Brad, der er gift med den smukke og ambitiøse Kathy har dumpet sin eksamen to gange og går nu hjemme og passer deres lille søn, mens Sarah, der er gift med den meget velhavende Richard, får tiden til at gå med at mødes med kvarterets øvrige husmødre på legepladsen. Sarah falder dog helt igennem sammenlignet med de andre perfekte mødre, der minutiøst tilrettelægger hvert et minut i deres børns liv, og Sarah føler - præcis som Brad - et stort tomrum i livet. Helt tilfældigt krydses deres veje, og det bliver startskuddet til masser af erotiske fantasier, sladder og en lyst til at leve livet fuldt ud...

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

I løbet af nogle dage udspilles på et gods en handling, der afspejler tiden, dvs. slutningen af 30'erne. En gruppe aristokrater leger med kærligheden og livet på randen af afgrunden, og dette spil har sin parallel i et tilsvarende, omend mindre elegant spil blandt tjenerskabet. Ikke blot herskabet kritiseres, tjenerskabet er ligeså snobbet og konventionelt.

Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.

Det er en delvis allegorisk film om et menneske i permanent krise der finder frigørelse gennem en gruppe outrerede menneskers konflikter som han bliver både direkte og indirekte involveret i.

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Paris, 1968. Gilles og Christine er optændte af revolutionen. De skriver til venstreradikale publikationer om dagen og overmaler skolen med slogans og graffiti om natten. Da en vagtmand såres af en Molotov-cocktail, splintres vennegruppen, og flere flygter til udlandet, hvor nye alliancer opstår - også på kærlighedsfronten. Og langsomt må den stålsatte politiske aktivisme vige for de første kompromisser, socialisering og bryderier med identiteten.

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

In the Chatterley country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...

Paris i 1920´erne. Marguerite Dumont er en velhavende kvinde med en kæmpe passion for musik og opera. I årevis har hun optrådt regelmæssigt for en kreds af gæster, der alle nyder godt af hendes velgørenhed. Marguerite synger imidlertid helt forfærdelig dårligt, men ingen har nogensinde turdet fortælle hende det. End ikke hendes mand, der også nyder godt af hendes gavmildhed. Så hun er i årevis blevet fastholdt i illusionen. Men til en af Marguerites husoptrædener sniger to unge anarkister sig ind, og de ser pludseligt et stort potentiale i den illusion de er vidne til. De overbeviser Marguerite om, at hendes stemme er alt for stor til at holdes indespærret – hun skal da optræde på den største scene af dem alle. Operaen. Filmen er baseret på en sand historie.

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.