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After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.

A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.

1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his sister. 4) God in person lands at a remote farm and works miracles there. 5) Pierre learns that his mother is not his mother, but a famous actress. 6) Didier, a bank clerk, teams up with a bank thief after being fired by the manager 7) Jerôme Chambard is invited to Sunday lunch by his friend the bishop and by dint of drinking to their friendship the holy man cannot remember the ten commandments anymore

Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.

Clément Royan is called in on a murder case. But the case takes a completely different turn when the victim turns out to be a former employee of the casino run by his grandmother, Denise Royan.

Five friends, a zany group of cut-ups, are trying to set up a pop group. But they are soon drafted into military service - and will make a hell of their sergeant's life.

Julien feels like a hostile presence behind him constantly. Alex, his son learns that Eva, a 17-year-old high school girl, forgot to let him know that he was going to be a father.

The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery. Several events happen that immediately change their routine : the death of Manu's father, the break up of Antoine's couple when he learns that his wife once cheating on him, and the wedding of Jeff's daughter. Soon, Manu meets a charming and magical young lady (Juliette). Jeff thinks he is at a turning point in his life and decides to retire, to be friends with his ex-wife (whom he hardly spoke to) and to go to the South of France to live in the sun with his girlfriend. Despite all the hard times they have in their lives, the four friends managed to support each other and keep their friendship running.

Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.

1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.

The torpedo BB and his psychopath right hand Melvin has a plan of robbing a former opera singer for one of his beloved rare fishes and sell it back to him. The opera singer is in love with Myrtille, but is also a crook.

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. Unlike his brother Ryad, a well-known TV presenter who is criticized for his selfishness by those around him.

While dining at a restaurant in Rome with his partner, a man recognizes the voice of a woman he loved at a nearby table.

Memory Lane is the story of an elderly Italian film director commissioned by a French producer to make a film about the life of Proust. During the preliminary preparations, which take him back and forth between France and Italy, Proust's great description of involuntary memory becomes real for him as he starts to relive key moments from his own past. In a series of free associations (visual, tactile, acoustic) he experiences breaking with a group of partisans fighting the German occupation, falling repeatedly in love with the same woman whom he fails to recognize after a long separation, taking her to Switzerland for an abortion, and his relationship with his 20-year-old son who mirrors back to him his own youth.

Thirteen-year-old Marcel is the son of a married couple of Italian origin. Aldo, his father runs a café very popular with soccer fans. Paola, Marcel's mother, has a taste for wild flowers, for walks and for Marcel Proust. In his turn, Marcel discovers his mum's favorite writer, which does not please his father too much as he would indeed rather have him passionate about soccer. Paola falls seriously ill and to give her courage, Aldo, with the complicity of his father, has the idea to invite actor Pierre Arditi to come to their home and read pages by Proust specially for her...