Filmen foregår i Frankrig få dage før Første Verdenskrig slutter, og de to soldaterkammerater, Albert Maillard og Édouard Péricourt, kæmper for deres liv på slagmarken. Begge overlever krigens rædsler, men ikke uden ar på sjælen og snart må de hutle sig gennem dagligdagen i et Paris, som slikker sårene efter den grusomme krig.
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Småfuskeren Vincent La Guardia Gambini har netop - med nød og næppe - bestået eksamen som advokat. Så da hans fætter William og dennes ven Stanley anholdes for mord og røveri nede i Alabama, rejser Vincent ned for at forsvare dem. Men Vincent har ingen erfaring med at føre retssager, og hans mafioso-storbyslang er heller ikke populært på disse kanter.
Første Verdenskrig lakker mod enden, da Mathilde får besked om, at hendes forlovede er blevet dømt af en krigsret. Straffen er forvisning til ingenmandsland mellem de franske og tyske tropper og dermed den sikre død. Men Mathilde er sikker på at hendes udkårne har overlevet, og hun beslutter at rejse mod fronten for at afklare hans skæbne.
Jacques Mesrine døde i en regn af kugler tilbage i 1979, men i dag – 30 år senere – lever legenden stadig: Om manden, der viede sit liv til kvinder, våben, bankrøverier og berømmelse. Som designede sit liv efter de gangster-film, han så i biografen. Og som fra Frankrig, igennem Europa, til Canada og i USA var bedre kendt som Public Enemy no. 1.
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
En hemmelig agent forsvinder i Cairo og den franske efterretningstjeneste må sende deres bedste mand af sted for at undersøge sagen. Mød Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath også kendt som OSS 117. Under dække af at være kyllingeforhandler må Hubert infiltrere den egyptiske underverden, slås mod nazister, charmere smukke piger og finde sagens skumle bagmand.
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
For at slippe ud af sin forbryderbane i Paris påtager en pusher sig et sidste job, som involverer Spanien, ustyrlige gangstere, en gammel flamme og en udspekuleret mor.
En mands besættelse af at eje en hjortskindesjakke, får ham til at vende ryggen til hans kedelige liv i forstæderne, hæve hans opsparing gøre ham til kriminel.
En familiesammenkomst i et fjerntliggende palæ tager en dødelig drejning, da de er fanget inde og tvunget til at spille et dødbringende overlevelsesspil, hvor kun én vil komme ud i live.
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Det er december i Marseille. Taxachaufføren Daniel har installeret endnu mere udstyr i sin super-taxi og bankrøvere forklædt som julemænd røver den største bank i byen. Imens er politichefen forblændet af sin japanske praktikant, efterforskning går fuldstændig i stå og politimanden Emilien ser julemænd alle vegne. Fra strøget i Marseille til skiløjperne i bjergene - eventyret fortsætter...
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for...
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...