French movie about a man who decided to die and shut himself in his room

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

A man thinks heavily about his life in his apartment one night in Paris

A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following the logic of despair, shows us the unimaginable.

Hospice Les Diamants Eternés, In his too small room, Willy, an inveterate smoker, accompanist, died. Because of these films, they cannot be released and cannot be found in this house of repositories that will be felt in an aseptic prison universe. What he wants is to die a free man! Helped by Barracuda his goldfish, Zoé the pretty nurse, and a group of old women, Willy has a plan... Escape!

In his country house, a man lets himself get stuck in a suicidal lethargy. Eugène Ionesco, alone on screen, interprets the character of his short story, during a cinematic experience as a transcription of an existential malaise. The distress of a devastated, dying man waiting for a glimmer of hope. “I did everything wrong. But I'm going to start again. »

Alone and desperate, not being able to escape the "perversion" that alienates him from women, Michel wants to rest and forget. He leaves Paris...

After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.

Five persons decide to end in their days by leaving each a farewell letter.

Louis, 26, hasn’t left his apartment for 367 days. His Parisian flat is surrounded by stacks of pizza boxes and the flickering glow of old films. There, he drifts further from the world. Loneliness and anxiety tighten their grip, trapping him in a loop of writing, smoking, drinking, and reliving the past. One day, Adèle moves in next door.

To escape the police in the streets of Paris, a couple separates. The woman breaks into a hotel room and hides in a wardrobe. The occupant of the room discovers her and offers her to pretend to share his bed to deceive the policeman who controls the room. Heated by the situation, he then tries to rape her until the fleeing man appears and knocks him out. After giving leave to the young woman, the man begins to write. He recounts in voiceover the circumstances that led him to this situation.