Port of Shadows

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish...

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast,...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt...

Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the...