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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
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
In a cemetery on the ocean shore, teenager Aïda follows her desire to bring to life her long dead father.
Apr 2024
At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girlfriend with the pain and loneliness.
May 2012
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision.
Oct 2021
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
Tonight's program has been composed by and for grown-ups who are children at heart. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. Also known as Beauty and the Beast.
Jun 2021
Lola meets Simon during a 24-hour dance marathon. While the competition is in full swing, they develop a complicity that distracts her from her goal. But one elimination follows another at a frantic pace and, out of breath, she decides to join forces with him for a dance that could well lead them to victory.
Nov 2024
In the street, two young girls play their favorite game: "Would you rather?".
Jan 1991
Elina, a young Russian journalist, travels to an Alpine ski resort to write an article about a wellness retreat. But during her stay, news from her home country comes to haunt her as she must face her own malaise.
Jan 2025
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
Lazare lives with a roommate, Jacques, his best friend. Jacques decides to organize a date for Lazare, and contact a woman, Céline, through a meeting application. The ring bells.
Jan 2018
Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground, terrestrial and spatial universes blend into each other starting from a coal mine up to Venus.
Sep 2016
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
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Feb 2006
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
I don't know who I am but I know what I'm thinking: images and sounds perceived, when my mind freezes.
Jul 2019
The destiny of women is irrevocably linked to blood. Between tradition and modernity, the female body has been marketed, honored, and mutilated.
Jan 2013
After the disaster, the border must be retraced. Men dressed in white survey the mountains to do it.
Jeanne, an incorruptible and ambitious gendarme, finds herself embroiled in a dark web of intrigue between her superior, Chief Warrant Officer Paul Belmart, and the Gutowski brothers, members of the Vosges mafia, who have just stolen 50,000 francs.