Marie-Christine Barrault

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

El cuerpo de una mujer sin vida es encontrado en su apartamento una mañana de invierno. Toda la evidencia la dirigen a su prometido. Pero él tiene un hermano gemelo. Los detectives tendrán que ver más allá de las apariencias para encontrar al verdadero asesino.

Un alcalde es encontrado asesinado. Clara, capitana de la policía, está a cargo de la investigación. Colabora con un antropólogo judicial, también historiador estacionado en el osario de Douaumont.

Claire, de 17 años, pasa las vacaciones en Sudáfrica con su familia, pero todos mueren en un accidente, y ella huye, convencida de ser la responsable del drama.

Patrick, un agente de viajes de poco más de 30 años, vive con Arthur, un abogado de inmigración; pero durante mucho tiempo, Patrick ha estado durmiendo en un colchón de aire en el piso de su habitación. Su hermano menor, Tony, planea casarse con su novia del instituto, pero está teniendo una aventura que es mucho más satisfactoria que su relación con su prometida. Su hermano mayor, Ryan, está divorciado, vive en casa y trabaja en la tienda de ropa de hombres irremediablemente inútil de sus padres. Y McCauley pronto deja en claro que el matrimonio de los padres está lejos de ser feliz.

Rafael, de 37 años, acaba de salir de prisión. Hace 15 años fue acusado de matar a su novia Pauline. Indignada por su liberación, Lisa, la hermana de la víctima, decide sumergirse de nuevo en la investigación.

Arnaud, es un hombre que ama los objetos; le gusta tener , poseer todo lo que se le antoja, lo que ama. Le gusta la sensación y emoción que conlleva la posesión de algo...

Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native Scotland and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few days, a few words, Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood and lightness, exhilaration and trust. Peter goes towards the last days of a life that he offers, like a sublime and aging angel, to this wounded child.

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.

Tres hermanos llevan una vida feliz, o al menos eso creen. Un día su madre sufre un accidente. Es entonces cuando Henri, Philippe y Louis comienzan a replantearse el sentido de sus vidas. Un mar de dudas crece en las vidas de estos cuarentones de Versalles, que entonces abren la puerta a lo inédito, a lo prohibido, a la aventura… ¡al lobo feroz! De la casa de paja a la de madera, ¿podrá el lobo, tan grande como atractivo, desalojar a nuestros tres hermanos? ¿Será la casa de piedra del mayor tan sólida como parecía? ¿Y si, al fin y al cabo, la vida de adulto no fuera exactamente un cuento para niños?

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…

Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a mad chase after a politically correct loss of virginity.

Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.

This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become the peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the same year. The negociation, lead by Henri de Malassise (Jean Rochefort), and the Earl of Biron for the Catholic side, and Mr. d'Ublé and M. de Mélynes for the protestants side.

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.

A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.

The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of the last natural sanctuaries that still exist, the Azéracs, landowners and aristocrats, work as wild bulls breeders. Shaken by passion and revenge, the family will have to face the adversities of a fate marked by the events that define the 20th century. In spite of this, the family will struggle to survive in an environment strongly bound to traditions and land.

Una historia de dos pasiones. En la ciudad de Berlín, en vías de crecimiento y expansión, Myriam (Heike Makatsch), una trompetista, vive con Pierre (Charles Berling), a quien ama profundamente. También se siente irresistiblemente atraída hacia John (Daniel Craig), quien trata de resolver un misterio alrededor de una vieja fotografía de periódico, que muestra a un equilibrista cruzando las Cataratas del Niágara. Los tres acaban en París, tras la pista de un anciano que conoce el secreto detrás de la fotografía; un secreto que tendrá un hondo efecto en sus vidas y en el amor.

While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

A young girl who has been orphaned, meets a man who has recently escaped from an insane asylum. The two pretend to be father and daughter and after falling in love with the man, the girl discovers he is married and vows to kill his wife.

The study of semantics has convinced Amedio (Jean Rochefort) that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife (Marie-Christine Barrault) should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter (Jacqueline Lustig), who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother (Lila Kedrova), an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.

In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it.

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.

Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.

En Montreal, un joven artista acepta la propuesta de un sacerdote para representar la Pasión de Cristo en los jardines de la parroquia, interpretando él mismo el papel de Jesús. No tardan en darse lugar las desavenencias entre el equipo artístico y la comunidad parroquial.

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.

Tres meses antes de sus exámenes finales, la ambiciosa Valentine se concentra totalmente en sus estudios. Cuando el músico de jazz Edouard la corteja, ella está de acuerdo, aunque sólo para una noche de diversión. Pero cuando llega a conocerlo mejor, se da cuenta de que no es tan superficial como ella pensaba ... y el deseo se convierte en amor. Sin embargo, entre los preparativos de su examen y los de una gira con una banda de jazz de Edouard casi no les queda tiempo para estar juntos.

A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar vampire, is murdered. The Moroccan police do not find the culprit, and Paris takes over the case. The inspector in charge of the investigation decides to view all the "works" made on site, in the presence of their author.

A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for the job. And for good reason: Johann is a painter who, after a recent break-up, has fled to find the calm necessary for his work. This intrusion causes disturbances, admitted or not, in this small protected world.

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

A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.

Daniya es la historia de un viaje. Un hombre joven, el hermano culto y resolutivo de la Condesa de Barcelona, abandona la corte catalana por el reino de Denia (Daniya). El objetivo de su viaje es aceptar la autoridad eclesiástica que le ha conferido el rey musulmán sobre los cristianos mozárabes que viven en el territorio del Reino de Denia. Es un viaje interesante pero peligroso, descrito en clave de aventura. Un viaje que enriquecerá el espíritu del joven y será seducido por Al Andalus.

The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.

The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a department store who carries jealousy in his sack. So everyone changes roles.

In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.

While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.

Adaptación de una novela de Marcel Proust. Charles Swann, un joven y rico judío que forma parte de los círculos aristocráticos parisinos de la Belle Epoque, vive una inolvidable historia de amor con la bella prostituta Odette de Crécy. Sus tempetuosas relaciones, llenas de celos, pasiones y dudas, las evoca años después Swann, cuando presiente su inminente muerte.

En mayo de 1983, un hombre de 49 años, acompañado de su hijo, viaja al pueblo de su infancia, en Baden. Su deseo es descubrir qué le sucedió en realidad a su madre. Sus recuerdos son muy borrosos y, además, por aquel entonces era demasiado pequeño para comprender lo que ocurría a su alrededor.

J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) quiere una segunda oportunidad de ser padre para sus hijos ... pero alguien más ha ocupado su lugar. Decidido a no ser solo un 'tío' amistoso en sus vidas, obtiene el permiso de su ex esposa Kathleen (Millie Perkins) y su nuevo esposo (Richard Crenna) para llevar a los niños en un crucero por el Mediterráneo. En el viaje, se da cuenta de que no es tan fácil y, sintiéndose abrumado, comienza a dudar de sus habilidades hasta que una tragedia en casa lo obliga a convertirse en el padre que siempre quiso ser.

Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.

El cineasta Sandy Bates, legendario creador de comedias, está harto de ser gracioso. Al borde de un ataque de nervios, Bates asiste a una retrospectiva de su obra que se celebra un fin de semana, y que le obligará a reflexionar sobre la misma, sobre los recuerdos de su gran amor Dorrie y sobre las virtudes de sentar la cabeza con su nueva novia Isabel. Bates se debatirá por encontrar una razón por la que seguir viviendo.

Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a contraceptive, it's her mother who goes alone to the drugstore with her. However, under this idyllic surface there are tensions at work. Jeanne's on and off affair with Pierre does not save her from feeling lonely, and Sarah is bored by school. Both of them dream of an independent life, though neither will admit it.

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.

Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.

Inspirada en la novela de Chrétien de Troyes, "Perceval, el cuento del grial" (siglo XII), narra las andanzas de Perceval desde que fue armado caballero por el rey Arturo y se adiestró con los Caballeros de la Mesa Redonda. A diferencia de otras adaptaciones de la leyenda, Rohmer sitúa a los personajes en un artificial y teatral reino. Un coro participa en la historia y, a menudo, los personajes narran sus hazañas a partir de versos tomados del texto original.

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.

El famoso escritor inglés John Morlar, un hombre que vive atormentado debido a una revelación, según la cual él es el culpable de todos los males del mundo, muere brutalmente asesinado. Cuando la policía llega a su apartamento, la mente de Morlar, sin embargo, parece seguir viva. La investigación del caso parece indicar que todo el que hiere a Morlar muere de forma extraña. Morlar posee poderes telequinésicos que le permiten matar o provocar terribles catástrofes. Su psiquiatra tratará de ayudar la policía a resolver este enigmático caso.

Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".

Dos primos lejanos se conocen en una boda de la familia. Entre ellos surge en seguida una buena amistad, pero pronto sus respectivos esposo y esposa empezarán a sospechar de que son algo más que amigos.

Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery. There he finds nothing but hardship and rejection, save from the town's mayor and a young servant girl, whom he marries. Ridiculed and abused, with practically no work, he turns to drink and one night accidentally kills his wife. The child of their marriage is taken away from him, and at this point he is left with the options of becoming a robber, starving to death, or emigrating.

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.

The tragic story of a young servant.

Frederic está felizmente casado y espera su segundo hijo. Da paseos por París y cultiva su imagen de seductor tranquilo. Un día entra en su despacho Chloé, la antigua novia de un amigo suyo que destaca por sus costumbres nada timoratas. Chloé entra y sale continuamente de la oficina y de la vida de Frederic hasta incitar su curiosidad. Frederic encuentra un trabajo para ella y eso es una excusa para visitarla a menudo. Ella decide seducirle causándole a él un dilema moral...

An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must decide whether to comply or fight back.

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.

This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Jean-Louis, un ingeniero católico de treinta años, descubre un día a la salida de misa a Françoise, una mujer rubia, y presiente que algún día se casará con ella, pero la pierde entre la multitud. Por otra parte, su viejo amigo Vidal, marxista convencido, lo lleva a casa de Maud, una bella divorciada.