Jean Lescot
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Faubourg 36
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier.
Les fautes d'orthographe
At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do not want it to seem Daniel is receiving any special treatment.
La petite apocalypse
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
États d'âme
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France.
Le 4ème pouvoir
Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.
Au nom de tous les miens
Seul de sa famille à survivre au ghetto de Varsovie, Martin Gray s'engage dans l'Armée rouge. Déserteur, il émigre aux Etats-Unis ou il devient un homme riche et puissant. Il décide alors de fonder une famille dans le midi de la France.
Mon oncle d'Amérique
The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.
I... comme Icare
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
La vocation suspendue
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better.
L'affiche rouge
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
F comme Fairbanks
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Le train
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
La punition
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
L'aveu
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Paris n'existe pas
In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time.