Die Früchte der Leidenschaft

Im Shanghai der 1920er Jahre beherrschen zügellose Lust und ausschweifende Exzesse das Triebleben der Reichen. So verwundert es nicht, dass der adlige Sir Stephen seine blutjunge Geliebte O in einem Bordell ausbilden lässt. Ihm hoffnungslos verfallen, schreckt sie vor keiner der hemmungslosen Liebespraktiken zurück, um ihrem Meister gefügig sein zu dürfen. Im Strudel der Lust gefangen, sehnt sich O nach immer härterer und aufregenderer Züchtigung.

The Neighbours of My Neighbours are Neighbours of Mine

An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half, and loses his assistant’s legs. An overequipped hiker gets stuck in the elevator for several days. An old man falls in love with a runaway pair of legs. A mother asks her neighbour to look after her children on the eve of Saint-Festin… In one building, the lives of ten next-door neighbours, or the neighbours of neighbours, intertwine as they grapple ...

My Mother Is Crazy

A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son.

Albert est méchant

Savage Souls

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse ...

Amazon

On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the ...

L’ennui

A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.

Der Baum, der Bürgermeister und die Mediathek

Julien Dechaumes ist Bürgermeister eines kleinen französischen Dorfes und hat große Pläne: Durch den Bau eines Kultur- und Sportzentrums will er sein Dorf zu einem modernen Freizeitort machen. Doch dabei stellen sich ihm einige Hindernisse in den Weg. Auf dem Baugrundstück steht nämlich ein alter Baum, den Lehrer Marc um jeden Preis retten will.

Sans Soleil

"He wrote me..." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Pauline at the Beach

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...

A Good Marriage

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

Fruits of Passion

A girl loves a rich and much older man and is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he joins "the revolution". Additionally the movie shows the fate of some of the other prostitutes.