Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant.

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense…

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.

During the Second World War, the son of a Grenoble collaborator went up to his grandmother’s house on the Vercors plateau to wait for the war to end without him….