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- Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
- After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
- The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
- A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
- Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles. There are two protagonists - first the title character, Louis XIV, the French sun-king who has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer (like Nero wrote and performed musical poetry), and starts asserting himself against the entourage of his Medici mother, the regent during his minority, by building his palace complex and launching a 'fitting' new, mainly musical display of baroque show. Secondly the musical genius Gianbattista Lulli ('Jean-Baptiste') Lully, a Florentine upstart of unbridled ambition, quickly gains the king's absolute trust, despite the nationalist and aristocratic opposition to a low-born Italian, and thus turns the normally socially humble post of court composer into a 'ministerial portfolio of culture' of Cabinet rank, complete with a monopoly which kills of his artistic rivals in operatic theater. The script also weaves a complex web of court scheming for individual power and social interests, and even a sadistic but accidental murder on a young valet, producing a sensuous and sumptuous drama too complex for this format, ending in a freakish but fatal accident. Louis XIV's mother was Ana de Austria (in French, Anne d' Autriche), the daughter of one of the Hapsburgh Kings of Spain. Maria di Medici (in French, Marie de Médicis) was his grandmother, his father's mother. She was dead before Louis XIV reached the throne. Please correct the reference to "his Medici mother"
- A young woman moves to the big city, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide.
- A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
- Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three. Based on their teacher's reputation, Sophie and Jean are invited to participate in a singing contest staged by Prince Scotti. Scotti's protege is set up to get revenge for Scotti's defeat at the hands of Dallayrac in a similar competition many years ago. The young students overcome Scotti's trickery to win the competition.
- A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
- The trekkers meet again ten years later, at St Tropez, a comedy about fun, truth, betrayal and hapiness.
- Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive, married, with a son. He used to have another profession: look-a-like of French star Claude François. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.
- In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
- Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
- 12-year-old Éric has been placed in a reintegration center in La Rochelle, awaiting adoption. He becomes friends with Petia, a young boy of Russian origin, older than him, a street juggler who pursues the dream of working like his father in a circus as soon as he leaves the institution. Meanwhile, Pierre and Corinne adopts Marie and also want Eric to become their son and take steps in this direction, but the doctor is opposed to the child leaving the establishment too quickly because he judges him in latent depression. One weekend Petia is blamed for the misdeeds of Momo and Graf, two other teenagers in care.
- A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
- This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
- Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is intellectually disabled and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her. Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an institution, Pauline will be the only heir.
- Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.
- An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life, changes both of their lives forever.
- A lawyer, Édouard Barnier, will try to convince the American embassy to grant American nationality to a young Frenchman, Francis Farge, who considers himself more American than French.
- Alex is the perfect snapshot of misogynist some of its charm: he leaves his wife Leah and wrong with the babysitter. Selfish, indifferent, absent, he combines all handicaps to Leah's eyes, to end, leaves him.
- The American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure...
- François's life changes inexplicably overnight, from unlucky to miraculous.
- In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
- Teenager Luc learns about love, life and friendship when he, his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul visit their grandmother for a holiday in Calais.
- Lionel Monde, the director of a big Parisian company, disappears on his 48th birthday. He abandons his family and his flourishing business. "He's just had enough". He is a powerful, prominent citizen, but he has no real relationships with other people - they are just for the sake of keeping appearances and a matter of habit. He is not intimate with his close relatives: his wife or his children. Too much affluence and money is isolating him. He can't take it anymore. He doesn't want it anymore. He wants to change his identity. He shaves off his mustache and swaps his elegant bourgeois clothes for an ordinary suit. He dresses as a pauper to blend in better in the faceless crowd. He travels south by train in second class. Monsieur Monde starts a new life: ''He didn't know where he was going or what he'd do. There wasn't anything ahead of him for now. He was in space."
- Khorma is different! With his red hair and strangely pale complexion for a Tunisian, many people think he's retarded. Bou Khaled, his master, takes him under his wing nonetheless and teaches him the secrets of the business. Khorma learns to announce weddings, births and deaths in his neighborhood in Bizerte. But, one day, old Bou Khaled makes a grievous mistake: he announces a local woman's death rather than her daughter's marriage. Khorma is chosen to replace him...
- Daniel Piron, a former left-wing activist who has become a journalist for a "road safety" TV show, thinks he has a brilliant idea for a film that will be shown on a "strip-tease" type show.
- Shoemaker Tuur is celebrating his wedding jubilee with his wife Emma. Although the whole family and village is happy to celebrate with them, Tuur doesn't feel like celebrating. The next morning after the party Emma finds out that Tuur has left. It soon turns out Tuur is at his sister Josée's house. His other sister Gerda is mad when she finds out he's with Josée. The two sisters don't get along at all, but Emma refuses to go and get Tuur. So Tuur ends up staying with his sister and her singing girlfriend Odette.
- Two shady promoters of a bicycle race need a signalman at each intersection of the course, so they hire pensioners on the cheap, give them an arm band and a stick, and tell them to stop all traffic while the bikes are going by. The film follows one very old man from the day he's hired in his one-room apartment in a rooming house to the end of the race the next day. He takes the job seriously, getting his dress shoes from a locked cabinet, wearing a tie, and standing rigid at his post, the intersection of a rarely-traveled country road. His rigors are interrupted by a groom and best man on their way to a wedding and by a hedgehog.
- Maurice Béjart is widely regarded as a master of modern dance, capable of fusing the classical and the unconventional with remarkable success.
- Tania is a 13-year-old girl with problems with her weight. After her parents divorce, she hates to go on a holiday with his dad's new family that includes two skinny and pretty girls. When Tania tries to hitch-hike her way out of the holiday resort, she befriends a handsome young man more than ten years her senior. The result becomes a funny and sad comedy of errors.
- Franck 's parents really are not like the others. They are "light mentally retarded " with a child "normal".
- Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other and decides to abort half the pregnancy.
- What happens to those left behind when a loved one disappears without warning or explanation? Missing explores the stories we tell ourselves when we just don't know.