Roland Blanche

A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with... (imdb)

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine. (imdb)

Jean Lucas, a former bank robber, is taken hostage by François Pignon, an amateurish and desperate bank robber right after being released from prison. Since Jean realizes no-one will believe he had nothing to do with the robbery, the two of them must flee from the police together.

Three controversial arthouse/erotic film directors come together to make an anthology. (imdb)

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept. (imdb)

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him. (imdb)

In 1785, Jean-Franois de la Plaine is appointed by the King governor in West Africa, in a period when slavery was the rule. (imdb)

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help. (imdb)

Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel. (imdb)

Michel (Gérard Jugnot) has worked for years as an executive at a company that sells mattresses. He lives quietly in the suburbs with his wife (Victoria Abril) and their children. One day everything changes when Michel is fired and his secure lifestyle rapidly deteriorates.

In this French film, soldiers in the Algerian war not only fight against the rebelling natives of that country, but fight an equally brutal battle among themselves. Three young army misfits are assigned to a brutal "disciplinary company" during the conflict. When the "discipline" becomes too harsh for him to bear, one of the soldiers kills two of his tormentors. (Allrovi)

One evening, after dining at the restaurant with her friend Carina, who works in a luxury perfume, Anthony, second-hand dealer Clignancourt flea, brings her home to the station. But the train that brought her to Enghien, it is attacked by three thugs sinister, Balestra Samson and his two acolytes, Daniel and Michael Verlot Poubennec, in front of other passengers, petrified. A karate chop of the most brutal of them, Balestrat, is fatal to the young woman. (Wikipedia)

The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly. (imdb)

Two middle-aged Jewish merchants (Charles Aznavour, Ugo Tognazzi) plot to crack a safe with a clergyman (André Dussolier) and some neighbors in Paris.

The roman catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes depicted in an anticlerical way :hypocrisy, superstition and business. (imdb)

Juliette is a talented inventor, however, has no chance in his work. His life is shaken by his encounter with Loulou Graffiti, a boy who fled the DDASS. This is a friend of Pique La Lune, a burglar with a big heart, and Loulou has the idea to combine these two characters are total opposites as the trio is chased by police. (Allocine)

The story is about poor François Pepin, an unfortunate reporter who seems to attract accidents with no effort at all. He is smitten by Prudence Guilledou, the daughter of a French newspaper mogul -- an amour that may even help him in his own career. But then the charming Prudence is kidnapped, and he dashes to her rescue, only to find himself and his rescuee subsequently on the run through the Alps trying to keep a few steps ahead of the kidnappers. But is the situation as hopeless as it looks? (Allmovie)

Mutated in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), a young policewoman investigates a network of child prostitution and runs up against the local establishment.

Walter (Michel Blanc), the leader of a nudist colony, enlists the help of left-wing militant Henriette (Jacqueline Maillan) in this political satire. He feels he has been snubbed by the government when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. The release of the film coincided with the elections in France, but none of the political issues of the time were reflected in the subject matter. (Allmovie)

This movie chronicles the relationship between a famed yet depressive hairdresser and the suicidal plumber who becomes his "adopted" son after he rescues him from a canal. Georges is the hairdresser who gained notoriety as a hairdresser to stars such as Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner. Gus, after being mistreated in love, decides to end it all by jumping into a canal. Georges tries to save him and the soggy twosome become bosom buddies. (Allmovie)

With a shipment of counterfeit banknotes waylaid, and their boss in jail, two small-time hoods, Bruno and Vincent, find themselves forced to dognap two canines who have been trained... to sniff out counterfeit money ! (imdb)

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin (Michel Serrault from Happiness is in the field) has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont (Jean-Pierre Bisson and Maike Jansen), where a thief follows him for a robbery.

Yves and Anne are a happy couple with a child. They live a quiet life until the day when .. (imdb)

From the very beginning, film comedy focused on the world of work. From exploitation to unemployment, from adaptation to resistance, directors multiplied their points of view on survival in the modern world, especially from Chaplin on. With a humor superceding certain conventions and steering towards an eminently political dimension, Moullet follows three characters in order to build one of the blackest satires about the conflict arising from our everyday relation with work. (imdb)

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally. (imdb)

While investigating the killing of a prominent Middle Eastern leader, French journalist Yves Dorget (Philippe Noiret) discovers that the assassination is tied to a major deal involving nuclear power. As Yves digs deeper into the case, television anchorwoman Catherine Carre (Nicole Garcia) joins him, and the pairing rekindles old feelings between the ex-lovers. As Yves and Catherine grow closer once again, they risk losing their lives when they get in over their heads.