Francis Girod

Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.

Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.

"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and

"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.

Documentary about the making of French director Claude Chabrol's first film Le Beau Serge in 1958.

Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those who knew her, who loved her, go back to the filming locations, make archive images speak for themselves... and try to detect the part of mystery that Romy Schneider conceals for ever.

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.

Theater play "Le misanthrope" played by the "Comédie française" in 2000.

Just before taking an irrevocable and tragic step, Caroline talks to Claire, her lycée friend. Later, Claire gathers five other school friends, and tells them Caroline's secret. The six agree to wage a guerrilla war against their philosophy teacher, the sarcastic and belittling M. Terrien, the cause of Caroline's despair. After seeking advice from Mayard, the school's guidance counselor and a leftist with a police record, the six look for evidence that could get Terrien fired. They strike gold, and then raise the stakes. Sarah, one of the six, hatches a deadly plan.

Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's already too late for escape?

Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's already too late for escape?

Cuarenta directores internacionales aceptaron la idea de hacer un cortometraje utilizando el cinematógrafo original inventado por los hermanos Lumière y trabajando en condiciones similares a las de 1895. Además, debían cumplir tres condiciones: la película no debía superar los 52 segundos, no podía tener más de tres tomas, y la sincronización del sonido no estaba permitida.

A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.

En París, Lulu, un policía apasionado, trabaja con la fe de un novato, a pesar de la burocracia esclerótica, la incompetencia o la negligencia de algunos de sus colegas. En su nueva posición como inspector de narcóticos, trata de mantener su cordura mientras es testigo de lo peor de la condición humana.

En 1991, la ONG Amnistía Internacional encargó 30 cortometrajes a 30 realizadores franceses, para montar un film colectivo que denunciara casos concretos de violación de los derechos humanos por razones políticas.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success.

This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.

This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...

Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.

El presidente de la República Francesa ve peligrar su puesto cuando le roban una carta dirigida a su amante, en la que le pide que aborte, por lo que su situación no puede ser más delicada.

El presidente de la República Francesa ve peligrar su puesto cuando le roban una carta dirigida a su amante, en la que le pide que aborte, por lo que su situación no puede ser más delicada.

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.

The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

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 film sigue la suerte de tres pícaros durante y después de la ocupación nazi de Francia. René (Depardieu) es un vulgar delincuente de poca monta; Fernand (Piccoli) es un policía corrupto; y Krista (Kristel) es la madama del burdel que ellos frecuentan.

El film sigue la suerte de tres pícaros durante y después de la ocupación nazi de Francia. René (Depardieu) es un vulgar delincuente de poca monta; Fernand (Piccoli) es un policía corrupto; y Krista (Kristel) es la madama del burdel que ellos frecuentan.

Georges de Saux es un acaudalado banquero que decide apartar a su hija de la mala vida que lleva a cabo. Para ello, contrata a un detective privado, llamado Franz, para que la tutele y la conduzca a un balneario. Sin embargo, resulta que dicho balneario resulta ser un burdel en el cual las jóvenes son entregadas a maníacos sexuales para que sacien sus apetitos.

Marsella, 1919. Georges Sarret es un distinguido y respetado abogado, recientemente premiado por sus servicios en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Toma como amante a Philomène Schmidt, una joven alemana que acaba de perder su trabajo y su hogar. Para permitir que Philomène permanezca en Francia, Georges le encuentra un marido, que muere convenientemente por causas naturales un mes después de la boda. Georges repite el truco con la hermana de Philomène, Catherine: casarla con un anciano que muere repentinamente para que el intrigante trío pueda beneficiarse de su seguro de vida. Cuando un cómplice del plan, Marcel Chambon, amenaza con chantajearlos, Georges y sus dos amantes no tienen más remedio que matarlo a él y a su amante...

Marsella, 1919. Georges Sarret es un distinguido y respetado abogado, recientemente premiado por sus servicios en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Toma como amante a Philomène Schmidt, una joven alemana que acaba de perder su trabajo y su hogar. Para permitir que Philomène permanezca en Francia, Georges le encuentra un marido, que muere convenientemente por causas naturales un mes después de la boda. Georges repite el truco con la hermana de Philomène, Catherine: casarla con un anciano que muere repentinamente para que el intrigante trío pueda beneficiarse de su seguro de vida. Cuando un cómplice del plan, Marcel Chambon, amenaza con chantajearlos, Georges y sus dos amantes no tienen más remedio que matarlo a él y a su amante...

This thoughtful French film tells of the events leading to a young man's attempt at suicide. As Raymond (Richard Bohringer) sits on a ledge of his apartment building, and people try to talk him back inside, he remembers the events of his day and his life before this moment. Things seemed to be going along well enough until something triggered his revulsion at the pettiness and falseness that is the everyday currency of life.

Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.

The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.

Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.

Un psicópata es testigo del suicidio de una joven. En su mente enferma, empieza a convencerse de que él la ha asesinado y a enviar cartas a los periódicos con detalles del "asesinato". Cuando la policía está a punto de capturarle, conoce a una muchacha y la idea de un crimen real empieza a destruir su ya perturbada mente...

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature.

Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his patriotic father to honor his military commitment even if it means he will die.

Renee Saccard es una joven esposa mimada y egoísta de un hombre de negocios parisino de mediana edad que se enamora de su hijastro, pero se ve enloquecida cuando su esposo engaña al hijastro para que la traicione.