Claude Jade

Vitalo Pedrotti es un artista callejero que se apiada de Remi, un niño supuestamente huérfano que fue abandonado por su madre. La mujer es una condesa que tuvo un romance con un soldado prusiano.

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.

Twenty years after his disappearance and while everyone believes him dead, Jacques returns home incognito under the name Laurent Dupas. He finds his wife Hélène, who has remarried Eric, a bank manager. They all look happy. But behind this idyllic family picture lies a mystery.

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.

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.

Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, although his mom is supportive of her only child. Contemplating an extramarital affair, Claude Jade attempts to discreetly shop for condoms, a cute twist on what is traditionally a teenage boy's awkward ordeal.

Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

Laura lives in a Hotel in Britanny and meets there an old man. Laura looks like his wife Lise, who's killed by the Gestapo...

A finales de noviembre de 1943 se celebra en la capital iraní una reunión, conocida como la conferencia de Teherán, entre los dirigentes de las potencias aliadas: Churchill, Roosvelt y Stalin. Aprovechando este hecho histórico, se desarrolla una trama ficticia sobre un complot nazi cuyo fin era el asesinato de los tres líderes del bando aliado, pero el atentado fracasó. Treinta y siete años después, en la capital francesa se anuncia, en rueda de prensa, que uno de los agentes implicados posee un microfilm con los documentos y los quiere vender al mejor postor. Desde ese mismo momento se inicia una persecución para asesinar al traidor alemán y recuperar el microfilm... (FILMAFFINITY)

A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?

A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than it's not natural death, and that someone in the village in behind their murder, while tragic events occur.

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...

Tras cinco años de matrimonio y con un hijo, Antoine Doinel y Christine se divorcian. Él trabaja como corrector en una imprenta y está enamorado de Sabine, vendedora en una tienda de discos. Un día se encuentra allí a Colette Tazzi, la joven de las Juventudes Musicales que conoció en “Antoine y Colette” y que fue su primer amor. Antoine se encuentra también con otros muchos conocidos, como Monsieur Lucien, ex-amante de su madre, y todas las mujeres que han pasado por su vida.

Marseille. The director of a company offers a promotion to Francois (Michel Creton) if he accepts to help him fire all the staff from his office. If he refuses, he will himself be fired. Francois opts for the latter. He registers as unemployed and discovers what he has lacked so far in his life: a certain freedom. His habits are changing as well as his attitude towards the others changes ... Luce (Claude Jade), his wife, and Marquerite (Courtois Queen), her stepmother, are surprised: why he is not himself anymore?

Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.

Una joven llamada Valeria, muere misteriosamente paseando por el campo. Todos los indicios indican que su amante es el asesino y en la investigación poco a poco van apareciendo otros personajes involucrados en el asesinato, por lo que el caso empieza a tomar carices insospechados...

At fifty, René Maugras has lost everything. This wealthy press boss fell into a coma and was rushed to hospital. He has since emerged from his worrying state of health but remains unable to move and communicate. He must also begin rehabilitation, which turns out to be particularly humiliating. Fortunately for him there is Blanche, his nurse, who surrounds him with affection. Blanche takes her case to heart.

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Jean-Pierre, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian theater actor, is engaged to a charming seamstress, Anne Jacquemin, who dreams of nothing else but a quiet married life with children. Belonging to a Brussels company, Jean-Pierre wants to experience more and decides to join a stock company that performs in the South of France. There he meets Juliette Allard, a young dancer who is the lookalike of Anne. As beautiful as her, she is more mysterious and fascinating than Anne. Jean-Pierre loves both: will he be able to choose between these two equally appealing women?

Juliette, a young woman of twenty-five, works unsuccessfully as a sales representative. Discouraged, on the point of giving up, Juliette meets Christian, a brilliant and seductive salesman, who offers her to play Pygmalion: he will be the master, she will be the pupil. But the master falls in love with Juliette.

Cinco mujeres criminales enfrentadas a un cerebro diabólico; Philippe Malaiseau, escritor francés habitante de Fontbonne, una lujosa villa en las cercanías de un pueblecito del Mediodía francés, resulta muerto, al parecer, en un accidente de automóvil. Compartían con él la residencia cinco mujeres, todas ellas relacionadas, de una forma u otra, con el escritor. Para terminar la mencionada obra biográfica sobre "Carlos el Temerario", que se halla en curso de realización envía a Marc Lancelot, pero que ya había tenido relaciones literarias anteriormente con éste.

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Sandro encuentra a su mujer estrangulada. Al pie de la cama hay una fotografía en la que se ve, entre otras cosas, a una mujer. La sospecha de que esa fotografía tiene algo que ver con el asesinato lo lleva a pedirle a una joven fotógrafa americana, que amplíe la fotografía.

This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals.

Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He and his twenty supporters will oppose the management, the firefighters and even the gendarmes.

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.

Antoine y Christine son una pareja de recién casados. Mientras él se gana la vida vendiendo flores secas por las calles de París, su mujer imparte clases de violín. Pasa el tiempo y tienen un bebé, pero Antoine, que sigue siendo un hombre emocionalmente inestable e inmaduro, tiene una aventura extramatrimonial.

A television adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Copenhague, Dinamarca, 1962. Cuando un alto funcionario soviético decide cambiar de bando, un agente de los servicios de inteligencia franceses se ve envuelto en una fría, silenciosa y sangrienta conspiración en la que su propia familia desempeñará un papel decisivo…

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...

Edmond Dantes participa, activamente, en la resistencia contra los nazis, y, por el contrario, es acusado de ser colaborador del Tercer Reich. Así, está preso en la fortaleza de Sisteron.

Continúa el ciclo de Antoine Doinel tras "Los cuatrocientos golpes" y "L'amour à vingt ans". El protagonista (Jean-Pierre Léaud), tras ser expulsado del ejército por insubordinación, visita a su antigua novia, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). El padre de Christine encuentra un trabajo temporal para Antoine como vigilante nocturno de un hotel. Sin embargo, por culpa de un detective privado, pierde el empleo el primer día. Como compensación, el detective le ofrece un trabajo en su agencia. Al principio Antoine se encarga de asuntos menores hasta que le encomiendan la misión de averiguar por qué todas las empleadas de la zapatería del señor Georges Tabard (Michel Lonsdale) lo odian. En la zapatería, Antoine conocerá a Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig), la esposa del propietario.