Claude BerriFilmography

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne

Synopsis: A man born and raised on France's Southern coast is exiled to the Northern territories in this comedy from actor, director and screenwriter Dany Boon. Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) helps run the post office in a picturesque small town in the South of France. Philippe's wife Julie (Zoe Felix) has Read More

Hunting and Gathering

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin, Firmine Richard

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) helms the whimsical romantic comedy Ensemble, c'est tout (Hunting and Gathering, 2007). A box office blockbuster in France, the picture follows the romantic couplings that form in the lives of several lonely Parisian singles. The lead characters Read More

Dream House

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost, Zinedine Soualem, Laurent Gamelon

Synopsis: A simple cottage in the country becomes an increasingly difficult matter for cash-strapped husband in this French comedy. Charles Boulin (Dany Boon) works for a mortgage company, where he has the unenviable job of overseeing the repossession of homes when owners default on their loans and Read More

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

Happily Ever After

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yvan Attal

Synopsis: Writer, director, and actor Yvan Attal takes another look at the ups and downs of love and monogamy in this biting romantic comedy. Vincent (Yvan Attal), Fred (Alain Cohen), and Georges (Alain Chabat) are three Parisian men in their early forties who are coming to the unfortunate realization that Read More

San Antonio

Crew: Producer

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The Housekeeper

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz, Axelle Abbadie

Synopsis: One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just left him. Living on his own for the first time in years, Jacques decides it's high time to clean up his life, literally and Read More

Amen

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru

Synopsis: The collective crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust have been well-documented since the end of World War II, but lingering questions remain about how much was known about the Nazi mass-extermination schemes outside Germany, and what could have been done to prevent them. Political Read More

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)

Crew: Producer

Actors: Isabelle Nanty, Edouard Baer, Martin Laval, Juliette Duval, Martine Chevalier

Synopsis: French actress Isabelle Nanty, known in the States as Georgette the cigarette girl in Amélie, makes her debut as a writer/director with the lighthearted comedy Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine). Nanty also stars in the leading role as Dorine, a frumpy working mother complete with pink foam curlers Read More

Le Clefs de Bagnole

Actors: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo, Claude Berri, Charles Gassot, Alain Terzian

Les Sentiments

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud, Agathe Bonitzer

Synopsis: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues in director Noemie Lvovsky's 2003 marriage comedy drama Les Sentiments. Nearing the end of his career, small-town doctor Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) and his wife Carole (Nathalie Baye) are relatively content Read More

My Wife Is An Actress

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau, Ludivine Sagnier, Keith Allen, Lionel Abelanski

Synopsis: Actor Yvan Attal follows up on his 1997 directorial debut of I've Got a Woman with this wry romantic comedy about a regular guy dealing with his wife's fame and career. Yvan (Attal) is a youngish sports writer who, through some improbable luck, finds himself happily married to the beautiful Read More

Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

Va Savoir

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

Les Rois Mages

Crew: Producer

Actors: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus, Virginie de Clausade, Walid Afkir

Astérix et Obélix contre César

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Asterix and Obelix, the French comic book heroes created by René Goscinny and Albert Underzo (their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe), are brought to the big screen in their first live-action adventure. Set in 50 B.C., Asterix (Christian Clavier) and Obelix (Gérard Depardieu Read More

The Ogre

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Dieter Laser

Synopsis: Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible for kidnapping dozens of young boys for recruitment by the Nazi SS during WW II. The film opens with black-and-white shots of Abel's childhood in Paris. The year is 1925 and Read More

La Debandade

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Berri, Fanny Ardant, Claude Brasseur, Alain Chabat, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann (Claude Berri, who is also the director) a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform Read More

Mookie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Eric Cantona, Emiliano Suarez, Victor Sanchez Ramirez, Michel Elias

Synopsis: A talking chimp, a jolly monk and a boxer on the run make an unlikely team in this French comedy for children. Brother Benoit (Jacques Villeret), a French monk working with underprivileged youth in Mexico, one day finds a sick chimpanzee in need of water and medical attention. He brings the chimp Read More

La Separation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Jerome Deschamps, Karin Viard, Laurence Lerel

Synopsis: French director Christian Vincent charts the dissolution of a long-term relationship with his third film, based on the novel by Dan Franck. Daniel Auteuil and Isabelle Huppert star as Pierre and Anne, a couple who have been living together as husband and wife for several years. Although they never Read More

Le Pari

Crew: Producer

Actors: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Isabelle Ferron, Isabel Otero, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: In this French comedy, sisters Murielle (Isabella Ferron) and Victoria (Isabel Otero) are married to men who hate each other -- high-school teacher Bernard (Bernard Campan) and well-to-do Didier (Didier Bourdon), pharmacist in a posh Paris neighborhood. Both chain-smoke, and this leads to a Read More

Arlette

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Marie Bigard

Synopsis: A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme park. Arlette (comedienne Josiane Balasko, France's answer to Roseanne) has no idea that she is the long-lost heir to the vast fortune of a dying business tycoon. Her new Read More

Lucie Aubrac

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

Didier

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alain Chabat, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Gélinas, Caroline Cellier, Michel Hazanavicius

Synopsis: In this French fantasy-comedy, a magical moonbeam turns a dog into a man's best friend. Annabelle (Caroline Cellier) is a reporter who is sent on an overseas assignment and doesn't think it would be such a great idea to bring Didier, her Golden Retriever, along, so she leaves the pooch in the care Read More

Les Trois Frères

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bernard Campan, Didier Bourdon, Pascal Légitimus, Antoine Du Merle

Synopsis: Directed by Didier Bourdon, a member of the French comedy troupe Les Inconnus, this comedy stars Bourdon and other members of the troupe. Bourdon plays one of three half-brothers who have been separated since childhood and are reunited when they come to their mother's funeral. They discover that Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

French Twist

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a man discovers that he has something unexpected in common with his wife -- they're both involved with another woman. Loli (Victoria Abril) is a woman of Spanish blood married to a French businessman, Laurent (Alain Chabat). Loli is not especially happy as a housewife Read More

La Machine

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Woerner, Erwan Baynaud

Synopsis: This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a Read More

Queen Margot

Crew: Producer

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

Germinal

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

The Lover

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese Read More

Uranus

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Florence Darel, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a middle-class family man who agrees to shelter many of those who've lost their homes. The polyglot of political beliefs held by these new tenants sows the seeds of discontent. Read More

Stan the Flasher

Actors: Claude Berri, Aurore Clément, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive Read More

The Bear

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed this unusual and compelling tale of animals in the wild, which tells its tale from the bears' point of view. A pair of carefully-trained bruins deliver remarkably effective "performances" (aided by clever editing and, in some sequences, the use of realistic animated Read More

The Little Thief

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de la Brosse, Didier Bezace, Raoul Billerey, Chantal Banlier

Synopsis: From time to time a deceased novelist or artist is sufficiently revered that, as a form of homage, his disciples will take one of his unfinished projects and attempt to bring it to completion. The screenplay for La Petite voleuse was written by Claude Miller, Luc Beraud and Anne Miller based on a Read More

À Gauche En Sortant De L'Ascenseur

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Cottençon, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Yann (Pierre Richard) has his artistic eye on Florence (Fanny Cottencon), who desires her for more than her aesthetic beauty. His efforts are continually hampered by his neighbors Boris (Richard Bohringer), an insanely jealous layabout and his beautiful wife Eva (Emmanuelle Beart). Michel Creton Read More

Manon of the Spring

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, also titled Jean de Florette. Manon (Emmanuelle Beart Read More

Jean de Florette

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna

Synopsis: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when Read More

Scemo Di Guerra

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Beppe Grillo, Bernard Blier, Fabio Testi

Le Fou De Guerre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Beppe Grillo, Bernard Blier, Fabio Testi

Les Enrages

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fanny Ardant, François Cluzet, Jean-Roger Milo, Marie Christine Rousseau

Synopsis: This is an overwrought drama about two repugnant petty criminals who terrorize a movie star in her home. Marc (Francois Cluzet) and Laurent (Jean-Roger Milo) have just committed a robbery and as they are speeding through the countryside to get away, they run out of gas. When they come across the Read More

Banzai

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Valérie Mairesse, Didier Kaminka, Marthe Villalonga, Francois Perrot, Jean-Marie Proslier

Synopsis: Lacking the bite to be really funny, this wilted farce stars French comedian Coluche as Michel Bernardin, a white-collar trouble-shooter for tourists caught in a bind, or in bandages, depending on the problem. His business "Planet Assistance" sends people all over to help travelers in need, and as Read More

Garçon!

Crew: Producer

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

L'Africain

Crew: Producer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Joseph Momo, Vi Reed

Synopsis: Searching for the ideal place for a new resort in Central Africa, Catherine Deneuve stumbles into an ex-lover, Philippe Noiret, who is the store owner and pilot for the small African village. They clash at first, but soon begin to look past each the other's shortcomings. But trouble comes to Read More

Tchao, pantin!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnes Soral, Philippe Léotard, Mahmoud Zemmouri

Synopsis: Lambert (Coluche) works at night as a gas station attendant, not even attempting to stay sober the rest of the time. Every night the young Bensoussan (Richard Anconina), a minor drug dealer, stops by the gas station on his motorcycle and the two men slowly establish a solid friendship. Their Read More

L'Homme Blessé

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin, Lisa Kreuzer

Synopsis: L'Homme Blesse is known in English-speaking countries as The Wounded Man. Jean-Hughes Anglade is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay Obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the Read More

Deux Heures Moins le Quart Avant Jesus-Christ

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay bars, trade unions, and traffic problems -- something like the "Flintstones" in an Afro-French incarnation, slipping around on Monty Pythonesque dialogue. A gay Jules César's Read More

Le Maitre d'Ecole

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Roland Giraud, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: Gerard Barbier (Michel Coluche) has taken on a temporary job at a small elementary school and soon finds himself involved in sticky situations that challenge his inventiveness. In one such instance, a suicidal fellow-teacher has to be rushed to the hospital and the only available vehicle is an Read More

Inspecteur la Bavure

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without Read More

Je Vous Aime

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu, Alain Souchon, Christian Marquand

Synopsis: Claude Berri abandons his usual straightforward brand of filmmaking for the French I Love All of You. Catherine Deneuve plays a 35-year-old career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and Read More

Tess

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, John Collin, David Markham

Synopsis: In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville Read More

Un Moment d'Egarement

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnes Soral, Martine Sarcey

Synopsis: In this frothy and sexy French farce, a pair of middle-aged pals go on a vacation with their two teenage daughters. The trouble begins when one of the friends gets entangled with the others' daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Première Fois

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Zorica Lozic, Danielle Schneider, Delphine Levy, Claude Lubicki

Synopsis: Having covered a great deal of autobiographical ground in The Two of Us (1967) director Claude Berri offers us further glimpses into his formative years in The First Time. Once more, Alaine Cohen plays Berri's young alter ego. This time, Cohen is on the verge of sexual awakening--and he's not sure Read More

Le Male du Siècle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Hubert Deschamps, Laszlo Szabo, Yves Afonso

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a jealous chauvinistic husband worries more about his wife's fidelity than her safety after she is taken hostage by a bank robber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Sex Shop

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Natalie Delon, Claude Berri

Synopsis: French director Claude Berri wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy as Claude, a bookstore owner whose personal life, like his struggling business, is failing. Claude is trapped in a loveless marriage to Isabelle (Juliet Berto), who does not seem to possess any sexual attraction to her husband Read More

Le Pistonné

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Guy Bedos, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte, Georges Géret, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: Claude (Guy Bedos) is content with his life. He has a girlfriend Tania (Zorica Lozic) and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent Read More

Le Cinema de Papa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Robert, Claude Berri, Alain Cohen, Arlette Gilbert

Synopsis: Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father (Yves Robert) owns a profitable fur shop but longs to be an actor like his father and grandfather before him. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later Read More

Mazel Tov Ou le Mariage

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Berri, Elisabeth Wiener, Louisa Colpeyn, Gregoire Aslan, Regine

Synopsis: The original French title of Marry Me, Marry Me was Mazel Tov ou le Marriage, which was more appropriate to the ethnic ambience of this Claude Berri confection. Director Berri effectively casts himself as the protagonist, a Jewish encyclopedia salesman who impregnates the daughter (Elisabeth Wiener Read More

Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole, Roger Carel

Synopsis: Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a triumphant return to leading roles in the charming, poignant The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant). Simon plays a likeable old soak with one significant character flaw: he Read More

L'Enfance Nue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutemberg, Raoul Billerey, Marie-Louise Thierry

Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is Read More

Le Poulet

Crew: Director, Producer

My Baby Is Black

Synopsis: A couple finds that their love is not accepted by society in the land of liberty, fraternity, and equality in this drama. Françoise (Françoise Giret) is a college student who is friendly with a group of idealistic bohemians living together in a Paris flat. An artist living with the beats Read More

La Chance et l'Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Michel Piccoli

Les Baisers

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Leticia Roman

Behold a Pale Horse

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to some senate investigating committee or other. Based on Emeric Pressburger's novel A Mouse on Sunday, Behold a Pale Horse stars Gregory Peck as a war veteran who continues Read More

Janine

Actors: Claude Berri, Hubert Deschamps

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the 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 Verité

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Marie-José Nat, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot Brigitte Bardot as Dominique Marceau, who is accused of killing her boyfriend. The question for the jury is whether the murder was premeditated or a crime of passion. Marceau had come Read More

Les Bonnes Femmes

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Lucille Saint-Simon, Stéphane Audran, Mario David

Synopsis: The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of his mouth about good morals while the other side has the opposite message. One of the women, Jane (Bernadette Lafont) fixes herself up in a somewhat vulgar manner and goes Read More

J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Christian Marquand, Fernand Ledoux, Paul Guers

Synopsis: Miscegenation, murder and revenge are the themes of this French crime drama set in the steamy American south. Joe Grant is a vengeful light-skinned black who leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his brother is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light Read More