Christophe Malavoy

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)... (imdb)

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David... (imdb)

Simon, a famous violinist in a symphonic orchestra, becomes a drunkard, he is abandoned by his wife and he is not able to play any more... (imdb)

After separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette. Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert. When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him. (imdb)

Concerns the troubled history of a family. Eighteen-year-old Simon (Gaspard Ulliel) meets the attractive 17-year-old Louise (Melanie Laurent) while he travels on a train to spend Christmas with his family. She joins him on his visit home. The family mistakenly believes that Simon and Louise are intimately involved with each other. (allmovie.com)

In the Belleville district of Paris, a police informant working undercover is murdered. As a result the police are anxious to find a new rat; soon enough they start working on Dédé Lafont, a smalltime gangster, and his girlfriend Nicole, a parisian hooker, in hopes that Dédé will be able to provide the cops the top mobster in Belleville, Roger Massina.

Two frowsty middle-aged men, cousins, live and work together. In this ironic satire/drama, they are cowardly, tricky and mean-spirited, but at least they have each other. When they take to testing the alarm system of the bank that they work in after what is for them a particularly scary moment, their boss sends them away on a holiday. They manage to pick up and seduce a pretty hitchhiker before discovering that she is a runaway minor with a reward pending for her return. (Allmovie)

Alex, entered the Legion to escape a debt owed to the Corsican Mafia ... 4 years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseille to find Katia, his love of youth.

Bernard has been brutally left by his wife, without even a file for divorce, and attempts to get her back, on the sudden departure of her flight for Lausanne, but he fails. Having committed several infractions during his trip, he is arrested by the police but is finally free a few hours later.

Thierry, Gerard, Francis and Daniel are friends, and former comrades of HEC Paris. If the first three have brilliantly succeeded in their lives, Daniel has not. When Daniel proposes another "business" to his friends, they refuse and decide to make him believe that he won the Lotto thanks to an ingeniously rigged and mounted edition.

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students. (imdb)

Discover the wonderful yet fragile marine world in this special. In order to pass on his experience and knowledge, Cousteau has organized an ambitious expedition aboard his legendary floating laboratory, the Calypso

1962, in Algeria. The journalist Jérome Cartier is called into the ranks of the French army, where he meets his friend François. The latter is the victim of an attack by the OAS. Jérome tracks the culprits. (imdb)

The story of Jean Galmot, a French journalist who inherited property in French Guiana in the early 20th century, and made it prosper against all odds, becoming something of a local hero.

An eclectic group of actors struggles to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his family to build his career and is forced to confront the daughter he deserted. Then there is Enrique, the playwright-poet who is reduced to pawning his belongings to sustain his livelihood when his state pension is severed. (L.H. Wong)