Self (archive footage)
En los años 70, la actriz Delphine Seyrig y la directora Carole Roussopoulos, ambas feministas militantes, fueron las pioneras del videoactivismo en Francia. Documentaron las manifestaciones de las feministas francesas y utilizaron las nuevas tecnologías para contrarrestar la escasa representación de las mujeres en los medios públicos.
Self
Mamie Michelle
Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants to phone his grandmother in Nord-pas-de-Calais, one thing leads to another and suddenly the whole family finds themselves in a holiday in northern France. For Liliane it means a reunion with her mother, for Luc and Paul the reunion with their grandmother. And then someday on the beach Luc gets to know Manuel who teaches him lessons in love, life, fun, teenagerhood and friendship.
Dedette
Betty y Victor forman una pareja bastante singular. Él es un hombre de 60 años, justo el doble que ella. Los dos recorren Francia y otros países en una caravana y participan en reuniones y congresos, donde se dedican a desvalijar a hombres ricos que son presa fácil del irresistible encanto de Betty.
The mother
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
Mayor's wife
It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the mountains, and they manage to hook up with three local youngsters. All six of them are being hunted by the Germans, and they are also being looked for by an adult who wants to take them to greater safety. Along the way, the children occasionally put on spontaneous theatricals.
Pascal is a runaway teen who wants a new identity, a new family, a new life, but cannot really escape who he is. He's living his teens between his true soul and pretended self, acting like someone else when he does not even know who he is.
Noémie
During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, where he discovers a more rigorous world.
Germaine
Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the wings for life, but it turns out to be as incongruous and phantasmagorical as her husband's plays. This is why she returns to him. "The real grand guignol is life. The other is the farce."
Lucette Beulemans
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
A young policeman searches for the murderers of his drug addict sister. While he carries out his investigations, the criminals manage to get him charged with murder.
Self / Lena (archive footage)
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
Anne
Pursued by the police, a man take refuge using menace in the appartment of a woman. Strangely, she didn't denounce him when she got the opportunity. Puzzled, he try to understand her secrets.
Marie-Pierre
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
Marion
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
A long time ago, On a french island, a bunch of villagers saved a girl from being sacrifice by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed and each years, mysterious knights comes out of the fog, while a woman disappear.
Self
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Bénédicte Pélissier
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle's outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson's "Little Mermaid," and she thinks that in Georges she's found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she's nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges' adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?
Thérèse Ragueneau
El profesor Henry Laborit explica una teoría sobre el comportamiento humano por medio del estudio de tres historias que acontecen paralelamente: René (Gérard Depardieu), empleado en una industria textil, debe afrontar la posibilidad de ser despedido. Janine (Nicole García) es una actriz que, al descubrir que la mujer de su amante está gravemente enferma, decide que él debe estar a su lado en esos momentos. Jean (Roger Pierre) es un polifacético escritor y político que debe tomar una decisión que implica renunciar a su carrera.
Living comfortably, the Rhodes family is a quiet family. What no one knows is that Mary has a lover, Clive Root. She leaves for a few days with him and tells her husband that she is visiting a friend. Her husband surprises her in Holland, but he does not suspect the truth until later, because of an anonymous letter. Which of the two Marys will she choose
Brigitte Dupuis
A couple make the decision, after twenty-five years of marriage, to live separately, so as not to fall into the trap of routine. On their wedding anniversary, Brigitte and François Dupuis announce their decision to separate, to the chagrin of their children. After twenty-five years, they chose to enjoy their life, but each on their own. Everything is going for the best. François rediscovers the life of a bachelor, meals with friends, at night with friends. Brigitte, for her part, met a movie buff whom she took as a lover. From time to time, François and Brigitte meet again. It doesn't take long for them to realize that they get along better and better ...
Anielle
Anielle is raising her 17-year-old son, Olivier. The boy is badly hurt in a motorcycle accident. It's Dr. Soltier, a customer of the garage, who intervenes. His diagnosis is severe: only an immediate operation can give him a chance to survive.
Dominique Montlaur
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Madeleine
A young miller takes under her protection an orphan brought up by an old woman.
Véronique
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
the Princess
Tullio Hermil (Giancarlo Giannini) es un hombre culto y acomodado entregado a los placeres de la vida. Entre la honorable práctica de la esgrima, la lectura y el placer carnal con su amante Teresa Raffo (Jennifer O'Neill) mantiene a su esposa Juliana (Laura Antonelli) al margen de su vida. Juliana se debate entre el murmullo social y el reconocimiento de su marido. Totalmente rechazada encuentra en un joven escritor, Filippo d'Arborio (Marc Porel) el consuelo y queda embarazada. Esto despierta en Tullio, cuyo compromiso con Juliana es inexistente, los celos y la pasión carnal correspondida entonces por su mujer, que aún cree en su matrimonio, La esperanza de Julia en esta nueva pasión le crea sentimientos contradictorios. Tullio pretende eliminar todo rastro de la relación de su mujer pero finalmente el nacimiento del niño desencadena una tormenta de pasiones y sentimientos.
Catherine
The love story between a withdrawn and taciturn teenager and a lonely woman of 20 years older. An endearing painting of an awakening to sensuality, against the backdrop of everyday life of the small provincials: Fernand, fifteen the age of stealthy glances, lies and infinite dreams is a solitary, observant, different boy from other teenagers of his age while being so close to them. Locked in his room, he collects pictures of beautiful naked actresses to drown his boredom. His desire will come true in the presence of Catherine, a rich and mysteriously lonely woman next door. As a worker's son, withdrawn and taciturn, will discover a world that is new to him. He watches, spies, observes the comings and goings of the body of hers who, in certain circumstances ignores him. Through their encounters and helping jealousy, this almost filial love will turn into an irresistible physical attraction.
The mother superior
15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.
Lucie, la femme de François
Drama sobre un grupo de amigos y sobre los valores de la vida: amistad, matrimonio, trabajo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Anne
Corinne
A film by Jean-Marie Périer.
Suzanne
El coronel Vlassov, uno de los máximos responsables de la KGB, elige la libertad y huye a Occidente facilitando a la CIA una lista de espías soviéticos que actúan en Europa. La maquinaria de la CIA se pone rápidamente en marcha, pero sin poder despejar una horrible duda: ¿Vlassov es un exiliado sincero o, por el contrario, está tramando la operación de espionaje más ambiciosa de todos los tiempos?
Alice
A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.
Hortense Berthoullet
Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.
Germaine
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Isabelle Durras
Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and lightness to the household.
Pascale
En la famosa carrera de Montecarlo participan los personajes más excéntricos que quepa imaginar, pero cada uno de ellos está dispuesto a llegar a la meta como sea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marie
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his grandson's marriage is on the brink of breakdown. He does everything to save him.
Natasha
En plena Guerra Fría, un espía estadounidense y otro soviético son engañados por un agente doble que trabaja en beneficio de una organización terrorista a la que le interesa crear un conflicto armado entre las dos grandes superpotencias. También se ven implicados en la trama un ingenuo técnico informático y una operadora telefónica de Estocolmo.
Geneviève Delpiels
George Randal es un ladrón que entiende y justifica su actividad delictiva como una forma de rebelión contra la burguesía, clase social a la que detesta. El robo es una profesión que Randal lleva ejerciendo desde niño y gracias a la cual se ha enriquecido lo suficiente para acabar, paradójicamente, viviendo al más puro estilo burgués. (FILMAFFINITY)
Juliette, the Guignol's little girl
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Parodia de la ocupación de Francia por los alemanes. Terry-Thomas es un piloto inglés que se encuentra perdido en la Francia ocupada, mientras que Bourvil y Louis de Funès son dos parisinos que, casi involuntariamente, ayudan a la resistencia contra los nazis. Un film que en Francia obtuvo un enorme éxito de taquilla.
Marie
Divine
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Jackie
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
Marie Malhouin
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with his future relatives...
Hélène, la femme d'Atkins
Junio de 1940. En las playas de Dunkerque, que han sido arrasadas por los bombardeos alemanes, miles de soldados franceses e ingleses esperan partir para Inglaterra. Tras abandonar a sus camaradas, Julien intenta embarcar con los ingleses en un carguero. (FILMAFFINITY)
La fille
París, verano de 1914. Una serie de romances son el eje de la historia.
Sophie
Julien, soltero experimentado, intenta convencer a su amigo Antoine de renunciar a su idea de casarse. Lo consigue: La noche de bodas, Antoine escapa rumbo a Oriente Próximo.
Marie (uncredited)
París 1917. Mientras se habla de una guerra que no termina, Mata Hari, un espía con un gran poder de seducción, utilizará sus encantos para conseguir arrebatar importantes secretos militares. Su principal objetivo: seducir a un capitán francés…
Herself
In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses – Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Catherine Deneuve, and Françoise Dorléac – in order to promote these young talents around the world. He took a free approach to the project, trying to capture the personality of each one, while also providing a vision of Paris as the quintessential backdrop of French cinema.
Alma
Gisèle
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, the richest person in the area, into getting him a job. But Yan is soon drawn to Maria, the sultry girl Gus lives with.
La Jeune Femme au Café (uncredited)
Pierre Wesselrin es un músico bohemio y sin dinero que vive en París. Un día, recibe un telegrama en el que se le notifica la muerte de su acaudalada tía. Como ella sólo tenía dos parientes vivos, Pierre piensa que él recibirá, al menos, parte de la herencia, así que celebra una fiesta para celebrar la noticia con sus amigos.
Thérèse
Desde que se conocieron en 1912, Jules (Oskar Werner) y Jim (Henri Serre) se convirtieron en dos inseparables amigos que un día se enamoran de la misma mujer, Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). Uno de ellos finalmente se casa con ella. Obra capital del cine francés de los sesenta, un hermoso canto al amor y la pasión.
Angela's Friend (uncredited)
Una stripper quiere tener un bebé. Sin embargo, no consigue convencer a su novio, razón por la cual decide entonces pedir ayuda a su mejor amigo...
Bénédicte de Villemaur
"Le monocle noir" es una película de espías o mejor, de agentes secretos con pocos secretos, como dice Bernard Blier en la introducción. Interpretada por un buen elenco de actores franceses identificables debajo de los Pirineos, tales como el propio Blier, Paul Meurisse, Albert Rémy (desconozco si había parentesco con el coronel), Jacques Marin y Elga Andersen, fémina cuya presencia se agradece, la película cuenta en clave de polar francés y humor británico los propósitos neonazis de un conde francés y un conjunto de “presuntos” adeptos a la causa hitleriana entre los que se cuenta el Comandante Dromard apodado “le monocle” (Paul Meurisse). (FILMAFFINITY)
Léna
Charlie Kohler, antiguamente un gran concertista de piano, trabaja ahora como pianista en un popular cabaret de una ciudad. Charlie se las ha arreglado para ocultar a todos y mantener en secreto su misterioso pasado, pero, inesperadamente, aparece uno de sus hermanos pidiéndole ayuda.
