Alain Tasma

Le Viol

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.

Opération Turquoise

L'héritière

Due to the accidental death of her husband during a hunting trip, Ana Keller inherits his arms factory. She finds herself overnight at the head of this company which was about to merge with that of a competitor, David Landri. These sudden changes disrupt Ana's daily life. Invested in her new function, she seeks to supervise everything, must continually prove herself and impose herself in a world of men. This keeps her away from her loved ones and especially from her children, Sacha, 16, and Chloé, 22. The latter turns her back on him when she will need her the most...

Harkis

1972, in the south of France, deep in the forest, a family with meager luggage discovers the new camp where they will live. Despite the camp leader's overt paternalism, the Harkis lead a difficult life without real freedom. A life of poverty and guardianship that Leila, the Benamars' eldest daughter, rejects. She is at the age of rebellion, and also of her first love. For her, her father, Saïd, scarred by war and exile, accustomed to giving in, owes nothing to the French who enlisted him in the French army, then failed to protect them in Algeria. Thanks to her, with the help of a peasant couple, he will raise his head and the Benamars will leave the camp for a nearby farm.

The Last Metro

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire

The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.

Pékin Central

The unique distinction of this standard comedy drama is that it is the first foreign, feature-length movie filmed in mainland China. Novice director Camille de Casabianca obtained permission from the authorities and set up her story around Valerie (Christine Citti), a woman who follows Yves (Yves Renier), the man she loves, to China. Yves is a journalist assigned to report on Western tourists behind the Bamboo Curtain, and it is an unintentionally comical group of tourists at that.

The Woman Next Door

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Le Viol

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.

Opération Turquoise

L'héritière

Due to the accidental death of her husband during a hunting trip, Ana Keller inherits his arms factory. She finds herself overnight at the head of this company which was about to merge with that of a competitor, David Landri. These sudden changes disrupt Ana's daily life. Invested in her new function, she seeks to supervise everything, must continually prove herself and impose herself in a world of men. This keeps her away from her loved ones and especially from her children, Sacha, 16, and Chloé, 22. The latter turns her back on him when she will need her the most...

Harkis

1972, in the south of France, deep in the forest, a family with meager luggage discovers the new camp where they will live. Despite the camp leader's overt paternalism, the Harkis lead a difficult life without real freedom. A life of poverty and guardianship that Leila, the Benamars' eldest daughter, rejects. She is at the age of rebellion, and also of her first love. For her, her father, Saïd, scarred by war and exile, accustomed to giving in, owes nothing to the French who enlisted him in the French army, then failed to protect them in Algeria. Thanks to her, with the help of a peasant couple, he will raise his head and the Benamars will leave the camp for a nearby farm.

The Last Metro

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire

The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.

Pékin Central

The unique distinction of this standard comedy drama is that it is the first foreign, feature-length movie filmed in mainland China. Novice director Camille de Casabianca obtained permission from the authorities and set up her story around Valerie (Christine Citti), a woman who follows Yves (Yves Renier), the man she loves, to China. Yves is a journalist assigned to report on Western tourists behind the Bamboo Curtain, and it is an unintentionally comical group of tourists at that.

The Woman Next Door

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Godard's Passion

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

God Is Great and I'm Not

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.

A Tale of the Wind

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.

Cheaters

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

Sous un autre jour

The well-ordered world of 50-something lawyer Irène bursts like a soap bubble: her husband leaves her for another woman and she learns that the man she thought was her father is not her real father. As a means of escape, she sets off in search of her biological father.

Ultimatum

A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.

À cran, deux ans après

Une leçon d'amour

Marc, who works for a soundproofing company, and Sylvie, who runs a temp agency, have been married for several years. Still in love with his wife, Marc nevertheless cheats on her with Vanessa, a 25-year-old woman, telling her that his wife is dying. One day, Vanessa, who is looking for a job, happens to walk into Sylvie's temp agency.

Nine Days in Winter

The writer Aurélien is in hospital and learns that his parents have died in a car accident. The loner reluctantly travels to Brittany to arrange the sale of his parents' house. He can't help the memories that the small town evokes in him. Is Aurélien really the black sheep of the family? On the coast in Saint-Lunaire, Mado, an old family friend, upsets his certainties. His former best friend Hervé, a real estate agent in charge of selling the house, surprises him with a discovery.

Fracture

Anna is a young teacher assigned as a substitute at a challenging middle school in the suburbs of Paris. In her class, Lakhdar, a well-behaved and promising student, has suffered a medical mishap and lost the use of his right hand.

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

Mamirolle

Delphine meets Manuel. Fragile and elusive, the young man escapes him. Manuel leaves the city to flee his illness, a cancer. Delphine goes in pursuit and plunges into a world of dark encounters.

Out of the Blue

Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.

Falling for Love

A penniless young man, Kevin is forced to return to live with his parents in the heart of the Picardy countryside. There, he finds a job in a pig farm. Not knowing how to look ahead, Kevin has no real project to defend. Everything shifts the day he meets Alice. This attractive voltigeuse who is not cold to the eyes exercises her talents in a circus of the region. Under the spell, Kevin tries to get closer to her and her way of life very free. To conquer it, he decides to train himself to acrobatic riding. Despite the misunderstanding of his family, he does not intend to give up this crazy bet that finally gives him a reason to live his life as he sees fit ...

Dark Night, October 17, 1961

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.

Emma

A teen's life changes when her new half-brother arrives accompanied by an elusive stranger while spending the summer with her father and his new family.

Maigret

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Taxi Brooklyn

Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a highly skilled Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.

XIII: The Series

After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.

Voltaire in Love

Drama series that explores Voltaire's early life and evolution. It reveals aspects of the gifted philosopher's life that received less attention: Voltaire the adventurer, lover, man of justice who had an obscure relationship with royalty.

A Dangerous Friendship

A lively duchess befriends the shy queen of France. The duchess aims to reunite the queen with the aloof king by injecting merriment into the staid royal atmosphere, causing controversy at court.

Les Duettistes

The Rookies

The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.

Alias Caracalla, au cœur de la Résistance

Screen adaptation of the memoires of Daniel Cordier, a member of the French Resistance and close friend of Resistance leader, Jean Moulin.

War on Beasts

When the closing of a local factory impacts a small French town, a desperate unionist and a bodybuilder resort to a dangerous scheme to make ends meet.

À cran, deux ans après

Once he emerges from his depressive lethargy, with the help of his former teammate Edith Lesage, Bob sets out to find those responsible for his downfall. He then takes it upon himself to investigate the death of Julien—an investigation he had been unable to conduct earlier—which may be connected to the plot against him...

Fleur bleue

French miniseries.