|
Director
|
2010
|
An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller...
|
|
2008
|
Mr. Bean -- the stick-legged goofball man-child created by Rowan Atkinson on television in the early '90s, and in the 1997...
|
Maître D'
|
2007
|
Writer/director Samuel Benchetrit takes the helm for this laid-back crime comedy that weaves together four stories which all...
|
|
2007
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
2005
|
Two warring caveman tribes find their 800 year feud coming to a head in this French comedy featuring Gerard Depardieu and...
|
|
2004
|
Two men from two different walks of life develop an unexpected friendship in French director Patrice Leconte's 2002...
|
Manesquier
|
2003
|
|
|
2003
|
|
|
|
2003
|
|
|
|
2003
|
A young woman bent on revenge becomes a legendary thief in the vein of Robin Hood in director Bernie Bonvoisin's 2002 comic...
|
Cardinal Mazarin
|
2002
|
While there are plenty of stories about gay men who have pretended to be straight for the sake of their careers, this tart...
|
|
2001
|
A guy finds himself living most men's fantasy, only to learn it isn't as much fun as he imagined in this offbeat Italian...
|
Cri-Cri
|
2001
|
Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this gorgeously photographed French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch...
|
Nicolaes Tulp
|
1999
|
Argentine director Alejando Agresti directed this surreal, allegorical Argentine-French-Dutch- Spanish comedy-drama. Winner...
|
Edgar Wexley
|
1998
|
Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond (Depardieu)...
|
|
1998
|
The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers...
|
|
1998
|
|
|
Clement
|
1997
|
When young banker Thomas Murray's marriage to the blue-blooded Amanda falls apart, he begins working with his father-in-law...
|
Gerard Panier
|
1996
|
|
Marquis de Bellegarde
|
1996
|
Three old French jamons attempt to make a comeback by working in a road-show production of Scoubidou in this hilarious French...
|
Eddie Carpentier
|
1996
|
|
|
|
1995
|
|
|
|
1994
|
In this Italian comedy, eight lifelong friends attending their annual dinner party/reunion must re-evaluate their lives...
|
|
1994
|
This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect...
|
|
1994
|
Victor Meynard (Jean Rochefort) is an assassin for hire, and he's proud of it. It's part of his family's business. However,...
|
Victor Meynard
|
1993
|
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio (Jean Rochefort) that things only have relative validity, and that everything is...
|
Amedeo
|
1993
|
If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic...
|
|
1993
|
It is not necessary to know that this story is based on a true incident in order to enjoy it; in real life, a man landed in a...
|
Arturo
|
1993
|
In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
|
Henri Sauveur
|
1992
|
In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the...
|
Jordi Casals
|
1992
|
|
|
|
1991
|
This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While...
|
|
1990
|
Erotic, funny, and very French, this film relies heavily on the critically-acclaimed performance of Jean Rochefort. As a...
|
Antoine
|
1990
|
|
|
Monsieur Breaud
|
1989
|
|
|
Duke
|
1987
|
A fading television personality and radio quiz-show host is shielded by his right-hand man from learning his show has been...
|
Mortez
|
1987
|
Duroc (Jean Rochefort) is a secret agent called on to deliver an exploding car to a gang of terrorists in this spy spoof....
|
Duroc
|
1987
|
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris...
|
Arnold III
|
1986
|
|
|
|
1986
|
In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings...
|
Lajos Acsi
|
1985
|
Yet another incarnation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein, this uneven spoof by Alain Jessua casts Victor Frankenstein as a...
|
Victor Frankenstein
|
1984
|
In this plodding drama about a man searching for his friend's wronged lover, there is neither high action nor high suspense...
|
|
1983
|
This sometimes confusing yet predictable thriller is about two policemen who bust a heroin deal and, after dumping the white...
|
Rupert
|
1983
|
Alain Tescique (Jean Rochefort) is in Paris on a brief vacation from his job on a North Sea oil rig, and while he is playing...
|
Alain Tescique
|
1982
|
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and...
|
Rossi
|
1982
|
Birgitt Haas (Lisa Kreuzer) has become the target of the German Secret Service -- she is a German terrorist and the Secret...
|
Bauman
|
1981
|
Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, I Sent a Letter to My Love stars Simone Signoret as a woman who has reached middle age...
|
Gilles
|
1981
|
In this routine, somewhat disconnected story, Louis Alban (Jean Rochefort) has been divorced from his wife for awhile when a...
|
Louis Alban
|
1981
|
A father-daughter relationship is melded, strained, and deepened by a shared angst: the grandmother in the family left her...
|
Pierre
|
1981
|
A gang of thieves begin using a highly-detailed book of crime fiction as a blueprint for their own capers. ~ Jason Ankeny,...
|
Donald Rose
|
1980
|
Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of...
|
Martin Belhomme
|
1979
|
|
|
|
1979
|
A "critic's darling" of 1979, the modestly produced French Postcards has an appeal that goes beyond the wine and cheese...
|
|
1979
|
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people...
|
Edouard Choiseul
|
1979
|
Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is...
|
|
1978
|
|
|
Captain
|
1977
|
This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a...
|
Etienne
|
1977
|
After serving faithfully for over 10 years, the mid-level executive in this film has received notice that he is being fired...
|
Brissot
|
1977
|
When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon...
|
Etienne
|
1976
|
|
|
Albert
|
1976
|
|
|
|
1975
|
In this crime drama, a philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. It all goes...
|
Legal
|
1975
|
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him...
|
Morin
|
1975
|
Isabelle (Anicee Alvina) seems unable to sustain any kind of relationship in this sexual drama. Perhaps this is due to her...
|
Vaudois
|
1975
|
The feature debut of prominent French director Patrice Leconte is a spoof of the detective genre, done in absurdist, deadpan...
|
Inspector Richard
|
1975
|
The second of director Bernard Tavernier's first three critically acclaimed films, this historical costume drama was the...
|
Dubois
|
1975
|
One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a...
|
Mr. Legendre
|
1974
|
|
|
Toulouse
|
1974
|
In this broad French satire, a thoroughly unappealing salesman manages not only to sell his wares, but succeeds in forging...
|
Fosnard
|
1974
|
|
Commissioner Guiboud
|
1974
|
Frustrated desire motivates the Sicilian newlyweds in this improbable sex comedy when they are discovered to be brother and...
|
|
1974
|
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as an aging actor whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life,...
|
Clement
|
1973
|
Le Complot is based on a true spy story of double-, triple- and quadruple-cross. The plot is galvanized by Charles DeGaulle's...
|
Officer
|
1973
|
Murder, industrial espionage, political intrigue and Jean-Paul Belmondo are the strengths of this French thriller. Cordell...
|
Berthier
|
1973
|
In this French psychological drama, the tensions of show business parallel and increase the tensions on a married couple,...
|
Inspector
|
1973
|
This 1973 Italian production (remade by Simon Nuchtern for an American release two years later) is a buddy film with a...
|
Louis Annunziata
|
1973
|
In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to...
|
Toulouse
|
1972
|
This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her...
|
Alexandre
|
1972
|
The Egg is "the system," and Magis (Guy Bedos) wants to be a part of it, somehow. He works in a stuffy store and, out of...
|
|
1972
|
Celeste (Debora Duarte) is the maid from Portugal working in France and is politically involved in a Marxist-Leninist group...
|
Monsieur
|
1970
|
A young man leaves home when he finds the marriage of his mutually adulterous parents to be hypocritical in this romantic...
|
Moss
|
1970
|
Max (Bruno Cremer) cares for a mystery girl (Anna Karina) when she falls off her horse in a riding mishap. A film cannister...
|
Herve
|
1970
|
An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs...
|
Georges
|
1969
|
A trio of French actors head to Rio in hopes of making decisions about their future. Instead, they end up contending with...
|
|
1968
|
This light comedy finds an inept reporter keeping his job only because his uncle owns the paper he works for. He is assigned...
|
Rene
|
1967
|
|
|
|
1967
|
Too old to be a gamine yet not old enough for matronhood, Brigitte Bardot is the ideally cast leading lady of...
|
Philippe
|
1967
|
|
|
Leon
|
1965
|
|
|
Lawyer
|
1965
|
Michelle Mercier continues in her role as Angelique, the beautiful woman in the court of King Louis XIV. She beds down...
|
Desgres
|
1965
|
Polly Dorothy MacGowan is a model who tells about her experiences when she is interviewed by a television crew in this...
|
Gregoire
|
1965
|
Angelique (Michele Mercier), the beautiful daughter of a once-wealthy nobleman, is married off to their rich neighbor Joffray...
|
Lawyer
|
1964
|
|
|
Laforet
|
1964
|
|
|
|
1964
|
|
|
|
1963
|
Trouble begins when five Frenchmen pool their money in an attempt to pull off a huge drug deal. One intercepts the money and...
|
Jabeke
|
1963
|
The experiences of young school boys are illustrated in this lighthearted film in which a song precedes each story. One boy...
|
Father
|
1963
|
An aging musketeer is called out of retirement to help a king in this comic swashbuckler. The king's twin brother is freed...
|
Lastreaumont
|
1962
|
Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from...
|
La Taupe
|
1962
|
Based on a novel by Theophile Gautier, this costume drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit is set in 17th-century France and centers...
|
|
1961
|
A French video crew trek across some scenic spots in the USSR in this routine combination travelogue-drama. Good documentary...
|
Pernand
|
1961
|
|
|
|
1960
|