Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated by a great local "doctor". In the meantime, his friend Patrick, who has been accompanying and supporting him without knowing that this illness is in fact fictitious, finds himself without a wife or job. The initial situation seems to be reversed; Patrick is out of luck and Sami seems less and less ill.

Angoroj (1964; Esperanto for "Agonies") was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto. (Jacques-Louis Mahé, a friend of Raymond Schwartz and under the pseudonym of 'Lorjak', had however already produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II, titled Antaŭen! (Onwards!). At the start of the 1960s Mahé, a professional photographic and cinematic expert, invested in the production of the first fictional film in Esperanto. Using a scenario by Mahé himself, the actors of the Internacia Arta Teatro (International Arts Theatre) presented a crime story, set in the Parisian periphery of petty thieves and cheats. Other notable people who played parts in the film included Schwartz (the commissioner), Gaston Waringhien (the voice-over) and many from the environs of the contemporary Paris, including a very young Michel Duc-Goninaz.

The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain public housing, Louise scrapes by on a day-to-day subsistence that’s only a few Euros away from skid row.

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

Beatrice, soprannominata 'Pomme' vive con la madre dopo essere stata abbandonata dal suo amante, e lavora insieme alla sua grande amica Marylene da un parrucchiere parigino. Recatasi in vacanza in Normandia (e presto rimasta sola perché l'amica ha trovato compagnia) la giovane viene avvicinata da Francois, studente alla Sorbona. Tornati a parigi i due si mettono insieme, ma le differenze sociali non tardano a manifestarsi.

French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vincent (Garcia) is a popular physician whose aggressive need to be funny and get people's attention annoys his girlfriend, Camille (Doval), to the point that she leaves him. He begins to suspect she might have been onto something when his behavior begins causing people to die.

La famiglia Rozes è una famiglia perbene, ma quando un giorno due malviventi evadono di prigione e si nascondono nella loro depandance, tutto cambia. In 24 ore la famiglia Rozes, in apparenza così rispettabile, tirerà fuori i suoi peggiori istinti.

Ralph Thorson è un cacciatore di taglie incaricato di ricondurre sulla retta via chi viola la regole della libertà vigilata. Ralph è sposato con una maestra che sta per dargli un figlio, ma lui non vorrebbe il bambino perché il mondo che sta per accogliere la creatura è intriso dal Male, come gli insegna il suo mestiere. Sulle tracce di Ralph, per giunta, c’è Rocco Mason, un bandito che a causa del “cacciatore” si è fatto un bel po’ di galera...

In 1919, in a small town under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. Outside, his mangy dog barks night and day. Not far off in the countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is coming to sort out this case of which it is better not to speak.

Quattro amici. Alex, Antoine, Jeff e Manu. Quella primavera, una serie di eventi forti e drammatici li colpisce e li riavvicina ancor di più. Si rendono conto che il loro rapporto con le donne è al centro di ogni loro problema, conversazione, o conflitto...

Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is at war with Tatie, and takes off for Greece, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. At first the two don't get along, yet the two eventually become friends. However, Sandrine is invited to accompany an American student for an overnight stay at the beach, which would leave Tatie alone for a night. Angered, Tatie fires Sandrine, and while she is alone, she goes into deep depression, eventually setting the family's apartment on fire. The fire becomes a national story, with Tatie cast as a poor old lady and the family labeled as cruel and heartless villains.

A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.

Un gangster, serio "professionista", è amico di un balordo che ha fama d'essere confidente della polizia. Quando il bandito viene arrestato, crede d'essere stato tradito dall'altro e incarica un sicario di punirlo con la morte. Troppo tardi scoprirà che l'amico non solo è innocente, ma ha anche individuato con un astuto piano il vero colpevole. Tenterà di fermare l'esecuzione e morirà assieme al balordo.

Impegnata nella Resistenza francese, Louise fugge a Londra dopo l'assassinio del marito. Qui viene assunta dal SOE, un servizio segreto di intelligence creato da Churchill. Un ufficiale britannico viene catturato dai tedeschi e messo sotto torchio. C'è pochissimo tempo prima che l'uomo parli dell'imminente sbarco in Normandia. Louise deve reclutare un gruppo di donne e portare a termine ad ogni costo la missione. Tutti i mezzi sono leciti: seduzione, bugie, ricatto, estorsione. Paracadutate di nascosto nella Francia del nord, le cinque donne sono sole, ben determinate e desiderose di dare un nuovo futuro alla loro nazione.

A Monte Carlo, nel mondo dell'alta finanza, una spia esperta si mette sulle tracce di un'organizzazione potentissima sospettata di ripulire il denaro attraverso una banca, ma si imbatte in una giovane e affascinante trader.

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.

Muriel Bayen, un'estetista divorziata e madre di due figli, ama raccontare storie. Ha dedicato la sua vita a idolatrare la pop star Vincent Lacroix, di cui lei è una grande fan. Un giorno Vincent bussa alla sua porta e le chiede il suo aiuto.

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.

Diviso in 6 capitoli, è l'analisi di un rapporto di coppia tra Marianne e Johann su un arco di 10 anni. Nell'ultimo capitolo, ormai divorziati e risposati, si ritrovano dopo sette anni, più maturi e adulti. Curata dallo stesso regista, l'edizione cinematografica deriva da uno sceneggiato TV in 6 "scene" che dura 294 minuti: 1) "Innocenza e panico"; 2) "L'arte di nascondere lo sporco sotto il tappeto"; 3) "Paola"; 4) "Valle di lacrime"; 5) "Gli analfabeti"; 6) "Nel pieno della notte in una casa buia in qualche parte del mondo". Tra sussurri e grida, in altalena tra tenerezza e violenza, in bilico tra il paradiso (illusorio) e l'inferno (autentico), quel che prevale in questa decennale odissea (o corrida?) coniugale è il purgatorio.