Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Self (archive footage)
Herself
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Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Self (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
Narrator (voice)
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Maupassant's mother
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Mme Louise Baron
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
Louise Martin
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
Mamie
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Judith Therpauve
When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.
Narrator (voice)
En este documental Marker disecciona los movimientos sociales que surgieron en muchos países del mundo a finales de la década de 1960, además de reflexionar, una vez más, sobre las imágenes y la memoria.
Madame Rosa
Madame Rosa es una exprostituta judía de unos 70 años que se gana la vida acogiendo en su casa de París a los hijos no deseados de las prostitutas del barrio. Cuida a doce chiquillos, a los que sus madres visitan cuando pueden y le entregan algo de dinero. Pero hay cuatro por los que no recibe dinero alguno, como Momo, un chico árabe de catorce años. Sabiendo que su salud y sus recursos se están agotando, Madame Rosa le confiesa al chico sus problemas, pero, al mismo tiempo, muy preocupada por su tristeza, llama al médico, que le dice que el único problema del muchacho es la falta de afecto. Como Momo no es admitido en la escuela, tiene que buscarse la vida en la calle. (FILMAFFINITY)
Thérèse Ganay
El comisario jefe de la policía de Orleáns (Périer) debe su privilegiada posición social a su rica e influyente esposa (Signoret), que lleva años postrada en una silla de ruedas. El comisario, con el conocimiento de su esposa, tiene una joven amante con antecedentes penales.
Lady Vamos
Tras heredar una inmensa fortuna, Claire es enviada a un hospital psiquiátrico por orden de Madame Basiter-Wegner. Sólo podrá recibir la herencia si recupera el equilibrio mental. Pero Claire, que no consigue adaptarse a ese ambiente, se escapa del centro y tiene la suerte de encontrar la protección de un granjero que vive aislado cuidando de sus caballos. Sin embargo, la felicidad no durará mucho; en cuanto la localizan, dos asesinos intentarán eliminar a la pareja.
Jeanne
Rose
La protagonista de la historia, una mujer llamada Rose, vive con su familia en una lejana granja de una helada región francesa. La policía encuentra el cadáver de una mujer en las cercanías y la culpa recae en los dos hijos de la mujer. Cuando un policía investiga el caso comienza a encontrar muchas claves secretas en la vida de esta familia. Segunda y última película para el cine de Jean Chapot tras La ladrona (1966) -con Romy Schneider y Michel Piccoli-, pues luego tan solo trabajó para la televisión hasta su muerte en 1998. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator
Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound solidarity with the socialist cause, Muel and his team showed great courage to mix the official registration of images with those triumphant, clandestine, of the nascent opposition.
la veuve Couderc
La viuda Couderc, que habita en una lejana granja, acoge bajo su techo a un atractivo joven que ha cometido un crimen y huye de la justicia; pero los celos se apoderan de ella debido a la presencia de la bella Félicie, su hijastra.
Self - Interviewee
Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.
Clémence Bouin
Basada en una novela del escritor belga Georges Simenon. Los protagonistas son un viejo matrimonio distanciado por el tedio y la incomunicación. Ella fue acróbata de un circo, él, tipógrafo. El marido concentra todo su afecto en un gato que ha encontrado en la calle; pero, precisamente por ello, el gato es víctima del odio de la esposa.
Self
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Lise (Mme L. / Lise London)
El guión de Jorge Semprún se basa en el libro homónimo de Artur London que narra en primera persona las purgas estalinistas de las que fueron víctimas los disidentes del Partido Comunista checoslovaco, entre ellos el propio London. Estas purgas tuvieron lugar en el famoso Proceso de Praga de 1952.
Léa
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
Léone
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Mathilde
Philippe Gerbier es un ingeniero civil que ha entregado todos sus esfuerzos a la valerosa resistencia francesa, de la que es uno de sus máximos responsables. Pero llega el día en que la policía colaboracionista le captura, siendo retenido en un campo de concentración bajo atenta vigilancia. Tras un traslado logrará escapar improvisando una fuga relámpago. A partir de ese momento viviremos con su testimonio el día a día de la resistencia y sus dificultades ante el poderoso invasor.
Irina Arkadina
Adaptación de la célebre obra de Chejov. Describe la visita que una actriz madura hace a su hermano y a su hijo en su casa de campo. Le acompaña para la ocasión un afamado novelista, de la que se enamora una jovencita que vive cerca del lugar.
Lisa Schindler
Paul y Jennifer Montgomery son una pareja de coleccionistas de arte que están hastiados de la rutina de su vida. Un día, reciben la visita de una vendedora de cosméticos y la invitan a participar en sus "juegos", que están relacionados con el sexo y la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cafe Owner
En agosto de 1944, las tropas americanas están a punto de liberar París. Mientras tanto, Hitler ha ordenado a uno de sus generales que mantenga el control sobre la ciudad o que la destruya. Fresco histórico sobre la liberación de París por las fuerzas aliadas. Impresionante reparto con guión de Coppola.
Elsa Fennan
Un agente secreto inglés debe averiguar todo lo concerniente al aparente suicidio de un compañero. Las investigaciones apuntan a que la viuda es la principal sospechosa de la extraña muerte de su marido...
Sara Lescault
An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.
Eliane Darès
Durante un viaje en tren desde Marsella a París, seis personas comparten un coche-cama. Cuando uno de ellos aparece asesinado, la policía comienza a investigar.
La Condesa
Antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un barco de pasajeros zarpa de Veracruz con rumbo al puerto alemán de Bremenhaven. Los pasajeros son personas muy distintas con diversos problemas que tal vez puedan resolver durante la travesía.
(archive footage)
Este perspicaz documental presenta algunas de las actrices más importantes y bellas que adornan la pantalla grande. Muestra cómo la industria del cine cambió su descripción de la representación del sexo y las actrices del sexo desde la era del cine mudo hasta el presente. Las escenas clásicas se muestran desde la película muda, True Heart Susie, protagonizada por Lillian Gish, hasta Love Me Tonight (1932), mezcla de sexo y sofisticación, protagonizada por Jeanette MacDonald (antes de Nelson Eddy) y Elizabeth Taylor en A Place in the Sun (1951), además de mucho, mucho más.
Madame Geneviève
Un grupo de amigos fanáticos del "cinema verité" se dedican a filmar todo cuanto les sale al paso.
Narrator (English version) (voice)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
Thérèse Dutheil
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
Contadina
Parodia italiana de la superproducción norteamericana sobre el desembarco de Normandía ("El día más largo", 1962). Los protagonistas son dos judíos que se convierten en héroes sin buscarlo.
Anna
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
Jenny de Lacour
Diversas historias de amor protagonizadas por personajes célebres de la Historia. Los episodios son "Lauzun", "Les comédiennes", "Agnès Bernauer" y "Jenny de Lacour".
Roberte
Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Adua
Italia, años 50. Como consecuencia de una ley que decretaba el cierre de los burdeles, cuatro prostitutas se plantean dejar el oficio y abrir juntas un restaurante. Pero los caprichos del destino las obligarán a volver a ejercer su antigua profesión en el propio restaurante.
Alice Aisgill
Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) acepta un trabajo de contable en un pequeña ciudad del norte de Inglaterra. Movido por la ambición, intenta conquistar a Susan (Heather Sears), la hija del hombre más rico y poderoso del lugar, pero éste se interpone en su camino y envía a su hija de vacaciones. Entonces, Joe se lía con Alice (Simone Signoret), una mujer madura cuya experiencia y sofisticación lo fascinan hasta tal punto que llega a pedirle que deje a su marido. Sin embargo, ciertas circunstancias hacen que los planes de Joe den un giro radical.
Elizabeth Proctor
Salem, 1692. El agricultor John Proctor ha hecho el amor dos veces con Abigail, una joven de 17 años que él y su esposa han acogido. Su esposa Elisabeth lo ha estado rechazando durante siete meses, por su puritanismo y frialdad. Cuando Elisabeth encuentra a John abrazando a Abigail, echa a la muchacha de su casa y John, sintiéndose condenado, está de acuerdo. Abigail jura venganza. Su oportunidad llega cuando acusa a Elisabeth de brujería y manipula a las niñas más jóvenes para apoyar sus afirmaciones de ver espíritus. El ministro de la ciudad y los políticos quieren una causa: liberar al pueblo de la brujería. John también es acusado; Abigail le ofrece una manera de evitar la horca. Elisabeth tiene su propia confesión.
The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956.
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Djin
En un país hispanoamericano, Shark, un aventurero europeo, se enfrenta a la represión encabezada por el capitán Ferrero. Tras varias peripecias, Shark huye en una embarcación con la prostituta Djin, el rebelde Castin, el padre Lizzardi y la joven María. En la huida, los prófugos tendrán que enfrentarse a los peligros de la selva amazónica y a las pasiones que se desatan entre ellos.
Nicole Horner
El director de un colegio, el señor Delasalle, convive con su esposa y su amante, la profesora Horner. Pero las dos mujeres, cansadas de sufrir la constante tiranía y malos tratos del hombre que comparten, deciden que esa situación no puede continuar.
Thérèse Raquin
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Émile Zola. Thérèse lleva una vida gris y monótona. Está casada con su primo Camille, que es un hombre de temperamento brusco y dominante, todo lo contrario del hombre apasionado que ella necesita. Por eso, cuando llega el camionero Laurent, consigue seducirla.
Marie
París, 1900. Marie, una bella prostituta, es la amante de uno de los hombres de la banda de Felix; pero, sorprendentemente, acabará encontrando el verdadero amor en un sencillo carpintero. Su amante, celoso, lo provoca, y ambos se enzarzan en una terrible pelea.
Isabelle Leritz
A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.
Une journaliste au journal (uncredited)
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Denise Vernon
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
Denise Vernon
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van.
Léocadie, la prostitutée
En Viena, en la primavera de 1900, el soldado Franz conoce a Leocadia, una prostituta, pero acaba liándose con una criada, que pronto pasa a manos del señorito Alfred, el cual mantiene también un affaire con Emma, una mujer casada, cuyo millonario marido se entretiene con una modista que está enamorada del poeta Robert, amante de una gran actriz encaprichada con un joven teniente de dragones.
Yvonne
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
Dora
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.
Anne-Marie / Marianne
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Dédée, une entraîneuse soutenue par Marco
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
Michèle Denis
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Hélène
The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activities. With a young journalist, her fiancé, she discovers his hideout.
Gisèle
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...
Lily, la cabaretière
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Annette
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
Woman (uncredited)
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!
La danseuse à la taverne
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
Liliane Moraccini
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marriage to a young man she loves, whom she will however end up marrying. The young girl herself is not without reproach; she has missed a mother's love: in this ordeal, she has no sense of feminine dignity.
Une étudiante (uncredited)
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
Gypsy (uncredited)
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
Extra (uncredited)
En 1485, el Demonio envía al mundo a dos emisarios, Dominique y Gilles, que se presentan en el castillo del Barón de Hughes, que está celebrando el compromiso de su hija con el caballero Renaud. Como Gilles, en contra de los planes de su Señor, se enamora de la joven, el Diablo acaba presentándose en el castillo adoptando la figura de un viajero.
Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.
Une employée de maison de couture
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.
