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- With Adolf Hitler threatening Europe, against the backdrop of the deceptively peaceful summer of 1939, 14-year-old Julien experiences the intoxicating effects of first love, smitten with his beautiful 16-year-old cousin Julia.
- This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
- The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
- Based on the saga by French novelist Georges J. Arnaud. In the latter part of the 21st century, there is a cataclysmic explosion on the moon, which was being used as a nuclear waste dump and the earth is turned into a frozen mass of ice.
- The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
- An anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child.
- Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
- Rosa la Rose is a Parisian hooker who works in Les Halles area. Her pimp is an understanding guy and she leads an uneventful life. One day she meets Julien, a young worker and falls in love with him. She is torn now between her new found love and her "professional conscience"...
- A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents, she lives and survives with pack of wolves and crosses Germany, Poland reaching Ukraine. When she sees that Brussels have been released by the allied force, she returns to her hometown and reaches it in March 1945 almost dead, sick and with lice and malnourished. However, Ernest identifies the girl that does not accept that her parents had died in the concentration camp of Sonnenburg.
- A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle's outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson's "Little Mermaid," and she thinks that in Georges she's found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she's nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges' adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?
- An apolitical worker in a printing press who works as a scab during a company strike belatedly realizes that everyone is affected by the evils of society.
- In the 1930's a young doctor is forced to flee from Paris because he is involved in a drug scandal. On his passage to China he meets a beautiful, eccentric woman. After their arrival in China, she introduces him into a circle of decadent Europeans which created a torture garden for their amusement. While the bored imperial upper class is torturing the locals the revolution is rising.
- A man whose family were killed during an attempted robbery in a railway station decides to take the law into his own hands when the police do not track down the killers.
- While investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.
- Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.
- 1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.
- Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir. They marry and have a daughter. Milena writes for a Marxist paper till her husband leaves for the Soviet Union. She then confronts the rise of Nazism in the years leading up to the Second World War, and ends up in a concentration camp.
- 20197.6 (52)TV Mini SeriesEugene Domingo comes full circle as she completes the saga in this third instalment of "Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank."
- Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
- The Biography of an incarcerated petty thief receiving a Second Chance. To become the first foreigner to become Muay Thai World Champion. An intimate immersion into the Muay Thai Art of fighting. Shot for over 5 months in Thailand and in the best Muay Thai Training Camp. Dida is playing himself fighting against the actual Muay Thai Champions. Real fights filmed live in the grand Arenas like Lumpini and Ratchdamngoen Stadiums. A "Must" for every Muay Thai enthusiast. A thrilling "Pact Of Friendship" packed with pure Muay Thai Action.
- Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex.
- 12-year-old Éric has been placed in a reintegration center in La Rochelle, awaiting adoption. He becomes friends with Petia, a young boy of Russian origin, older than him, a street juggler who pursues the dream of working like his father in a circus as soon as he leaves the institution. Meanwhile, Pierre and Corinne adopts Marie and also want Eric to become their son and take steps in this direction, but the doctor is opposed to the child leaving the establishment too quickly because he judges him in latent depression. One weekend Petia is blamed for the misdeeds of Momo and Graf, two other teenagers in care.
- Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20. She cooks, cleans, shops, takes her boys to school, and her guilty pleasure is to have her hair shampooed, an addiction she tries to hide from her husband. An architect in her building leers at her. She becomes depressed and tries to find a job. When the brakes on the family car go out as she's taking it to a garage and she narrowly misses several pedestrians, she snaps. The architect assaults her, and desperation sets in. Has she any options or any hope?
- A documentary examining life in Israel twenty-five years after the birth of the state.
- In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.
- In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they are pursued by the Corsican mobsters...
- A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.
- Inside an apartment, a young woman suffers from widespread distress. She lives alone in an attic with a skylight in the ceiling that is her only contact with the outside of Paris.
- Kourou comes from a village to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital and the center of World Beat; music is in his heart and he has big dreams. Right away he gets a job as a domestic for Mamou, the loud wife of a club owner, and he falls in love with Kabibi, a virginal young woman who wants to be a secretary. Meanwhile, Nvouandou, the club owner, childless after twenty years of marriage, wants a second wife and determines to marry Kabibi. Mamou pretends to approve of the match, but behind her husband's back, she pushes Kabibi into the arms of Kourou. Can Kourou win Kabibi's hand and fulfill his dreams of being a singer; can Mamou recapture the affections of Nvouandou?
- During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
- As a child, Count Dracula's son wants to drink the potion that will allow him to get his vampire powers. But his mother forbids him, fearing that he will become like his dead father.
- A prositute (Anges Sorel) tries to change her life after her release from prison, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fole or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium organization.
- The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with a woman.
- Marie has has her period for many years endlessly. She's tires, faints everywhere. Because she might be somatizing, she starts a therapy. A new life opens to her.
- Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
- Bojko Blavic, coach of a football club about to move to D2, is a fulfilled man. The war in Kosovo will remind him that he is a Serb.
- Jean and Paddy haven't recovered from Ben's death. Ben was Paddy's lover but also Jean's. Their threesome filled their existence. Today, while they still love each other, Jean and Paddy are torn apart.
- Henri, pharmacist, is secretly in love with Helene, a 50's movie star. One night, Louis, old partner of the actress, knocks on his door. The two men enter the seventh dimension, the fantastic world of Helene's movies.
- Christophe is desperately trying to fund his new play, in which his partner, Patricia has to play. He asks his former friend, who is supposed to marry soon, for help and he invites the two to spend the weekend together.
- Young country-boy Gaston leaves his parents' farm to look for work in paris. The people he encounters there, and the problems he meets in his job, lead him to realise how much young workers in insecure jobs are exploited; while life in the capital makes him more aware of his roots in the country.
- When he gets separated from his unit, Laforêt (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.
- Raoul, humble employee, and his wife Marlène have luxurious tastes and use purchase on credit, bad cheque - It won't last.
- It's a crisis, the stock market is plummeting, the economy is dying. To save their bets, bankers appeal to the State. The hated state is suddenly the savior. Citizens will pay for the system to continue, for the rich to stay rich and the poor to stay rich.