Anne Charrier

This provocative French erotic drama is set in the lavish world of a 19th Century Parisian bordello, where desire and power reign.

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

Five friends learn the most chaste of them is planning to tour the world in his boat.

After Lucie Henebelle shoots her own partner during a skewed homicide investigation, washed-up but brilliant detective Franck Sharko is assigned to look into why. Haunted by ghosts of his past, Sharko must unravel the mysterious Syndrome E before it’s too late. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.

Maxime runs a small ambulance company, which is on the verge of going bust. His professional problems are coming between him and his family; his kids don’t talk to him and his wife is cheating on him. Then a call from the police informs him that his mother, Olga, has been arrested. He goes to bail her out, and on their way back home they pick up a child, Tiemoko, whose mother is about to be evicted, and whom Olga has promised to hide. Maxime takes his mother and Tiemoko back to her place and decides to stay for the weekend in the house where he grew up to get away from his own problems. It’s an opportunity for the son to remember where he comes from, and therefore who he is. Seeing Olga takes him back to his happy childhood. Behind their eternal arguing, his parents give the impression of a loving couple with generous values – a couple that always served as a model for him. But time passes. He has to face up to the fact that this happiness is theirs, not his. This life is their life. Now, he has to deal with his own, by trying to give as much as he has received.

Marcel Pagnol spends his last summer before high school in the hills of Provence, where childhood adventures turn to first love and hidden truths.