Dr. Valois has invented the “flashage”, a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody’s happy except may be Alain’s wife, Jeanne, who’s worrying about the changes in Alain’s personality.Read More »
“Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois (Jacques Dutronc), and despite her middle-class family’s objections, she marries him. Unable to keep a job, and without any real skills, he has a hard time supporting them, especially after the birth of their baby. He turns to shoplifting, and she briefly leaves him when she discovers this. Sometime after they get back together, with money still in short supply, she takes a turn at shoplifting too, and gets a kick out of it. “Read More »
Synopsis Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her husband, also a news photographer, gets wind of it, and is killed. As she investigates, she also begins to know more than is safe for her. Unfortunately for her, her charming neighbor Julien (Jacques Dutronc), an old friend, is also involved.
Danièle Gaur, photographe, enquête sur le suicide présumé de son mari Michel, retrouvé noyé. Ses investigations la conduisent à découvrir un complot visant à assassiner John W. Maxwell et à faire la connaissance de Julien Mercier, voisin de Michel.Read More »
Synopsis April, 1937. Anton, a Communist Party member living in France, is involved with trafficking arms to left-wing activists in Spain. He is captured by the Gestapo but is subsequently released when is friend, Léo, head of a Communist network in Europe, arranges an exchange. Anton is recruited in the struggle against fascism but ends up being a victim of the Stalinist purge…Read More »
Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.Read More »
Synopsis 1935. Jacques and Simon live by their wits, from the hold-up in jewelry theft. When war broke out, the two friends and Lola, a prostitute, make the traffic with the Germans, but by discovering the methods of the Gestapo, they give up and enter the Resistance. At the end of the war, Jacques is decorated and returned to his first occupations. 1935 Flying the new model of Citroën, a man invented the gang des tractions avant. Thus begin ten years of tracking down an infernal, good between the band and the gang of bad guys. A continuous suspense on WWII base where the good are not always the nicest, and not necessarily the most wicked cruel …Read More »
Quote: When the young Jeanne finds out that she could have mistakenly been exchanged from her cradle with another newborn (the son of a famous piano player), she decides to contact this family. All this will lead to the discovery of dark family secrets and the unveiling of the misdeeds and the hypocrisy of the French upper class members.Read More »
Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after that he meets Blanche who acts as a medium in a bizarre traveling show. Dying Lucas follows her to the sea resort where they spend together several days and nights.Read More »