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Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurelia Petit, Jacob Auzanneau, Adélaïde Leroux
Actors: José Garcia, Vincent Cassel, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Melanie Bernier, Claude Brasseur
Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea thousands of years ago. Minor (José Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speaks in porcine grunts and lives and loves much like his Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément, Cyril Troley, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Delphine Chuillot
Synopsis: The bittersweet story at the heart of this feature begins years prior to the film's outset, when two once-in-love Swiss parents decided to adopt a Vietnamese little boy, Vinh (Quoc Dung Nguyen), as a foster child for themselves and a foster sibling for their biological children. In time, issues Read More
Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer, Christian Vadim
Synopsis: Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money, death, and false spirituality. Livia (Elsa Zylberstein) and Pointpoirot (Bernard Girardeau) are, respectively, a spoiled society woman who suffers from delusional visions Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch, Chloe Flipo, Bernadette Lafont
Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Luc Bideau, Renato Scarpa
Synopsis: Giuseppe (Paolo Villaggio) takes his blind seven-year-old granddaughter Carla (Francesca Pipoli) from Puglia to his native Geneva. Giuseppe wants to call in an old debt in order to pay for an eye operation for the girl, and the man he needs to find in order to do so is Gaston (Jean-Luc Bideau) Read More
Actors: Dominique Blanc, Roschdy Zem, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-Luc Bideau, Georges Corraface
Synopsis: Married for five years, Gerard (Patrick Catalifo) and Helene (Dominique Blanc) are at Paris' Orly South airport, where they are planning to take a flight to Buenos Aires to begin a new life in Argentina. However, at the last minute, Gerard informs Helene that he is ending their relationship, and Read More
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy Read More
Actors: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille Rousselet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Synopsis: In this bittersweet look back at the trials of growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Emilie (Magali Woch), Ines (Ingrid Molinier), Stella (Julie-Marie Parmentier), and Marion (Camille Rousselet) become friends as they share the humiliations that are a part of adolescent life -- going to Read More
Actors: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille Rousselet, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Following the international success of her first film Oblie-moi (1994) for which she was also the co-writer, Noémi Lvovsky has concentrated mostly on screenwriting until Petites, a "buddy film" for girls. Emilie, Stella, Ines and Marion come from different social backgrounds but share the same Read More
Actors: Coralie Tetard, Pierre Berriau, Marie-France Pisier
Synopsis: A financially struggling mason, his wife and their 10-year-old daughter Marion, one of six children, find themselves faced with a difficult choice when a wealthy Parisian couple asks to adopt her. This moving drama is set in a quiet Normandy village. Marion and her family are new in town and the Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charlotte Kady
Synopsis: Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently deceased fellows, Georges, a gentle chauffeur and his ruthless corporate tiger of an employer, Phillipe. Unfortunate Georges meets his demise at the hands of a gunman just as Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Melvil Poupaud, Ana Padrão, Jean-Yves Gautier
Synopsis: The seemingly unrelated scenes in this 110 minute black and white cinematic collage reflect the highly personalized vision of filmmaker Raul Ruiz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier
Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More
Actors: Evelyne Dress, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément
Synopsis: After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva (Evelyne Dress) begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows Read More
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine, Myriam Boyer
Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Read More
Actors: Clémentine Célarié, Jean-Luc Bideau, Cleo Kretschmer
Actors: Philippe Khorsand, Stéphane Audran, Veronique Moest, Kate Johnson
Synopsis: In this routine sex comedy, Jean Chabert (Philippe Khorsand) is the newspaper editor called on to revive the fortunes of a magazine featuring nude women. He is continually distracted by sex-starved secretaries, erotically excited readers, and marital trouble. Jean's dream job soon turns onto a Read More
Actors: Lea Massari, Erland Josephson, Jean-Luc Bideau, Marisa Mantovani, Consuelo Ferrara
Synopsis: Virginia (Lea Massati) is shocked to learn her 25-year marriage to Maurizio (Erland Josephson) is plagued by his philandering betrayal in this distaff tear-jerking drama. She finds solace in her two daughters and Silvano (Jean-Luc Consuelo), her longtime admirer, a cellist in the local symphony. Read More
Actors: Charles Vanel, Denise Grey, Jacqueline Maillan, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in the French sex comedy. Company executives and family members scramble for position in the wake of the surprising announcement. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide 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: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jeanne Marine, Laurent Gamelon, Fabrice Luchini, Féodor Atkine
Synopsis: In order to cover up the multiple murders they have committed, a gang of killers tries to convince police that a serial killer is on the loose. Victims are found with their ears lopped off and stuffed in their mouths. Criminal psychologist Jean-Paul Blido (Jean-Luc Bideau) is summoned by the Read More
Actors: Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean-Luc Bideau, Hermine Claire
Synopsis: Inspecteur Lavardin is a mellow, take-your-time Claude Chabrol effort of the 1980s, partly financed by French television. Jean Poiret had previously played the role of Inspector Jean Lavardin in the 1984 Chabrol film Poulet au Vinaigre (aka Cop au Vin). This story is built completely around the Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Michele Brousse, Jean-Noel Broute, Caroline Apperre, Denise Peron
Synopsis: This comedy-drama by first-time director and scripter Jean-Luc Trotignant details the exploits of a crass, low-life family. Achille Pinglard (Jean-Luc Bideau) is a factory foreman and his wife Ginette (Michele Brousse) works in a porno theater. Together, they are driving their daughter up the Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Dauphin, Nathalie Nell, Marianne Basler, Jean-Luc Bideau, Beatrice Houplain
Synopsis: In a routine sex farce, Gautier (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a man determined to figure out how to give a woman an orgasm -- which of course requires a lot of practice and experimentation. His buddy Roussel (Jean-Luc Bideau) also chases after women but does not share Gautier's unique quest. Rose (Nathalie Nell Read More
Actors: Micheline Presle, Véronique Silver, Jean-Luc Bideau, Francois Frapier
Synopsis: Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum to rape their mother, and then all three men go after the promiscuous woman who lives next door. When it is revealed that the homeless man is none other than the father of Read More
Actors: Diane Bellego, Fabrice Luchini, Ronny Coutteure
Synopsis: The interwoven love stories in Et La Tendresse?... Bordel! No 2 contrast three different ways of being together in modern French life. Carole is the mistress of Francois, a man who not only has a wife and children, but who makes a habit of having sexual liaisons with women besides his mistress and Read More
Actors: Monica Vitti, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: This is an off-beat story about a ménage à trois that is really a marriage between the traditional two, with one a little schizoid, adding up to three. Laura (Monica Vitti) has been married for 22 years to Giovanni (Jean Luc Bideau) and now his behavior seems to imply that she has a competitor Read More
Actors: Christian Clavier, Charles Denner, Rosy Varte, Patricia Fauron, Michel Boujenah
Synopsis: With comedy sequences that wobble between parody and sentiment, director Marc-Andre Grynbaum has attempted to present the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group ("Rock and Torah") and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once Read More
Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marion Peterson, Jacques Dutronc, Dominique Lavanant, Jacqueline Maillan
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official whose earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any Read More
Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laszlo Szabo
Synopsis: Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez Read More
Actors: Erik Colin, Bee Michelin, Chantal Neuwirth, Jean-Luc Bideau, Alain Flick
Synopsis: Elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream are mixed with a few doses of Bell, Book and Candle in the French Rendez-Moi Ma Peau. A contemporary witch decides to switch the personalities of two wildly divergent mortals. The comic complications involve the "uptight" character's attempts to Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani, Lauren Hutton, Alain Souchon, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Yves Montand is Victor Valance, a long-lost father who has come home to his brood of daughters and his mother in order to weazel some money out of them to front a gambling casino. Unable to tell them the real reason he wants the money, he just says it is for a country house for them - though his Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Christine Murillo, Tonie Marshall, Michel Galabru
Synopsis: Spiced with French humor and insouciance, this otherwise routine comedy is carried by the acting talents of Jean-Luc Bideau as Jean-Luc and Jean-Pierre Sentier as Mathieu. Jean-Luc is a wood carver of decorative, functional works that keep baguettes on the table while he longs to write his first Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Kabir Bedi, Rex Harrison
Synopsis: Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from Evano, a novel by Alberto Vasques-Figueroa. Odious middle-eastern slave trader Peter Ustinov sets the plot in motion by kidnapping Beverly Johnson, the wife of World Health Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernard Giraudeau, Evelyne Dress, Anne-Marie Philipe
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Birkin, Jean-Luc Bideau, François Beukelaers
Synopsis: Olga (Jane Birkin) is a bored housewife who is frequently left alone by her husband as he attends to business ventures on the road. She offers herself to Pierre (Jean-Louis Trintignant), but her husband's friend spurns her advances. Olga then makes herself available to Claude (Jean-Luc Bidneau) Read More
Actors: Anicée Alvina, Jean-Luc Bideau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Brosset, Laszlo Szabo
Synopsis: Working people put the factory owners of the world on notice when they rebelled in France following that country's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Together, they created something called The Paris Commune, a revolutionary government which held sway for 73 days until the French military Read More
Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell
Synopsis: The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges Clouzot's French suspense classic The Wages of Fear (1953). Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou play four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to Read More
Actors: Melane Brevan, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Henri Garcin, Gilles Bony
Synopsis: In the wake of a heart-wrenching divorce, a young mother turns to her adoring lesbian friend for comfort. They have a brief relationship, but she is unable to face her own probable lesbianism, and soon retreats to the safety of a conventional marriage. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charles Vanel
Synopsis: After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin. ~ Clarke Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Labourier, Myriam Mezieres, Rufus, Roger Jendly
Synopsis: The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this film, eight people in their late tweties and early thirties try to keep the radical flames Read More
Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michel Constantin, Michel Lonsdale
Synopsis: When a young Englishwoman (Mimsy Farmer) crosses the paths of an annual hunting party, two of the hunters rape and try to kill her. She manages to shoot one of them and escape. The rest of them decide to hunt her down. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jane Birkin, Richard Leduc, Georges Mansart, Michel Lonsdale, Roland Dubillard
Synopsis: In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant 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: Jean-Luc Bideau, Danièle Delorme, Adriana Bogdan, Roger Coggio
Synopsis: The line between fantasy and reality is once more blurred in this Belgian/French drama about a professor of literature who develops an obsession with a beautiful woman he meets (or imagines meeting) in the woods. He has an affair with this woman, but before he can run off with her, his daughter Read More
Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is perhaps one of the best films to come out of Switzerland. The acting is effortless, the dialogue flows, and the story revolves around an office party thrown by an office drudge whom, to the surprise of his co-workers, invites them to an Read More
Actors: Jacques Higelin
Synopsis: In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Francine Racette
Synopsis: When the announcer (Jean-Luc Bideau) on a radio show that caters to lonely women meets a beautiful girl (Francine Racette), he is quite naturally gratified when she wants to make love with him. They even become lovers. However, when she insults the poor women who appear on his show, especially one Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Micheline Lanctôt, Lou Castel, Catherline Laborde
Synopsis: Unhinged by the murder of his wife by a madman dressed as a cowboy, Alexis (Jean-Luc Bideau) hops into his car and lays himself wide open for a number of adventures; some of them are heavenly, but most of them are harrowing in the extreme. Along the way he meets a suicidal emigre (Micheline Lanctot Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Etienne Bierry
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: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More
Synopsis: This black-and-white Swiss feature whimsically recaptures elements of the "theater of the absurd" of Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and so on. One of the hallmarks of Theater of the Absurd is that outrageous situations are endured by characters in a completely serious, deadpan Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marie Laforêt, Titoyo, Jean-Marie Proslier
Synopsis: In the children's film Le Petit Poucet, a small young man outwits a powerful cannibalistic giant and not only saves his life, but wins the hand of a princess. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Kalina Sem
Synopsis: Phillippe, a high-strung and extremely inhibited French department-store manager, vents his sexual repression by treating his employees horribly. When he falls in love with a beautiful American cellist, he is unable to reveal his feelings to her and begins to furtively watch her every move. Sadly Read More
Synopsis: This Swiss-made film closely examines the character of a non-conformist, a subject of unending interest to the reputedly highly conformist Swiss. A TV journalist reads of a lawsuit, dropped for lack of evidence, in which a girl is accused of deliberately shooting (and wounding) her uncle. For some Read More
Actors: Harriett Ariel, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis
Synopsis: This unusual satire finds a taxi driver and a passenger believing they have met before and know each other from somewhere. When the passenger's weekend mistress joins the two men, she falls for the cab driver. The cab drover's former girlfriend ends up falling for his partner who drives the Read More
Actors: François Simon, Andre Schmidt
Synopsis: Charles (Francois Simon) is a middle aged business man who runs an inherited company. On the anniversary of his company's founding, he finds himself suffering from depression and wishes more could be done for the workers. After he expresses his views to a television reporter, Charles leaveshome Read More
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