Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born in Oran, French Algeria, on 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and writer. Her film Selon Charlie was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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Marcello Mio
Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her "Marcello".
Un beau matin
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
OVNI(s)
A light-hearted comedy drama centred on Didier Mathure, a brilliant space engineer whose aspirations are shattered when the rocket he's spent a decade building explodes on take-off.
Papa ou maman 2
Two years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.
Belles familles
Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, that the family house in Ambray is going to be sold.
38 témoins
In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police.
Plein sud
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant.
Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops.
Les bureaux de Dieu
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
Peur(s) du noir
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
La petite Lili
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films.
Histoire de Marie et Julien
Julien meets Marie, who moves in but hides a haunting secret; as he investigates her past, love collides with mystery and the risk of losing her forever.
Betty Fisher et autres histoires
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates.
Kennedy et moi
Comedy drama about an apathetic writer whose only interest is in his psychiatrist's watch which may have belonged to John F. Kennedy at the time of his assassination in 1963.
Aux petits bonheurs
A house is opened in spring where some men and women in search of love are living. Life has different means for them.
Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission.
Mort un dimanche de pluie
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance.
Péril en la demeure
A wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, leading him to suspect their secret is out.
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.
Garçon!
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Copkiller (l'assassino dei poliziotti)
A New York policeman imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment
L'honneur d'un capitaine
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
Les uns et les autres
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes.
Le grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven
When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the regulations.
Beau-père
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him.
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.
Ogro
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
Le cavaleur
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
Un papillon sur l'épaule
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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.
Le corps de mon ennemi
After seven years in prison for a double murder he did not commit, François Leclerc returns to his hometown to find the powerful textile magnates who framed him and carry out his calculated revenge.
Duelle (une quarantaine)
Deux magiciennes immortelles, Leni et Viva, s'affrontent dans Paris. L'une craint la nuit, l'autre la lumière. Toutes deux convoitent une bague qui leur permettra de rester sur Terre, et qui est détenue par des mortels.
Calmos
Two men flee to the countryside to escape their sexual duties and settle for a quiet, rustic life.
Que la fête commence...
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
La ville-bidon
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
Le gendarme se marie
The gendarme Cruchot meets the widow Josepha. They quickly fall in love but Cruchot's daughter doesn't like Josepha and is determined to prevent the wedding by all means necessary.