Didier Sauvegrain

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)

A French Army column in 1899 marches to find Sultan Rabah, killing everything in their path. The French authorities try to stop them, as does Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas.

Gilbert is employed as the incinerator of used tickets at the Bank of France. Serge, his childhood friend, comes from a long stay in Australia. With Mark, the brother of Gisèle (Gilbert's wife), they will try to get help from Gilbert to steal the tickets intended for destruction in order to repay their creditors, manipulating Gilbert.

A crooked, neo-Nazi police inspector supplies his gangland cohorts with weapons to slaughter the Vietnamese, black, and Arab gangs fighting for the upper hand in the drug trade. Before the final showdown, an undercover cop (Daniel Auteuil) tries to prevent the bloodshed and faces one defeat after another as his connections and informants are killed. (Allmovie)

In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish Infanta (princess). The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle deè Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned., (imdb

Two friends, Arthur and Jérôme, want to make a film. After much hesitation, they let go of their initial aspirations and opt for a theme in tune with the times: eroticism!