Christophe Paou

Maigret

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

La Syndicaliste

The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.

Cannabis

When a boatload of cannabis belonging to Moroccan drug lord El Feo is hijacked, the robbery has repercussions stretching across three countries.

Swapper

A credit card thief roams Paris in search of victims. At each encounter, she seduces by creating new identities. During a tumultuous night, she will test her limits.

Stranger by the Lake

Franck spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

Élancourt Mambo

Affection Affection

In the winter on the French Riviera, a teenage girl goes missing on her birthday. Géraldine, an employee in the mayor's office, takes on the role of detective. Versions of the truth rapidly multiply as she struggles not to be overwhelmed by all the gossip and theories.

Juste avant la chute

Le Chef

A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

The Forbidden Room

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

Lippenstift

Tomorrow is the funeral of Benedicte’s stepfather. She is 43, a psychologist, and a mother. She has to deal with her children’s anxieties about what to wear, see her patients before leaving, prepare sandwiches for the trip, and put up with her husband’s sarcasm. So far, she’s holding it together.

Crush

Solange is a well-ordered wife and mother. She has great admiration for her sister-in-law Juliette, who has just left her husband. Like a fairy godmother, Solange decides to introduce Juliette to a former colleague. Dimitri is handsome and very charismatic. But could Solange be betraying her own desires by offering him to Juliette?

Synonyms

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

The Affair of the Necklace

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

Le Voyage aux Pyrénées

Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu. Alexandre Darou (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his wife Aurore Lalu (Sabine Azema) are a pair of well-known actors who need a break from the tension and fast pace of their lives in show biz. Adopting the names "Mr. and Mrs. Go," Alexandre and Aurore head for a village high in the mountains of Southwest France, where they hope to enjoy some relaxing downtime and they won't be bothered. However, Alexandre and Aurore underestimated their own fame, and it isn't long before everyone in the town knows that a pair of movie stars are in their midst. As the couple head into the hills, Alexandre and Aurore discover they don't have much of a talent for roughing it, and while she believed that getting away from the city would help her deal with a recent bout with nymphomania, getting back to nature only increases her appetite for other men.