A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Geneviève és una noia que viu amb la seva mare i l'ajuda a la botiga de paraigües que tenen a Cherburg. Està enamorada de Guy, un jove mecànic, amb qui pensa casar-se malgrat l'oposició de la seva mare, que considera Geneviève massa jove i Guy massa pobre. Per pagar un deute, la mare es veu obligada a vendre un collaret a un ric joier que s'enamora de Geneviève des del primer moment. Mentrestant, Guy s'haurà d'absentar dos anys per anar a Algèria a fer el servei militar.
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Dues germanes, ambdues professores de música ( Deneuve i Dorléac), viuen a la petita població de Rochefort i somien trobar un gran amor. Homenatge als grans musicals de l'època daurada de Hollywood.
Al seu llit de mort, la Reina fa prometre al Rei que no tornarà a casar-se fins que no trobi una dona que la superi en bondat i bellesa. Alguns anys després, el Rei troba la perfecta substituta de la seva dona: la seva filla. La Fada de les Liles, la padrina de la jove princesa, li aconsella que demani al seu pare, com a regal, uns vestits meravellosos, aparentment impossibles de confeccionar. Però com que el Rei aconsegueix els vestits, la princesa li demana que li regali una capa feta amb la pell de l'ase banquer, principal font de riquesa del Regne.
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?
A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are arrested for stealing eggs. Marianne is one of the followers, and she and Paul go to a remote island to live off seaweed and vegetation, but a development company moves in to wreck the paradise. Paul is brokenhearted when Mariane goes off with one of the greedy developers in this symbolic film that decries the allure of the material world.
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
Segle XVIII. Iniciació a la vida adulta i al llibertinatge de Benjamin, un jove que, sota la protecció de la seva tutora, ha viscut sempre al seu castell com en un hivernacle. Tot i això, l'arribada d'una comtessa tia seva i altres convidats l'arrossegarà a un remolí de passions amoroses i el convertirà en víctima inevitable de la seva inexperiència.
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.
A young Vietnamese boy's life is thrown into turmoil by the war raging in his country. The ten year old remains with his mother and baby sister as his father goes off to fight for the Viet Cong. During his father's absence, his mother dies from overwork and the inability to find proper medical care for her illness. He cares for his baby sister and struggles to earn a living by shining shoes and doing other odd jobs before his father returns. Both an American soldier and a Viet Cong regular are shown defending their country's political agenda. Also shown are guerilla tactics and bombings in this feature directed by veteran combat photographer Raoul Coutard.
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.