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Oct. 14, 2009 11:00 PM ET (AP)
Actors: Bernard Blancan, Murray Head, Cyril Lecomte
Actors: Jules Sitruk, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Maria de Medeiros, Mabo Kouyate, Josephine Berry
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard
Synopsis: While pioneering pre-feminist author George Sand has been the subject of several film biographies focusing on her ten year relationship with Frederick Chopin, Les enfants du siècle looks at an earlier period in Sand's life, in particular her stormy romance with poet Alfred de Musset. In the early Read More
Actors: Murray Head, Louise Portal
Synopsis: In this drama, Tom Paradise (Murray Head) is a Canadian bus driver in his mid-forties who nurses a passion for American beat-era literature and dreams of some day moving to the United States and living a life of freedom in the West he's read about. Anais (Zoe Latraverse) is a younger woman who Read More
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain
Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Bertrand Blier, Miou-Miou
Synopsis: The Breton-born French actor Patrick Dewaere (1947-1982) was acclaimed as one of the two best actors of his generation, along with Gerard Depardieu, before his death by suicide at age 35. This documentary is an exploration of the man's life and work, featuring clips from his many films and Read More
Actors: Judith Godrëche, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Murray Head, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis: It is the summer of 1944, and Laurance (Judith Godreche) and her cousin Louis (Stanislaus Carre de Malberg) have always been fond of each other. Now, Louis has developed a crush on Laurance, and it appears that she is responding similarly. It seems that their relationship has every chance of Read More
Actors: Murray Head, Ángela Molina
Synopsis: The Savage in this film is Sophie (Aurelie Gilbert), the 17-year old girl who comes into the lives of Michael and Alice (Murray Head and Angela Molina). Her father, a friend of theirs, has just died. It seems that he abandoned Sophie and her mother many years before. She has borne a tremendous Read More
Actors: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt
Synopsis: Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named Diana (Greta Scacchi). Even though he is fully Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
Actors: Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Cottençon, Pierre Vernier
Synopsis: Yann (Pierre Richard) has his artistic eye on Florence (Fanny Cottencon), who desires her for more than her aesthetic beauty. His efforts are continually hampered by his neighbors Boris (Richard Bohringer), an insanely jealous layabout and his beautiful wife Eva (Emmanuelle Beart). Michel Creton Read More
Synopsis: British lyricist Tim Rice is honored in this tribute featuring many of the songs he enhanced with his graceful choice of words. Viewers will see performances by Marti Webb, David Essex, and Elaine Paige. The featured tunes include two songs containing lyrics that Rice co-wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber Read More
Crew: Songwriter
Actors: Mario David, Senta Berger
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Georges Géret, Darry Cowl
Synopsis: Having just seen a successful robbery, a man (Daniel Auteuil) and his roommate (Gerard Jugnot) are inspired to rob a bank themselves for some ready cash. When they burst in on the bank with their toy machine guns, most of the tellers and staff are frightened and wary, but in one case, a member of Read More
Crew: Singer
Actors: Elise Caron, Philippe Lebas, François Cluzet, Geneviève Fontanel
Synopsis: This youthful drama centers on a group of teens struggling to become adults without losing their youthful aspirations. It begins as Caron leaves the pressure of her home life for Venice in hopes of finding spontaneity and fun. She is followed by her boyfriend Lebas and his friend Cluzet. Lebas Read More
Synopsis: Also known as Gawain and the Green Knight, this British swashbuckler features Murray Head as the title character. That is, Murray is Sir Gawain; the Green Knight is played by Nigel Green (apropos casting, eh what?) Intending to decimate the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, the Green Knight Read More
Synopsis: In this historical fantasy, based on the classic medieval poem during the days of King Arthur, the gallant Green Knight gallops into the court and makes a gruesome challenge to the Round Table Knights. He dares any of them to successfully chop off his head. If they fail, he gets to hack off Read More
Actors: Murray Head
Synopsis: Director Edouard Molinaro is better known for his later film Le Cage Aux Folles. In La Mandarine, an eccentric family runs a luxury hotel in Paris. They are not extremely interested in the business they run, preferring instead to dote on the family's grandmother. Things get lively when a Read More
Actors: Cindy Burrows, Emma Schlesinger, Kimi Tallmadge, Patrick Thornberry, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham
Synopsis: This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding but does not offer them everything they want. In this sympathetic and psychologically precise drama, Alexandra Greville (Glenda Jackson), "Alex" to her friends, has a Read More
Actors: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery
Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth trip" movie. This is because Zeffirelli broke the long-standing tradition of casting over-aged Read More
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Laurent Terzieff, Jean Rochefort, James Robertson Justice
Synopsis: Too old to be a gamine yet not old enough for matronhood, Brigitte Bardot is the ideally cast leading lady of Serge Bourguignon's Head Over Heels. Bardot plays a thirtysomething beauty who finds herself torn between two desirable lovers. The film's alternate English-language title, Two Weeks in Read More
Actors: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Comer, Avril Angers, John Mills
Synopsis: This gently farcical British comedy stars Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as Jenny and Arthur, a young couple who have just gotten married. However, while both of them are filled with anticipation for their honeymoon, a practical joke played by their "friends" causes their bed to collapse just as Read More
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