Alain Tasma

Falling for Love (2019)

A penniless young man, Kevin is forced to return to live with his parents in the heart of the Picardy countryside. There, he finds a job in a pig farm. Not knowing how to look ahead, Kevin has no real project to defend. Everything shifts the day he meets A ...

Le Viol (2017)

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ord ...

Nine Days in Winter (2015)

The writer Aurélien is in hospital and learns that his parents have died in a car accident. The loner reluctantly travels to Brittany to arrange the sale of his parents' house. He can't help the memories that the small town evokes in him. Is Aurélien rea ...

L'héritière (2014)

Due to the accidental death of her husband during a hunting trip, Ana Keller inherits his arms factory. She finds herself overnight at the head of this company which was about to merge with that of a competitor, David Landri. These sudden changes disrupt A ...

Emma (2011)

A teen's life changes when her new half-brother arrives accompanied by an elusive stranger while spending the summer with her father and his new family. ...

Fracture (2010)

Sous un autre jour (2009)

The well-ordered world of 50-something lawyer Irène bursts like a soap bubble: her husband leaves her for another woman and she learns that the man she thought was her father is not her real father. As a means of escape, she sets off in search of her biol ...

Ultimatum (2009)

A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel. ...

Harkis (2008)

1972, in the south of France, deep in the forest, a family with meager luggage discovers the new camp where they will live. Despite the camp leader's overt paternalism, the Harkis lead a difficult life without real freedom. A life of poverty and guardiansh ...

Opération Turquoise (2007)

Out of the Blue (2007)

Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman. ...

Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma's recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the ...

À cran, deux ans après (2004)

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire (2003)

The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War. ...

Par amour (2003)

Nicole Doucet is a gourmet chef. Everything is going well professionally for the young woman. Guillaume, her son, is a former drug addict whom she has lost sight of. The day he returns to her restaurant, she discovers that he is married to a woman much old ...

God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone. ...

Mamirolle (2000)

Delphine meets Manuel. Fragile and elusive, the young man escapes him. Manuel leaves the city to flee his illness, a cancer. Delphine goes in pursuit and plunges into a world of dark encounters. ...

Une leçon d'amour (1998)

Marc, who works for a soundproofing company, and Sylvie, who runs a temp agency, have been married for several years. Still in love with his wife, Marc nevertheless cheats on her with Vanessa, a 25-year-old woman, telling her that his wife is dying. One da ...

Les brouches (1994)

Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn the farm-work and disturbs the calm. ...

A Tale of the Wind (1989)

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film. ...

Cheaters (1984)

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of ...

Godard's Passion (1982)

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities. ...

The Woman Next Door (1981)

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. ...

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour (1978)

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Pékin Central (1986)

The unique distinction of this standard comedy drama is that it is the first foreign, feature-length movie filmed in mainland China. Novice director Camille de Casabianca obtained permission from the authorities and set up her story around Valerie (Christi ...

The Last Metro (1980)

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. ...