Philippe SardeFilmography

Born:: June 21, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: One of the most versatile and talented French film composers, with over 200 scores on his resumé, Philippe Sarde is unfortunately little known outside of his home country. Encouraged by his mother, an opera singer, he became interested in music from the early age of three. He conducted a brief...Read More

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La Fille du RER

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Émilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Ronit Elkabetz, Mathieu Demy, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Synopsis: It marked a grotesque and unseemly incident that took the European press by storm: in 2004, a young French woman came forward and claimed to have been attacked by black and Arabic thugs who mistook her for a Jew. But after her story broke, no witnesses came forward to support her and security Read More

3/18/09
The Witnesses

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libereau

Synopsis: The early days of the AIDS crisis in France provides the backdrop for this powerful, life-affirming drama from writer and director André Téchiné. It's 1984, and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila) is a police detective who, unbeknownst to his wife Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart), is a bisexual who has occasional Read More

2/1/08
Call Me Elizabeth

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau, Maria de Medeiros

2007
Le Grand Meaulnes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

2006
The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet

2005
Raja

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Ilham Abdelwahed, Hassan Khissal, Oum El Aid Ait Youss

Synopsis: Raja (Najat Benssallem) is a 19-year-old Moroccan girl. An orphan, she's led a difficult life, but has gotten off the streets and lives with her cousin Nadira (Ilham Abdelwahad) and her family. Raja and Nadira are happy to get low-paying jobs working in the garden of a wealthy middle-aged Read More

3/26/04
Me and My Sister

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot, François Berléand, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Vuillermoz

2004
Strayed

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clémence Meyer, Jean Fornerod

Synopsis: A woman struggles to trust a man who has become her protector and benefactor in this French drama set during World War II. In 1940, as German troops invade France, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), a woman who has recently lost her husband, is desperate to get her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Read More

8/20/03
Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich

2003
Claude Sautet, ou le Magie Invisible

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Sarde, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Graziella Sautet, José Giovanni

2003
Sister Mary Explains It All

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diane Keaton, Brian Benben, Wallace Langham, Laura San Giacomo, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Diane Keaton stars in this adaptation of Christopher Durang's popular one-act play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You as Sister Mary, a nun who teaches at a parochial school and has very firmly held ideas about sin, forgiveness, and the importance of church doctrine. As Sister Mary Read More

2001
Mademoiselle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Candelier, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: Two people with little in common enter into a brief, impulsive love affair in this comedy-drama. Pierre (Jacques Gamblin) is the leader of an improvisational comedy team known as The Unpredictables, who specialize in blending unnoticed into social functions and large gatherings, then making comic Read More

2001
La-bas ... mon pays

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Nozha Khouadra, Samy Naceri, Said Amadis, Mathilda May

Synopsis: The bitter legacy of the French/Algerian War set the stage of this drama from director Alexandre Arcady, himself a Frenchman of Algerian birth. Pierre Nivel (Antoine DeCaunes) is a noted French television journalist and network anchorman. One day, he receives an unexpected visitor, an Algerian man Read More

2000
Je Suis Vivante Et Je Vous Aime

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jerome Deschamps, Dorian Lambert, Agnes Soral, Yvette Merlin, Alain Cauchi

12/30/98
Alice et Martin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

11/4/98
On Guard

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized novel. Trained in circus stunts and fencing, Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes the bodyguard of the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), whose cousin is the greedy Gonzague (Luchini Read More

12/3/97
Un Frère

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeannick Gravelines, Emma de Caunes, Nils Tavernier, Karole Rocher, Emmanuel Nicolas

Synopsis: In this controversial French drama, Loic (Jeannick Gravelines) is a photographer who is trying to leave his working-class background behind and make a name for himself as an artist. Loic's best friend Tony (Emmanuel Nicolas) has become involved with both hard drugs and Loic's former girlfriend Read More

11/26/97
K

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Isabella Ferrari, Marthe Keller, Pinkas Braun, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari) Read More

8/27/97
Lucie Aubrac

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

2/26/97
Ponette

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Victoire Thivisol, Matiaz Caton, Xavier Beauvois, Delphine Schiltz, Claire Nebout

Synopsis: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; Ponette survives, but her mother does not. Her father Read More

1996
Les Voleurs

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Julien Riviere, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as Read More

1996
Le Petit Garçon

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Jacques Weber, Brigitte Roüan, Stanislas Crevillen, Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis: An eight-year old boy learns about love and betrayal in this French drama set in rural France during WW II. The boy, Francois, has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his Read More

1995
Dis-Moi Oui...

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Julia Maraval, Claude Rich, Nadia Farès

1995
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

1995
À Propos De Nice, La Suite

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: This French anthology is a tribute to A Propos de Nice (1930), a classic documentary that took a poetic and sometimes satirical look at life in the French Riviera town. This version blends fact and fiction to chronicle life in modern-day Nice and is comprised of seven vignettes, each directed by Read More

1995
Revenge of the Musketeers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

1994
Le Fils Préferé

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: In this French drama, an irresponsible man is forced by circumstances beyond his control to communicate with the family he's kept at a distance. Jean-Paul (Gerard Lanvin) is the manager of a hotel in Nice whose shady business practices have put him seriously into debt; he needs to raise 300,000 Read More

1994
Uncovered

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack, Paudge Behan, Art Malik

Synopsis: Julia (Kate Beckinsale) has been busy about her job, doing painstaking restoration work on a fifteenth-century painting. As good restoration work is at least as much about doing good research and detective work as it is about the physical process of restoration, when her cleanup of the Flemish Read More

1994
My Favorite Season

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: French critic and filmmaker André Téchiné directs the intense family drama Ma Saison Préférée (My Favorite Season), which he co-wrote with screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her Read More

1993
Le Jeune Werther

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Ever since Goethe wrote his romantic novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, the name Werther has been synonymous with the mystery and even the romance of suicide among the young. In this thoughtful movie, Ismaël (Ismal Jole), a young thirteen-year old boy, is taken aback by the suicide of his best Read More

1993
La Petite Apocalypse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jirí Menzel, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Anna Romantowska

Synopsis: In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan (Jiri Menzel) has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife's home, which he shares with a Read More

1993
Taxi de Nuit

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Laure Marsac, Didier Bezace, Maka Kotto

Synopsis: It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is Read More

1993
L.627

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Nils Tavernier, Jean-Roger Milo

Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this gritty, unglamorous look at the grunge work police officers perform in attempting to uphold the law. Didier Bazace stars as Lucien Marguet, a drug squad cop who is dedicated to getting drugs off the street. Lucien is passionate about eradicating drugs, even though Read More

9/9/92
Un Coeur en Hiver

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine, Myriam Boyer

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Read More

9/2/92
Concerto for the Earth

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1992
Max et Jeremie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christophe Odent, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

Synopsis: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate Read More

1992
Room Service

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Daniel Prévost, Jacques Jouanneau

1992
Reunion

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Christien Anholt, Samuel West, Françoise Fabian, Maureen Kerwin

Synopsis: Jason Robards plays an older Jewish man who returns to Stuttgart, Germany which he left in 1933 during the onslaught of the Third Reich. He reunites with a German man who, as a boy, was his childhood friend. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

3/15/91
Eve of Destruction

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene, Kurt Fuller, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: In this off-beat sci-fi adventure, a female scientist creates a sexy android version of herself and equips it with both the passionate emotions she lacks and a nuclear bomb. The trouble begins when the android is taken out for a test run and it ends up in the midst of a bank robbery where its Read More

1/19/91
La Vieille Qui Marchait Dans la Mer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier, Geraldine Danon

Synopsis: Originally Vielle qui Marchait dans la Mer, this elegiac French comedy is also known as The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea. Based on a novel by San-Antonio (Frederic Dard), the film stars Jeanne Moreau as an ageing beauty, living with her travelling companion (and ex-lover) Michel Serrault in Read More

1991
Pour Sacha

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Berry, Sophie Marceau, Fabien Orcier, Niels Dubost, Frédéric Quiring

Synopsis: Wanting to learn more about his Jewish heritage, a French philosophy professor moves to an Israeli kibbutz located near the Golan Heights in 1965. He is followed by a non-Jewish former student who abandons her aspirations of becoming a concert violinist to be with him. Two years pass, and Read More

1991
Les Carnassiers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1991
Jalousie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lio, Christian Vadim, Odette Laure, Veronique Delbourg

Synopsis: Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive Read More

1991
J'embrasse pas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Manuel Blanc, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart

Synopsis: Young, naive and innocent, Pierre (Manuel Blanc) has dreams of becoming an actor. He is a good-looking and personable boy, and he has just moved to the city to see if he can't accomplish his dreams. He gets a job as an orderly at a hospital and is further supported by an older woman (Helene Vincent Read More

1991
Le Petit Criminel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Anconina, Gerald Thomassin, Clotilde Courau

Synopsis: Life is pretty grim for the boy in this story. School holds no pleasures, his mother is a drunk, and his stepfather is a real pill. It's no surprise that he plays hooky sometimes. One day he discovers that he has an older sister. Consumed with a desire to find her, he uses his stepfather's pistol Read More

12/19/90
C'est La Vie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: One might assume that the original title of this French production was C'est La Vie. Wrong: the film was initially released as La Baule-les-Pins, then distributed to English speaking countries under a more "understandable" French cognomen. The film is set during a deceptively idyllic Read More

11/2/90
Lord of the Flies

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, Badgett Dale, Edward Taft, Andrew Taft

Synopsis: Harry Hook directed this second screen adaptation of William Golding's cult novel about a group of British schoolchildren who revert to savagery when marooned on a deserted island. The new adaptation replaces British school children with a group of American military cadets and instead of a Read More

3/16/90
Chambre à Part

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Lio, Frances Barber, Catherine Frot

1990
L'Envers du Decor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Harrison Ford, Roman Polanski, Milos Forman, Nagisa Oshima

Synopsis: The modest, highly praised, award-winning cinematic production designer Pierre Guffroy is the subject of this reportedly somewhat uneven documentary. Among the notable directors he worked for were Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Milos Forman, Jean Cocteau and Roman Polanski; not only that, but he Read More

1990
La Tribu

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stéphane Freiss, Catherine Wilkening, Maxime Leroux, Kader Boukhanef

Synopsis: Dr. Roussel (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is one of the handful of French doctors who earns really outstanding compensation. Dr. Olivier Rohan (Stephane Freiss) has just finished qualifying in his specialty (cardiology) and is one of the vast number of young doctors who don't earn very much at all. He has Read More

1990
The Music Box

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Read More

12/25/89
The Bear

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed this unusual and compelling tale of animals in the wild, which tells its tale from the bears' point of view. A pair of carefully-trained bruins deliver remarkably effective "performances" (aided by clever editing and, in some sequences, the use of realistic animated Read More

10/25/89
Lost Angels

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Adam Horowitz, Amy Locane, Don Bloomfield, Celia Weston

Synopsis: Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys fame, plays a troublesome teen who is shipped off by his wealthy parents to an institute for "problem" youths. This is the sort of place where any sign of rebellion is dealt with in draconian fashion. The strapped-down Horovitz tells his life story to psychiatrist Donald Sutherland Read More

5/5/89
Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

4/14/89
De Guerre Lasse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Christophe Malavoy, Pierre Arditi, Genevieve Mnich, Jean Bouise, Philippe Clevenot

Synopsis: Alice (Nathalie Baye) is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome (Pierre Arditi) smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles (Christophe Malavoy), a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles Read More

1989
Hiver 54, L'abbe Pierre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Claudia Cardinale, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Read More

1989
Beyond Innocence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A lustful adolescent is hot for an older--and married--woman. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
La Maison Assassinée

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Yann Collette, Ingrid Held, Agnes Blanchot

Synopsis: Seraphin Monge (Patrick Bruel) is a World War I veteran whose family was killed when he was an infant. At the end of the war, he returns to seek vengeance on the murderers. Monge is unable to carry out his revenge when the victims die before he can kill them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
La Maison De Jade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Vincent Perez, Véronique Silver, Yves Lambrecht

Synopsis: Jane Lambert (Jacqueline Bisset) is a middle-aged novelist whose marriage has ended in part because of her inability to bear children. She falls for Bernard (Vincent Perez), the self-centered businessman who is not yet 30. Jane ignores her career and follows her heart as she and Bernard begin a Read More

1988
La Couleur Du Vent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Philippe Léotard, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis: Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted manuscript. She breaks up with Serge (Philippe Leotard), the printer who loves her. Louise tells the heartbroken Serge she has fallen in love with the author whom she has Read More

1988
La Travestie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zabou, Anna Galiena, Valerie Steffen, Yves Afonso, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: Nicole (Zabou) is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes Read More

1988
Noyade Interdite

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Elizabeth Bourgine, Anne Roussel, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer Read More

12/2/87
Rendez-Vous

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young lady friend of timid Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). Though she intends to be true to Paulot, Nina falls hard for his roommate, Quentin (Wilson), a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex Read More

5/15/87
Dernier Ete A Tanger

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin, Vincent Lindon, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track down the thugs responsible for the gangland-style massacre that killed her father. Corrigan (Thierry Lhermitte) is the local detective recruited to find the international Read More

4/22/87
Le Lieu du Crime

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is Read More

1/23/87
Ennemis Intimes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Serrault, Wadeck Stanczak, Ingrid Held, Anne Gautier, Thierry Rey

Synopsis: Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

1987
Les Deux Crocodiles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Marie-Christine Adam, Catherine Lachens, Annie Savarin, Dora Doll

Synopsis: Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Les Innocents

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de la Brosse, Jean-Claude Brialy, Abdel Kechiche, Stephane Onfroy

Synopsis: The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time, prompted by two events: the wedding of her sister, and the Read More

1987
Comedie!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jane Birkin, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different Read More

1987
Every Time We Say Goodbye

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Christina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor, Anat Atzmon, Gila Almagor

Synopsis: In this romantic drama set during World War II, David (Tom Hanks) is an American pilot serving with the Royal Air Force. While recovering from an injury in Jerusalem, David meets Sarah (Christina Marsillach), whose best friend is engaged to David's squadron leader. David and Sarah become fast Read More

11/14/86
L'Été Prochain

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by Nadine Trintignant. She is the wife of Jean-Louis Trintignant, who appears as Paul, an impoverished playwright married to Dino (Fanny Ardant). Dino and Paul argue all the time, enough Read More

8/15/86
Pirates

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis

Synopsis: Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a difference. Captain Red (Walter Matthau) runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor (Cris Campion). One day Capt. Red is Read More

7/18/86
Signe Charlotte

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Niels Arestrup, Christine Pascal, Nicolas Wostrikoff

Synopsis: In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte (Isabelle Huppert, sister of director Caroline Huppert) is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is Read More

7/18/86
The Manhattan Project

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Everyone knows that teenagers are smarter than adults, and if given a chance the kids could save the world--if they don't blow it to bits first. The Manhattan Project tells of how 16-year-old Christopher Collet tries to alert his community to the dangers of nuclear energy. John Lithgow, a doctor Read More

6/13/86
Il Diavolo in Corpo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi, Riccardo de Torrebruna, Anna Orso

Synopsis: Bearing no particular relation to any literary or cinematic work of the same title, this erotic drama by Marco Bellocchio uses sexual expression to work out a character's hang-ups, problems, and personality. Andrea (Federico Ptizalis) is in his last year of high school when he meets Giulia (Maruschka Detmers Read More

4/22/86
Mon Beau-Frere A Tue Ma Soeur

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Jean Carmet, Milva Biolcati

Synopsis: This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther (Juliette Binoche) is a veterinarian who is certain that her sister has been murdered by her brother-in-law. She Read More

1986
L'Etat De Grâce

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Sami Frey, Pierre Arditi, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Antoine has a promising political career in front of him, if he can only keep from getting sidelined by inappropriate love affairs. He is a junior minister in France's socialist government, and he has had a hand in writing a number of important pieces of legislation. He has put his heart into Read More

1986
La Puritaine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Laurent Malet, Brigitte Coscas

Synopsis: This portrayal of the reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production. The father Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon (Sandrine Bonnaire) lets him know that she is coming to see him after a Read More

1986
Les Mois d'Avril Sont Meurtriers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Pierre Bisson, François Berléand, Brigitte Roüan

Synopsis: Fred (Jean-Pierre Marielle) follows hired killer Gravier (Jean-Pierre Bisson) in this routine crime drama. He knows Gravier is responsible for a gangland murder but must shadow the killer to provide solid evidence of the crime. The two engage in a psychological game of cat-and-mouse before the Read More

1986
Cours Privé

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Xavier DeLuc, Michel Aumont, Sylvia Zerbib, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: This drama, spiced with sexual innuendo, is directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, and features Jeanne Kern (Elizabeth Bourgine) as a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director (Michael Aumont) letters accusing her of lewd and Read More

1986
Joshua Then and Now

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, Michael Sarrazin, Linda Sorenson

Synopsis: The early ups and later downs in the life of Joshua Shapiro (James Woods) more or less describe the trajectory of this semi-autobiographical film, adapted from the book by Mordecai Richler. Joshua is a Jewish Canadian writer who has returned from living in England for nearly three decades, only to Read More

1985
L'Homme Aux Yeux D'Argent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Souchon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Rossner, this routine detective-thriller focuses on the unfortunate Thierry (Alain Souchon), a released convict who returns to dig up the loot he buried near, a tree 15 years earlier. To his dismay the tree is so huge it is impossible to simply take his money and run. As Read More

1985
Hors La Loi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Pasco, Nathalie Spilmont, Wadeck Stanczak, Clovis Cornillac

1985
Le Cowboy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Renée Saint-Cyr, Michel Beaune, Michel Peyrelon

Synopsis: Not a French western, Cowboy is actually a gritty contemporary cop drama. Aldo Maccione stars as Inspector Cesar Cappucino, known throughout Nice as "Le Cowboy" because of his gonzo round-em-up techinique. Right now, Cappucino is hot on the trail of a drug cartel in the South of France. He does Read More

1985
La Tentation d'Isabelle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ann-Gisele Glass, Fanny Bastien, Jacques Bonnaffé, Xavier DeLuc, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: In this argumentative, fractious drama about a warped sense of male-female love, Bruno (Jacques Bonnafe) who is clearly not playing with a full deck, devises a means to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle (Ann Gisel Glass). Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain (Xavier Deluc) in the Read More

1985
Harem

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Goldson, Zohra Segal, Michel Robin

Synopsis: This film's two well-known stars -- Nastassja Kinski as Diane, a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange, and Ben Kingsley as Selim an Arab mogul -- are hard-put to bring life into this beautifully photographed but underscripted romantic drama. Diane is kidnapped and brought to Read More

1985
Ça N'arrive Qu'a Moi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Francis Perrin, Veronique Genest, Bernard Blier, Christiane Minazzoli, Roland Blanche

Synopsis: This run-of-the-mill comedy adventure film never quite overcomes the obstacles of a predictable script and dialogue. The story is about poor François Pepin (Francis Perrin, also the director), an unfortunate reporter who seems to attract accidents with no effort at all. He is smitten by Prudence Read More

1985
La Pirate

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Maruschka Detmers, Laure Marsac, Andrew Birkin

Synopsis: In this avant-garde drama, five main protagonists talk incessantly and occasionally scream at each other, while making it clear that verbal fights are going to lead to mayhem since they carry knives and guns to back up their angry outbursts. At the core of this emotional whirlpool are Carol (Maruschka Detmers Read More

1984
Fort Saganne

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this epic skims over the qualities that transformed Saganne from an ordinary officer to a great military leader. Saganne was first sent to a garrison town in North Africa before Read More

1984
Joyeuses Paques!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt, Rosy Varte, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Stephane (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has a predilection for being unfaithful, and when he is caught by his wife with the charming Julie (Sophie Marceau) in his bed, he passes Julie off as his daughter by a former marriage -- someone he had forgotten to mention before. Julie, of course, is not thrilled Read More

1984
A Sunday in the Country

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette

Synopsis: French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his Read More

1984
La Garce

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Benguigui

1984
La Storia di Piera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out, husband (Marcello Mastroianni Read More

2/2/83
Stella

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Thierry Lhermitte, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German collaborators), the two leading characters in this love story (Nicole Garcia as Stella, and Thierry Lhermitte as Yvon) could be more passionate in their feelings for each Read More

1983
L'Ami de Vincent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Françoise Fabian, Fanny Cottençon, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: In this plodding drama about a man searching for his friend's wronged lover, there is neither high action nor high suspense to keep -- or even reach -- a quick-paced storyline. A shallow womanizer (Jean Rochefort) plays the trumpet in an orchestra conducted by his steady and stable friend (Philippe Noiret Read More

1983
Attention, Une Femme Peut En Cacher une Autre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Charlotte de Turckheim, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness Read More

1983
Garçon!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

1983
Lovesick

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Saul (Dudley Moore), a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients. Chloe has already devastated one psychoanalyst, and although the venerable Freud himself (Alec Guinness) appears to counsel Saul in his worst moments, the man continues Read More

1983
J'ai épousé une ombre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer, Madeleine Robinson, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: A young woman is abandoned by her lover after she tells him she is pregnant. Deeply depressed and longing for home, she boards a train out of town. Unfortunately a terrible train wreck ensues. She survives and ends up taking on the identity of one of the dead passengers. Now comfortable and secure Read More

1982
Que les Gros Salaires Levent le Doigt!!!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Poiret, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Piccoli, Marie Laforêt, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Andre Joeuf (Jean Poiret) is the coldly calculating president of an insurance company who, when faced with the imperative of firing some of his highly paid executives, invites them all over to his country estate for a weekend to indulge in a few games of musical chairs. Anyone left standing after Read More

1982
Le Choc

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Léotard, Etienne Chicot, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Martin Terrier (Alain Delon) has a problem. He wants to quit his job, but unlike everyone else, he cannot do it because he is a hired hitman and his employers would hate to see him turned out to pasture -- he knows too much, and he is still useful. When he escapes to the countryside for awhile, he Read More

1982
L'Honneur d'un Capitaine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson, Georges Marchal

Synopsis: When Patricia Caron (Nicole García) watches a television debate, she is shocked to hear her long-dead husband described as a war criminal and a torturer. Her husband Marcel (Jacques Perrin) had died more than two decades earlier when French troops fought in Algeria -- and although she had been Read More

1982
L'Etoile Du Nord

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Simone Signoret, Fanny Cottençon, Julie Jezequel, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: This thriller about a mysterious psychopath was based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Edouard Binet (Philippe Noiret), an aimless Frenchman who has spent several years travelling in Northern Africa, is sailing to Belgium when he meets an attractive woman named Sylvie Baron (Fanny Cottencon). Read More

1982
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara delivers a gutsy, four-barreled performance as skid-row poet and storyteller Charles Bukowski (rechristened Charles Serking onscreen) in Tales of Ordinary Madness, blackly comic Italian director Marco Ferreri's adaptation of Bukowski's roman à clef Erections, Ejaculations Read More

9/11/81
Les Ailes de la Colombe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Jean Sorel, Loleh Bellon

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the plot of Henry James' Wing of the Dove, this film resets the story about two lovers trying to steal everything from a dying millionairess, by putting it in the late-20th century instead of late-19th century; it has the lovers be a French prostitute and Italian low-life Read More

5/6/81
Est-Ce Bien Raisonnable?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miou-Miou, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Julien Guiomar, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie Boucher (Miou-Miou), a journalist searching out another story -- who thinks he is an up-and-coming judge with leads on her own case. The confusion is a catalyst for some Read More

1981
Mille Milliards de Dollars

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Anny Duperey, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is Read More

1981
Coup de Torchon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa Read More

1981
Il Faut Tuer Birgitt Haas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer, Bernard Le Coq, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Birgitt Haas (Lisa Kreuzer) has become the target of the German Secret Service -- she is a German terrorist and the Secret Service would like her eliminated. To that end, they request some help from their French equivalent, represented by Athanase (Philippe Noiret). His plan is to enlist the Read More

1981
Une Jeunesse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ariane Larteguy, Patrick Norbert, Jacques Dutronc, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: A lightweight, sentimental story, a middle-aged French couple remember their courtship and the beginnings of their romance. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Le Choix des armes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk (Gerard Depardieu) who has some new-fangled ideas Read More

1981
Hotel des Amériques

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Josiane Balasko, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anesthesiologist and so when she accidentally hits Gilles (Patrick Dewaere) while driving her car, she can jump out and know exactly what to do to make sure he is not seriously hurt. The two start off a relationship based on this Read More

1981
Beau-Père

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

1981
Une Étrange Affaire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Louis (Gerard Lanvin), an advertising executive in a Paris department store, is not the world's most ambitious man, but he has a good marriage and is content with his job -- until his world is turned upside-down by a new, manipulative, controlling manager (Michel Piccoli) who slowly starts to Read More

1981
I Sent a Letter to My Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel, Dominique Labourier

Synopsis: 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 without truly learning how to live. Responsible for the constant care of her paraplegic brother Jean Rochefort, Signoret seeks a brief respite from her confinement by Read More

1981
Ghost Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who Read More

1981
Quest for Fire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi, Gary Schwartz

Synopsis: Quest for Fire takes place some 80,000 years in the past. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman), and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) are sent out on a "quest Read More

1981
Le Guignolo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Galabru, Georges Géret, Michel Beaune, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: This standard comedy thriller is more a vehicle to show off Jean-Paul Belmondo's stunts than to convey a suspenseful tale to a hoodwinked audience. Belmondo plays a conman who gets tangled in a complex series of hassles that involve some well-placed kicks to straighten out. Everyone is after a Read More

3/26/80
Un Mauvais Fils

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. His unhappy father blames this disgraceful prison stint for the death of Bruno's mother. No one wants to hire Read More

1980
Allons Z'enfants

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being banned in military precincts in France. In the film, a young fellow, Simon Chalumet (Lucas Belvaux) is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who Read More

1980
Loulou

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand, Humbert Balsan, Bernard Tronczyk

Synopsis: Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When she Read More

1980
Seeking Asylum

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin

Synopsis: Roberto Benigni and Dominique Laffin co-star in this symbolic social drama about a well-meaning teacher and his young pre-school class. Although his unconventional techniques enthrall his young students, his methods stir controversy among the more traditionally minded parents and school Read More

10/24/79
Flic ou Voyou

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in Read More

1979
La Femme Flic

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, François Simon

Synopsis: Corinne (Miou-Miou) is a Parisian detective who is transferred to a small village in Northern France when an investigation uncovers evidence that is potentially damaging to some powerful local politicians. She is temporarily given a desk job before she is called on to solve the murder of a little Read More

1979
Les Soeurs Bronte

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed authors who all died young. Their writing, so full of life, was a total contrast to the reality of their existence, focused mostly upon arguing with their father and taking care Read More

1979
Tess

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, John Collin, David Markham

Synopsis: In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville Read More

1979
Le Toubib

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau, Alain Delon, Michel Auclair, Francine Bergé

Synopsis: A predictable melodrama, Le Toubib is based on a novel by Jean Freustie about an unhappy surgeon and the tragedy of war. Jean-Marie (Alain Delon) has a successful practice in Paris when his marriage crumbles and he is sent to operate in a field hospital in an unspecified war zone in Europe. He is Read More

1979
Buffet Froid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

1979
Bye Bye Monkey

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Gail Lawrence, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the "Roman Read More

2/24/78
Passe Montagne

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Stévenin, Texandre Barberat

Synopsis: This film marks the directorial debut of actor Jean-François Stevenin. Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him Read More

1978
La Clé Sur la Porte

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Annie Girardot, Patrick Dewaere, Eleonore Klarwein, Stephane Jobert, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an Read More

1978
Une Histoire Simple

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Sophie Daumier, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters as dictated by their environment. Romy Schneider plays Marie, a fortysomething working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie Read More

1978
Le Sucre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a speculation bubble involving sugar-commodities pricing. Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming Read More

1978
L'Adolescente

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever, Francis Huster

Synopsis: L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly autobiographical piece is set during the early war years. Laetitia Chauveau plays a twelve-year old girl whose future is determined by the events of one long summer holiday in the Read More

1978
Le Crabe-Tambour

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Dufilho, Odile Versois

Synopsis: Le Crabe Tambour (The Crab Drum) stars Jacques Perrin as the title character. An officer in the French navy, Perrin has earned his nickname through his habit of beating his chest a la King Kong after consuming a crab dinner. Stories of this eccentric but courageous warrior remain in circulation Read More

11/9/77
Comme La Lune

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophie Daumier, Anna Gaylor, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marco Perrin

Synopsis: After he leaves his wife and daughter for a butcher-shop owner, one would imagine that Roger had been as foolish as he was going to be. However, before he can marry the shopkeeper, she runs off with an old friend of his, who leaves behind his own mistress. Roger takes up with this his friend's Read More

1977
Des Enfants Gatés

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Gérard Jugnot, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Spoiled Children (Des enfants gates) finds director Bertrand Tavernier tempering his New Wave impulses with an overwhelming desire to entertain a mass audience. The "children" of the title are actually artistically inclined grown-ups. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative Read More

1977
Le Juge Fayard Dit le Sheriff

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard, Michel Auclair, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Fayard (Patrick Dewaere) is a magistrate of the French courts, who is unusually enthusiastic in seeking justice. For instance, when his girlfriend is trapped in a store-front bordello, he has no qualms about arranging (and joining) a police raid on the place. This stunt earned him the nickname Read More

1977
La Vie Devant Soi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin, Sammy Ben Youb, Gabriel Jabbour, Michael Bat-Adam

Synopsis: Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is an aging former prostitute who, in her dotage, makes a living by caring for the children of other prostitutes in Paris' Arab community. Haunted by memories of her experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, Rosa is seized with the notion that the Gestapo is still Read More

1977
Mort d'un Pourri

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More

1977
Le Diable Probablement

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Laetita Carcano, Regis Hanrion

Synopsis: In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion but ultimately finds nothing which will change Read More

1977
Un Taxi Mauve

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Agostina Belli, Peter Ustinov, Fred Astaire

Synopsis: An ambitious musical adaptation of Michel Déon's best-selling novel, Un Taxi Mauve is set in Ireland during a time in which the nation announced it would no longer demand income taxes of artists, bringing a steady stream of creative bohemians to the Emerald Isle. Novelist Philippe (Philippe Read More

1977
Mado

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

10/27/76
L'Ultima Donna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori, Zouzou

Synopsis: This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a custody battle over the man's young son has a cataclysmic ending which is not for the fainthearted. In the story, Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is an engineer who has just been Read More

9/4/76
The Tenant

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous Read More

1976
Marie-Poupée

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeanne Goupil, André Dussollier, Bernard Fresson, Andréa Ferréol, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: When Maria (Jeanne Goupil), a woman who is too beautiful to seem quite real, marries a dollmaker, her new husband finds it hard to treat her like a real person instead of a strange, animated doll. She suffers greatly from this treatment, which is an exaggerated version of the sorts of things she Read More

1976
Violette et François

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Reggiani, Lea Massari, Sophie Daumier

Synopsis: Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois (Jacques Dutronc), and despite her middle-class family's objections, she marries him. Unable to keep a job, and without any real skills, he has a hard time supporting them, especially Read More

1976
Barocco

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

1976
Le Juge et l'Assassin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As Read More

1975
Sept Morts Sur Ordonnance

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

1975
Adieu Poulet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More

1975
The Story of O

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Corinne Clery, Udo Kier, Anthony Steel, Jean Gaven

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Dominique Aury (who wrote it under the pen name "Pauline Reage"), this erotic tale of sexual dominance and submission was directed by Just Jaeckin, who was following his success as the creator of another softcore erotic film, Emmanuelle (1974). French fashion Read More

1975
Un Divorce Heureux

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Rochefort, André Dussollier, Daniel Ceccaldi, Bulle Ogier, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironically, the doctor's life is not a very happy one either, and his boast has a hollow sound. For one thing, although he seemingly has a "happy divorce," Read More

1975
Un Sac de Billes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul-Eric Schulmann, Richard Constantini, Joseph Goldenberg, Reine Barteve

Synopsis: This well-received film covers the World War II survival tactics of two young French Jewish boys, aged 10 and 13, as they try to make the journey to the southern Free Zone where the Nazi occupation is not yet in force. They persuade a priest to say that they are with him and successfully arrive Read More

1975
La Cage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin

Synopsis: This unusual film contains some dark elements of comedy as it tells the tale of an ex-wife who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. Though she is a loving woman, she does crave revenge. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead Read More

1975
Pas de Problème!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miou-Miou, Bernard Menez, Jean Lefebvre, Henri Guybet, Anny Duperey, Paula Moore

Synopsis: Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance, and wishing to avoid getting involved with the police, the girl finds a willing lad in a bar who will help her with her predicament. He loads the body into the back of his Read More

1975
Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly Read More

10/20/74
Les Seins de Glace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Alain Delon, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: This French film noir stars Alain Delon as a lawyer who thought he'd heard everything. But even Delon is not fully prepared for the cold, calculating manner of his beautiful client Mireille Darc. With sociopathic aplomb, Darc has been quietly killing every man who has ever gotten close to Read More

8/28/74
Lancelot of the Lake

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Luc Simon, Humbert Balsan, Vladmir Antolek-Oresk

Synopsis: As with his earlier Trial of Joan of Arc, French-filmmaker Robert Bresson effectively casts unknowns in his interpretation of the Knights of the Round Table saga. Breaking with the standard romantic spin on this legend, Bresson offers us a selfish, ruthless Lancelot, no better than the other Read More

5/30/74
Creezy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Sydne Rome, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This French political melodrama deals with the conflict between the political ambitions of Julien (Alain Delon) and his love for his mistress, fashion-model Creezy (Sydne Rome). Based on the novel Creezy, which won the "Prix de Goncourt" in 1969, it tells of Julien's schemes to win a ministerial Read More

4/10/74
Don't Touch the White Woman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More

1/23/74
The Clockmaker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: French film critic Bertrand Tavernier made his directorial debut in The Clockmaker. The title character, played by Tavernier's "alter ego" Philipe Noiret, is benumbed by the nihilistic activities of his son Sylvain Rougerie. Arrested on charges ranging from arson to murder, Rougerie offers the Read More

1974
The Last Train

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Nike Arrighi, Regine, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: At the beginning of World War II, while the Germans entered France from the north, many people had reason to believe that the Germans would not treat them kindly, and they fled by train to the south. This French film tells the story of a few of them. Because they were fleeing the best-organized Read More

10/31/73
La Grande Bouffe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More

5/17/73
Le Fils

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Yves Montand, Lea Massari, Marcel Bozzuffi, Germaine Delbat

Synopsis: This French drama shows what happens to the folks at home when someone who has been gone for a long time returns. Ange (Yves Montand) has been to America, but an uneasy feeling brings him back to his native island of Corsica. There he discovers his father has been killed, his mother is deathly Read More

2/22/73
Les Corps Celestes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Carole Laure, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Against the backdrop of impending war, an enterprising pimp and his seven working girls arrive in Borntown, northern Quebec, in the Christmas season of 1938. The entrepreneurs give a lavish reception right in the mine, which is the reason for the town's existence (and their presence). Afterwards Read More

1973
Charlie et Ses Deux Nenettes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Serge Sauvion, Jeanne Goupil, Nathalie Drivet, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: This French film offers a clear-sighted look at a hard-working segment of the transient underclass in France. Charlie (Serge Sauvion) travels around Paris and the surrounding countryside selling oilcloth at outdoor bazaars. While he is looking for more permanent work, he runs into two girls Read More

1973
Dorotheas Rache

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gunter Thiedeke, Regis Genger, Elisabeth Potchanski

Synopsis: This German sex comedy follows the adventures, sexual and otherwise, of a teenaged innocent who wants to find out all she can about the world, and she uses sexuality as one of her tools of discovery. Though this is not a hardcore feature, it depicts many sexual situations and has much sexual Read More

1973
La Valise

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Lefebvre

Synopsis: Tunisia is a rough placed to be trapped in, especially if you are an Israeli spy (Jean-Pierre Marielle) on the run. Fortunately, the French embassy gives the ill-fated fellow a place to hide. Unfortunately, they can't smuggle him out, because there is an airline strike. Fortunately, he finds love Read More

1973
Le Mariage a la Mode

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Jourdan, Yves Beneyton, Geraldine Chaplin, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This French romance/drama follows the efforts of a woman (Catherine Jourdan) who has long had a stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with Read More

1973
Cesar & Rosalie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie (Cesar and Rosalie) stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman happily married to successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a Read More

10/27/72
Le Droit d'aimer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Pierre Michael, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This thin French drama takes place on a barren prison island. Pierre (Omar Sharif) has been sentenced to a life of hard labor on an island which lacks even a proper prison building: the men live in tents year 'round. Despite the grim conditions and brutal guards, he manages to hold his temper in Read More

8/14/72
Liza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Mastroianni plays Giorgio, who lives on a island somewhere off the Mediterranean coast of France. He lives there with his dog, and the remains of an old German World War II airbase. He earns his living drawing cartoons. Read More

8/11/72
La Veuve Couderc

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo, Simone Signoret, Monique Chaumette

Synopsis: Simone Signoret plays the title role in this dark melodrama from writer/director Pierre Granier-Deferre. The Widow Couderc is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Here Signoret (who also starred in Le Chat, an earlier Granier-Deferre adaptation of a Simenon novel) plays a bitterly independent Read More

10/13/71
Le Chat

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Paul Bonifas

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of dialogue spoken; the character relationships (or lack of same) are the focal point here. Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret, long married, plainly despise one another. Rather than Read More

4/24/71
Max et les Férrailleurs

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Perier, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom, where evidence matters more than guilt, lead him to join the police force. Independently wealthy, he uses all his official and personal resources to make criminals pay for Read More

2/17/71
Sortie De Secours

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Regine, Francois Billetdoux, Jacques Richard, Claude Giraud

Synopsis: A woman (Regine) seemingly welcomes circumstances that can only be described as self degrading. She has a job doing voice overdubs and mimics a duck by putting a clothespin on her nose and marbles in her cheeks. Her date with an actor goes wrong when the man has an insatiable foot fetish. Her Read More

1970
Les Choses de la Vie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

1/1/70

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