Pascale Roberts

When her son is kidnapped, a mother asks two former pals in crime for help. Deft plot twists, the flare-up of past romance and a secret act of vengeance keep us guessing in this nourish drama of love and loss. (San Francisco Film Society)

The story begins on a level that might be described as pornographic Horatio Alger, and descends from there. A little French girl, who speaks English in a cloyingly cute accent, comes to the city because her father has died and she is an orphan. But her relatives do not love her. Meanwhile, a rich English boy, likewise unloved, runs away from his Paris home and meets the girl in the zoo. They become friends and decide to leave the world of adults and exist on their own. (Roger Ebert)

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism. (imdb)

Michel Gerfaut makes his living playing poker. But when he stops to help an injured motorist on the side of the road one night, he unwittingly gets involved in a sinister arms deal cover-up. The capable Gerfaut goes on holiday, bringing his longtime girlfriend, Béa, to Trouville to meet his mother. He soon finds himself the target of killers hired by the pompous Emmerich and his ruthless underling, Leprince, who suspect he's working for their competitors. (allmovie.com)

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims. (imdb)

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.

Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again. (imdb)

Chronic, form of comedy, of the life of a young couple, Charles and Jeanne Renard, in one of the first dormitory suburbs, or the beginnings of the "subway-work-sleep" ... (Wikipedia)

Moreau and Dubois, two friends decide to take a few days holiday in Deauville with their wives and the niece of one of them. However, the stay does not go as planned: a complicated journey, a home more than uncomfortable and uninhabitable villa come to torment the lives of two friends. (Allocine)

A police brigade and financial brigade is sent to Switzerland to dismantle a banking sector. (Wikipedia)

Michel is happy with his wife and two children. They live in the suburbs of Maule. A promotion in his work obliges him to pass the driving license and to live alone in Paris. He tricks his wife and becomes a lover as expert as an awkward driver ...

Henri Godot is the owner of a night-club in Paris. He hires young hit man Jo to kill his arch rival Boby. But Jo gets entangled with the intriguing femme fatale, Angele aka Maine, who is Bob's mistress.

Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)