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To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

British detective investigates friend's death in 1938 French town. Uncovers illicit affair, Nazi ties, aristocratic family's secrets while pursuing the killer's identity.

Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking. He wonders why. Raoul does not look for a great passion, he only wants to be kissed. We will follow his love tribulations.

Professor Jean Rivière receives phone calls accusing him of murder. A teddy bear arrives by mail.

Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.

The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.

A seasoned hitman's world turns upside down when he meets a rookie assassin and a skilled thief. Pursued by the mob, the trio seeks refuge with his mother. As bonds grow and threats loom, they brace for an ultimate confrontation.

The time of a summer, a girl (Virginia) will know the ideal love through that of three of his friends, Anne, Maurice and Jacques.She keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her although she is in a lesbian relationship.

A young man,Frédéric,is accused of a double murder :his own parents .Thanks to his brilliant lawyer,Maître Dunand ,he is acquitted .But ,shortly afterwards, the arrogant boy tells his counsel that he was actually guilty.Does he tell the truth or does he lie? In Frédéric's luxury mansion in Lyon town ,begins a long night during which terrible secrets are revealed .

Four men meet one woman. Not a balance of power.

Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station ,but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends ,his skills are dubious.

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.

1912. The steamer sails for Europe. At night, two men meet in the shadow of the side. A frank conversation takes place between them, in which one of them, imbued with confidence in the other, tries to pour out his soul to him and tells an incident that recently happened to him. He talks about how, having signed a long-term contract, he leaves Holland and goes to a remote tropical village to practice medicine. Being in a foreign land for a long time, he falls into despair. One day a certain noble lady comes to him and asks him to secretly terminate her pregnancy, while offering a large sum of money. However, in a fit of overwhelming feelings, he refuses money and demands another meeting with her after hours. Being humiliated, the woman runs out of the room. Repenting of his act, the doctor rushes after her, but does not have time to catch up with her. Later he learns that she is the wife of a major merchant and comes from a noble English family. The husband has been in America for a long time and should return soon. For a long time he remains in a state of obsession, pursues her everywhere, trying to correct his mistake and help her hide her infidelity to her husband.

The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.

Alexandrine, 12, is the only witness to a crime she can barely denounce. Yet, a few words will suffice to spread panic around her. Why is she bringing horrific charges against her father and then retracting?

France, free zone, autumn 1940. The parallel and crossed story of a newlywed couple, whose husband is a teacher, and that of two teenagers who love each other in secret.

A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison.

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?

Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Raymond. He is apprenticed to Mietek, a tailor in the Jewish quarter, who teaches him the trade. Fausto charms everyone in the quarter, and falls in love with Tonie, the mechanic's daughter. He starts making outrageous suits for publicity and, after dressing Tonie, decides that he wants to be a famous couturier.

In this road comedy from France, the goal is a convent where a woman at death's door and the travelers are her husband (a philosopher who has been in a madhouse since trying to strangle the woman for adultery but who is now summoned to say goodbye to her), his sidekick from the madhouse (a charming but ungovernable simpleton), his psychiatrist (the nebbish trying to keep the journey going), and his psychiatrist's girlfriend. That the patient's history may foreshadow the psychiatrist's is only one of the many problems.

After a difficult breakup and three years of abstinence from sex, Eva sets out in search of a new soul mate.

A house is opened in spring where some men and women in search of love are living. Life has different means for them.

Torn from a dream while trying to seduce the woman he wants, Adrien decides to make it come true. To do this, he will call on Yoska, a Slavic intellectual recycled into moonlighting.

June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess. Far from the horrors of war, a strange cohabitation begins, a mixture of fear, friendship, love and hate.