StudioCanal (Firm)

Businessman, inventor, machiavellian politician, gifted lover and caring father, brilliant author and staunch defender of Human Rights, Beaumarchais embodies and brings to life all the glory of the 18th Century.

This is the story of a group of friends. It tells the stories of their individual lives, their businesses and jobs, their love affairs but most importantly the meeting of their fates during their weekends together. Often described as the French version of The Big Chill, everything changes when one of them has a heart attack.

Camille arrives at the island Ouessant, where she was born, to sell the house of her parents. She finds a book of a certain man named Antoine and starts reading. A story of a stranger is told who came to the island in 1963. He wasn't well received, and would leave after 2 months.

On her return from vacation, Lili, 19, is told by her parents that her twin brother Loïc has left home after a violent argument with their father. With no news from Loïc, Lili becomes convinced that something has happened to him and sets off to look for her brother. What she discovers is beyond comprehension.

Charles Duchemin, a famous food critic, is preparing the new edition of his gastronomic guide. Accompanied by his son, who is more interested in circus and mime than culinary pretension, Duchemin challenges the empire of the ready-to-serve cooking king, Tricatel.

PAN TADEUSZ is a pastoral tale, an immense mock-heroic poem showcasing the sprawling beauty of vast Lithuanian horizons. As in Romeo and Juliet, two distinguished families are in conflict. Around 1793, the last great Lord Horeszko was murdered by Jacek Soplica who then received the castle from the Russians occupying the country at the time. Twenty years later, the murderer haunted by his evil deed, has become a monk to make amends. He now goes by...

King Charles rules Takicardie with an iron fist. He's infatuated with a beautiful shepherdess, and wants to force her to marry him, but she loves a chimneysweep. They befriend a mockingbird who lives in the palace and decide to run away together. The King's police pick up the fugitives' trail and are led on a wild chase through the futuristic palace. The shepherdess and the chimneysweep flee, pursued by the wicked policemen on their flying machines,...

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.

In a tense war-torn climate, on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, Doctor Akagi, the local doctor of a seaside village on one of Japan's islands, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He is concerned by the growing number of people coming down with hepatitis the main cause of death in an undernourished country. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. They're all on the...

A half human extraterrestrial lands in Paris on a reluctant mission to provide some much needed spiritual healing to her irritable, stressed-out Earthling relatives.