Jean-Luc Bideau

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village... (imdb)

The title "Life doesn't scare me" tells a lot about this movie. We follow how four ordinary little girls, then teenage girls (the movie took several years to shoot so the actresses could grow up), learn about life, love and all that sort of things. (imdb comments)

Gérard and Hélène are set to begin a new life together in Argentina. At the last minute, Gérard decides to separate and leaves his partner stranded at the airport. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatised, the abandoned Hélène makes the airport her home. She makes money by working as a prostitute and strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco. It is a precarious lifestyle but she has mastered her dependency on men - or has she? (imdb review)

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas. (imdb)

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future. (imdb)

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they're writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he's short of time so he asks a Bohemian poet friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations.. (imdb)

A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other. (imdb)

Four salesmen hit the open road, searching for adventure and hoping to unload some encyclopedias in this eccentric comedy from France. Jerome is a timid man who lands a job that doesn't seem immediately appropriate for his temperament. He hits the road along with three other salesmen -- crafty Patrick, polished Michel, and good-natured long-timer Jacques -- as well as their supervisor, Regis, who appears to have adopted Alec Guinness' character in The Bridge on the River Kwai as his role model. (answers.com)

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden. (imdb)

A mythical comedy set on an island in the Aegean Sea before the founding of Ancient Greece.

Mafioso Tano Carridi schemes for power while being pursued by his nemesis Corrado Cattani.

A film examining the relationships of three distinctly different couples.

This film tells the story of Eloise, the daughter of D'Artagnan, one of the three Musketeers. Left in a nunnery and dedicated to helping the less fortunate, Eloise discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king of France. She enlists the aid of her father and the rest of the great--yet retired--Musketeers to thwart the plan. Enduring heart-stopping sword fights and ruthless treachery, Eloise and the Musketeers find themselves embroiled in the fight of their lives.

Part nightmare, part fantasy, Ivul tells the tale of Alex, who bizarrely moves out onto the roof of his house and refuses to come down after a false abuse accusation. From there, he watches the family he loves, but can't live with, as it destroys itself from the inside out. (imdb)

A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer. (imdb)

François Lesbuche has become commissioner of IGS. Despite his rank and his willingness to be incorruptible, he does not hesitate to help his old friend Rene, who is a retired recluse on his barge...

ad feedback Victor Valance, an absent father who likes to gamble, returns home in order to take money from his family and gamble with it. His daughter is suspicious of her father's activities and messes up his plans. When she realizes however, that gangsters are trying to rob her father, her attitude changes. (imdb)

This Andre Delvaux film concerns an apparently happily married archivist who finds a mysterious woman in an abandoned farmhouse one day and enters into a passionate affair with her.

An urbanite couple who plan to relieve tiredness of the whole week on saturday, find themselves surrounded by a much more tiring environment.

The backbone story concerns a lazy surveyor, thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. One of the women blithely continues her teaching business, apparently unconcerned about her house's imminent destruction. (allmovie.com)

On a visit in the Norman countryside at the week-end, a young English woman, Helen Wells, who is looking for a country place to rent, is offered assistance by a Frenchman, Philippe Mansart, who is joining a hunting party later. Among the party, which includes supposedly respectable and influential locals, are the two Danville brothers, who come across Helen and assault her in a disused barn, before she manages to shoot one of them and escape...

Like his Abraham Jewish ancestor who abandoned his store of trinkets and religious idols for music, Isaac abandoned the making in the neighborhood of the Sentier in Paris, to create a musical group: Rock'n Torah.

Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant in their scheme.

Seven childhood friends did not suspect that their friendly annual hike at the Iseran summit would be transformed this time into an unlikely Police of France at their heels.

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)

When Justine Lacroix a charming TV reporter meets a seductive surgeon it is love at first sight and the beginning of a great love story. The cute blonde from Paris and the dark handsome man from Nanterre soon become inseparable although there is a little something Justine forgot to take into consideration: the man she loves is...an Arab, well, a Frenchman of immigrant background...A detail for Justine and Djalil but not for the Lacroix and the Boudaoud families... (imdb)

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?

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

After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. (imdb)

As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. So begins a series of strange incidents. (MUBI)

A lonely and unsociable man is spying on customers in a department store in Geneva. He gets his eyes on a gorgeous creature with a musical instrument. (imdb)

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. (imdb)

A group of people in a dysfunctional hospital have new challenges every day, while trying to work out love, friendship and work.

After a 22 years wedding, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually, it seems so, but is the lover for real? (imdb)

Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.

A filmmaker is preparing a film which retraces one episode of his personal life: 10 years ago he left his wife and his departure led her into committing suicide.

The series follows the lives of five seminarians arriving in Paris' Capuchin Seminary and the power struggle between the seminary head and his superiors in Rome, as well as the dissonance of a medieval religious institution in a modern, secular society.