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Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Catherine Frot, Grégori Derangère, Laura Smet, François Berléand, Mathilde Seigner
Synopsis: A woman finds a new and unexpected romance with a younger man in this romantic drama set in France in 1950. Monique (Catherine Frot) is a woman in her late forties who has been left to run the family farm after her ne'er do well husband abandoned her during the war. Monique does nearly all the Read More
Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Julie Depardieu, Marie Guillard, Anne Marivin, Odile Vuillemin
Actors: Charlotte de Turckheim, Patrick Chesnais, Elisa Tovati, Antoine Dulery, Jean-Noel Broute
Synopsis: Lies, betrayal, lust, and ennui are just a few of the themes at work in this knowing and urbane dissection of modern love and relationships, which follows the romantic pursuits of four disparate couples. Gabrielle is a shy but attractive librarian who falls for Remy, a seductive rake. Vanessa is a Read More
Actors: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Moussa Théophile Sowie, Maka Kotto
Synopsis: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa, and when the Belgian Congo was granted independent (and was later renamed Zaire), Lumumba was the new nation's first prime minister. However, Lumumba's dream of freedom and dignity for the people of the Congo made him a Read More
Actors: Isabelle Gélinas, Serge Hazanavicius, Agnes Soral, Veronique Boulanger, Gad Elmaleh
Synopsis: A handful of Parisians leave the city behind and head for the beach, with a variety of romantic predicaments following in their wake in this light comedy. Philippe (Serge Hazanavicius) takes his wife and children on a vacation by the sea; however, his lively (and younger) mistress Camille Read More
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso
Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More
Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Yvan Attal, Dominique Besnehard, Hélène de Fougerolles
Synopsis: Two teachers find themselves at odds in this drama from France. Hippolyte (Yvan Attal) and Alexandre (Jean-Hugues Anglade) have been friends since childhood; now they're both instructors and assistant principals at the same high school. They're both dedicated to making education exciting and fun Read More
Actors: Philippe Volter, Boris Terral, Gamil Ratib, Sonia Mankai, Marie-José Nat
Synopsis: A conflict of cultures adds an unusual twist to La Nuit du Destin/Night Of Destiny, a suspense thriller from France. Mr. Slimami (Gamil Ratib) is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one evening. He's spotted by the assailant, but Slimami manages to slip Read More
Actors: Pierre Arditi, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Jacob, Jean-Louis Richard
Synopsis: This French family fantasy follows in the footsteps of the fine and funny Big (1988). Solemn French schoolteacher Albert Crastaing (Jean-Louis Richard) punishes a trio of 12-year-olds by having them write a Kafkaesque essay with a body-switching premise, cueing the film's storyline of kids Read More
Crew: Songwriter
Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yvan Attal, Anne Roussel, Aïssa Maïga
Synopsis: A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborhood in Paris. The corpses of the two masked Malian women were discovered ritually mutilated and hanging from a ceiling. The detectives' search leads Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Fanny Ardant, Béatrice Dalle, Claude Rich
Synopsis: Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne. Set in Paris before the dawn of the Jazz Age and centers on the exploits of sexy, womanizing butler Désiré after he begins working for former actress and current mistress of Read More
Synopsis: This entry in the British Film Institute-sponsored international centenary celebration of cinema -- in which noted directors make a film that exemplifies their country or region's cinematic history -- represents continental Africa. Unlike many other series filmmakers, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, a native Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
Synopsis: Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives Read More
Actors: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne
Synopsis: In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in 1832. After the fall of Napoleon, Austria is swooping down on Italy to take control of the nation, and like many patriots, Pardi is hoping to escape to France and fight for Read More
Actors: Paule Thevenin, Henri Thomas, Marthe Robert, Anie Besnard, Rolande Prevel
Synopsis: This three hour long French documentary chronicles the life and personality of famed French poet, actor and intellectual Antonin Artaud who passed away in 1948 when he was only 50-years old. His last two years were characterized by his insanity, and terrible pain. Though a famed actor and poet Read More
Actors: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jezequel, Valerie Jeannet
Synopsis: This French film offers a powerful fictionalized account of renowned French poet, actor, and intellectual Antonin Artaud who in life walked a fine, often blurred line between genius and insanity. It is told from the viewpoint of Artaud's intimate friend, student, and pusher, the poet Jacques Read More
Actors: Marco Hofschneider, Robin Givens, Rick Johnson, Charlotte Ross, Edward Herrmann
Synopsis: A French boy goes to Virginia and finds love with an intelligent black girl in this nostalgic French drama set in 1955, and based on the popular 1986 novel by Philippe Labro. The movie was filmed in both Paris and Virginia. The film contains many references to blues and jazz, Faulkner, Chandler Read More
Actors: Ann-Margret, Dominique Sanda, Jay O. Sanders
Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars in the made-for-cable movie Nobody's Children, filmed on-location in Bucharest, Romania, and based on a true story. Ann-Margret and Jay O. Sanders star as the real-life Carol and Joe Stevens, a married couple from Detroit who are unable to conceive a child of their own. They Read More
Actors: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn, Milo O'Shea, Alan Devlin
Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish romance, taking place in a small Irish village in 1957, just before the first television set makes an appearance in this conservative hamlet. There is a scandal in the village concerning the beautiful and independent Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) Read More
Actors: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field
Synopsis: Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly Read More
Actors: Aleksander Bardini, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ute Lemper, Jan Peszek, Wojciech Pszoniak, André Wilms
Synopsis: In the late-18th century, it was unusual for anyone to become a master craftsman before the age of twenty, much less a master clockmaker. In this story, eighteen-year-old master clockmaker Max Bardo (Jonathan Zaccai) has come to the attention of a wealthy aristocratic inventor, who has hired him Read More
Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Caroline Cellier, Christian Pereira, Annie Gregorio
Synopsis: In his work as a notary, Hippolyte has registered prenuptial agreements entrusted to him by hopeful young couples and divorce settlements by unhappy older couples. He has often seen the spark of romance wither and die among his clients and the people in his life, and he is determined not to allow Read More
Actors: Fabienne Babe, Dexter Fletcher, Uwe Ochsenknecht
Synopsis: Angelo (Dexter Fletcher) and two of his buddies set out to rob a Swiss bank, and from the start things don't go well. The man driving the getaway car packed up and left before anyone could connect him with the crime, and Angelo's other partner got shot and killed. The best he can do is grab Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Florence Darel, Michel Galabru
Synopsis: Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a middle-class family man who agrees to shelter many of those who've lost their homes. The polyglot of political beliefs held by these new tenants sows the seeds of discontent. 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: Annie Girardot, Yan Epstein, Claude Evrard
Actors: Navin Chowdhry, Nouredine Kasbaoui
Synopsis: In this fairy tale, Hassan is a young man who occupies himself with the study of ancient manuscripts, the better to improve his calligraphy. One day he runs across a portion of an old text which convinces him that it holds the secrets to love. With the help of an impudent young boy and the boy's Read More
Actors: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall
Synopsis: Richard Lester returned to his double-barreled successes of the 1970s, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, with Return of the Musketeers, a film that was inexplicably shelved for several years, making its belated premiere on cable television. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Read More
Actors: Thomas Langmann, Kristin Scott Thomas, Danielle Darrieux, Patrick Raynal, Michel Albertini
Synopsis: Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little drama tells the story of Virgile (Thomas Langmann), a sixteen-year old boy who has grown tired of being a virgin, and decides to seduce Carla (Kristin Scott-Thomas), an older woman. Rather to his Read More
Actors: Jacques Higelin, Daniel Martin, Elodie Gautier, Sylvie Granotier, René Feret
Synopsis: This is a remake of the 1982 film Savannah Smiles. Colin (Jacques Higelen) and Mailland (Daniel Martin) are small-time crooks on the run who are surprised to find the seven-year-old runaway Savannah (Elodie Gautier) is along for the ride. The police and her parents fear she has been kidnapped, and Read More
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Maruschka Detmers, Michelle Goddet, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, François Cluzet, Wojciech Pszoniak
Synopsis: The "two" of the title are concert promoter Gerard Depardieu and real estate agent Marushka Detmers. Thrown together by chance and indirection, Depardieu and Detmars begin a romance. Claude Zidi directs Deux with the same breezy aplomb he has applied on his earlier wacky comedies. Zidi also Read More
Actors: Marlène Jobert, Patrick Chesnais, Claude Rich
Synopsis: In this light French comedy, Marie and Jerome (Marlene Jobert) and Patrick Chesnais) are a middle aged couple desperate to have a child. They have tried to deal with the official adoption agencies, but the bureaucracies are so hidebound that they'll likely reach their dotage before a child becomes Read More
Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jean Yanne, Martin Lamotte, Marie Laforêt, Charlotte Valandrey
Synopsis: Ferdinand (Thierry Lhermitte) is a 30-year-old blind virgin who hopes to have sex in this black comedy. He lives in a religious institution and is not beyond making passes at nuns. When the asylum is bombed, Ferdinand escapes and hooks up with Binet (Jean Yanne), a killer being tracked by the Read More
Actors: Roland Giraud, Fanny Cottençon, Marianne Basler, Fiona Gelin, Martin Lamotte
Synopsis: Sam (Roland Giraud) enjoys his romantic rendezvous with his ex-wife Vanessa (Fanny Cortencon) and others in this routine sex farce. He lives with up-and-coming actress Elodie (Fiona Gelin), but quickly falls for pretty female physician Joanna (Marianne Basler). Sam soon is globe-trotting after the Read More
Actors: Caroline Cellier, Bernard Giraudeau, Olivia Brunaux, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
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: Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna
Synopsis: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when Read More
Actors: Francis Perrin, Zabou, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Lonsdale
Synopsis: "Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter. For the purposes of the plot (it can't possibly be in the interests of proper child psychology), Billy is a make-believe serial killer! Shortly afterwards, three young girls Read More
Actors: Andrzej Zulawski, Charlotte Rampling, Myriem Roussel, Jean-Claude Adelin, Isabelle Sadoyan, Béatrice Agenin
Synopsis: In this cool, clinical adaptation of the novel about love and death by Yasunari Kawabata, Hugo (Andrzej Zulawski) is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea (Charlotte Rampling), a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle Read More
Actors: Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Michel Boujenah, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier
Synopsis: There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. The series of 11 vignettes vary in length, in hilarity, in quality, and in content. In the segment on the changing culture of Paris, a French housewife has adapted to her neighborhood Read More
Actors: Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Farid Chopel, Fabrice Eberhard
Synopsis: This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to get blamed for everything. Spotting a gorgeous female shoplifter (Victoria Abril) in trouble, Bruno decides to help her and gets arrested in her place. While lamenting his Read More
Actors: François Cluzet, Robin Renucci, Elizabeth Bourgine, Jean-Yves Dubois, Yves Robert
Synopsis: In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the wistful, and the sometimes ludicrous events that spin off from the Communist/anarchist upbringing of his main character, Maurice Decques (François Cluzet). Maurice's tendency Read More
Actors: Cyrielle Claire, Anton Diffring, Serge Merlin, Christopher Mitchum, Michel Peyrelon
Synopsis: Perhaps meant as an experimental film with a dash of politics and two shakes of comedy, this ultimately unpalatable mix by noted director Alexandro Jodorowsky might have had too many cooks. Three people are cited as having had a hand in the story, written and rewritten three times. The tale itself Read More
Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermit, Yul Brynner, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier
Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More
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