Judith Magre

Catherine (Ardant) is an attractive woman with a great career and a seemingly solid marriage to Bernard (Depardieu), her husband of 25 years. Their lives seem to be going well until Catherine discovers that Bernard is having an affair. Realizing that she does not really know her husband or what he really wants, Catherine hires Marlene (Béart), a beautiful prostitute, to act as "Nathalie," a woman who will seduce Bernard and extract answers to the questions that are obsessing her. (Koch Lorber)

A series of character studies about a group of intelligent but neurotic upper-middle class intellectuals at a beautiful resort in Evian, France.

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)

Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down on the way back to her country estate from a weekend with her lover in Paris? (imdb)

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband. (imdb)

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures. (imdb)

In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. (imdb)

The film centers on a handsome Parisian journalist named Gilles. On the verge of a nervous breakdown and bored with his current girlfriend, he escapes to his sister's country home in Limoges, where he meets the equally bored (and married) Nathalie Silvener. The two enter into an instant affair that ultimately leads to tragedy. (imdb)

Yuppie, married and father of two children, Jerome Ozendron dream to write and escape a life he considers poor. Encounter with an old friend turned actor, makes him rub the movie. He meets Natasha, a cover girl, for whom he is willing to abandon his wife and children. Then he becomes the lover of Lilianne, a marginal which persecutes and pursues. He quit his job to devote himself to writing a novel. But nothing goes as he pleases. (Allocine)

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game-a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control. (imdb)

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder. (imdb)

Today is Ariane's birthday and she is more alone than ever in her lovely home. The candles are lit on the cake, but the guests have apologized, for they won't be coming. So Ariane gets in her lovely car and leaves her lovely suburb to get lost in the big city.

On 16 July 1942 in Paris, Paul, a young student, tries to save some of the Jews being rounded up by French police on order of the Nazis, to be shipped off to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. (Wikipedia)

Marc and his gang have a brilliant idea (or so they think!) : they will kidnap Vénus de Palma, a (very) rich heiress. Well Venus, also known as Cookie, is duly abducted but holding the lovely twenty-year-old beauty is a horse of another color. Cookie is indeed both seductive and intelligent and manages to seduce one member of the gang after the other, pitting the ones against the others... The brilliant idea soon proves a nightmare! (imdb)

Christian, an unemployed comedian, decides to go to the Corbières to join Nathalie, a young musician. For her part, Christian's wife Françoise visits Hermance, a festival organist, and falls in love with Simon, her former lover.

Wisi is in dire straits. He arrives in Bordeaux in the hope of finding a job, and crosses paths with Marina, a kind-hearted humanitarian. To get her to put him up, he pretends to be undocumented. One evening, he meets Jérôme, himself homeless after the death of his mother. Despite his racist remarks and strange phobia of exertion, Wisi agrees to hide him for a night at Marina's place.