elisabeth Richard, a district attorney, and Paul Jansac, a police officer are in charge of the investigation of the death of Pierre Saint-Florent whose corpse was found in a beach near Martigues.
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
Maussane, at the very heart of Provence, with its olive trees and its charming squares. Deputy prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and local police commander Paul Jansac are investigating the murder of Caroline Autiero, wife of an old mill-owner.
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew, face the demons that haunt them with the help of Françoise Dolto.
Prosecutor Elisabeth Richard teams up with Captain Charles Jouanic to investigate the death of a hunter.
Elisabeth and Paul investigate the murder of a tour guide in a cave.
A Canadian policewoman tracks down a 40-year-old man in France who is suspected of killing a woman in Montreal and who, in the meantime, has begun a relationship with a single mother.
A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Félix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered. He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of the region. Won over by Félix's resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes the course of the investigation, stirring up the past and unveiling the forgotten "Children of the Creuse" affair.
Four years ago, the French authorities officially declared the death of Diane, taken hostage during a trip to South America. Her husband, Bruno, is about to bury this painful past. He is going to marry Marie, with whom he has opened a hotel-restaurant. But suddenly, Diane reappears. After moments of stupor and emotion, Bruno is overwhelmed by these two women who attract him and want, each, to keep him.
We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it.
Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders.
Three years after the wedding husband Richard starts to set up his wife, the teacher Marion, with his love and jealousy. He wants to have a baby too. Her best friend and the head of the school only see the nice husband. Antoine, the fiend's brother, is the only one believing her. Everyone else starts to believe that Marion is getting insane is about to become a mental case. Marion moves out, but it's not over. Richards terrorizes her and even starts to get violent. Her only solution is to move to Antoine but that doesn't make it only worse ...
Alfred, in his forties, runs a publishing company and lives with his wife, Maurane. But he suddenly sees his life as a happy routine, but totally devoid of passion, so he proposes to his wife to replay their encounter, to separate from her in order to win her back. The next morning, Maurane disappeared. A few days later, Alfred meets Catherine Wolf, a young writer, who strangely reminds him of Maurane.
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, and arms trafficker.
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.