Alain Sarde

biography:
Alain Sarde, born March 28, 1952, in Boulogne-Billancourt, has been one of the most prolific French film and television producers since the 1970s. He has notably produced films by Andrzej Zulawski, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, and Anne Fontaine.

In the 1990s, he was accused of sexual assault and rape against several women and implicated in the Brumark-Bourgeois Affair. In May 2024, nine women testified against him regarding these acts.

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Alain Sarde

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Alain Sarde, né le 28 mars 1952 à Boulogne-Billancourt, est un producteur français de cinéma et de télévision parmi les plus prolifiques depuis les années 1970. Il a notamment produit des films d’Andrzej Zulawski, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys ou Anne Fontaine.

Dans les années 1990, il est accusé d'agressions sexuelles et de viols sur plusieurs femmes et impliqué dans l'Affaire Brumark-Bourgeois. En mai 2024, neuf femmes témoignent contre lui de ces agissements.

Fils de l'antiquaire Henri Sarde et de la mezzo-soprano Andrée Gabriel (Sâada) de l'Opéra de Paris, Alain Sarde est le frère du compositeur Philippe Sarde.

Il débute en tant que producteur en 1974 avec Touche pas à la femme blanche de Marco Ferreri. Il crée sa première société de production, Sara Films, en 1975, et produit dans la foulée Le Locataire de Roman Polanski, Barocco d'André Téchiné, Une histoire simple de Claude Sautet et Des enfants gâtés de Bertrand Tavernier.

Aux côtés de sa collaboratrice Christine Gozlan, il a été le producteur de plus de 200 films avec nombre de metteurs en scène tels que Jean-Luc Godard (dont il produit tous les films depuis 1979), Jacques Doillon, Nicole Garcia, Coline Serreau, Alain Corneau, Philippe Garrel, Xavier Beauvois, Arthur Joffé, Arnaud Desplechin, etc.

Ses dernières productions sont le fruit de collaborations avec Amos Kollek, Mike Leigh, Emir Kusturica et David Lynch.

Fondateur de la structure Sarde Films en 1983, il s'associe à Canal+ en 1990 et fonde Les Films Alain Sarde qu'il revend à StudioCanal en 2004. Les Films Alain Sarde administrent notamment la société Ciné Valse, qui a produit bon nombre des films de Bertrand Blier dans les années 1990. Il est désormais producteur indépendant.

«Alain Sarde est sans aucun doute le producteur français le plus prolifique, mais également le plus discret ou le plus secret. Près de deux cents films à son actif en moins de quarante ans de carrière», écrit le critique de cinéma Serge Toubiana en 2009, à l'occasion d'une rétrospective de ses films à la Cinémathèque française.

Alain Sarde est visé en 1997 par une enquête pour agression sexuelle. L'instruction réalisée par le juge d'instruction Frédéric Nguyen montre que le producteur a eu plusieurs relations sexuelles non tarifées avec des aspirantes actrices qui venaient le voir pour des raisons professionnelles. L'une d'elle décrit un «casting» dans lequel le producteur, après avoir décrit le film, lui demande de se déshabiller pour «qu'il vérifie la beauté de [son] corps» puis «d'aller [s']allonger sur le lit dans la chambre à coucher [...] il voulait faire l'amour avec [elle].»

Il est mis en examen et écroué en préventive durant l'instruction. Faute de preuve matérielle de contrainte durant les rapports sexuels, la nouvelle juge d'instruction ne retient pas la qualification de viol et rend une ordonnance de non lieu à l'encontre du producteur en 1999. Jean-Pierre Bourgeois, responsable d'un réseau international de prostitution, qui a présenté les actrices au producteur, est condamné à 5 ans de prison. ...

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阿兰·萨德

biography:
阿兰·萨德，1952年3月28日出生于布洛涅-比扬古，自20世纪70年代以来一直是法国最多产的电影和电视制片人之一。他曾为安德烈·祖拉斯基、罗曼·波兰斯基、贝特朗·塔维涅、黛安·科伊斯和安妮·芳婷等导演的电影担任制片人。

20世纪90年代，他被指控对多名女性实施性侵犯和强奸，并卷入布鲁马克-布尔乔亚事件。2024年5月，九名女性就这些行为对他进行了指控。

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阿蘭·薩德

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阿蘭·薩德，1952 年 3 月 28 日出生於布洛涅 - 比揚古，自 20 世紀 70 年代以來一直是法國最多產的電影和電視制片人之一。他曾為安德烈·祖拉斯基、羅曼·波蘭斯基、貝特朗·塔維涅、黛安·科伊斯和安妮·芳婷等導演的電影擔任制片人。

20 世紀 90 年代，他被指控對多名女性實施性侵犯和強奸，並捲入布魯馬克 - 布爾喬亞事件。2024 年 5 月，九名女性就這些行為對他進行了指控。

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Alain Sarde

biography:
Alain Sarde, geboren am 28. März 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, zählt seit den 1970er-Jahren zu den produktivsten französischen Film- und Fernsehproduzenten. Er produzierte unter anderem Filme von Andrzej Zulawski, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys und Anne Fontaine.

In den 1990er-Jahren wurde er wegen sexueller Übergriffe und Vergewaltigung mehrerer Frauen angeklagt und in die Brumark-Bourgeois-Affäre verwickelt. Im Mai 2024 sagten neun Frauen gegen ihn in Bezug auf diese Taten aus.

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title: 'Round Midnight

overview: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

character: Terzian

original_title: 'Round Midnight

title: Fresh Bait

overview: With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.

character: Philippe

original_title: L'Appât

original_language: fr

title: The Car Keys

overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

character: Producer

original_title: Les Clefs de bagnole

title: Why (Not) Brazil?

overview: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?

character: Self

original_title: Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil

title: The Castaways of Turtle Island

overview: Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

character: Le directeur de l’agence

original_title: Les Naufragés de l'ile de la Tortue

title: The Tenant

overview: A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

character: Peeping tom (uncredited)

original_title: Le locataire

title: A Day in the Life of French Cinema

overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

original_title: Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français

job: Producer

title: Oliver Twist

overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

department: Production

original_title: Oliver Twist

title: Mulholland Drive

overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

original_title: Mulholland Drive

title: The Pianist

overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

original_title: The Pianist

title: The Adversary

overview: Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

original_title: L'Adversaire

title: I Married a Shadow

overview: After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

original_title: J'ai épousé une ombre

title: The Bitch

overview: After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.

original_title: La garce

title: Life Is a Miracle

overview: Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.

original_title: Život je čudo

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title: Six-Pack

overview: A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.

original_title: Six-Pack

title: First Desires

overview: Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.

original_title: Premiers désirs

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

original_title: Vera Drake

title: Genesis

overview: An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.

original_title: Genesis

title: Strange Affair

overview: A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

original_title: Une étrange affaire

title: Water Drops on Burning Rocks

overview: In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

original_title: Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes

title: It All Starts Today

overview: In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students.

original_title: Ça commence aujourd'hui

title: Notre Musique

overview: A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.

original_title: Notre musique

title: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

overview: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.

title: A Sunday in the Country

overview: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

title: Beau Pere

overview: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

title: Stranger in the House

overview: Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.

title: Happy End

overview: Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but everyday life gets in the way. Tired and hungry she sits on the corner of a building. Across the street a writer whose fantasy has dry out. In an instant she becomes his muse... At the Oscar's night she will be the one with the Golden Globe in her hands.

title: Captain Conan

overview: The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.

title: The Children of the Century

overview: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.

title: Ponette

overview: After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.

title: L.627

overview: In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.

title: Actors

overview: A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.

title: Detective

overview: Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

title: My Favorite Season

overview: Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

title: Safe Conduct

overview: During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals.

title: Waiter!

overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.

title: Happy Easter

overview: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend.  He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend.  He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home.  He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter.  Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).

title: The Crisis

overview: Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.

title: Our Story

overview: Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...

title: Two Dads and One Mom

overview: Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...

title: Is This Reasonable?

overview: A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.

title: Alice and Martin

overview: Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleeing his father's home under troubled circumstances, their lives become intertwined.

title: The Shock

overview: Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...

title: The Birch-Tree Meadow

overview: Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.

title: Nocturne Indien

overview: The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.

title: Dr. Petiot

overview: A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.

title: A Simple Story

overview: A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.

title: The Boy Soldier

overview: In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.

title: Esther Kahn

overview: A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

title: Mixed Blood

overview: On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.

title: Every Man for Himself

overview: A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.

title: The Little Gangster

overview: Marc, a troubled teenager, is bored in his native, depressing city of Sete. One day, a simple phone call makes him aware of the existence of Stephanie, a sister he has never met. Armed with a pistol his mother found, he goes out to find her. He steals money from a perfume shop, and is then stopped by a policeman who wants to search him. In the car, Marc threatens the policeman with his gun, demanding that he helps him find his sister...

title: Fanny

overview: "Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, persuade her to accept the romantic advances of a much older man. To save face, Fanny accepts to marry Honoré Panisse, a rich merchant of the Vieux Port, 30 years her senior who will recognize her son.

title: The House of Jade

overview: During a ceremony in an orthodox church in Paris, a 40-year-old writer and journalist is seduced by a young man, whom with she will live an extraordinary story of love and passion that will drive them to madness.

title: Next Summer

overview: Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.

title: Barocco

overview: A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

title: The North Star

overview: Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

title: Nathalie...

overview: Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.

title: Funny Boy

overview: Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.

title: La Belle Verte

overview: As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.

title: The Two Crocodiles

overview: A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble.

title: Venus in Fur

overview: An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.

title: After the Reconciliation

overview: An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

title: Open Your Eyes

overview: Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

title: The Sky Above Paris

overview: Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.

title: First Name: Carmen

overview: A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

title: The Loner

overview: In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard  and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.

title: Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

overview: 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.

title: Goodbye to Language

overview: "The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." -JLG

title: Chaos

overview: A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

title: My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days

overview: Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after that he meets Blanche who acts as a medium in a bizarre traveling show. Dying Lucas follows her to the sea resort where they spend together several days and nights.

original_title: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours

title: Mad Love

overview: After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.

title: Wild Innocence

overview: A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

title: Hail Mary

overview: A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

title: Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

overview: A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys.

title: Lover

overview: Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him. She puts him off by saying that she and Antoine have decided to have a baby. When Antoine returns, he becomes vividly jealous of his girlfriend's chaste encounter, which provokes her into having an affair with Paul.

title: Speak to Me of Love

overview: Justine and Richard's 15-year relationship ends in separation due to irreconcilable differences with Justine maintaining custody of their three boys. Her new life means having to deal with being a single parent but at the same time, she comes to terms with her own parents' divorce and finds a common bond with her long-suffering mother. Richard, a renowned author, deals with the situation by devoting all his attention to his writing. Both are forced to confront their uncertain futures, while examining what led to the breakdown of their marriage.

title: Cet amour-là

overview: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.

title: Code Unknown

overview: A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

title: Bitter Moon

overview: A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

title: Max & Jeremie

overview: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.

title: Every Other Weekend

overview: Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, and when her husband learns this, he demands to pick them up at once. She bolts in a rented car to the seaside, trying to improve her relations with the children, especially the precocious and distant Vincent. He loves astronomy. A rare meteor shower is due in a few days, so she suggests they go to a plateau in Spain hoping to see it. He agrees, but the relationship remains difficult, and her husband is on their trail.

title: The Well Digger's Daughter

overview: It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...

title: Wild Reeds

overview: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.

title: In Praise of Love

overview: Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

title: Film Socialisme

overview: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

title: Jet Lag

overview: At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?

title: The Ghost Writer

overview: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

title: Love Me

overview: Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members.

title: El invierno en Lisboa

overview: Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.

title: Rue du Bac

overview: Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.

title: I Want It All

overview: The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes from stressful to insane when she is told that she is a project finalist for the design of a massive European hospital. She and her working husband Philippe try desperately to balance their commitments to their kids, careers, and themselves.

title: Bad Kid

overview: The struggles of a 28-year-old mother in Lyon who tries to combine her love life and raising her 12-year-old rebel son.

title: Season's Beatings

overview: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

title: Tomorrow's Another Day

overview: A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

title: The Tenant

title: My Best Friend's Girl

overview: The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend talk about his successes. Viviane arises, ravishing and icy, but she's seasonal. Pascal, sincerely in love, seduces her and then leaves. This is a dire situation for Micky: Pascal is far away and the beauty is so kind to him. Complications arise once Pascal returns.

title: Room Service

overview: The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute.

title: Shot Pattern

overview: A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.

title: Comédie !

overview: In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different lovers. Time passes and things become increasingly tense between them and they begin verbally attacking each other. Finally they make peace and love.

title: A Friend of Vincent

overview: Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

title: Too Much (Little) Love

overview: Seventeen-year-old Emma is invited to filmmaker Paul’s house after sending him the outline of a film. Ostensibly there to work on the outline with him she spends her time flirting with Paul, his wife, and his daughter.

title: Bad Company

overview: Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

title: A Bad Son

overview: Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

title: Young Werther

overview: Ismaël, a young thirteen-year old boy, is taken aback by the suicide of his best friend. Not only did he not have any idea that this dramatic act was a possibility, neither did his other friends. Perhaps it had something to do with his having an unrequited love for a beautiful young neighbor, an attraction Ismaël also feels. Perhaps it had something to do with drugs, or a problem with a universally disliked teacher. Throughout most of the film, the young survivors discuss their departed classmate.

title: Oh, Woe Is Me

overview: This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

title: God Is Great and I'm Not

overview: Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.

title: The Cousin

overview: Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over. Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the illegal practices of the policemen. Her persistent investigations, which had cornered Maurin, are leading to Gérard, and also to Nounours as the source of heroin that led to recent cases of deadly overdoses. Nounours promises Gérard increasingly bigger catches which he is intent on realising before he is forced to reveal who Nounours is to judge Lambert.

title: My Man

overview: In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

title: Godard's Passion

overview: While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

title: To Each His Own Cinema

overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

original_title: Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence

title: La Femme flic

overview: Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...

title: The Wind of the Night

overview: A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.

title: Nouvelle Vague

overview: Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

title: The Bit Between the Teeth

overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

title: Hotel America

overview: Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

title: The Bronte Sisters

overview: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

title: For Ever Mozart

overview: Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France.

title: Detective

title: Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

overview: A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.

title: Rosine

overview: A young teenaged girl tries to get affection from her cold-hearted mother in this gentle French drama. 14-year old Rosine lives somewhere in northern France where the cold rain continually falls. It is a metaphor for her life. Her mother Marie had her when she was only 16 and now wants little to do with her. She spends most of her nights out on the town. Rosine hungers for her mother's love. She is almost obsessed with getting it. She is frustrated because she never does. One day Pierre, her father shows up from the blue and Mare gladly takes him in. Rosine is a good sport and likes that he takes an interest in her. The brief respite from gloom doesn't last as Pierre soon begins to beat Marie and eventually rapes Rosine. The traumatized girl tries to get her mother to admit the incident, to pay attention to the hurting child, but Marie just doesn't care. Marie has no choice but to run away from home and make her own way.

title: Special Delivery

overview: An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.

title: Ville à vendre

overview: A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.

title: A Woman's Revenge

overview: Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for his suicide. By finding Suzy in Paris, Cecile is trying to seek the truth by playing a psychological game on her.

title: Thieves

overview: In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan's dour, stoic son. Ivan's death changes every relationship.

title: Choice of Arms

overview: A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

title: Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later

overview: Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first time in front of her alarmed fathers, who see Marie's innocence slipping away at frightening speed, and their relationships with the two women become even more complicated.

title: Le fils préféré

overview: Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...

title: An Air So Pure

overview: In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the proprietors have a few deceptions, chief among them is the part of the resort where they provide shelter for dying and horribly maimed soldiers. Still the atmosphere of this high-class convalescent home is that of great gentility that thinly disguises the seaminess of the guests' secret activities. Though much of the film is a quirky comedy, tragedy comes creeping in when people begin dying of unnatural causes, and not even the pure mountain air can save the owners and the residents.

title: All About Love

overview: Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.

title: Place Vendôme

overview: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

title: Marius

overview: "Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.

title: Fear and Trembling

overview: Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

title: The Piano Teacher

overview: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

title: A Week's Vacation

overview: On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and family and wrestles with everything from whether she should continue her job to whether she should have a child with her boyfriend.

title: Little Lili

overview: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.

title: Apartment #5C

overview: Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very modest Brooklyn appartment. One night, during an argument with Uri, Nicky inadvertently shoots herself in the leg.

title: The Warrior's Brother

overview: 13th century France. To live, to survive, requires weapons. Which do you choose? Weapons of war, which give the power to punish and kill? Or the sword of knowledge, which gives the power to read and heal? Two brothers, separated long ago, must do battle. Alongside, and coming between them, a woman... Thomas, the mercenary, his body marked by scars of varying degrees of valor, left the family farm many years ago. When he returns, his mother, the local healer, is dead. She passed on her skills to her younger son, Arnaud. But he has lost his memory after a beating from a gang of ruthless outlaws. And so, Arnaud's young and defiantly resourceful wife, Guillemette, must persuade Thomas to help her in the quest for lost knowledge.

title: Intimate Strangers

overview: Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.

title: Holy Lola

overview: The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia.  On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.

title: The Righteous

overview: While, during World War II, European Jews were being dragged by the Nazis to the extermination camps and most people bowed their heads, some brave men and women risked their lives to save them: a journey through the world and history in search of those who, by their heroic and pious deeds, deserved to be known as the righteous.

title: Albert souffre

overview: Albert dreams of going to Australia. Jérôme loves Jeanne, but ignores her while cramming for exams. An African named Charles writes and is a watchman at night. The American girl, Joann, lives her life in a " bachelor pad. " Love, friendship and chance take them all to a hotel in Bordeaux where, in the course of a weekend, their lonely hearts meet. The weekend is held over to leave time for love.

title: After the Reconciliation

title: Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

overview: The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.

title: A Few Days with Me

overview: After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.

title: Speaking of Sex

overview: A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.

title: Freedom-Oleron

overview: 39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.

title: Forget Me

overview: Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In her despair, she tortures herself, Antoine, and Eric.

title: Dry Cleaning

overview: A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

title: A Crime

overview: "Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?

title: The Black Angel

overview: Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.

title: Love Rites

overview: Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.

title: Un dimanche à Paris

overview: Alain finds Marie, whom he still loves, but he is embarrassed by the presence, to say the least, of Nina, who keeps asking him for services. Marie gradually becomes aware of the strong bond that unites Alain and Nina, who has never counted in his eyes.

title: All or Nothing

overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

title: The Straight Story

overview: Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

title: One Way Ticket

overview: Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (Lorant Deutsch) dans son pays d'origine. Celui-ci appartient à la tribu des Hommes Gris d'Irghiz, réfugiés depuis la préhistoire dans une cité interdite du Haut Atlas.

title: Avenue Montaigne

overview: A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.

title: My Father Saved My Life

overview: Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth.

title: Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?

overview: Two sisters have to deal with the traditional issues of growing up and the unusual problem of caring for an unstable father in the drama Qui Plume La Lune?

title: The Return of Casanova

overview: After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.

title: Amazon

overview: On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.

title: To Mathieu

overview: Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...

title: A Head for Business

overview: A satirical examination of the transformation of a French investment bank into a Hollywood power broker, Le Sens des Affaires begins with a lowly bank clerk's embezzlement of $104 million francs (about $14 million dollars) to finance his screen adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. The clerk, Gerard Dutillard, funnels bank funds into three fictional affiliates in a way that makes the bank's president, Jean-Francois de Roquemorel, legally responsible. Financial ruin seems a distinct possibility, but Dutillard has worked out a plan to make the system work in his favor, and soon enough his banking superiors are doing their best to salvage his film and make it marketable, prompting actual investors to fuel the production with cash.

title: Fred

overview: Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.

title: Only Girls

overview: After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless

title: Restons groupés

overview: A group of French tourists goes on an organized trip to visit the American West. A dream trip from California to Las Vegas, passing through national parks and grandiose sites immortalized by the western.

title: The Heart at Work

overview: A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.

title: The Tribe

overview: Olivier Rohan, a young doctor, has just opened a general practice. However, having only a small clientele, he continues to work in the hospital's emergency room. One night, he will witness the unnatural death of a young man.

title: Nouvelle Vague

title: Franck Spadone

overview: Professional pickpocket Franck Spadone and his co-horts rob a beautiful stripper (played by Monica Bellucci). But Spadone becomes infatuated with his victim, and soon finds himself in the midst of a gang war because of his affections for her.

title: Private Tuition

overview: Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.

title: 'Round Midnight

title: Fresh Bait

title: The Car Keys

title: Why (Not) Brazil?

title: The Castaways of Turtle Island

title: The Tenant

title: A Day in the Life of French Cinema

title: Oliver Twist

title: The Pianist

title: Mulholland Drive

title: The Adversary

title: I Married a Shadow

title: The Bitch

title: Life Is a Miracle

title: Six-Pack

title: First Desires

title: Vera Drake

title: Genesis

title: Strange Affair

title: Water Drops on Burning Rocks

title: It All Starts Today

title: Notre Musique

title: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

title: A Sunday in the Country

title: Beau Pere

title: Stranger in the House

title: Happy End

title: Captain Conan

title: The Children of the Century

title: Ponette

title: L.627

title: Actors

title: Detective

title: My Favorite Season

title: Safe Conduct

title: Waiter!

title: Happy Easter

title: The Crisis

title: Our Story

title: Two Dads and One Mom

title: Is This Reasonable?

title: Alice and Martin

title: The Shock

title: The Birch-Tree Meadow

title: Nocturne Indien

title: Dr. Petiot

title: A Simple Story

title: The Boy Soldier

title: Esther Kahn

title: Mixed Blood

title: Every Man for Himself

title: The Little Gangster

title: Fanny

title: The House of Jade

title: Next Summer

title: The North Star

title: Barocco

title: Nathalie...

title: Funny Boy

title: La Belle Verte

title: The Two Crocodiles

title: Venus in Fur

title: After the Reconciliation

title: Open Your Eyes

title: The Sky Above Paris

title: First Name: Carmen

title: The Loner

title: Goodbye to Language

title: Chaos

title: Mad Love

title: Wild Innocence

title: Hail Mary

title: Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

title: Lover

title: Speak to Me of Love

title: Cet amour-là

title: Code Unknown

title: Bitter Moon

title: Max & Jeremie

title: Every Other Weekend

title: The Well Digger's Daughter

title: Wild Reeds

title: In Praise of Love

title: Film Socialisme

title: Jet Lag

title: The Ghost Writer

title: Love Me

title: Rue du Bac

title: El invierno en Lisboa

title: I Want It All

title: Bad Kid

title: Season's Beatings

title: Tomorrow's Another Day

title: The Tenant

title: My Best Friend's Girl

title: Room Service

title: Shot Pattern

title: Comédie !

title: A Friend of Vincent

title: Bad Company

title: Too Much (Little) Love

title: A Bad Son

title: Young Werther

title: Oh, Woe Is Me

title: God Is Great and I'm Not

title: The Cousin

title: My Man

title: Godard's Passion

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: La Femme flic

title: The Wind of the Night

title: Nouvelle Vague

title: The Bit Between the Teeth

title: Hotel America

title: The Bronte Sisters

title: For Ever Mozart

title: Detective

title: Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

title: Rosine

title: Special Delivery

title: Ville à vendre

title: A Woman's Revenge

title: Thieves

title: Choice of Arms

title: Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later

title: Le fils préféré

title: An Air So Pure

title: All About Love

title: Place Vendôme

title: Marius

title: Fear and Trembling

title: The Piano Teacher

title: A Week's Vacation

title: Little Lili

title: Apartment #5C

title: The Warrior's Brother

title: Intimate Strangers

title: Holy Lola

title: The Righteous

title: Albert souffre

title: After the Reconciliation

title: Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

title: A Few Days with Me

title: Speaking of Sex

title: Freedom-Oleron

title: Forget Me

title: Dry Cleaning

title: A Crime

title: The Black Angel

title: Love Rites

title: Un dimanche à Paris

title: All or Nothing

title: The Straight Story

title: One Way Ticket

title: Avenue Montaigne

title: My Father Saved My Life

title: Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?

title: The Return of Casanova

title: Amazon

title: To Mathieu

title: A Head for Business

title: Fred

title: Only Girls

title: Restons groupés

title: The Heart at Work

title: The Tribe

title: Nouvelle Vague

title: Franck Spadone

title: Private Tuition


Chris Overton

WPC 56

overview: Drama following WPC Gina Dawson, the first Woman Police Constable to join Brinford Constabulary, a fictional police force in the West Midlands, in 1956. The show focuses on WPC Gina Dawson's struggle to gain acceptance in the male-dominated police station whilst having to deal with the sexist attitudes that were commonplace at the time.

character: PC Eddie Coulson

original_name: WPC 56

original_language: en

The Queen's Nose

overview: Children's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.

character: Chess Club Boy

original_name: The Queen's Nose

A Touch of Frost

overview: Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

character: Sean Berland

original_name: A Touch of Frost

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

title: Oliver Twist

overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

character: Noah Claypole

original_title: Oliver Twist

title: Pride

overview: In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

character: Reggie

original_title: Pride

title: It's a Happy Movie: The Children's Making-of

overview: The making of Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" as seen through the eyes of the film's child actors.

character: self

title: The Phantom of the Opera

overview: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

character: Young Phantom

original_title: The Phantom of the Opera

title: A Glimpse

overview: A blossoming relationship unfolds when two strangers have a chance encounter in a London cafe.

original_title: A Glimpse

job: Director

title: In Too Deep

overview: A couple are deeply grieving the death of their young daughter in their own ways, but the father’s obsession with memories of her is becoming dangerous.

department: Directing

original_title: In Too Deep

job: Executive Producer

title: Isla Soledad

overview: A single mother who loses the custody of her son and struggles to make amends for her past mistakes. She pleads for a chance to bring him back home.

original_title: Isla Soledad

title: Roy

overview: Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold-calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara, an unlikely friendship is born that will help them both rediscover the joy of life.

original_title: Roy

title: The Golden Boy

overview: A family drama, about a non-verbal autistic six-year-old boy who with the help of his older sister, proves that his high support needs can’t stop his potential.

original_title: The Golden Boy

title: Suzie

overview: A housewife's daily routine is disrupted.

original_title: Suzie

title: The Silent Child

overview: A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

original_title: The Silent Child

title: Dressed To The Nines

overview: A coming-of-age short film about a young boy who believes dressing up to the nines will keep his mum with him forever.

original_title: Dressed To The Nines

title: What We Wished We Could Be

overview: A couple affected by the contaminated blood scandal face a difficult decision when an offer of life-saving treatment threatens their dreams for the future.

original_title: What We Wished We Could Be

title: Leader

overview: 'Leader' is the story of Donnie, who lives on his own in a very remote area by the sea. He creates sculptures from ocean waste until one day the tide changes and he inspires a new normal.

original_title: Leader

title: Egg Timer

overview: As Megan faces her 30th birthday, the pressure to take the 'next step' in life is overwhelming. But when her own opinionated ovarian eggs start chiming in on her every move, she finds herself navigating not just the expectations of family and friends, but also the brutally honest commentary from within.

original_title: Egg Timer

title: The Dartmoor Cowboy

overview: In 1950s rural England, a local cowpuncher seeks to tame the moor, maintain belief in his pioneering spirit and gain the acceptance and support of an inhospitable local community.

original_title: The Dartmoor Cowboy

title: The Silent Child

title: The Painting & The Statue

overview: Two lonely strangers meet across a crowded room. It just takes one held look, one breathless moment, to bring them completely alive...literally.

original_title: The Painting & The Statue

title: Sticks & Shelter

overview: A former footballer helps a recovering addict fight for sobriety in a city devastated by addiction, leading to a life-defining return to the stage.

original_title: Sticks & Shelter

job: Creator

title: Sticks & Shelter

department: Crew

job: Writer

title: Sticks & Shelter

department: Writing

title: Oliver Twist

media_type: movie

title: Pride

title: The Phantom of the Opera

title: A Glimpse

title: In Too Deep

title: Isla Soledad

title: Roy

title: The Golden Boy

title: Suzie

title: The Silent Child

title: Dressed To The Nines

title: What We Wished We Could Be

title: Leader

title: Egg Timer

title: The Dartmoor Cowboy

title: The Silent Child

title: The Painting & The Statue

title: Sticks & Shelter

title: Sticks & Shelter

title: Sticks & Shelter