Roland Blanche

Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like organization that he runs with two friends

A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz

Biografía del escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), centrada, sobre todo, en su relación con las mujeres. A pesar de sus rudos modales, ajenos a cualquier sofisticación, y de su poco agraciado aspecto físico, Balzac ejerció una irresistible fascinación sobre ellas. No obstante, sólo dos mujeres fueron realmente importantes en su vida: su madre Charlotte, una mujer fría, manipuladora y autoritaria, que nunca le dio el amor que necesitaba; y la bella y encantadora Eva Hansa, a la que Balzac siguió por Suiza, Alemania y Rusia en una cruzada sin tregua para ganar su corazón.

In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son.

Vincent y Bruno son dos ladrones de pacotilla que raptan a dos preciosos chuchos entrenados para distinguir los billetes falsos. Los perritos se las van a hacer pasar canutas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Bernie, un huérfano de treinta años, zafio y neurótico, abandona el orfanato donde lleva trabajando desde los dieciocho años. Su objetivo es descubrir la verdad acerca de su nacimiento. Para ello roba su expediente del Departamento de Asistencia Social y descubre la terrible realidad de que fue encontrado en un cubo de basura.

Tres pintorescos personajes coinciden en el ascensor del gran hotel Crillon: un indio amazónico, su intérprete y un ciudadano francés, cuya vida cambia cuando el nativo lo reconoce como El Elegido.

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Jess ha intentado suicidarse en Nueva York. Su pareja ya no la satisface sexualmente, pero su padre, su ex y su mejor amigo acuden al rescate.

Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.

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.

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician, Fred plans to pass himself off as that man. It's a goofy idea, but maybe it will work. However, before he can set up the con properly, he learns that his loser of a brother has, inexplicably, just gotten his first job in years as one of the detectives who is searching for the heir. At one time, the two brothers played together in an amateur rock band, but as a result of a heated disagreement about how to play the Ray Noble standard "Cherokee", the two haven't spoken in years. It's going to take a lot of persuading to pull this scam off.

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

Adaptación de las novelas "The copulating mermaid of Venice" y "Trouble with the battery" de Charles Bukowski. Simon y Dede son dos amigos sin rumbo que pasan los días emborrachándose y el resto del tiempo tumbados. Simon vive del paro en una caravana aparcada cerca del piso de su hermana. Dede trabaja empaquetando pescado. Ninguno de los dos tiene mucha sensibilidad, ni son jóvenes, ni con buen aspecto. Su sangre fría los mantiene en buen estado mientras viven su triste vida.

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.

Una joven criminal, condenada por asesinar a un policía, es adiestrada para matar a cambio de la conmutación de su pena. En Hollywood se hizo un remake protagonizado por Bridget Fonda.

Bernard Barthélémy es un vendedor de coches que vive satisfecho y está casado con Florence, una mujer bellísima y adorable. Un día llega a su oficina Colette, la nueva secretaria, una mujer poco agraciada y sin atractivo alguno. Inesperadamente, entre ambos se desata una pasión arrolladora que a ellos mismos les resulta inexplicable. Tal vez los misterios de la pasión no sólo sean oscuros, sino también crueles.

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.

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.

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.

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.

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

Recién salido de la cárcel, Lucas decide cambiar de vida y ser un respetable ciudadano. Pero cuando entra en un banco es secuestrado por un atracador. Sin embargo, la policía piensa, dados sus antecedentes, que Lucas está implicado en el atraco. Años después el propio Veber dirigiría un remake en Hollywood de esta película con Martin Short y Nick Nolte.

Kiev, 1984. Yuri (Christian Clavier), está organizando un concierto para su prometida, la gran cantante Tatiana Fyodorov (Agnès Soral). Mientras que el concierto se desarrolla sin problemas, los padres de Tatiana llegan sin previo aviso y piden a Yuri ayuda para ocultarlos, ya que les busca la KGB.

Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.

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.

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.

In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is that Mathieu, her ex, is happily living with his new love Christine.

A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys.

In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.

Un joven se ha escapado y su madre, desesperada, inicia su búsqueda, pero decide pedir ayuda a dos ex novios, y por ello, le dice a cada uno por separado que son el padre del muchacho. En 1997, Hollywood realizó un remake con Billy Cristal y Robin Williams como protagonistas, llamado "Un lío padre".

Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.

Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, produced and/or supervised over 700 films between 1896 an the 1920s, in France and, for a period, in the US.

En septiembre de 1793, el Comité de Salud Pública, instigado por Robespierre, instaura el "Terror". El hambre reaparece y con ella la revuelta: las cabezas ruedan. Danton regresa a París para oponerse a Robespierre: es el choque entre dos políticos irreconciliables, entre dos fuertes personalidades. La película narra los últimos días de Georges-Jacques Danton: su proceso y su ejecución en la guillotina, junto a sus amigos, por orden del autoritario y dogmático Robespierre.

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)

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...

Mickey y Serge se acaban de escapar de la cárcel y caen en una emboscada preparada por un viejo enemigo. Serge resulta gravemente herido y le pide a Mickey que lo lleve a casa de un ladrón retirado, Noel, pero muere al poco de llegar. Mickey, de carácter agresivo y violento, amenazará la vida apacible que llevaba Noel junto a su esposa.

Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...

Un fiscal investiga la clave del funcionamiento de una organización secreta que ha acabado con la vida de un jefe de Estado. Un film basado en el asesinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy y la posterior investigación del magnicidio. (FILMAFFINITY)

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Un cuarentón en paro se va a la aventura al sur de Francia, donde conocerá a una joven actriz.

Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

Película compuesta por tres historias. En la primera, un náufrago llega a una isla paradisíaca y encuentra una mujer semidesnuda, juguetona y complaciente. En la segunda, un adolescente intenta recordar la letra de una canción de cuna, lo cual le conduce a fantasías sexuales y edípicas. En la tercera, un hombre rico en el París del siglo XIX contrata a una prostituta por una sola noche.

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.

Jean-Marie Fayard es un juez que tiene un expediente que implica a un rico industrial en una serie de muertes inexplicables. Un juez joven, apodado "el sheriff" por su integridad y sus métodos poco ortodoxos en el mundo de la investigación judicial a Saint-Etienne en un negocio difícil: un caso de robo gasolinera con asalto, lo que implicaría indirectamente de los de arriba. Fayard está convencido que un antiguo comisario está protegiendo a los principales sospechosos. Cuando se dispone más pruebas con las que acorralar a este antiguo comisario, éste es hallado muerto.

Durante unas vacaciones de verano, tres adolescentes descubren los placeres de la carne bajo la mirada indulgente de su abuela.

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...

Sadiel, un destacado líder rebelde norteafricano, se ha refugiado en Suiza tras el triunfo de un golpe de estado en su país. Desde el exilio, organiza una oposición democrática contra la dictadura de su país. Consciente de la amenaza que Sadiel representa, el coronel Kassar se pone en contacto con los servicios franceses para que lo eliminen. Film basado, aunque no haya ninguna referencia explícita, en el caso de Mehdi Ben Barka, político marroquí que luchó por la independencia y más tarde fue un destacado disidente del régimen de Hasan II. Ben Barka nació en Rabat en 1920 y murió en extrañas circunstancias en París en 1965. Su secuestro y asesinato a manos, presuntamente, de los servicios secretos marroquíes con el beneplácito de los servicios secretos franceses fue uno de los episodios más significativos de la historia de Marruecos durante la llamada "época de los años de plomo".