Ginette Garcin

A unique detective thriller, replete with unexpected plot twists. Bo Ancellin (Stévenin), a beautiful, young transsexual with a troubled past, becomes entangled with nosey Police Chief Huysmans (Boringer) as a series of demented killings erupts in Brussels' underground. (Picture This! Entertainment)

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. (imdb)

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism. (imdb)

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends. (imdb)

Victor (Jean Gabin) an old man, is a grocer and an obnoxious boss. He has always told his family tales of sea travel and sailing, even though they believe he never was at sea. When his nephew wins a prize for building a model boat, and gets orders to build the boat he's modelled, uncle Victor knows enough to help supervise the construction, much to the relief of his employees. The nephew's boss stops funding the boat, but Victor takes up the slack and it is finally built.

Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

Antoine (Jean Carmet) is a crybaby. This is an asset in his trade (sales representative for drinks) and for seducing women. Thus he becomes, through a rich nymphomaniac, director of a luxury hotel.

Charles and Lucie, old couple without much money, are land a notary who tells them they have just inherited a luxurious house in the South France, a car and rent money placed in Switzerland by a distant relative recently passed away and unknown.To receive the inheritance they must first pay the notary advanced. To do this they are required to sell all their belongings before leaving to the south and to realize, at a house that does not exist, that have just been scammed. (Wikipedia)

After an unfortunate initiative the financial advisor Benoît Lepape is dismissed. He convinces his uncle, a union activist, to invest funds of the union and apply capitalist methods in a successful bicycle business, and then in a model electronics factory.

Léa lives in Le Havre, the town where she grew up. She goes to university and alone takes care of her grandmother, who requires constant attention. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress at a nightclub. But Léa dreams of another life. She wants to move to Paris to study political science. When she is accepted at the prestigious Political Studies Institute, she must make decisions. She must part from her grandmother.

A failed musician is suddenly burdened with a runaway 10-year-old grandson, whose existence he never suspected. The latter is a clever lad who can take care of himself pretty well. Based on Remo Fostanis play "Evandpiere" (bfi)

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. (imdb)

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dull life in a council flat in the suburbs. Change, as hoped by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Great Happiness, in which they participate. (Allocine)

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them. (letterboxd.com)

Marion and Daniel Ferrière live with their family in a large house on the outskirts of Bordeaux and take in children who are regularly entrusted to Marion's care by the Aide Sociale à l'Enfance (ASE). For Marion, it's a family tradition, as her mother also took in children. (wikipedia)