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Actors: Emmanuel Mouret, Déborah François, Frederique Bel, Dany Brillant, Jacques Weber, Judith Godrëche
Synopsis: Suggesting a French equivalent of a Maurizio Nichetti film, this slapstick farce was written and directed by Euro superstar Emmanuel Mouret, who (as in his five prior efforts) also plays the comic lead. He's Jean-Jacques, a nitwit inventor whose sole obsession in life involves chasing and seducing Read More
Actors: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Alain Doutey, Camille Japy
Synopsis: Neophyte director Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's French-language romantic comedy Odette Toulemonde concerns the unlikeliest of relationships that develops between two Parisians. The title character (Catherine Frot) is a forty-year-old saleswoman, saddled with two children (an adolescent daughter and a Read More
Actors: Karin Viard, Eric Caravaca, Jacques Weber, Gilles Cohen, Helene Babu
Synopsis: A man and a woman each learn a painful lesson about using others to get what you want in this drama from French director Catherine Corsini. Julien Demarsay (Eric Caravaca) is an aspiring novelist whose greatest ambition in life is to publish a book; however, he hasn't been able to get a publisher Read More
Actors: Didier Bourdon, Catherine Frot, Jacques Weber, Yan Duffas, Claire Nadeau
Synopsis: A sexually frustrated husband learns to be careful what he asks for in this French marriage comedy from director Didier Bourdon. Their sex life virtually non-existent after only seven years of marriage, Alain (Didier Bourdon) and Audrey (Catherine Frot) rarely find time for bedroom hanky-panky as Read More
Actors: Philippe Torreton, Amira Casar, Laura del Sol, Anny Duperey, Jacques Weber
Synopsis: Two musician are going to fall in love, but they don't know it yet in this romantic drama from France. Catherine (Amira Casar) is a woman trying to get a break as a singer in Paris; she also finds out that she's pregnant, which is not good news, since she's not having much luck getting gigs and Read More
Actors: Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado, Pierre Arditi, Gordon Tootoosis
Synopsis: Arthur Joffe directed this French comic fantasy, in French and English dialogue, about God (voice of Pierre Arditi), invisible and spinning through Heavenly space on an asteroid, along with his sidekick angel Rene (Ticky Holgado). God observes Earthly events on His television set. After hacking Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz, Ariadna Gil
Synopsis: Actor Jacques Weber made his directorial debut with this film adaptation of Don Juan written in 1665 by Moliere (1622-1673). In early 17th-century Spain, two women (Penelope Cruz, Ariadne Gil) believe Don Juan (Weber) when he promises marriage to both, but they soon are left to ponder his Read More
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain
Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More
Actors: Jacques Weber, Brigitte Roüan, Stanislas Crevillen, Ludmila Mikael
Synopsis: An eight-year old boy learns about love and betrayal in this French drama set in rural France during WW II. The boy, Francois, has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his Read More
Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Piccoli, Laurent Grévill, Anouk Aimée
Synopsis: In this drama, filmed in a series of vignettes, a diverse cast of characters tries to pick up the pieces of their lives after Paul's ladyfriend commits suicide. Not only that, but Paul (Michel Piccoli) must cope with having four house guests, including an infant baby, the infant's recently Read More
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Marie-Armelle de Guy, Maïwenn Le Besco, Jacques Weber
Synopsis: Pierre Lacenaire is among the most notorious killers in French history. This well-wrought drama, tells his story. It begins in 1836 as the icy but somehow charming and intellectual Lacenaire awaits his execution and through a series of flashbacks chronicles the events and reasons why he has ended Read More
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin
Synopsis: Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production. Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character, a brilliant, charismatic swordsman with a generous spirit and a genius for poetry. It would seem that such a man would have no Read More
Actors: Maria Schell, Jacques Weber, Marie-Therese Relin, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Actors: Tom Novembre, Catherine Wilkening, Jacques Weber, Yves Robert, Patrick Timsit
Synopsis: Le Crime D'Antoine stars Tom Novembre as a sensitive composer. Novembre's world comes crashing down upon him when his new bride (Catherine Wilkening) suddenly dies. Years pass: still mooning over his lost love, Novembre answers a personal advertisement. The woman who placed the ad is the living Read More
Actors: Daniel Ezralow, Omero Antonutti, Roberta Palladine
Synopsis: Davide (Daniel Ezralow) is a young psychiatrist who is tormented by his own dreams in this psychological drama. Maddalena (Beatrice Dalle) is a beautiful but disturbed mental patient who resembles a woman Davide dreamed was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft. Davide soon has Read More
Actors: Jacques Weber, Charlotte de Turckheim, François-Eric Gendron
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an astrologer matches up two people who are married to other people. Each is convinced that what they need in order to have a more fulfilling life is an extramarital affair, and they intend to take their medicine, no matter how distatsteful it proves to be. Luckly for the Read More
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Richard Berry, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu
Synopsis: It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully appreciate the film, it's best to catch Lelouch's 1966 blockbuster A Man and a Woman first. True to its word, the 1986 film brings us up to date with the protagonists of the 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: Jacques Weber, Juliet Berto, Denise Filiatrault
Synopsis: Shot in war-ravaged Beirut and Lebanon, this slightly uneven, but still very engaging and visually evocative, film is about a hardened young teen Samar (Hala Bassam) and her adjustments to life and love in a blighted city. Samar has toughened her response to death and bullets and missiles because Read More
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
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet, Bernard Fresson, Charlotte de Turckheim
Synopsis: In this clichéd, uneven, confusing melodrama about love and politics by Philippe Labro, Sacha (Nathalie Baye) is a divorced woman from the Left Bank of the Seine, out of a job because she refused to bestow sexual favors in the line of duty, and Paul (Gérard Depardieu) is a lawyer from the Right Read More
Actors: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever, Francis Huster
Synopsis: L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly autobiographical piece is set during the early war years. Laetitia Chauveau plays a twelve-year old girl whose future is determined by the events of one long summer holiday in the Read More
Actors: Jacques Weber, Mary Marquet, Anny Duperey, Claude Jade, Cécile Vassort, Nicoletta Machiavelli
Synopsis: Engaged by the family of a murdered history writer to finish the man's last book, Marc begins to unravel the mystery of the man's death while bedding most of his female relatives. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Anicée Alvina, Jacques Weber, Heinz Bennent, Franziska Bronnen
Synopsis: A young, easygoing pilot (Jacques Weber) discovers the mutual attraction between his chief pilot's wife (Anicee Alvina) and himself. The two become lovers, and are nearly discovered on several occasions. However, when the wife becomes pregnant, her husband (Heinz Bennent) has reason to believe he Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Jacques Weber, Laura Betti
Synopsis: Perrot (Fernando Rey) is a rich man. He is also a meddling, busybody art-hating wacko. It may be that he is a woman-hater as well, for he certainly causes enough trouble for the well-regarded writer, Françoise (Catherine Deneuve). Fortunately, she has resources of calmness and clairvoyance which Read More
Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Weber, Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Balmer
Synopsis: In this French film, soldiers in the Algerian war not only fight against the rebelling natives of that country, but fight an equally brutal battle among themselves. Three young army misfits are assigned to a brutal "disciplinary company" during the conflict. When the "discipline" becomes too harsh Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with the kidnappers, especially since the official (played by Yves Montand Read More
Actors: Françoise Fabian, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jane Birkin, Bulle Ogier
Synopsis: Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker (Jean-Luc Bideau) who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the Read More
Actors: Muriel Catala
Synopsis: Faustine (Muriel Catala) suffers the wounds of first love in this gentle French film. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with Read More
Actors: Maurice Ronet
Synopsis: This well-made period melodrama, set in late 19th-century France, highlights the worldly, flirtatious fashion of the day and the demands of genuine piety on the one hand and debauchery on the other. Aurore (Francoise Fabian) is a high-minded but flirtatious woman of society who charmingly refuses Read More
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