Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.

Vacationing at her summer home, actress Mado (Nicole Garcia) is joined by her lover, movie director Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), her son Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his girlfriend, Lili (Ludivine Sagnier). Julien debuts a short film starring Lili, but Mado and Brice pan the film. Ambitious Lili runs off to Paris with Brice, who makes her a movie star. Years later, Lili contacts Julien when she hears he's about to shoot his first feature film.

Though happily married to his adoring wife, Hélèe, who is expecting their second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day.

Antoine is a 33-year old modern male, searching for the love of his life while at odds with the scarier reaches of commitment. Then he meets Clara. She's beautiful, generous, and has an air of freedom about her that causes Antoine to immediately fall for her. Their romance develops quickly, seemingly a perfect love affair between soulmates, but when life deals them an unforeseen blow, their relationship faces a test it may not survive.

A stirring drama that takes place in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. A gay male couple must keep their love a secret for fear of persecution. Their lives are further complicated by a young Jewish woman seeking refuge.

The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother's true nature.

Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.

"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Nozière leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit an unthinkable crime."--Container.

"Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening, he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning to wonder if it all was just a dream."--Container.