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Fifty years after the death of a Countess, the new owners arrive at the de Clergue castle. As they wander through hallways and rooms, they end up in the blue room where door to a closet is walled-off. When the mysterious partition is pulled down, they find human bones scattered on the ground. An old servant woman decides it is time to speak up and the mystery is solved. Based on Honoré de Balzac's « La Grande Bretèche ».

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Agnès is married to Serge and has a small boy. She meets Vincent, a young divorced father. After meeting again, they become lovers. The young woman's life suddenly becomes a mess of complications between her husband, her job, her lover and her son. And she is not the only one in this predicament. However, her family doesn't always come up with stellar solutions for coping with this mad disorder of career, love and family.

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Vautrin called "The Cheater of the Death", escapes a penitentiary and heads toward Paris disguised as a Spanish priest. On the way, he meets young Lucien wallowing in the self-pity of his poverty. Vautrin takes him in hand and, in a few weeks, turns the young man into the most sought after dandy in the capital. Vautrin organizes Lucien's life and finds a wife for him, but he cannot dampen Lucien's ardour for another woman. Based on Honoré de Balzac's novel, « Splendeur et Misère des Courtisanes ».

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The story line, clichés and stereotypes of the standard Western film are the backdrop for musings on the class struggle, revolutionary theory and practice, and the demystification of bourgeois cinema.

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Pauline Bonaparte is ordered to go to Italy to be with her brother Napoleon. But she does not see eye to eye with Josephine, who has her married off to General Leclerc, who is on his way to Santo Domingo. Soon after Pauline is widowed; she begins having dozens of affairs, causing countless scandals at Court. A while later, the Russian campaign is launched. Before going into exile, Napoleon comes to see Pauline, an older and sadder woman who has, however, always remained loyal to her brother.

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The young producer Vita Catene starts a movie named Zanzibar. He hires Maréchal, a director who has been once successful and Camille Dor, a young and famous actress. The name of Camille is a guarantee for the financing of the film but Maréchal doesn't like her and he treats her badly. Catene, in love with Camille, protects her but he discovers that Camille is a drug addict. The actress and director Christine Pascal portrays, in a sensitive and yet harsh way, the movie business.