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2010
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Inspired by director Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist classic Umberto D., Francis Huster's sentimental drama stars...
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2009
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2007
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When a retired police officer is forcefully checked into a senior citizen's home, a fatal accident involving one of the...
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2007
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A cross-dressing man allows himself to be used as bait to trap a killer in this crime-drama. Bo Ancelin (Robinson Stevenin)...
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2004
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Mme. Saltim
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2004
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The comedy Chouchou has a cross-dressing gay immigrant as a main character. Chouchou (Gad Elmaleh) arrives illegally in...
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2003
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2003
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2001
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Can a man find true love with a woman who could easily do a lot better? Octave (Patrick Chesnais) would seem to fit most...
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2001
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2001
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A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of...
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2000
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In this screwball comedy from France, Olivier Broche plays Daniel, a dim-witted tollbooth attendant in the French countryside...
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Madame Dubose
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1999
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Inspired by true events that occurred in France in the mid-'90s, this French-language feature explores the relationship...
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1999
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In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically...
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1996
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A comically accented historical drama with culinary appeal, this film introduces us to Pascal Ichac (Pierre Richard), a...
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Princess Cecilia Abachidze
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1996
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On the way to his wedding, Bernard (Gerar Jugnot) experiences car trouble. What could be more natural than to stop at the...
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1996
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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1995
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This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old...
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1995
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A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime...
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1994
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Gisele
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1994
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No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in...
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Luce
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1993
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Alexandre (Vincent Perez) has been through the cycle of seeing the initial passion in romantic encounters burn off and having...
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Maude
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1993
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1991
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This documentary explores the mystery of an inexplicable episode in the life of the otherwise highly esteemed Austrian film...
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1991
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1990
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In this romantic comedy, Paul (Simon de la Brosse), a good-looking gym teacher, falls hopelessly in love with Isabelle...
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The neighbour
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1990
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1990
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Isabelle Gauthier
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1989
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Mireille, Thomas' mother
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1989
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Lady with jewels
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1989
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1988
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This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the...
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Jacqueline
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1986
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Les Fausses Confidences is a commedia dell'arte written in 1735 by the French playwright Pierre de Carlet Chamblain de...
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Mme Argante
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1984
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Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by...
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1984
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Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum...
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1984
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Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and...
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1983
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Françoise Canavaggia (Danielle Darrieux) heads back to Toulon in 1963 with murderous plans for the people who now inhabit the...
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1983
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1982
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1980
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1980
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Spiced with French humor and insouciance, this otherwise routine comedy is carried by the acting talents of Jean-Luc Bideau...
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1980
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Francois (Pierre Mondy) battles a mid-life crisis by becoming a bank robber in this tepid drama. He meets the young actress...
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Rose
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1980
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Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette refers to a French children's game, where two children hold one another's chins...
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1979
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Unknown to him, a journalist's girlfriend has been known to harbor terrorists sought by the police. He is a reporter for a...
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1978
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Agnes (Marlene Jobert) is in her 30s, and has been married to her womanizing and callous husband long enough to have a young...
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Vava
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1977
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After serving faithfully for over 10 years, the mid-level executive in this film has received notice that he is being fired...
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Wife
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1977
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Chafing under her suppressive parents, Nea begins keeping a secret diary, recording her innermost erotic yearnings. When...
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Mother
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1976
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A child of divorced parents, the young man in this film engineers a situation which will force his mother, whom he has...
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1976
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A Trompe L'Oeil is something which fools the eye, a harmless illusion, something which clearly cannot be what it appears to...
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Anne's Mother
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1975
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The Grand Magic Circus, which performed on streets and in theaters in the 1970s, here takes to film. The story told concerns...
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The Star
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1975
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1974
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This French comedy journeys with Armand (Jean-Claude Brialy), a valet, as he tries to find an appropriate employer for his...
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Wife
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1973
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Director Jacques Demy's propensity for making a workable comedy out of the least likely material is once more put to the test...
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Doctor
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1973
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Imagine, for a moment, that a town in the American Old West was founded by and for French people, and that two of the sexiest...
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1971
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Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count...
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Mother
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1970
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Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey...
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1970
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An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in early childhood searches to...
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Storekeeper
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1970
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The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been...
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Mme. Eglantine
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1966
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This critically acclaimed moral drama is taken from a book written in 1760 by Denis Diderot. Suzanne (Anna Karina) is an...
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Mme. de Moni
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1966
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In this crime drama, an American fugitive in France is pursued by two thugs for two different reasons. One of the pursuers...
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Daisy
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1965
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In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is...
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1964
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An Italian count is willing to do almost anything to win the hand of a beautiful woman in this drama. The trouble begins...
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Monique Bouvier
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1964
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Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their...
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Dr. Denise Marceau
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1963
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In an uncharacteristic moment of distraction ("explained" by the episode's title), Saunders (Vic Morrow) is captured by the...
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1963
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This French/Italian historical spectacle was released in the US as Imperial Venus. Gina Lollobridgida, in her considerable...
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Josephine
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1962
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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1962
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1962
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This lightweight, nearly zero-gravity comedy by director Henry Levin relies on a novel by a male writer and a script by...
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Maman Stacey
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1962
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In this amusing look at the petty deceits of everyday life, Marcello Mastroianni shines as wealthy antique dealer Nello...
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Adalgisa de Matteis
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1961
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Madeleine
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1961
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Teetering on the one-dimensional, this romantic drama about the coming of age of a nineteen-year-old American woman in Paris...
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Michele
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1961
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A rather leaden police story by director Charles Gerard (who refocused on acting after 1966), La Loi des Hommes is...
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Sophie
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1961
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In this film based on an earlier German silent serial, a Swedish scientist (Gino Cervi) has invented a device which can alter...
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1960
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This is another standard romantic drama geared toward the talents of popular French actor Jean Gabin who plays the lead, a...
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Perle
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1960
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Paule
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1959
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Coming across like a stage play, which it originally was, this conventional comedy-drama focuses on the title character,...
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Regine
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1959
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Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty...
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Jacqueline Cousteau
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1959
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Lena
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1958
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Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced...
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Helene
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1958
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1957
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When a woman is found murdered, her lover is accused in this crime comedy. (AKA The Assassin) ~ Rovi...
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1957
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1957
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More a slice-of-life film than anything else, Vittorio De Sica simply examines the patrons of the Villa Borghese parks for a...
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1956
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1956
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In this frothy romantic comedy, the lovely Brigitte Bardot plays Chouchou, a successful model. Chouchou is single but hoping...
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Judith
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1956
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all...
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1954
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Marie
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1954
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Villa Borghese is Grand Hotel with trees and shrubbery. Set in the famed Roman city park of Villa Borghese, the film offers...
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1954
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The French Les Impures was one of a cycle of filmed "exposes" of the white slavery trade. The heroine, played by...
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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Mme. du Pompadour
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1954
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Marguerite Gauthier/Camille
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1953
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La Taverne de N.O. is the French title for the Franco-American costume drama Adventures of Captain Fabian. As sea captain...
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Lea Marriotte
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1951
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The year is 1942. Ensign Chuck Palmer (Tyrone Power) is stranded in the Japanese-occupied Philippines after his ship is...
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Jeanne Martinez
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1950
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Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler...
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Paule Manet
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1950
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The astoundingly prolific French filmmaker Jean Boyer turned out only one film in 1948. Tous les Chemins Menent a Rome stars...
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Laura
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1949
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This French version of The Last Days of Pompeii was shots on standing sets left over from the epic historical drama Fabiola....
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Helene
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1948
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Released in the US as The Chips are Down, Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont Faits represented the first work written directly for...
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Eve Charlier
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1947
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Marthe Grangier
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1947
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This French morality play is fraught with cynical undertones as it tells the tale of a group of French people from every...
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Boule de Suif
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1945
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The French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara...
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Clara Biondi
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1943
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1943
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Originally titled La Nuit Fantastique, this French romantic farce was filmed in 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Little did...
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The girl
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Released in France in 1941 as Histoire de Rire, Foolish Husbands made its American debut in 1948. It all begins when Adelaide...
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Adelaide Barbier
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1941
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1941
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1940
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The English-language title of this stagebound French drama is They Were Twelve Women. The eponymous leading ladies run the...
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1940
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Originally released in 1939 as Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost), Abel Gance's Four Flights to Love is typical of the great...
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1940
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1940
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Claire
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1940
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1939
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Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed)...
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1939
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