Jean-Loup Dabadie

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future.

On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say ? (imdb)

Pierre, a successful expert in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks. (imdb)

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs... (imdb)

A restaurant waiter aspires to start an amusement park on the beach.

Catherine Deneuve running away from an afair and Yves Montand a perfume maker isolated on a Caribbean island.

Four friends, Etienne, Daniel, Simon and Bouly, have a hard time growing older and are still playing tricks among themselves. Etienne, who always stayed faithful to his wife, suddenly falls in love with Marthe after seeing her only once. He does everything he can to conquer her heart, "helped" by his friends. Hilarity ensues.

Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. (Wikipedia)

A musical comedy written by Serge Gainsbourg about a comic book colorist (Anna Karina) and the head of a fashion magazine (Jean-Claude Brialy), who is infatuated with a girl he took a photo of.

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank.

Romy Schneider plays Marie, a forty-something working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie eventually parts with her lover, aborting the pregnancy resulting from her liaison. She pauses long enough to take stock of her current situation, and to muse on its possible outcome.

An illiterate man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him? (imdb)

Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldi, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma. (Allmovie)

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife.His mistress has also left him.He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection. (imdb)

Three friends face mid-life crises

Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mother's house, with her siblings and small daughter, and César's. He's self made, a scrap iron king, outgoing, amiable, in love with her. Enter David, an artist and Rosalie's flame before her marriage. In a quiet, brooding way, he seeks to reclaim Rosalie. César's jealous outbursts and attempts at cunning backfire and send Rosalie into David's arms. César keeps trying: he buys Rosalie's childhood seaside vacation home as a gift, win (imdb)

In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi (Julian Negulesco), an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. (allmovie.com)

People annoy and bore a Paris veterinarian (Jean Rochefort), until he meets someone (Miou-Miou) new and awkwardly falls in love.

Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center. (imdb)

Lisa, a young Italian living in Paris, waits at home for her lover to arrive. Late at night a phone call informs her that he is at a night-club with a pretty "Lolita"... Hurt deep inside, she attempts suicide but is saved by her neighbour. Luckily, the misunderstanding is soon cleared: the young girl was her lover's daughter in search of fatherly advice. Lisa learned the hard way that lovers are not the most important thing in men's lives... (movie-time)

Martin Belhomme is a coward since his birth. After a childhood spent in the tumult of the Occupation, he is married with Mathilda, who will decide everything: they will have two children and he will become a pharmacist, even if he vowed a passion for music. But after this monotonous life, events in May 68 will lead him into a crazy adventure. (Wikipedia)

An impoverished aristocrat goes to desperate lengths to find something to eat. (Wikipedia)

Gaston Berrien is a hatter and father of a boy and a girl of 17 years. One day arrives in his shop a customer whose concern is much more to know his turnover than to find a hat to his size. The trader is right to worry, because his trade is only a cover.

3 days in the lives of 6 friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. (imdb)

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat. (imdb)

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Under the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

In a small town, crushed by the heat of summer, in 1919, a war hero was held prisoner in a deserted barracks. In front of the door, his whipped dog barks day and night. Not far away, in the countryside, a young woman worn out by the work of the land, too educated to be a simple peasant, wait and hope. (imdb)

Pierre, a sixty-year-old technician on an offshore oil rig, has become a misanthropic loner. He had a wife but she died after a breakdown whose seriousness he had more or less deliberately overlooked. He had a lover, beautiful concert pianist Florence, but he left her without giving her any explanations. Now his only life companion is an alley cat he has adopted. (imdb)

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal. (imdb)