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Actors: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond
Synopsis: Three siblings must come to terms with their mother's mortality as they decide what to do with her valuable belongings in this warm family drama from filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Hélène Berthier (Edith Scob) is about to turn 75, and her children are gathering at her home in the country for a party. Read More
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Lou Castel, Laetitia Spigarelli
Synopsis: As a Parisian petrochemical company forges on into the 21st century, the in-house human resources psychologist leads a probe that proves the ghosts of the previous century still hold sway over current events in director Nicolas Klotz's labyrinthine drama. Simon (Mathieu Amalric) is a human Read More
Actors: Arno, Valerie Lemaitre, Edith Scob, François Négret, Fabrice Rodriguez
Synopsis: A man who has regained his life falls for a woman who has lost her identity in this offbeat comedy/drama from Belgium. Peter de Wit (Arno) suffered a severe heart attack and was declared dead at a hospital in Brussels, but while no one is looking he comes to in the morgue, shaken but little worse Read More
Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob, Maryline Canto, Pascal Elso
Synopsis: Time takes the most painful toll of all on a man confined to a home for the aged in this short drama from writer and director Olivier Bouffard. Paul (Michael Lonsdale) is an elderly man who is slowly falling victim to the ravages of senility. While Paul was once loved by his son and grandchildren Read More
Actors: Olga Kurylenko, Stipe Erceg, Marc Barbé, Edith Scob
Synopsis: Yoko Ogawa's cult novel serves as the inspiration for director Diane Bertrand's haunting erotic drama starring Olga Kurylenko. Iris (Kurylenko) is looking for employment when she goes to work for an eccentric scientist who specializes in preserving people's personal mementos. Later, as Iris Read More
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote
Synopsis: The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane (Isabelle Adjani) is a glamorous and well-known film actress who attracts the attentions of many men -- often many she has no interest in knowing. One night, at a reception Read More
Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Naceri, Clotilde Courau, Marie Guillard, Michel Duchaussoy
Synopsis: French filmmaker Manuel Boursinhac directs the action thriller La Mentale. Samuel Le Bihan plays Dris, a criminal who wants to go straight. Major mob boss Yanis (Samy Naceri) is an old friend who desperately needs Dris' help. However, Dris has already spent enough time in jail and only wants to Read More
Actors: Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle, John Malkovich, Charles Berling
Synopsis: One woman's actions inspire a variety of reactions among those around her in this period drama. Therese (Laetitia Casta) and Firmin (Frédéric Diefenthal) are a young couple of modest means living in France in 1882. Firmin earns a living as a blacksmith, while Therese finds work at an inn. At the Read More
Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer, Christian Vadim
Synopsis: Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money, death, and false spirituality. Livia (Elsa Zylberstein) and Pointpoirot (Bernard Girardeau) are, respectively, a spoiled society woman who suffers from delusional visions Read More
Actors: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin, Charlie Nelson, Pascal Parmentier
Synopsis: Two men from two different walks of life develop an unexpected friendship in French director Patrice Leconte's 2002 comedy-drama The Man on the Train. Weary from his trip and in anticipation of the heist he's about to perform, Milan (French rock star Johnny Hallyday) steps off the train after Read More
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
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Ines Sastre, André Dussollier, Edith Scob
Synopsis: Vidocq (1775-1857) was a noted French detective who was one of the great trailblazers of modern criminal investigation; he's been credited with establishing the first private investigation firm, and pioneered a number of scientific techniques that are still being used today. Vidocq was also a Read More
Actors: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathilde Seigner
Synopsis: A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of three women who work at a small but successful beauty salon. Angele Nathalie Baye is an attractive woman just edging into middle age who is looking for companionship Read More
Actors: Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve
Synopsis: An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is Read More
Actors: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Magali Noël, Michel Subor
Synopsis: Maverick auteur Andrzej Zulawski directs this flamboyant adaptation of classic French novel La Princesse de Cleves, complete with dirt bike races, hot sex, and naked hockey players. Talented Canadian photographer Clelia (Sophie Marceau) lands a financially lucrative job in Paris at a Read More
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Nils Hugon, Charles Berling, Edith Scob
Synopsis: A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre (Isabelle Huppert and Denis Podalydes) are the busy parents of a nine-year-old son, Camille (Nils Hugon). Camille feels neglected by his hard-working mom and dad and often Read More
Actors: Anne Brochet, Mathilde Seigner, Annie Noel, Yves Jacques, Edouard Baer
Synopsis: Claude Miller directs this surreal comedy about a woman's nightmarish trip to the hospital. Beset by troubles with her family, her married lover, and her studies, anthropology grad student Claire (Anne Brochet) suffers from fainting spells and migraines. After a couple of unnervingly bizarre Read More
Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Mathieu Demy, Caroline Ducey, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester
Synopsis: Caroline Ducey, who previously gained fame by bearing it all in the 1999 dour erotic drama Romance, stars in this drama set in the 14th century. Alienor (Ducey) is provincial lass who puts her skill with herbal cures to use by healing the festering boil on the king's leg. He rewards her with Read More
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Jacques Boudet, Edith Scob, Jean-Pierre Lorit
Synopsis: In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the Read More
Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Baptiste Roussillon, Didier Sauvegrain, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Synopsis: Jacques Rivette directed this richly detailed six-hour drama based on the story of Joan of Arc. In Part one, "Les Batailles," Jeanne the Maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to Read More
Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Edith Scob, Pedro Hestnes, Raul Andrade
Synopsis: This rather esoteric Portuguese-French drama is filled with poetic imagery. It is notable for it's beautiful photography as it follows a devoted nurse from her Portuguese home to the strange Cape Verde islands. Mariana is the nurse assigned to care for the injured immigrant worker Leao who is in a Read More
Actors: Pierre Richard, Michel Piccoli, Dominique Pinon, Florence Pernel, Edith Scob
Synopsis: This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal Read More
Actors: Pierre Richard, Smain, Edith Scob
Actors: Valerie Stroh, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Jacques Bonnaffé, Edith Scob
Synopsis: In this film, director Rene Feret tells the story of his parents' lives. In 1935 his mother Aline (Valerie Stroh) works in her parents' cafe in a mining town in northern France. There, she meets a customer, Pierre (Jean-Yves Berteloot), and decides she is going to marry him. In a reversal of Read More
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Cleve, François Cluzet
Synopsis: In this tragic tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and increasing madness, "she," a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani) settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother (Maria Machado) and physically handicapped father and soon becomes the subject of wild Read More
Actors: Michel Vitold, Edith Scob, Raymond Bussières, Juliette Mills, Luis Masson
Synopsis: Whether or not the title of this well-wrought film was intentional, this was indeed, the last melodrama made by director Georges Franju (1912-1987). The nostalgic story looks at the last days of a theatrical troupe as it travels around the French countryside performing in small towns in the 1950s. Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French Read More
Actors: Helmut Berger, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour
Synopsis: Helmut Berger is Alain, a real sicko, who may be so because his mother was a prostitute. He can only make love with a "decent" woman when she is drugged senseless, though he can manage one-time encounters with prostitutes and also gladly suffers the abuse of his boyfriends. He seems to have Read More
Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley
Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More
Actors: Edith Scob, Gerard Despierre
Synopsis: A Swiss actor struggles with social problems and boredom as he tries to extricate himself from an unsatisfied home life. He has an affair with an actress, but the romance leaves him even more empty inside as he continues to suffer from youthful restlessness and dissatisfaction at work and at home. Read More
Actors: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Michel Vitold, Théo Sarapo, Jacques Jouanneau
Synopsis: The characters and plot convolutions of the classic silent French serial Judex are thrust into a 1960s framework in this Georges Franju concoction. Channing Pollock plays a mysterious masked avenger who kidnaps evil-banker Michel Vitold, then sets about to turn the banker's friends and loved ones Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Perette Pradier, Nadja Tiller, Claude Rich
Synopsis: Set in an old German castle where an elderly paterfamilias lies on his deathbed, this conventional murder mystery by director Julien Duvivier has a veneer of the supernatural about it. As the heirs to the dying man's estate come together at the castle, a woman among them stands out for her Read More
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey, Renee Devillers
Synopsis: Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963 French-language adaptation of the novel by Francois Mauriac. Director Georges Franju remains faithful to the book. Riva plays the title character, who feels suffocated in her Read More
Actors: Fernandel, Maurice Teynac, Marie Déa, Edith Scob
Synopsis: Famed French comic Fernandel cannot do much for this uninspired mystery story with intended comedic overtones by director Leo Joannon. Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel
Synopsis: French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour, Jean Galland
Synopsis: La Tete Contre Les Muirs (U.S. title: The Keepers) was director Georges Franju's 2nd cinematic offering for 1958, and his first purely fictional film. Franju's prior training in documentaries helps to bring a veneer of reality to this harrowing glimpse within the walls of an insane asylum. Pierre Brasseur Read More
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