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.

After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.

Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.

Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

BLOWN APART fortæller historien om en ung mor (MICHELLE WILLIAMS) i London, som ser sit liv blive sprængt i stumper og stykker på et øjeblik. Mens manden og sønnen er til fodboldkamp, har hun en kort, hed affære med genboen (EWAN MCGREGOR). Men elskoven bliver afbrudt af nyheden om, at manden og sønnen er blevet dræbt af en terrorbombe. Nu står hun tilbage med en altødelæggende sorg og en enorm skyldfølelse, hun ikke kan komme af med. Og mens verden omkring hende falder fra hinanden, skal hun forsøge at finde svar og forløsning. BLOWN APART er baseret på bestselleren Incendiary og er instrueret af Sharon Maguire, der også stod bag mega-successen BRIDGET JONES' DIARY. Filmen er en uafrystelig og chokerende skildring af konsekvenserne af vores valg og af, hvor hurtigt vores liv kan ændre sig i en verden, hvor man aldrig kan vide sig sikker.

When a director sets out to make a film about popular French singer Barbara, both he and the actress who is to play her are overwhelmed by the project.

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.

Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

Lige siden hendes forældre blev brutalt myrdet, har Justine levet alene og er nærmest blevet usynlig. Morderens løsladelse før tid skaber dog fornyet frygt og smerte. Det lykkes hende imidlertid at finde støtte og medfølelse i Louis Schneider, der er kriminalbetjent i Marseille. Her er flere særligt brutale mord stadig uopklarede, og det har bragt politiet i miskredit. Den ubestikkelige individualist, Schneider, beslutter sig for at gå imod sine overordnede og begynder sin egen efterforskning, der fører ham til helvedes porte. Finder han frelse, hvis han hjælper Justine?

Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older brother Djibril is 22, a student at the Sorbonne who dreams of becoming a lawyer. As for Mitraillette, he has his eye on Océane, the most beautiful girl in his school...

Kritikere og filmelskere strides stadig om denne Sam Peckinpah-films kunstneriske værdi, der vurderes som alt fra psykopatisk voldsorgie á la Straw Dogs til rendyrket filmisk mesterværk. Handlingen er kort: En mexicansk aristokrats datter er gravid, og faderen truer hende til at afsløre navnet på synderen, Alfredo Garcia. Herefter udlover han en million i kontanter til den, der kan bringe ham Alfredos afskårne hoved. Det sætter gang i eftersøgningen.

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Two adults go to their middle school reunion in order to show off their success to old bullies teenage crushes.

Vicky Maloney bliver kidnappet på åben gade af et forstyrret ægtepar, hvorefter hun bliver udsat for de mest modbydelige ting. Men hun finder hurtigt ud af, at den eneste chance for at slippe løs er, hvis hun kan vende ægteparret mod hinanden.

Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent