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Alex loves Laetitia. She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex. She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher. In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for living, but...Alex prefers her to keep her own place. His official line is that they can live together, sure, "but not in the same apartment!" As Alex desperately attempts to dissuade his gorgeous girlfriend from getting too close, he cooks up a series of situations preventing Laetitia from raising the idea of co-habitation, but which of the two stubborn lovers is going to give in first?

A lighthearted examination of modern relationships, Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours shines a bright line on the absurdities of commitment-phobia.

Down on his luck, and up to his neck in debt, André (Amélie's Jamel Debbouze) decides it's easier to end it all than repay his loan-sharks. As he is about to launch himself from the Pont Neuf, he notices a fellow suicide-a gorgeous, statuesque blonde. Leaping into the Seine, André inadvertently gets himself a champion intent on cleaning up his life, in return for saving hers. With only 24 hours to spare, the mysterious Angela leads André on a mission to pay back his debtors, a mission that will change his life forever.

A luscious black-and-white postcard of Paris, ANGEL-A is both a supernatural love story and a delightful fairytale of redemption.

Bringing together one of the most distinguished and profilic actor in French cinema with one of its most luminous and vibrant young female talents, THE SINGER tells the story of a faded, middle-aged dance hall vocalist who falls for a beautiful but troubled woman half his age.

Gérard Depardieu - in the role acclaimed as his best since CYRANO DE BERGERAC - and Cécile de France (from RUSSIAN DOLLS) star with great chemistry in this tender and poignant love story that's wonderfully acted, beautifully told and never hits a false note.

Au fil des quartiers, des histoires d'amour passager, voilé, mimé, vampirisé, malmené ou révélé...Un Pari(s) moderne émouvant et drôle, un film plein de vie(s) sur le thème de l'Amour. Montmartre - écrit et réalisé par Bruno Podalydès, Quais de Seine - écrit et réalisé par Gurinder Chadha, Le Marais - écrit et réalisé par Gus Van, SantTuileries - écrit et réalisé par Joel et Ethan Coen, Loin du 16e - écrit et réalisé par Walter Salles et Daniela Thomas, Porte de Choisy - écrit et réalisé par Christopher Doyle, Bastille - écrit et réalisé par Isabel Coixet, Place des Victoires - écrit et réalisé par Nobuhiro Suwa, Tour Eiffel - écrit et réalisé par Sylvain Chomet, Parc Monceau - écrit et réalisé par Alfonso Cuaron, Quartier des Enfants Rouges - écrit et réalisé par Olivier Assayas, Place des fêtes - écrit et réalisé par Oliver Schmitz, Pigalle - écrit et réalisé par Richard LaGravenese, Quartier de la Madeleine - écrit et réalisé par Vincenzo Natali, Père-Lachaise - écrit et réalisé par Wes Craven, Faubourg Saint-Denis - écrit et réalisé par Tom Tykwer, Quartier Latin - écrit par Gena Rowlands, réalisé par Gérard Depardieu et Frédéric Auburtin, 14e arrondissement - écrit et réalisé par Alexander Payne.

Eight-year-old Sophie is the girl on the bus that everyone teases. Julien is the little boy that comes to her rescue. He, too, is an outcast of sorts, struggling to cope with the loss of his dying mother. Together, they invent an outrageous game of "Dare" to keep their spirits alive.

Balding, elfin-eared Francois (Bernard Campan) enters a hookers-in-the-window joint in Paris' Pigalle district to meet the woman who has become his obsession - the voluptuous Daniela (Monica Bellucci). Her attention can be had for 150 Euros and an extravagant bottle of champagne. Francois doesn't balk at the cost. Instead, he revels that he has just won the lottery and offers Daniela 100,000 Euros a month to live with him until the money runs out. Daniela becomes the domestic goddess of everyman's dream and life couldn't be better, that is until Daniela's gangster boyfriend turns up....

Venue présenter une pièce de Pirandello avec sa troupe de théâtre italienne, la comédienne Camille (Jeanne Balibar) retrouve avec émotion Paris qu’elle a quitté trois ans auparavant, après sa rupture avec Pierre (Jacques Bonaffé). Troublée au point de ne pouvoir travailler en toute sérénité, elle décide d’aller rendre visite à son ancien amour. De son côté, son mari Ugo (Sergio Castellitto), à la recherche d’un manuscrit inédit de Goldoni, rencontre une jolie et troublante bibliophile (Hélène de Fougerolles)…

The Piano Teacher is a powerful and controversial new drama from the award winning filmmaker Michael Haneke. Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman of around forty who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing the full force of her previously inhibited, extreme sexuality.

Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), he is inspired to return to the unfinished canvas, using her as his new model. But disturbing tensions develop as the work progresses and the reasons for the painting's original rejection begin to surface.

Claude Sautet's restrained masterwork about a brilliant violinist (Emmanuelle Beart of La Belle Noiseuse) who falls deeply in love with a violin maker, re-igniting passions and emotions he has long denied.