
Alain Wermus
Directing
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The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
Les Cordier, juge et flic

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Famille d'accueil

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.
Betty

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?
Masques

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury, and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting up with a young lover.
Story of Women

When on April 6, 1983, just a few months after the arrest and extradition of Klaus Barbie on French soil, Sabine Zlatin found herself alone in Izieu to commemorate the roundup of April 6, 1944, only one question arose: after her, who will maintain the flame of the memory of the 44 Jewish children arrested and deported that day? Sabine's concern is all the more acute when she learns that the Izieu roundup cannot be included in the trial of the former Nazi, for lack of evidence. Sabine fights so that the children of Izieu are not permanently forgotten by history.
La Dame d'Izieu

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...
The Woman of My Life

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Inspector Lavardin

Jefferson City, Missouri: Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.
The Price of Survival

A Canadian policewoman tracks down a 40-year-old man in France who is suspected of killing a woman in Montreal and who, in the meantime, has begun a relationship with a single mother.