Christian Vadim

Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee... (imdb)

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes. (imdb)

A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other. (imdb)

A prelude announces the intent to tell nine stories, all marked with letters of alphabet, with the subsequent permutations of these stories. Not only the plotlines get mutated and re-ordered, so do the actors, hats, beards, accents, manners - whatever may identify a character ceases to be such an identifier. The plot itself becomes a mystery, since there are parallel searches for the treasure, the map of treasure, which as we learn is a treasure in itself, a coin, a kidnapped father etc.

Thérèse (Casta), a young country girl, gets away with her husband in pursuit of a better life in the city. There, she finds out that her spirit is uncontrollable, that she is an "âme forte". She meets another savage soul, Madame Numance (Dombasle), the cultivated, elegant and mysterious benefactor of the city. An intense relationship, based on mutual admiration, is generated between the two women, until Thérèse's husband decides to take advantage of the Numances' kindness and robs them.

An old man, awaiting death, wanders about a dream city reliving scenes from his youth. (mubi.com)

Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course! (imdb)

The journey of Sam Ali, a Syrian man who fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian war, hoping to eventually join his lover in Paris. (imdb)

Three old friends, now in their 40s, meet up once a week for dinner. One of them tells the others how he ran into Margaux. the hottest girl in their class in high school, and that she's joining them for dinner. (imdb)

Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups. (imdb)

Victor, in his forties, professor of literature on vacation and amateur forecaster at Météo-France, is a will-o'-the-wisp, a sympathetic dilettante, who lets himself live with the wind, alongside his companion, Anne, who is beginning to tired of it. (imdb)