André Marcon

Responsibility versus happiness. Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean's also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls... (imdb)

Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.

Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970's and '80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60's counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. (imdb)

The film follows the story of three girls in contemporary Paris. One searches for her lost mother since she knows she's adopted. The other has come out of a coma and needs to have a love relationship aside from his mysterious father. The third one is a crook who redeems herself through love. The action is commented by songs and dance routines. (imdb)

Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show... (imdb)

The second of two films charting the ordeal of Joan of Arc, Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid: The Prisons takes the teenage soldier from her greatest triumph to martyrdom. Having liberated Orleans, Joan accompanies the Dauphin to Rheims, where she observes his coronation--but her string of victories soon ends. Her voices and visions leave her, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy discourages her from continuing her campaign. (KG)

Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel. (imdb)

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro. (imdb)

In 1907, following a violent crime wave, French President Georges Clémenceau decides to create the first motorized police brigade, soon nicknamed the Tiger's brigades. One of the first missions assigned to chief inspector Paul Valentin and his daring men, inspectors Terrasson,Pujol and trainee inspector Achille Bianchi, is to neutralize Jules Bonnot and his ruthless gang of anarchists.

Under the pressure of her mother and sister, failed-writer Eleonore Berthier undergoes a complete makeover and gets hired as an assistant in a publishing house specializing in erotic romances.

Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife. (imdb)

Biography of French chemist Louis Pasteur

A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.

The wealthy Marguerite Dumont loves music and is an amateur singer. Everyone around her tells her she is a gifted soprano. One day, she decides she wants to perform in front of a real audience.

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie's husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life. (imdb)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island. (imdb)

Two friends decide to live all the things they couldn't after a huge misunderstanding.

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories. (imdb)

A young and talented black box analyst is on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. (imdb)

An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel "Lost Illusions". (imdb)

In Mali, lieutenant David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated in intensive care in France, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet in the family home in the Alps, between mountains, lakes and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem anxious to reconcile with who he was. (allocine)

Based on the 2018 book "D'argent et de sang" by journalist Fabrice Arfi about the multi-billion carbon tax fraud that was dubbed "the fraud of the century" by French media. (imdb)