Ridicule

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then sh…

Den aldrende libertiner Alex holder Florida Keys overklasse forsynet med dyre vine. Hans ekstravagante levevis nøder ham til at stjæle en diamanthalskæde fra et overklassehjem. Men da Alex skal til New York for at sælge smykket, overraskes …

Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matt…

Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter, 15-year-old Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always rosy at Alessandro'…

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.

A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually insinuating himself into their world. The stranger’s persistence creates strain, leaving the man with lingering…

I det herrens år 1817 dukker en mystisk mandsperson op i Paris. Han er tilsyneladende den navnkundige oberst Chabert, men der er ét problem: Oberst Chabert døde i 1807. Hans forhenværende hustru er gift igen og hedder nu grevinde Ferraud. H…

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebr…

A retelling in two parts, from 1977 to 1986, of the education and the rise to power of a group of young graduates of the prestigious ENA school.

Under sin jomfrurejse over Atlanten får verdens første kommercielle overlydsfly uventet selskab af et jagerfly, der affyrer missiler. Er det et uheld? Eller kan angrebet mon være nøje planlagt af våbenfabrikanten Harrison, fordi hans elsker…

Philip er en amerikansk forfatter, der lever i eksil i London, og lytter til kvinder. Hans engelske elskerinde, som besøger ham regelmæssigt i atelieret, der fungerer som deres tilflugtssted. En elev, han elskede i et andet liv. En tidliger…

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This…

Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies unde…

Vi følger den berømte kastratsanger Carlo Broschi - med kunstnernavnet Farinelli - i hans møde med det spanske og engelske kongehus, smukke kvinder og indflydelsesrige personer som Georg Friedrich Händel og Nicola Porpora.

I efterfølgeren til "Min fars store dag" fortsætter Yves Robert sin erindringsskildring af Marcel Pagnols ungdom og dennes særlige forhold til det smukke Provence. Marcel bliver denne gang bjergtaget af både landskabet og en eksotisk pige, …

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Paris, Kongeriget Frankrig, 18. august 1572. For at undgå udbruddet af en religionskrig gifter den katolske prinsesse Marguerite de Valois, søster til den svage konge Karl IX, sig med huguenotkong Henrik III af Navarra.

In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerg…