Jacques Denis

Femmes Fatales

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they...

Chocolat

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls...

I... for Icarus

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign of...

Tell Her That I Love Her

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover...

The Salamander

Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a...

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary...

Our Story

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of h...

Le Pain noir

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police v...

That Day

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murdero...

A Cloud in the Teeth

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the stre...

Instinct de femme

Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by...

Loonies at Large

This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former profess...

Clémence Aletti

Swing troubadour

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Bea...

The Boy Soldier

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-sold...

The Question

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has bee...

The Little Apocalypse

An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profi...

The Middle of the World

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in...

The Surveyors

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. I...

Monsieur Abel

A retired old man sees his life turned upside down by the discovery of the corpse of a young woman.

Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus

On an island, clones are secretly raised.

James or Not

As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure sl...

La Face de l'Ogre

Several mountaineers attempt to climb La face de l'Ogre near Chamonix. Their starting point is a small mountain...

Fourbi

Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six yea...

Plurielles

A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family...

Les nénuphars

Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on dru...

The Awful Manners

A radio host meets a woman who breaks into houses.

Le Troisième Cri