Miou-Miou

Jeanne, a brilliant architect, must suddenly investigate the murder of the owner and patriarch of the mansion she has been commissioned to renovate.

A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.

Rose and Alice, two sisters, take their mother Françoise on vacations in order to make her forget her recent separation. But Françoise, might be the one who will surprise them in the end.

A woman walks into a police station claiming she killed her husband ten years earlier.

A young widow wants to install electricity on her plantation.

After landing her first job as a secretary in the city, small-town girl Rose has a chance to enter the regional speed typewriting competition. First stop, Normandy. Next... the world!

Retired Jean-Paul Muret's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.

Andrei Filipov, former conductor of the Bolshoi of Moscow, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians and therefore become a family man. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. (Wikipedia)

A psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer is brutally shot while his wife is standing over him with a revolver in her hand. (imdb)

The Science of Sleep is a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. (Warner Independent Pictures)

The story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" (The blue parrot). The innkeeper, Gabriel(le) dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father (the magician played by Gérard Lanvin) had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of the Blue Parrot is in their hands. (imdb comments)

April is a young novice in a convent. She is about to pronounce her vows, when he reveals the existence of a twin brother. She goes looking for him and finds himself in the Camargue vacation for two weeks with three boys ..

Stella (Vahina Giocante) works as go-go dancer at night and is out with the boys in the evening. Her mother Antoinette (Miou-Miou) works at Le Grande Hôtel as a chambermaid during the day. They hardly ever meet and keep in touch by mobile-phone. Stella meets Mr Romansky, an agent for real estate, and drops her latest boy friend to date the man who can afford to stay at the Grande. ((imdb))

L'un reste, L'autre part is the story of two old time friends, both in their fifties, both married, who fall for two younger women. The cast is nothing less than stellar: Daniel Auteuil, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Charlotte Gainsbourg

Benjamin (Alexis Loret) and Johanna (Chloé Lambert) are in love with each other and are getting married. On the day of their wedding everything seems to be fine and perfect but the reality is that everything goes wrong.

Normal people, no foolish romantic side storyline, just a police woman with problems on her own searching for a missing girl. We just see her perspective and know as much of the crime as she does. (imdb user Comments)

Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them (imdb)

Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing more and more attached to Loic... (imdb)

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up... (imdb)

The Parisian broker Steph only needs the signature from his wife Patricia for their divorce - but she left 13 years ago for living with Amazonas indians. Steph finds her in the village and gets stuck for two days, where he learns that he has got a son, who grew up as an indian. Meanwhile he promises his son Mimi-Siku to show him Paris as soon as he will become a man. However, this happens next day when the tribe celebrates the children's festival. So both fly back to Paris... (imdb)

Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women. (imdb)

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them (imdb)

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

Everyone thinks that François Voisin is a model executive with a calm and orderly life, but it is only a front. In reality, François is a secret agent, one of the best: in the game he is nicknamed l'Épée, "the Sword". But even as he infiltrates arms-smuggling rings and prevents terrorist attacks, he fails to realize that his wife is bored. One day he discovers she is having an affair... (Wikipedia)

In 1968, while Paris is burning with the student revolt, five friends stand out. They have a leader with the code name of Nechayev. They slowly slide to terrorism, together with the other revolutionary network. Some time later, Nechayev is betrayed and disappears in mysterious circumstances in Gibraltar.

Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news... (imdb)

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same... (imdb)

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents... (jhailey@hotmail.com)

Gerard Depardieu plays a bisexual petty criminal named Bob who encounters a married couple arguing in a bar... (imdb)

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women. (imdb)

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally oriented than he is, and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around. (imdb)

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee (Lena Weber) marries a soldier (Michel Korski) to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student (Madeleine) loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor (Costa Segara), gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point. (imdb)

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)

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering. (imdb)

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

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

The relationship between a french prostitute and her brother. (imdb)

David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people's home. But actually his parents are dead, and he spends the week-ends converting a chalet. He intends to live there with Lise, a woman he knows and loves since childhood. But Lise has just married another and has a baby. David's mad love does not see those facts as an obstacle... (imdb)

An advertising photographer (Francois) has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, Francois' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in (he thinks) a love movie. (imdb)

A young unemployed person, nourished by dreams and ideals, loses the pedals in contact with reality and a passion of disenchanted love.

A young graduate headed for military service, although having done everything to be admitted to the academy, is uncomfortable in the harsh reality of military life. His superior, currently in a state of depression, confides in him and, without knowing it, his wife's lover.

Jip, a young man of twenty-five who gives a few piano lessons for a living, shares his life with Mona, a triumphant forty-year-old. The romance is shattered by the arrival of the young and pretty Dutch girl Rita. (imdb)

Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major. (imdb)

Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance, and wishing to avoid getting involved with the police, the girl finds a willing lad in a bar who will help her with her predicament. He loads the body into the back of his father's car. Before he can find a place to dump the body, his father takes off in it to see his mistress. (Allmovie)

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure. (imdb)

Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor. (imdb)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer... (imdb)

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder. (imdb)

The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers.