Marie-France Pisier

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.

Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.

The dream of Charles Dombais, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, his wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Expecting her first child, actress Violette decides to dive deep into her dysfunctional family's history by filming a documentary about them.

Crónica de una familia cuyo lema sería: "Esfuérzate en ignorar la tristeza de los tuyos". Tras romper con su novia, Paul vuelve a casa de su padre en París. Se instala en el dormitorio de su hermano Jonathan y se niega a salir de allí. Su padre y su hermano intentan ayudarlo para que venza su dolor y supere la ruptura sentimental. Mientras tanto, los parisinos están preparando las fiestas de Navidad.

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price

"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

Estelle, 30, thinks she is going to remain single for the rest of her life. A free-lance journalist, she also thinks she will never cover any news bigger than fillers. One day, Estelle sees her chance when she gets to interview soccer superstar Stefano Paudretto... only to ruin it all by slapping him for getting too fresh! But that same day reserves another surprise: love at first sight! His name is Renaud. He is a sports radio journalist. Estelle starts dreaming again. But the wonderful love affair is in trouble when the Prince Charming's children declare war on their potential stepmother. Estelle is ready to fight back. After all, she's reached the ripe old age of 30 - it's now or never!

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli. But, more than her name, everything about Louise seems to have changed. Ordo decides to meet Estelle again, after all these years, to know what it's all about...

Lola, a young, energetic and cheerful student lives in Paris. She’s preparing to sit her law thesis, and works part-time at Chloroville, “Our green fingers look after your interior plants”. She has split up with Simon, a lawyer in his thirties who is always busy defending “the trial of his life”. Their stormy relationship held Lola back, and although they’ll love each other forever, it won’t be on an everyday basis.

Lola, a young, energetic and cheerful student lives in Paris. She’s preparing to sit her law thesis, and works part-time at Chloroville, “Our green fingers look after your interior plants”. She has split up with Simon, a lawyer in his thirties who is always busy defending “the trial of his life”. Their stormy relationship held Lola back, and although they’ll love each other forever, it won’t be on an everyday basis.

Lola, a young, energetic and cheerful student lives in Paris. She’s preparing to sit her law thesis, and works part-time at Chloroville, “Our green fingers look after your interior plants”. She has split up with Simon, a lawyer in his thirties who is always busy defending “the trial of his life”. Their stormy relationship held Lola back, and although they’ll love each other forever, it won’t be on an everyday basis.

Zouina llega de su Argelia natal, con sus tres hijos. Viene a reunirse con su marido, Ahmed, el cual lleva diez años trabajando en Francia, y al cual ha visto muy poco en todo este tiempo. Aïcha, la madre de Ahmed, viaja con ella. A pesar de la agresividad de sus vecinos, de los constantes reproches de su suegra y de los desconfiados silencios de su marido, Zouina trata de adaptarse a su nueva vida en el exilio. La radio es su único vínculo con la vida y con las mujeres, en este país nuevo. Ya no tiene ningún tipo de relación con Argelia. Un día, se entera por casualidad de que otra familia argelina vive en el mismo pueblo, así que decide encontrarla sea como sea. (FILMAFFINITY)

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.

A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is minding his own business when a phonograph record tossed from a passing car accidentally cuts off his ear. The ear falls into traffic, gets stuck on the windshield of another vehicle, and begins a long, strange journey, passing from car to car and hand to hand across the country. Jeff, however, can still hear whatever his separated ear is picking up, and is trying to follow the sounds in hopes of catching up with his former body part. However, a doctor warns him he only has a few hours to find his ear, otherwise reattachment will be impossible; in the meantime, Jeff's former girlfriend wastes several of his precious minutes with a discussion about the notion of giving their relationship another try.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) está en su lecho de muerte. Ver fotografías trae recuerdos de su infancia, su juventud, sus amantes y la forma en que la Gran Guerra puso fin a un estrato social. Sus recuerdos no están en un orden particular, se mueven hacia adelante y hacia atrás en el tiempo. Marcel en varias edades interactúa con Odette, con la bella Gilberte y su marido condenado, con el barón de Charlus que busca el placer, con la amante de Marcel Albertine y con otros; presentes también en la memoria están la querida madre y abuela de Marcel. Parece como si vivir es recordar y capturar recuerdos es crear una obra de gran arte. Los recuerdos son paralelos al volumen final de la novela de Proust.

Camille, Eva, Ariane y Nicolas tienen cuatro cosas en común: la edad (apenas treinta años), la dedicación exclusiva a Lovespace (la editorial que han creado juntos), oír el "I will survive", de Gloria Gaynor, como antídoto contra los días de depresión y, por supuesto, su homosexualidad. Lili, la secretaria, nunca ha dudado de su propia heterosexualidad. Por ello, cuando descubre el mundo gay, lo hace como una exploradora, en busca de la clave de su propia diferencia: ¿por qué yo no? Aunque los cuatro amigos vivan su propia homosexualidad como algo muy importante y no lo oculten en su vida diaria, no responden igual en presencia de sus padres. Solamente Josepha, la madre de Camille, una burguesa poco convencional, está al corriente. Con el fin de ayudar a padres e hijos a dialogar, Josepha decide organizar un fin de semana familiar en su castillo: así la verdad saldrá por fin a la luz.

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.

The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.

Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.

Young boy Antoine is trying to prevent his parents divorce.

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.

A French civil servant throws The Governor's Party when his daughter comes of age regardless of colonial unrest and her parents' stormy marriage.

Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)

Orpheus is a rock star who composes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. As he wrestles with his additional love for Calaïs, his sound engineer, Orpheus finds that Eurydice had died of a drug overdose, so he descends into the Underworld to try and make a deal with Hades.

Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.

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 master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.

Cinematographer turned director (Xaver Schwarzenberger) has filmed a small, wintry story of epic human proportions. A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic backdrop a rabies epidemic sweeps through the population. The doctor convinces people he is a biologist but then he treats someone bitten and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic raises questions of life and death, the doctor's mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an enraged villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

Joe Cavalier (Jean-Paul Belmondo) fue uno de los más hábiles y valientes pilotos de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Veinte años después, es el entrenador de un equipo de púgiles franceses que participarán en las Olimpíadas de Berlín de 1936. Aprovechando la competición, Cavalier decide ayudar a escapar a un grupo de judíos, pero la falta de sentido de la orientación hace que el grupo se extravíe en la montaña. (FILMAFFINITY)

Por sugerencia de su editor, el escritor Daniel Salmon, falto de inspiración, va a relajarse a la costa Mediterránea...

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

Valentino, de 30 años, es rico, sociópata, y está enamorado de un maniquí. Entonces conoce a Silvia, la mujer perfecta. El maniquí se pone celoso. ¿Es una proyección de la mente de Valentino o el maniquí es real? Mediometraje dirigido por el nieto de Vittorio De Sica.

Gabrielle Chanel, una niña que ha de ser internada en el orfelinato, se convierte con los años en una modista de prestigio a la que los aristócratas agasajan con regalos. Uno de ellos y Marc, su protector en el mundo de la pasarela, compartirán sus sentimientos. Mientras, su colección de sombreros será la espita de un lanzamiento internacional.

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...

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

Un drama que compitió en la sección oficial del Festival de Cannes de 1979. Recibió dos nominaciones a los Premios César de la Academia de cine francesa: a la mejor fotografía y al mejor montaje.

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.

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.

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one

Noelle Page nació en Marsella donde se convirtió en una actriz de éxito. Durante su juventud mantuvo una relación con Larry Douglas, un hombre apuesto y seductor, pero en la actualidad está con uno de los hombres más poderosos del mundo, Constantin Demiris. Para sorpresa de Noelle, Demiris contrata a Larry, sin saber del affair entre éste y su mujer, que se siente incómoda con su presencia. La ex amante idea un plan para hacer que Larry sea despedido, pero fracasa porque acaba dándose cuenta de que aún lo ama. Su relación es imposible por partida doble, ya que Larry tiene una relación con Caherine Alexander, una francesa que trabaja como secretaria. Larry y Catherin no descansarán hasta acabar con todos los obstáculos que les impiden estar juntos, aunque eso implique un asesinato. Catherine, objetivo principal del maquiavélico plan, descubre casualmente la maquinación y huye. Más tarde Noelle y Larry serán procesados.

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

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.

Dos primos lejanos se conocen en una boda de la familia. Entre ellos surge en seguida una buena amistad, pero pronto sus respectivos esposo y esposa empezarán a sospechar de que son algo más que amigos.

Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector (Michael Auclair), son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige.

Muy cerca de la tradición de los cuentos infantiles, la película narra las relaciones entre la bibliotecaria Julie y Céline, y cómo ésta introduce a la primera en una historia, entre la realidad y la fantasía, que se desarrolla en una gran mansión aislada donde vive un viudo, su hija de 8 años y dos mujeres.

Muy cerca de la tradición de los cuentos infantiles, la película narra las relaciones entre la bibliotecaria Julie y Céline, y cómo ésta introduce a la primera en una historia, entre la realidad y la fantasía, que se desarrolla en una gran mansión aislada donde vive un viudo, su hija de 8 años y dos mujeres.

Serie de viñetas entrelazadas por un personaje o una situación que conecta una historia con la siguiente. Unos soldados franceses entran a la catedral de Toledo durante la invasión napoleónica. Un capitán besa la estatua de una mujer y destruye la de un hombre. En la época actual, un matrimonio se escandaliza con unas postales que muestran monumentos de París. Un hombre ve pasar unos animales por su cuarto. En una escuela de policías, un gendarme dicta una lección sobre las distintas costumbres antropológicas. Un asesino es dejado en libertad después de matar a 18 personas. Una multitud furiosa asalta un zoológico gritando lemas de la resistencia anti-napoleónica, mientras un avestruz mira directamente al espectador.

Marie-Hélène lives in a manor with her husband George, but is not happy. She feels stifled and trapped by the constant presence of Cécile, her intrusive mother-in-law. One day, Jacques and a beautiful woman, Françoise, comes to visit. Marie-Hélène feels attracted to Françoise. To such an extent that the two women fall in love and run away to the city.

On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.

Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes violent confrontations.

A finales de 1944, en el bosque de la Woëre, al norte del Mosa, un grupo de maquis viven refugiados en el bosque. En ocasiones se une a ellos una joven que les hace de enlace. Un día unos soldados alemanes desertores del ejercitonazi se refugian en el bosque, el jefe de los maquis duda en acogerlos, pero por unanimidad de sus compañeros se plega a ello.

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.

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.

Eurospy crime-comedy with Marie-France Pisier

Un realizador llamado Jean, un productor y su secretaria toman el "Trans-Europ-Express" con rumbo a Amberes, dónde coinciden con el actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. De la distendida conversación que surge entre los cuatro, nace una idea para realizar una película políciaca. En ella el famoso actor encarnaría a un aspirante a traficante que toma el tren a Amberes para efectuar su viaje iniciático. A su llegada a la ciudad belga se verá entonces inmiscuido en una complicada trama de intrigas a la vez que nota cómo una intensa obsesión sexual le atenaza los sentidos.

En 1930 la población de Düsseldorf se ve aterrorizada por los crímenes de un asesino que ataca a las mujeres durante la noche. Nadie sospecha de Peter Kurten, obrero taciturno, tranquilo e inquilino modelo, cuya presencia, por el contrario, tranquiliza a su patrona. Cada noche, sin embargo, sale elegantemente vestido con el único fin de ir a aplaudir en una sala de fiestas de la periferia a una joven cantante llamada Anna, a quien ni siquiera se atreve a acercarse. Cuando vuelve a su casa es cuando asesina a su víctimas presas de pánico. El comisario Monberg, encargado de la investigación, esperaba deternerle después del asesinato de una joven provinciana, Paula, cuya amiga, Rosa, aportaba un precioso testimonio.

A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.

Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the lovely girl, the young man switches places with his valet. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the fact that the girl has pulled a similar deception. Though Jean-Marc Ripert is responsible for much of the cinematography in this New Wave comedy, it is Francois Reichenbach who handled the camera for many of the ocean-liner scenes.

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.

Cinco episodios sobre el amor, dirigidos por conocidos directores. François Truffaut, en "Antoine et Colette", trata de un inocente amor entre un joven y una mujer madura. Renzo Rossellini sigue las andanzas de dos mujeres que comparten un amante. Shintaro Ishihara ofrece un violento retrato de un joven perturbado que se convierte en asesino de mujeres. El episodio de Marcel Ophüls (hijo del gran Max Ophüls) se centra en un periodista que, tras un breve encuentro, deja a una mujer embarazada y tendrá que afrontar su responsabilidade como padre. El episodio dirigido por el polaco Andrzej Wajda habla de un joven soldado cuyas hazañas provocan la admiración de una mujer.

Segunda película realizada en torno al personaje de Antoine Doinel, que sigue tras "Los 400 golpes", realizadas por Truffaut.