Smaïl Mekki

Murders in...

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

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Les Cordier, juge et flic

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

Famille d'accueil

The Other

A man who survives an earthquake is convinced that there is another man still stuck in the debris.

Irma Vep

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

Un pique-nique chez Osiris

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

Ben Rock

The shadow of Mont st. Michel

After the death of his mother, Elisa (Claire Borotra) is responsible for custody of her sister Audrey (Penelope Leveque), a troubled teen and something he hardly knows. Following the last will of her mother, both go to Mont Saint Michel, where the two grew up, to spread his ashes. The second night of stay, and after a flood, Audrey disappears while the mayor's daughter, which suggests a voluntary escape, but Elisa does not think so, so it will not stop until its trace sister.

Sami, le pion

The Silence Of Elsewhere

Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for her husband Francois to return; he abandoned her and their son Christophe a couple of years ago. The boy is waiting for his father, too. Meanwhile, Jeanne's current lover Marcel is waiting for her to come to her senses about the cad who went a way, and recognize the worthiness of his love for her. Finally, the absent husband is also waiting for the right time to make his belated reappearance. All this takes place near the gas station Jeanne runs in a dessicated and remote region in southern France.

Le meilleur commerce du monde

Fortunes

Aïd el kébir

In the East of Algeria, there is a family preparing for the important Islamic feast Eid-el-Kabir. The father is very sick and his only wish is that his daughter, Hanifa, should get married before he dies. Hanifa decides for her true love regardless the consequences . The movie also shows the difficult times Algeria is going through.

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In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.