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A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

During the 1950s, in French Indochina, the Dufresne family struggles to survive amid harsh economic times and natural disasters.

By the Lake of Lugano, in 1917, Lady Alice Copland, the widow of an English lord, meets Thomas in a casino. The handsome young man has just gambled all his money away. Moved both by his lot and by his good looks, Alice prevents him from committing suicide; comforts him and becomes his mistress. After learning that her lover has deserted the Austrian Army, she gives him the money he needs to return to Zurich and accompanies him to the station. Shortly afterwards she surprises him at the casino, gambling the money she gave him.

One day, Etienne, a christian writer, picks up a young hitchhiker. The gloomy young man, reluctant to tell about himself, puzzles him. Etienne thinks he is miserable and immediately feels like helping him. Also, the boy's physique does not leave him unmoved. To try and get him on the right path, Etienne invites Rudy to stay at his country house. The young man agrees and is kindly welcomed by Valentine, Etienne's wife. But, restless as he is, he can't put up with home peace very long. He runs away.

French documentary TV series about films that marked their era.

This collection brings together short reports, from about 6 to 13 minutes in length, on every aspect of France's regional, cultural and artistic life during the 60s and 70s, offering other nations a comprehensive outline of French society.

This series features short plays of around half an hour, written especially for television, and recorded live in the French public national channel Antenne 2 TV studio.

Artists from different backgrounds reveal themselves in a new angle and we discover those who make them dream and inspire.

The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev. Between 1925 and 1928, Karsavina, Pavlova, Sergueev, Egorova, Fokine and Spessivtseva, all brilliant dancers with the Ballets Russes, left a lasting mark on the young British ballerina's artistic career. After the death of the famous Russian impresario in 1929, Alicia Markova returned to England, where she worked alongside the famous choreographer Frederick Ashton, and in 1950 founded what was to become the English National Ballet. In the company of the Stars and Dancers of the Paris Opera, Alicia Markova delivers her memoirs, those of an exceptional dancer who worked with the greatest names in dance throughout the 20th century.

Capture of the "Commedia dell'arte" spectacle, performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1986.

This feature, expanded from an earlier short subject, shows us the perennial tradition of classical dance and it's transmission through the stage performances and rehearsals of several famous practitioners.

Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in the game and ventures into an intrigue where simulation and sincerity are dangerously confused. To the point of burning her wings, which, at the end of the film, makes her sing: "C'est la chanson des amants / Des amants à contretemps". (Summary suggested by Dominique Delouche)

Gracile and light as a bird, an apparition, dressed in diaphanous white veils, appears on the rooftops of the Opéra Garnier, with a white dove as her companion. A voice calls her to the stage. Another voice, that of Violette Verdy, a dance teacher, addresses her with the admiration of the one whose expectations have been met. This is how we spectators learn that the floating creature is none other than Monique Loudières, one of the Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera, and Violette's former pupil. The ghost then takes flesh, but only to some extent such is the way Monique Loudières defies gravity. From then on she will be seen rehearsing great roles in scenes from famous ballets with partners of the stature of Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, either under the benevolent guidance of great elders who pass on their knowledge (Yvette Chauviré, Violette Verdy) or of international masters of contemporary choreography (Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian...) Attentive, concentrated, in love with perfection, we see her integrate the gestures, positions and movements they indicate only to replicate them in the moment in the inspired way that make her their ideal interpreter. In the end, the ballerina and the dove become unsubstantial again and vanish in the realm of the stars where they belong.

A documentary about prima ballerina Nina Vyroubova. She is seen rehearsing at the Paris Opera under the direction of choreographer Serge Lifar and dancing master Yves Brieux with dancers such as Attilio Labis, Youli Algaroff and Serge Golovine.

Segment 1: "Bip, piéton de Paris". Bip goes for a facetious walk through the streets of Paris. Segment 2: "In a Silent Way, exercices''. Marcel Marceau does mime exercises. Segment 3: "La cage". The mime finds himself imprisoned in an invisible cage. Segment 4: "Lignage et filiation" and 5: "...Cousinages et parentèles": Marcel Marceau pays tribute to his great predecessors. Segment 6: "La création du monde". The creation of the world evoked through the art of mime. Segment 7: "La bonne nouvelle". Jesus and His message evoked through the art of mime. Segment 8: "Les sept péchés capitaux". The seven deadly sins evoked through Marceau's drawings and his art of mime. Segment 9: "Bip et la marchand de masques". At the fun fair, Bip buys a grinning mask he cannot get rid of. Segment 10: "L'école du mime". A masterclass by Marcel Marceau,at his Théâtre de L'Ambigu mime school. Segment 11: ''Don Juan, mimodrame". Marcel Marceau plays Don Juan - without his usual painted face and clown outfit. Segment 12: "Bip For Ever". Bip's walk is over. He turns his back and moonwalks to where he belongs, poetry.

An interview of Violette Verdy and several masterclasses given by the retired prima ballerina, who was once revealed to the world by the great choreographer Roland Petit, she was to become the star dancer of the American City Ballet., under the direction of George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins to whom she inspired major ballets.. In "Violet and Mr. B"., the voluble and ebullient sixty-eight year old dancer is seen (and heard) coaching new stars such as Elisabeth Platel, Isabelle Guérin, Elisabeth Maurin or Lucia Lacarra.

A portrait of the famous dancer-choreographer Serge Lifar.

A series about the Italian director Fellini.

Everything you wanted to know about Maya Plissetskaya, the Bolshoi prima ballerina, from her green years in Moscow, to her training years at the Bolshoi school of Dance, to her brilliant international career with emphasis on her personal creative style - often imitated but never equaled, to her active retirement. At 73, Maya Plissetskaya is still full of life and filled with passion, a joy to be in the company of.

Nineteen sculptures by Aristide Maillol have recently replaced the Nineteenth Century ones which preceded them. Dominique Delouche decides to pay them a call. With his admiring camera, accompanied by Richard Strauss's music and the voice of Arletty reading a lyrical poem about Dina Verny, Maillol's model, the aesthete director celebrates their pure, antique beauty.