Jean-Jacques Beineix

The accidental switch of a surveillance tape with a bootleg opera tape leads to suspense and complications with a number of rather odd Parisians. (imdb)

Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life... (imdb)

Documentary about Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of the French Elle magazine, who suffered a massive stroke, leaving him with "locked-in syndrome." Describes how Bauby's movement was limited to blinking one eye, yet he managed to write a book.

In an urban netherworld, a despondent man named Gerard roams the streets, hunting for the perpetrator who raped his sister. She later took her own life. A gallery of grotesque types populates Gerard's netherworld. He suspects a waterfront drunkard and his cherubic sister, both of whom have crucial information about the rape. But Gerard may be hiding something. (rottentomatoes.com)

Two young lovers hit the road, determined to break into the circus big time as lion tamers. (film.com)

This interesting French documentary examines the Japanese phenomenon of the "otaku," the obsessed young men who prefer the virtual reality of home computers to the outside world. The otaku pursue their hobbies to the exclusion of all else. One of the most popular hobbies is the collection of pictures of "idols," sexy young female stars. So obsessed are these men by the computer images, that they find it almost impossible to relate to real women. (allmovie)

Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him. (imdb)

Two young robbers meet an old man. The three start traveling together, looking for the same thing. (imdb)

An isolated gentleman who lies about having a pet dog in order to collect scraps for dinner from a local butcher. It all goes wrong though when his neighbors become more and more pushy about meeting the imaginary creature, a fact that forces Michel's life to take a very ironic and quite horrifically funny turn. (official website)