François Perrot

Marie Bertin is in at a dead end, both personally and professionally. When Pierre Gendreau, a former Canadian minister, asked for her help in writing his briefs, she saw the solution to a situation that had become unbearable. She hoped for a lot in this new life in Quebec, with her son, Tom, whom she had "all alone" a few months earlier. But, once in her new position, the situation is far from idyllic. The atmosphere of the house is heavy. The relations between Pierre, his wife, Nathalie, and their son François are tense.

Alexandre Taillard es un hombre alto, atractivo, carismático y el Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del país de las luces, Francia. Su política se rige por conceptos tan diplomáticos como la legitimidad, la transparencia y la eficacia, se muestra contrario a los neoconservadores estadounidenses y ataca a la codiciosa corrupción tanto rusa como china. Cuando Arthur Vlaminck termina sus estudios de la ENA consigue un empleo para trabajar en el departamento de comunicación del ministro Taillard, y se convierte en el encargado de redactar cada uno de sus discursos. El joven inexperto deberá abrirse paso entre los consejeros y el jefe de gabinete para poder hacerse un hueco en un entorno estresante, lleno ambición y donde las puñaladas traperas están a la orden del día. Arthur será testigo de cómo se manejan los hilos del mundo de la política a la vez que se hará más fuerte la amenaza de los tecnócratas.

Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disappears one evening and is later found dead, Frédéric suspects he may have been killed by the family who employ him. But rather than betray his boss, Jacques Couvreur, he makes up his mind to protect him. Unwittingly, Frédéric puts himself in grave danger...

A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth.

In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Daine Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris...

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?

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.

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.

This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul Gauguin in an upcoming book. Cohn, an obnoxious crook and pathological liar originally from Paris, has been the bane of the local population for years, yet despite his annoyances they will not arrest him. Hearing that Cohn owns an authentic Gauguin, Jack Baker makes his acquaintance. They do not get off to a great start, but eventually become friends after Cohn's secret is discovered.

Family life in a parisian apartment during the 60's.

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.

A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.

With his job in the balance, Gérard bets his boss that he can transform bad-tempered street person Lola into television star material. With the inducement of stardom as his lure, he takes Lola in hand and becomes her instructor, sending her to ballet and acting classes, where she misbehaves. Most of her petulance is reserved for Gérard, however, but in the tradition of Pretty Woman and My Fair Lady, in the end he gets the girl and a new star -- in the same package.

Camille, una inocente estudiante de instituto, tras conocer a Joëlle, una chica promiscua, más experimentada y mayor que ella, la seguirá en un viaje de autodescubrimiento del amor, el sexo, la enfermedad y la vida.

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.

Alegato antibélico ambientado en las postrimerías de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) que relata el penoso trabajo de un militar que dirige una sección encargada de la búsqueda e identificación de muertos en acto de servicio. Cosechó excelentes críticas tanto en Europa como en USA.

The plot of the play revolves around Lola, a sexagenarian, divorced and not very well off, who gets it into her head to have a breast reconstruction.

Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are numbered.

La película describe el despertar sexual y las aventuras de un adolescente Roger durante la época del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.

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.

En el desierto de Marruecos, un piloto se encuentra con un traficante de armas y una mujer que le recuerda a la que ama.

Un comando de la Legión Extranjera tiene que transportar un cargamento de lingotes de oro al Norte de África para evitar que caigan en manos de los alemanes. Pero, tras una serie de peripecias y escaramuzas con el enemigo, uno de los soldados decide quedarse con el oro.

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.

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend talk about his successes. Viviane arises, ravishing and icy, but she's seasonal. Pascal, sincerely in love, seduces her and then leaves. This is a dire situation for Micky: Pascal is far away and the beauty is so kind to him. Complications arise once Pascal returns.

Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.

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.

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.

Después de cumplir su último encargo, el asesino profesional Martin Terrier decide retirarse, pero eso está prohibido en la organización para la que trabaja. Tras liquidar a un asesino enviado para matarle, Terrier decide irse unos días a la granja de pavos que su excéntrica ex mujer ha comprado a modo de inversión. Allí conoce a la bella esposa del hombre que dirige la granja.

An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.

En Biarritz, Hélène atropella con su coche a Gilles. Vive abstraída y sumida en una gran depresión tras la muerte de su amante, un brillante y prometedor arquitecto. Tras el accidente, Hélène y Gilles, dos seres solitarios, se hacen amigos, pero él se enamora de Hélène, a pesar de que es consciente de que que una mujer como ella no se puede interesar por un hombre de clase más baja y sin grandes aspiraciones. (FILMAFFINITY)

Adaptación de la conocidísima novela negra "1280 Almas" de Jim Thompson. La historia se desarrolla en el África Colonial Francesa en 1938, inmediatamente antes del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuenta las andanzas del jefe de policía de un miserable poblado al que nadie toma en serio. Un día decide tomarse la justicia por su mano.

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.

Una noche, Michel Gerfaut descubre a un herido dentro de un coche. Se lo lleva al hospital y se va sin hacer ninguna declaración. No duda en ningún momento de que acaba de meterse de lleno en una peligrosa conspiración destinada a eliminar uno por uno a los dirigentes de una empresa de armamento. Michel se convierte en un testigo que incomoda a algunos.

Michel y Lydia son dos extraños que se encuentran en la calle. Los dos, que están pasando por momentos terribles en sus vidas, deciden empezar una relación para ayudarse mutuamente.

El ejecutivo bancario Henri Rainier concede un préstamo enorme al inversionista Claude Chevalier d'Aven. Sin embargo, los negocios de Chevalier resultan tan ruinosos que el banco se ve obligado a cubrir el déficit. Por si fuera poco, Rainier es considerado culpable del desastre de la entidad financiera. A pesar de todo, Rainier, lejos de quedarse de brazos cruzados, decide demandar a su anterior jefe.

Un cantante en paro es contratado como profesor de natación en la Costa Azul por un millonario paralítico y tiránico.

Un joven franco-canadiense, que tiene una visión idealizada sobre Francia, sobre la base de grandes obras de la literatura y el arte decide visitar a su patria ancestral mítica, y descubre que los franceses son seres humanos comunes y corrientes. Una vez allí, conoce a varias personas, y tiene un romance con una jurista mujer con un matrimonio infeliz.

‘Madame Claude’ cuenta la historia real de una parisina con un oscuro pasado. Madame Claude (Françoise Fabian) ha creado, en la actualidad, una red de chicas de compañía para la alta sociedad. Ella se encarga de enviar a sus prostitutas a cualquier parte del mundo en la que se necesiten sus prácticas sexuales para satisfacer los deseos de los hombres más poderosos del mundo. Con su empresa es capaz de manipular a los grandes hombres de negocio y políticos. Mientras tanto, David Evans (Murray Head) está chantajeando a las autoridades con fotos de los miembros de las altas esferas y las prostitutas de Madame Claude. Pero, aunque David cree que su plan será muy efectivo, los hombres con poder harán cualquier cosa por mantener guardados sus secretos.

La pequeña Laurence ha sido secuestrada. Su madre, Madeleine, ha de plantar cara a la familia, la prenda, la policía, reúne el rescate, pero en vano. La película nos presenta el calvario y la dulzura de esta madre.

Alice Carroll le comunica a su marido que va a dejarle. Ante la insistencia de éste de que no lo haga, la mujer, que ya no soporta a su esposo, temerosa de que éste la retenga, huye en su coche a pesar de que está lloviendo torrencialmente. Pero en un momento de su fuga, Alice detiene el coche, ya que la persistente lluvia no la deja ver a través de los cristales del coche. De esta forma, ella va a parar a un lugar que desconoce, siendo acogida amablemente por el dueño de una mansión, el aristócrata Heni Vergennes. Éste la invita a pasar la noche en el castillo. Alice accede y se toma un somnífero. A la mañana siguiente, cuando ella sale de su habitación, encuentra el desayuno preparado, pero en todo el inmueble no hay nadie. Cuando quiere salir, se encuentra que ha sido encerrada.

Muy afectado por el suicidio de un paciente, un psiquiatra va a reunirse con su hijo, quien vive con su madre. Un día, uno de sus amigos le asesina. El psiquiatra entabla amistad con el asesino.

Después de pasar siete años en prisión por un crimen que no cometió, François regresa a su hogar en una pequeña ciudad industrial del norte de Francia. Su intención es buscar a quienes le involucraron en este delito y descubrir a los verdaderos culpables. En una ciudad donde todos se conocen y él se ha ganado numerosos enemigos, también descubrirá el amor en la persona de la hija de un rico empresario.

Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.

Julie Wormser es una fría y calculadora esposa que conspira con su amante y vecino Jeff Marle para deshacerse de su rico marido. Ella lo golpea y del resto se encarga Jeff. Pero al día siguiente ¿dónde está el cuerpo? ¿y el amante?

In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.

Un grupo terrorista europeo llamado 'Nada" secuestra al embajador americano. Pronto surgen tensiones entre ellos debido a las discrepancias sobre los pasos a seguir. La división interna de la banda junto a la total confusión de la policía hace que la violencia se intensifique cada vez más en ambos lados...

The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will the culprit be unmasked?

A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the far past and far future) in which naked humans fight one another with animalistic aggression.

An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Adaptación sin diálogos de una novela de Thomas Mann, centrada en una mujer parisina que vive vendiendo cabezas humanas. Primer trabajo de Jodorowsky, considerado perdido hasta que en 2007 se encontró una copia de la original en un ático de Alemania.

Nuestro viejo amigo Lemmy Caution viaja a Roma para rescatar a un agente federal que ha sido secuestrado cuando se hacía pasar por un científico codiciado por una banda de espías...

Antes de suicidarse, Granworth Aymes envía a su esposa una importante suma de dinero en billetes falsos. Cuando el agente del FBI Lemmy Caution se entera, se desplaza a Italia para intentar esclarecer el asunto. En el curso de la investigación descubre una gran organización de falsificadores de moneda dirigida por… Granworth Aymes en persona, que había simulado su suicidio.