Claude Berri

Jacques is a forlorn bachelor living alone after his wife has left him. Deciding to get his life back in order, he hires a housekeeper. Laura plows through the mess that has overtaken his apartment, but he soon learns that she has never done a days worth of housework in her life. Her presence adds a joyful spark to a life that has been missing living for too long.

A poor French teenager embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French colonial Vietnam, defying the boundaries of age, race and class.

They may look like happily married, but Vincent and Gabrielle are having doubts about their relationship. Vincent begins to weigh his options. While his evasiveness increases, Gabrielle finds herself considering an affair of her own.

"Finding employment with the wealthy d'Uberville family, Tess, a teenage farm girl of exceptional beauty, comes under the lustful eye of Alec, their ne'er-do-well son. although she rejects his amorous advances, Alec forcibly seduces Tess, leaving her pregnant and alone. Giving birth to a sickly child who soon dies, the disgraced Tess eventually falls in love with Angel, a parson's son who knows nothing of her sordid past. But when she confesses her...

When patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.

Jean de Florette: A man inherits a farm from his mother, but his powerful neighbor plots to steal it from him. Manon of the Spring: 10 years after his death, Jean's daughter finds out about their neighbor's treachery, and determines to take revenge.

Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love these people so much that he must devise a strategy, with...

The story of Jean Cadoret, a man who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land.

A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grandpa.

A film begun as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia becomes a record of the entry of Soviet tanks into Prague in 1968.