Cinematography: Jean-François Robin

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Michel Serrault · Claire Nadeau · Françoise Brion

Plot Struggling to pay off mounting debts Nelly (Béart) meets Mr Arnaud (Serrault) a retired judge 40 years her senior who offers to clear her bills. She reluctantly accepts his offer...

Direction Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Béatrice Dalle · Consuelo De Haviland · Gérard Darmon

Plot Laid-back handyman Zorg spends his time doing odd jobs on beach-front chalets, making chilli and harbouring dreams of becoming a writer. His life is turned upside down with the arrival...

Direction Daniel Auteuil

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Kad Merad · Sabine Azéma · Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Plot It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Beautiful village girl Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal (Daniel Auteuil), who considers her a...

Direction Coline Serreau

Cast Catherine Frot · Vincent Lindon · Rachida Brakni · Line Renaud

Plot A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help...

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Michel Blanc · Marie-Anne Chazel · Christian Clavier · Thierry Lhermitte

Plot After the Mediterranean Club, the merry troop of friends (more known under the name of Bronzed) are found with the winter sports. They will still live of other sentimental problems,...

Direction Daniel Auteuil

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Victoire Bélézy · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Raphaël Personnaz

Direction Mike Figgis

Cast Albert Finney · Greta Scacchi · Matthew Modine · Julian Sands

Plot Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a traditional English prep school, is called the "Hitler of the Lower Sixth" by his students. His rigidity and...

Direction Alain Tanner

Cast Trevor Howard · Mick Ford · Odile Schmitt · Louis Samier

Plot A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Josiane Balasko · Michel Blanc · Christian Clavier · Marie-Anne Chazel

Plot 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...

Direction Daniel Auteuil

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Victoire Bélézy · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Raphaël Personnaz

Direction Coline Serreau

Cast Sami Frey · Christine Murillo · Mario Gonzáles · Nicole Jamet

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Marie Gillain · Daniel Auteuil · Vincent Pérez · Philippe Noiret

Plot Swashbuckling action based on a 19th Century novel and set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. When the Duke of Nevers is assassinated by the...

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Sandrine Bonnaire · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Dominique Lavanant

Plot Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he...

Direction Dominique Deruddere

Cast Joe Mantegna · Ornella Muti · Faye Dunaway · Burt Young

Direction James Dearden

Cast Ewan McGregor · Anna Friel · Yves Beneyton · Betsy Brantley

Plot When he is sent to Singapore by the 200-year-old Barings Bank, futures trader Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor) dreams of making a killing in the stock market. But even though his...

Direction Philip Saville

Cast Christian Bale · Emily Watson · Lee Ross · Elsa Zylberstein

Plot Metroland, based on Julian Barnes's first novel, is a tale of midlife, middle-class malaise reminiscent of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. It's 1977, and shaggy-haired thirtysomething Chris (Christian Bale) has...

Direction Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast Gerard Sandoz · Isabelle Pasco · Philippe Clevenot · Gunter Meisner

Plot A failure at school, Thierry (Gerard Sandoz) does odd jobs at the local zoo in exchange for lessons from the lion tamer Frazier (Gabriel Monnet). He meets another trainee Roselyne...

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Sophie Marceau · Francis Huster · Tchéky Karyo · Christiane Jean

Direction Alexandra Leclère

Cast Christian Clavier · Nathalie Baye · Gérard Lanvin · Geraldine Pailhas

Plot Jean-Pierre Ménard, had it up to here with his wife’s refusal to fulfill her “conjugal duties”, decides to halt the money flow by establishing a new rule between them: “No...

Direction Philippe Rousselot

Cast Ewan McGregor · Greta Scacchi · Pete Postlethwaite · Richard E. Grant

Plot Young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome comes to a remote English estate where Thomas Smithers lives with his wife, Juliana. Smithers is determined to leave as his legacy a fabulous...