Jacques Boudet
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La villa
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place.
Les adieux à la reine
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
L'exercice de l'État
The Minister (French: L'Exercice de l'État) is a 2011 French drama film directed by Pierre Schöller. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Award.
Les émotifs anonymes
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman?
Le nom des gens
A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
Lady Jane
Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, however, Muriel's son is kidnapped, which leads the three to join forces again to get the ransom money.
Agathe Cléry
The ultimate nightmare for a racist? Becoming as black as the people she abhors. This is exactly what happens to Agathe Cléry: she's struck down with a rare disorder of the adrenal cortex glands that causes the skin to darken inexorably...
Nos jours heureux
Un homme, qui dirige pour la première fois une colonie de vacances, se voit contraint de gérer non seulement des enfants intenables mais également des animateurs pas toujours professionnels.
L'ivresse du pouvoir
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Mon père est ingénieur
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
La confiance règne
La vie n'ayant rien prévu pour eux, ils ne lui demandent rien. C'est pourquoi Chrystèle Burrel et Christophe Gérard, malgré leur éducation inexistante et leur absence de valeurs morales, passent de place en place où ils sont employés comme domestiques avec une insouciance et une joie de vivre qui laissent rêveur.
Père et fils
An old man comes up with a subterfuge to reconcile his estranged sons.
Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours
Marie-Jo is a middleaged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles with her husband, Daniel and her daughter, Julie. Daniel runs a small construction business in which Marie-Jo helps. She also works at the local hospital. Outwardly their marriage is loving.
Laissez-passer
In German-occupied France, two filmmakers solve the collaboration dilemma differently.
Tanguy
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.
Mademoiselle
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
À l'attaque!
Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the story slowly takes shape around a poor family that has a small car repair business. Times are hard and will have to fight to prevent a multinational tear down the garage.
La ville est tranquille
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Les enfants du Marais
A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France between the wars. Garris and Riton live in the marshlands along the banks of the Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches.
À la place du coeur
Set in a working-class section of Marseille where racial tensions are common, Bébé, an 18-year-old black is wrongly accused of rape by a racist cop. Clim, his 16-year-old girlfriend discovers she is pregnant. Their families become close.
Le comte de Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
In and Out of Fashion
An biography of William Klein, Parisian-based American photographer which strings together his abstract paintings, mould-breaking reportage, inventive fashion photos and excerpts from his feature films.
Marius et Jeannette
Marius è impiegato come guardiano in un cementificio e inizia una relazione sentimentale con Jeannette, madre di due figli avuti da uomini diversi. Vivono entrambi un'esistenza povera ma decorosa in un quartiere popolare di Marsiglia.
À la vie, à la mort!
In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret.
Farinelli
The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
Tout ça... pour ça!
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples.
L'argent fait le bonheur
How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.
L.627
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
Merci la vie
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
Un week-end sur deux
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, and when her husband learns this, he demands to pick them up at once.
Nikita
A beautiful felon condemned to death for the murder of a policeman is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Waiting for the Moon
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Agent trouble
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake.
Cours privé
Jeanne Kern is a history teacher in a private mixed class. Passionately provocative, she does not ignore the effect she has on men.
Rive droite, rive gauche
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
La diagonale du fou
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Asphalte
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
Tendre poulet
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Le couple témoin
A quoi vont ressembler les Francais de l'an 2000? Comment vivront-ils la vie design de demain ? Dans quelle mesure peut-on les manipuler, les programmer ? Pour le savoir, le ministre de l'Avenir choisit un couple-type exemplaire et l'installe dans un appartement expérimental, au sein de la ville nouvelle en construction.
La question
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
L'important c'est d'aimer
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.