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Actors: Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle, John Malkovich, Charles Berling
Synopsis: One woman's actions inspire a variety of reactions among those around her in this period drama. Therese (Laetitia Casta) and Firmin (Frédéric Diefenthal) are a young couple of modest means living in France in 1882. Firmin earns a living as a blacksmith, while Therese finds work at an inn. At the Read More
Actors: Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve
Synopsis: An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is Read More
Actors: Laurence Côte, Joaquim Olarreaga, Hector Spinelli, Jose Olivera, Evelyne Didi
Synopsis: In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other Read More
Actors: Hélène Lapiower, Mouss Diouf
Synopsis: Soriba Samb (Oumar Diop Makena) is a Senegalese who has gotten a much-prized internship to study filmmaking in Paris. In this story, Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend of his who is believed to be still living in Paris. In addition to coping with his new Read More
Actors: Nicole Garcia, Marianne Basler, Brigitte Roüan, Philippe Galland, Yan Dedet
Synopsis: Set in French colonial Algeria, this is the story of three beautiful sisters over an 18-year period (1946-1964). Beginning in luxury, this movie tells the story of the social changes around them that bring about a loss of innocence for them. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Charlotte Laurier, Roger Jendly, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: The year 1989 marked the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and a number of filmmakers put together movies intended to celebrate that event. This historical action drama, based on the book Sous le vent de galerne by Andre Guilloteau looks at some of the less well-known and unappealing Read More
Actors: Francis Huster, Béatrice Dalle, Isabelle Nanty, Jacques Spiesser, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Synopsis: Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy Read More
Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Beatrice Bruno, Hélène Surgère, André Thorent, Dominique Erlanger, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: An experimental film imbued with atmosphere and some puzzling moments, Cauchemars features a troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house. She meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as Read More
Actors: Christine Murillo, Jacques Denis, Monique Melinand, Jenny Cleve, Michel Amphoux
Synopsis: Using a variety of formats ranging from fictional segments to documentary interviews, the present-day situation of working women is explored. Among the vocations of the women whose lives are highlighted are judo-instructors, truck drivers, and this film's film editor. The fictional story depicts Read More
Actors: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Melinand, Philippe Chemin
Synopsis: Though his friendships with very young girls could very well be innocent in nature, a lonely man panics when the eight-year-old girl he is seeing gets scared, and he kills her. In this courtroom drama, after being subjected to every kind of psychiatric testimony about his arrested development and Read More
Actors: Nathalie Baye, Claude Bouchery, Myriam Boyer, Yveline Ailhaud, Patrick Fierry
Synopsis: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Blier, Daniel Ivernel
Synopsis: Francois (Jean-Paul Belmondo) was framed as a drug-trafficker by none other than the head trafficker himself and spent seven years in prison for his supposed crimes. Now an ex-con, the vengeful Francois carefully arranges things so that the kingpin's own henchmen murder him, as they believe that Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Marina Vlady, Jane Birkin, Charles Vanel
Synopsis: Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled by the owner of a nearby medical clinic and becomes obsessed with the story of Berg (Gerard Depardieu), another surgeon who was similarly hassled by the same man some years Read More
Actors: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a famed dying surgeon has his brain transplanted into the body of a race car driver who is dying of brain trauma. The operation is a success and the surgeon is happy--until he discovers that the racer's lover is his own daughter. Now what can he do? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Bruno Pradal, François Simon, Monique Melinand, Claude Cerval
Synopsis: Originally Mourir D'Aimer, this 1970 French film is an "a clef" treatment of the once-notorious Gabrielle Russier case. Annie Girardot stars as a thirtyish schoolteacher, who falls in love with teenaged student Bruno Pradal. The boy's parents bring charges against the teacher, and the subsequent Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet
Synopsis: A veteran police inspector (Lino Ventura) is reprimanded after killing a youth who goes on a murderous killing spree. He is sent to a provincial police station where he is helped by his assistant (Marlene Jobert) in solving local crimes. As the duo embarks on a witness search, they begin to Read More
Actors: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran, John McEnery, Bernard Fresson
Synopsis: Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to drive him to the airport and park the car in the lot after working at his home the night before. Getting in the wrong lane, she decides to use the car for a weekend getaway Read More
Actors: Jacques Perrin, Macha Meril, René Dary, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: Antonin (Jacques Perrin) is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow (Macha Meril), Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Paul Le Person
Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this light comedy about crime and class in the City of Light. Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young man living in Paris at the turn of the century who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. However, his uncle, who is acting as his guardian, manages to spend Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Michèle Morgan, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: Pierre Brasseur stars in this undistinguished drama about a pianist who is traumatized by an accident. He is so much affected, in fact, that the talent that fueled his career is killed off. Desperate to find a way to make money anyway, he starts to put together a plan to defraud an insurance Read More
Actors: Jean Desailly, Alexandra Stewart, Yves Robert, Marc Cassot, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: Transference of guilt, a theme near and dear to the heart of French author Georges Simenon, forms the basis of Passion of Slow Fire, adapted from Simenon's novel La Mort de Belle. American student Alexandra Stewart completing her education in France, turns up murdered. The prime suspect is Read More
Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Sassard, Alain Delon
Synopsis: Three Murderesses stars Alain Delon as a French playboy who gets more than he bargained for when he begins romancing three women at once. All three ladies (Mylene Demongeot, Pascale Petit and Jacqueline Sassard) are sisters, of wildly divergent personalities. Eventually all three tire of Delon Read More
Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Monique Melinand, Gabrielle Dorziat, Françoise Brion
Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More
Actors: Pascale Petit, Gianni Esposito, Serge Sauvion, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: The title of this routine drama, Vers l'Extase refers to the ecstasy of religious experience. In search of this elusive state, Catherine (Pascale Petit) is very devout, and for murky reasons, decides to marry a man -- perhaps to leave her niggling family behind -- and move to Morocco with him. But Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Monique Melinand, Jacqueline Porel, Henri Nassiet
Synopsis: La Pocharde (The Drunkard) stars Pierre Brasseur as Pitrre, a tosspot lawyer practicing in a tiny French community. When a family man is murdered, suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's ailing wife. Pulling himself together, Pitrre undertakes the woman's defense in court. The plot thickens Read More
Actors: Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Monique Melinand, Robert Arnoux
Synopsis: Writer/director Henri Decoin serves up another sure-fire box-office winner in Entre Ouze Heures et Minuit (Between 11 O'Clock and Midnight). Louis Jouvet stars as Inspector Carrel, who is quite surprised to learn that he has an exact double, a notorious criminal. When his look-alike is killed Read More
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