Jacques Penot

A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize ...

A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.

In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, ...

Roufa is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of “bezness:” he’s a ...

In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family’s involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He ...

Prague, 1920. Milena’s father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is ...

In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by ...

Two would be producers launch a singer’s career.

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. He ...

Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.

Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the ...

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a ...

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the ...

Charly, a young man in his thirties, is illiterate. He hides this handicap by combining humor and a sense of trickery. Charly found his mode of ...

The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French ...

Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks ...

Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to ...

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.