Xavier Beauvois
Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the... Read full bio →
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Making Of
Workers fighting to protect the factory from being relocated but nothing goes as planned. Joseph wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct and takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew.
Un beau soleil intérieur
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Django
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Chocolat
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
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'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
A highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele.
De bon matin
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office.
Villa Amalia
Villa Amalia is the story of Ann, a musician, whose life is turned upside down by a kiss. When she sees Thomas kissing another woman, Ann makes a clean break, leaving him and everything else far behind her. Suddenly unsure of everything that seemed so certain, Ann knows only that she must change her life and become someone else to find herself.
Les femmes de l'ombre
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Disco
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre.
Les témoins
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Le petit lieutenant
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Le vent de la nuit
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
Le jour et la nuit
A French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.
Ponette
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back.
N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.
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.