Catherine Frot

This serious drama is the second segment of the unprecedented trilogy of films from Belgian actor/director Lucas Belvaux.

The first installment of the trilogy focuses on Cecile. She is a teacher who is still madly in love with her husband Alain, a hypochondriac who is convinced that a routine operation will take his life. He doesn't want to alarm his wife, and she mistakes his secrecy for an affair. Enter Pascal, who is hired by Cecile to track Alain, but who falls in love with Cecile instead.

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. (imdb)

Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show. (imdb)

Thirty-something lifeguard Camille (Karin Viard) is still partying hard and regularly indulging in drugs and casual sex, much to the disgust of her family. After meeting middle-aged Socialist Party official Alexis (Pierre-Loup Rajot) in the street, Camille falls in love with him, even though she learns he is a happily married family man. Determined to be with Alexis, Camille is devastated when he rejects her and impulsively takes up with Ben (Sergi López), a dim truck driver.

After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno (Belvaux) escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover (Frot), and avoid the cop on his tail (Melki). An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected. (imdb)

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce. (imdb)

A 2005 remake of the classic 1932 Renoir film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted piano player. That is why her parents and herself decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, unfortunately she gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes the former president of the jury's page turner, waiting patiently to be revenged... (imdb.com)

Louise, younger sister, natural and straightforward, lives in province; Martine, older sister, beautiful and aloof, lives in the Parisian upper middle class. Louise has written a novel. On Monday she will go for an appointment with a publisher in Paris, which may change her life. She comes to live with Martine for three days. During three days, Louise and her obvious happiness exasperate Martine and set her life in glares..... (imdb)

Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. How could you bear such impossible Christian names in the first place? There must be no other Belisaire in France, and as for Prudence there are few more imprudent ladies than she! Just imagine: Belisaire is both a colonel in the military secret service and a past master at ... ironing! And Prudence, not very inclined to be the model mother, prefers playing the amateur detective... (imdb)

At a football match, an unscrupulous photographer, Michel Verdier, takes pictures of a celebrity couple. Magazine editors go with the photos even though the dominant figure in them is a chubby football fan. "So let him sue." When the magazine appears, the fan, Franck Bordoni, is fired since he was supposed to be at work. Bordoni comes to the magazine where, by coincidence, he meets Verdier. Verdier says he knows how to make some money... (imdb)

A North African immigrant to Paris gets work and finds romance despite his scatty character. (imdb)

Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, Tom and Lola are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings. Nor can anything stop their quest to one day run naked and truly free, unbound from the medical shackles that bind them. (imdb)

After seven years of marriage, Audrey and Alain's life is a routine. Divided between their jobs and their daughter Camille, their passion has flattened. To save his relationship, Alain decides to ask some help to his sexologue friend. (Film)

Odette dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite writer, for the optimism which she believes emanates from him. The wealthy and seductive writer is going to land in her life in a totally unexpected way. The story of a meeting between two unusual castaways who have nothing in common... (imdb)

Described by one source as France's equivalent of John Hillcoat's The Road, this gloomy, apocalyptic chronicle transpires in a desolate future dystopia. Mathieu Amalric stars as Robinson, a man searching desperately for his lost love amid the ruins and vestiges of civilization. (imdb)

In a dramatic setup that recalls the opening act of Robert Wise's chiller Audrey Rose (1977), Sandrine Bonnaire (Monsieur Hire) stars as Claire, a mother terrified by the discovery that a strange woman has begun systematically following her little girl, locked within the grip of obsession.

Antoine Bonfils is a household appliance salesman. His car breaks down close to a farm. Looking for help, he figures out that the people there live differently, like 'hippies'... (Wikipedia)

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. (imdb)

A woman (Catherine Frot) returns to Paris after a 15-year absence and tries to re-establish relationships with her son and daughter.

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR. (imdb)

The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand. (imdb)

1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother live happily on the family estate in Brittany until their grandmother's death brings their parents back from Indochina. Their mother, a worthy descendant of fairy-tale witches, takes control of the estate. Her husband makes little protest as he is more interested in collecting insects than bringing up his children. Under their mother's house rule, the boys endure endless bullying and punishments until finally Jean chooses to rebel. (screenrush.co.uk)

Martin is probably a little cracked in the head. Why else would he pick up a suspicious-looking hitchhiker when he's been hearing about a dangerous escaped convict on the radio? It's not until the man is already in his car that he realizes that he could have a dangerous person on board. What's more, he can't seem to shake his now unwelcome hitchhiker. Eventually, he leaves his car behind altogether and becomes a hitchhiker himself. (Allmovie)

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.

Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course! (imdb)

The Beresfords are tasked with finding what happened to a Russian heiress who's mysteriously disappeared. (imdb)

A midwife gets unexpected news from her father's old mistress.

The Prioux find a stranger in their home, a deaf named Patrick pretending to be their son.

A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.

Christine's life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets of Paris. On a cold winter night, she finds Suli, an 8-year-old Burkinabe boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey full of tenderness to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris. (unifrance.or

In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.

Eve Vernet was the largest rose grower. It is now on the verge of bankruptcy, on the verge of being bought out by a powerful competitor. In addition, Véra, her faithful secretary, employed three employees without any gardening skills. (imdb)

Gilbert and Simone live a restless retreat in a village in the South of France. The departure of Étienne, her neighbor and lover, the lack of money, but especially the constant bitterness of her husband, push Simone to flee the home. Gilbert then realizes that he is ready to do anything to find his wife, his love.

Darius Caunes, a small engraver and boss of a small printing company, leads a life above suspicion. In fact, he is the author of a perfect crime, that of his wife, two years before and the creator of counterfeit notes of five hundred francs. But the day when a grain of sand will stop the machine, he will have to adapt to his new profession: old scoundrel and murderer.

While Jean, the very conservative mayor of a small northern town, is campaigning for re-election, Edith, his wife of forty years, tells him news she can no longer keep quiet... Deep down, she is - and always has been - a man. At first Jean thinks it's a joke, but soon realizes that Edith is serious and determined to see her transition through to the end. He then realizes that not only his relationship, but also his election campaign, are in for a major shake-up...

A bisexual good-nature girl with a movie critic, a husband who is hoping to win back his wife, a spirited young man with twisted situations a little too excited. A mysterious brothel that offers shock treatments, led by dominatrices, "to relieve all problems of libido".

Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.