Brigitte Sy
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe... Read full bio →
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L'Opéra
Set in the shrine of French dance, the Garnier Opera house, L'Opera follows three characters whose dreams clash with reality, whose ambitions collide with expectations, and whose purity faces corruption.
Les invisibles
Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
Une vie meilleure
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
La guerre est déclarée
A young couple wrestle with their child's cancer diagnosis.
Versailles
A young mother Nina and her son Enzo find themselves sleeping on the streets of Paris. Eventually there lifestyle leads them to Versailles.
Peur(s) du noir
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Les amants réguliers
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay.
Cantique de la racaille
It's the very moment Gaston picks up Marie-Pierre that his life changes. She's very beautiful, and she's going to love him. He couldn't imagine a girl like that staying with him. But it's the beginning of a great story and a different era.
Ma 6-T va crack-er
Au cours d'une soirée hip-hop, très attendue par les jeunes d'un quartier, une fusillade éclate. La police intervient, un policier tire. Un mort. Les jeunes du quartier, désorientés, se révoltent...
Généalogies d'un crime
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
J'entends plus la guitare
Gerard aime Marianne et cet amour est le sens de sa vie. Un jour, Marianne part avec un autre homme. Gerard rencontre Linda, Aline puis Adrienne mais Marianne est toujours la.
Les baisers de secours
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
Liberté, la nuit
A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.