Andréa FerréolFilmography

The New World

Actors: Natalia Dontcheva, Vanessa Larre, Gregory Fitoussi, Patrice Juiff, Danielle Evenou, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children. Lucie and Marion are hoping to start a family, and need some outside help to make it happen. When the very Read More

The United States of Albert

Actors: Eric Bruneau, Émilie Dequenne, Andréa Ferréol, Roy Dupuis, Laurent Deshusses

Le Conte du Ventre Plein

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Jacques Boudet, Claude Perron

Synopsis: Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of race, class, and hypocrisy. The film's title refers to the name of a haute cuisine restaurant run by a self-satisfied conservative couple, Henri (Jacques Boudet) and Read More

Une Pour Toutes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Parillaud, Alessandra Martines, Marianne Denicourt, Alice Evans

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Claude Leloud directs this romantic comedy about a trio of femme fatale musketeers. In order to repay a stack of debts after a disastrous self-financed production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," Olga (Anne Parillaud), Macha (Alice Evans), and Irina (Marianne Denicourt) hatch a Read More

No Respires ... El Amor Esta en el Aire

Actors: Oscar Ladoire, Carlos Fuentes, Leonor Watling, Ana Risueno, Carmen Elias

Synopsis: Spanish director Juan Potau debuts with this wacky screwball romantic comedy. Tomas (Oscar Ladoire), an embittered, middle-aged publisher of romantic novels, resolves one day to kill himself. Instead, he ends up saving fellow would-be suicide Tito (Carlos Fuentes). In gratitude, Tito brings Tomas Read More

Premier de cordée

Actors: Silvia De Santis, Frédéric Gorny, Andréa Ferréol, Giuliano Gemma, Didier Bienaime

Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, Premier de Cordee begins as Zian (Frederic Gorny), a young man who has traveled from his birthplace in the Alps to Paris, returns to his family home just as his father, a mountain guide, dies after being struck by lightning. Zian has chosen to carry on in his father's work Read More

Les Couleurs du Diable

Actors: Ruggero Raimondi, Wadeck Stanczak, Isabelle Pasco, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In this provocative, suspenseful drama, a penniless aspiring painter receives an offer he cannot refuse and ultimately finds himself making a devil's bargain. Essentially a variation on "Faust," the tale is set in Rome and begins at an art show. Like the other artists, Nicolas Morgan hopes that Read More

Iris Blond

Synopsis: Romeo Spera (Carlo Verdone), an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, is a musician who used to be fairly popular. Even now he earns his living in music as an accompanist to female singers. His big problem, though, is that he is hungry for romance. The predictions of a fortune teller encourage his Read More

La Vida Privada

Synopsis: In this Spanish art-film, which won a prize at the Valladolid Film Festival in 1996, is most notable for its daring cinematography and atmosphere than its actual narrative. The last of a succession of housekeepers who have gone mad working for a reclusive author (Fernando Guillen), Lola (Carmen Elias Read More

Le Montreur De Boxe

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Karl Makinen, Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis: Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Domenica

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Nicolette Krebitz

Synopsis: This docudrama makes a desultory attempt to recount some of the details in the life of Germany's leading activist for prostitute's rights and spokesperson advocating acceptance of sado-masochism, Domenica. Her mother is played by the well known actress Andrea Ferreol. Given the potential for the Read More

Sweet Killing

Actors: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Based on Agnes Hall's novel Qualthrough, this suspenseful crime drama chronicles the comeuppance of a murderous banker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ingrid Caven, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The title of this documentary on Rainer Maria Fassbinder is just slightly changed from the title of a film that director made in 1976, entitled Ich Will Doch Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me). The wunderkind of postwar German filmmaking died at age 36 in 1982 after making over Read More

A Linha Do Horizonte

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão, Antonio Valero

Synopsis: Spino (Claude Brasseur) is in his late middle age, working as a mere attendant at the morgue. One day the corpse of a murdered man comes in which shocks him into a frenzy of activity: it looks exactly the way he looked as a young man, right down to the clothing. He enlists the help of his Read More

Le Cri Du Lezard

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Juliette Brac, Anouk Grinberg, Marc Citti

Synopsis: A group of teens leave their comfortable homes on a trip south to the Pyrennes Mountains in order to find a treasure that they have read about. Simultaneously, a fourteen-year-old boy has grown so fixated on Clo (Andréa Ferreol), a mature woman, that he has run away to be with her. After treating Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ian Richardson, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Charles Dance

Synopsis: This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's indefatigable "grand guignol" piece The Phantom of the Opera stars British actor Charles Dance as Erik the Phantom. This adaptation by playwright Arthur Kopit soft-pedals the horrific elements of the story to concentrate on the love the tragic Erik bears toward Read More

Stroke of Midnight

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Elisabeth Vitali, Andréa Ferréol, Rebecca Potok

Synopsis: A wallflower who makes her living dressing haute-couture models by day is a fantastic shoe designer by night. Unfortunately, no one has ever seen her work, not even her arrogant fashion-designer boss. This romantic comedy follows what happens when she does someone a good deed and is visited by a Read More

Lo Zio Indegno

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Andréa Ferréol, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: This wickedly funny Italian comedy centers upon a lascivious, fun-loving old uncle who hands out blood-test certificates to potential lovers to prove that he is "clean" and wreaks all sorts of havoc when he must temporarily stay with his wealthy but emotionally constipated nephew. At first the Read More

Francesco

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Paolo Bonacelli, Andréa Ferréol, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Told in flashback, the film relates Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and eventually to full-fledged saint. Francesco was based on Hermann Hesse's Francis of Assisi, which director Liliana Cavani had previously filmed in 1966. The Saint and founder of the Read More

Corentin, Ou Les Infortunes Conjugales

Actors: Roland Giraud, Muriel Brener, Andréa Ferréol, Patrick Chesnais, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: When Corentin (Roland Giraud) marries a young woman, he is unable to consummate the marriage in this costumed comedy. He is threatened under church law with seizure of his property and annulment of the marriage unless he can consummate before the eyes of a prying public tribunal. The film is based Read More

Street of No Return

Actors: Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Sam Fuller's last film as a director, made during his self-imposed European exile, stars Keith Carradine as once glamorous pop singer Michael, who has been reduced to a grizzled street bum scavenging for booze and food. The cause of his downfall was his affair with the beautiful Celia (Valentina Vargas Read More

Il Maestro

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Charles Aznavour, Andréa Ferréol, Francis Le Maire

Synopsis: Through a series of flashbacks, the reason behind the mysterious inability of a famous conductor (Malcom McDowell) to continue preparing for a series of concerts is revealed. It all began while the conductor, a Jew, was hiding from the Nazis in a disused Italian convent, pretending to be a bank Read More

Wings of Fame

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In 1966, a famous actor (Peter O'Toole) is taken by a rowboat to a fabulous old hotel on an island in the middle of a lake. He comes to find out that time stands still here -- and the reason is that he is dead. He discovers that all the residents of the hotel are famous but dead people, including Read More

Night of the Fox

Actors: George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Higgins, this WW-II thriller chronicles the daring rescue of a captured American officer who has vital information concerning the upcoming Normandy invasion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Laggiu Nella Giungla

Promis ... Jure!

Actors: Roland Giraud, Michel Morin, Christine Pascal, Stephane Legros, Andréa Ferréol, Manfred Andrae

Synopsis: Young Pierre Marie (Michel Morin) and his school chums find a German deserter in this World War II comedy. He allows the soldier to stay in the family basement until the end of the war. With the arrival of the Allied troops, Pierre becomes a hero when he marches out the German at the point of a Read More

Les Deux Fanfarons

Actors: Bernard Blier, Alberto Sordi, Andréa Ferréol, Vittorio Caprioli

Una Botta Di Vita

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Andréa Ferréol, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: Veteran actors Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier play the earthy Battistini and shabby but elegant Mondardini, two older men abandoned by their families during the vacation months who decide to vacation together on the famed beaches of Cote d'Azur. The two bicker, quarrel and make up while they Read More

Noyade Interdite

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Elizabeth Bourgine, Anne Roussel, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer Read More

A Zed & Two Noughts

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky Read More

Control

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan, Ben Gazzara, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Fifteen strangers who have volunteered for an experiment in isolation are forced to deal with an even larger problem in this film from Italian director Giuliano Montaldo. A research group in Germany wants to study the effects of isolation in a nuclear shelter on human subjects and assembles a Read More

Douce France

Actors: Barbara Rudnik, Andréa Ferréol, Hito Jaulmes, Hanns Zischler, Patrick Bouchitey

Synopsis: In this drama set in the south of France during World War II, the realities of war lose out to a melodramatic rendering of the fortunes of Lise, a gorgeous German Jewess (Barbara Rudnik). Lise escapes certain death in Nazi Germany by making her way to the south of France, only to be threatened Read More

Suivez Mon Regard

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Galabru, Féodor Atkine, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Macha Beranger, Christian Barbier

Synopsis: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food Read More

Le Due Vite di Mattia Pascal

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Flavio Bucci, Laura Morante, Laura del Sol, Caroline Berg

Synopsis: The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal is based on Le Deux Vite di Mattia Pascal, one of Luigi Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "Truth" and "Identity" Marcello Mastrioanni is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancee, scorned by his Read More

Louisiane

Actors: Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: This epic story about a Louisiana plantation owner trying to hold on to her estate before, during, and after the American Civil War, a place ironically called "Bagatelle," rides on the illustrious fame of Tara and its more famous mistress in another Southern state. Virginia Tregan (Margot Kidder) Read More

Le Jumeau

Actors: Pierre Richard, Carey More, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Camilla More, Andréa Ferréol, Jacques Frantz

Synopsis: When a man decides to play the role of twins in order to romance another set of twins, life becomes much more complicated than he wants or needs in this interesting farce by Yves Robert, adapted from the much blacker comedy by Donald Westlake, Two Much. Matthias Duval (Pierre Richard) is a humble Read More

Aldo et Junior

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Andréa Ferréol, Riton Liebman, Luis Rego

Synopsis: In an unsuccessful attempt to adapt the "Junior" cartoon strip by Georges Wolinski to a live-action movie, director Patrick Schulmann has been unable to capture the tension he first poses between a father (Aldo Maccione), once involved in the 1968 May student demonstrations, and a son (Junior Read More

Cuore

Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Bernard Blier, Giuliana de Sio, Andréa Ferréol, Laurent Malet

Synopsis: Originally a six-hour mini-series, Cuore lost four hours after being cut down to this sentimental feature-length film on life before the turn of the 20th century. Four soldiers meet in the army and reminisce about their childhoods in a bygone era, and these are the scenes that unfold for the Read More

Le Juge

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Richard Bohringer, Daniel Duval, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: Based on the real-life assassination of a judge in Marseilles in 1981, this fictionalized account of how he came to die lacks the substance and drama that must have characterized the actual story as it happened. Judge François Müller (Jacques Perrin) was transferred from Vosges in northwest Read More

The Innocents Abroad

Actors: Craig Wasson, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Filmed on location in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, Innocents Abroad was adapted by Dan Wakefield from the 1869 book by Mark Twain. The Twain original was an amusing, semi-satiric account of the author's Grand Tour of Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Most of the humor derived from the Read More

Letters to an Unknown Lover

Actors: Cherie Lunghi, Mathilda May, Yves Beneyton, Ralph Bates, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: During World War II, allied soldiers Ralph Bates and Yves Beneyton escape from a Nazi POW camp in France. They escape to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Cherie Lunghi. The woman has a psychic sister, played by Mathilda May, who sees dark days ahead for the two escapees. Read More

La Ragazza di Trieste

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket, beginning a strange relationship with the obviously unbalanced woman which ends when she Read More

La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

Balles Perdues

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Maria Schneider, Serge Valletti, Charles Millot, Capucine, André Dupon

Synopsis: When an amateur detective is caught up in a murder case, he cannot foresee that he is about to be chased by hit-men, glamorous women, and some inscrutable Chinese in this average private-eye spoof by director Jean-Louis Comolli. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Battant

Actors: Alain Delon, François Perier, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Marie-Christine Descouard, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Alain Delon produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in this story about a solitary thief, jailed for a jewel robbery and the murder of the jeweler, and set free after serving his prison term. His objective is to get his hands on the stolen jewels before a crowd of gangsters reaches them and/or Read More

Le Prix du Danger

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented Read More

Y'a-t-il Un Francais Dans la Salle

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marion Peterson, Jacques Dutronc, Dominique Lavanant, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official whose earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any Read More

Three Brothers

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Charles Vanel, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an adaptation of a work by Andrei Platonov. When the matriarch of an Italian family dies, the husband brings his three boys, each of whom are facing difficult personal problems Read More

L'Ombre Rouge

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no Read More

Il Cappoto Di Astrakan

Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Andréa Ferréol, Carole Bouquet

The Last Metro

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Read More

Retour à Marseille

Actors: Raf Vallone, Andréa Ferréol, Jean Maurel, Paul Allio

Lovers and Liars

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Renzo Montagnani, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: A presumptuous American actress falls for a handsome Italian banker before embarking on the misadventure of a lifetime in this comedy of errors starring Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini. Anita (Hawn) is an American actress vacationing in Rome. When the free-spirited screen star sets her sights Read More

The Tin Drum

Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach

Synopsis: In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the Read More

Dyrygent

Actors: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: Polish director Andrzej Wajda had a habit of switching gears between socially conscious films and pure box-office entertainments. The Conductor, released in Poland in 1979 as Dyrygent, falls into the latter category. John Gielgud stars as an old and venerated orchestra conductor, making his annual Read More

L'Empreinte des Géants

Actors: Zoe Chauveau, Mario Adorf, Patrick Chesnais, Serge Reggiani, Andréa Ferréol, Dominique Laffin, Raimund Harmstorf

Synopsis: Director Robert Enrico has attempted to adapt a novel, by Hortense Dufour, of larger-than-life figures to a larger-than-life screen. The drama in the novel has not translated well. It is a rather routine story of men at a highway construction site in 1965 who guide huge machinery around by day and Read More

Milo-Milo

Mysteries

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Sylvia Kristel, David Rappaport, Rita Tushingham, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Set in a remote seaside village somewhere in the Netherlands, this drama centers on the increasingly bizarre behavior of a tourist who has become romantically obsessed by a local beauty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ligabue

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Giuseppe Pambieri, Pamela Villoresi, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Italian artist Ligabue grew up as a withdrawn child in Switzerland, speaking a hodge-podge of Italian and German. On his return to Italy, he takes up residence by the banks of the Po river, but his uncouth speech and his near-mad behavior cause him to be shunned and ridiculed. In the movie, he Read More

L'Amant de Poche

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Andréa Ferréol, Serge Sauvion, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: At 25, Helena (Mimsy Farmer) is "middle-aged" for a prostitute. When 15-year-old Julien's callow friends try to pick her up (not knowing that she is a prostitute), she allows Julien (Pascal Sellier) to win her favors. Something about him appeals to her, and she sees him from time to time. Read More

Despair

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch

Synopsis: Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set Read More

Sex on the Run

Actors: Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Marisa Mell, Jean Lefebvre, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In a way, the title of Some Like It Cool was a piquant comment on the career of star Tony Curtis, whose stardom had chilled since his 1959 appearance in Some Like It Hot. This time around, Curtis plays famed 18th-century lover Giacomo Casanova. The plot would have us believe that Casanova has Read More

Servante et Maitresse

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Evelyne Buyle, Gabriel Cattand, David Pontremoli

Synopsis: When a rich man' dies and his maid Maria (Andrea Ferreol) unexpectedly becomes his heir, she is now the mistress of the man's household. In order to get revenge on the man's nephew Jerome (Victor Lannoux), for slights on her person which he committed while she was but a maid, she has kept him on Read More

Scandalo

Actors: Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero, Raymond Pellegrin, Andréa Ferréol, Claudia Marsani

Synopsis: In this tragic drama, the neglected wife (Lisa Gastoni) of a purveyor of antique glass finds sexual fulfillment with a brutish shop clerk (Franco Nero), who swiftly establishes a master-slave relationship with her. The relationship is satisfying for both of them until he begins making demands that Read More

Soldier of Fortune

Actors: Bud Spencer

Synopsis: Spaghetti Western icon Bud Spencer (They Call Me Trinity) stars in this sword-and-sandal adventure-comedy from Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile. The comedic hijinks center around a medieval mercenary named Ettore (Spencer) as he travels around Europe plying his warrior skills to the Read More

Marie-Poupée

Actors: Jeanne Goupil, André Dussollier, Bernard Fresson, Andréa Ferréol, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: When Maria (Jeanne Goupil), a woman who is too beautiful to seem quite real, marries a dollmaker, her new husband finds it hard to treat her like a real person instead of a strange, animated doll. She suffers greatly from this treatment, which is an exaggerated version of the sorts of things she Read More

Peppino e la vergine Maria

Actors: Turi Ferro, Andréa Ferréol, Cinzia de Carolis, Renato Pinciroli, Clelia Matania

Synopsis: Banned in Italy, this movie tells the story of a teenage virgin who has somehow become pregnant. Mary is an epileptic and the town's witch (many rural Italian regions have women who practice folk-magic and medicine and whom they call witches or stregoni). When she appears to die after a Read More

Les Galettes de Pont Aven

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bernard Fresson, Jeanne Goupil, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Marielle stars in this gentle comedy as a traveling salesman whose wife adamantly refuses to let him make paintings of her buttocks. At some point, fed up, he leaves his family and, after several tries, establishes himself as a painter. This is all thanks to the imperturbable kindness Read More

Parlez-moi d'Amour

Actors: Louis Julien, Nathalie Roussel, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Aumont, Joelle Bernard

Synopsis: Adolescence and sexuality hits Daniel (Louis Julien) particularly hard, and the romantic hypocrisy of the adult world nearly drives him to distraction. He drops out of school, sponges off his father (Michel Aumont), who has divorced his mother, and has a brief romance with an older woman, an Read More

1=2?

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol, Rita Renoir, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. The head programmer at a computer data firm comes up with a scheme which enables subscribers, for a fee, to have an alternate identity. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Futur Aux Trousses

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Aumont

L'Incorrigible

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Capucine

Synopsis: Right after his release from prison, Victor (Jean-Paul Belmondo) resumes his con-man activities. He rents apartments he doesn't own, sells nonexistent fighter planes to African countries, and by turns pretends to be a gardener, lawyer, private detective, governmental official, and even a Read More

Il Piatto Piange

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Agostina Belli, Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In a provincial town, before Mussolini's Ethiopian adventure, Camola (Aldo Maccione) a card-playing lothario, scores comedic points in his pursuit of the town's attractive women. Somehow this charming rogue maintains his personal and amatory independence amid the apparently strict social rules of Read More

Le Trio Infernal

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli is irresistibly slimy in the role of a conniving attorney. Making the acquaintance of two lovely sisters (Romy Schneider and Andrea Ferreol), Piccoli seduces them both. He then invites the sisters into his latest scam: marrying and murdering gullible men and women, then cheating Read More

Serieux Comme le Plaisir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Richard Leduc, Georges Mansart, Michel Lonsdale, Roland Dubillard

Synopsis: In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant Read More

La Grande Bouffe

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More

La Scoumoune

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Michel Constantin, Michel Peyrelon, Aldo Bufi-Landi

Synopsis: In 1934, Roberto Borgo (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Sicily for Marseille, where his childhood friend Xavier (Michel Constantin) has just been condemned to 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Indeed, local gang leader, Villanova, has framed Xavier. Roberto confronts the mobster and Read More