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Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Carré
Synopsis: A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the Marshland tells the tale of a girl named Cri-Cri, who in flashback recalls growing up in a community along a quiet marsh in France. Her father, Riton (Jacques Villeret), has a Read More
Actors: Eric Caravaca, Jacques Dufilho, Isabelle Renauld, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Licinio Da Silva, Elie Tazartes
Synopsis: In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel (Jacques Dufilho) takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts) Read More
Actors: Claude Rich, Valeria Cavalli, Grégoire Colin, Renée Faure, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Celebrated blind poet Rene Kermadek (Claude Rich) is married to his former student Sibilla (Valeria Cavalli), who provides his only true connection to the world. Although Sibilla is a faithful and devoted wife, he suspects her of cheating on him -- currently with matador Manuel Fernandez (Gregoire Colin Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Synopsis: The sorry story of the Vichy government of France from 1940 to 1945 is the subject of this thoughtful historical drama. In return for a swift surrender in 1940, the French government was allowed to retain, in Vichy an unoccupied portion of the country. There, at the Hotel du Parc, the government Read More
Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Robin, Jean Marais
Synopsis: The small port town in Brittany in this movie has its charms, but they are largely invisible to the children growing up there. In the first place, they are deeply disturbed at the sudden death of an elderly woman who is one of their favorite teachers under what appear to them to be suspicious Read More
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: Jacqueline Maillan, Alida Valli, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Tornade, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Synopsis: In this lifeless black comedy, Hermoine (Jacqueline Maillan) and Catarina (Alida Valli) are shocked to learn their late husband Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) was a bigamist. They combine forces to search for the hidden loot in a rambling French mansion and fend off a school of slimy, money-hungry Read More
Actors: Pierre Richard, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernard Blier, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state Read More
Actors: René Feret, Claude Jade, Jacques Dufilho, Sabine Haudepin
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Ezzat El Alaily, Sid Ahmed Agouni
Synopsis: Both dramatic and humorous, this political tale is set in a small eastern Algerian town that has a mayor and a city council but not much else. One day, two government representatives arrive to announce that the nation's "Leader" is going to pay the sleepy village a visit. This sets off a furor and 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: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert, Claire Maurier
Synopsis: This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. His unhappy father blames this disgraceful prison stint for the death of Bruno's mother. No one wants to hire Read More
Actors: Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Mallet, Gayle Hunnicutt
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: For Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 silent horror-fest Nosferatu, star Klaus Kinski adopts the same makeup style used by Murnau's leading man Max Schreck. Yet in the Herzog version, the crucial difference is that Nosferatu becomes more and more decayed and desiccated as Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Pascale Audret, Jacques Dufilho, Jean Dasté, Giuliana de Sio
Synopsis: Intended as a kind of satire on a certain type of social-climbing mania, this routine comedy misses like a faulty engine. The drunken father (Philippe Noiret) of a typical, undistinguished middle-class family in Nantes is certain that he could have been -- should have been -- a great novelist. Read More
Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Ginette Garcin, Sylvie Joly, Maurice Biraud, Etienne Chicot
Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Dufilho, Odile Versois
Synopsis: Le Crabe Tambour (The Crab Drum) stars Jacques Perrin as the title character. An officer in the French navy, Perrin has earned his nickname through his habit of beating his chest a la King Kong after consuming a crab dinner. Stories of this eccentric but courageous warrior remain in circulation Read More
Actors: Bud Spencer
Synopsis: Spaghetti Western icon Bud Spencer (They Call Me Trinity) stars in this sword-and-sandal adventure-comedy from Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile. The comedic hijinks center around a medieval mercenary named Ettore (Spencer) as he travels around Europe plying his warrior skills to the Read More
Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll
Synopsis: The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent Read More
Actors: Bernard Blier, Jacques Dufilho, Alida Valli, Muse Dalbray, Jacqueline Doyen
Synopsis: A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Spoofing local "true love confessions," this Spanish comic farce/melodrama tells the stories of a middle-aged resident of Madrid (Jacques Dufilho) and of a pregnant young woman from the countryside who longs for stardom. The man answers a personal ad in the newspaper, has a liaison with the Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Sim, Rosy Varte, Marion Game
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, André Falcon, Luce Marquand, Vittorio Caprioli
Synopsis: This black comedy is the first film directed by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. The story concerns a baker (Jacques Dufilho) who has carefully planned the execution of the nine jurors who sent his son to the gallows for murder. Before the police or anyone else can stop him, he calmly does Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Aldo Maccione, Michele Gammino, Christa Linder
Actors: Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Carole Laure, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Against the backdrop of impending war, an enterprising pimp and his seven working girls arrive in Borntown, northern Quebec, in the Christmas season of 1938. The entrepreneurs give a lavish reception right in the mine, which is the reason for the town's existence (and their presence). Afterwards Read More
Synopsis: Chut is an exclamation in French, rather stronger than "darn." It is the sort of thing one might say on being caught in a lie, or after hitting one's finger with a hammer. Unlike similar terms in English, this one carries a certain sense of self-mockery. In this French comedy, Fritz (Jacques Dufiho Read More
Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Sim, Philippe Clair
Actors: Les Charlots, Marion Game, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: This broad French comedy emulates the much-better film A Hard Days Night in casting the Charlots, a French popular music group, to carry the story about a zany group of cut-ups who are drafted into military service. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: In rural Arkansas, strippers are using a bikini bottom made of stolen jewels. Two brothers, one a moonshiner who also uses moonshine as a tannery chemical, and the other a less-countrified lad, try to outwit both the police and the original thieves and steal the bikini for themselves. As it is Read More
Actors: Jacqueline Maillan, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Michel Serrault, Guy Bedos, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: A wealthy French matron drives her captors crazy when she is kidnapped and help for ransom. Mathilde (Jacqueline Maillan) is married to a rich husband of questionable virtue. A dimwitted duo of aspiring crooks get more than they bargained for by the abduction of the woman. A French Air Force pilot Read More
Actors: Jean Piat, Jacques Dufilho, Jean-Pierre Darras, Sacha Pitoeff
Actors: Michele Mercier, Claude Rich, Jacques Dufilho, André Pousse
Synopsis: A wife and her sculptor husband struggle to get by in this situation comedy. Delphine (Michele Mercier) receives word she will inherit a sizeable fortune provided she is a widow. Her love for her husband Antoine (Claude Rich) is soon overtaken by her lust for money. A Jewish charitable Read More
Actors: Francine Bergé, Pierre Clémenti, Catherine Deneuve, Anna Gael
Synopsis: Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates an affair with Benjamin. In true La Ronde Read More
Synopsis: Jerome (Jacques Dufilho) is a policeman who finds himself stranded on a Spanish island in this plodding comedy. Waiting for days for an outgoing plane for Brussels, Jerome deals with his isolation and loneliness and has reoccurring visions of a beautiful woman (Claudia Bremer). ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More
Synopsis: A super spy must simultaneously help some secret agents and the daughter of a mad professor in this James Bond spoof. The professor is pursued by Russian and US agents because he has invented a weapon that neutralizes nuclear arms. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Ben Carruthers, Daniel Emilfork, Howard Vernon, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: 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 is that he doesn't have altruistic intentions with regard to his new invention. Fortunately for fans of somewhat (?!) improbable spy movies, the professor is being sought by Read More
Actors: Lang Jeffries, Philippe Clay, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Truck drivers hauling supplies are caught in the battle between the French and Arabs in this routine adventure drama. Jonathon (Lang Jeffries) is held prisoner by revolting Arabs and falls for the pretty blonde widow Lucia (Estelle Balin). The two are part of a group that is held captive and faces Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret
Synopsis: Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto (Peter Ustinov Read More
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick, Claude Dauphin, Paolo Stoppa
Synopsis: Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even in the original Broadway presentation starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The film version keeps this failure record consistent. Ingrid Bergman plays a fabulously 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: Philippe Noiret, Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru
Actors: Maria Schell, Paul Meurisse, Claude Mann, Christa Lang
Synopsis: A flamboyant, scatterbrained divorced woman allows a pompous composer to use her home to finish his unfinished symphony. He becomes involved in a accidental murder in this dark comedy of errors. Maria Schell stars as the pleasure seeking woman whose heartstrings are played by Paul Meurisse as the Read More
Actors: Zbigniew Cybulski, Sonne Teal, Daniel Emilfork, Laszlo Szabo
Synopsis: While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is primarily used to promote the storyline and the message, and not as a value in itself. In a make-believe Spanish-speaking country of the Americas, a dictator (Zbigniew Read More
Actors: Francis Blanche, Pierre Dac, Jacques Dufilho, Elina Labourdette, Noël Roquevert
Synopsis: Director Jean-Pierre Mocky takes jabs at the arrogant attitudes of the social and corporate elite in this routine satire about four men vying for control of a company. After the president of a dairy cooperative accidentally drowns, rather ignominiously, a quartet of vice-presidents start to Read More
Actors: Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru, Yvette Etievant
Synopsis: In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with the victors claiming the buttons off the clothes of the vanquished. One day, some of the boys pull a strategic coup by running into battle naked, therefore leaving their Read More
Actors: Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Pierre Blanchard, Paul Mercey, Bernard Blier, Marie Dubois
Synopsis: Director Georges Lautner and screenwriter Jacques Robert worked on a series of "Monocle" films together, starting with this tongue-in-cheek espionage thriller. Paul Meurisse launched his career with this film, as Dromard, the French secret agent with the black monocle. In this story, a somewhat Read More
Actors: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Carla Marlier, Annie Fratellini, Vittorio Caprioli, Hubert Deschamps
Synopsis: The lighthearted comedy Zazie Dans Le Metro, an early directorial effort from Louis Malle, stars Catherine Demongeot as a 12-year-old girl named Zazie. Zazie is forced to travel to Paris when her mother wants to rendezvous with her lover. Zazie is left in the care of Uncle Gabriel (Philippe Read More
Actors: Marthe Mercadier, Philippe Clay, Louis de Funès, Pierre Dudan
Actors: Totò, Louis de Funès, Aldo Fabrizi, Luciano Marin, Cathia Caro
Synopsis: Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this entertaining comedy. The shopkeeper like a lot of others, does not want to pay the taxes he is normally assessed. By his reckoning, they are far too high. So when the tax collector Read More
Actors: Raymond Devos, Gerard Sety, Sami Frey, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: 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 very big splash. The story, meant to be amusing, involves three prison inmates who because of their good behavior are given the responsibility -- under strict police Read More
Actors: Jean Pascal, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Dufilho, Jean Desailly
Synopsis: Sly and greedy young people endeavor to use l'amour to get their hands on a fortune in this French comedy. The story begins when an aspiring young artist falls hopelessly in love with his model Julie, an extraordinarily beautiful redhead. He desperately wants to marry her, but his father Read More
Synopsis: 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. He then moves to a ranch to begin raising fighting bulls. His attempts at peace are disrupted by a nagging girlfriend who wants her lover to keep on being a national hero. Read More
Actors: Louis de Funès, Paulette Dubost, Raymond Bussières
Actors: Michèle Morgan, Charles Boyer, Arletty, Felix Marten, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly because he needs a steady source of income, arranges the romantic assignations of his protégé, wealthy Hubert (Felix Marten). The old rake's current mission is to weaken the Read More
Actors: Martine Carol, Michel Piccoli, Lise Delamare, Mischa Auer, Philippe Clay, Aimé Clariond
Synopsis: Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes innocently mixed up in a robbery/murder case. Deciding to play detective, Nathalie leads both the authorities and the underworld on a merry chase. She also wins the heart of Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Alain Cuny, Philippe Clay, Maurice Sarfati
Synopsis: Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does his best as the deformed bellringer Quasimodo, though he comes off more as a punchdrunk ex-pug than a literal Read More
Actors: Amedee, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Tornade, Françoise Fabian
Actors: Daniel Gélin, Henri Vilbert, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Christine Carère
Synopsis: Sang et Lumieres (Blood and Light) stars Daniel Gelin as Ricardo, a dashing matador. After a fellow bullfighter is killed in the ring, Ricardo decides it's time to retire. As a result, his fickle movie-actress mistress Marilena (Zsa Zsa Gabor) flounces out of his life. He is then targeted for Read More
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Michel Simon, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis: Saadia is an MGM-ized version of the Francis D'Autheville novel Echeck au Destin. Produced, directed and written by the always fascinating Albert Lewin (The Moon and Sixpence, Picture of Dorian Gray), the film stars Cornel Wilde as Si Lahssen, the progressive ruler of the Moroccan province of Read More
Actors: Martine Carol, Jean Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Tissier
Synopsis: Martine Carol, the star of the popular period romp Caroline Cherie, once more dons low-cut 18th-century gowns for the 1953 sequel Un Caprice de Caroline Cherie. This time, the toothsome Caroline arrives in Italy with her military officer husband Salange (Jacques Dacquimine). When the country is Read More
Actors: Charles Vanel, Alfred Adam, Jacques Dufilho
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