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Alex and Nico came to surf. For the brothers, everything would be perfect if it weren't for this huge shark stranded on the beach.
Mar 2016
The IMS Phoenix astronauts return from Mars after two years of exploration. As their mental and physical capacities deteriorate, they discover that they don't have enough food left to make it back to Earth alive.
Nov 2020
Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holidays. In the face of her daughter's disappointment and incomprehension, she does all she can to find the money.
May 1997
15 year old Jeff is a promising French footballer. When the decisive match approaches, he struggles with the pressure of his excellence.
Nov 2021
Matas returns to his neighborhood in Vilnius (Lithuania) after fleeing the war in Ukraine. He finds his wife and the friends he left behind when he joined the conflict.
Dec 2023
Jun 2025
The École de France, the country’s most prestigious engineering university. Raphaël is spending the last weeks of the year enjoying life with his fellow students. A bright future awaits him, but everything is hanging by a thread.
Sep 2022
Once upon a time in a small village there was Lina, cornered with domestic tasks, and her sister Madeleine, living a carefree life. Lina’s bitterness and jealousy towards Madeleine keep on getting worse, until the day she makes a strange encounter which is going to make her darkest wish come true…
Apr 2025
Married for years, Sven has recently become distant in his relationship. Thomas knows the reason: his husband is having an affair. After all the recent sacrifices he has made for him, the betrayal is too great for Thomas. He wants to punish Sven as much as he cheats him, and he has a terrible weapon for that: the Brazil nut
Sep 2023
In a motel in Dallas, in 1963, an FBI agent bugged the next room occupied by mobsters. After several days of listening, he must infiltrate them to find missing agents. Our hero then finds himself trapped. It's too late when the veil is lifted on the mysterious disappearances.
Oct 2006
Angelo dreams that his son Matteo becomes a great goalkeeper. In order to reach this goal, Angelo invests everything. But Matteo turns a deaf ear to his father’s dream. During an important game, Angelo is prepared to interfere in his son’s play in order to back him. But the father pushes his son to the limits. He finally puts more than his very dream at stake.
Sep 2016
Leni and Paul are „all good!“, as Paul likes to emphasise. But on this evening even he realises that this is not true at all. Their new neighbours, Mariam and Ayla, who come over for dinner embody exactly what Leni and Paul have not been for one another as a couple for years. While finishing up dessert, the relationship of the perfect couple, centered on their fluffy dog Amor, unfolds.
Jan 2023
Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. There she also meets a man named Marc, to whom she feels attracted, who sees her and desires her. Back in Paris, she visits him again. For the first time in her life, she will make love to him.
Nov 1999
Cyril is in love with Cécile, his best friend’s sister. One afternoon, as they are hanging out by the pool, he takes the plunge.
Oct 2016
Marc is an intern in the prestigious neuroscience lab of Professor Georges Erwin. He is working on an experiment that enables to make people laugh, and, in term, maybe to control one's emotions. He has met Elsa, a first year student in the school where he works. The young woman troubles him. One night, he offers her to try his device, but she starts crying instead of laughing... Bewildered and embarrassed, he does not know if he should report this unusual reaction to his professor. And that is when he discovers that Elsa has a tumultuous and secret relationship with the eminent George Erwin...
May 2015
Last minutes before the supermarket closes. A young boy hurries to finish his shopping.
Feb 2013
The unthinkable has finally happened, and a TV crew will be there to witness the event: Alexandre Goübrick, son of legendary filmmaker Roman Goübrick, has decided, twenty-five years after his father's mysterious disappearance, to complete the famous director's ultimate masterpiece. Alexandre sets out to find his father's old crew, and desperately tries to find the film's missing piece: the last shot.
Apr 2007
222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos from prison. He becomes a witness to the narcissistic cult of Heliogabalus, in the midst of the destructive madness that will lead to his downfall.
Dec 2024
In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 years old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. He will have to confront his fears and desires.
Nov 2014
July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine. During an inspection, she crosses the way of a passenger who diverts her from her new functions.
Dec 2014