A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.

1985 film by Maurice Pialat

2007 film by Volker Schlöndorff

An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura, does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy.

影片改编自1929年发表的让·考克多的自传体小说，讲述一对姐弟的非正常生活。他们之间进行着外人看起来过分的游戏，但对于他们来说又是必要的。在新人走进他们的生活之后，嫉妒和欺骗产生了。
让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔曾执导《独行杀手》《红圈》等着名影片。他并非科班出身，因为喜欢电影自组独立制片公司开始从事创作。但当时他忽视法国电影界传统的制片方式，很受到各方面的注意，特别是受到诗人让考克多的赏识。因此考克多提供一千七百万法郎的制片费，请他导演他的小说《可怕的孩子们》，结果很成功，而被誉为战后法国电影界最有才华的新人，被视为法国新潮电影间接的先驱者。
Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret games, and rarely leaving the house; though Paul's friend Gerard often stays with them. One day Elisabeth brings home Agathe to live with them also. She bears a strong resemblance to Dargelos, a schoolboy whom Paul had a crush on, and who injured him. Paul and Agathe become attracted to each other, causing Elizabeth to be very jealous.
大致意思是关于兄妹和介入者的感情纠葛，贝托鲁奇的《戏梦巴黎》部分灵感源于此片。

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

该片根据真实的社会新闻改编而来。让娜与母亲露易丝住在郊区的一栋独立楼房里。虽然让娜没有工作，但这对犹太裔母女却和睦相处，生活倒也其乐融融。一天，露易丝在网上看到著名律师布莱斯坦事务所的招工启事，让娜年轻时认识这名律师，她希望女儿被录用。于是，让娜决定编造一个惊天谎言，谎称自己在一辆列车上遭受几名非洲青年攻击，而列车乘客对此却熟视无睹，这个新闻引起了全国公愤，同时也惊动了大律师……

索尼娅（伊莎贝尔·阿佳妮 Isabelle Adjani 饰）在中学里担任法语教师的职位，在他人眼中，教师是传道授业解惑的高尚职业，可对于索尼娅来说，这份职业所带来的只有恐惧和折磨。扭曲的教育制度让狂妄的学生们完全不将索尼娅放在眼里，他们不仅对索尼娅的话置若罔闻，更是露骨和直接的对她进行嘲笑。面对如此屈辱，善良内向的索尼娅只能选择容忍。
一次偶然中，两个学生的斗殴吸引了索尼娅的注意，在争斗之中，一支手枪出现在了众人的视线中。为了避免枪支伤人，索尼娅起身夺枪，却在偶然间扣动了扳机误伤了学生。在这一瞬间，索尼娅昔日所遭受的压力和屈辱全然爆发，她持枪劫持了学生，也惊动了警方。

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

以色列裔法国女子安娜（Juliette Binoche 茱丽叶•比诺什 饰），自幼随父亲从法国回到以色列定居。父亲为了不忘记曾在法国土地上打拼的祖先，特别禁止安娜学习希伯来语。青春孟浪的安娜与以色列男子情愫暗生，并产下一女。然战争导致离乱，安娜无奈之下只得将女儿留在巴勒斯坦的犹太人隔离区，从此离开这个伤心之地。
多年后，安娜的父亲病危，她得以返回以色列，并与同父异母的弟弟尤里（Liron Levo 饰）相见。从律师口中得知，安娜的女儿丹娜（Dana Ivgy 饰）仍生活在犹太人隔离区，祖孙早已相认，外公更是为这个孤独的外孙女留下一份遗产。
思念女儿的安娜在尤里的帮助下，踏上了前往加沙的寻女之路……

An American funeral director is recruited to a job in Paris.

2009 film directed by François Ozon

The Ohaion family is mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, they gather together in the home of the deceased and stay there for seven days. Forced to put up with one another day and night, the brothers and sisters soon let their bitterness and arguments override the sense of communal reverence. The atmosphere becomes unbearable and long-buried truths finally surface.

2008 film directed by Lisa Azuelos

2006 film directed by Pascale Ferran

2003 film by François Ozon