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Actors: Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette co-wrote and directed this intimate story of familial bonds and the life of the artist. Kate (Jane Birkin) was raised on the road, touring with the small circus run by her father, but after a disagreement she left her dad to run the show on his own. Fifteen years later, Kate gets Read More

2009
La Fabrique des sentiments

Actors: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu, Hiam Abbass, Anne-Katerine Normant

Synopsis: A successful lawyer, Eloise's life would be complete if only she could find a successful relationship. She signs up for a speed dating program, and what follows is a bizarre and often funny experiment in what happens when seven men and seven women take off on a race to find a significant other. Read More

2008
Les Williams

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Denis Lavant

2008
Poison Friends

Actors: Thibault Vinçon, Malik Zidi, Alexandre Steiger, Thomas Blanchard, Natacha Régnier

Synopsis: French writer/director Emmanuel Bourdieu's intense, cerebral drama Poison Friends dissects the internal politics (and eviscerates the pretentiousness) of French academic circles played out on a collegiate campus. Three first-year graduate literature students at the Sorbonne, Alexandre Pariente (Alexandre Steiger Read More

4/27/07
La Tourneuse de Pages

Actors: Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet, Xavier De Guillebon

Synopsis: Years after her once-promising career as a professional pianist is tragically sidelined, a young musician still haunted by the past receives a second chance at making things right in director Denis Dercourt's elegant tale of shattered dreams and delicate mutual dependence. Upon performing for the Read More

3/23/07
Captain Ahab

Actors: Denis Lavant, Virgil Leclaire, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: Writer/director Philippe Ramos ponders the formative years of legendary Herman Melville seaman Captain Ahab in this stylized tale of adventure presented in five chapters. When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) places his son in the care of his Read More

2007
Second Wind

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Eric Cantona

Synopsis: Adapted from the same José Giovanni story that spawned Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1966 film of the same name, director/screenwriter Alain Corneau's nail-biting thriller stars Daniel Auteuil as iconic French gangster Gustav "Gu" Minda and Monica Bellucci as the smoldering Manouche -- whose love Read More

2007
Lemming

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, André Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: The charmed life of a successful young engineer is thrown into chaos following a decidedly uncomfortable dinner with his powerful boss and the man's socially scabrous wife in With a Friend Like Harry director Dominik Moll's twisted, semi-supernatural thriller. Upon relocating to an ultra-modern Read More

5/19/06
When the Sea Rises...

Actors: Yolande Moreau, Wim Willaert, Jackie Berroyer, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: When the Sea Rises... is the first film written and directed by actress Yolande Moreau (who also stars in the film) and cinematographer Gilles Porte (who also shot the film). Moreau stars as Irène, who is traveling the north of France performing her one-woman show. In the stage show, Irène plays a Read More

1/13/06
Cote d'Azur

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé, Edouard Collin

Synopsis: It's Summer Rental meets Blame it on Rio when a French family heads off to the Mediterranean for a sultry summer vacation in the ensemble sex comedy Côte d'Azur, co-directed by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel (The Adventures of Felix). When the head of the clan, Marc (Gilbert Melki) Read More

9/8/05
The Art of Breaking Up

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Bearling, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathieu Demy

2005
La Repentie

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sami Frey, Samy Naceri, Aurore Clément, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: When an indistinct woman named Charlotte (Isabelle Adjani) leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever, she's followed by a mysterious stranger with ill intentions. After recovering a bag hidden adeptly within the women's bathroom, Charlotte re-enters the station, this time Read More

2002
Les Diables

Actors: Adele Haenel, Vincent Rottiers, Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonnaffé, Aurelia Petit

Synopsis: Directed by Christophe Ruggia, Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents. Chloe (Adele Haenel) is 13, and has been profoundly damaged from a life of abandonment -- so much so that she refuses to be to be physically Read More

2002
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

9/28/01
Venus Beauty Institute

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

10/27/00
Le sourire du clown

Actors: Tiki Holgado, Vincent Elbaz, François Berléand, Bruno Putzulu, Pascale Arbillot

Synopsis: A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy. After he's chased through Prague by a number of Read More

1999
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton, Frédéric Gorny

Synopsis: This French musical features dialogue and songs by Paris University's Jacques Martineau on a wide range of subjects -- from immigrant workers to book-selling. Travel agency receptionist Jeanne (Virginie Ledoyen and the singing voice of Elise Caron) is always on the lookout for men, and she thinks Read More

4/22/98
Les Plus Beau Pays du Monde

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marianne Denicourt, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jacques Bonnaffé, Didier Bezace

Synopsis: The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero Mermoz in occupied France during WW II. But his career came to a brutal end when his homosexuality was discovered and he was sent to a Nazi camp. The Vichy government's Read More

1998
C'est Pour la Bonne Cause

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Dominique Blanc, Loic Freynet, Laurie Lefret

Synopsis: When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the Read More

2/5/97
Arthur Rimbaud

Synopsis: Arthur Rimbaud, the title character of this film, was a noted French poet who at the age 26 abandoned his profession to become a North African trader/wanderer. This epic biopic tells his strange and tragic tale. A rather depressive and tormented soul, Rimbaud began his adventures in the early Read More

1996
Faut-Il Aimer Mathilde?

Actors: Dominique Blanc, Paul Crauchet, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: Mathilde (Dominique Blanc) has had a number of children, but is still an attractive woman. One day her husband simply picks up and leaves without any explanation whatever. At about the same time, she is involved at an accident at her workplace which makes her strongly aware of the passage of time. Read More

1993
Couples et Amants

Actors: Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little side action with another man in the afternoon, and Paul is really getting into his romance with one of his ophthalmic patients, a young woman who Read More

1993
Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

1993
La Place d'un Autre

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Cecile Bois, Philippe Clevenot

Synopsis: This autobiographical drama tells the story of a young man with a promising future who goes completely to pieces following a run of truly awful events, and who gradually puts back the pieces to his life with the help of art. At the beginning of the film, Thomas (Samuel Le Bihan) is an Read More

1993
Les Enfants du Vent

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Therese Liotard, Marie Dubois, Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the mountains, and they manage to hook up with three local youngsters. All six of them are being hunted by the Germans, and they are also being looked for by Read More

1991
La Fracture du Myocarde

Actors: Sylvain Copans, Nicolas Parodi, Cecilia Rouaud, Lucie Blossier, Delphine Gouttman

Synopsis: When the mother of 12-year-old Martin suddenly dies, his schoolmates rally 'round to keep the authorities from finding out lest they send the fatherless youth to the dreaded local orphanage. This off-beat French drama, chronicles their efforts that begin with a midnight burial of the poor woman's Read More

1990
L'Invite Clandestin

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé

1990
Blancs Casses

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Sylvie Orcier, Christophe Odent, Marion Game

1989
La Campagne De Ciceron

Actors: Tonie Marshall, Jacques Bonnaffé, Sabine Haudepin, Michel Gautier

Synopsis: In this romantic farce, former opera-singer and current music festival organizer Hermance (Judith Magre) is married to Charles-Henry (Jean Roquel). However, she still has a passion for her former lover Simon (Carlo Brandt), but he has a thing for Francoise (Sabine Haudepin). Meanwhile, Nathalie (Tonie Marshall Read More

1989
Bapteme

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

1988
Les Montagnes De La Lune

Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Caroline Chaniolleau, Jacques Bonnaffé, Yves Afonso, Manuela de Freitas

Synopsis: This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao Read More

1987
La Femme Secrète

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Clémentine Célarié, Philippe Noiret, Vladimir Yordanoff, François Berléand

Synopsis: In this crime story, Antoine (Jacques Bonnafe) is suddenly called home from the North Sea where he works on an oil rig; his wife's body has been found in the Seine. Not accepting the hypothesis that this was an accident or a suicide, Antoine starts to look into his wife's friends and acquaintances Read More

1986
Residence Surveillee

Actors: Jacques Bonnaffé, Maria Schneider, Francois Siener

1986
Blanche et Marie

Actors: Miou-Miou, Sandrine Bonnaire, Patrick Chesnais, Gerard Klein

1985
La Tentation d'Isabelle

Actors: Ann-Gisele Glass, Fanny Bastien, Jacques Bonnaffé, Xavier DeLuc, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: In this argumentative, fractious drama about a warped sense of male-female love, Bruno (Jacques Bonnafe) who is clearly not playing with a full deck, devises a means to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle (Ann Gisel Glass). Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain (Xavier Deluc) in the Read More

1985
Le Meilleur De La Vie

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about Veronique (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Adrien (Jacques Bonnafe). Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of Read More

1985
Escalier C

Actors: Robin Renucci, Catherine Leprince, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jacques Weber

Synopsis: Based on the prize-winning novel by Elvire Mural, the French Escalier C (Staircase C) stars Robin Renucci as a cynical, spiteful art critic. The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. Though many of his friends and neighbors try to crack the shell Read More

1985
Paris Vu Par... 20 Ans Apres

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin, Julien Dubois, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a different aspect of Parisian life. The films and their directors include: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid by Chantal Akerman; Place Clichy by Bernard Dubois; Rue Fontaine by Philippe Garrel Read More

1984
Elle a Passe Tant d'Heures Sous les Sunlights

Actors: Mireille Perrier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anne Wiazemsky, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Too many hours under the sun, artificial or not, might have warped this experimental work by Philippe Garrel. Ostensibly starting out as a movie about a young man and a woman whose relationship is coming apart, the story itself then comes apart. Soon director Garrel himself is in front of the Read More

1984
First Name: Carmen

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

1983

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