Sami Frey

Emmanuelle Blachey es una brillante ingeniera que ha conseguido escalar y finalmente entrar en el comité ejecutivo de su empresa, el gigante francés de la energía. Un día, una red de mujeres influyentes le propone ayuda para conquistar la dirección de una importante empresa que cotiza en bolsa. Esto la convertiría en la primera mujer en ocupar un puesto de tal calibre. Pero en las esferas aún dominadas por los hombres, los obstáculos de tipo profesional y personal se multiplican. La conquista se anunciaba triunfal, pero en realidad se trata de una guerra.

Julien y Marguerite de Ravalet, hijos del señor de Tourlaville, se aman tiernamente desde la infancia. Pero, al crecer, esa ternura se convierte en pasión insaciable. Su aventura escandaliza a la sociedad, que los persigue. Incapaces de resistirse a sus sentimientos, deciden huir.

A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor and Rousseau expert to try to explain how this boy could possibly know so much about a philosopher who died over a hundred years before he was even born. What unfolds is a story about friendship, nature, and the unequal distribution of wealth.

A sus 35 años, Sam se ha convertido en un magnífico abridor de cajas fuertes. Entre su hijo que tiene que criar sólo, su abuelo que espera que vaya a trabajar con él en la empresa familiar y su novia, ya harta de sus embustes, Sam trata desesperadamente de hacerse Mensch, de ser un hombre de provecho.

La ciudad de Santa María está sumidiéndose en el caos mientras una facción militar está lista para tomar el poder en un golpe de estado. Ossorio, un hombre que solía llamar hogar a Santa María, vuelve a la ciudad en el momento más oscuro, decidido a rescatar a la mujer que ama de un triste destino en manos de una violenta mafia. Mientras Ossorio busca a su amor, conoce a Victoria en un desvencijado hotel, que a su vez le presenta a su padre Barcala, quien a cambio de dinero está dispuesto a llevar a Ossorio y otro pasajero en su barco, para escapar de la ciudad. Ossorio está decidido a pagar lo que le piden, ¿pero logrará encontrar a la mujer antes de que el barco zarpe?

Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman and his horse

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?

Anthony Zimmer es un consumado estafador que está en el punto de mira de todas las policías del mundo. Nadie conoce su aspecto. Sin embargo, en la carrera que enfrenta a todos los que quieren darle caza, hay alguien que juega con ventaja. Se trata de Akerman, un policía bastante peculiar: él sabe que Zimmer arriesgaría hasta su vida por ver de nuevo a Chiara. Un buen día, la joven se cita con el inaccesible delincuente, pero sólo recibe un mensaje de su parte. Con el fin de confundir a sus perseguidores, Zimmer le pide a Chiara que aborde a un desconocido para que todos crean que es la persona que andan buscando. Chiara le echa el ojo a François, un hombre normal y corriente que en seguida queda fascinado por la joven...

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.

The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion photography, with a selection of images from throughout his career, including material from his films. Though Klein claims roots in areas as diverse as painting, street photography, the tabloids, and B movies, his fashion work has been known since the fifties and sixties and has been a constant in his career.

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.

This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan's first assignment is to kill the gambling rival of the count in a duel; Nathan obeys, but gets wounded in the process. Still he makes it back to his master and is expecting a generous reward. Instead, the count reviles the knight, invokes Louis XIII's ban on dueling, and orders Nathan beheaded. Nathan will have none of that. Despite his bleeding abdominal wound, he escapes into the countryside. Initially he finds shelter with his lifelong friend, a chalk maker; he then goes on to one of his patrons, an artist. Nathan is relegated to living in a humble hut in the wilds. Eventually he meets an impoverished noblewoman, Marhte de Lairac.

En 1645, D'Artagnan envia a su hija Eloïse a un convento, donde presencia el asesinato de la madre superiora. Sospechando que este crimen está relacionado con un complot contra el Delfín (el heredero del trono francés), va a París y convence a su padre de que la Corona de Francia está en peligro. Con la ayuda de sus viejos y ya achacosos amigos (Athos, Porthos y Aramis), D'Artagnan pondrá al descubierto el complot del duque de Crassac. (FILMAFFINITY)

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.

"A man stands amid unpacked boxes in his new home, delivering an extended monologue on indecision and dislocation. This rarely seen, overlooked gem created by Akerman for television explores the quotidian crises and profound feelings of alienation that run through her work." - BAM

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.

The tale of two lovers spending time in Rome when, suddenly, in a restaurant, the man believes he recognizes the voice of a woman he once loved... remembrances and dreams of past love ensue.

En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.

La larga amistad entre Martha y Anna se rompe cuando Victor abandona a la primera por la segunda. Martha, desesperada, se va a África en busca de un antiguo amor.

A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors and friends of the author (Michael Lonsdale, Marina Vlady, Alain Cuny, Sami Frey, Edith Scob, Harry Mathews and others).

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?

Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)

Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish photographer (Krystyna Janda) and her married French lover Paul (Sami Frey). The two rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before Malgorzata has to go back to Warsaw and Paul returns to his wife and daughter.

Alex Barnes es una agente federal volcada en su trabajo y sin tiempo para su vida privada, cosa que no dejan de reprocharle sus superiores. Su trabajo se complicará aún más cuando descubra, casi por casualidad, la muerte, en muy poco tiempo, de dos ricos hombres de negocios entre los cuales, al menos aparentemente, no hay ninguna relación.

She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...

Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".

Every Saturday, to the great despair of his wife, Emmanuel finds his daughter Elise, fruit of a first union. A demanding and excessive father in his passions, he went to lay a loving trap for Elise.

A Charlie, una joven actriz de EE. UU. pro-palestina, le ofrecen un suculento contrato para rodar en Grecia un anuncio para la TV. Al poco tiempo, descubre que todo el grupo es en realidad un comando de Israel que pretende reclutarla para que luche junto a ellos.

Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

Beauvoir, alias "el Ojo", es un detective privado al que asignan un caso teóricamente muy sencillo: unos acaudalados padres desean que investigue a la novia de su hijo. Siguiendo a la pareja, que se ha ido de fin de semana, es testigo del asesinato del joven por parte de la chica; pero, en vez de avisar a la policía, Beauvoir decide seguirla.

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

François, a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered and secure and perhaps feels a bit claustrophobic. When he observes that a murderer has been declared psychologically incompetent and is to be placed in a mental institution, probably for the rest of his life, François feels the murder's plight very keenly. As time goes by, the murderer's situation is more and more unbearable to him, and he breaks off his engagement. Afterward, he has a liaison with a girl he has not known before, an act that somehow frees him. Now he wants to free the murderer somehow.

A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly leaves and those remaining in the relationship become quite tense. Fortunately the fellow returns with another, more conventional fellow. Eventually the three persuade him to join them.

Muy afectado por el suicidio de un paciente, un psiquiatra va a reunirse con su hijo, quien vive con su madre. Un día, uno de sus amigos le asesina. El psiquiatra entabla amistad con el asesino.

En Ginebra, el librero y editor Axel Thorpe atrapa el robo y robo robo en una tienda de Sibylle Ashby de 16 años. Ella se jacta de sus escritos, así que él la desafía a producir un libro. Ella escribe una novela erótica que Thorpe publica de forma anónima, y ​​se convierte en un éxito de ventas. Ella también trata de capturar el amor de esta editorial de 40 años. Cuando la deja por su hermana mayor, ¿debería buscar venganza o recobrarla? En los argumentos secundarios, se lleva mal con su hermana y su padre, y alienta el romance de su madre con la hermana de su padre. Axel también tiene problemas además de la decidida Sibylle: debe aceptar la muerte por ahogamiento de su madre hace años.

Un asesino a sueldo que liquida a sus víctimas sin el menor remordimiento entra en el tranquilo mundo de una mujer y se enamora, con trágicas consecuencias.

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.

La ganadora del concurso Miss Virginidad Mundial se casa, se escapa de su marido masoquista y termina involucrada en un mundo de libertinaje.

Mathieu is collected from the hospital by his wife, and dropped of at an apartment. His wife returns home to their son. The next time she sees him, he confesses that he is in love with another woman. This woman, who is identical to his wife, visits him. After making love, she leaves. She then returns. Mathieu shoots her - or does he shoot a mirror?

On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.

Rosalie, una mujer divorciada con una hija pequeña, divide su tiempo entre su familia y César, el hombre del que cree estar enamorada. Cuando Rosalie conoce a David, su plácida vida se verá alterada por su incapacidad para elegir entre los dos hombres.

In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move on and all elements for a tragedy are there.

David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.

Finales del siglo XVIII, Revolución Francesa. A Nicolás Philibert lo persigue la justicia por el asesinato de un barón. Pero también lo persiguen por haber traído de América trigo envenenado. Después de mil peripecias y aventuras, regresa al hogar donde encontrará de nuevo el amor.

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until the final scene where everyone seems to rally to a common idea.

Mister Freedom es un superhéroe americano que, en nombre de Dios y de su país, roba, viola y mata a cualquiera que esté en desacuerdo con él. Cuando se entera de que Francia corre el peligro de caer en manos de los comunistas, se va allí para impedirlo.

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.

Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.

Klein obtuvo el premio Jean Vigo con Polly Maggoo, su primer largometraje de ficción. Utilizando la animación, los números musicales y la foto fija, realiza una crónica ácida de la realidad, que sigue siendo válida en la actualidad. Se trata de una sátira elegante del mundo de la moda a través del retrato glamouroso y grotesco de una joven originaria de Brooklyn, exitosa modelo en París, que se convierte en el tema central del programa de televisión ¿Quién es usted?.

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.

Tres jóvenes (Odile, Arthur y Franz) se conocen en clase de inglés e inmediatamente se hacen amigos. Los tres comparten su interés por la literatura criminal.

Tibère es un joven traficante, simpático y encantador. Con el fin de enviar un cargamento de oro a Bombay ha de seducir a una azafata, pero el amor hará acto de aparición...

Lucía es una mujer madura que mantiene una relación sentimental con el joven Juan. Cuando éste aparece asesinado en una plaza de toros con una puntilla clavada en el pecho, Lucía es la principal sospechosa, pues se cree que el movil del crimen se debe a los celos que ésta sentía por su hija Marta, la cual había sido seducida también por Juan.

Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor francés François Mauriac. Cuando Thérèse Desqueyroux es absuelta por un tribunal de haber intentado envenenar a su marido Bernard, recapitula los acontecimientos que la condujeron a ser acusada de intento de asesinato. La gris y monótona vida provinciana y unas convenciones sociales asfixiantes la llevaron a contraer matrimonio con un hombre anódino e inspido, al cual sólo le preocupaba mantener sus propiedades y el buen nombre de la familia. El enigma consiste en saber si se trató de un accidente, si Thérése aumentó premeditadamente la dosis de la medicina que Bernard tomaba o si lo planeó inconscientemente.

Cleo, una joven cantante, espera impaciente los resultados de un examen médico. Cuando una adivina que lee las cartas le revela que tiene cáncer y que puede morir, su inquietud aumenta. Tratando de ocupar su tiempo a la espera de los resultados, Cleo conoce a un joven soldado, a punto de partir para hacer el servicio militar en Argelia, al que confía su temor a la muerte.

Salvatori pays a visit to his old ma who is bedridden in a gloomy old people’s home. He promises her that pretty soon he’ll be rich and they’ll live together in their house. The young man is hired as a catering assistant in a desirable mansion, but the owner of the place is dying. The wife and the daughter are trying to regain the old man’s love and affection while the son is busy gathering his friends for a feast.

A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.

Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.

Un gamberro romano está más interesado por ir de juerga y una novia dedicada al strip tease que en ganarse la vida.

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.

Dominique Marceau es juzgada por el asesinato de Gilbert Tellier, un músico lleno de talento recién salido del Conservatorio. Los abogados intentan encontrar un móvil que explique su conducta. ¿Pasión, venganza o accidente? Entre los testigos están los conocidos de Gilbert, los antiguos amantes de Dominique y, además, su hermana Anne, estudiante de violín y prometida de Gilbert. Los datos que van proporcionando los testigos permiten reconstruir las personalidades de Dominique y Gilbert y son más útiles que las elocuentes alegaciones de los abogados.

Un joven y desafortunado ladrón de Amberes, que trabaja para una banda liderada por Taretta, se pelea con su jefe y lo mata durante una pelea. Con la ayuda de su hermana, trata de deshacerse del cuerpo en el puerto, pero atrae la atención de un vigilante nocturno que busca sacar provecho de la situación.

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.