Philippe Abrams est directeur de la poste de Salon‐de‐Provence. Il est marié à Julie, dont le caractère dépressif lui rend la vie impossible. Pour lui faire plaisir, Philippe fraude afin d’obtenir une mutation sur la Côte d’Azur. Mais il est démasqué: il sera muté à Bergues, petite ville du Nord. Pour les Abrams, sudistes pleins de préjugés, le Nord c’est l’horreur, une région glacée, peuplée d’êtres rustres, éructant un langage incompréhensible, le «cheutimi». Philippe ira seul. À sa grande surprise, il découvre un endroit charmant, une équipe chaleureuse, des gens accueillants, et se fait un ami: Antoine, le facteur et le carillonneur du village, à la mère possessive et aux amours contrariées. Quand Philippe revient à Salon, Julie refuse de croire qu’il se plait dans le Nord. Elle pense même qu’il lui ment pour la ménager. Pour la satisfaire et se simplifier la vie, Philippe lui fait croire qu’en effet, il vit un enfer à Bergues.
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Petit et laid, Ugolin, le dernier des Soubeyran, revient du service militaire. Il retrouve son oncle, le Papet, à qui il dévoile son projet : rester au pays pour cultiver des œillets. Convaincu que l’affaire peut être rentable, le Papet accepte de financer l’entreprise. Il faut donc trouver une terre, ensoleillée bien sûr mais surtout bien arrosée. Celle de Pique‐Bouffigue ferait l’affaire. Le Papet tente, en vain, de convaincre le vieillard irascible de lui céder son bien. Celui‐ci perd la vie dans le bref affrontement qui s’ensuit. À la surprise générale, un héritier se présente, Jean Cadoret, un bossu qu’accompagnent sa femme et sa fille…
Chaque fin de semaine et en été le jeune Marcel et sa famille passent leurs vacances dans les collines au-dessus de Marseille. Marcel a hâte de retrouver son «petit frère des collines», Lili des Bellons. Mais le passage par les berges du canal à travers des domaines de châtelains est une véritable aventure, et une angoisse renouvelée pour Augustine, quand Bouzigue offre la possibilité de gagner du temps pour rejoindre par ce raccourci le lieu de leur villégiature. C'est toutefois Isabelle, fille d'un prétendu poète, qui monopolise l'attention du jeune Marcel, et pour laquelle il consent des sacrifices qui inquiètent sa famille et son ami.
Ugolin a réussi. Les œillets qu’il cultive sont splendides, grâce à la source des Romarins. Mais il est bourrelé de remords. N’a‐t‐il pas tué, voici dix ans, son ami Jean de Florette, pour lui voler sa source ? Manon, la fille du défunt, est devenue une belle et farouche bergère, qui garde des chèvres dans les collines. Ugolin en est amoureux. Mais Manon sait qui a tué son père et repousse violemment son hideux soupirant. Le hasard lui fait découvrir la source des Romarins. Utilisant des pierres, elle en dévie le cours. Dans le village privé d’eau, les langues commencent à se délier. Ugolin et le Papet voient leur crime remonter à la surface…
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...
Le jeune Marcel Pagnol part en Provence avec toute sa famille pour les vacances d'été. Enfant de la ville, c'est la découverte de la nature, des grands espaces et la fierté d'avoir un père grand chasseur. Des vacances qui marqueront à jamais ses souvenirs d'enfance.
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
Léa, Adrien et leur petit frère Théo se voient dans l’obligation d’aller passer leurs vacances d’été en Provence chez leur grand-père maternel, Paul, qu’ils n’ont encore jamais rencontré. Malgré l’aide de leur grand-mère, l’adaptation sera difficile pour les membres de cette famille qui n’ont, de prime abord, aucune affinité.
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
The story takes us from the dear Garrigue to the secondary school where Marcel is first ill at ease because he is a scholarship holder and because he went to the grade school (the other bourgeois pupils had probably a private tutor). A fight against a rich kid ,that augurs badly for what is to follow. (to be followed in "Le Temps des Amours" )
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan who dreams equally vividly about Marie. The women look alike. Marie meets William who begins to court her. Marty meets Aaron, an accountant, becomes his friend and then his lover. Both women tell their lovers about their dream life. William is jealous, Aaron is accepting. Even though they've become lovers, Marie won't fall asleep next to William. Marie goes on holiday with William to Paris, and Marty wakes up with an ashtray from the hotel on her night stand. Are they the same person? What will unlock reality?
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…