Richard Bohringer

Richard Bohringer

Nacimiento : 1942-01-16, Moulins, Allier, France

Historia

Actor francés nacido en Moulins. Es un artista en el más amplio sentido de la palabra, actor, director de cine, guionista, cantante, escritor y poeta. Debutó en el teatro a finales de los años 60. Después de un camino errático, en 1980, se da a conocerse en el cine gracias a la película Diva (1981). Ganador de múltiples premios, entre ellos dos Césares, en 1988 publica su libro C’est beau une ville la nuit, inspirado en sus periodos difíciles y problemas de drogadicción, y que fue llevado al cine en 2006, bajo la dirección del mismo Bohringer. También se dedicó a la canción y llegó a publicar tres álbumes entre 1990 y 2002. Enamorado del continente africano y de su música, obtiene la nacionalidad senegalesa en 2002. A lo largo de su vida ha actuado en más de ochenta películas, ha hecho varias apariciones en televisión, dirigido, actuado en piezas de teatro, grabado discos, escrito novelas logrando ser una referencia constante en el mundo artístico francés.

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Richard Bohringer
Richard Bohringer

Películas

The Heroics
Claude
Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the baby he just had with his ex, and fights not to make the same mistakes and be a good guy.
Victorious Square
Le propriétaire de l'appartement
An improbable encounter between Bruno, in his forties marginalized by professional and family setbacks, and Gagic, little street boy, mischievous and pilferer. Bruno will gradually come to the surface, guided by this little solar boy, full of mischief and poetry.
Un acuerdo original
Le père de Romane
Romane y Philippe se separan. Después de 10 años juntos, dos niños y un perro, ya no se aman. Ya no están enamorados. Pero se aman, de todos modos. Bajo la atenta mirada de quienes los rodean, comienzan una peculiar separación: viven en dos apartamentos separados, que se comunican a través de la habitación de sus hijos.
La enfermedad del domingo
Matthieu
Anabel abandonó a su hija Chiara cuando esta apenas tenía ocho años. Treinta y cinco años después Chiara regresa con una extraña petición para su madre; le pide que pasen diez días juntas. Anabel ve en ese viaje la oportunidad para recuperar a su hija, pero no sabe que Chiara tiene un propósito oculto y que tendrá que enfrentarse a la decisión más importante de su vida.
La enfermedad del domingo
Mathieu
Anabel abandonó a su hija Chiara cuando esta apenas tenía ocho años. Treinta y cinco años después Chiara regresa con una extraña petición para su madre; le pide que pasen diez días juntas. Anabel ve en ese viaje la oportunidad para recuperar a su hija, pero no sabe que Chiara tiene un propósito oculto y que tendrá que enfrentarse a la decisión más importante de su vida.
Vénéneuses
Robert Bongrand
An aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde who asks him to kill her uncle (Richard Bohringer) because he guards her money but prevents her from using it. She asks the gangster to kill him and that way she won't turn the gangster in - she knows he's escaped. The gangster prepares to kill the uncle, except that he realizes he's a very good guy. He becomes friends with the uncle. He won't kill him and will simulate the murder.
Asesinato en Bastia
Xavier Monti
Un hombre de negocios, es encontrado asesinado en el muelle del puerto de Toga. Para la comandante Gabrielle Monti, este es el primer caso desde su regreso a casa. La investigadora advierte inmediatamente un detalle preocupante: las orejas de la víctima han sido cortadas...
Frente al mar
Patrice
El escritor estadounidense Roland y Vanessa, un matrimonio en crisis, llegan a un bonito y tranquilo pueblo francés en los años setenta. La pareja empieza a resolver sus problemas al conocer mejor a los recién casados Lea y François, así como al resto de vecinos del pueblo, entre los que se encuentran Michael y Patrice.
Le mystère des jonquilles
Merlin
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
Dors mon lapin
Commissaire Bolzer
It's the story of a young married man name Lionel who is swamped by colossal debts and whose wife is soon to give birth. At his wits' end, he decides one day to commit an irreparable act and kidnaps his millionnaire neighbors' 1-year-old baby. He demands a small ransom of €60,000. But Lionel is no criminal and all his attempts at exchanging his hostage for money fail. Meanwhile, he becomes increasingly attached to the baby. When he at last manages to get the money, he must come to terms with releasing his hostage.
Le Renard jaune
Charles Senac
Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regularly insult him. One morning he is found dead in his home. For inspector Giraud, it is clear that the culprit is among the customers of "Le Renard jaune".
Tied
Le mari
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.
Paris by Night
Marco Lindner
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
Louise's Diary 1942
Marcel
An old man reads the diary of a young Jewish woman living at the time of the Nazi Occupation, sixty years ago. Sarah Rosemblum, 25, was young, beautiful and in love… with a German officer named Hans. Under a false name, Sarah lives under the protection of Huguette, a cabaret singer who makes a habit of hiding Jews and helping them to escape to England. In Huguette’s remote house, Sarah and Hans are able to pursue their romantic idyll, unaware that they are being spied on by Robert, a 16-year-old who is secretly in love with Sarah, and Huguette’s mother, who is still mourning her son’s death. With the world closing in on them, Sarah and Hans know that they must take flight, whilst they still have time…
El Almirante
General Maurice Zhannen
Guerra civil rusa (1918-1920). Drama histórico basado en la figura de Aleksandr Vasilievich Kolschak, comandante y explorador del Ejército Blanco, que se enfrentó, en Siberia, al Ejército Rojo (organizado por Trotski) durante la guerra civil rusa. Kolschak era un antibolchevique convencido y partidario a ultranza del zarismo. Hombre casado, tendrá también que combatir un amor prohibido: Anna, la joven mujer de otro oficial, a la que conoció cuando conducía sus tropas hacia Siberia.
A City Is Beautiful at Night
Richard
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
A City Is Beautiful at Night
Director
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
Pom, le poulain
Julien
Description : In the forest the mare Mirabelle has more than one reason to be proud : she's the mother of Pom and the best horse in the team to help the forestry workers. She loves towing the cut trunks with the other horses and the dockers. But then, she's held wrongly responsible for an accident in which the boss's son has got injured. She's sold and separated from her foal.
Capitaines des ténèbres
Le colonel Klobb
In 1899, a French military column, led by Captains Julien Chanoine and Paul Voulet, set out to conquer Lake Chad in order to unite the French colonial empire. The two captains were violent and ruthless towards the local populations and their colonial soldiers. The Voulet-Chanoine mission sinks further and further into unknown Niger territory while the lack of food supplies is felt. Little by little, Voulet falls into a megalomaniac delirium.
Cavalcade
le Dr Desmouches
Hay hombres que lo tienen todo, y otros que tienen aún más. Leo es de los últimos. Noctámbulo convencido, ligón impenitente y figura de la « Jet Set », Leo devora la vida con la que muchos sueñan, hasta el día en que todo se le viene abajo, una mañana, al fondo de un precipicio … Para Leo comienza una nueva vida, con un cuerpo que ya no le obedece. Como se creyó muerto, se descubre vivo. Como no siempre supo amar, aprecia lo que cuenta de verdad. El accidente, en su caso, en vez de marcar un final marca la trayectoria de un hombre que sin siquiera darse cuenta y en medio de los suyos trata de reapropiarse de todo. Cavalcade es una historia real, adaptada de la novela autobiográfica de Bruno de Stabenrath.
La petite Fadette
le père Barbeau
Landry and Sylvinet are identical twins who are distraught when they are separated at the age of fourteen. Sent to work on the neighboring farm because phylloxera has ruined his father's vines, Sylvain, the stronger of the two brothers, recovers from the shock but not Sylvinet, who keeps moaning and sulking. Caillaud, the rich farmer who employs Landry is pleased with the way Landry works and lets him woo his daughter Madelon. Some day, due to a misunderstanding between the twins, Sylvinet runs away from home and disappears in the forest. And while Landry tries to find him in the woods he is helped by a little savage, Fadette, who lives there with her spiteful grandmother and her mentally retarded brother. Against all odds, Landry will gradually for this dirty little wild child.
Los zumbaos
Francois Bricard
Maurice es un chaval de la Dordogne (Francia) con la cabeza llena de sueños y una gran pasión: la música. Él y su mejor amigo han formado un grupo musical sin muchas perspectivas de futuro. Un fin de semana, durante una actuación en una fiesta, se cruzan con una pareja de jóvenes parisinos. Maurice cae loco por la chica, pero el novio se pone en marcha con su descapotable y huye con ella. Maurice propone a su amigo ir a París en su búsqueda y, a la vez, intentar triunfar con su pequeña banda musical. En la gran ciudad van a intentar llevar a cabo sus sueños y van a pasar en blanco las noches yendo a fiestas desmadradas, haciendo nuevos amigos e impregnándose de nuevos sonidos y nuevas culturas.
Gripe Aviar Virus mortal
Lucas
Golpea sin avisar. Se extiende sin detención. Mata sin compasión... Un nuevo virus mortal se está extendiendo a una velocidad incontrolable, infectando a los humanos por medio de la gripe. Una pista lleva a los científicos al otro lado del mundo donde descubren que este virus está siendo portado por las aves migratorias, por lo que tienen una carrera contrarreloj para localizar una vacuna para este brote epidérmico y pararlo antes de que la epidemia sea una amenaza para toda la población mundial...
Wanted
Bastaldi
Un banda de poca monta de ladrones de Francia viaja a Chicago para perpetrar uno de sus golpes, pero tienen la mala suerte de robar al capo de la mafia de Chicago. Poco acostumbrados al funcionamiento del hampa estadounidense, pronto deben huir de la mafia, de la policía y de un par de cuadrillas de calle. Su objetivo es regresar a París lo más rápido posible, con la mafia y el FBI persiguiéndoles los talones, y con una pareja de gánsters callejeros que les harán la vida imposible.
Carrot Top
Monsieur Lepic
A good-natured kid struggles to earn his mother's love without much success.
Carrot Top
Director
A good-natured kid struggles to earn his mother's love without much success.
Au bout du rouleau
An aging captain who has spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to do one last race for a crooked shipowner.
The Overeater
Émile Lachaume
Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a large isolated house. Séléna is the only person who knows that Elsa was guilty of the murder of her uncle, a wealthy shipowner. Fascinated by the young woman’s beauty, he offers her a strange deal: in exchange for his silence, he demands that she dines with him every night for a year.
Total Khéops
Fabio Montale
A man is murdered soon after getting out of jail. His longtime friend, a cop, sets out to find out who did it and why.
Transfixed
Huysmans
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
Une fille dans l'azur
Sila
Retour à la vie
Le coursier
Louise, a young deaf and dumb comedian, has just been named best actress of the year. She is married to Yann, twenty years her senior. But their relationship is conflicting. It seems that Yann takes a malicious pleasure in psychologically torturing Louise. A whirlwind of uncertainties where dreams collide with nightmares, anguish, submission, sadism... Louise confides in Stephanie, her best friend, who advises her to flee. Louise refuses, convinced of a better future. One evening, while Yann tortures her once again, she kills him.
Sin reglas
Ramirez
Tras varios años entre rejas por un trabajo fallido, Pitou vuelve a Marsella, donde descubre que su hermano se ha casado con su ex novia, y que su mejor amigo se ha convertido en un jefe mafioso. Cuando además se ve implicado en un asesinato, Pitou se esconde en un duro barrio de inmigrantes en el que existen reglas propias..
Rembrandt
Le prêcheur
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
Les coquelicots sont revenus
Pierre
Les coquelicots sont revenus
Writer
Comme une bête
25 years ago, Leo was born in a monkey orphanage his father was running. When he passed away and the orphanage went to the indonesian locals, Leo felt left out and decided to travel to France, to civilization. His father only tought him poetry and music: he's not a savage but he only sees our world with a kind and naive eye. In France, he'll meet real people, with all their flaws.
Opera ball
Michel Reboisson
The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...
Animales Salvajes
Boss
Un surcoreano llamado Chung-hae viaja a París con la intención de estudiar arte, pero la realidad se impone al deseo y el joven acaba dedicándose a realizar pequeñas estafas para sobrevivir. Conoce a Hong-sang, un ciudadano norcoreano que pretende escapar del ejército norcoreano alistándose en la Legion extranjera. Entre los dos nace una amistad sembrada de desencuentros y momentos trágicos...
Wild Games
Charles Cuvelier
Once upon a time a carnivorous advertising methodist (Richard Bohringer) finds himself stuck between floors in an old elevator. The owner of the deserted building (Ute Lemper) does not help, but plays with him like a prey trapped. To get out, he threatens, attempts to seduce, to deceive, to be honest. After this confrontation for several days...
Would I Lie to You?
Victor Benzakhem
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community
Last Trading Post in India
In October 1954, a few days before the departure of the French from Pondicherry to the new Indian Republic, Stanislas Charvin, a young European born in India but raised in France by his grandmother, arrives, impatient, with the sole objective of bringing his mother's remains back to France. Through this initiatory journey, he will find a hated father, meet love, learn terrible revelations about his mother's existence and discover a world more modern than he thought.
Saraka Bo
A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborhood in Paris. The corpses of the two masked Malian women were discovered ritually mutilated and hanging from a ceiling. The detectives' search leads them to a Malian father and his 18-year-old daughter. The father confesses to the crime, but further investigation reveals that he is lying. Even more puzzled than before, the two investigators consult a noted professor who tries to help them understand the true nature of the crime. The story is based on a book by controversial French academic Tobie Nathan, a self-proclaimed "ethno-psychiatrist," who has been researching the problems experienced by France's many immigrants, particularly African ones, as they wrestle with the clash between their native beliefs and their new culture.
Tykho Moon
Glenbarr
Todos los hombres de la familia McBee sufren una misteriosa enfermedad y necesitan un trasplante de órganos. El donante perfecto es Tykho Moon, que probablemente ha sido asesinado, aunque según ciertos rumores sigue vivo.
Lucky Punch
Abel Ginoux
Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.
Unpredictable Nature of the River
Le commandant de Blanet
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
Lulu, roi de France
Lulu Hastier
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Serge
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
Le Sourire
Jean-Jean
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
El perfume de Yvonne
Yvonne's Uncle
Una pareja se conoce y se convierten en amantes durante un verano. No saben mucho el uno del otro, pero no les importa, no les interesa descubrir más allá de su erótica relación, más allá de los misterios que parecen esconder fuera de la habitación del hotel donde se aman.
L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Didier Ancelot
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
La lumière des étoiles mortes
Beyerath
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.
The Heart's Cry
Paulo
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose first 11 years were spent in a small village in Mali, is having difficulty adjusting to his new life in Paris. After several years in Paris, Moctar suddenly sees a terrible hyena in the street. When Moctar tries to explain his vision, he becomes the laughingstock of his peers and a patient for the school psychologist. No one believes Moctar, not even his parents, until he is befriended by Paulo who helps Moctar understand.
La maté porque era mía
Vincent Baraduc
La mujer de Paul, cansada de que su voluble marido la engañe, lo abandona. Desde entonces, en lugar de aprovecharse de esta nueva libertad, Paul espera que vuelva, y se cansa de esperar. Pide consejo a su tío soltero, y para él sólo existe una solución: deshacerse de la mujer. Para ello utilizan a Vicente, un marido engañado.
The Accompanist
Charles Brice
En el París ocupado por los nazis, una joven acompañante llamada Sophie Vasseur consigue trabajo con la famosa cantante Irene Brice. Como Carlos, marido de Irene, un hombre de negocios colaborador con los nazis, lucha con su conciencia, Sophie se obsesiona con Irene, asumiendo el papel de sirvienta, además del de acompañante, viviendo su propia vida indirectamente a través de triunfos y asuntos de Irene.
Barjo
charles
The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.
Ville à vendre
Monnerie
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Too Close to the Gods
Ramses
Ramses is a "life organs" smugler and a millionaire. He wishes to have the tower of Babel rebuilt and hires a detective to find the architect who disappeared with the original plans.
Bienvenido a Veraz
Père de Theo
Kirk Douglas interpreta a Quintin, una especie de ermitaño ecologista cuyo único vínculo con el mundo exterior es un pastor y un joven que ha escapado de casa.
Une époque formidable…
'Toubib'
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
The White Queen
Jean Ripoche
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. The Ripoche’s ordered lives are thrown into turmoil when Jean’s former friend, Yvon Legualoudec, returns to the town – with his black wife Annabelle and their three children. Before he disappeared twenty years ago, without saying a word, Yvon was Jean’s rival for Liliane’s affections. As bitter memories resurface, the relationship between Jean, Yvon and Liliane become strained.
Ragazzi
In this very light romantic comedy, two young men who are in search of the hypothetical perfect woman believe they have found her at a wedding reception. There, they see Lisa. Alexandre is the shy one, but he is also the one with the greatest yen to meet such a woman. He and Romain track Lisa down the next day and, though she is already dating someone, when Romain approaches her, she agrees to meet the two of them at a restaurant. They are dismayed when the part-Italian girl brings her mother with her as a chaperone. Other difficulties arise as well, and they resolve that this quest is less important than their friendship. Besides, Alexandre has by now discovered the charms of Romain's younger sister.
Las damas galantes
Brantôme
Las guerras entre católicos y hugonotes en la Francia del siglo XVI envuelven las aventuras amorosas que vive un aristócrata. Después, todas esas historias quedarán plasmadas en el libro "Vida de las damas galantes". La figura de Brantôme, un memorialista del siglo XVI que vendría a ser el ìantecedente del personaje de "El amante del amor" de Truffaut, en una ìevocación moderadamente certera. Su principal problema estriba en una ìexcesiva superficialidad, pero lo compensa con un tono narrativo convincente ìy una delicada formulación estética. Film inédito en España.
Stan the Flasher
David
Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive display of genitalia. It also appears that he is unable to sexually satisfy his much younger lover, and he suspects her of having another boyfriend. He earns his living tutoring students (mostly young girls) in English literature. When, in his frustration, he gropes one of the girls in her home during a tutoring session, she protests, her father (who is at home) beats him up, and he is sentenced to a jail term. There, he is teamed up with a slightly loopy murderer. When he gets out of jail, he finds his girlfriend has left for good, and ends his life.
El cocinero, el ladrón, su mujer y su amante
Richard Boarst
Albert es el sádico dueño de un restaurante. Su fuerte carácter y las tiránicas formas que aplica en el trabajo hacen que todos los empleados estén sometidos a un continuo régimen de esclavitud, incluida su esposa, Giorgina, a quien ridiculiza.
The War Is Over
Franz-Joseph
The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon...
La soule
In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive. He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon. He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him through hell. He finds him two years later in a village in the Dordogne. Francois Lemercier is the town's shoemaker and above all the captain and hero of the local soule team, a ball game that dates back to the Middle Ages. Cursey will discover in Lemercier a man of chivalrous honor.
Ada in the Jungle
Ergomir Pilic
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
Boris
Yann, un pintor de moda, está enamorado de una mujer casada, lo que dará lugar a diversos enredos.
The Seasons of Pleasure
Adam
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense
Morin
Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.
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Inspecteur Simon
A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants to go far. Simon has no ambition and only one passion: gambling. For several months, Simon has been trying to catch the Djian brothers, young and dangerous bank robbers, in the act. He fails but discovers, through an informer, strange links between Pierre and the Djians, during his investigation which leads him back to the gambling halls. When the Djians finally fall, the treachery of Commissioner Tramoni is revealed.
Agent Trouble
Alex
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
The Grand Highway
Pelo
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Ubac
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.
Kamikaze
Romain
La muerte violenta e inexplicable ante las cámaras de lo más famosos presentadores de televisión, pone jaque al gobierno y a las fuerzas de policía del país. Tras estos crímenes se oculta un asesino invisible, una mente genial, pervertida por la sed de venganza. Un nuevo método para matar que pone en peligro la seguridad del estado mismo.
Cent francs l'amour
Maurice Mainfroy
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anything to buy Jérémy’s company. When his relationship with his girlfriend starts to fall apart, the young photographer visits a peepshow and is at once struck by the beauty of one of the performers, Otie. He uses the money Maurice gave him to pay for further visits to the sex shop...
El Paltoquet
le docteur
Al anochecer, se reúne en un bar un grupo de personas que tienen una pasión común: el juego, el azar. Un periodista, un médico, un profesor y un comerciante juegan bajo la atenta mirada del dueño del local. Una noche, llega un inspector de policía que les comunica que se ha cometido un asesinato. Él está seguro de que el culpable es uno de los jugadores, pero debe averiguar cuál de ellos.
Les Folles Années du Twist
Gomez
Diesel
Walter
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
Folie suisse
Adrien Daubigny
Le pactole
Yves Beaulieu
Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted by Inspector Rousselet (Patrick Sébastien), he is subjected to a mysterious blackmail and tries to escape justice to profit from the fruits of his crime.
Subway (En busca de Freddy)
Le Fleuriste
Fred (Christopher Lambert) vive en el metro de París y sobrevive a base de pequeños robos. Héléna (Isabelle Adjani) es la bella esposa de un millonario al que Fred acaba de robar. Ella necesita recuperar los documentos robados; él quiere casarse con ella y montar un grupo de rock con un batería (Jean Reno) y un bajo (Éric Serra). Con la mafia y la policía siguiéndoles los talones, ambos buscan refugio en el laberinto del metro. Así empieza una aventura por un mundo subterráneo, poblado por los seres más extraños. (FILMAFFINITY)
Death in a French Garden
Daniel Forest
Una magnate y su joven mujer Julia contratan a David Aurphet para que enseñe guitarra a Vivianne, su hija adolescente. Un día Julia seduce a David...
The Judge
Le commissaire Lucien Innocenti
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
El diablo y la dama
Él
The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
L'Addition
Lorca
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous public prosecutor! Once incarcerated, the poor comedian has to deal with the harassment of one of the guards, a kind of dangerous sociopath frustrated with life.
Quidam
Antoine Rimbaud
In a small, gloomy town, a killer is on the prowl, forcing the residents to shut themselves away in their homes. Despite this oppressive climate, Wendy continues to receive her lover in her home and to revel in an impossible love. But one night, the dangerous criminal sees the young widow at her window and decides to knock on her door.
Salt on the Skin
Julien
After a computer operator has been through a painful relationship, he is determined to look the other way every time any interesting woman enters his life. He has his other loves - photography and model planes - to challenge him anyway. However, one day a car breaks down in front of his house, and a young mother with her 10-year-old daughter come in looking for assistance. The daughter is endearing and would make a terrific subject for a photo contest. As both the young mother and the computer operator studiously ignore the flicker of romantic sparks, it is only a matter of time before the flame either grows or is extinguished.
Le destin de Juliette
Juliette is a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a marriage of convenience with Marcel , a morose and laconic railway worker whom she does not even know. Now that her own life is permanently changed, her sacrifice does not ultimately help her family and with that sorrow added to her lonely existence, she is trapped into remaining married because of social pressures and soon enough, the birth of a child. There must surely be a way out for her at some point, but when and how that will happen seems completely up to fate alone.
Ballade à blanc
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Polo
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
Cap Canaille
Robert Vergès
Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
I Married a Shadow
Frank
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Transit
François Cremer
François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is being followed and threatened by former acquaintances. Alone against all, he has no other recourse than to ask for help to a radio hostess, who had orchestrated a campaign for his release. She becomes frightened and refuses to help him, but he forces her to follow him in his escape. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
La expiación
Le Sacristain
Clan Bettoun: Raymond (el patriarca), Maurice (hijo), Jacky (el sobrino), Roland (el sobrino), Albert (primo de Raymond), Pepe (el amigo de Raymond), Samy (la guardia cuerpo) son un clan familiar de los agresores los pies de negro los judíos de la delincuencia organizada francés. Leurs activités sont la gestion de casinos. Sus actividades son la gestión de casinos, juego de la organización de boxeo clandestino de juegos de azar, ilegal, el proxenetismo, la extorsión y el ajuste de cuentas sangriento contra otros clanes en árabe y francés.
Café Plongeoir
The sky is blue above the tiled swimming-pool... In this smooth and impersonal setting, a watcher and a changing-room attendant chase and overbid each other in the hope of eventually finding a way out. With the passing hours, hope is repeatedly broken and rebuilt.
The Hippies
Paul
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
Los unos y los otros
Richard
Cuatro familias de distinta nacionalidad (rusa, alemana, americana y francesa), apasionadas por la música, ven cómo la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) trastorna sus vidas y sus carreras musicales. (FILMAFFINITY)
La Diva
Gorodish
Un joven mensajero motociclista parisino hace una copia de contrabando ilegal de su cantante de ópera favorita en un concierto en directo. Cuando la cinta es accidentalmente sustituida por una cinta de vigilancia que incrimina a unos famosos gángsteres, dos asesinos psicópatas son enviados a la caza del mensajero
La fiesta
Guibert, moving friend
Vic tiene 13 años y es nueva en el instituto, pero pronto se hace amiga de Penélope. Las dos están ansiosas por encontrar un chico del que enamorarse; el problema es que los padres de Vic no la dejan todavía ir a fiestas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Inspector Blunder
Un flic
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
El último metro
Gestapo Officer
Durante la ocupación de París por las tropas alemanas, un grupo de actores trata de sacar adelante una obra de teatro. Nadie sospecha que, en el sótano del edificio, se oculta el director del grupo, un hombre de origen judío que desde su escondrijo dirige la obra a través de las indicaciones que da a su mujer, que es la protagonista.
Los cateados
le pion
La directora de un colegio privado, tras el fracaso del anterior año escolar, donde hubo un cero por ciento de titulados en el Bachiller, decide maximizar la disciplina y el control. Firmes normas de vestuario, cámaras de seguridad en las clases, detectores de humo en los lavabos para que los estudiantes no fumen, y severas técnicas de aprendizaje, pero, debido a los graves problemas de conducta de los estudiantes, todos estos intentos parecen resultar en vano...
Alors... Heureux ?
Le médecin-chef
Martin and Lea
Lucien
A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
El animal
L'assistant-réalisateur
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) es un especialista que trabaja con su novia Jane (Raquel Welch). El día de su boda, los productores obligan a Mike y Jane a hacer una escena peligrosa para una película en la que están trabajando. Mike, molesto, no mira la carretera y tiene un accidente, lo que hace que terminen en un hospital. Cuando les dan el alta, Jane no quiere hablar con Mike, por lo que él decide conseguirle un trabajo en una película en la que él también trabaja.
El castigo
Writer
Britt es una prostituta de lujo. Ella trabaja para Manuel, un proxeneta hiper sádico. Debido a que no ha soportado uno de sus clientes, Manuel decidió imponer un "castigo". Se la llevará a Lyon donde es secuestrada con otras prostitutas en la gran propiedad reservada para aquellos que se niegan a obedecer. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Italian of the Roses
Raymond Menardi, the Italian
This thoughtful French film tells of the events leading to a young man's attempt at suicide. As Raymond (Richard Bohringer) sits on a ledge of his apartment building, and people try to talk him back inside, he remembers the events of his day and his life before this moment. Things seemed to be going along well enough until something triggered his revulsion at the pettiness and falseness that is the everyday currency of life.
The House
Un ami de Loraine
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
The House
Friend of Lorraine
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
La pomme ou L'histoire d'une histoire
A family's life is transformed into an object of art.
Les frangines
The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a student, named Nadine.