Alain Rocca

Marock (2005)

Casablanca, the year of the baccalaureate. The carefree life of Morocco's golden youth and all its excesses: car races, friendships, music, alcohol, but also first loves and the anxiety of transitioning to adulthood... Marock presents a side of Morocco tha ...

The Devils (2002)

The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents. ...

The Day the Ponies Come Back (2001)

While on a business trip to New York City, Frenchman Daniel Moulin hopes to track down his long-lost father. His initial investigation on the rough Bronx streets leads to little more than being made witness to a shooting and the victim of a mugging. Luckil ...

Total Western (2000)

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have. ...

Alissa (1998)

The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc. ...

Long Live the Republic (1997)

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party. ...

Hikers (1997)

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives. ...

Anna Oz (1996)

This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real. A ...

Cyclo (1995)

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a m ...

La Haine (1995)

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police. ...

Mon amie Max (1994)

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adv ...

The Patriots (1994)

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. ...

Métisse (1993)

Lola is pregnant, and she isn't sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student. ...

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)

1950s Saigon through the eyes of Mui, a Vietnamese servant girl. At 10 years-old, Mui leaves her village to work for an affluent, troubled family. As she comes of age, Mui finds work in the household of a pianist she has admired since childhood, and finds ...

La Joie de vivre (1993)

Monsieur Charme is an old man, and the love of his life passed away some years ago. Despite being wealthy and in relatively good health, he finds that life without her is no longer supportable. Determined to end it all, he approaches Reine, a home-care nur ...

Beau fixe (1992)

A group of 4 girls decide to revise for their exams together, in the summer vacation. They move from Paris to the countryside, where Valerie's grandmother has a vacant house. The film is all about their inter-personal relationships, and how living together ...

Août (1992)

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart. ...

Les arcandiers (1991)

In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. T ...

In the Eyes of the World (1991)

Bruno's girlfriend, who lives in another town, doesn't believe he loves her. ...

The Discreet (1990)

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a d ...

Il était une fois... « La Haine » (2012)

Ten Years of La Haine (2006)

A documentary tracing the history of La Haine, from the real-life shooting that inspired the screenplay to the film's success at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. ...

Jamais avant le mariage (1982)

Bernard accompanies his friend Roger on a circuit. They witness a serious accident. Roger rushes in and saves the pilot's life. In the explosion that followed, the three boys were injured and were soon taken to hospital. ...