The scenario was adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef, associated by some critics with the film noir style, and introducing new narrative and editing techniques, the film is considered an important work in establishing the Nouvelle Vagueand the New Modern Cinema. Its score by Miles Davis, and the relationship the film establishes between music, image and emotion, were considered ground-breaking.

As this favorable position will be granted to somebody who is disabled, Abrams decides to pretend that he is. However, the management finds out. As punishment, he is banished for two years to Bergues, a town near Dunkirk in northern France – a cold and rainy place inhabited by unsophisticated ch’tis.

He has to spend his first night at the home of Antoine, a co-worker of his, whom he initially dislikes for his obnoxious behavior and because he initially thinks he is gay (he found photographs of Antoine dressed as a woman, taken during a carnival party and Antoine admits to doing more than dressing as a woman during that time). However, Antoine and Philippe later become best friends.

A building in a city with a broken elevator. Three meetings. Six characters.
Will Sternkowtiz leave his chair to find the love of a night nurse?
Charly, the abandoned teenager, will he manage to get a role for Jeanne Meyer, actress of the 80s?

And what will happen to John McKenzie, astronaut fallen from the sky and collected by Mrs. Hamida?

In the midst of World War II, Julien Quentin leaves his mother and Paris to travel to a Catholic boarding school in the country. Upon arrival, he meets Jean Bonnet, the new boy who claims to be Protestant, and, though hostile at first, begins to befriend him. He is the only boy who discovers his new friend’s secret: that he is a Jew named Jean Kippelstein hiding from the Gestapo.

The turmoil in France at the time is apparent in this film through several instances. First, there are two air raids during which the students must hide in a sheltered basement underground. Collaborators search the school at one point looking for shirkers from German work camps. Also, when Jean and Julien get lost in the woods during a “boy scout game”, they are caught by Nazi soldiers and returned to the school.

Through the eyes of each other, they experience the world in a new light. The gardener’s occasional stomach cramps is identified as cancer and soon he passes away. The painter takes what his friend has given him and shares a part of it through an art exhibition.

In Paris, the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer, with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue, Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his unemployment benefit.

Philippe challenges Driss, offering him a trial period of one month to gain experience helping him. Then Driss can decide whether he would like to stay with him or not. Driss accepts the challenge and moves to the mansion, changing the boring life of Phillipe and his employees.

City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when the original owner is accidentally killed by covetous farmer Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand). Soubeyran and his equally disreputable nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) pull every dirty trick in the book to force Cadoret off his land, but the novice farmer stands firm. Although the Soubeyrans appear to gain the upper hand, the audience is assured that they will eventually be foiled by the vengeful daughter of the spring’s deceased owner — thus setting the stage for the film’s equally successful sequel, Manon des Sources.

Realizing that if Pignon tries to kill himself again the police will search the place, Milan offers to talk him out of it until after his assassination. Unfortunately Pignon starts irritating him more, and makes it more difficult for him to fulfill his contract killing.

But on his return, Fernand finds his typical Marseillais  restaurant “Le bon bouillabaisse” renamed as “La sole Normande” … And his wife Christiane, who thought he was dead, remarried with Andre, a chef from Normandy. At first things are tense, and later the rivalry sets in between the two men

The film then follows their relationship as they travel around Europe with the act. Their companionship and teamwork mean great luck for both of them. Then they get separated and their lives once again become luckless. The film ends on a bridge in Istanbul, this time with her saving him from suicide.

Involuntarily, Lefort, Juliette and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers.

Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small-time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. Saïd  – (Saïd Taghmaoui) is an North African who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends’ responses to their place in life.

With Pierre Niney and Charlotte Gainsbourg – Based on Romain Gary’s memoir, it presents how he overcame poverty in Poland, sensual education in the south of France and WWII aviation derring-do in Africa and Europe.

It also portrays the fierce love between Gary and his vivacious single mother Nina.

One evening he must carry by foot, to the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing pork meat. He goes to the basement of a grocer named Jambier and plays the accordion to mask the noise while the animal is slaughtered. Martin then goes with his wife Mariette to the restaurant where he must meet his accomplice, but learns that the man has been arrested by the police.

Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish community and rises as a sales manager. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss’s daughter (played by Amira Casar).

Only on their arrival, they notice the surprise departure of the wives, who decided to leave them the children to take a few days holiday alone. This angers Max, who has prepared himself to tell his wife that he was leaving her to live with his mistress. He must also manage his step daughter, a pretty independent teenager. Raoul, having no children, stays alone with his dog, when he has just decided to quit smoking. Vincent, must learn to control his children, who he has educated very liberally, being more himself a big kid than an adult.

They all dive into the problems of rent, neighborhood, cohabitation, and in the book of Louise Abel, which encourages women to regain control of their lives.

Leaving Paris for his summer vacation, the naïve Antoine Maréchal has his 2CV totally wrecked in a collision with the Bentley of company director Léopold Saroyan. As compensation, Saroyan offers Maréchal the chance to drive a friend’s 1964 white Cadillac DeVille convertible from Naples to Bordeaux, all expenses paid. Unknown to Maréchal, Saroyan is the leader of a criminal gang and the Cadillac is filled with heroin, gold and precious stones, including the largest diamond in the world, the Youkounkoun.

With the help of an “idiot scout”, Brochant manages to find a “gem”, François Pignon, a sprightly employee of the Finance Ministry (which Brochant, a tax cheat, loathes) who has a passion for building replicas of landmarks with matchsticks…

This is one of the world’s biggest commercial successes for a French film. The film receives numerous awards and nominations, including 13 at the Césars, and 5 at the Oscars.

In 2002, it won four Césars, including Best Film and Best Director.

Castella owns a industrial steel barrel plant in Rouen; Bruno is his flute-playing driver, Franck is his temporary bodyguard while he negotiates a contract with Iranians, his wife Angélique does frou-frou interior decorating and loves her dog.

The conventional Castella hires a forty-year-old actress, Clara, to tutor him in English, and he finds her and her Bohemian lifestyle fascinating. Is this love? What would she say if he declared himself? Through Bruno, Franck meets Manie, a barmaid who deals hash. They begin an affair. Are they in love? They joke about marriage. As the women hold back, the men must make decisions.

Conceived by Louis de Funès in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of the misadventures of Mr. Septime, owner of a great Parisian restaurant on the Champs-Elysées, flagship of French gastronomy, who is tyrannical with his employees and obsequious with his clients.

His life is turned upside down by the kidnapping of a South American head of state in his prestigious establishment, and all suspicions are aimed at him.

The film is loosely based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and the famous legend of the Beast of Gévaudan; parts of the film were shot at Château de Roquetaillade. The film has several extended swashbuckling fight scenes, with martial arts performances by the cast mixed in, making it unusual for a historical drama.

The film received generally positive critical reviews, highlighting its high production values, cinematography, performances and Gans’ atmospheric direction.

The first days go off like a dream and both are on top of the world. But things quickly turn sour. Didier and Bernard find it harder and harder to resist the temptation. They become irritable, suspicious, they lie; until the fifteenth day: the family get-together. They have kept their word, but relations between them and their wives are at an all-time low. Despite this, they are both determined to remain non-smokers.

Pierre a stuffy, self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure…

Work means everything to this gloomy and boring little man since both his ex-wife, who left him after two years of marriage, and their 16-year-old son avoid him. But things are about to change when Pignon’s psychologist neighbor persuades him that he can save his job by coming out to his employers as a gay man — even though he isn’t.

Today it’s a magnificent wedding, yet another one, in a seventeenth century château. This time, Pierre and Héléna are getting married. As usual, Max has coordinated everything: he’s hired his brigade of waiters, cooks, and dishwashers, advised the couple on a photographer, reserved the orchestra, arranged the floral decorations, in short, all the ingredients have been brought together so that the celebration is a success.

He finds out he is terminally ill and has only three months to live. He rejects the treatment for his metastasized tumor that might offer him a slim (less than 5%) chance of survival.

Romain exhibits both selfish and reckless behavior. He realizes that his good looks give him a certain amount of leeway and he tests the forbearance of the people who care for him. He chases away his lover Sasha and delights in antagonizing his sister. The only person in whom he confides about his illness is his grandmother Laura.

Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, Dandieu asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter to the remote village where he owns a chateau. One week later, Dandieu sets off to meet them for the weekend, but the Germans have now occupied the village. He finds that all the villagers have been herded into the church and shot. In the château, now occupied by the Germans, he finds his daughter shot and his wife burnt alive by a flame-thrower…

The sometimes painful apprenticeship of a daily life where love, friendship or simply the closeness of others is the greatest of riches.

Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate magazine, the consequences of which sends the playwright into a spiraling bout of depression.

Bernard and Nathalie, get rich, and flagrantly show off their riches. Gigi, now married to Jerome, runs a crêperie. Christiane returns to them transformed by the love she has found with an affable sexagenarian, Marius. Popeye, always showing off, gives ski lessons and gets into trouble chasing women, married or single. Jean-Claude, wanders and fantasises in the void, vainly believing in the feminine encounter that will transform his life …

A must-watch, hilarious film with all the necessary tongue-in-cheek stereotypes and clichés to provide a glimpse into French culture.

Sebastien Nicolas lives alone. To try to make sense of his life, he follows strangers and usurps their identity by disguising himself as them. When one day he meets a world famous violinist, he sees the life he has always dreamed of, so more than borrowing it, it he steals it.

Getting taken over by events, Sebastien takes huge risks to become the one he would like to be, even to sacrifice his own life, and that of others …

The two men are still dealing with their experiences from World War I, as is their friend Mr. Richard (Michel Serrault), who turned a junk business into a successful metal foundry but still visits his old pals at the marsh, because he feels they’re the only ones who understand him.

The group’s stress level is further goosed by pot-smoking rebel Marie (Marion Cotillard), lovesick actor Eric (Gilles Lellouche) and the even more lovesick Antoine (Laurent Lafitte), all of whom are suffering from failed or failing relationships.

Louis appoints Fernand head of his business and guardian of his teenage daughter, Patricia, who only thinks about having fun and has never lasted in any school more than six months…

After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all.

The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

Revenge, love, and the shocking irony of a hidden family relationship highlight this sequel to the acclaimed Jean de Florette. Although Manon des Sources can stand alone as a separate motion picture, viewers will gain a deeper understanding of it if they view Florette first. Both films, masterpieces of modern French cinema, owe their plots to Marcel Pagnol’s novel L’Eau des Collines.

In a hotel, they defend an African who invites them to his squat, where he lives in a joyful community of musicians. Denis falls in love with Marie-Gabrielle, one of the squatters, while François falls in love with Mathilde, a young dancer, who is preparing to leave for New York …

When the Germans invaded the capital in 1940, they refused to play in front of the occupier. André Bourdelle quickly joins the Resistance and is killed when his own grenade explodes in his hand. In 1943, the mansion Bourdelle is requisitioned by the German army, which houses General Spontz, Francophile, music lover. The whole family finds themselves relegated to the cellar, along with Michel Taupin, a companion in the shadow of André Bourdelle. Cohabitation is difficult. Each one fights in his own way against the invader. One day, Héléna and her daughter bring back an English aviator who has just escaped from the Kommandantur …

With money to spare and a lavish home, Gilberte Valandray (Sabine Azéma) spends most of her days relaxing and enjoying the company of close friend Huguette (Audrey Tautou).

When Gilberte learns that her ex-husband Georges Valandray (Pierre Arditi) has arrived in Paris, her desperate bid to keep her past hidden from her current husband is further complicated by the constant advances of her many admirers.

When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on vacation to Greece. The young housekeeper they hire to watch after her knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin forming respect for each other.

As the evening wears on, bitter sibling rivalries and decades-long grudges and slowly reveal themselves.

Along the way, she discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French government to deal with those who try to escape the front. The story is told both from the point of view of the fiancée in Paris and the French countryside—mostly Brittany—of the 1920s, and through flashbacks to the battlefield.

Sympathized by the entire village, Jojo meets a lawyer who is an expert on murder cases.

Soon Jojo discovers how to commit the perfect murder.

A terrible loser, Guy is not only going to make Daniel lose his job but also ruin things with his girlfriend.

While the lovebirds end up getting back together, Guy, alone again, develops new problems…

Gerard, his thunderous friend, takes him to a restaurant to forget his worries, but Francis does not have time to taste his food as a heart attack strikes him down.

After a stay in the hospital, he begins his convalescence. One day, a television reality show broadcasts his photo, or rather that of a man who disappeared 28 years ago,  and that his entire family, farmers in the Gers, are frantically looking for him.

The missing man looks like his twin brother. Francis sees this as an unexpected opportunity to change his life …