Élie Chouraqui
Élie Chouraqui (born 3 July 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. His 1996 film Les menteurs was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He made several films with Anouk Aimée. In his younger days he was a volleyball enthusiast and was captain of... Read full bio →
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O Jerusalem
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
La belle histoire
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
L'étudiante
Valentine prépare avec acharnement son agrégation, l'aboutissement de 5 années d'études difficiles. Elle ne dispose donc pas de loisirs et doit beaucoup travailler. Elle va cependant tomber amoureuse d'Edouard, un jeune musicien...
La boum 2
The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Toute une vie
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
La gifle
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
La bonne année
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.