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Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.

Mércedès breaks off a difficult relationship with Johnny, a jealous and possessive young North African. Then another love affair begins with Pierre, a journalist who abandons her.

This film is an update of Jean Cocteau's Orpheus, set in the world of 1980s rock.

A sweet and sexy thug actually a wolf in a sheep clothing and a violent and abusive cop with rugged good looks and verging on criminality are inflamed with uncontrollable desire by the provocative and suggestive attitude of the latter's young wife. When she decides to go AWOL with the thug, the infuriated possessive and humiliated cop throws himself in a car chase after them under the scorching sun.

Super Nana, David Grossexe, Simone Cuisse d'Acier, Jean-Yves Lafesse occupy during three nights of summer 82, with their guests, Radio Carbone 14's studio, one of those numerous « free radio » created in France at this period.

From legendary French New Wave director Agnès Varda, a triptych of short documentary films exploring the power and vitality of the photograph. Each film separated by 20 years, from her first documentary in the early 60s, through a doc from the early 80s, to her most recent. In the breathtaking Salut les Cubains (1963) Varda sequences a series of pictures shot during a trip to Castro's Cuba, including a thrilling Chris Marker-esque moment when a singer's performance suddenly comes to life before our eyes. In Ulysse (1983) she reunites with the subjects of a mysterious photo taken long ago. And in Ydessa, les ours et etc... (2004), Varda contemplates the meaning of teddy bears when juxtaposed with photos of living people, when she visits Canada to interview teddy bear artist Ydessa Hendeles.

Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease's real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.

The tale of a sad delinquent trying to overcome his miserable childhood to find success at love and life.

Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a boy's lost bicycle. C'est la vie. It's "a river like any other". Sprightly accordion music rounds out the atmosphere.

Constance is an actress. She is pregnant and happy to be having a child. But what is more important for an actress than playing? And how to conceal a baby bump if you want to keep your lowest remuneration in the film industry?