A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Jeanne Vaubernier, fille du peuple avide de s’élever socialement, met à profit ses charmes pour sortir de sa condition. Son amant le comte Du Barry, qui s’enrichit largement grâce aux galanteries lucratives de Jeanne, souhaite la présenter au Roi. Il organise la rencontre via l’entremise de l’influent duc de Richelieu. Celle-ci dépasse ses attentes : entre Louis XV et Jeanne, c’est le coup de foudre… Avec la courtisane, le Roi retrouve le goût de vivre – à tel point qu’il ne peut plus se passer d’elle et décide d’en faire sa favorite officielle. Scandale : personne ne veut d’une fille des rues à la Cour.
Anne et Mary, les ambitieuses sœurs Boleyn, s'affrontent pour le cœur du puissant et intempérant roi Henri VIII dans ce drame historique somptueux.
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seemed to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life and religion on her pursuit for happiness.
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.
Doug Ireland est concierge, et fier de l'être, dans un grand hôtel new yorkais. Il fait toujours en sorte d'être là pour ses clients. Mais Doug ne veut pas être concierge toute sa vie...
Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Thomas Webb, un étudiant fraichement diplômé issu d’une riche famille d’éditeurs New Yorkais, rêve en secret de devenir écrivain. Velléitaires et souvent maladroit avec les filles, c’est encore un adolescent dans sa tête... jusqu’au jour où il surprend son père en plein rendez-vous romantique avec une très belle femme. Obsédée par cette vision, il décide de découvrir l’identité de cette liaison extra-conjugale et parvient très vite à faire la connaissance de Johanna. Contre toute attente, elle décide de faire de Thomas son autre amant. Tiraillé entre morale et passion, Thomas va vivre de façon tumultueuse son entrée dans l’âge adulte.
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
A cop's desire for love gets in the way of his job and his professional life. Secret love affairs begin to dangerously collide as he gets assigned to a new homicide case.
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.
Dans une institution destinée à l’éducation des jeunes garçons, Christina et Nicole, respectivement épouse et maîtresse du directeur Michel Delasalle, s’associent afin d’assassiner l’homme qu’elles ont fini par haïr. Mais quelques jours après leur méfait, le corps de Michel disparaît…