Jean-François Stévenin

Inspired by actual events taking place during the reign of King Louis XV, Brotherhood of the Wolf revisits one of the rare French myths, that of the "Beast of Gevaudan" which killed a number of persons before being vanquished under mysterious circumstances. (Universal Focus)

The story of two men who might never have met but for an accident, who appear to have nothing in common, yet who change each other's view of life at the last possible moment. (Paramount Classics)

The story is set in early 1700s. Lafardere is former street urchin who became a best friend of Duke of Nevers. Nevers' heir is his evil cousin Gonzague. Gonzague, seeking wealth, kills Nevers and Nevers in his dying moments asks Lafardere to avenge him, however long that takes.

As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. (imdb)

This 1985 french crime movie directed by José Pinheiro stars Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt whose teenage daughter is killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers. Pratt begins his own investigation to avenge the killers and their back-room leader.

Gerard Depardieu plays a bisexual petty criminal named Bob who encounters a married couple arguing in a bar... (imdb)

In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention... (imdb)

The movie rather presents a map of its main character's mind than a story. Realistic scenes mix with dream sequences and hallucinations... (imdb)

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have. (imdb)

Mercenary Paul Shannon (Christopher Walken), on a reconaissance job to the African nation of Zangora... (imdb)

Jeanne is a young weirdo girl who flies to Paris, and is hired by an old lady called Madeleine as an au pair. Jeanne lies to Madeleine, she says she comes from a very rich family. Young Madeleine's admirer Antoine and another thug, Marcel, kidnap Jeanne when they hear she's a millionaire. But the problem is that Jeanne's parents are poor and Antoine soon falls for her. (imdb)

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making... (imdb)

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin... (imdb)

In "Captain Ahab," French writer-helmer Philippe Ramos vividly imagines the formative years of the antagonist of Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick." Told in five chapters, from Ahab's birth to his death at sea, highly stylized period pic has an intimate, rough-hewn feel. (Variety)

The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance. (imdb)

Two women with more than a screw loose, Marie (LaFee no less!, played by Bulle Ogier) and Baptiste (played by her daughter Pascale), roam about demolition sites in a gray and wintry Paris. Maybe they are bricks in some sinister scheme, maybe they are playing a board game, maybe it's a fairy tale, maybe it's just complete nonsense and Rivette is having us on. (KG)

Out 1 is about two different theater troupes trying to put on plays by Aeschylus. As the film continues these characters and a few others begin to cross paths and interact.

The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.

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)

An old man, wearing a dressing gown and slippers shoes, was abandoned by his family on an area of highway, a day when on vacation. He landed in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls it Mischka. The carer then offered him to leave the disaster home. This is an opportunity for him to meet Jane, the teenage runaway, and Joli-Coeur, the rocker, and rediscover life when he is about to finish.

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run (imdb)

Truffaut kept everything, from notes made on bits of paper to the numerous drafts of each of his scripts, and photographs of those dear to him. This «autobiography» sets out to highlight the director's recurrent themes, as they appear in film after film: childhood, apprenticeship, the conflictual relationships between men and women, death. The film leaves commentary to those, including a number of figures, who knew him well, in his work, in his life and for whom he was a source of admiration.

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood") stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives. (imdb)

An elderly German tourist is killed in Paris at the hands of Joseph Katz, an old junk dealer beloved by detective Sam Bellamy. Despite witnessing the crime, Sam covers for Joseph, upon which the latter vanishes in mysterious circumstances. (imdb)

A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to famine-stricken North Africa. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they are eaten by cannibals. (allrovi.com)

What are adult love affairs ? Two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through. (imdb)

An illustration of the more or less weird people in the nightlife of the revel region of a French town. (imdb)

French Jew Ruben works as a village postman in rural Finland, living with hunky blonde boyfriend Teemu in a lakeside cabin. All is idyllic until a misunderstanding over a dead body and a stash of Euros sees Teemu kick Ruben out. (nzcinema.co.nz)

The team of Balestra Commissioner, territorial brigade, wait six in the morning to trap Sarlat, public enemy No. 1. But Fush and men of the anti-gang arrive and Ballestrat does not want their presence. A policeman died and Sarlat is still free. The head of the Interior Ministry's office gives Ballestrat order to cooperate with the anti-gang. But this is a separate group they will continue Sarlat. (Wikipedia)

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)

This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer. (Allmovie)

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress. (imdb)

Mitri is fifteen and lives in a Senegalese village. Like all boys his age, he plays football and dreams of Barça and of Chelsea. When a recruiting agent picks him up out, Mitri believes his chance has come.

Charles Senac, author of a unique novel with success is found dead in his home. Senac was the most despised of the whole neighborhood, including customers and the patron of the Yellow Fox, one Bar-restaurant where he had his habits.

Former cop, Frank worked with his old friend George in a small flying club. Their quiet life will be disturbed by the arrival of Carole, the granddaughter of George. She is suspected of killing her boyfriend, then that is the work of a killer orders a Portuguese ugly. Franck hand to Lisbon with Carole... (Cinefil)

The film depicts the period between Joan of Arc's capture and her execution in 1431. (Wikipedia)

1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well. Admired priest, magnificient lover, his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. (imdb)

When the car of Georges, a Parisian architect, breaks down on the motorway, he is helped by Serge, a mechanic and garage owner, who lives in a remote Jura hamlet. The two men, although they do not seem to have anything in common, develop an unexpected friendship and live a few days together before Georges finally resumes his ordinary life. (Guy Bellinger)

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective. (imdb)

A guy stuck in a rut meets a girl who has just jumped off a passing boat, and as they drive to meet the boat again, a relationship starts to blossom.

A woman is taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents. (imdb)

In her 50s, Roberte is still an attractive woman who has kept her figure. She is married to Octave, a substantially older man. His twisted fantasies require that Roberte seek out other men while he follows behind and keeps track of her activities with them. (Mubi)

Simon has just been released from prison and is on parole. His friend, Albert, lures him back to his old ways for one more hit. To steal the priceless diamond Florentin. Simon's plan to steal the diamond goes sour. Others are also after the diamond, such as gangsters and ruthless killers. (imdb)

It's an all-out-war when a government agent tries to regain control of a turf struggle between drug lords. (imdb)

Horace Tumelat,a powerful politician was raised by his uncle Eusèbe. He has to find a letter written by his uncle who committed suicide.

Gerard and his wife Annie have made a nice life for themselves on their farm. That life is disturbed by the arrival of Gerard's older brother Roland – a brother Annie never knew existed. It gradually becomes clear that both brothers had once negligently set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. Roland took all the blame for causing the death, and spent ten years in prison for it.

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity. (imdb)

Serge Perrin lives in Paris, without housing, without work. But Serge wants to exist and break his loneliness. When he pushes the door of a police station his great adventure begins. He finally finds the first role. (imdb)

An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel "Lost Illusions". (imdb)

In a garage. Marcel, the night watchman, is visited by night owls who come to tell him their stories and their problems.