Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Hortense Cumberbatch er en fremgangsrig sort mellemklasseoptiker i London, der beslutter sig for at opsøge sine biologiske rødder, da hendes adoptivmor går bort. Hortense er sort, så det kommer bag på hende, da hun opdager, at hendes biologiske mor er en hvid arbejderklasse kvinde, som langsomt driver længere ud i samfundets yderkanter. Opdagelsen af sin nye familie forandrer Hortense, og at blive involveret i deres liv forandrer hende endnu mere.
I 1879 bliver professor James Murray formand for den komité, der står for udgivelsen af den første udgave af The Oxford English Dictionary. Men komitéen opdager, at over 10.000 ord er blevet indsendt af én mand, William Minor - som viser sig at være dømt for mord og indsat i en anstalt for sindssyge forbrydere. Baseret på virkelige hændelser.
Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that as a young man he was an adventurer, a pirate or a treasure hunter.
A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Matt Turner er en succesrig forretningsmand baseret i Berlin, som jonglerer en finanskarriere med familieansvar. Da Matt en morgen kører sine børn i skole, får han i en opringning at vide, at der er en bombe under hans sæde. Hvis han ikke udfører en række opgaver, vil den detonere. Spærret inde i sin bil og jaget gennem byen, må Matt nu følge den fremmede stadig farligere instruktioner i et kapløb med tiden for at beskytte sin familie og løse mysteriet.
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?
Ali, a blind man, is attempting to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the concierge of his building. He is informed that the police is in search of a woman who has escaped and hidden somewhere in the building. Little by little, Ali finds out that the fugitive woman, Leila, is inside his apartment. After participating in a workers’ protest that led to chaos, she is distraught about her four-year-old son who was lost when she was taken in a police van. Gradually, Ali becomes emotionally attached to her. Wishing to flee reality, helping Leila becomes a refuge in his own world of imagination.
On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school. Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be. Hopefully, his supportive and committed colleagues will lead him to take a fresh look at the profession.
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
Flanked by their two children, Simon and Adélaïde decide, like many Parisians today, to leave their two-room apartment for a quieter and more comfortable life in the country. They are seduced by a house in the middle of nature: space, a vegetable garden, a wood adjoining their garden and above all villagers who welcome them with open arms. A dream come true! But the young couple was soon to be disillusioned: the wood was actually a hunting ground for big game! Although the hunters are friendly, they are not willing to give up their territory, making Simon and Adélaïde's dream of the countryside a living hell. But true to their reputation, our Parisians are not going to let them do it.
The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre, a single and grumpy Frenchman.
Sommeren 1910. På stranden ved Den Engelske Kanal er turisterne på mystisk vis begyndt at forsvinde. De berygtede kommissærer Machin og Malfoy lokaliserer forsvindingerne til det lille fiskersamfund, Slack Bay. Her bor den mærkelige familie Brufort, ledet af den karismatiske far, som kæmper for at holde deres uregerlige sønner i skak - især den heftige Ma Loute! De holder til på en lille bakke over bugten, og hver sommer bevæger de sig ned for at blande sig med de almindelige mennesker på stranden. Og det er sådan kærlighedshistorien mellem Ma Loute og den unge lunefulde Billie Van Peteghem begynder. En kærlighed, der midt i al tumulten, vil ændre alt i begge disse sære familiers liv.
The Grandmother of Ryane was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and he has three days max to free her.
In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.
I en tid, hvor mælk og cornflakes dominerede morgenbordet, begynder en voldsom firmakamp om et revolutionerende nyt bagværk.
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.