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Dec. 9, 2009 6:56 AM ET (AP)
Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis: This tough-as-nails, crime-themed docudrama constitutes the second installment in a four hour, two-part biopic on the doings of infamous French thug Jacques Mesrine (1936-79), officially regarded for many years as "Public Enemy #1" in Gaul. Here, he is played to the hilt by Vincent Cassel, who Read More
Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Georges Wilson, Lionel Abelanski, Cyril Couton
Synopsis: A weary "hussier de justice" whose job it is to deliver the paperwork preceding eviction and seizure of property forges a warm but tenuous relationship with a doubtful bride-to-be in director Stephane Brize's melancholy slice of life drama. Jean-Claude is a dreary soul who inherited the thankless Read More
Actors: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis: A glorious dancer and a beautiful actress, Marquise (originally known as mademoiselle Du Parc) won the hearts of some of mid-17th-century France's brightest lights, including Moliere, the actor Racine and even the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Beginning with considerable comedy and ending with Read More
Actors: Aurelien Wiik, Josephine Serre, Rose Thiéry, Sophie Broustal, Jean Carmet
Synopsis: This French family film is filled with action, animals, adventure, and suspense. The story is told from a child's viewpoint. One day, while playing in his secret tree house in the forest, 11-year old Antoine spies upon bank robbers stashing 40-million francs worth of loot. One of the robbers is Read More
Actors: Philippe Caubère, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard
Synopsis: This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending school in Marseilles, Marcel Julien Ciamaca daydreams about the nearby hills where he and his family spend vacations at a cottage. It is not enough to sojourn Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Lambert Wilson, Jean Carmet, Suzanne Flon, Macha Meril, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: This poetic French drama about the inner experience of a returning World War I soldier, is based on the much-loved and highly regarded novel La Vouivre by Marcel Ayme. Georges Wilson, a well-established presence on the French stage, makes his filmmaking debut as a screenwriter and director. A Read More
Actors: Patrick Rameau, Ailo Auguste-Judith, Georges Wilson, Jean-Claude Michel
Synopsis: Joseph (Patrick Rameau) is a Haitian refuge who moves to New York after spending seven years in a jail in his country. One day, while walking the streets of Gotham, Joseph believes he sees the man who tortured him, and he becomes obsessed with exacting vengeance. He discovers that his new homeland Read More
Actors: Georges Wilson, Rufus, Claire Maurier, André Marcon
Synopsis: The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-bound and eventually makes the acquaintance Read More
Actors: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson, Georges Marchal
Synopsis: When Patricia Caron (Nicole García) watches a television debate, she is shocked to hear her long-dead husband described as a war criminal and a torturer. Her husband Marcel (Jacques Perrin) had died more than two decades earlier when French troops fought in Algeria -- and although she had been Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Giorgi
Synopsis: A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in the Italian Nudo di Donna. Nino Manfredi plays a prudish husband who is appalled to discover that his wife once posed nude for a painting. His shock is intensified when word Read More
Actors: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: Andras (Zygmunt Malanowicz), an older man employed as a furniture designer, gets a life-jarring shock when he returns from a trip and finds that some of the work he developed has been given over to a younger employee. This instigates a mid-life crisis over his own identity and his sense of Read More
Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jane Birkin, Henri Cremieux, Georges Wilson, Mathieu Kassovitz
Synopsis: In this tender and sentimental comedy, Ben (Victor Lanoux), a Parisian Jew, copes with the dramas in his everyday life against the background of his family's survival of the Holocaust. Things between him and his wife are not any too easy, and on top of it, he has to heed his father's concerns Read More
Actors: Carole Laure, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Georges Wilson, Louis Seigner
Synopsis: The 20th century not only produced the modern woes of super-highway crashes and interminable traffic jams, but also movies that center around the same theme. In this drama about life and death in the fast, middle, and slow lanes, Juliette (Carole Laure) finds herself stranded on a busy highway Read More
Actors: Georges Wilson, Jumoke Debayo
Synopsis: A black African film from Ghana, Love Brewed in the African Pot tackles the residual effects of a still-recent colonialism on the minds and hearts of the Ghanian people. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Lesache, François Cluzet, Dominique Lavanant, Paul Le Person
Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany. Covering the years 1908 through 1918, the film concentrates on the lives, customs and aspirations of the community's populace. The visuals are complemented not by dialogue but by Read More
Actors: Daniel Duval, François Perier, Georges Wilson, Julien Guiomar, Raymond Pellegrin
Synopsis: Director Claude Barrois based this crime thriller on an actual 1978 barroom massacre. When a yahoo criminal (Daniel Duval) offends a gangland don, the don hires a group of thugs to eliminate the lone upstart. The thugs invade the bar and shoot everyone in sight, but unfortunately their sole target Read More
Actors: Mireille Darc, Aldo Maccione, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: Though they are surprisingly ill-suited for their chosen vocation of thievery, the three men (Aldo Maccione, Charles Gerard and Julien Guiomar) in this story are sufficiently charming to intrigue the wife (Mireille Darc) of a police inspector (Georges Wilson) who is persecuting them based on his Read More
Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Christine Dejoux, Claude Piéplu, Georges Wilson, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Synopsis: Antoine (Robert Lamoureux) was a pleasant and agreeable man for years, until a small inheritance begins to give him some dangerous ideas about gaining wealth and women. Partly in order to win the affections of a young woman, he becomes a small-time con man on the basis of some ideas his accountant Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost
Synopsis: Dear Inspector and Dear Detective were the English-language titles of Philippe De Broca's Tendre Poulet. Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a Read More
Actors: Erika Pluhar, Klaus Löwitsch, Georges Wilson, Doris Kunstmann, Peter Sattmann
Synopsis: Frank (Klaus Loewitsch) has been making love with his stepmother Rachel (Erika Pluhar) for years. In fact, though he doesn't know it, his step-brother Roman is actually his son. Unfortunately, brother-son or not, the boy hates him, and engineers a plan to kill him which backfires, and instead Read More
Actors: O.E. Hasse, Georges Wilson, Alberto Lionello, Macha Meril, Lina Polito
Synopsis: Simon (O.E. Hasse) fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), but now he is an old man, readying himself for death. His daily life is filled with memories, reveries, feelings, and small but meaningful encounters; these are the stuff the film is made up of. Some of the musings are of a Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel
Synopsis: In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through their teenage years. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting lessons from an impoverished novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel) . Soon the clerk is wowing the Parisians with his ability to make the women swoon, and for his talent at attracting Read More
Actors: Jean Yanne, Nicole Calfan, Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier
Synopsis: In this French fantasy/comedy, the Maoist Chinese, by some miracle, have occupied Paris (and France) overnight. The patience of these stern, work-oriented and quite puritanical communists is finally completely worn down by the quarrelsome, cynical and decadent French, who cannot cooperate properly Read More
Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York
Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More
Synopsis: When several young boys are brutally murdered in a small southern Italian village, the superstitious locals react with ignorance and violence. All misfits are immediately suspected, such as big-city tart Barbara Bouchet, the local village idiot, and voodoo practitioner Florinda Bolkan, who is Read More
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
Actors: Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble
Synopsis: Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche is a tragic romantic tale set in 13th century France. While visiting the castle of an old landlord (Michel Simon), both the king (Georges Wilson) and his philandering page Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin) try to seduce the landlord's young, naive wife Blanche (Ligia Read More
Synopsis: This exploitational crime drama presents a veritable feast of misogyny as it tells the lurid tale of a detective on the trail of a kidnapped gaggle of flight attendants. The vicious drug runners who abducted them, treat the women terribly, subjecting them to assorted forms of sexual, physical and Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Del Rio, Georges Wilson, Leslie French
Synopsis: A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but he balks at marrying a woman whom he doesn't love, and rides away on his horse rather than face the altar. While riding Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Georges Géret
Synopsis: The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus. Marcello Mastrioanni stars as Meursault, a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in Read More
Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More
Actors: Louis de Funès, Georges Wilson, Anne Doat, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Valmont
Synopsis: French comedian Louis de Funes stars as Garnier, a shopkeeper who gets taken advantage of by a local banker. He decides to retaliate by planning a bank robbery. Rather than going about it in a more conventional manner, Garnier begins digging a tunnel from his store, intending to reach the bank Read More
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Claude Brasseur
Synopsis: Jo (Eddie Constantine) is a gangster who is down on his luck. His cronies avoid him like the plague because his presence brings them misfortune as well. Jo gets in plenty of fights as he tries to press his luck in the right direction. The role is a departure for American actor Constantine, who Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Daniela Rocca, Lea Padovani
Synopsis: Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's (Betty Davis) home. Just before he does this, however, he falls in love with beautiful and self-serving Cecilia (Catherine Spaak). Though Dino diligently attempts to 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: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More
Actors: Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli
Synopsis: This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the Neapolitan males from five to sixty are forced to work in slave camps. Tired of the cruelty and oppression, the people rise up and launch such a violent melee that they frighten the Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Sami Frey, Louis Jourdan, Curd Jürgens, Antonella Lualdi, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Disorder was a French/Italian co-production, released as Le Desordre in France and Il Disordine in Italy (somebody was in a rut). This leisurely paced modern fable stars Renato Salvatore as a poor young man, struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills. Virtually everyone whom Salvatore Read More
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
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd
Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Mireille Granelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Gianrico Tedeschi
Synopsis: The Fascist (Il Federale) is a comedy set in 1944 Italy. Dedicated fascist Ugo Tognazzi is sent to capture anti-Mussolini professor Georges Wilson. He accomplishes his mission, but both captor and captive have a hard time getting home. After numerous comic misadventures in Tognazzi's motorcycle Read More
Actors: Louis Jourdan, Lilli Palmer, Marie Laforêt, Madeleine Robinson
Synopsis: In this dark drama, a married tutor in a French village finds himself obsessed by a beautiful young girl and begins to stalk her. He soon finds out that she is the mistress of the man whose son he has been tutoring. The tutor confronts her, and she denies it. He then makes a pass at her. When she Read More
Actors: Georges Wilson, Charles Vanel, Dario Moreno
Synopsis: This children's adventure yarn stars one of the most famous comic-strip characters in Europe, Tintin, personified in the flesh by Jean-Pierre Talbot. The teen-ager Tintin and his dog are going to help their friend, Captain Haddock (Charles Wilson) on a special quest. The good but crotchety captain Read More
Synopsis: Also known as Tintin and the Adventure of the Golden Fleece, the French/Belgian Golden Treasure was inspired by the internationally popular comic strip Tintin. Jean-Pierre Talbot makes the first of two appearances as Herge's fearless teenaged journalist. This time, Tintin and his faithful dog Read More
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Anne Tonietti, Palau
Synopsis: The joie de vivre of a young Parisian provides the basis for this romantic tale. The hero truly loves everything about life. He is especially fond of young women with he frequently falls in love. The lad lives with his supportive uncle, his brother, and his brother's wife, a former lover of the Read More
Actors: Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Jacques Harden, Amedee, Charles Blavette
Synopsis: In this drama of lost love, Therese (Alida Valli) is a woman who runs a café in Paris; she lost her husband when he disappeared sixteen years earlier, and, while time has healed some of her wounds, she's still a lonely person. One day, a tramp (Georges Wilson) passes by humming a familiar tune Read More
Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert, Sandra Milo, Valerie Lagrange
Synopsis: In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings his family fame and fortune. When the mare dies, her picture is hung in a prominent place in the house. It is not long after her death, that the dealer dies, leaving his land Read More
Actors: Sylvia Montfort, Dany Robin, Jean Valerie, Georges Riviere, Georges Wilson
Synopsis: Mandrin is a colorful swashbuckler revolving around a "French Robin Hood." The title character is played by Georges Riviere, whose problems with 18th century tax collectors have compelled him to turn to outlawry. With a band of fellow misfits, Mandrin robs from the rich, and...you know the rest. Read More
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