I midten af 1800-tallet rejser en ung enke fra Skotland til New Zealand, hvor hun har aftalt giftermål med en mand, hun aldrig har set. Med sig...

Vi følger Selma, en ung tjekkoslovakisk enlig mor, der er emigreret til Washington, USA. Langsomt er hun ved at blive blind, og selv om denne...

Under en gigantisk, faldefærdig port i udkanten af 1100-tallets Kyoto har en præst, en skovhugger og en dagdriver søgt tilflugt...

Jean Michel Basquiat er en ludfattig, ung graffiti-maler. Hans "hjem" er en papkasse i Central Park. Men så bliver han opdaget af...

Den aldrende libertiner Alex holder Florida Keys overklasse forsynet med dyre vine. Hans ekstravagante levevis nøder ham til at stjæle...

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the...

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman,...

The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to...

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his...

A retelling in two parts, from 1977 to 1986, of the education and the rise to power of a group of young graduates of the prestigious ENA school.

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in...

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his...