Directed byMartin Valente OriginFrance GenresComedy ActorsGérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Boris Rehlinger, Olivia Ruiz, Jamie Bamber, Jean-Claude Calon Rating55% Chloé a tout pour être heureuse. Elle va épouser l'homme qu'elle aime, un ex-champion de tennis reconverti dans les affaires. Ne lui manque que le père idéal pour la conduire à l'autel. Qui de Bernard, aristocrate psychorigide et bourré de tocs, ou de Gus, un filou généreux et porté sur l'alcool, sera le père de ses rêves ...
, 1h50 Directed byClaude Miller OriginFrance GenresDrama ActorsAudrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Isabelle Sadoyan, Stanley Weber, Francis Perrin Roles Monsieur de la Trave Rating60% In the south-west of France, in the late 1920s, Thérèse Laroque agrees to a marriage of convenience between wealthy families by marrying Bernard Desqueyroux, a bourgeois landowner. They then settle on his family's property, located in a vast area stretching over acres of pine forests. Bernard is a local man with a passion for hunting and defending with conviction the family traditions. However, Thérèse is quickly stifled by the monotony of her married life. She gives birth to a daughter (Marie), but her boredom seems to grow every day; she is looking "somewhere else". Bernard, who has several ailments and who was prescribed arsenic is physically more difficult. Thérèse takes the opportunity she's given to nurse him to poison her husband. But she makes a mistake by forging a prescription at the pharmacy and is discovered. In addition to being dishonored by her own family, she is disowned by her husband's. She faces justice for the alleged murder attempt until her husband and in-laws, who intend to keep up appearances within their provincial society, make up their own version of what happened. The case is dismissed and Therese is confined to the house. Eventually she is allowed to leave and live in Paris on the understanding that she will only return for weddings and funerals.
, 1h42 Directed byGilles Legrand OriginFrance GenresDrama ActorsNiels Arestrup, Lorànt Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Nicolas Bridet, Anne Marivin, Valérie Mairesse Roles Le médecin généraliste Rating68% Arestrup plays Paul de Marseul, a passionate and demanding winemaker unsatisfied with the prospect of his son, Martin (Lorànt Deutsch) taking over his vineyard. He dreams of a more talented one, and finds him in the shape of Phillipe (Nicolas Bridet), the son of his steward, François (Patrick Chesnais). de Marseul lavishes attention and praise on Phillipe, all the time degrading Martin's achievements, eventually inviting Phillipe rather than his own son to attend his investiture in the Legion d'honneur.
, 2h9 Directed byBertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda OriginFrance GenresComedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure ThemesFilms about sexuality, Transgender in film, Histoire de France, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film ActorsSophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Gigi Proietti Roles Le marchand d'esclaves Rating57% In the autumn of 1654, an escaped slave seeks refuge at a convent in southern France. After the nuns take him in, his pursuers break into the convent and assault the nuns, searching for the slave. After wounding the mother superior (Pascale Roberts), they close in on their prey. One feisty novitiate, Eloise (Sophie Marceau)—the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret) of the famed Three Musketeers—stands up to the intruders, but is shoved aside as they ride off after the frightened slave, who escaped from the evil Duke Crassac de Merindol. Eloise finds a blood-stained piece of paper (a simple laundry list) that the slave used to stop a bleeding wound, and believes it holds some secret code. Later, Eloise is with the mother superior when she dies from her wound. Swearing a sacred oath to avenge her and dressed in men's clothes, Eloise sets out for Paris to elicit the help of her father in tracking down the murderers.
, 2h15 Directed byBertrand Tavernier OriginFrance GenresDrama, War ThemesFrench war films, Political films ActorsPhilippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Maurice Barrier, Pascale Vignal, Jean-Pol Dubois, François Perrot Roles The zealous Sergeant Rating74% Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Dellaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. Dellaplane forms a relationship with a woman who is looking for her missing husband, but a dilemma begins when he learns that her husband may still be alive. The movie is a sensitive examination of the deep psychological scars left behind by the Great War, clear of sentiment yet with delicately nuanced irony.