Movies: Eric Ruf

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel stepmother, Rossini’s la Cenerentola plays with these most conventional of fairy‑tale characters. Nonetheless Ci...

Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance....

A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris....

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears...

Summer 1998. Countryside. Cassandre is 14. Her parents and older brother notice that her body has changed....

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Tartuffe is a hypocritical impostor who manages to manipulate Orgon, a wealthy widowed bourgeois, by feigning devotion. Orgon ends up offering his daughter Mariane in marriage to Tartuffe, while he disowns his son Damis and intends to donate all his ...

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zürich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy. He continued to...

Accompanied by a child, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament with a telescope. Ten years ago, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome for having supported the idea of an infinite and centerless universe, based on the work of Cop...

Colette, a prostitute in love, receives a phone call in the middle of the night. An unknown colleague asks her for a favour in the form of a cry for help: to pick up her boy and bring him to her. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex retur...

Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999....

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Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children....

A small-town detective unravels a web of secrets after a mysterious hanging jolts the community. As whispers of betrayal surface, he confronts his own demons, navigating the fine line between justice and vengeance in a chilling quest for truth....

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason....

Hèdre is queen but doesn't love the king. She prefers his son Hippolytus, whom he had from a first marriage, to Theseus. A guilty love, hidden by feigned hatred, that makes her suffer and perish, and that she can't keep from confessing as soon as she...

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The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)....

Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine....

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