For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
Mathilden sulhanen Manoche tuomitaan ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa itsensä haavoittamisesta kuolemaan neljän muun miehen kanssa. Heitä ei teloiteta suoraan, vaan lähetetään itsemurhatehtävään. Mathilde tuntee Manochen olevan elossa ja saa sodan jälkeen kirjeen, joka vihjaa samaan suuntaan. Mathilde lähtee selvittämään miehensä kohtaloa. Leffa voi sotaa käsitteleväksi elokuvaksi olla monen mielestä liiankin valoisa.
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.
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Kriittinen ranskalaiskomedia mainosalan mies Octave Parangosta, joka kärsii reklaamiväen keskenkasvuisesta, huumehuuruisesta lifestylestä. Eräiden traagisten trippivaiheidensa jälkeen hän löytää vihdoin halun kasvaa ihmisenä. Miten hän voisi kaataa mainosmaailman valheellisuuden kulissit?
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Todd on lahjakas oppilas, joka on kiinnostunut historiasta. Erityisesti häntä kiehtovat natsien hirmuteot keskitysleireillä. Hän saa selville, että lähellä asuva saksalaisvanhus onkin julmuudestaan tunnettu sotarikollinen Kurt Dussander. Todd ei paljasta miestä poliisille, vaan kiristää kidutuksen mestaria antamaan hänelle yksityisopetusta aiheesta.
The first show of Jean-Luc Lemoine.
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home.
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
Poliisivoimista kyseenalaisen surman seurauksena ulos potkittu ja yksityisetsiväksi ryhtynyt Billy Taggart saa toimeksiannon New Yorkin pormestarilta Nicholas Hostetlerilta. Uutta ja tasaväkiseksi povattua vaalikampanjaa vetävä Hostetler epäilee vaimollaan Cathleenilla olevan salasuhde. Pian Taggartille kuitenkin selviää, että totuus on huomattavasti monimutkaisempi kuin Hostetler antoi ymmärtää. Johtolangat vievät hänet yhä syvemmälle politiikan likaisiin kulisseihin ja edessä häämöttää suurempi skandaali kuin hän on osannut aavistaakaan...
What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden joyful voice trying to share with you a concept, a theory. They continuously use words such as invention, beauty, freedom. You then ask yourself : how such a rich language, this quasi-philosophical proposition about the world becomes rejected by a majority, 'the only discipline where one prides itself to be bad at it'!
A guy has to move out in a day, completely unprepared, and drive his mum to the airport. Completely stressed out, he calls his friends for help. Short notice however results in all his friends making it with an agenda of their own.
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...