Niels Arestrup

28-year-old Tom follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty real estate deals. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life.

A series of character studies about a group of intelligent but neurotic upper-middle class intellectuals at a beautiful resort in Evian, France.

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. (imdb)

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend. (imdb)

The war-time diaries of writer Karl Junger, sensitive observer of human behavior and --at the same time-- military governor of Nazi-occupied Paris, serve as a departure for Cozarinsky's enthralling reflection on personal responsibility and collective guilt. Made in exile, this remains a groundbreaking work of Latin American documentary. (princeton.edu)

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

"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)

A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of TANNHAUSER while navigating the snares and pitfalls of 'artistic' egos, rampant nationalism, internal company and union politics, and precarious funding. (imdb)

While researching an article on the Vel'd'Hiv Roundup in 1942 France, Julia, an American journalist stumbles across the story of Sarah, a ten year old Jewish girl who desperately tried to save her younger brother from the police by locking him in a cupboard. Through her research, Julia comes across a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah and change the way she sees the world.

Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error. Standing over the corpse of his wife's lover, Paul knows that his perfect life has gone for good.

This is the story of a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who stays with them.

Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. (imdb)

Murielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Since childhood, the Murielle lives with Dr. Pinget, which has afforded Mounir an easy (material) life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the dependence of the torque to the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds himself locked in a suffocating emotional atmosphere, leading the family to a tragic outcome. (mubi.com)

Conrad Lang is the handyman of a wealthy family, and accidentally sets fire to the large holiday home of which he was the guardian. He then returns to his childhood home on the wedding day of Phillipe and Simone...

When the party's official candidate, suffering from cancer, is forced to resign, Michel Dedieu is named to replace him at the last minute. He's to be confronted very shortly with his opponent at a TV debate and as he is little known, his campaign committee decides to coach him in a TV studio reproduced in his own home. Michel complies reluctantly. Worse he has a row with his wife, who disappears after having shaken off her bodyguard. The atmosphere is so tense that Dedieu suddenly feels unwell. (imdb)

Script-writers who adapt Balzac or Dostoievsky excuse the idiotic transformations they impose on the works from which they construct their scenarios by pleading that the cinema is incapable of rendering every psychological or metaphysical overtone. (Alexandre Astruc)

Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps. (imdb)

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

A political satire about a dashing, globetrotting French foreign minister whose charm and insouciance mask his utter and complete incompetence. (tiff.net)

A story that focuses on the problematic relationship between Paul Marseul, owner of a prestigious vineyard in Saint Emilion and his son, Martin, who works with him on the family estate. Paul is a demanding and passionate wine-maker but is a domineering father. He is not happy that his son may one day succeed him. He dreams of a son who is more talented, more charismatic . . . and more in line with his own aspirations. (IMDb)

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Cholitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Carré is the patron of the BRB (Prevention of Banditry Brigade). Three years earlier, he dropped a big mobster Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who swung.

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

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

In the 11th-century epic Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. He is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. (imdb)

November 1918. A few days before the Armistice, Édouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. These two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. (imdb)

A look at Vincent van Gogh's time in Arles. (imdb)

An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean. (imdb)

In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow. (imdb)

Albert Desiderio, a humble retired man, decides to hire a novelist to write his memoirs. But the amazing love story Albert shared with Solange during the 70's turns out to be the confession of a serial killer couple.

At 17, Zahia Ziouani dreams of becoming a conductor while Fettouma, her twin sister, a professional cellist. (imdb)

Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, conversations about men. This is prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah has long taken for granted as a plat... Read all (imdb)

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)