Fabrice Luchini

A teacher pushes a student with extraordinary gifts to keep on writing -- even though he knows the young author's research methods are questionable.

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.

Retired actor Serge is approached by Gauthier to star in a play, but he plays hard to get. Serge's new lover, the play's producer, and his agent arrive on the same weekend to pressure him to make up his mind.

In a library located in the heart of Brittany , a piece gathers rejected manuscripts submitted by unknown authors. A young publisher discovers an extraordinary manuscript that she immediately decides to publish. The novel becomes a bestseller.But its author, Henri Pick, a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier, would never have written anything other than his shopping lists, according to his widow. Convinced that it is an imposture, the famous literary critic Jean-Michel Rouche decides to lead the investigation, with the unexpected help of the daughter of the enigmatic Henri Pick.

A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the attractive 28-year-old.

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a bad way. He has run out of ideas. After thirty years in politics, he feels empty. To solve this problem, his team decides to hire a brilliant young philosopher, Alice Heimann. A dialogue between Alice and the mayor unfolds, bringing them together and shaking their certainties. Little by little, the question arises: are politics and reflection compatible?

Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.

A feared judge is extremely strict in all aspects of his life, until he meets a beautiful juror.

No one’s enjoying Dumont’s foray into comedy more than us. The former king of New French Extremity has proven to take slapstick like a duck to water with this darkly twisted, hysterically funny whodunnit meets class satire. Plus—to close our devoted tribute—Binoche like you’ve never seen her before.

In the tradition of Shakespeare in Love, Moliere invents a fanciful yarn based on speculative historical fiction taken from a piece of real life -- in this case, the mysterious disappearance of the French playwright for several months in 1644 -- and concocts a thoroughly irresistible and lavish story of intrigue, romance, comedy and artistic inspiration. As Moliere, the magnetic Romain Duris displays all of his usual seductive intensity, but also pulls off goofy Gallic charm. There's something of a modern rock star to him, almost a cousin to Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. In addition there's a superb cast of actors, and visually viewers are taken on a sumptuous, wild ride through Versailles-era France. This absorbing romp has an infectious sense of fun that lingers well after the curtain falls.

Alain is a respected, high profile, businessman and a brilliant speaker who let his personal life lapse in favour of corporate success. When he suffers a serious stroke and wakes up in hospital, he finds himself stripped back to zero. Jeanne is a young speech therapist in charge of his rehabilitation. With a lot of patience and hard work, Jeanne and Alain get to know each other and, in their own way, begin to rebuild their lives.

Joan, compelled by visions of God, leads the French charge against invading English forces. She is later captured and put on trial for heresy.

Although it has much in common with Walerian Borowczyk’s earlier work, Immoral Tales marks the point where his reputation as an arty pornographer began, and was sexually explicit enough to have caused problems with the censors on its original UK release. It tells four stories revolving around particular taboos (virginity, female masturbation, bloodlust, incest), each delving further back in time, as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human history and in all walks of life, whether it’s Lucrezia Borgia (Florence Bellamy) or Erzsébet Báthory (Paloma Picasso in her only screen role) or the anonymous teenagers of the earlier episodes.This high-definition restoration by Argos Films is being released on Blu-ray with English subtitles for the first time. The film is presented in its original five-part conception, including the short film The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan that was later expanded into Borowczyk’s later feature The Beast.

Over the course of several months, various stories are intertwined, with different characters and plot threads intersecting.

A trophy housewife steps in to manage her husband’s umbrella factory, when he is kidnapped by striking employees, whose union leader is her ex-beau.

The fourth film of Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series is a cool, ironic yet compassionate cautionary tale of need, greed, deceit and self-delusion.

In 1930s Paris, a murder trial catapults a struggling actress to a new life of wealth and scandalous stardom—until the truth comes out.

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.