In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening…

Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.

Since 2014, France’s restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to…

A con artist in dire need of cash and a woman with a crypto fortune hit it off. Is she the target of his dreams, or is the scammer about…

Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway…

An adventurous mouse sets off to battle dangerous creatures in Ancient Greece, including Poseidon.

Elodie and Laetitia live in close love and dream of having a child. As Elodie discovers that she cannot get pregnant because of a health problem and encounters financial troubles,…

A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.

A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss’ young son.

François Sentinelle has two lives. By day, he is the most famous cop of Réunion Island, known for his tough methods and flowery shirts, pursuing criminals in his famous yellow…

Former Antigang legend Niels Cartier, known for his muscular and unconventional methods, left the force following an intervention that went wrong and led to the death of his wife. When…

A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

After a guardian of magical jewels turns an awkward girl and a popular boy into superheroes, they can never reveal their identities — even to each other.

A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), a man infinitely more complex than his public image suggested, through the story of his relationship with his…

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a…

Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.

Samy lives happily with his wife, Alice, in a poor urban housing project amongst friends and neighbours. For his son’s birthday, the richest man in France throws open his grand…

Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most:…

A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.

Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has…

In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.

While being transferred to another prison, two convicts – Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon – effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an…

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie’s brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for…

The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France as his motherland.

In June 2010, French actress Marion Cotillard spent a week in the heart of the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo with members of Greenpeace France and Greenpeace…

The Titanic is under a new threat. Resting at over 12,500 feet below sea level and 380 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, the most famous shipwreck in the…

A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender of the Civil…

A second version of Gance’s Napoléon, with sound.

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth…

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès’s second film, and as his first to move beyond the…

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

In a room filled with jugglers’ properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an…

The German legend of a scholar’s unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès’ early cinematic treatment likely…

Self-produced and shot on Super 8, The Little Mermaid tells the story of a strange little sea creature who brings trouble and madness into a bourgeois family at the beginning…