Self
Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and unveils some of his darker sides.
Narrator
¿Quién fue realmente Salvador Dalí? ¿Qué nos queda de él? Genio artístico y mediático construyó su imagen y colocó tanto a sus obras como a él mismo en el centro. Guiado por sus obsesiones y sus fantasías, nadie trata como él la sexualidad, el deseo y el amor. Desde Freud al surrealismo, de la sexualidad al dinero y del misticismo a la ciencia el "Mito Dalí" continúa presente. (De la web de RTVE)
Narrator
A meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on restoration and the future of ruins and on modern-day life that continues in resonance with the old stones.
Self
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.
Self
Daniel
The history of women through the Middle Ages as told to and by little boys and girls and an old man (Michael Lonsdale)
Jean-Berchmans
En una llanura infinita barrida por el viento, Cochise y Gilou, dos cazadores de recompensas inseparables están buscando un teléfono robado con contenido muy importante. Su camino se cruza con el de Esther y Willy, una pareja en fuga.
Bobo and Michael Lonsdale are alone in the Château de Versailles. Together, they are walking around this ghostly place of power. The director Pippo Delbono offers a singular journey in this exceptional palace.
El sorpendente éxtito de la obra de Tolkien no se basa en una simple coincidencia. En este documental,la psicología de un hombre complejo se muestra, entre un niño soñador y un filólogo meticuloso. El resultado es una delicada biografía de la vida del autor que ha fascinado a generaciones de lectores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator
N recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th-century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N. With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death. N is both visually and musically a truly striking film. It is a multi-layered audio-visual symphony of great narrative richness. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
Cedric Rovère
Henri (Pio Marmaï) es un joven actor que sueña con participar en una película de acción y que se termina viendo las caras en el plató con un maestro del cine de autor, Cédric Rovère (Michael Lonsdale). Henri saldrá transformado de esta experiencia, que, además, será el último rodaje del cineasta.
(voice)
A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a young and radiant woman on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean in 1909...
Jean Virno
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".
Gebo
Ambientada en el siglo XIX. Un honrado y pobre patriarca se sacrifica para salvar la vida de su hijo, un fugitivo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrateur
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Francia /// París, Francia ocupada en 1942. Younes, un inmigrante argelino sin educación, trata de ganarse la vida modestamente en el mercado negro. Cuando la policía lo atrapa lo pondrá en libertad a condición de que se infiltre en la Mezquita de París y espié al rector. Una vez dentro de la mezquita, Younes demuestra ser un pobre agente secreto, lo que desagrada al inspector de policía a cargo de él. También desarrolla una amistad profunda con un cantante llamado Salim Halali. Para su sorpresa, descubre que Salim es a la vez judío y homosexual...
Un sacerdote (Michael Lonsdale) asiste impotente a la descongregación de su parroquia, cerrada para siempre al público. La misma tarde, un grupo de inmigrantes clandestinos se refugia en el establecimiento. El sacerdote decide concederles asilo y protegerlos lo mejor que puede. Totalmente dedicado a una nueva misión de solidaridad cristiana, el cura se entregará a los indigentes hasta el sacrificio supremo. Su vida, que reposaba hasta entonces en la palabra de Dios, toma una nueva dirección con el acto santo de la caridad.
Michael Lonsdale
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
Le Psy
Los padres de Titeuf sufren una crisis de pareja y su madre decide dejar el hogar durante un tiempo. Además, una compañera de clase de la que Titeuf está enamorado, no le invita a su cumpleaños.
Luc
A finales del siglo pasado, en un monasterio situado en las montañas del Magreb, ocho monjes cistercienses viven en perfecta armonía con sus hermanos musulmanes. Pero una ola de violencia y terror se apodera lentamente de la región. A pesar del creciente peligro que los rodea, los monjes deciden quedarse, cueste lo que cueste, haciéndose más fuertes cada día
Max
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
Theon
En el siglo IV, Egipto era una provincia del Imperio Romano. Su ciudad más emblemática, Alejandría, se había convertido en el último baluarte de un mundo en crisis, confuso y violento. En el año 391, las revueltas callejeras alcanzaron una de sus instituciones más legendarias: la biblioteca. Atrapada tras sus muros, la brillante astrónoma Hypatia, filósofa y atea, lucha por salvar la sabiduría del mundo antiguo, sin percibir que su joven esclavo, Davo, se debate entre el amor que le profesa en secreto y la libertad que podría alcanzar uniéndose al imparable ascenso del cristianismo.
Self
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.
Mathias Jüst
Simon tiene cuarenta años, es psicólogo en el departamento de recursos humanos de SC Farb, un complejo petroquímico que es la filial en Francia de una gran multinacional alemana. Su trabajo consiste fundamentalmente en entrevistar a posibles trabajadores Un día recibe un encargo especial: Karl Rose, codirector de la empresa con Mathias Just, le pide que le haga a éste una evaluación psiquiátrica. Simon se siente atrapado, pero intenta hacer el trabajo de la forma más objetiva y aséptica posible. Sin embargo, delante de Just no consigue permanecer neutral.
le vicomte Prony
París, 1835. Para sobrellevar las inquietudes de la época, la nobleza se lanza a un juego de "amistades peligrosas" (medio siglo después de la publicación de la novela epistolar de Choderlos de Laclos), creyéndose todavía en el Siglo de las Luces. La Marquesa de Flers, decide casar a su hija pequeña, flor de la aristocracia francesa, con Ryno de Marigny, una especie de Valmont romántico. Pero lo que nadie sabe es que este Don Juan, impenitente es, desde hace diez años, amante y presa de una cortesana escandalosa, un demonio de la seducción, hija natural de una duquesa y un torero.
A blind man tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village.
Bartleby (voice)
Los Dalton han conseguido huir otra vez de la justicia, esta vez en Nueva York. Se han dedicado a atracar bancos hasta conseguir un botín bien jugoso que han escondido dentro de un carro que forma parte de una caravana de europeos que tienen 80 días para llegar a California y reclamar sus tierras. Entonces aparece Lucky Luke, el hombre más rápido que su sombra, que después de capturar los Dalton, se ofrece voluntario para acompañar la caravana hacia el Oeste. ¿Llegarán a tiempo? ¿Recuperarán su botín, los Dalton? ¿O volverán a la prisión de la mano del cowboy solitario más famoso del oeste americano?
Inquisitor General
España, 1792. Goya (Stellan Skarsgard), el pintor de la Corte de Carlos IV (1788-1808), se ve implicado en un gran escándalo cuando su musa adolescente (Natalie Portman) es acusada de herejía por un importante miembro de la Inquisición (Bardem).
Papa
Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.
Jean
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he looks normal, but she's sorry, she doesn't have time to have coffee with him. When he convincingly protests that he was not following her, she apologizes and asks him to have coffee. Fontaine would seem to have a relatively good life. She works as an anesthetist at a fancy mental hospital, and she's got a live-in Nobel Prize-winning arctic scientist boyfriend, Michel, who seems to love her. But there's clearly something nagging at her. She walks around in a perpetually distracted state, and frequently mistakes other peoples' identities and their intentions. When Michel proposes to her, she needs some time to digest it before she responds.
Paul Doumer
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.
Robert
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.
Le professeur Stangerson
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Le gardien
A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.
David
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Serge
Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale. Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls ill. The two stories unfold parallel to each other and are alternated.
Bernard
Esta película plantea los problemas que surgen al convivir con otra persona. Relato de cinco momentos en la vida de una pareja de hoy en día.
Don Salvadore
From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small, assassinating petty criminals. Gaining renown in the newspapers as "Le Furet" (The Ferret), he soon sets his sights higher. The police and organized crime both take up the chase.
Stangerson
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Opaz (french voice)
Un mundo que se desvanece, una fuerza diabólica, un secreto terrible... Una gigantesca planta crece, retorciéndose, muy por encima de las nubes... en la mitad de su recorrido se asienta una aldea cuyos habitantes se hallan en peligro mortal, pues Axis se está marchitando... se le agota la savia. La gente implora ayuda a sus dioses... pero es en vano. Llevada por una misteriosa fuerza, Kaena, una joven rebelde e impulsiva, desafiará al sumo sacerdote y a las creencias ancestrales de su gente para emprender un viaje lleno de peligros a lo largo de Axis descubriendo así qué oscuros secretos se ocultan más allá de las nubes...
Hugo Drax (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Mikaël
In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is travelling, Sébastien has asked Linda to organise the photographs with a view to an exhibition. Mikael invites Linda to reside with him. She accepts. That is the heart of the film – an intertwining of photographs which, juxtaposed by Linda, begin to speak. In parallel with this, Linda receives cassette-letters from Sébastien. A subtle relationship is established between Linda, the young debutante, and Mikael, the man of experience. Mikael goes off to direct his psalm, Linda stays alone. The walls become covered with photographs – wall of happiness, wall of misery – the fight between Good and Evil. Linda learns of the accidental death of Sébastien and stays alone.
Self
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.
Self
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 life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me, but the half when I did what I did..."), presented in a montage of her autobiographical texts, with pictures from today mixed with archives from the past.
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee.
Maître Flavius (Voice)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
Jean-Pierre
Cuando un equipo internacional de ex-agentes de inteligencia y ex-guerreros de la guerra fría se reunen en una bodega, su aventura de amor, amistad y traición apenas comienza. Al igual que el honorable e independiente samurai de hace cientos de años, estos ronin modernos se embarcan en su más peligrosa misión secreta: recobrar una misteriosa maleta y entregársela a su desconocido jefe y a la vez conservar sus vidas. Un criminal que se vende al mejor postor lidera un grupo de profesionales del crimen que busca un misterioso maletín, cuyo contenido es desconocido incluso para el espectador.
Monseigneur Loublié
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Don Luis
Europa, principios del siglo XVII. Tras abandonar a su prometida doña Elvira, Don Juan huye de la ciudad ante las amenazas de muerte de los dos hermanos de su novia. Durante el viaje por mar, Don Juan y su criado Snagarelle, son víctimas de un naufragio.
Honoré de Balzac
Un escritor egoísta escribe una novela sobre una joven, Lucie, libre, fuerte y enamorada de él. Cuando otra mujer se encuentra el esbozo de la novela, se enamora de Lucie, mientras el escritor se enamora de ella.
A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away.
Dollabella
Nelly, una mujer que acaba de divorciarse, conoce casualmente al señor Arnaud, un magistrado retirado cuya mujer vive en Ginebra con otro hombre y cuyos hijos apenas le hablan. Arnaud le ofrece a Nelly un trabajo: mecanografiar el manuscrito de la novela que ha escrito. La relación laboral resultará enriquecedora para ambos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Louis XVI
Biografía de Thomas Jefferson (Nick Nolte), redactor de la Declaración de Independencia Americana (1776) y tercer presidente de los EE.UU. (1801-1809). En 1789, fue nombrado embajador de los EE.UU. en París para asesorar al primer gobierno revolucionario. Su vida amorosa lo colocó ante un difícil dilema: su amor por una cortesana francesa y su secreta pasión por su ama de llaves.
Narrator
A homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”
Dupont D'Ivry
Stevens es el perfecto mayordomo inglés, un ideal que lleva hasta el extremo al servicio de su señor, Lord Darlington. Como muchos otros miembros de la aristocracia británica en los años 30, Darlington es captado por los nazis para intentar establecer una vía de comunicación con el gobierno del Reino Unido. La señorita Kenton es el ama de llaves de la mansión, una mujer joven y llena de vida que contempla horrorizada lo que sucede escaleras arriba. A pesar de sus temores, ella y Stevens se van enamorando poco a poco, aunque ninguno de ellos quiera reconocerlo.
Stark
Martin raises alone his son Jonas. Road works Ministry, which employs him, is upset by fighting for power between the Director and Gosselin his assistant.
Gabriel
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
himself
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 theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose families are Algerian: they are young, beautiful and they are trying to build a family and a social life in France. They love each other, and yet conflicts, family pressure and contradicting desires alternately tear them apart and unite them. The story of Romeo and Juliet, minus death.
Xavier Lorion
En 1944, un soldado alemán gallardo y una hermosa chica francesa se enamoraron profundamente, mientras que la Segunda Guerra Mundial hacía estragos. Más de cuarenta años después, Ernest Kestner, se retiró y recientemente viudo, deja su hogar adoptivo en Nueva York y regresa a Francia para visitar a su testaruda hija,de la cual esta distanciado, con la esperanza fugaz de encontrar el amor se vio obligado a dejar atrás.
(voice)
From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dying on an opera stage.
Cammerschulze
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Tanzmann
Self
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
The Abbot
Siglo XIV. Todo comienza una hermosa mañana de finales de noviembre de 1327, cuando un monje franciscano y antiguo inquisidor, acompañado de su novicio discípulo –quien relata la historia– acuden a una abadía benedictina situada en el norte de Italia para intentar resolver un crimen. Durante su estancia van desapareciendo misteriosamente más religiosos, a quienes después hallan muertos. Poco a poco, gracias a la información aportada por algunos monjes, Guillermo va esclareciendo los hechos. El móvil de los crímenes parecen ser unos antiguos tratados que se custodian en la biblioteca del complejo, de la cual se dice que es la mayor del mundo cristiano. ¿Quién es el asesino? ¿Qué motivó la muerte de sus víctimas? Nadie lo sabe…
Moralès
To relieve her boredom, a lonely woman embarks on adventures that turn out to be disappointing.
Raymond
Antonie
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
Ernst Manfredi
El arquitecto neoyorquino Noel Holcroft (Michael Caine) recibe una inesperada herencia de su padre, un antiguo nazi: 40.000 millones de dólares, desviados de los fondos del III Reich, que deben ser destinados a ayudar a los supervivientes del Holocausto. Al intentar averiguar más sobre la misteriosa herencia, descubre que está en marcha una amenazadora operación cuyo objetivo es fundar el IV Reich. Holcroft hará lo posible por desbaratarla
Saint Eloi
Dagoberto I, rey de los Francos, mientras atraviesa un bosque acompañado de sus guerreros, hace un solemne juramento: si consigue salvar la vida, emprenderá una larga peregrinación hacia Roma y, una vez allí, pedirá indulgencia al papa por sus muchos pecados.
Self
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul.
Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten.
The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.
Le docteur
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
Narrator (original version only)
Chronopolis cuenta la historia de una ciudad gigantesca que acecha en el cielo colonizada por poderosos inmortales que se han cansado de la vida eterna. La mayor parte de su tiempo se gasta de manera monótona en la construcción de objetos extraños e inusuales mientras espera que el mejor regalo llegue a sus manos.
Béjardy
After the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the train leaves he starts reminiscing about his youth.
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
Bodley
Algunos agentes de la KGB altamente entrenados son enviados al oeste para asesinar a varios disidentes soviéticos. Para detener la trama diabólica, un agente estadounidense debe infiltrarse en la inteligencia soviética y obtener información de una computadora rusa.
Writer
A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.
Commissioner Bancau
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.
After a businessman is captured by kidnappers, his rescue seems incumbent on a group of filmmakers, rather than a lackluster police force -- a premise that is matched by the rest of this movie. The kidnapping victim rambles on philosophically with his captors, who end up leaving him alone -- thereby providing him with a chance to escape. As he makes a break for it, he is literally hounded by some guard dogs. Then there are also some interviews with people who know one of the kidnappers, though it is not clear why. Neither the victim, nor the kidnappers, nor the filmmakers can compete with the canines, the only protagonists who add some bite to the action.
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.
Garth Jones (scenes deleted)
En Gran Bretaña, 1920. Harold Abrahams y Eric Lidell estaban hechos para correr. No sólo una razón les llevaba a correr más rápido que ningún otro hombre, sus motivos eran tan diferentes como sus pasados. Cada uno tenía su propio Dios, sus propias creencias y su propio empuje hacia el triunfo. Dos jóvenes corredores de diferentes clases sociales que se entrenan con un mismo objetivo: competir en las Olimpiadas de París de 1924.
Martin Bormann
Narra los últimos días del dictador Adolf Hitler y de su entorno en mayo de 1945 en su búnker en Berlín, así como el clima de demencia que reinaba en el Bunker en esas últimas horas de muchos de sus habitantes. Hitler, hombre senil que pasa de la tranquilidad a una violencia extrema, no admite su derrota.
Ludovic
Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole (Christine Boisson) and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up - perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean's "other woman" has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story.
Roland
Jean Papeuil
Hugo Drax
El agente secreto James Bond recibe de sus superiores la orden de localizar el paradero de la nave espacial Moonraker, que ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Sus primeras investigaciones le llevan a seguir la pista del millonario Hugo Drax, constructor de la cápsula. Después de investigar en Venecia y en Río de Janeiro, Bond es capturado por Drax, y descubre que el villano posee una base de lanzamiento para cohetes espaciales, con los que se propone esparcir un gas tóxico que acabe con le vida terrestre, siendo ésta la primera fase de un perverso plan que el agente, ayudado por la Doctora Goodhead, intentará frustrar.
Renoudot
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un pastor vasco (Anthony Quinn) se encarga de guiar al profesor Bergson (Mason), un importante científico que huye de los nazis, y a su familia desde la Francia ocupada hasta España; pero el viaje estará lleno de peligros: a la dificultad que supone cruzar los Pirineos nevados se añade la enfermedad de la mujer de Bergson. Pero lo peor de todo es que el capitán Von Berkow (Malcolm McDowell), un crueñ oficial de las S.S., los persigue implacablemente.
narrator
A paean to Darwin and his theories, this documentary on the increasing complexity of life forms as they go up the evolutionary scale is fascinating in its visual images. Microscopic organisms in a tiny drop of water vie for the viewer's interest with birds and monkeys and other animals in their natural setting. Intelligence and awareness increase on the way toward more evolved species until it becomes clear that different kinds of apes and monkeys are fairly calculating in their use of tools and communication. One drawback is that the narration does not entertain on a par with the images captured on camera.
Self
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
The Waiter
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
Abéraud
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Georges Aubert
L'Huissier
Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
Pierre
París, Francia, 1942, durante la ocupación nazi. Robert Klein, un exitoso marchante de arte que se beneficia de las desgracias de aquellos que son despiadadamente perseguidos, descubre por casualidad que existe otro Robert Klein, aparentemente un hombre judío, alguien con quien podría ser identificado erróneamente, algo peligroso en tiempos tan duros.
The Vice Consul of Lahore
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
The President of the Republic
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.
Boris
A César nominated short drama.
Morrison
Un maduro industrial de provincias francés recibe un inesperado obsequio: una call-girl pagada para seducirle, cortesía de una importante empresa americana.
Stephane Mostri
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
Swan
Caine y Jackson interpretan respectivamente a un novelista y su mujer que invitan a Berger a su casa con la esperanza de que comparta la cama del matrimonio y ayude a Caine con su nueva novela.
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Recreación de la India de los años 30 a través de la historia de Anne-Marie, la esposa del vice-cónsul francés en el país. Harta del tedio cotidiano en que se ha convertido su vida, la mujer inicia una serie de aventuras amorosas que su marido conoce, pero pretende ignorar.
David Sutter
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Agosto de 1941. El gobierno de Vichy ha creado una Sección Especial cuyo objetivo es la ejecución de chivos expiatorios para aplacar la ira de los nazis cuando algún oficial alemán es asesinado por la Resistencia. Las víctimas, cuatro comunistas y dos judíos elegidos aleatoriamente, serán juzgados por un tribunal corrompido. Mientras que un joven magistrado intenta hacer valer sus influencias políticas para conseguir el indulto, uno de los procesados, periodista de L’Humanitè, denuncia públicamente al tribunal por su sumisión a las fuerzas de ocupación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le peintre
Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.
le médecin
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Galileo Galilei, un brillante matemático y astrónomo que nació en Pisa en el siglo XVI, contribuyó de manera decisiva al desarrollo científico. Sus teorías sobre el sistema solar le granjearon el rechazo de las poderosas autoridades eclesiásticas. Basada en una obra de Bertol Brecht, "Galileo" analiza el enfrentamiento de la Iglesia contra un hombre que cuestionó abiertamente el principio de autoridad sobre el que se había basado durante siglos el conocimiento humano.
Inspecteur Fournier
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
Le juge Souftries
Una joven turista americana es violada en el sur de Francia, para perder la vida poco después a manos del propio autor del delito. Rápidamente, se procederá a la detención del principal sospechoso.
Raymond
Michel Dolannes es un periodista que se dedica a denunciar escándalos financieros y a poner en la picota a los políticos corruptos, lo que hará que su vida se vea seriamente amenazada.
Le chapelier
Serie de viñetas entrelazadas por un personaje o una situación que conecta una historia con la siguiente. Unos soldados franceses entran a la catedral de Toledo durante la invasión napoleónica. Un capitán besa la estatua de una mujer y destruye la de un hombre. En la época actual, un matrimonio se escandaliza con unas postales que muestran monumentos de París. Un hombre ve pasar unos animales por su cuarto. En una escuela de policías, un gendarme dicta una lección sobre las distintas costumbres antropológicas. Un asesino es dejado en libertad después de matar a 18 personas. Una multitud furiosa asalta un zoológico gritando lemas de la resistencia anti-napoleónica, mientras un avestruz mira directamente al espectador.
Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.
Docteur Mézy
Francia, 1933. Serge Stavisky es un hombre encantador, seductor, jugador de cartas y traficante internacional. Conocido como El Bello Sacha ha construido un imperio a base de mentiras, empresas ficticias, fraudes, cambios de identidad y poder de convicción, implicando en sus estafas a altas personalidades políticas y financieras del país. Y ahora está a punto de provocar la quiebra del Estado por haber falsificado bonos del Crédito Municipal de Bayona.
The Judge
Injustamente acusada del homicidio de su amiga, Alice clama su inocencia ante los interrogatorios de jueces y policías, pero sus declaraciones son confusas, entre la realidad y lo imaginario. Sin embargo, llegará a convencer a una joven abogada arrastrándola en sus juegos eróticos.
Narrator
Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
Smith
Narrator
Documentary short about Hans Bellmer.
Stéphane
1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on the same landing, Georges and Claude: one burying his mother, the other about to marry his daughter. Two family events which, on that day, are going to have to co-exist as best they can!
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.
Thomas
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
Julien, le réalisateur
Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, "Juliette sacrifiée". Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien is soon falling in love. During the whole of the movie, both are sitting in front of the editing table, where they listen to music, talk about politics and what movies should and should not be about.
Film montage of documents shot between 1895 and 1900 by the operators of the Lumière brothers.
Le commissaire Lucas
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Sergel
Thomas
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Inspecteur Bertrand
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
Father Henri
Francia, años 50. Laurent Chevalier es un chico de catorce años que comienza a descubrir la vida. Su padre lo ignora, su madre lo venera y sus hermanos combinan gestos de cariño con el abuso propio de los mayores. En poco tiempo, Laurent pasa de ser virgen a tener una experiencia frustrada con una prostituta y a sufrir los intentos de seducción de un cura. Cuando se le detecta un soplo al corazón, Laurent, acompañado de su madre, irá a un balneario, en el que la vida social es digna de una gran ciudad.
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Un juif
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.
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Eric, a 14-year-old boy, is now almost alone. His mother, faced with her husband's bizarre behavior, left the marital home. Eric's father, for his part, leads a triple existence. On the other hand, he maintains apparently normal relations with his son, but at the same time he leads an unacknowledged, secret life "elsewhere", where confused, equivocal relations bind him to a strange, elusive woman, whose vision sometimes inspires feelings of filial love, sometimes reveals to him the bitter taste of a passion faded by time.
L'homme qui fuit
One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village approaches the threshold of adolescence, and begins to discover both the world and herself. - Anthology Film Archive
Bracquemont
Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason why two previous tenants was pushed to hang themselves at that particular place.
le commissaire Donald Both
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...
Julien & Marc
While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage.
Stein
Un profesor, su joven esposa, una mujer de mediana edad que se recupera de un aborto, y un pensativo judío extranjero se encuentran en un hotel rural. Mientras el resto de huéspedes hacen otro tipo de vida más turística, buscando los supuestos maravillosos paisajes que la película no tienen intención de ofrecer, estas cuatro personas exploran el potencial destructivo de sus deseos.
Edouard Loriebat
Huber de Tartas, industrial y especialista en el campo del embalaje, vive tranquilamente con su esposa Edmeé y su hijo Didier, estudiante de medicina que está a las puertas de un matrimonio muy prometedor. Pero la aparición de un hombre, después de 65 años de hibernación en los glaciares del polo, viene a cuestionarlo todo, ya que se trata del abuelo de Edmeé.
Le mari
A bourgeois couple check into a hotel. All seems fine until a man loses his nail clippers
Delaroche
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
Georges Tabard
Continúa el ciclo de Antoine Doinel tras "Los cuatrocientos golpes" y "L'amour à vingt ans". El protagonista (Jean-Pierre Léaud), tras ser expulsado del ejército por insubordinación, visita a su antigua novia, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). El padre de Christine encuentra un trabajo temporal para Antoine como vigilante nocturno de un hotel. Sin embargo, por culpa de un detective privado, pierde el empleo el primer día. Como compensación, el detective le ofrece un trabajo en su agencia. Al principio Antoine se encarga de asuntos menores hasta que le encomiendan la misión de averiguar por qué todas las empleadas de la zapatería del señor Georges Tabard (Michel Lonsdale) lo odian. En la zapatería, Antoine conocerá a Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig), la esposa del propietario.
Morane
Al salir de la iglesia tras su boda, Julie Kohler ve cómo su marido es abatido a tiros. Decidida a vengar su muerte, emprende la búsqueda de los responsables y los va matando uno tras otro...
Un acteur au théâtre
Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?
L'Avocat de la Défense
20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung.
Thomas Perkins
Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
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.
Le conférencier au club des timides
Pétepan se entera de que los hermanos Robinhoude han perdido su dinero. Le pide a su ayudante que retire su cuenta del banco.
L'homme (M)
An adaptation of the Beckett play
Hyman
A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Kernan
At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...
Lamendin
L'elève
Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.
un autre homme en voiture
Priest
Un hombre se despierta por la mañana, y se encuentra con que la policía ha entrado en su habitación y lo arresta, tras acusarlo de haber cometido un crimen.
Charles Dufaut
Mercier
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Acteur
Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.
Albert
Comedia acerca de dos hermanas tan coquetas como inconstantes, acostumbradas a abandonarse a todos y cada uno de sus caprichos sin pensar antes en las consecuencias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Georges
Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his family.
Andreï Prodarov
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
Sinclair
Raymond
