Dominique Labourier

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.

Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.

Alexandre learns that his father, whom he didn't know very well, has left him a pig farm on a small farm in the Dauphiné region. This is a fortunate turn of events for him: by selling it, Alexandre can pay off his debts. But to claim this inheritance, Alexandre must win the ultimate prize at an agricultural competition with a pig named "Big Jim." Luck continues to smile on the new owner because, after a few setbacks, Alexandre finally manages to get the animal's value recognized.

François, a young photographer is hitch-hiking on a Mexican road. He comes across two strange ladies called Colette and Evelyne, they stop and take him in their car heading to some hot springs in the middle of the desert.

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.

Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.