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- A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
- France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.
- It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
- Two thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
- A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
- Angèle and Adam form a young ideal couple. A few years pass. One evening, they meet again. Strangers to each other, can their love come back to life ?
- Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.
- A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.
- Investing a series of murder by a police offer Guillaume, following his sibling's unusual management of his father's business.
- A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
- Blending drama with the explanations of passionate historians and specialists, this enriched historical reconstruction traces 60 years in the life a man who transformed the Middle Ages and laid the foundation of modern Europe, William The Conqueror.
- François is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.
- Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
- A history of the English Crown from AD 400 to today.
- Two young people stand on a street corner in a run-down part of New York, kissing. Despite the lawlessness of the district they are left unmolested. A short distance away walk Maria and Andreas. They are on their first date. In an episodic style the film tells of encounters and love among young people. The stories are set in Cairo, Paris, on the coast of Normandy and in New York.
- Madame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV. With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls.
- After ten years of doing nothing, Orel and Gringe are in their mid 30s and they struggle to finish their first rap album. Their texts are mostly sex jokes and booze stories and reflect the everyday life they have in a small town from France. The problem is that they never really finished a song and when their producers want to meet, they have to face a new challenge : finish their first song in the next 24h. Their old issues, the fear of failure, their alcoholic friends and annoying girlfriends won't help them to do so, or will they ?
- In Nazi-occupied France, resistance took courage. Seventy-five years later, facing one's ghosts may take even more.
- Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her and teaches her the tricks of the trade. The relationships between Myriam, Tony's mother, and Angèle are far from easy but the young woman gradually adapts to her new environment and little by little Tony and Angèle manage to tame each other...
- Leon and his pal Bruno are in a Turkish bathhouse where Leon had arranged to meet a girl he met on the Internet. Our two heroes experience strange encounters and vaporous revelations as they feverishly await the hypothetical arrival of this mysterious stranger.
- Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
- The complex relations between Quebec's aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples.
- Step inside Noémie's cat carrier. One day, cat-sitting as usual, she finds herself robbing Nias, whom she claims to rescue from his owners.
- Preceded by a solemn prologue in which Iride admonishes mortals that they should not offend the gods, the story of Cavalli's Didone comes to life thanks to numerous solo passages of highly varied character and structure, designed both for simple basso continuo support and for a more complex instrumental accompaniment, for five real parts which enjoy some independent moments and which create a diversion from the action or blend in with it in a wholly logical way, intensifying it in a studied, evocative manner. The tragic story of the Carthaginian queen is thus unfolded with extreme attention in a framework that had already been adopted by Monteverdi, of whom Cavalli is considered a worthy successor. In this case it is enlivened and, we might say, given a more popular, direct appeal as it aims to communicate with a public that is gradually expanding. The composer is sincere when he states: "My spirit has always been far from the printing press: I have preferred to allow my weaknesses to run where fortune takes them with the pen rather than the press." He identifies with the torment of Didone and with the "force of nature" (Prunières) that is his and the brilliance of some of his solutions, he creates one of the most tragic, tormented operas of the entire seventeenth century.
- BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler, himself a veteran of the D-Day landings, visits the area and talks to other people involved in D-Day. Particularly to Maj John Howard and others of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry who landed by glider and took the Pegasus Bridge near Caen. Also to Lt Col T.B.H. Otway and members of 9th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, who parachuted in and disabled the Merville Battery which overlooked the invasion beaches. Wheeler also meets some of the Germans who tried to defend the region and to French and British civilians caught up in the action.
- Winter 2020, somewhere in France. After an abundant and reckless consumption of alcohol, Dario, 27, wakes up clueless in the old family mansion he's been inhabiting for many years with his two brothers, Mazzio and Ramirez.
- Wahid returns to his hometown. He's lost everything. His return brings confusion among his childhood friends.
- DEADO.AVI, directed by MANNY, is a web series of 12 episodes that follows the rap group Dead Obies during the final stage of their XXXPLOSIF TOUR in 2017. Filmed over a one year span, the series showcase the realities of touring in Canada and France, recording an upcoming album and producing sold out shows.
- Opting for the French-language version of Gluck's Orpheus, David Alagna was faced with the task of achieving an appropriately subtle adaptation. In a plot transposed to the present day, Eurydice dies in a car accident on the day of her wedding, and Orpheus's quest for his beloved is a dream beginning and ending at the cemetery. No happy ending in this interpretation, but a new approach to characterisation: Amore, sung by a baritone, becomes a funeral parlour employee and Orpheus's guide. And Orpheus, of course, loses his loved one forever by turning to look back. The enormously talented Roberto Alagna throws himself body and soul into this production. His incredible vitality and flawless timbre and diction make him a great Orpheus.
- In this short and compelling series, you'll learn just how important the art of mapmaking was when it came to shaping the history of humanity. Cartographers and historians will show you the most fundamental elements of the era of exploration, and how they have evolved over the centuries. Finally, you'll see how much more maps do for us today than just simply define our political boundaries.
- A man attempts to prepare cereal and finds himself disappearing into a dream.
- The splendor of Kathakali Dance Theater filmed for the first time in natural settings with the participation of 22 actors-dancers, singers, percussionists, make-up artists, and props artists among the most renowned in India's Kerala State.
- The strange story of a man who likes nothing more than the destroyed, the fragmented, who prefers the part to the whole...
- What would the world be like without cyber-security? It is on the basis of this interrogation that this film produced by Thales demonstrates some of the impacts of cyber-security on a daily basis.
- A lumber and feed man from Ohio takes a road trip with his wife to France, eleven years after he fought at Normandy during WWII. He remembers a girl who served him wine at a Paris café and becomes determined to see her again.
- Paris. In a small side street, seconds away from the Place the Clichy, two dirty and dingy hotels face one another. Behind their facades, the lives of marginal transsexuals from Ecuador take place. They all work as prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne. Among them, we meet "Mujeron", (the "Big Woman", in Spanish), a former boxer who chose prostitution and a solitary life in order to survive and help his family back home. We also meet the exuberant and ironic "Romina", who seems to have made her dreams come true thanks to prostitution: a woman's body, a housewife's routine, a small flat and some money. Two parallel existences that are apparently poles apart but will in fact unite in one tragic ending. Both light-hearted and tragic, switching from flirtatiousness to misery, from optimism to fatalism, the story of Romina and Mia balances between joyful complicity and solitary distress.