Flair Productions

Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has become a major figure in French cinema, but in her forties, she wanted to tell her own stories. She took a big risk when she was being offered fewer roles as an actress and became a film director.

The French romance follows musician Dadju and his love story with the hypnotizing Ima. Dadju returns to his home city Kinshasa to perform in a concert. Laetitia is a big fan, but after she finds out that Dadju's concert is sold out, she relies on her father's connections with her boss Yavan to find extra tickets. Yavan invites Dadju to participate in a private concert. Seeking to seduce Laetitia's sister Ima, Yavan hosts the concert, but fate intervenes when Dadju falls in love with Ima at first sight.

An American low-budget action film celebrated an unexpected worldwide success in 1988: "Bloodsport". With its, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there was Bruce Lee, but at the end of the 1980s a Belgian won the day. Van Damme was a karate master and had unparalleled strength and flexibility. For ten years he was one of Hollywood's hottest action stars. But excessive overconfidence and drugs bring him down again. At home in Europe he becomes a laughing stock on talk shows. Only with "JCVD" does he manage to get back on his feet, playing his character with perspective and self-irony, but without ever giving up the reputation that his action films brought him and which has been a cult for several generations. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told through archive footage and contributions from people close to the popular Belgian actor.

The story of the six barons of the Belgian Empain family. The first was a magnificent character: at a time when elected politicians proclaimed absolute freedom to produce and trade, he became an innovative, empirical and visionary entrepreneur. The latter baron conquered the jewel of the French nuclear industry, the Schneider empire, which put him in the government's sights.

Steven McRae, principal dancer with the world-renowned Royal Ballet, is 33 years old and at the pinnacle of his career when he severely damages his Achilles tendon in the middle of a show attended by 2,500 spectators. This is the story of his amazing rehabilitation and the nerve-racking days leading up to his triumphant return to the stage.

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued.

The extraordinary life of Hedy Lamarr, a successful actress and inventor of a pioneer system that is the base of technologies such as Bluetooth, GPS and wi-fi.

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and they are one of Belgium's most recognized exports. From Brussels to Los Angeles, via Dubai, a journey into the tiny world of the famous little blue people, from the story of the creation of the original comic to the account of their huge global commercial exploitation.

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, would be inconceivable without a handful of legendary European music producers who conjured up some of the biggest world-wide hits in the anonymity of their studios.

Cats are cuddly felines and lovely pets, but also highly evolved predators that hunt huge amounts of small mammals, birds and reptiles; perfect killing machines that threaten delicate ecosystems around the world.

At age 40, Stéphane Haskell is suffering from a sudden illness and is paralyzed. Medicine condemns him to disability, but yoga opens a path to healing. From death corridors in the United States to African slums, he embarks on a touching journey around the world to meet those who have returned to life through yoga.

The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the top of the Champs-Élysées, is, along with the Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited monuments in the French capital. Wanted by an emperor, inaugurated under the reign of a king (Louis-Philippe) and sanctuarized by the Republic, this patriotic temple polarizes the passions of a whole nation. A historical portrait before "packaging", which teems with anecdotes and unsuspected details.

In the 1980s, young people of North African descent born in France and a priest from the Lyon suburbs organized the "March of the Beurs." Launched on October 15, 1983, by seventeen people from the La Cayolle neighborhood in Marseille following a racist crime, the march concluded two months later—on December 3—on the streets of Paris, with 100,000 participants. This movement demanded equal rights. Was their cry heard?

A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with his dangerous stunts, his laughter, his jokes, and his refreshing ease and impertinence. Cultivating the art of the counterpunch, he spanned half a century of French cinema.