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- Berlin during the Third Reich, examining Bonhoeffer's determination to live his life with uncompromising political and spiritual courage, while speaking truth to power, in his attempt to save countless Jewish lives.
- When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
- Lucie lives with her father Hugo. Her mother has been gone for a year and the abscence brought father and daughter even closer. However, when the mother returns, Hugo's taken by uncontrollable jealousy and anger. (French with English subtitles)
- A naive young man and his deal with the devil.
- A supernatural thriller in which a hitman, facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss.
- Police captain Louise Poquelina working class single mom teams up with aristocratic cop Etienne De Beaumont to solve tricky mysteries in Dunkirk, France.
- Disaster hits when two teenagers are caught in a fire on the 20th floor of a skyscraper. Their parents are on the 60th. Will they survive the flames?
- 'Skirt Day' is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adjani's first film in five years.
- Paula Maxa is the Parisian Grand Guignol Theatre's leading lady, famous for being murdered on stage every day. But is there a link between the theatre and a series of gruesome real-life murders?
- During the annual party in the château of a wealthy French family, a murder is committed. The small neighboring town is thrown into disorder, suddenly plunged back into the old relationship of master and serfs.
- A young French peasant from Normandy falls in love with an aristocrat Polish girl in the late 1930's. While she allows some advances from him, she provokes some jealousy as she's also in love with her German cousin. But when WWII breaks in, they are severely tested through a series of dramatic events.
- August 28, 1988 - Europe's largest annual airshow - American Air Base in Germany. Three Italian aircraft collided in mid-air and rolled in flames into the crowd. 70 people died and more than 500 injured. I can never forget.
- Under the Regency of Philippe d'Orleans, Cartouche sees his bride murdered by La Reynie, the future chief of police. Eight years later, Cartouche has become a Robin-Hood-like character loved by the people and a cause of concern to the powerful. Along with his entourage (La Guigne, Timour, Isabelle and the Marquis), he becomes a legend by distributing to the poor part of the booty taken from the nobility. One day he attacks the leutenant-general of police, Minister d'Argenson, then the Regent himself, who vows to make him pay. Meanwhile, Juliette, the fiancee of d'Argenson and the sister of La Reynie, sees the good work of Cartouche and starts to help him secretly. Loosely based on the life of Louis Dominique Garthausen (1693 - 1721), also known as Cartouche, an eighteenth century French highwayman who reportedly stole from the rich and gave to the poor in and around Paris.
- 21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
- In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
- A continuation of My Father's Glory (1990).
- A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
- Anne has been blind since birth, François' been blind from the age of seven. This couple is happy. But their daily routine changes the day François is given an artificial cornea transplant and regains his sight.
- A young man finds an ingenious way of breaking free of his mother by dressing up and becoming his sister.
- Monsieur Joseph is a respected citizen of a small town in the North of France. For over four decades he has run a specialized bookshop in the shopping square of the town. Every morning before opening his shop, he has a nice cup of black coffee at the local cafe where he has a nice small talk with Julien, the barkeeper, and with the regulars. Everybody likes him. At least everybody did... Everything actually started to change the night his young wife Tina disappeared without trace. Now, Monsieur Joseph has become Youssef again, he is again the "foreigner" (wasn't he born of Kabyle parents?), the shady foreigner, the frightening foreigner... He can't but have murdered his wife, all the more as another woman was killed four years before without the culprit having been arrested. There is no smoke without fire, is there?...
- For 3 generation, first born girls of the Fontane family have mysteriously died on a 22nd of July, at the age of 26.
- A woman coaches her best friend in romancing a man who is indifferent to her.
- Mathieu is a marine biologist. He spends his time on his microscope, cutting tiny marine organisms corpses. He's unhappy. His true wish would have been being on the sea. But an event will abruptly change his life: Christine, his mother in law, runs away. Attracted by this impulsion, and curious to understand her, Mathieu starts looking for her. He's going to find her in a house by the sea and will share the same desire of regaining control of his life.
- An Algerian mother forces her daughter to pretend she's a boy after emigrating to France.
- This film describes the first days of the "Opération Turquoise" that will last 2 months from June 22nd to August 21rst 1994. About 150 soldiers of the French special Forces will discover the crazy hate in Rwanda.
- Set in 18th century, a 10 year old deaf mute boy has been abandoned by his mother, Comtesse de Solar, and is taken care by Abbé de l'Épée, who teaches him how to comunicate and express himself with sign language.
- For the first time ever a documentary unveils from within an investigation led by international justice. Khmers rouges, une simple question de justice (2012) follows the steps of an International Investigative Judge and his team, appointed by the United Nations, in tracking down those responsible for the crimes committed in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime from April 1975 to January 1979, as a result of which nearly 2 million people perished. Shot over a period of 3 years, and backed by interrogatory and judicial reconstitutions on the 'crime scenes', the film reveals the horror of such a regime, helping us to understand the task and stakes of international justice.
- Damien, Juliet and Jimmy are three 13-year-old children who meet unexpectedly and find out they were all born on the same day. So begins an adventure in which they discover an ancient secret. In 1307, three children are given three keys to a place where the treasure of the Knights Templar is kept for safe keeping ... In the distant future, three children will be born with special powers. 700 years later, on the day of their 13th birthday, Damien, Juliet and Jimmy meet each other and discover that each has amazing abilities: Damien is gifted in mathematics, Juliet can speak any language, and Jimmy predicts the future through his drawings. But danger lurks everywhere and a group of armed men are on their heels. It seems the children cannot trust anyone except Beatrice, Damien's beautiful stepmother, Mathieu, an off duty policeman, and Jimmy's older sister, Vanessa. The adventure unfolds over three 90 minute episodes entitled: 1. The Revelation; 2 The Way of the Crypts; 3. The Book of Knowledge.
- A 39-year-old woman becomes obsessed with getting pregnant by the time she hits forty.
- Alexis, a very stingy person, saves his friend for the sole purpose of recovering his debt. But when a woman attends this scene, she takes him for the hero he is not.
- Louise and her husband Paul go on vacation to the south of France. But when Paul gets killed, Louise finds out that Paul's former companions are after her.
- A 17 year old girl who has just discovered that she is pregnant is obliged to take her outspoken grandmother along on a driving lesson.
- A once-famous chef tries to find reconciliation with his hotel manager daughter, only to be mistaken for a tourist guide critic.