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Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles
Synopsis: A romantic comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette (La Belle Noiseuse), this film centers on three men and three women whose lives converge during the run of a play in Paris. The star of the play, Camille (Jeanne Balibar), is returning to Paris after leaving her stuffy boyfriend Read More
Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin
Synopsis: A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin) is an unhappy and unstable woman who -- after trying to strangle her two year old daughter Marie -- kills herself on Christmas Eve. Sixteen years later, Marie (Vanessa Paradis Read More
Actors: Sami Frey, André Dussollier, Clémentine Célarié, Maria Casarés, Patrick Catalifo, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: The title of Sand and Blood has led some to assume that this 1988 French film is a remake of the old warhorse Blood and Sand. In fact, the only thing the two properties have in common is a bullfighter as a protagonist. A sensitive matador (Patrick Catalifo) grows weary of killing and tries to Read More
Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ángela Molina, Catherine Rouvel, Valentina Vargas
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Malo, Michel Creton, Pierre Vernier, Michel Beaune
Synopsis: Commissioner Stan Jalard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes in his godson after the boy's father, who is also Stan's police partner, is murdered in this routine action thriller. Stan chases the heavy until he catches up with him. He levies his gun on the killer as he decides whether to shoot him or let Read More
Actors: Charles Balano, Francoise Goussard, Grande Otelo, Raymond Pellegrin, Zeze Motta
Synopsis: This drama is an adaptation of a 1935 novel by Jorge Amado. Baldo is a black man from the wrong side of the tracks whose lifetime occupations keep changing. He works at being a servant, thief, boxer, ne'er-do-well, circus performer, and finally a strike organizer. Throughout this daunting array of Read More
Actors: Catherine Rouvel, Roland Bertin, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis: The common problem of a generation gap between young teens and their parents is exacerbated by a cultural gap as well in this interesting first film by Charlotte Silvera. When Louise's family -- her parents and two sisters -- came from Tunisia to live in France, the parents kept their traditional Read More
Actors: Corinne Dacla, Catherine Rouvel, Hélène Vincent
Actors: Hélene Dieudonné, Yvette Maurech, Roger Carel, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll
Synopsis: The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent Read More
Actors: Jean Yanne, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Catherine Rouvel, Liliane Montevecchi, Hubert Deschamps
Synopsis: In this satire, Jean Yanne punctures the pretensions of French show business, from music halls, to classical concert halls and even pornography. In the movie, he plays an indefatigable producer whose efforts sufficiently offend the big money people and the police so that his life is in danger. Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla, Catherine Rouvel, André Falcon
Synopsis: The 1970 French crime flick Borsalino featured Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo as charismatic gangsters in 1930s Marseilles. Belmondo was killed off in that film, but Delon survived to show up in the 1974 sequel Borsalino and Co. (actually filmed just after the original, but not released for Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine
Synopsis: Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though the agent realizes his three predecessors have been assassinated, and that the French government doesn't necessarily approve of the Yank's harassment of a French citizen, he Read More
Actors: Marie Bell, Jacques Charrier, Catherine Rouvel, Lucienne Bogaert
Synopsis: Thomas (Jacques Charrier) is a sailor who has deserted from the Navy in this gentle French drama. He has found refuge in a seaside bordello. Romantic difficulties blossom as he and Flora (Catherine Rouvert), one of the house's prostitutes, fall in love with each other. When he hurts her, however Read More
Actors: Jacques Brel, Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner, Roland Le Saffre
Synopsis: In France, the position of "magistrate" resembles that of the American district attorney; those in either post have broad investigatory and prosecutory powers. In this French language drama, Magistrate Level (Jacques Brel) is one of the rare few who will prosecute the police for abuse of power. He Read More
Actors: Roger Van Hool
Synopsis: When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a Read More
Actors: Jacques Brel, Carole Andre, Françoise Prevost, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: After singer, composer Jacques Brel gave up public performing, he appeared in a number of films in non-singing roles. This film is one of them. The story unfolds through flashbacks. When Mont-Dragon, a horse farm, needs a new manager, Georges (Jacques Brel), a dishonorably discharged army man Read More
Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Catherine Rouvel, Yvette Lebon
Synopsis: No blame is assessed in this unusual French prison drama, which is based on the book by Albertine Sarrazin. All the usual violence, opportunism and homosexuality are present, but they serve as a backdrop to the story of thieves Annick (Juliet Berto) and Jean (Jean-Claude Bouillon), who are in Read More
Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong, the story concerns Helene (Stephane Audran), the wife of a hopeless would-be writer and drug addict. Her husband's best friend tries to lay a trap for Helene, so that she will be forced to pay dearly for a divorce settlement. Also conspiring against Helene Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand
Synopsis: Based on a Eugene Saccomano novel entitled The Bandits of Marseilles, this movie was followed by a sequel entitled Borsalino and Co. This movie captures the mood of 1930 Marseilles beautifully with the use of ambience and music. Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo portray two gangsters who kill Read More
Actors: John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called Freedom Incorporated. Receiving his orders from Doctor Freedom (Donald Pleasence), he battles the Russian Moujik Man and a fire-breathing dragon named Red China Man in this Read More
Actors: Francine Bergé, Pierre Clémenti, Catherine Deneuve, Anna Gael
Synopsis: Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates an affair with Benjamin. In true La Ronde Read More
Actors: Olivier Despax, Catherine Rouvel, Marie-France Pisier
Synopsis: Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the lovely girl, the young man switches places with Read More
Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Rouvel
Synopsis: Between his successful film appearances with Vittorio Gassman in Dino Risi's Il Sorpasso (1962) and Il Successo (1965), Jean-Louis Trintignant appeared in this little-known romance. He plays Georges, a young worker who, while waiting for a train, meets an attractive woman (Michele Morgan) in the Read More
Actors: Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of the crooks kills the guard and flees leaving his partner behind. The abandoned accomplice is captured and convicted. One year passes before the convict is able to escape from Read More
Actors: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel
Synopsis: This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First Read More
Actors: Catherine Rouvel, Lila Kedrova, Germaine Kerjean
Synopsis: The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that Read More
Actors: Paul Meurisse, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Pierre Granval, Fernand Sardou
Synopsis: Jean Renoir never made any secret that Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) was inspired by the impressionist paintings of his father Auguste Renoir, and also of Edouard Monet. The near-surrealistic plotline concerns priggish US presidential candidate Paul Meurisse, who carries on a Read More
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