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Actors: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Blu Yoshimi
Synopsis: With Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo), acclaimed Italian helmer Nanni Moretti steps away from his standard directorial role to essay the lead and co-author the script in a gentle psychological drama directed by Antonello Grimaldi. Moretti stars as Pietro, a film executive whose life takes an irreversible Read More
Actors: Vincent Regan, Stephen Rea, Archie Panjabi, Alexander Siddig, Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas
Synopsis: Vincent Regan stars in this French-language paranoia thriller as Peter Burton, a diabolically brilliant young man. In lieu of pursuing a formal education and a 9-to-5 office job, Peter ankled the standard route to success and now makes his living as a serial thief, lifting the valuables of patrons Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud
Synopsis: The devastating reverberations of a profound tragedy echo through generations of a long-suffering French family in this emotional family drama from director Arnaud Desplechin. When Abel and his wife, Junon, started a family, it seemed like the seeds of true happiness had been planted. But while Read More
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc, Daniel Duval
Synopsis: A middle-aged man studying the Mur des Noms in modern-day France recalls the time 20 years prior when he and his mother were viewing the trial of Klaus Barbie with rapt attention in this introspective drama from director Amos Gitai. The year was 1987, and Rivka lived with her son, Victor Read More
Actors: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Alexandre Lafaurie, Christian Vadim
Synopsis: An adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1929 short story "The House of Lurking Death," this French-language whodunit represents director Pascal Thomas's third Christie adaptation, following the 2005 By the Pricking of My Thumbs and the 2007 Towards Zero; like Thumbs, it hones in on Prudence (Catherine Read More
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Song Fang, Louise Margolin
Synopsis: Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (Flight of the Red Balloon), which constitutes celebrated Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first French-language picture, represents both an homage to Albert Lamorisse's beloved 1956 short The Red Balloon and an expansion of that earlier picture. Hou begins with Lamorisse Read More
Actors: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Helene Alexandridis, Hélène Fillières
Synopsis: D.H. Lawrence's once-scandalous tale of a married woman who finds herself through an affair with another man is brought to the screen in this adaptation directed by Pascale Ferran. Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) is a lovely woman in her mid twenties who is married to Sir Clifford Chatterley Read More
Actors: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki
Synopsis: "What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc (Vincent Lindon) of his wife, Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos), one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves the moustache Read More
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Hippolyte Girardot
Synopsis: Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa helms this poignant and heart-rending short subject, which represents his contribution to the omnibus film Paris, je t'aime. The episode concerns a Parisian mother (Juliette Binoche) devastated by the loss of her young son, who receives an unusual form of Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valerie Stroh, Amandine Janin, Anne Canovas, Ivan Franek
Synopsis: Cesar award-winning actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin makes his feature directorial debut with this satirical tale about a well-to-do Parisian lawyer who takes flight from the middle class. Charles Benesteau (Darroussin) is a forty seven year old lawyer who has grown tired of bourgeois hypocrisy. The Read More
Actors: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova
Synopsis: A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian Read More
Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Magalie Woch
Synopsis: The stories of two desperate characters turn out to share an important link in this drama from French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just the way she wants. But a look below the surface shows Read More
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Vladimir Yordanoff, Laszlo Szabo, Anna Mouglalis
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Ludmila Mikael, Michel Jonasz, Daniel Mesguich, Nathan Cogan
Synopsis: Director Sam Garbarski marked his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with the family-comedy drama Le Tango des Rashevski (The Rashevski Tango), a tale of one extended family's struggle to find meaning and identity within their own somewhat dormant Jewish heritage. When 81-year-old family Read More
Actors: Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, James Wilby, Patricia Mauceri
Synopsis: A lovelorn matchmaker tries to set up two people about to be married -- but not to each other -- in this independent romantic comedy. George (Tunde Adebimpe) is a Nigerian expatriate living in upstate New York, where he has pledged to marry a woman in a marriage arranged for him in childhood Read More
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Antoine Chappey, Atmen Kalif, Aure Atika, Florence Pernel
Synopsis: In this satirical French comedy, divorced and unemployed father Henri (Hippolyte Girardot) recruits others who are jobless, evicted, living with parents, surviving on welfare, or staying in shelters. With his core group of the eight unemployed young people, Henri's objective is to form his own Read More
Actors: Daniel Russo, Sagamore Stévenin, Hippolyte Girardot
Synopsis: A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Read More
Actors: Claude Rich, Maria Pacome, Hippolyte Girardot, Judith Henry
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Claude Aufaure, Josephine Sourdel, Isabelle Tinard, Laurence Lerel, Paul Guers, Corinne Marchand
Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, an older man remembers a meaningful summer romance he had in 1958. It begins as Victor is seen staring into the flames of an apparent bonfire. He is remembering the day he met Yvonne in the luxurious lobby of a Swiss hotel on Lake Geneva. They encounter Dr. Meinthe Read More
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Patrick Bouchitey, Salome, Dimitri Rougeul
Synopsis: The potentially negative effects of using archaic and strict methods of dealing the children the main theme of this French film which is set in 1962. While it's story of two youngsters in love, it also explores romance and sexuality in children. It is told from their viewpoint. Gil and Jessica are Read More
Actors: Yvan Attal, Dan Toren, Yossi Banai, André Engel, Sandrine Kiberlain, Richard Masur, Nancy Allen
Synopsis: Espionage, personal integrity, and political commitment are the main themes running through this French thriller that chronicles a young man's journey from idealism to disillusionment and maturity. The story is set in the 1980's in Tel Aviv and follows the exploits and moral conflicts of Attal, a Read More
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Clémentine Célarié, Sergio Castellitto, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Blanc
Synopsis: In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide Read More
Actors: Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Consuelo de Havilland
Synopsis: Cult science-fiction author Philip K. Dick's novel of 1950s suburban California, Confessions of a Crap Artist, is adapted to present-day France in this quirky comedy-drama. Hippolyte Girardot portrays the title character, who is known by the nickname "Barjo" -- a moniker loosely translatable as Read More
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Bernard Giraudeau, Hippolyte Girardot, Lio, Yvan Attal
Synopsis: Diane Kurys and Antoine Lacomblez wrote this drama of a woman novelist and her troubled, 20-year relationship with a man who has fathered two children with another woman. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Roland Bertin
Synopsis: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be Read More
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal, Jean Marie Rollin, Cecile Mazan
Synopsis: The French Love Without Pity strikes different people different ways. To some, it's the last word in profundity; to others, it's a subtitled yawnfest. We suggest that you judge for yourself this story of low-down louse Hippolyte Girardot, who regards the women in his life as little more that Read More
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Habib Hammoud
Synopsis: Patrick (Hippolyte Girardot) is a news photographer in Lebanon who is captured and held hostage by one of the factions fighting in the civil war there. This hostage drama film is unusual in that it attempts to show what motivates the captors, as well as showing the brave attempts of the captive to Read More
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser
Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, West German investigative journalist Gunther Wallraff (Jurgen Prochnow) decides to fight sleaze with sleaze as he goes undercover at a tabloid newspaper to dig up the dirt on the paper's own unethical practices. Rising to the top of the hierarchy by working at the kind Read More
Actors: Omar Sharif, Arielle Dombasle, Hippolyte Girardot, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Pierre Vaneck
Synopsis: Elise (Arielle Dombasle) is content being the lover of Alex (Omar Sharif), a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back. He offers money to the corrupt cult leader Noah (Pierre Vaneck Read More
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
Actors: Robin Renucci, Isabel Otero, Hippolyte Girardot, Didier Agostini, Daniel Jegou
Synopsis: This romance is more a series of idyllic, intense sexual encounters between a married woman and her lover than a psychological study or event-filled melodrama. Viviane (Isabelle Otero) has only been married to Antoine (Robin Renucci) for three years when her passion for Vincent (Hippolyte Read More
Actors: Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Gérard Rinaldi, Sidiki Bakaba, Hippolyte Girardot
Synopsis: In this routine psychological thriller, a husband and wife try to jump start their failing marriage by taking a vacation in Haiti, only to find more problems waiting for them after they arrive. Alan (Claude Brasseur) is an older and experienced writer who is suffering from serious writer's block Read More
Actors: Pierre Arditi, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Galabru, Féodor Atkine, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Macha Beranger, Christian Barbier
Synopsis: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food Read More
Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elisabeth Depardieu, Hippolyte Girardot
Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Hippolyte Girardot
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy
Synopsis: In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this epic skims over the qualities that transformed Saganne from an ordinary officer to a great military leader. Saganne was first sent to a garrison town in North Africa before Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Serrault, Michel Auclair, Hippolyte Girardot
Synopsis: A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden inside the purse of a woman who was once lovers with the leader. Their union resulted in a son, but the president is unaware of this until she, who moved to the US to have her Read More
Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard
Synopsis: First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. Read More
Actors: Laure Duthilleul, Richard Bohringer, Véronique Silver, Pierre Forget, Didier Agostini
Synopsis: In a simple story engagingly and carefully unveiled before one's eyes, director and co-writer Aline Issermann focuses on Juliette (Laure Duthilleul), a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a Read More
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