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After winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?

The head of an aristocratic family died, so everyone gather to mourn him and see who gets what from his estate. Greed, lust, love and class conflict between the family and their payed servants create a real mess rather quickly.

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.

Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.

A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.

Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use.

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.

Being a student in a school where the headmaster is your father and the head supervisor your mother is no bed of roses. That's what Daniel Massu tells himself every day of his life. The others believe he is his father's pet whereas the latter wants his son to sleep in the dormitory with the others, which he hates! And although Daniel claims he has swept the sexy Mercédès off her feet he is no ladies' man! To say nothing of his bad spelling, which regularly earns him appallingly low grades. But Damien, who has drive, does not let all those problems get him down.

Spinoza tries to discover the causes why his son committed suicide. Find a writing that had left his son and also his girlfriend and who was rival to his son in his affections. Spinoza becomes his mistress and when he appears murdered he is accused of his death.

An account of parental love and obsession.

Paul Markovic suffers from Stendhal syndrome. It is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his monstrous secret.

short film really twisting with Jamel Debbouze Ramsey Bedia and Nadia fares. Ramsy wakes up in the body of Nadia fares he calls Jamel .

After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier.

Focusing on the characters of those involved, this film explores a political campaign in a small town and the corruption which enters into it. Sex education gets the countrified locals all roused up against a citified school reformer, even though it is actually a side issue. The farmer whose concerns are picked up as a theme by the right-wing politicos figures out that he is being used.

A documentary film that looks at the racing and private life of professional road and track bicycle racer Eddy Merckx and which is one of the pillars of films about cycling.

This documentary covers, through various interviews, the history of the conflict between the French and the Vietnamese, leading to the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954.

Film in three eras: "Passing through Lorraine" (2h30): The defeat of 40, unexpected for many, causes the total collapse of the country. But the conflict of 14-18, then the 1930s, prepared, in their own way, the debacle... "General here we are" (2:30 a.m.): The assessment after the victory and the choices available to France . A troubled and ambiguous era: the purge, the Pétain trial, Brasillach, Stalinism... "I understood you" (2:45 a.m.): The portrait of an admired and contested man, De Gaulle, facing the 3rd crisis that the French are experiencing: decolonization.

Face to the firing squad a dictator is awaiting death. As the soldiers shoulder their rifles, the man remembers... He recalls with wicked jubilation his devouring ambition, his complete absence of scruples, his brutal lack of humanity, his taste for manipulation, the cowardice of his entourage, his ambiguous relationships with a woman named Dêmokratia... A few seconds later - light years for him -, the bullets are ejected from the guns but the autocrat is already away from this world. Among the dignitaries in attendance... a gloating new tyrant is about to seize the reigns of power.