A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator...

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève...

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a...

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote...

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in...

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with...

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman,...

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect...

Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised,...

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is...

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to...

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed,...

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly...

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover...

On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

Pascal Canteloup is a proofreader at a newspaper. He is bitter and irritable towards his bosses and the people he works with. He's full of hatred...

Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.

A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.

Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time...

In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the...

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis...

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test...

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically...

Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a...