The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Patience Portefeux är en underbetald polistolk specialiserad på telefonavlyssningar för narkotikaenheten i Paris. När hon under ett tillslag mot ett drognätverk upptäcker att en av de inblandade är en person i hennes närhet, fattar hon ett livsavgörande beslut. Patience lyckas lägga sina vantar på den stora mängd narkotika som både polisen och den undre världen vill åt, och med sina erfarenheter från fältet och polisens resurser startar hon sin egen kriminella verksamhet och sadlar om till knarklangare.
In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.
En av världslitteraturens mest kända och kontroversiella kvinnogestalter har fått nytt liv på bioduken. Filmen bygger på den andra, mer erotiska versionen av D.H. Lawrence världsberömda mästerverk Lady Chatterleys Älskare.
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
1700-talets England. Den beryktade Casanova, känd för sina utsvävande vanor, har tvingats till exil. När han kommer till London möter han Marianne de Charpillon, en ung kurtisan som får honom att glömma alla andra kvinnor. Men hon håller honom på halster. Huvudrollerna i det franska dramat Dernier amour spelas av Vincent Lindon (Allt för henne, Rodin) och Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac).
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured with a coach driver.
March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its scope. Among them, Alexandra, a French executive newly arrived from Hong Kong to work in a bank, has to face this nuclear crisis. Torn apart between fol- lowing the company’s instructions and going back to her husband and children who are still in Hong Kong, she will find herself defending honor and given word, despite the pervading terror and chaos.
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Ett forskargeni undersöker immuniserande proteiner som produceras av pingviner. En blyg student erbjuder sin kropp till hans forskning eftersom hon är förälskad i honom.
Inspirerad av Albert Lamorisses älskade barnfilm från 1950-talet, Den röda ballongen. Här tar ballongen med oss på ett möte mellan öst och väst. I Suzanne möts båda dessa världar. I sitt hektiska liv skall hon vara både en bra dockspelare och en god mamma. Livet kompliceras ytterligare av alla gäster som knackar på och inneboende som gärna vill ställa till fest. Ballongen, som är regissörens ögon, kidnappar oss åskådare för att titta på det kaos som storstadsmänniskan lever i.
The fates of three entwined families. Joséphine and Tomas have just got married. It was a joyful celebration. But soon, Joséphine’s parents will discover a darker side lurking behind the couple’s sunny happiness. Meanwhile, Mélanie tells her parents that she is pregnant but the father is not ideal.
After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya.
Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental.
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.