Jean-Pierre Kalfon

The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part of it. (Fox Searchlight)

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West. (imdb)

Madame de Maintenon, a courtesan to the royal court and wife to King Louis XIV, opens a special school for girls, seeking to educate young ladies of distinguished parentage but limited financial means. (Answers.com)

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have. (imdb)

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations... (imdb)

Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'Obscured by Clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences... (imdb)

The disintegrating relationship of a theatre director-actor and his actress-wife.

Paris today. Simon works as psychologist in human resources department of petrochemical corporation. When Management gets him to investigate one of the factory's executives, Simon'perception goes disturbingly chaotic and cloudy. The experience affects his body, his mind, his personal life and his sensibility. The calm assurance that made him such a rigorous technician starts to falter. (imdb)

Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show... (imdb)

Samuel Benchetrit takes the helm for this laid-back crime comedy that weaves together four stories which all eventually convene at a roadside diner. Franck (Edouard Baer) is a petty criminal who is currently pondering the prospect of holding up a remote diner. When observant waitress Suzie (Anna Mouglalis) eventually realizes that Franck has more than a meal on his mind, she reveals that she too had considered robbing the place until getting disheartening peak at the anemic cash register. (allmovie.com)

After separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette. Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert. When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him. (imdb)

Philippe Garrel's symbolic retelling of the Christ myth set in modern times scores most as a phantasma rather than an explication of the rites of the myth. (imdb)

Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend... (imdb)

"Les Apprentis Sorciers" is a thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one. (imdb)

Frédéric Pardo's home movie from the set of Philippe Garrel's Le lit de la vierge.

Matthias Duval, is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.

The film follows a French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.

A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own. (Allmovie)

Antoine Chapelot, a bachelor in his forties, works in a hardware shop and lives with his mother. Everything changes when he meets Caroline, a teenaged charmer who unwittingly helps him to organize a lucrative real estate scam. While he is on a roll, Antoine decides to pursue the career of a swindler a bit further by persuading a rich family that they had a long-lost American uncle who has just died a millionaire.

Georges Sand (Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant:1804-76) was a noblewoman who broke new ground for women in the 19th century. This French film makes an effort to depict her life to show how she is an essential forerunner of the women's liberation movement.

The film centers around the rise and fall of three pop stars who sing and dance their way through Les Idoles. (cinebeats.blogsome.com)

In Algeria in 1930's, a cat who belongs to the daughter of a rabbi, gains the ability to speak. With his new ability he devours information just as he has devoured the family parrot and he develops an urge to become a Jewish cat like his family. But a cat's mind might be too brutally honest and piercing for human religions which are full of contradictions.

The film tells Jules Bonnot activities in the 1910s. Surrounded by anti-social and idealistic guys, he engages in criminal acts that put France into turmoil. (Wikipedia)

In Nazi-occupied France, a police inspector collaborates with the Gestapo while a thief works for the Resistance.

The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. (allmovie.com)

Mutated in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), a young policewoman investigates a network of child prostitution and runs up against the local establishment.

When new boss Bernard Malair arrives to turn the store around, Louis fears for his job; but Bernard, with his numbers man Paul and his factotum François, invites Louis into an inner circle of long hours of work, nightclubs, and dinners. Nina objects, but Louis cannot say no to Bernard's demands, no matter how personal. In desperation, Nina leaves Louis, but that drives him further into Bernard's orbit. Can anything break this spell? (IMDB (adapted))

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the ... (imdb)

A corrupt politician, who is also a drug dealer, becomes the target of a hitman.

Necrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with efficiency. While most of the underground citizens are only concerned about pleasures, drinking, using drugs, partying hard and all, a huge load of heroin has gone missing, and that's another indicative that a terrible crime wave is on the rise.

Two friends work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. (imdb)

Julien's politics and love life clash when he joins Algeria's National Liberation Front, which is fighting France for independence.

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity. (imdb)

After the cold blood murder of Francois Paoli,a notorious Corsican mobster, Sandra Paoli, his niece, takes over the reign of violence, money, drug and sex in a world of it's own : Corsica.

Georges Clou lives in Le Parc, a luxurious private town on the Côte d'Azur. Rich and solitary, Paul Marteau leads a melancholy, idle existence. Torn between his harsh judgment of the world and his desire to belong, Marteau settles in Le Parc. Clou sees an opportunity for sincere friendship. Marteau finds a new reason to live: to destroy the ideal of Western man's happiness embodied by the Clou family. (wikipedia)

Catherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the lost years and tries to built up a close relationship to her already grown-up son. (imdb)

Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept. (imdb)

The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined... (imdb)

"A woman sitting on a bench, silent, filmed long and closely." (imdb)

A group of partisans, denounced by farmers in June 1944, are forced to flee through war-torn France. (imdb)