A young woman who has gone over to the wrong side of the law with her new boyfriend begins having second thoughts about both...
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2001
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Ainsi soit-il (So Be It) by French filmmaker Gerard Blain is a crime and punishment story. Georges Vasseur, the legal...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1999
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Director
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1995
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1992
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1989
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Stephane's father
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1989
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1989
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Simon Blount (Bernard Giraudeau) is a weary cop who takes solace in the bottle after his wife leaves him for another man. His...
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1987
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Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1986
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1983
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1980
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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Experimental, non-narrative in structure, and surrealist in tone, this picture focuses on the enigmatic utterances of a...
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1978
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In this French drama, an aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1978
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Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American...
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Raoul Minot
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1977
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Though his friendships with very young girls could very well be innocent in nature, a lonely man panics when the...
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1977
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Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul (Cesar Chaveau) is a boy who wants affection and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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Paul (Gerard Blain) has been imprisoned for ten years for passing counterfeit money. He feels victimized enough, both for the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Paul
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1973
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This uneven drama is an update of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. Cain returns to his gypsy family after traveling...
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Cain
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1970
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In this French film, Philippe (Philippe March) is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1970
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This espionage story finds Laura (Ira von Fuerstenberg) as the wife of a ringleader of international spies arriving in Berlin...
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Reger
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1968
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In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately,...
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Thomas
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1967
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A group of aspiring young thugs from Marseilles move in on established gangsters. They spend the time torturing, killing and...
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Joe
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1966
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Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian...
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Toto
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1965
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Dependable American character actor Fred Beir is afforded a rare starring role in this Italian spy yarn. Beir plays an...
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1965
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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1964
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This feature takes a comedic look at how four women lose their virginity. Among the scenarios are a couple who can't bring...
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Xavier
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1963
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A group of starving Roman artists provides the focus of this episodic drama that tells the often tragic story of each of...
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1963
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1963
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Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks...
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Chips Chalmoy
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1962
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Set in Rome in 1943, this standard wartime drama has its moments. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the...
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Davide
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1961
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1961
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This drama, loosely based on the legend of the "Hunchback," is set in Rome, 1944. The story begins as the Hunchback, a...
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The Hunchback
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1960
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The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective in this standard though...
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Anselmo
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1960
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The focal point of this standard drama by director Mario Camerini is life in the Via Margutta, an artists' sector in Rome,...
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Stefano
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1960
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Perhaps intending to make a point that criminals have their own code of justice, this undistinguished prison drama by...
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Mazur
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1960
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1959
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This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His...
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Charles
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1959
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The title of this Italian slice-of-life drama translates to Young Husbands. The husbands in question rather casually enter...
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Marcello
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1958
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Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is...
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Serge
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1958
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The New Boyfriend
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is...
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Gerard
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1957
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Les Mistons (aka The Mischief Makers) was the second short-subject film directed by Francois Truffault. Exploring subject...
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Gérard
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1957
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