François Marthouret

Milady

François Leterrier

Jacques Dufilho, Claude Giraud

Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.

The Confession

Costa-Gavras

Yves Montand, Simone Signoret

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Vassili Silovic, Oja Kodar

Oja Kodar, Orson Welles

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).

Nom de code: DP

Patrick Dewolf

Anne Brochet, Maher Kamoun

On September 11, 2001, an enemy whose evil knows no bounds unleashed its depraved brand of terror upon an unsuspecting world. 'Imminent Attack' is the story of a desperate race against time to avert yet another such tragedy. The key to success rests upon the reluctant shoulders of Léon, a young man currently imprisoned for armed bank robbery. His mission: Go under cover and infiltrate the terrorist network, discover the detail of their plot and expose the cold-blooded mastermind behind it. If Léon prevails, his wins his freedom. If he fails, thousands of innocent people will lose their lives.

Dossier 51

Michel Deville

François Marthouret, Roger Planchon

French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.

By the Grace of God

François Ozon

Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet

Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.

Le retour d'Afrique

Alain Tanner

Josée Destoop, François Marthouret

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.

Love Me No More

Jean Becker

Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition

Paul Vecchiali

Jacques Perrin, François Marthouret

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

Comment va la douleur?

François Marthouret

Bernard Le Coq, Thomas Coumans

Aux petits bonheurs

Michel Deville

Anémone, Xavier Beauvois

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

Black Venus

Abdellatif Kechiche

Yahima Torres, André Jacobs

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

L'Anglaise et le Duc

Éric Rohmer

François Marthouret, Marie Rivière

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

Blanval

Michel Mees

Zabou Breitman, Wladimir Yordanoff

August 1917. Two pilots whose aircraft was shot down by the Germans hide in a castle. They meet Justin, the employee, who has just killed his master.

The Lady and the Duke

Éric Rohmer

Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

Marquis

Henri Xhonneux

François Marthouret, Valérie Kling

In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs for action, Marquis himself only desires to write his deviant stories in peace.