Bernard FressonFilmography

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the violent deaths of over 100 persons in the mid-18th century, and this horror fantasy blends the lore of this fabled beast with a story of two men who set out to capture it. Read More

Six-Pack

Actors: Richard Anconina, Frédéric Diefenthal, Chiara Mastroianni, François Berléand, Jonathan Firth

Synopsis: While the French have a knack for fine wine and fine food, they can't come up with a decent serial killer of their own, so an American has to step in to terrorize Paris in this crime thriller. A lunatic is on the loose in the City of Lights, murdering women and disemboweling their bodies. The Read More

L'Envol

Actors: Clément Sibony, Isabelle Carré, Francis Huster, Christine Citti

Place Vendôme

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers district includes the firm run by Vincent Malivert (Bernard Fresson) with his brother, Eric (François Berléand). Although Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British Read More

Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

Germinal

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry

Synopsis: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu Read More

Dingo

Actors: Miles Davis, Colin Friels, Bernadette Lafont, Helen Buday, Joe Petruzzi

Synopsis: Jazz great Miles Davis makes his acting debut and farewell playing an inspirational jazz trumpeter in this lively drama that centers on a young Australian country boy who dreams of becoming just like him. Unfortunately, some dreams are never realized, and the boy grows up to become a dingo trapper Read More

Money

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Maryam D'Abo, Bruno Cremer, Christopher Plummer, F. Murray Abraham, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and betrayals among jet-set gazillionaires, which takes place in glamor spots all over the globe. Somebody has stolen millions of dollars from his father, and Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz Read More

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: This made-for-television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair chronicles the true story of the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by a group of Palestinians. Voyage of Terror is primarily told through the viewpoint of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint Read More

Le Denomme

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Bernard Fresson, Valerie Steffen

Bonjour L'Angoisse

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Geneviève Fontanel, Guy Marchand, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from 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

Sons

Actors: William Forsythe, D.B. Sweeney, Robert Miranda, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet alive. Though he is disabled by a stroke and unable to communicate, his roommate in the Veteran's hospital knows that he has wanted to go back to Normandy since he was there Read More

Sweet Lies

Actors: Treat Williams, Joanna Pacula, Julianne Phillips, Laura Manszky, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this comedy, an American insurance investigator goes to Paris to prove that a crippled client's claim is utterly bogus. While there, the detective finds himself seduced by a pair of beautiful women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

En Toute Innocence

Actors: Michel Serrault, Nathalie Baye, Francois Dunoyer, Suzanne Flon, André Valardy, Philippe Caroit

Synopsis: When Catherine (Nathalie Baye) is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul (Michel Serrault), the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas (Francois Dunoyer) about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's Read More

Zielscheiben

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Oliver Stritzel, William Berger

Synopsis: This entertaining thriller, set along Germany's northern seacoast in the deserted off-season, is garnished with a dash of comedy and easily carried by its two main protagonists: Flutterer, a police detective (Bernard Fresson) and Zorro (Oliver Stritzel) a petty criminal who has to be escorted to a Read More

Clash

Actors: Catherine Alric, Pierre Clémenti, Bernard Fresson

Rive Droite, Rive Gauche

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet, Bernard Fresson, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: In this clichéd, uneven, confusing melodrama about love and politics by Philippe Labro, Sacha (Nathalie Baye) is a divorced woman from the Left Bank of the Seine, out of a job because she refused to bestow sexual favors in the line of duty, and Paul (Gérard Depardieu) is a lawyer from the Right Read More

Garçon!

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

Espion, Lève-Toi

Actors: Lino Ventura, Krystyna Janda, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an on-going relationship with Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), a German teaching at the university. Then his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French Read More

Le Guepiot

Actors: Emilie Montgenet, Bernard Fresson, Evelyne Dress, Juliette Mills

Synopsis: "Le Guepiot" is the nickname given to the little female heroine in this autobiographical account of author Viviane Villamont's stark and harrowing early childhood. As a little tomboy, she was miserably treated by an uncaring, sharp-tongued mother and worshipped by a doting father. How the parents Read More

Reveillon Chez Bob

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Guy Bedos, Agnes Soral, Michel Galabru, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: In this routine, somewhat disconnected story, Louis Alban (Jean Rochefort) has been divorced from his wife for awhile when a ruse perpetrated by his son sends him rushing to see her, but not exactly in a direct line. After Louis reads a New Year's card from his son indicating the boy is being Read More

On Efface Tout!

Actors: Yves Beneyton, Christine Pascal, Christine Murillo, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Unknown to him, a journalist's girlfriend has been known to harbor terrorists sought by the police. He is a reporter for a leftist French journal, and the police have traced the girlfriend to him. He gets involved with both the police and underground organizations when his girl goes missing after 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

La Petite Fille En Velours Bleu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Lara Wendel, Umberto Orsini, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Fresson, Marius Goring

Synopsis: The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for wealthy misfits who had no other place to go to escape that regime. Despite the certain knowledge that their doom is approaching, the characters in this film party and quarrel Read More

Les Passagers

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Fresson, Mireille Darc, Richard Constantini, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Alex (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is newly married, and he and his wife are setting up housekeeping together in Paris. However, to complete their domestic arrangement, he must drive to pick up his new 12-year-old stepson Marc (Richard Constantini) from his school in Rome. The boy is extremely cynical Read More

À Chacun Son Enfer

Actors: Annie Girardot, Stéphane Hillel, Hardy Kruger, Bernard Fresson, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully able to continue investigating what went wrong, despite badgering by news reporters and curious neighbors. Her 19-year-old son has behaved strangely throughout the whole Read More

Le Dernier Baiser

Actors: Annie Girardot, Maria Pacome, Bernard Fresson, Dagmar Meyniel

Synopsis: After being left by her husband, the woman cab driver in this comedy will only take women fares. When one of those women asks her to follow another cab containing the lady's husband, she is only too happy to oblige. When the cab containing her passenger's husband picks up a woman without letting Read More

Mado

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

L'Ordinateur des Pompes Funèbres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernadette Lafont, Lea Massari, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings Read More

The Call of the Wild

Actors: John Beck

Synopsis: Unlike the 1935 film version of Jack London's 1897 novel Call of the Wild, which devoted most of its running time to a romance between Clark Gable and Loretta Young, this 1976 TV-movie version wisely remains faithful to the source. The star is a magnificent dog--part St. Bernard, part German Read More

The Tenant

Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous Read More

Un Type Comme Moi Ne Devrait Jamair Mourir

Actors: Jean-Michel Folon, Francine Racette, Bernard Fresson, Mort Shuman, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Leopold (Jean-Michel Folon) is a thoughtful cipher, an investment broker who is so opposed to war that he transfers his entire personal portfolio into chocolates, reasoning that this is a product that can never be turned to war-like use. His preoccupation with inner concerns begins to separate him Read More

Mords Pas On t'Aime

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Catherine Allegret, Jean-Pierre Darras, Yves Coudray

Synopsis: A child of divorced parents, the young man in this film engineers a situation which will force his mother, whom he has forgotten, to show up. When she does, he is disappointed that she is nothing like his dreams of her. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide 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

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

Le Futur Aux Trousses

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

The French Connection II

Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: This sequel to the Oscar-winning The French Connection picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds and heads for Marseilles. There 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

Ursule et Grelu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Roland Dubillard, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to Read More

Il N'y a Pas de Fumée Sans Feu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to serve as a political candidate running against a thoroughly corrupt and devious mayor. In a recent campaign, the mayor and his henchmen were responsible for the murder of a Read More

Trois Milliards Sans Ascenseur

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Michel Bouquet, Françoise Rosay, Amidou

Synopsis: Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a group of people living in a blue-collar neighborhood which is being demolished for a new office and housing development. In order to save their neighborhood, they get Read More

Les Feux de la Chandeleur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die even though he seems to be a heartless cad. Alexandre left her, he says, because she attended a few leftist marches and demonstrations. However, he has set Read More

Max et les Férrailleurs

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Perier, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom, where evidence matters more than guilt, lead him to join the police force. Independently wealthy, he uses all his official and personal resources to make criminals pay for Read More

Macedoine

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Fresson, Michele Mercier

Synopsis: This film details a pretty girl's rise (with its attendant hazards) from obscurity to fame as she becomes a top model. Macedoine is played by Michele Mercier, popular for her appearances in the Angelique films. Her boss is Pierre Brasseur, and the strong supporting cast includes Bernard Fresson as Read More

A Few Hours of Sunlight

Actors: Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Bernard Fresson, Barbara Bach

Synopsis: Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic finish. Among other things, it features an early film appearance by Gerard Depardieu in a small role. Gilles (Marc Porel) works for a news agency and has an American Read More

Le Portrait De Marianne

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Brasseur, Karen Blanguernon

Synopsis: Two men search for the wife of one of the men when he falsely claims she left him earlier that morning. The distraught husband attempts suicide before returning home to find his wife has not left him. This plodding and talkative film tries to be funny but fails miserably. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

Actors: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran, John McEnery, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to drive him to the airport and park the car in the lot after working at his home the night before. Getting in the wrong lane, she decides to use the car for a weekend getaway Read More

Trop Petit Mon Ami

Actors: Michael Dunn, Bernard Fresson, Jane Birkin, Claude Brasseur, André Pousse

Synopsis: Three social rejects plan an elaborate bank robbery. Ticky (Michael Dunn) is the dwarf and mastermind of the caper who is hopelessly in love with his female accomplice. They plan to murder the daughter of a bank president and replace her with a look-alike at the victim's private school. She Read More

Un Condé

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Constantin, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds Read More

Z

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

L'Americain

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Signoret, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jacques Perrin, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: A man returns to France after living in America for 11 years to find the old hometown has changed. Bruno (Jean-Louis Trintignant looks up some old friends that he left behind. One man was killed in the war with Algeria, and others are resigned to live out their lives in a sullen acceptance of Read More

La Prisonnière

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Dany Carrel, Dario Moreno

Synopsis: A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution. She has a relationship with a boring artist, and her life is uneventful until she encounters an older, more worldly art dealer. The man shows her his photographs and she is Read More

Honor Among Thieves

Actors: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion, American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and French doctor Dino Barron (Alain Delon) are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances. Hoping to help a friend who has embezzled some bonds, Barron tries Read More

Tante Zita

Actors: Joanna Shimkus, Suzanne Flon, Katina Paxinou, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Zita, portrayed by Katina Paxinou, is a Parisian widow who has suffered a stroke. She is cared for by her niece Joanna Shimkus, who chafes under the responsibility and wanders off. Shimkus falls in with thieves and lowlifes, finally ending up in jail. She is bailed out by her family doctor (Paul Crauchet Read More

L'Ecume Des Jours

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Perrin, Sami Frey, Alexandra Stewart, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend Partre (Samy Frey) is an avid collector of objects belonging to his favorite author, often spending his remaining money on the souvenirs. After Colin's wife dies, he steals her Read More

Belle de Jour

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More

Je t'aime, Je t'aime

Actors: Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac, Annie Fargue

Synopsis: In this provocative sci-fi drama from Alain Resnais, a man wakes up in a hospital after an attempted suicide. He has invented a time machine that has proven effective, but only transports the subject back in time for one minute. Upon his release, he gets his hands on the machine to go back to a Read More

Jeudi On Chantera Comme Dimanche

Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Bernard Fresson, Etienne Bierry, Francoise Vatel

Synopsis: A truck driver (Bernard Fresson) and his shop-girl sweetheart (Marie France Boyer) dream of obtaining elusive security in this plodding drama dripping with heavy symbolism. The driver falls victim to a con man who sells him a worthless truck, and the couple endures problems with the system, like Read More

The Triple Cross

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when WWII broke out. When the Germans occupied the area, he offers to work for them if they will set him free and they do so, sending him as a spy to England. Once there, however Read More

Soleil O

Actors: Robert Liensol, Theo Legitimus, Yane Barry, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. Hoping to parlay the experience into a better life for himself, he eagerly prepares for his departure from his native land. Although an educated man, he has extreme difficulty finding work and an apartment. He sees racial Read More

Loin du Vietnam

Synopsis: Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out that the U.S. is radically divided Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired Read More

Cent Briques et des Tuiles

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sophie Daumier, Pierre Clémenti, Marie Laforêt, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the money but it is dropped in glue and later taken by juvenile delinquents. The crooks get the money back and carefully wash the bills and hang them out to dry. A charging bull Read More

Le Ciel Sur la Tete

Actors: Andre Smagghe, Bernard Fresson, Folco Jacques Monod, Marcel Bozzuffi, Yves Brainville, Jean Dasté, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau is used in this low-budget science fiction saga. A flying saucer appears and causes concern among the ship's crew and the heads of state. Routine take offs and landings of planes and military drills are included but fail to add much interest to this already Read More

How Not to Rob a Department Store

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling thief to help him rob a large Paris department store. They choose to pull the heist on Christmas Eve. With the help of another, the gambler poses as Santa Claus. They fill a Read More

Sky Above Heaven

Synopsis: In this Cold War thriller, both the US and the Soviet Union almost launch WW III when a radioactive satellite suddenly appears over their countries. Once they realize that neither of them are behind it, they team up to stop it. But then the enigmatic satellite suddenly disappears. ~ Sandra Read More

Please Not Now!

Actors: Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend Phillipe, a photographer, has been playing around with Barbara, an American heiress. Alain, another man, who has secretly loved her for years, suggests she get even by making Read More

La Ragazza in Vetrina

Actors: Lino Ventura, Marina Vlady, Bernard Fresson, Magali Noël

Synopsis: Essentially a romantic drama set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino Ventura) and Vincenzo (Bernard Fresson) take off together for the city's red-light district, where Read More

Je Te Dirai Pourquoi

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Yves Arcanel

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Bernard Fresson, Pierre Barbaud

Synopsis: Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains one of the high-water marks of the French "new wave" movement. Resnais and scenarist Marguerite Duras weave a complex story concerning a French actress's (Emmanuelle Riva) Read More