A dedicated detective searching for a businessman's daughter in Mexico, enlists the help of the client's accountant because he is as absent-minded as the daughter.
Lancelot is a ruthless and ignoble opportunist who returns from his impossible futile mission to locate the Holy Grail, only to callously rekindle his affair with the Lady Guinevere. He feels that he needs her consolation because of the heavy causalities and the disappointment of a failed mission.
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Recreating the trials of Truffaut's own childhood, portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?