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Actors: Philippe Caubère, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard
Synopsis: This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending school in Marseilles, Marcel Julien Ciamaca daydreams about the nearby hills where he and his family spend vacations at a cottage. It is not enough to sojourn Read More
Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard, Julien Ciamaca
Synopsis: This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). Together, the episodes present a portrait of an ordinary family with an extraordinary ability to love. Set in Provencal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the film first Read More
Actors: Roger Coggio, Dorothée Blanc, Fanny Cottençon, Yvette Etievant, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: Roger Coggio wrote, directed and starred in this black comedy. The sexual frustration and social climbing of a lowly clerk from St. Petersburg leads to sensual sensory overload and insanity. He suffers from erotic hallucinations and Freudian imagery to the point that he must be institutionalized. Read More
Actors: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Serge Sauvion, Pierre Mondy, Pierre Tchernia
Synopsis: The second of a long string of animated children's films based on cartoon characters created by Rene Goscinny and Alberto Uderzo, this is an entertaining adventure featuring the intrepid Asterix. The hero is accompanied by his mutt Idefix (Francophones will love that one - "fixed idea" Read More
Actors: Alix de Konopka, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras
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Actors: Pierre Mondy, Annie Cordy, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre
Actors: Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Elizabeth Margoni, Frank David
Synopsis: Molière's play about a "bourgeois gentleman" was the basis for this cinematic interpretation of the same story, which illustrates the differences between theater performances and the silver screen. The play has interludes of music, it is performed as a ballet, and stage sets tend to remain right Read More
Actors: Roger Coggio, Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Darras, Maurice Risch, Pierre Francois Pistorio
Synopsis: A clever adaptation of Moliere's play Les Fourberies de Scapin, this cinematic re-creation was directed by Roger Coggio who also plays the lead, Scapin -- a tramp who thrives on mischief. In this version, however, Coggio interprets Scapin's antics as clever put-ons, meant to help him obtain his Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Michel Auclair, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Pierre Darras, Daniel Ceccaldi
Synopsis: In this thriller, a private detective disregards the many warnings he has been given and continues searching for a missing blind girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Darras, Dany Saval, Mylène Demongeot
Actors: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: While he is visiting his client Marcial (Victor Lanoux) in prison, leftist lawyer Duroc (Pierre Richard) is caught up in a prison riot. When Marcial takes him along during his jailbreak, Duroc is assumed by the authorities to have engineered the escape. The two of them are now both on the run. It Read More
Actors: Bernard Alane, Georges Aminel, Jean-Pierre Darras, Martine Sarcey, Jacques Balutin, Evelyne Buyle
Synopsis: La Vie Parisienne is a musical which is based on the farcical operetta by Jacques Offenbach which made the can-can famous. The story concerns two rich sons of the upper classes, who revel in the rich nightlife of Paris where they can drink, gamble, womanize and rub shoulders with all classes. Read More
Actors: Bernard Fresson, Catherine Allegret, Jean-Pierre Darras, Yves Coudray
Synopsis: A child of divorced parents, the young man in this film engineers a situation which will force his mother, whom he has forgotten, to show up. When she does, he is disappointed that she is nothing like his dreams of her. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: Jip (Julien Clerc) is a piano teacher with two girlfriends who live in entirely different worlds. One is a young, kooky lass (Miou-Miou), the other is an older, middle-class married woman (Annie Giradot). The occasional juxtaposition of these two worlds, as narrated by Jip, fuel the laughs in this Read More
Actors: Michel Bouquet, Michel Constantin, Marilù Tolo, Paul Crauchet, Michel Creton
Synopsis: Bourgeois family man Michel Bouquet inadvertently come into the possession of mobster information. The bad guys find out, and take over Bouquet's house, holding his family hostage. Bouquet is absent when this happens, but the crooks threaten to kill his loved ones if he doesn't come home and give Read More
Actors: Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Jean-Pierre Darras, Henri Garcin
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Daniel Duval, Jean-Pierre Darras, Roland Dubillard
Actors: Claude Brasseur, André Pousse, Jean-Pierre Darras, Robert Castel, Guy Marchand
Synopsis: The difficulty experienced by a softcore porn film producer, who must somehow transform an academically praised novel into an erotic thrill-fest, is the subject of this comedy. In the film, Claude Brasseur is Manuel, who confronts vain but..incapable..male stars, an inane and silly script Read More
Actors: Mireille Darc, Daniel Ceccaldi, Marie-José Nat, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Synopsis: Happy chauvinists that they are, it comes as a complete surprise to the three men of this story when their wives, egged on by the more feminist of the three, leave them. They are appalled to discover that the women seem quite happy without them. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to find Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as American films. The most recent example of this is 1996's The Birdcage, a highly profitable reworking of Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978). The director's 1973 comedy A Read More
Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More
Actors: Jean-Marc Bory, Françoise Fabian, Yasmine Dahm, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is a pubescent adolescent girl, and when her family moves into a new house, poltergeist effects begin to appear: paint cans tip over, tin soldiers disappear. Upset after being Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French Read More
Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Sim, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful employers. One is a former prostitute living with a prominent politician. Also included is a ribald bank teller and a strange man who helps out at a church for wayward boys and Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Carrière, Anna Karina, Isabelle Sadoyan, Jean-Pierre Darras, Tsila Chelton
Synopsis: Hughes (Jean-Claude Carriere), a veterinarian, contacts an agency for people who are seeking marriage. Through the agency, he meets and marries Jeanne (Anna Karina), a woman with a large house where he can use the space to care for animals. Later, he turns jealous and suspects his wife has a Read More
Actors: Claude Piéplu, Pierre Richard, Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This slapstick comedy finds a train conductor Pierre Richard unable to sleep at home due to his neighbor's rooster crowing. In an effort to silence the bird, he chases is on the top of the barn. The neighbor gives the rooster to the surprised conductor, who takes the bird on his job the next day. Read More
Actors: Jean Piat, Jacques Dufilho, Jean-Pierre Darras, Sacha Pitoeff
Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More
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