In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel (Jacques Dufilho)...
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Noel
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1999
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A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the...
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1999
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Dominique
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1998
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The sorry story of the Vichy government of France from 1940 to 1945 is the subject of this thoughtful historical drama. In...
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Petain
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1993
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The small port town in Brittany in this movie has its charms, but they are largely invisible to the children growing up...
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Little Louis
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1992
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This poetic French drama about the inner experience of a returning World War I soldier, is based on the much-loved and highly...
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Urbain
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1989
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Romeo
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1988
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French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in...
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Mattathias
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1988
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Pierre Stross
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1986
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Both dramatic and humorous, this political tale is set in a small eastern Algerian town that has a mayor and a city council...
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Fabre
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1986
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This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is...
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Adrien Dussart
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1980
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Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany....
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1980
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Intended as a kind of satire on a certain type of social-climbing mania, this routine comedy misses like a faulty engine. The...
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Commissioner
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1979
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Captain
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1979
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Commissioner Juve
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1979
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1978
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Chief Engineer
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1977
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The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon...
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Paul Rechampot
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1976
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Spaghetti Western icon Bud Spencer (They Call Me Trinity) stars in this sword-and-sandal adventure-comedy from Italian...
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1976
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A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order...
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Victor
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1975
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This black comedy is the first film directed by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. The story concerns a baker...
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Baker
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1973
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1973
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Spoofing local "true love confessions," this Spanish comic farce/melodrama tells the stories of a middle-aged resident of...
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1973
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Against the backdrop of impending war, an enterprising pimp and his seven working girls arrive in Borntown, northern Quebec,...
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The Priest
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1973
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1973
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This broad French comedy emulates the much-better film A Hard Days Night in casting the Charlots, a French popular music...
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1972
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1972
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Chut is an exclamation in French, rather stronger than "darn." It is the sort of thing one might say on being caught in a...
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1972
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In rural Arkansas, strippers are using a bikini bottom made of stolen jewels. Two brothers, one a moonshiner who also uses...
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Noe
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1971
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A wealthy French matron drives her captors crazy when she is kidnapped and help for ransom. Mathilde (Jacqueline Maillan) is...
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Petitjean
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1970
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1969
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A wife and her sculptor husband struggle to get by in this situation comedy. Delphine (Michele Mercier) receives word she...
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Joseph
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1969
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Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a...
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1968
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Jerome (Jacques Dufilho) is a policeman who finds himself stranded on a Spanish island in this plodding comedy. Waiting for...
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Jerome
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1967
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Truck drivers hauling supplies are caught in the battle between the French and Arabs in this routine adventure drama....
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Dante
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1967
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A super spy must simultaneously help some secret agents and the daughter of a mad professor in this James Bond spoof. The...
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1967
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The good news is that at last a scientist has discovered a way to disarm all the nuclear weapons in the world. The bad news...
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Russian
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1967
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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1965
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1964
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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1964
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Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European...
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Mons. Alphonse
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1963
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1963
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A flamboyant, scatterbrained divorced woman allows a pompous composer to use her home to finish his unfinished symphony. He...
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1963
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While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is...
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1962
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In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with...
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Aztec's Father
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1962
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Director Jean-Pierre Mocky takes jabs at the arrogant attitudes of the social and corporate elite in this routine satire...
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Yachtsman
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1962
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Simon
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1961
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Director Georges Lautner and screenwriter Jacques Robert worked on a series of "Monocle" films together, starting with this...
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1961
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1960
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1960
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Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this...
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1959
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Sly and greedy young people endeavor to use l'amour to get their hands on a fortune in this French comedy. The story begins...
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1959
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1959
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One of the several types of "New Wave" cinema emerging from France at this time, Le Travail C'est La Liberte does not make a...
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Cop
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1959
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1958
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In this tragedy, a matador is deeply shaken by the death of a good friend who was gored in the ring and decides to retire....
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1958
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Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly...
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Flick
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1958
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Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes...
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Sang et Lumieres (Blood and Light) stars Daniel Gelin as Ricardo, a dashing matador. After a fellow bullfighter is killed in...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1946
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