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- A hit-man lives isolated in a cabin at the edge of a lake. One day, an injured woman arrives in front of his house. To save her, he could well risk his own life.
- A masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and exile.
- Albert Desiderio, a humble retired man, decides to hire a novelist to write his memoirs. But the amazing love story Albert shared with Solange during the 70's turns out to be the confession of a serial killer couple.
- Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
- A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.
- A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
- Ex-convict Jean Valjean's pursuit of redemption and peace clashes with Javert's rigid enforcement of law. Their conflict impacts lives, including Fantine's daughter Cosette, against the backdrop of 19th-century France.
- The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.
- Julie Lescaut is divorced and works as the police commissar in Clairiéres, an imaginary village in the suburbs of Paris, where she tries to reconcile her stressful job with the education of her two teenage daughters.
- French detective story of a very successful detective but neglectful mother who works for her successful detective daughter. The fact that they are related remains a secret and a point of conflict for the resentful daughter.
- The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
- The sovereign Greek island of Ithaca, 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have come home victorious. Only one man is missing: the king of Ithaca, Ulysses, who is lost at sea. The island's economy is getting worse by the day as the region's many princes have invaded the kingdom, devouring its resources, and pressuring Queen Penelope to choose a new husband. To delay her suitors, she promises to choose once she's finished weaving King Laertes' burial shroud. But she undoes her work every night. Ulysses' son Telemachus doesn't dare lay claim to his father's throne. His only dream is to sail out to rescue Ulysses. Through the stories of these four principals - Telemachus, Penelope, Clea and Leocrites - The Odyssey brings a new twist to Greek mythology's greatest story and reveals its darkest secrets.
- A mini-series adaptation of the classic by Alexandre Dumas.
- An American officer on a landing craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German E-boats and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British S.O.E. Agent impersonating an S.D. officer.
- 15-year-old Sabine tries to do everything to become a champion in running.
- The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
- A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.
- Young Rémi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair. Ever since that time he has been a traveling showman, touring the country with three dogs and a monkey. Rémi is given a warm welcome by the strange troupe, and actually learns how to read and write. On a houseboat Rémi meets Johanna von Straussberg, a melancholy German woman, whom he cheers up with his jokes. She wants him to stay with her, but Vitalis is eager to keep Rémi to himself. The troupe thus continues on its way, unaware that Johanna is actually Rémi's mother. Johanna's evil brother-in-law Georg is all to well aware of the truth, however. After his brother's death he had little Rémi abandoned in order to marry Johanna and inherit her fortune. He now has Rémi followed by his sidekick Charles. Before Rémi manages to outwit these opponents and finally return to his mother he goes through a whole host of adventures: he has to face the brutal Garofoli, who forces children to beg and he dodges several attempts on his life. On the positive side he falls in love with Charles's niece Lisa, and also becomes firm friends with a young musical prodigy named Mattia. When everything has finally turned out for the best, and the evil Georg has been killed by Vitalis after a fight, the happy end seems perfect # but Vitalis dies from his injuries.
- The year is 52 BC. Lutetia is entirely occupied by the Romans - well, not entirely . Dogmatix and his gang of Indomitables animals friends still hold out against the invaders. After the defeat of the Gaulish chieftain Camulogene against the general Labienus, Dogmatix organizes the resistance with the Indomitables, a gang of animal friends each one more endearing and funnier than the last, to defend the Gaulish city against the roman occupation.
- A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- Papa Beaver's Storytime is an animated television series tells of a single father beaver of three little beaver children of his own, two sons and one daughter, who would tell them different stories, either a fable or a fairytale to his children and at the end would tell them the moral of the story to teach them a lesson about their actions that have done before the story began.
- The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.
- While waiting for a supportive housing, a couple, James and Alison, settle for some time in an apartment already occupied by a young man, Liam. This young roommate almost never leaves the apartment and indulges in a strange game: equipped with a webcam, it is filmed at any moment and re-transmits live images on his personal website. James and Alison, entering into Liam's daily life, become in turn "actors" of his site. The couple, apparently very in love, displays a free sexuality and is curious about Liam. As the days go by, a troubled relationship develops between the three protagonists. Alison enjoys being filmed by Liam. James, from his office, consults the site of Liam and discovers an Alison who, in front of the camera of the young man, indulges in an intimate way, evoking directly the special relationship she has with men. Through the camera, James finally understands that Alison does not like him as he imagined; Gradually, Liam becomes witness to the collapse of the couple.
- A former starred chef, Laure Grenadier now devotes herself to her activities as a food critic for the channel she created on the Internet. She is also careful to keep her distance from her ex and father of her daughter Amandine, the police captain Nicolas Garnier as Laure has not digested the fact that he left her for a younger woman. However, when a wave of crimes strikes the restaurant owners of Lyon, Laure's resolutions are shattered. Nicolas and his new assistant Baptiste understand that Laure's position in the very closed world of Lyon's restaurant industry and the respect she inspires in the regional chefs are invaluable assets for their investigation. Emotionally involved - her uncle is the first victim - Laure lets herself be convinced to serve as their informant.
- A man who created great literature from the adventures of his own life--and the women at the heart of it. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
- A retiring police inspector finds that he can't escape the rougher life he had growing up.
- While the whole world thinks writer Léo Shepherd is dead, he is kidnapped by his son Paul.
- Diane is a police commissioner and manages firmly her brigade. She balances her job with motherhood, and is also her husband's boss!
- Nadia Lintz, a young and idealistic investigating judge who has just arrived in Paris, and Philippe Rovère, a struggling and disbelieving judicial police inspector, are forced to understand each other despite their differences to solve all kinds of crimes.
- In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.
- A grandmother writes a diary for her nephew, her grandson finds the diary after her death and finds out the true family story.
- A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
- Light-hearted, social comedy about the house guest from Hell. A modern remake of Renoir's classic film about a vagabond saved from drowning.
- Tout commence quand Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), célèbre constructeur du trottoir roulant de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, sauve la vie de la belle Alice Avellano (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), que son mari, devenu fou, tentait d'étrangler. Lucien Lachenay est lui-même menacé par un groupe d'anarchistes qui ont chargé un jeune travailleur, Alphonse (Benno Fürmann), de le supprimer. Alphonse bousille le travail, mais Lucien, impressionné par l'énergie inépuisable et la soif de connaissance de celui-ci, accepte d'être son mentor au lieu de le livrer à la Police. Au cours des années qui suivront, Lucien, Alphonse, Alice et la jeune et séduisante Laure (Isabelle Carré) se mesureront au jeu de la rivalité, de la trahison et de la réconciliation.
- Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
- This film is a labor of love, delicious to watch and full of tenderness for General de Gaulle as a person. Made for TV, (two episodes 1 hour 3/4 each), it retraces some of the most salient events in the General's life, from the start of WW II up to his assuming power in 1959, events which are evoked through family conversations or meetings with his close companions, i.e. his supporters through his political career. There are also actual newsreels from these events. But the standpoint of the film is not primarily historical - a knowledge of the period's history being almost a prerequisite to fully understand the film's niceties -; the standpoint is mostly personal: an effort to recreate what it felt to live close to this great man. There are frequent flashbacks to de Gaulle's role during WW II, his dealings with Reynaud, Churchill, Roosevelt (and Gen. Giraud - his onetime American-backed rival). The second part of the film describes, no less interestingly, his life through the IVth Republic. Born in 1944, having lived in France through the post-war political turmoils and the Algerian "events", also most interested in the history of WW II, I have found this film very credible. The dialogues in French (or broken French in the case of Churchill), delivered by excellent actors, literally recreate the "look and feel" of those times. The film is such that the dialogues can be savoured primarily by fluent French speakers. I do not know of the version in English - which may nevertheless be of interest to those seeking a French viewpoint on de Gaulle's life. __ .
- Two cops who are sworn enemies tackle organised crime in this powerful French detective series.
- For twenty years, she said nothing. Isabelle Demongeot, the former French women's tennis champion, had been sexually abused by her trainer from the age of 13 to 22. It shattered her career and ruined her private life. How could she have let it happen? How did no one see? Was she the only victim? Now, after years of silence, Isabelle is stepping up to the net, ready to tell the story of how she took on a courageous, extraordinary battle to bring down her abuser.
- When Manon, a promising young student at a prestigious watchmaking school near the Swiss border is found dead, everyone suspects suicide. But Jeanne, the dean of students, refuses to believe Manon took her own life. She suspects foul play, and looks elsewhere, across the border to Switzerland, to find the pieces that will help solve the puzzle of the young woman's death. What will she discover on the other side?
- The American photography student Josh gets involved in a mysterious and deadly intrigue, when he takes pictures during an attempt on the top model Francesca's life. She visits him and asks him to destroy the pictures, because she wants to be believed dead. But the killers are already know that she's alive and are after her again - right there in Josh's house. So he has to join Francesca in a flight through Paris, without even knowing why they are after them.
- In the beginning of world war one Lucien Bersot, a farrier and young father has joined the army.During the distribution of clothes Lucien receives white trousers instead of the regular red trousers.Some days later during a troop inspection an officer insists that Lucien must wear the regular red trousers; a sergeant presents him red trousers with blood stains coming from a corpse of a soldier.Lucien does not accept these red trousers and is then arrested until his judgment in the martial court.
- In the kingdom of the lagoons where the custom is that only men can become kings. The young Aïmata Pomaré will break this law. Faced with the hostility of her fellow men, threatened by the greed of France and England, Aïmata, a young Tahitian princess, will try to save her traditions and her people in order to offer them a destiny. This is how she will become the last queen of Tahiti and make peace with France.