Self
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Mellifond
Jules
Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
Léo
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.
Madame Foin
París, 1925. Georges Valandray, un próspero hombre de negocios, cree que es el primer y único hombre en la vida de su esposa Gilberte; ignora que ella estuvo casada con un americano llamado Eric Thomson. Este secreto está a salvo, pues sólo lo conoce la hermana de Gilberte. Pero, un día, Thomson llega a París para hacer un negocio con Georges, y la tempestad estalla cuando Thomson confiesa que quiere volver con Gilberte a cualquier precio.
Falco
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...
Monsieur Sylvain
Aldo Bonnard ve cómo su vida se desmorona: su mujer le pide el divorcio, las deudas se le acumulan y está a punto de ser despedido de su trabajo. Pero, de repente, gana una fortuna con la lotería. Cuando decide darle la noticia a su esposa, descubre que lo está traicionando con su nuevo jefe. Tiene ante sí un espinoso dilema: compartir las ganancias con su esposa y su rival o bien esperar a que se consume el divorcio para anunciar su buena suerte. Elige, naturalmente, la segunda solución y empieza a vivir clandestinamente como un hombre rico.
Jeff
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
Humphries
When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.
Segment "La Purée"
René
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
Georges Morin
After the death of his controlling wife, a retiree decides to take the trip of his dreams to Tahiti, in French Polynesia. All he needs is the money. Poker and the strange complicity of a talking cat will be his best assets to raise funds.
le patient
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.
Stéphane Lasser
Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.
Le bouquiniste / Bookseller
Filme galardonado con el Globo de Oro en EE.UU a la mejor película extranjera que gira en torno a Henri Fortin, un muchacho huérfano que queda a merced de una infame pareja. Versión libre de la inmortal obra de Víctor Hugo "Los Miserables".
Emilio Bingo, l'empailleur
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Colin
Kayser
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Daniel D.
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.
Général Burnous
Rouget de l'Isle
El califa de Bagdad llega a París en 1989 y decide ir a ver la exposición sobre los instrumentos del verdugo.
L'agent de police
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
Tête-de-Fer, le pirate
Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
Le Juge d'Instruction
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
Jack Renard, the Mayor
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
Faucuius
Julio Cesar esta disfrutando de unas lujosas vacaciones en una colonia Romana en el norte de Africa, mientras en Roma estalla una gran revuelta obrera. Un mecanico de nombre Ben-Hur, se elige a si mismo como dirigente sindical, pero termina siendo detenido en una manifestacion publica. El gobernador le da a elegir entre un innoble fin en la arena o una oportunidad participando en un complot para matar a Cesar.
Le journaliste
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.
Julien's father
le prof de maths
Le colonel Boussardon
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
Pépé
Père Blanc
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.
Colonel Lessard
At a French military outpost, a group of lackadaisical servicemen find plenty of time to make trouble, enjoy nature and pursue beautiful women.
Le curé
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
Lucifer
Le livreur
When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
Gaston
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
le patron de l'Arquebuse
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Maj. Archibald
Una farsa surrealista muy estilizada sobre los sucesos que llevaron a la última batalla del general Custer, recreados anacrónicamente en una zona de renovación urbana en el París moderno.
L'apothicaire
le commissaire Adrien Bondu
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
William Wilson
Albert Pelletier
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
Le Docteur Braque
Perrugo
Monsieur Gentil runs a perfume factory. He is a shy man, bullied by Madame Marthe, the manager, and spurned by Cléo, the young travel agent he is in love with. He 'd rather be a tough guy than a wet blanket and his meeting with Durante, a gangster, will be decisive. Considering him a providential piggy bank, Durante, following the advice of his boss Spinosa, entrusts the" education" of Gentil to two experts, Perrugo and Bersone.
Didier
Harry
Compositors
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
Albert Pelletier
Marquy
Pétepan se entera de que los hermanos Robinhoude han perdido su dinero. Le pide a su ayudante que retire su cuenta del banco.
Léo
Dos amigos arruinados examinan los anuncios por palabras en busca de mujeres deseosas de casarse con el fin de desplumarlas. Pero sus planes no tardarán en volverse contra ellos...
Cassius 0001
Biscoton
Arturo Lempeur (Belmondo) es un joven rico y caprichoso que, hastiado de la vida que lleva, intenta sin éxito suicidarse una y otra vez mientras realiza un viaje en su velero alrededor del mundo. Harto de sus fallidos intentos, al llegar a China decide suscribir una póliza de seguros por la que, en caso de muerte accidental, se repartirían dos millones de dólares su prometida y su mejor amigo, Mister Goh (Valéry Inkijinoff), quien le asegura a Lempeur que antes de un mes sufrirá un accidente inesperado. Sin embargo, enseguida se arrepiente de su decisión y entonces tendrá que concentrar todos sus esfuerzos en la difícil tarea de salvar la vida. En esta aventura lo acompañarán su fiel asistente Leon (Jean Rochefort) y Alejandrina (Ursula Andrews), una cantante de cabaret a quien acaba de conocer.
L'agent André
Gaston Berrien y su primo, que regentan una sombrerería, parecen personas normales. Un día llega a la tienda un cliente más interesado por conocer las cifras del negocio que por encontrar un sombrero adecuado, lo que pone en guardia a Gastón, pues el negocio es sólo una tapadera. Por las noches se transforma en una salón de juego clandestino.
Le frère de la fiancée (segment 3 "La répétition")
Aventuras y desventuras de cinco personajes alrededor de un elemento común: la cama.
Un invité
Cuatro franceses nacidos en Argelia van a París en busca de fortuna y amor. Uno de ellos conoce a Sandra, que aspira a descubrir el sentido de la vida.
César Brandini
Edouard
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Director
Henri
Gratiopoulos
Pommes-Chips acaba de salir de la cárcel y se encuentra con que Jack está saliendo y viviendo con su novia. Pommes-Chips le persigue hasta en el teatro, y mientras el primo de Jack está en plena obra, Jack mata accidentalmente al gángster. Lo que da lugar a una sucesión de enredos, y más aun, cuando se conoce que el cadáver llevaba en su bolsillo un boleto de las carreras de hípica con una importante suma de premio.
Tom Jackson
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.
Ludovic Gabasse, le patron de l'agence de roman-photo
Le maître- bourreau Richardic
Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
Paul, le directeur du Crazy-Horse
Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
Music
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Simon Taquet (« Une nuit avec la vedette »)
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Campo Santos
Félix
le journaliste sportif au parapluie
"Les petits matins" is a story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur.
Along the way she meets a lot of people , mostly men. And the director does not spare the sterotypical image of early 60s middle aged male cliches to lampoon.
But this is all very light stuff, nothing too intellectual.
But it's often charming, and there's a bevy of well-known actors involved.
Jean -Claude Brialy (the pompous, self absorbed male lead of Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"), Claude Rich, Lino Ventura, François Perrier, Pierre Brasseur, and the couple Bernard Blier & Arletty, who team up here for the first time since Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord" (1938).
Hubert Parker (segment "Ella")
Richard, le polytechnicien, amateur de voitures
Albertine, a young woman from Bordeaux, leaves her town and her husband to discover the joys of the French capital. Thanks to her friend Cécile, she penetrates Parisian high society and becomes the subject of rivalry between Dr André Challenberg and a fashionable young novelist, Didier Marèze.
Édouard
Charles Renard
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
Pierre Dubois
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
Gimenez
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
Riri and JoJo
Le médecin ('L'enfance')
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Edouard
Martin
Antoine Peyralout
Para impresionar a la bella Popeline, Antoine decide dar la vuelta al mundo en triciclo, y acaba con su amigo Miércoles en una isla desierta... a la que llega por sorpresa Popeline.
Fernand Mouchette
Désiré Labaule
Arsène, un clochard
El vagabundo Arquímedes quiere pasar el invierno en la cárcel, pero su propósito resulta no ser tan fácil como parece.
Jérôme
Series of sketches about two stuttering teachers.
Hubert, le Délégué du Gouvernement
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
Gégène
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
l'inspecteur Jérôme, adjoint de Morel
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
Louis Stainval, laveur de voitures, gagnant à la Loterie
Jérôme Lenoir
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams of spies. A young blonde hotel burglar will help him get out of this mess.
Egisto
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Le marchand d'échelles
Un profesor se hace popular gracias a sus métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos.
Antoine Peyralout
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Emile Gachit
Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
Paul
Dos agencias de publicidad francesas se disputan un contrato con una empresa fabricante de lavadoras. El director decide contratar a la agencia que presente la mejor campaña publicitaria. Jean François, responsable de la A.P.N., tiene la gran idea de buscar una auténtica lavandera portuguesa para presentar los anuncios. Pero la competencia, la O.P.I., dirigida por la atractiva Catherine, en un viaje por Portugal, descubre a la lavandera ideal. Se trata de una tímida muchacha que se encuentra feliz con su vida en Portugal y se niega a aceptar las propuestas de Catherine. Y aquí interviene Jean François, que finge enamorarse de ella para llevarla a París.
Hubert
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
Le détective amateur
Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Pierre Bernicaud
Philémon de Montfilet
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
Henri Valpreux, le réalisateur
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…
Pater Noster
Manuel, un terrateniente de Jamaica, llega a París en viaje de vacaciones. Allí conoce a Olivia, una cupletista española de la que se enamora. Olivia sale de París para actuar en un casino de la Costa Azul y Manuel le sigue hasta allí. En Cannes vive Maxime, tío de Olivia, un embaucador que se hace pasar por mago y que tiene gran influencia sobre Annie, una extravagante multimillonaria. A su vez, Simeón, secretario de Annie, trata de sobornar al mago para que influya en Annie y acceda a casarse con él, pero como Maxime quiere también casarse con ella, Simeón recurre a los servicios de un detective privado. A Manuel le llega un telegrama en el que le comunican que debe regresar para Jamaica. Al enterarse Annie propone a todos hacer un crucero a bordo de su yate e invitan a Olivia.
Dédé
Jules Henri Lardenois, le témoin égaré
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Hoyoyo
On Christmas Eve, Françoise, a manicurist at the Paris-Palace-Hotel, is invited to celebrate by Henri Delormel, an attractive fifty-something man. She later meets Gérard driving a Cadillac, and passes herself off as the wealthy Delormel's daughter. For his part, the young garage employee claims to own the vehicle.
Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
Un estafador que se hace pasar por entrenador de jockeys se busca la ayuda de un joven hambriento para que se haga pasar por jockey, y así intentará aprovecharse de la ingenuidad de un provinciano para sacarle los cuartos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hubert Dumont
Cuando el muy respetable General Dumont descubre que su hija Agnes es "AD", autora de una novela escandalosa de venta libre, quiere que sea enviada a un convento, pero ella se escapa a París y planea vivir con su hermano, aparentemente un artista rico pero en realidad un mal guía en el Museo de Balzac. Este malentendido la pone en serios problemas, y Agnes se encuentra en la necesidad inmediata de dinero. Sólo la cantidad ofrecida como premio en un concurso de strip-tease de aficionados, que su nuevo novio, el reportero Daniel, está cubriendo para su revista, la podría ayudar.
Un voisin
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
Man with Suitcase
Una adolescente Brigitte Bardot es la no tan inocente hija de un conocido jefe criminal en esta condimentada comedia francesa, con una variedad de números musicales. Cuando es forzada a esconderse, su naturaleza indomable se convierte en una pesadilla para su guardián, un cantante de club nocturno enamorado de sus encantos.
M. Mathieu, le surveillant général
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
Daniel, le casseur d'assiettes
Jenny es una chica pizpireta que, cuando viaja a París, se escapa y conoce a un chico al que toma por un gangster, aunque no lo es. Sus aventuras terminarán bien.
Félicien Dieudonné
