Gilles Taurand

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him. (imdb)

June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees. Odile and her children lose everything. A shaven-headed youth appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage... (imdb)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others... (imdb)

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends, not lovers (imdb)

Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman. (wikipedia)

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son... (imdb)

A sixteen-year-old girl joins a new school and falls in love with a professor. Romantic agony comes to a Parisian high school, in a lively and affecting drama from director Christophe Honoré.

Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing more and more attached to Loic... (imdb)

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain (imdb)

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin. (imdb)

Gifted student Antoine goes against his family's wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director's film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair - and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover. (indiemoviesonline.com)

Nobody knows Auguste Maquet, and yet everybody knows "The Three Musketeers", Everybody knows Alexandre Dumas who wrote the swashbuckling masterpiece but who knows that Maquet is his co-writer? Nobody does, as his name does not appear on the cover. At least not Charlotte Desrives, the lovely daughter of a doctor stagnating in prison for his political opinions. The lively girl mistakes the shy Maquet for the fiery ex-revolutionary Dumas, begging him to help her to have her father released... (Guy Bellinger (imdb)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. (mubi.com)

Julien, 28, returns to his home town. He's spent the last 13 years in prison. Out on probation, he's obsessed by a girl... Emily. And one day, he reaches for her: "it's me". She turns around, looks at him and starts to scream. (imdb)

Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster's son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young English teacher Camille. When Greg asks Louis to help him take revenge on Camille, Louis accepts, fascinated...

In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits that her son planted the bomb. (imdb)

Alice has been separated from her brother, Nathan, for too long. After he dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge in a small village by the cliffs. Nathan said he had found peace there, thanks to a man called Daisuke. As she follows in her brother's footsteps, she too becomes close with the elderly man and with his other guests. In a particularly Japanese atmosphere, she starts to listen to her own heart once again. (cinemamontreal.com)

A girl's life changes dramatically after she is left in the care of her stepmother. (eyeforfilm.co.uk)

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. (imdb)

Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart... (imdb)

The story of Samba, a young idealist in 1962 Mali, trying to spread the word of the socialist revolution and finding himself confronted by the harsh realities that revolution entails when the regime cracks down on culturally subversive activities such as dancing to western music and also as it comes between him and the woman he falls in love with.

Simon and Helen live in Paris together, they decide to sell a basement in their building. The man who buys it has a troubled past and the couple's life is turning upside down.

Lili has left everything behind to go to the ends of the earth to fulfill her dream of fishing the northern seas. She persuaded Ian, a trawler captain, to give her a chance. Lonely and elusive, the "sparrow" becomes the only woman on board...

1947. On a beach, Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant and mother of a little boy, meets François, a rich, cultured student. The force of attraction that drives them together is as strong as the secret they both carry. If we know what Madeleine wants to leave behind by following this young man, we discover over time what François is desperately trying to escape by mixing Madeleine's destiny with his own... Translated with DeepL.com (free version)