Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.

Le destin de six femmes iraniennes qui chacune à sa manière doit faire face à la discrimination et à l’oppression imposées par la société. Solmaz Gholami est rejetée par sa famille pour avoir donné naissance à une fillette plutôt qu’au garçon espéré. Mojgan, une jeune femme sans papier, est réduite à la mendicité tandis qu’Arezou, Nargess et Nayereh, en liberté provisoire, cherchent à fuir le regard de la police. Pari, quant à elle, est reniée par sa famille parce qu’elle est enceinte....

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.

Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happening triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.

A father juggling his kids with the rest of his responsibilities is ultimately faced with the choice of being their father or their friend.

A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.

An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach.

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

A timber exploitation contractor persuades the Székely woodcutter, Erdei Csutak Gergő, to move in the village his family, offering them work that pays well. At their new place, the contractor rushes at Gergő's wife, Anna. Frightened, she tries to escape, but falls in an abyss. In vain do they try to cure her, Anna dies. Having no money to have her carried home. Gergő takes her body on the train as alive. He kills the contractor in revenge and is therefore put in prison. At Christmas, he escapes to give his son a present, but a gendarme's bullet hits him. His fellow-woodcutters pretend to have captured the run-away prisoner who is now dead. They use the blood-money to buy his orphaned little boy, Gergő, clothes and a pair of boots.

Nyúl Béla, the insignificant teacher of Latin, father of four, writes a study on Hannibal, which states that the war lord became the victim of the revolution in Carthago. A journalist appears at Nyúls', he makes an interview, the family is happy: the bread-and-jam age is over. In the Parliament however, the extreme right wing makes a scandal on the pretext of the paper and Nyúl Béla is dismissed. The teacher pays a visit to his former classmate, the right wing representative Muray. He promises help, but in a great assembly in the Amphiteatrum he already heats the mob against Nyúl. The teacher publicly "becomes converted". He is taken aback by the bursting out enthusiasm of the mob, and falling from the cornice he crashes to his death.

The lyrical, impressionist film takes place in Óbuda in the thirties. The smart, unemployed Pettersen meets the immaculately clean worker girl. They spend several nights together in the little hut of the man built of trash. Vera works in a laundry, but all her wish is to become a dancer. The boss, Weiszhaupt, notices the girl. The defenceless Vera leaves Pettersen for the promise of a safe future. When the man gets himself a job in the laundry as well, he sees her again as Weiszhaupt's lover. True love arises in Vera, but now Pettersen refuses her.

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. But during his last secret visit he leaves his gloves there, then wakes up the Barlay-house in the night, drunken and noisy. Therefore, the doctor asks him for a duel. On the day of the dual Barlay is found dead. He has been shot down from behind. Everybody knows who the murderer is, but defending the honour of the uniform is the first priority. The lieutenant's servant's confession is accepted, and the naive Kaál Samu believes Ferdinándy, i.e. that nothing is going to happen to him. Samu continues to believe his master until the moment of his execution. A disgusted lieutenant is discharged, and the regiment moves on to the next town.

The film is a tension-filled parable about the power of order, cruelty and submissive behaviour. A young man arrives at a falconers' plant for summer exercise. The plant stands in the middle of barren land, secluded from everything and managed by the fanatic Lilik, keeping rigorous discipline. Besides him and the falconers only Teréz lives there. The Boy learns the tasks at the plant and is captivated by the elementary force and beauty of the flight of the falcons. Yet he is more and more abhorred by the spiritual terror and the barbaric order used by Lilik to subdue his men. He endures the man-probing hunt but releases the captured falcon in the end. Teréz and the Boy are attracted to each other but she is unable to break out. After a mighty, devastating storm, the Boy packs his belongings and leaves. The others stay.

The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggering along the border of life an death. He believes to have found beauty in the organically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories come to life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart; Florentin, Lenke, Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter, Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the fried pheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, - i.e. himself, Szinbád, - with whom she ran away and who drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting searching for perfection makes it impossible for Szinbád to find peace in a single woman's love, and his loneliness is dissolved only at the table laid by the motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In the spiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szinbád experiences the completeness of life, and in that moment he reaches true death.

The film is about the possible attitudes one can assume towards tyranny and dictatorship in the modern man's perspective. Oreste and Elektreia stand up against oppression of freedom in the name of justice, law, and revolution. On the day of Aegistos' accession to the throne - and which is supposed to be the day of telling the truth - people remain silent. The "cracked-brained" is the only one who instigates, waiting desperately for Oreste. Her brother arrives to take vengeance for his father, and they kill each other to rise later as phoenix birds again and again wherever freedom is wanted. A red colour helicopter takes them there.

Else, pour sauver son père qui croule sous les dettes, doit choisir d’accepter ou non de se mettre nue devant le vieux Dorsday, en échange d’une somme d’argent. Sous la pression, la jeune fille choisit un geste encore plus radical.

Note : Ce court-métrage est une libre adaptation du roman d’Arthur Schnitzler écrit en 1924, reprenant sa trame initiale mais sous une forme éclatée.

En Israël, où le mariage entre Juifs est scellé devant un tribunal rabbinique, seul le consentement des deux époux peut permettre à la séparation d'être prononcée. Viviane Amsalem demande le divorce depuis trois ans. Son mari refuse, prétextant qu’il l’aime encore.

Note : Le Procès de Viviane Amsalem est réalisé à la suite de Prendre femme (2004) et Les sept jours (2008), pour clôturer la trilogie réalisée par Ronit et Shlomi Elkabetz, autour de la condition des femmes en Israël.

Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud, then Secretary of State for Women, on his popular TV show. A collective of women parody the misogynistic statements from the show in a provocative way.

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Butterfly Woman, another string puppet with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings that hold him in his place as a spectator give way. Thus free, he runs to the Butterfly Woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.

Zohra, 50 years old, is Algerian. She is employed in the household of a young couple. For the first time in her life, she goes to the beach.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

On her birthday, Juliette is too sad to be worried about the strange cleaning lady who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

Paul's life story leads to a sign.

One Sunday, Marguerite, a young pregnant woman from Rouen, and Mario, a Spanish sailor in transit, meet while waiting for a train.

Lucie is thirtyish, shy and introverted. During a party at friends', she meets Bertrand with whom she falls in love immediately. Longing for true love, she focuses all her desires and expectations on him.

Nijinsky, the God of Dance, has been insane for 20 years. His wife, Romola, with the help of Serge Lifar, tries to bring him back to life.

Ce programme réunit 11 courts métrages réalisés par Alice Guy : La Fée aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas épileptique, Les Résultats du féminisme, Madame a des envies, Une femme collante, Le Bonnet à poil, Une héroîne de 4 ans, La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et Alice Guy tourne une photoscène.

Edda est photographe de presse en RFA, et mère célibataire. Elle peine à concilier vie professionnelle et personnelle, alors qu'une occasion se présente à elle. Avec ses collègues, Edda prépare une exposition de photos sur Berlin. Le jeune mère devra se démener pour obtenir des financements et lutter contre les attitudes élitistes du monde de l'art.

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very different emotional make-up, their different character.

Angela and Robert have been married for 10 years and are still very much in love with each other. They give each other complete freedom and form a perfect couple. Their happiness is not disrupted when Robert brings his young friend Claudia home for the weekend.

Des femmes de toute la France se retrouvent à Hendaye pour montrer leur solidarité aux femmes espagnoles contre le fascisme. Cette manifestation ne doit pas être silencieuse, on entend beaucoup de chants.
Après la manifestation, les femmes discutent entre elles : qu'est ce qu'une manifestation de femmes/féministe ? Quels slogans doit-on entendre ?
À la fin du film, des femmes témoignent sur la condition féminine en Espagne et dans les luttes politiques.

En juin 1975, les prostituées lyonnaises occupent l’église de Saint-Nizier. Elles parlent de leur histoire personnelle, de leurs rapports avec la société, de leurs conditions de travail et de leurs revendications.

Document sur l’état de la pratique de l’avortement en France dans les années 1970. Réalisé en 1973, alors que l’avortement n’est ni autorisé ni légal en France, le film donne le ton dès la première image du générique avec son titre « Y’a qu’à pas baiser ». Débute le journal télévisé INF2 qui consacre un dossier à l’avortement intitulé « L’avortement libre : pour ou contre ? », dossier dont le premier intervenant est le professeur Jérôme Lejeune qui stigmatise le marché commun de l’avortement et les avorteurs en blanc.

Attention : une scène du film représentant un avortement clandestin pourrait heurter la sensibilité des plus jeunes.

The lyrical, impressionist film takes place in Óbuda in the thirties. The smart, unemployed Pettersen meets the immaculately clean worker girl. They spend several nights together in the little hut of the man built of trash. Vera works in a laundry, but all her wish is to become a dancer. The boss, Weiszhaupt, notices the girl. The defenceless Vera leaves Pettersen for the promise of a safe future. When the man gets himself a job in the laundry as well, he sees her again as Weiszhaupt's lover. True love arises in Vera, but now Pettersen refuses her.

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták, a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová, takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.

The documentarist film depicts how a young weaver girl is trying to find herself and what identity-problems she has. Szőnyi Erzsi, textile-worker, grew up in Fót, the town for neglected children. She puts an advertisement in the papers, trying to find her parents and unexpectedly gets a reply. She visits her mother in Várkút, who is scared of her beautiful and too natural daughter and continues to hide their relationship from her husband. Erzsi, lonesome and depressed by her failure lets things happen to her. She starts a passing affair with the boy she met on the train. She listens to a depraved man who tells her about his dead parents and comforts him. Then, in a club, where the Illés Band is playing she does not resist Gábor's defiant glances, either.

The film is about the possible attitudes one can assume towards tyranny and dictatorship in the modern man's perspective. Oreste and Elektreia stand up against oppression of freedom in the name of justice, law, and revolution. On the day of Aegistos' accession to the throne - and which is supposed to be the day of telling the truth - people remain silent. The "cracked-brained" is the only one who instigates, waiting desperately for Oreste. Her brother arrives to take vengeance for his father, and they kill each other to rise later as phoenix birds again and again wherever freedom is wanted. A red colour helicopter takes them there.

This is the first film of the "Hungarian new wave". A company of young people spend their summer holidays by the Tisza. They are absorbed in sun-bathing and swimming, and more and more of them dive into the depth of the river to collect some mud. None of the young people notices that one of them is no longer with them, that Gabi drowned in the river. The tragedy which happened to their friend forces them to examine their own conscious asking themselves who is responsible, how they relate to the world and each other. They grow into adulthood burdened by the tragedy, their relationships are transformed. Luja and Zoli are willing to face their conscience. Laci finds consolation in abstract principles, while others try to idealise their role.

The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggering along the border of life an death. He believes to have found beauty in the organically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories come to life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart; Florentin, Lenke, Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter, Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the fried pheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, - i.e. himself, Szinbád, - with whom she ran away and who drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting searching for perfection makes it impossible for Szinbád to find peace in a single woman's love, and his loneliness is dissolved only at the table laid by the motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In the spiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szinbád experiences the completeness of life, and in that moment he reaches true death.

Kourou, a young villager, decides to conquer Kinshasa, the capital. But it is easier said than done. In the big city, Kourou finds nothing but odd jobs and throws his life away with prostitutes. One day he is even fired for stealing. The situation seems hopeless but the worm turns the moment when, after entering a bar, Kourou takes a mike in his hands and starts singing.

Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

Edda est photographe de presse en RFA, et mère célibataire. Elle peine à concilier vie professionnelle et personnelle, alors qu'une occasion se présente à elle. Avec ses collègues, Edda prépare une exposition de photos sur Berlin. Le jeune mère devra se démener pour obtenir des financements et lutter contre les attitudes élitistes du monde de l'art.

Seventeen-year-old Jóska is captured by the Soviet in the last days of World War II. He is posted to a soldier lad to help him guard the cowherd. Jóska tries to escape, Kolja keeps him from entering the mined area using his gun. Despite their opposed position and language barrier a friendly relationship is formed between them. They feast on the meat of the exploded cow together and chase girls when Kolja suddenly dies of a former injury. Jóska tries to get to the station dressed in his uniform. Some of the former POWs recognize him and thinking that he was a collaborate they beat him up thoroughly.

The film is a tension-filled parable about the power of order, cruelty and submissive behaviour. A young man arrives at a falconers' plant for summer exercise. The plant stands in the middle of barren land, secluded from everything and managed by the fanatic Lilik, keeping rigorous discipline. Besides him and the falconers only Teréz lives there. The Boy learns the tasks at the plant and is captivated by the elementary force and beauty of the flight of the falcons. Yet he is more and more abhorred by the spiritual terror and the barbaric order used by Lilik to subdue his men. He endures the man-probing hunt but releases the captured falcon in the end. Teréz and the Boy are attracted to each other but she is unable to break out. After a mighty, devastating storm, the Boy packs his belongings and leaves. The others stay.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very different emotional make-up, their different character.

Angela and Robert have been married for 10 years and are still very much in love with each other. They give each other complete freedom and form a perfect couple. Their happiness is not disrupted when Robert brings his young friend Claudia home for the weekend.

A French-like burlesque about the adventures of a young boy in the first grade of elementary school. He gets acquainted with time, then, accompanied by his father, leaves home to spend his first day at school. On the way there, he meets Zizi, and they become friends. Mischief interests him more than learning to write, but he is not alone by this inclination. His imagination colours reality around him. He is cured from a major disease, makes adventures in social life, learns to know the adult world. He imagines his uncle, whom he does not love and whom he continuously escapes, to be set in prison. A baby is born in the family, and it is much bigger happiness than his excellent marks, only Zizi needs to be comforted because she failed in a subject. But there is no problem because he makes a promise to marry her. When he grows up.

Nyúl Béla, the insignificant teacher of Latin, father of four, writes a study on Hannibal, which states that the war lord became the victim of the revolution in Carthago. A journalist appears at Nyúls', he makes an interview, the family is happy: the bread-and-jam age is over. In the Parliament however, the extreme right wing makes a scandal on the pretext of the paper and Nyúl Béla is dismissed. The teacher pays a visit to his former classmate, the right wing representative Muray. He promises help, but in a great assembly in the Amphiteatrum he already heats the mob against Nyúl. The teacher publicly "becomes converted". He is taken aback by the bursting out enthusiasm of the mob, and falling from the cornice he crashes to his death.

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature.

In this satire on Art under Socialism, a minor musician who plays the humble triangle becomes a tyrannical orchestra director.

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. But during his last secret visit he leaves his gloves there, then wakes up the Barlay-house in the night, drunken and noisy. Therefore, the doctor asks him for a duel. On the day of the dual Barlay is found dead. He has been shot down from behind. Everybody knows who the murderer is, but defending the honour of the uniform is the first priority. The lieutenant's servant's confession is accepted, and the naive Kaál Samu believes Ferdinándy, i.e. that nothing is going to happen to him. Samu continues to believe his master until the moment of his execution. A disgusted lieutenant is discharged, and the regiment moves on to the next town.

A film of loosely connected episodes and a ballad-like atmosphere records Hungarian peasant life in the fifties and the sixties through the story of young Pásztor Balázs. His innocent father is imprisoned in the fifties and thus Balázs, who wants to be a film director, is not admitted to film academy. He is employed in a co-operative as a land-surveyor. While he is organising a farming centre with his friend, Iliász, a Greek partisan, the local leaders force the men to join the co-operative. The angry women blame the uncompromising Iliász and beat him to death. Balázs is then at a Gypsy camp, where he can see how the authorities of cultural supremacy tread on human rights. He takes shocking photos of the decontamination squad's operation.

"Our profession is photography" - sings and advertises Sebő, the herald of a group of travelling photographers, knocking at the doors of village houses. The photographer takes the photos as they have been ordered, the retoucher manages the business, and if people want a rosier picture than the harsh reality of their own faces is he is ready to retouch the photos. And most people choose this option: the photographer is vainly trying to persuade them to choose the true and more telling pictures. Yet, a rich material of the past gets revealed from behind the scenes of the locals' lives: while the retoucher is working on the pictures, the photographer is digging deep in the thirty-odd years old life stories and which "can as well be framed and put on the wall". An old lady, Mrs. Nyerges recalls the tragedy of her husband's murdered daughters, too. The picture taken of the murderous mother turns up as well.

When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Anna est serveuse dans un dancing parisien qu'elle quitte pour travailler dans un hôpital caritatif. Au fil des ans, elle se hisse à la tête de l'institution, mais lorsqu'un vieil habitué du dancing reconnaît sa photo, il tente de la faire chanter. La Tare est exemplaire des intentions de Louis Feuillade envers la ligne, tant esthétique que morale, de sa collection de films classés sous l’enseigne de « la Vie telle qu’elle est », équivalent cinématographique des romans de Zola et de Goncourt.

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband's voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.

Since 1695 the people of Brussels know that their 'Manneken Pis' is an easy target for thieves and jokers. Machin uses this premise and makes his panther steal the statue.

A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote it. The actress of the play receives a call from the author and the two quickly becomes friends but the man won't give any details about himself because he has a secret.

Touristic film in which two children discover Brussels's leading monuments and sights.

Ce programme réunit 11 courts métrages réalisés par Alice Guy : La Fée aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas épileptique, Les Résultats du féminisme, Madame a des envies, Une femme collante, Le Bonnet à poil, Une héroîne de 4 ans, La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et Alice Guy tourne une photoscène.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.

An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach.

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?