Myriam Boyer

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate. (imdb)

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future. (imdb)

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller. (imdb)

An experimental musical set in a shopping mall and focusing on three female hairdressers.

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them. (imdb)

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept. (imdb)

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters. (imdb)

In this provocative drama, adolescent girl Victorine (Anouk Grinber) struggles with her approaching teenage years while living in a lower-class neighborhood of Marseilles. Her overbearing mother (Myriam Boyer) and her alcoholic father (Marcello Mastroianni) propel her into an almost constant dream world, until she befriends a mysterious woman and later encounters her first love, Petit Paul (Olivier Martinez), with whom she has a brief affair. (www.netflix.com)

A bunch of lovable losers go to war.

Marius, 12, has not seen his father for years and he misses him badly. Marie, his mother, a workaholic firm manager, knows that she will never reconcile with her ex-husband. She must do something to address her son's frustration but what to do? (imdb)

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women. (imdb)

In a small secluded village, two women watch out for telegrams, bringing in bad news from the front where their sons are fighting. As the postman appears, the two women can only see one thing: the image of death coming and knocking at one door of the village... but which one?

August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their own in store. Teens fall in and out of love. Kids not yet teens have their own parties and friendships. Lucien's friends set him up with Aline, the wife of a jealous husband. Euloge wants an assignation with the waitress, Yveline. (imdb)

A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother. (imdb)

Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. (imdb)

A television film made by Agnès Varda. Very much based on her own life, the film follows a girl, whose father is from Greece, studying ancient art in France. The film was never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks, and is now only available in reconstructed form.

Mother Christain runs a bistrot. Her clientele is made up of bargemen, workers and lost girls, against a backdrop of factory chimneys and railroad tracks. Influenced by radio soap operas and “Détective” magazine, Mother Christain sets out on her own investigation to find her daughter's killer, whose body has been discovered in her coal cellar.

Twenty-year-old Zef, with limited mental capacity, is always happy, loving everyone. He lives on an isolated farm in the Lot region. One evening, he commits the irreparable act of raping young Marie. Institutionalized in a psychiatric asylum, Zef closes in on himself. Hugues Michel, an unorthodox doctor, is asked to treat Marie. He decides to put her face to face with Zef, confident that electroshock will bring healing. But he's in for a surprise.

The suicide of a young student is investigated by a friend. (imdb)