Michel Cosma

Chess can become an obsession, but for Eddie, it is a way of life. Facing personal dilemmas with his teenage daughter, and fantasizing about a beautiful deli waitress, he encounters Geoff, his guardian angel who looks all too human.

A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.

While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.

A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his victim's house. He talks to the police and accentuates the danger more and more.