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A film crew sets up in a disadvantaged suburb of Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the end of the casting, the inhabitants are stunned: the four teenagers selected to play the leading roles are considered to be the bad lot in the suburb. Lily, Maylis, Jessy and Ryan, the happy chosen ones, cannot believe it themselves.
Awards: A Certain Glance Award at Cannes Film Festival (France, 2022); Valois Diamond Award at Angoulême French Film Festival (France, 2022); Most Promising Actress (Mallory Wanecque) at Alice Nella Citta Festival (Italy, 2022)
The adventures of 12-year-old Antoine Doinel, unloved by his parents and misunderstood at school. Antoine lies, steals and plays truant. After a theft, he is sent to a young delinquents' centre from which he escapes to live out his dream of seeing the sea...
Awards: Prize for the best production at the Cannes Festival in 1959
Thérèse Langlois is intrigued by a tramp who looks just like her husband, deported by the Germans fifteen years earlier. She decides to follow him, to be certain that it is indeed him. But he's suffering from amnesia. Patiently, Thérèse tries to find a way to reawaken his memories...
Awards: Palme d'Or (Cannes 1961), 1961 Louis Delluc Prize, nominations (BAFTA 1963)
Passionate about wine, 18 year-old Mike is about to sit his final exam to qualify as a sommelier and leave his home far behind. At the same time his father, a small farmer with brutal methods, gets him involved in an old war over land ownership.
Awards: Jury Prize (''Un Certain Regard'', Cannes 2022)
Rames, a crafty fraudster with a certain talent for dramatisation, runs a successful clairvoyance practice in the Goutte d'Or district in Paris. Up until a gang of street children arrives and starts to spreads terror there: the fake witchdoctor is going to have his first real vision.
Awards: Special screenings at Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week (France, 2022); selected at Cinémania (Canada, 2022), at Geneva International Film Festival (Switzerland, 2022), French Cinema Festival in Israel (2023), French Film Festival in Greece (2024)
During the Second World War, many French railway workers took part in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the French railway network took many actions against Nazi occupation. A station manager, Camargue, and his deputy, Athos, risk their lives in managing the network in their sector.
Awards: Jury Prize and Award for Best Director at Cannes Film Festival (France, 1946); Méliès Award (France, 1946)
Two friends, Pierre and Paul, join forces to write a screenplay based on real events: the story of a young worker, Rosemonde, accused of attempting to murder her uncle, before finally being acquitted for lack of evidence. Paul, something of a dreamer, imagines the character. Pierre, anchored in reality, investigates...
Documentary:
Romy Schneider face à son destin
Romy Schneider (1938-1982): an actress who leaves no-one indifferent, her beauty admired equally by men and women, her delicate fragility and a talent often deemed to be immense. We look back at the career of a perfectionist who lived her roles with passion, a great romantic forever blessed by life.
In 2020, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Michel Audiard's birth, Gaumont opens its archives, revealing the author's lesser-known works. "Le Terminus des Prétentieux", a title invented for many of his unfinished works, looks back over the life and work of one of France's most prolific dialogue writers.
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