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Told from a dogs perspective - the titular Baxter is moved from one owner to another, seemingly never being a good fit for anyone.

When a strange creature crawls into a woman's uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

A couple formed by a 40-year-old former writer who has fallen into alcoholism, and a beautiful young woman 20 years his junior, is struggling. They will meet again after a dramatic event, which occurred during a stay in Haiti.

A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings.

With the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.

Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state of feelings begin to fill her mind, forcing her to come to terms with innermost self.

In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy.

Violence and intrigue ensue when a French doctor "Gérard Depardieu" kills his wife and lover and joins the Foreign Legion.

Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.

Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali, a talkative and boastful man.

A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, who he will launch successfully. But Puppet is to be murdered.

When Tom returned from the army in the summer of 1958 to his native Pyrenees, he never expected to meet an 18-year-old girl who was causing trouble in the region. She would eventually lead Tom to oppose his brother Vincent.

A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved in very bad things. Arrested, he is released thanks to the teacher's evidence who provides him with an alibi before leaving him for good.

The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.

A dozen sketches featuring colorful characters.Social, cultural and political commentary drive this series of sketches, which put wacky characters from all walks of life in unusual situations.

A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Neverthelesss, life goes on ,with mom's nervous breakdowns , dad's absences ;The daughter, Julie, an abandoned social worker,is always sobbing ; her sister , rehearsing the "Hebrew slaves chorus" is eagerly waiting for her drafted fiancee.

A cartoonist blocks the memory of his dead father, yet he can not help but make him a character of his albums. Refusing paternity and family life, he has adventures only with married women.

After failing his officer exams, the son of a colonel comes home for the summer and falls for an attractive houseguest.

Clara is a woman known for her beauty, her intelligence and her spirit. Loved and admired by all, already thinking with terror at the time of its decline.

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.

A film director is making a film about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert, starring drama students at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. One of them, smart-mouthed actress Marie, decides to live with him.