Isabelle Petit-Jacques

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him... (imdb)

The story of two men who might never have met but for an accident, who appear to have nothing in common, yet who change each other's view of life at the last possible moment. (Paramount Classics)

"Cuisine Américaine" follows the career of an American would-be master chef from seeing why he is dishonorably discharged from the navy to life in his family's pizza parlor to the chance to go to France and study under a French "multi-star" chef. (imdb)

In this French comedy, Antoine is a Union delegate at a factory that is falling on hard times. With business in a slump, it looks like the factory will have to close its doors, but when Antoine wins the lottery, he uses his new fortune to buy the company and keep the business going. However, it isn't long before Antoine discovers things are a lot tougher for management than he ever imagined. (Allmovie)

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally. (imdb)

Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid of growing up... But he won't be afraid to love them. (imdb)