Étienne Becker

A los tres años Marie perdió a Elisa, su madre, que se suicidó, y sus abuelos la acogieron. A ellos nunca les quiso y siempre intentaba escandalizarlos, hasta que hartos de aguantarla la llevaron a un reformatorio. Allí Marie conoció a la alborotadora Solange, y poco después a Ahmed. Los tres forman una familia. (FILMAFFINITY)

A story about a father who kidnaps his daughter and which the director describes as a love story that ended badly.

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

Una joven y sensual mujer regresa a su pueblo natal con la intención de vengarse de los hombres que violaron a su madre, pero parece que los hechos ocurridos no fueron tan claros e indiscutibles como ella cree.

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. At 35, Alice is a career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and one-night stands.

Julienne Lebas is a financial assistant at a real estate developer but she has published a novel and hopes to become an actress someday.

Drama sobre la inseguridad. Los vecinos de un barrio intentan defenderse de los delincuentes adiestrando perros para el ataque, tarea de la que se encarga un inquietante personaje. Tras ser violada por un desconocido, Nicole Calfan adopta un perro y le enseña a obedecer sus órdenes de ataque. Victor Lanoux, un médico que acaba de instalarse en el barrio, se opondrá a este sistema de violencia generalizada.

After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

Pauline tiene todo dispuesto para poner fin a su vida, incluso ha encargado su ataúd. Antes del fatal desenlace decide darse un último gran banquete. De regreso su casa conocerá a Peppo, un inmigrante italiano.

Cuando Francois, un periodista, recorre una gran tienda por un artículo, es elegido por el hijo del dueño del periódico, Rambal-Cochet, como su nuevo juguete. Al necesitar dinero y no querer renunciar a su trabajo, Francois acepta esta ridícula tarea. Poco a poco se hace amigo del niño mimado, lo induce a jugar a hacer un periódico, desvelando públicamente el estilo de vida tiránico del padre. El poderoso clímax emocional que experimentamos con el niño asombra a ambos hombres.

Documentary about the military coup in Chile.

El comisario jefe de la policía de Orleáns (Périer) debe su privilegiada posición social a su rica e influyente esposa (Signoret), que lleva años postrada en una silla de ruedas. El comisario, con el conocimiento de su esposa, tiene una joven amante con antecedentes penales.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en la Francia ocupada por las tropas alemanas, un viejo médico (Philippe Noiret) pierde a su mujer y a su hija por culpa de los nazis. Jura entonces vengarse de los responsables de su desgracia.

Un extraño irrumpe en la casa de una pareja. Ciertas autoridades le van detrás como si de una caza se tratara: quieren capturarlo para que desvele un secreto que sólo él sabe. El extraño comportamiento de este hombre hace que la pareja dude, ¿está diciendo la verdad o es que está loco? ¿Y si estuviese contando la verdad? ¿Quién le persigue y por qué? ¿Cuál es ese misterioso y codiciado secreto?

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

In his documentary "Humain, Trop Humain," Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.

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.

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.

Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.

Marceau Léonetti, un oficial de policía enérgico y competente, arresta al hijo de un famoso abogado, que conducía bajo los efectos del alcohol. Pocos meses después, el abogado acusa falsamente al policía de ser un violento incompetente, como venganza por haber arrestado a su hijo. Como castigo, el policía es destinado a una pequeña comisaría de barrio, donde tendrá a una bella novata como compañera. Pronto, sus superiores tendrán que recurrir a él para que resuelva un complicado asunto .

OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.

Dos jóvenes americanos (Sam Waterston & Robie Porter), amigos de la universidad, recorren Europa en coche durante un verano y rivalizan por atraer la atención de una bella y misteriosa joven inglesa (Charlotte Rampling) que se ha unido a ellos durante el viaje. (FILMAFFINITY)

Universally accepted as a true icon of the 20th century, Muhammad Ali’s phenomenal achievements spanned sport, politics and religion. One man – photographer William Klein had comprehensive access to the events that shaped Ali’s legend. In 1964, the young gregarious Cassius Clay successfully defeated the seemingly invincible Heavyweight Champion of the World Sonny Liston – the manner of Clay’s victory and his amazing persona made him an instant superstar. Through this incredible period, and Clay’s subsequent rematches with Liston, William Klein enjoyed unrivalled access top Clay’s camp – witnessing at first hand Cassius Clay becoming Muhammad Ali and angering the American people with his allegiance to Islam. Forward to Zaire 1974, and the return of Muhammad Ali to the world stage to face another invincible champion George Foreman. As Ali reclaimed the crown for a second time, Klein was ever present, capturing the full story at close quarter.

When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

Follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress and Sebastien, her director.

Follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress and Sebastien, her director.

François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.

A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.

Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying Dutchman in the fiction part of the film, who returns to the modern day Rotterdam, that has recovered very well after the devastating bombardments in the second world war.

A family's life is transformed into an object of art.

Película concebida por el productor Barbet Schroeder y compuesta por seis cortometrajes dirigidos por algunos de los mejores directores franceses de la época. Los títulos corresponden a barrios parisinos. Godard rueda una comedia romántica en Montparnasse, Rouch sigue a una chica por la Gare du Nord, Claude Chabrol muestra una infeliz familia burguesa en La Muette, Jean-Daniel Pollet cuenta una desternillante historia sobre el encuentro de un hombre tímido con una prostituta en la Rue Sant-Denis, Jean Douchet narra la historia de unas chicas americanas que se van de paseo con unos franceses por Saint-Germain-des-Prés, y Éric Rohmer sigue a un vendedor que se enzarza en una pelea con un borracho en la Place de l'Étoile y teme haberlo matado.

Odile, hastiada de su monotonía matrimonial, sale de casa en lo que parece una mañana como cualquier otra...

Alain Leroy, un francés alcohólico, casado con una americana, está a punto de terminar un tratamiento de desintoxicación en una clínica privada. Antes de enfrentarse de nuevo a la vida cotidiana decide visitar a las personas a las que estuvo vinculado en el pasado.

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

Tras una apocalíptica guerra nuclear, el mundo ha quedado devastado. Un grupo de científicos del bando vencedor llega a la conclusión de que el único modo de salvar a la humanidad es recurriendo a los viajes a través del tiempo: o bien mandar a una persona al pasado para pedir ayuda, o al futuro para buscar una solución a la situación presente. El elegido para realizar el viaje a través del tiempo es un prisionero. Historia de corte experimental sobre el poder de la memoria, contada exclusivamente a través de fotos fijas, en la que un hombre trata de reconstruir el recuerdo de su amada, en tiempos de la Tercera Guerra Mundial. Un singular film de ciencia-ficción francés, que inspiró la conocida película americana "12 Monos" (12 Monkeys, 1995)

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.