Nathalie Baye

It began as a purely sexual arrangement between anonymous strangers. Now, some time after it has ended, a woman (Baye) and a man (Lopez) recall their unusual affair in separate interviews. (Fine Line Features)

Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 21st birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud had netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) has made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase. (DreamWorks)

Set in the Bordeaux region of France, Flower of Evil tells the story of the Charpin-Vasseurs, one of the most well respected upper middle class families in the region. The family's picture perfect image is shattered when murder occurs. (Palm Pictures)

This film takes us into this world of beauty and self image and into the lives of four strong, smart women who make their living practicing beauty at a Parisian spa. (Lot 47 Films)

The shooting of "Je vous presente Pamela" (may I introduce Pamela) begins. This is the story of an english married wife falling in love and running away with the father of her French husband (imdb)

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago... (imdb)

A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender... (imdb)

Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds. (imdb)

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it. (imdb)

A gripping police noir, Le Petit Lieutenant tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives, and developing and unlikely relationship with his superior, a veteran policewoman with a troubled past. But when the body of a drifter is found murdered along the Seine, a seemingly routine investigation suddenly turns violent and forever changes all their lives. (Cinema Guild)

Originally released in France in 2006. Eight years ago, Margot Beck has been murdered by a serial killer. If the killer has confessed eight of these murders, he has always denied to be responsible for Margot's one. Anyway the specific mutilations found on her body made all doubts disappear... (imdb)

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. (imdb)

During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and the people who knew him suspect he is not Martin, but he knows all about his family and friends, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre? (imdb)

Many women are attending Bertrand Morane's burial. They are all the ones that 40 years old engineer loved. Flashback : Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about the love relationships, the need to charm and the literary creation. (imdb)

A strange mystery set in a hotel.

The film recounts with Bressonian sobriety the story of a family coping with the imminent death of their mother. As she slips away from life, she confronts her 34-year relationship with her philandering, alcoholic husband, and comforts her dutiful and affectionate but feckless son, who searches for release from his anguish in anonymous sex. Nathalie Baye is quietly wrenching as the daughter-in-law. (cinema.ucla.edu)

A 14-year-old girl, Marion, moves in with her stepfather, Rémi, after her mother remarries. Rémi is initially reluctant to have Marion in his life, but he eventually grows to love her. However, Marion begins to develop feelings for Rémi, and he is eventually seduced by her. Their relationship is fraught with tension and guilt, and it has a profound impact on both of their lives.

A French film remake of the British TV sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous"

An experimental examination of memory, told with a story about Nazi hunters.

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)

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's father can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents. (imdb)

At a football match, an unscrupulous photographer, Michel Verdier, takes pictures of a celebrity couple. Magazine editors go with the photos even though the dominant figure in them is a chubby football fan. "So let him sue." When the magazine appears, the fan, Franck Bordoni, is fired since he was supposed to be at work. Bordoni comes to the magazine where, by coincidence, he meets Verdier. Verdier says he knows how to make some money... (imdb)

A scientist invents a machine which can switch brains between bodies. what chaos will this new invention cause?

A fascinating insight into the working methods of a true auteur (imdb)

L'un reste, L'autre part is the story of two old time friends, both in their fifties, both married, who fall for two younger women. The cast is nothing less than stellar: Daniel Auteuil, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Charlotte Gainsbourg

Gérard is an engineer who is married to Gabrielle and has a nine-month-old son, for whom he cares deeply. When his wife leaves him for feminist reasons, he is left with custody of their son. To satisfy his romantic longings, Gérard embarks on an affair with Valérie, his son's daycare worker. (Wikipedia)

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life. (imdb)

An over-protective mother makes her youngest child's life a hell in a obsessive care education.

Carole and Jaque are a happily married couple until young and beautiful Edith and her husband move next door. Against all the odds Edith falls for Jaque.

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife.His mistress has also left him.He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection. (imdb)

In the Belleville district of Paris, a police informant working undercover is murdered. As a result the police are anxious to find a new rat; soon enough they start working on Dédé Lafont, a smalltime gangster, and his girlfriend Nicole, a parisian hooker, in hopes that Dédé will be able to provide the cops the top mobster in Belleville, Roger Massina.

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.

a young hairdresser can cut your hair, give you an answer to any personal problem, but the only person who she can't help is her own mother. So she forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother, discovering that she wants one herself.

A married construction worker leads a double life as a male prostitute serving rich ladies.

A Parisian lawyer (Gérard Depardieu) turns against the shady financier he is supposed to defend.

Half a century after he and his New Wave compatriots--Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette--reinvented French cinema, Claude Chabrol remains one of France's most active filmmakers. Focusing on the man rather than a retrospective of his more than 50 films, filmmaker Patrick Le Gall delves into the personality behind such disturbing classics as Le Beau Serge (1957), Le Boucher (1969), Violette Nozière (1978) and La Cérémonie (1995). (Sundance)

A wealthy businessman takes advice from his chauffeur on how to put the spark back into his marriage. (imdb)

Laurence, a young french teacher and soon-to- be-published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancée, Fred. But on the day after his 30th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support him in this transformation. Despite her best efforts, Fred is too hurt by this development, and they break up. Each of them tries to build a new life, without thinking of the past. (mubi.com)

Mirko and Stefan are linked since the war in Serbia, in which one saved the other, just like brothers. They move to the French Riviera and accept all kinds of jobs. (festival-cannes.fr)

Conrad Lang is the handyman of a wealthy family, and accidentally sets fire to the large holiday home of which he was the guardian. He then returns to his childhood home on the wedding day of Phillipe and Simone...

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for a woman she met just before the accident. This Cornell Woolrich (William Irish) suspense novel was also filmed as Mrs. Winterbourne. (imdb)

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble. (imdb)

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems... (imdb)

Alex, entered the Legion to escape a debt owed to the Corsican Mafia ... 4 years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseille to find Katia, his love of youth.

When new boss Bernard Malair arrives to turn the store around, Louis fears for his job; but Bernard, with his numbers man Paul and his factotum François, invites Louis into an inner circle of long hours of work, nightclubs, and dinners. Nina objects, but Louis cannot say no to Bernard's demands, no matter how personal. In desperation, Nina leaves Louis, but that drives him further into Bernard's orbit. Can anything break this spell? (IMDB (adapted))

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)

Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive, and Mark, a hot 35 years old auctioneer. Everything could work out fine like that, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie the same birthday present: a return ticket to Venice on the Orient-Express, and on the same dates. What will Barnie do? Who will he choose to go with? (imdb)

Newly wed couple, Clementine and Sebastien, are forced to welcome Sebastien's mother into their flat. (imdb)

After his divorce, Frank Lanier raises his son Laurent, aged ten. It is very jealous of Janine, the new girlfriend of his father. One day, Frank expressed Laurent his planned trip to Bangkok with Janine, leading the boy, eager to accompany them, to participate in a robbery to pay his ticket ... (Allocine)

In a desperate attempt to reconnect with her estranged son who is a passionate WWE fan, Rose grabs his attention by joining a rigorous training program to learn to wrestle like a legitimate WWE Diva. She convinces her bored fellow cashiers at the local supermarket to join her challenging new adventure and together they become the "Queens of the Ring". (imdb)

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. (imdb)

An investigation by a young inspector who quickly becomes obsessed with stopping a monster.

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying (imdb)

A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run. (imdb)

During a family meal, Cedric, 32, learns that his sister is expecting a baby. While the news is met with sincere excitement by the whole family, for Cedric -- who still lives with his parents it resonates strangely, mixed with a certain resentment (MUBI)

Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients . (imdb)

It is set in Rome and tells the story of a man who suddenly comes upon a women he once was in love with. The film is based on a short story by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. (wikipedia)

When her daughter Julie disappears in the basements of Paris without leaving a trace, Catherine Suzini is convinced that she alone can find it. Former cop, retired as well as drifting, she will have to resolve to team up with Raphael, the teammate of his daughter. Together, they will leave the surface and sink into the depths of Paris to embark on a terrifying and frenzied race to the descent into hell (imdb)

Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.

A young man finally gets a chance to know and love his mother who is dying of leukemia.

A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

A conflict-ridden mother and son attend the performance of Cherubini's opera Medea. A draft dialogue is established between them, but the tension remains palpable. (imdb)

Jeremie, a young man at his breaking point, leaves Paris to return to his intrusive mother in Limousin. (imdb)

Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest. (imdb)

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 year old woman, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.

Abandoned by his parents, a talented young man reinvents himself as a rock 'n' roller. But fame and a family with Sylvie Vartan bring new pressures. (imdb).

The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur. (imdb)

Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss' wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint-Macary) along with him for the ride across the length of France from Lille to the Cote d'Azur. On the way they give a lift to hitchhiker Charles (Etienne Chicot) who also brings along his friend Daniel (Patrick Bouchitey). (Radiance Films)

Greg's life had been pretty quiet after the agency closed, until he decides to propose to Flo and has to introduce her to his crooked father and ex-actress mother. With no choice but to reopen the agency and find fake parents. (imdb)

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years. (imdb)