Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli

Nacimiento : 1925-12-27, Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Muerte : 2020-05-12

Historia

Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia. Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning. Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira... He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013. Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International. Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.

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Películas

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Marx Can Wait
Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
Camillo tenía 29 años cuando falleció en 1968. Casi 50 años después de la muerte de su hermano gemelo, el director de la película reúne a su familia para reconstruir su desaparición. Combinando conversaciones íntimas con los Bellocchio y con quienes mejor conocían a Camillo, junto con material de archivo, películas familiares y su propia obra, el cineasta intenta poner de manifiesto a un fantasma con el que ha lidiado toda su vida. Lo que comienza como una conversación familiar se transforma en una indagación sobre el dolor, la culpa y la responsabilidad, la compasión, la empatía y el amor.
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Mysteries, hidden defects, scandals or family secrets? Nothing like that in the life of the filmmaker Claude Chabrol. Just a lifestyle of a Buddha gourmand, a sneaky anarchist, an insolent lover of life. There is a question though… How was he able to make 58 movies in 50 years? This is the story about his outstanding life, told by Cécile, his adopted daughter and also his collaborator for many years.
Coming Apart
(archive footage)
"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release, to fully grasp Godard’s modernist gestures, poised between a fullness of mythic and classical meaning, and the possibilities of a newly fragmented universe of signs."
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Self (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
Our Lady of Hormones
Narrator
Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"
The Taste of Blueberries
Michel
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest area and their son's tombstone. Having lost the keys to their car, they walk down into the woods together, then apart, to better find themselves and each other.
Las líneas de Wellington
Leópold Scheitzer
Narra la historia de la ocupación de Portugal por las tropas napoleónicas a principios del siglo XIX. Realizado por Valeria Sarmiento, la viuda y editora de los filmes de Raúl Ruiz, partiendo de un proyecto póstumo de su marido.
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Le père
Tras la muerte de un famoso dramaturgo, los actores más próximos a él acuden a su casa para hacer una última representación de Eurídice. Son también los intérpretes habituales de Alain Resnais, que ha rodado una película de tintes nostálgicos, que combina teatro y cine: personajes que mudan de piel, espacios que surgen de la nada... Adaptación de la obra "Eurídice" del dramatugo francés Jean Anouilh. (FILMAFFINITY)
Holy Motors
Man with the Wine Stain
"Holy Motors" narra 24 horas en la vida de un ser con múltiples caras: asesino, mendigo, ejecutivo, monstruo, padre de familia... El protagonista tiene una identidad completamente distinta en cada una de estas vidas. Encarna personajes como si se tratase de una película dentro de una película. ¿Pero dónde están las cámaras, el equipo de cine, el escenógrafo? ¿Y dónde está su casa, su refugio?
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
Habemus Papam
Melville
Tras varias fumatas negras por votaciones infructuosas, finalmente los fieles congregados en la Plaza de San Pedro reciben con júbilo la fumata blanca que indica que "Habemus Papam". Pero el nuevo papa se hunde ante la responsabilidad adquirida, por lo que la curia vaticana decide contratar a un psiquiatra para ayudar al nuevo pontífice.
Portrait Of My Father
Self
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self
Le Bel Âge
Maurice Reverdy
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) es compositor, y un viejo miembro de la resistencia. Por azar, comparte casa con una adolescente que, también por azar, es su nieta. Claire, a sus 17 años, está impaciente por vivir toda clase de cosas y cuanto antes mejor, y se rebela ante cualquiera que quiera impedírselo. Entre las competiciones de natación y los primeros encuentros cercanos con los chicos, pasa su vida, acogida por su abuelo después de haberse quedado huérfana. Pero esta convivencia es difícil: ambos se evitan por los recovecos de una gran casa, escapándose por las ventanas si es necesario, para vivir en las estancias que les cede ese ente invisible que es su incomprensión mutua. Y, sin embargo, tienen algo en común: ambos son insurrectos a su manera, sólo que uno de vuelta de todo y la otra apenas emprendiendo el camino de ida.
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Self
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch.
El polvo del tiempo
Spyros
Un cineasta norteamericano de origen griego llamado A está rodando una película sobre sus padres, Eleni y Spiros. Una y otra vez, la historia de amor de estos dos inmigrantes griegos se ve condicionada por los acontecimientos históricos: durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) tienen que separarse porque Spiros debe emigrar a Estados Unidos; al estallar la guerra civil en Grecia, Eleni emigra a la Unión Soviética por motivos políticos; A se ve obligado a huir a Canadá para evitar la guerra de Vietnam. La caída del muro de Berlín (1989) marca el comienzo de una nueva época en su vida.
On War
Le grand Hou
Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funeral parlour after the close of business. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, locking himself in the coffin.
A cada uno su cine (Chacun son cinéma)
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.
Le Roi Lear
Le roi Lear
Les toits de Paris
Marcel
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health.
Boxes
Papa
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Sole Meeting
Nikita Khrushchev
A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII is screened.
La duquesa de Langeais
Vidame de Pamiers
Durante el período de la Restauración en una sociedad dominada por la hipocresía, por el peso de las apariencias y el dinero, la intriga relata los sobresaltos de una historia de amor sin esperanza, mezcla de pasión y rencor entre el general de Montriveau y la duquesa de Langeais. Adaptación de la novela "La Duchesse de Langeais" de Honoré de Balzac.
Belle Toujours
Henri Husson
38 años después de "Belle de jour" de Luis Buñuel, dos personajes de la película vuelven a cruzarse con el misterio de un secreto que sólo conoce el personaje masculino y cuya revelación es imprescindible para el personaje femenino. Aunque ella le evita, él sigue sus pasos hasta que finalmente consigue que le preste atención al confesarle su intención de revelarle el secreto. Fijan una cita, una cena durante la cual ella, ahora viuda, aguarda la esperada revelación: qué es lo que él le dijo a su marido cuando éste estaba mudo y paralítico por un disparo efectuado por un amante de ella. La situación es tensa y ella termina sin saber qué es lo que realmente pasó. Se trata de la venganza de él porque la mujer nunca le permitió poseerla.
Gardens in Autumn
Marie, la mère de Vincent
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Espejo mágico
Prof. Heschel
Luciano, sale de prisión y es llevado por su hermano, Flórido, a casa de Alfreda, donde trabajará como sirviente. Alfreda le dice que su mayor deseo es que se le aparezca la virgen, lo que deja a Luciano admirado. Además de todo, ahora la rica señora viene con sus pretensiones sublimes. ¿No le bastaba con tener un Aston Martin y un Jaguar aparcado a la puerta de casa, ni tener diez vestidos para cada estación? Todo fue culpa del profesor Heschel, o de quien fuera… Ir más allá de la promesa sería una herejía. Alfreda dijo que no descansaría mientras no viera a Maria y le hiciera unas cuantas preguntas. Filipe Quinta, el Falsificador, afirma tener la solución. Sin embargo, Bahia, su marido, escuchaba música…
C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
Writer
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
Director
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
Otar Iosseliani : El mirlo silbador
Himself
El director georgiano Otar Iosseliani prepara su film Jardins en Automne. Nada es convencional en el sistema del cineasta: Julie Bertuccelli retrata la gestación y producción de un film que parece seguir las intuiciones poéticas más libérrimas e imprevisibles de su creador. Las constantes e hilarantes discusiones con la productora, Martine Marignac, un Michel Piccoli transmutado en anciana, o el peculiar sistema de rodaje del director dando la entrada a sus actores a toque de silbato, configuran el retrato de una de las experiencias cinematográficas más inclasificables del cine contemporáneo.
Everything's Connected
Narrator
An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.
La profecía de las ranas
Ferdinand (voice)
Cuarenta días y cuarenta noches de lluvia se suceden, como ya ocurriera en el Diluvio Universal. Las ranas, habiendo profetizado la catástrofe que se aproxima, intentan avisar a los humanos. Así, dos adultos y dos niños buscan refugio en un enorme granero que se convierte una especie de arca de Noé improvisada. En esta increíble casa flotante reúnen a los animales de su granja y a los animales del zoo vecino. Pero desafortunadamente, la única comida disponible que les queda son 28 toneladas de patatas que llevan a bordo. Mientras los cerdos llenan sus barrigas y los animales herbívoros no se quejan, hay murmullos de descontento por parte de los animales carnívoros.
Little Lili
acteur qui joue Simon
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
That Day
Harald
Un relato policíaco, a medio camino entre el teatro del absurdo y el cine de Hitchcock, centrado en la insólita relación que se establece entre una ingenua heredera que ve ángeles por todas partes y que, además, ha pronosticado que el día siguiente será el mejor día de su vida, y un asesino psicópata que acaba de escaparse del manicomio y que acaba haciéndose amigo suyo.
Un hombre real
Un tímido experto informático cae enamorado de una bella compañera mientras intenta convertirse en director de cine. Cinco años después, ellos tienen dos hijos, ella se ha convertido en una ejecutiva de éxito, mientras que la carrera de él no va a ninguna parte, y su relación está llegando a su fin.
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Self
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.
Il bambino di Betlemme
I’m Going Home
Gilbert Valence
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
The Black Beach
Writer
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.
The Black Beach
Director
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
Louis
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother. Each responds differently to his return according to how her character evolved from her relation with him and his unexpected departure. They eventually realize, though, that the somewhat elderly father is quickly losing his memory and his ability to function, and the youngest daughter's decision to accept him again while she can ends up permanently changing her family ties with her sisters.
Actors
Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Close to Kiarostami
as Self
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Libero Burro
Uncle Tony
París-Tombuctú
Michel des Assantes
La frustración y el hastío vital de Michel des Assantes, un prestigioso cirujano plástico parisino, es insoportable: tiene una esposa a la que no ama, un hijo que le resulta ajeno y unos amigos a los que desprecia, pero es incapaz de quitarse la vida. Un día, le compra la bicicleta a un estrafalario ciclista que iba a hacer la ruta París­-Tombuctú y se lanza a hacer ese recorrido: Tombuctú se convierte para él en la Tierra Prometida.
Nothing About Robert
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
Alors voilà,
Writer
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Alors voilà,
Director
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Passion in the Desert
Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
Genealogías de un crimen
Georges Didier
Una abogada famosa por aceptar casos perdidos, decide defender a un joven acusado de matar a su tía psicoanalista. Todas las pruebas están en su contra, pero ciertos aspectos del crimen -como el extenso estudio que la muerta hizo de la psiquis del joven- van conformando una maraña de pistas y falsas pruebas.
Tykho Moon
Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
Todos los hombres de la familia McBee sufren una misteriosa enfermedad y necesitan un trasplante de órganos. El donante perfecto es Tykho Moon, que probablemente ha sido asesinado, aunque según ciertos rumores sigue vivo.
Party
Michel
This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.
Traveling Companion
Cosimo
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Prince de Conti
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
The World of Jacques Demy
Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Himself
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.
Las cien y una noches
Simon Cinéma
Fábula que celebra el centenario del cine. En ella intervienen de forma desinteresada Harrison Ford, Depardieu, De Niro, Jane Birkin, Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Deneuve, Delon, Moreau, Lollobrigida, Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Dean Stanton, Léaud y muchos otros.
Tödliches Geld
Paul Belmont
El Angel Negro
Georges Feuvrier
En el palacio donde vive, Stephane Feuvier asesina cruelmente a un hombre. Con la ayuda de su sirvienta, Madeleine finge haber sido violada para escapar de la acusación. Su esposo, el ilustre magistrado George Feuvier, contratará a uno de los mejores abogados de la ciudad para defenderla.
Train de nuit
Writer
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Train de nuit
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Train de nuit
Director
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
Presenter
The Emigrant
Adam
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
Rupture(s)
Paul
Tras el suicidio de una joven, amigos y familiares se reúnen con el fin de interrogarse sobre lo sucedido.
La cavale des fous
Henri Toussaint
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
The Young Girls Turn 25
Self (archive footage)
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Archipel
Leonard Wilde
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
The Supper
Chateaubriand (voice)
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
Le bal des casse-pieds
Désiré, l'homosexuel
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Divertimento
Edouard Frenhofer
Edouard Frenhofer es un artista famoso y muy respetado, que vive cómodamente en la campiña francesa. A la edad de 60 años, considera que su carrera como pintor ha terminado, porque no siente ninguna inspiración para crear. Pero le queda por terminar un cuadro que lleva parado más de 10 años, el retrato desnudo de su musa, su mujer Liz. El problema es que ya no siente ningún tipo de entusiasmo por su mujer. La solución la encontrará en Marianne, la novia de su protegido Nicolás, que posará para él. Lejos de ser una mera versión acortada de 'La belle noiseuse' (1991), Rivette ofrece un nuevo montaje del mismo material con importantes diferencias de punto de vista. Aquí se trata más bien de la perspectiva de Marianne.
Against Oblivion
Self
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.
Against Oblivion
Director
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.
Les Équilibristes - Nico Papatakis, Jean Genet
Marcel Spadice
Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on the Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux directed this short film for the Seven antenna, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of excerpts from Jean Genet's text, “The Tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.
El ladrón de niños
Mr. Armand
Aunque alguna vez fue coronel en Argentina, el personaje principal de esta película ahora es un rico exiliado que vive en París con su amada esposa, quien no ha podido tener hijos. Para llenar este vacío en sus vidas, él alimenta y viste a los niños abandonados, criándolos en su mansión como si fueran suyos. Como nunca sería el caso en la vida real de hoy, en esta historia fantástica ambientada en 1925, nadie se opone a este comportamiento, y viven juntos de forma agradable y placentera. Las cosas se vuelven mucho más animadas cuando un mago escénico coloca a su atractiva hija en la casa del coronel, lo que despierta un vivo interés romántico de sus hijos y del gran hombre.
La bella mentirosa
Edouard Frenhofer
Nicholas, un joven artista parisino, viaja con su novia Marianne a un pequeño pueblo de provincias para visitar a Edouard Frenhofer, un famoso pintor que vive allí aislado del mundo. Nicholas intenta persuadirlo para que pinte su último gran cuadro: "La bella mentirosa", con su novia como modelo.
Walking a Tightrope
Marcel Spadice
Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
Le baron de Leisenbohg
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell. Klare shows no gratitude however.
Martha and I
Ernst
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
Milou en mayo
Milou
Émile Vieuzac vive con su madre en una gran casa de campo. Cuando ella muere repentinamente, él invita a todos sus parientes a acudir al funeral. Son los tiempos de la revuelta estudiantil de mayo del 68. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Monkey Folk
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length and extensive coverage of its subject, it is of particular interest to those who are already keenly interested in its subject matter.
Un coupable
L'avocat
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
La ruelle au clair de lune
Pierre Willer
Blanc de Chine
Batz
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.
Los negros tambien comen
Père Jean-Marie
Una expedición humanitaria, integrada por doce europeos y seis camiones cargados de provisiones para paliar el hambre de los negros, atraviesa África. Pero se tropiezan con numerosas dificultades.
Malady of Love
Raoul Bergeron
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
The Veiled Man
Kassar
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.
La Rumba
Damien Malleville
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
The Distant Land
Friedrich Hofreiter
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, which is generally referred to in English as The Vast Domain and was also adapted by Tom Stoppard as Undiscovered Country.
The Prude
Pierre
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
Mala sangre
Marc
París, en un futuro cercano. Marc y Hans son dos ladrones que deben dinero a una intransigente mujer americana que les da sólo dos semanas para pagar. Planean robar y vender un nuevo antídoto para curar un virus parecido al del SIDA, que está matando a los que "practican el amor sin amor", pero necesitan un cómplice. Reclutan a Alex, alias "lengua veloz", un chico rebelde que acaba de romper su relación con su novia de 16 años de edad.
El Paltoquet
der Tölpel
Al anochecer, se reúne en un bar un grupo de personas que tienen una pasión común: el juego, el azar. Un periodista, un médico, un profesor y un comerciante juegan bajo la atenta mirada del dueño del local. Una noche, llega un inspector de policía que les comunica que se ha cometido un asesinato. Él está seguro de que el culpable es uno de los jugadores, pero debe averiguar cuál de ellos.
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
Étienne Sembadel
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.
Adiós, Bonaparte
Caffarelli
En el año 1798 el ejército francés liderado por Napoleón invadió Egipto, derrotando a todos los caciques mamelucos (que eran lo que quedaban del dominio otomano) y luego marchó sobre El Cairo. Tres hermanos viven cada uno a su manera este acontecimiento. Bakr, el mayor, planea la revuelta armada. Ali, el más intelectual de los hermanos, es partidario de un rechazo pacífico, mientras que Yehia, el menor, es tan inmaduro como impresionable y no se cierra al esplendor europeo.
Going and Coming Back
Simon Lerner
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Death in a French Garden
Graham Tombsthay
Una magnate y su joven mujer Julia contratan a David Aurphet para que enseñe guitarra a Vivianne, su hija adolescente. Un día Julia seduce a David...
La lune
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.
El marinero 512
Récitant (voice)
A principios del siglo XX, Max, un joven de dieciocho años, se alista en la Marina. De esta forma se convierte en el Marino 512 y es enviado a Lorient, como ordenanza al servicio del Comandante Roger. Él debe casarse con Colette, una empleada doméstica, pero cae locamente enamorado de la esposa del comandante, convirtiéndose en su amante. A partir de aquí su vida irá atravesando por situaciones límite, entre el peligro y la aventura.
Success Is the Best Revenge
French Official
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland and the politics of exile at a West End theater. His single-minded determination to succeed causes him to take advantage of others, and because of his need for backing, he turns to a low-life businessman (John Hurt) to bail him out. His wife is anything but happy about his behavior and dislikes this last decision even more. This is an interesting study of how a father and son become alienated in a conflict between cultural identity and its exploitation.
Viva la vida!
Michel Perrin
En un principio ni Michel Perrin, un importante industrial, ni Sarah Gaucher, una renombrada actriz, tienen nada en común. Ambos desaparecen en el mismo día y a la misma hora para tres días más tardes reaparecer, como si nada. Lo que parece una extraña coincidencia esconde un fenómeno que viene sucediéndose desde hace un tiempo. (FILMAFFINITY)
La diagonal del loco
Akiva Liebskind
La Guerra Fría reflejada en una partida de ajedrez. En la ciudad suiza de Geneva -Ginebra- se un prestigioso campeonato de ajedrez, que enfrenta al gran maestro Pavius Fromm con el actual campeón del mundo Akiva Liebskird. Ambos pertencen al otro lado del "telón de acero", pero mientras que Liebskird es leal al régimen comunista de la Unión Soviética, Fromm es un destacado disidente que vive en el exilio en Occidente.
The General of the Dead Army
Producer
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
The General of the Dead Army
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
The Prize of Peril
Frédéric Mallaire
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.
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
José Viss
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.
Una habitación en la ciudad
Edmond Leroyer
Musical -todos los diálogos son cantados- acerca de unos trabajadores durante una huelga.
Los ojos, la boca
Tío Agostino
Giovanni es un veterano actor que regresa a su casa para el funeral de Pippo, su hermano gemelo. Allí le cuentan que Pippo se ha suicidado dejando una nota explicando sus motivos, pero la madre de ambos dice que ha sido un accidente. Para complicar más la cosas, la intermitente novia de Pippo, Wanda, se niegua a estar de luto con el resto de la familia. Desconcertado, enfadado e intrigado, Giovanni se propone descubrir qué está pasando realmente.
Detrás de la puerta
Mr. Mutti
Matthew (Tom Berenger) es un ejecutivo que es enviado por negocios a Marruecos. Allí conoce a la atractiva Nina (Eleonora Giorgi) por la que pronto se siente atraído. Enseguida descubre que la chica tiene una extraña relación con Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni), un tipo que está en la cárcel acusado de haber matado a la madre de Nina...
Pasión
Michel Boulard
Jerzy, un director polaco, está rodando un filme sobre pinturas famosas. Isabelle, una muchacha tartamuda de clase obrera, pierde su trabajo. Ambos se conocen, se convierten en amantes y se van a vivir a Polonia.
La noche de Varennes
King Louis XVI
Siglo XVIII. Crónica de un viaje que comparten Luis XVI, María Antonieta, Casanova, el novelista francés Restif de la Bretonne, una de las damas de compañía de la reina y el estadounidense Thomas Paine.
Testimonio de mujer
Max Baumstein
Max Baumstein, Presidente del Movimiento Internacional de Solidaridad, un organismo con sede en París, se reúne con el embajador de Paraguay en Francia para conseguir la liberación de una joven británica. Pero, después de un breve intercambio de palabras, Max mata a tiros al embajador. Durante su arresto, le confiesa a su esposa los motivos de su acción: en 1933, cuando Hitler asciende al poder, uno de sus secuaces mató al padre de Max. Acogido por Elsa, una cantante de opereta, y por el editor Michel Wiener, Max pasó su infancia y adolescencia escondido hasta que consiguió refugiarse en París.
La Cerisaie
Leonid
Scenario du Film 'Passion'
Self
Producido inicialmente para emitirse en televisión, en este trabajo Jean-Luc Godard habla sobre la práctica del cine y se pregunta sobre el origen de la creatividad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Espion, lève-toi
Jean-Paul Chance
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Strange Affair
Bertrand Malair
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.
Confused Feelings
Professor
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
La hija pródiga
Le père
Anne está atravesando una grave depresión. Su marido, Jean-Marie, intenta conocer cuáles son las causas, sin embargo ella le rechaza para continuar ensimismada en el apartamento que ella alquiló para poder estar sola. Viéndose desesperado, el marido comenta el problema con los padres. Estos, que viven en Deauville, aceptan acoger a Anne. En un principio, la relación entre padre e hija es tan cercana como siempre ha sido, sin embargo, viejas rencillas saldrán a flote y enrarecerá la relación entre ambos, llevándola a extremos hasta entonces desconocidos.
Atlantic City
Joseph
A Lou Pascal, un viejo gángster que consigue algún dinero con las apuestas, lo mantiene en realidad la viuda de su ex jefe. En el mismo edificio que él vive Sally, una atractiva mujer cuyo cuerpo lo tiene obsesionado.
Der Preis fürs Überleben
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.
Leap Into the Void
Mauro Ponticelli
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship and tries to get Giovanni arrested.
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
Morrand
The Bit Between the Teeth
Pierre Chazerand
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Días de amor y venganza
Victor Navarro
A Raffaele, un músico de Nápoles, le encargan que interprete una serenata. Con tan malapata, que un hombre muere cuando toca su mandolina. ¡Si sólo fuera una vez! El caso es que ocurre cada vez que toca el instrumento, y la policía sospecha que está implicado en los crímenes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sugar
Grezillo
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Vestida de terciopelo azul
Conrad Brukner
Un médico de edad madura se enamora de una chica intelectual menor de edad.
The Savage State
Orlaville
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.
Strauberg ist da
German film.
Poder y corrupción
Robert Hansen
Bob cierra los ojos ante la infidelidad de su mujer, que le engaña con su socio de negocios, pues le necesita para cerrar un negocio importante.
The Accuser
Saint-Rame
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Dos inquilinos
Bernard Rougerie
Con el fin de escribir tranquilamente un guión cinematográfico, un hombre alquila un apartamento. Pero ya el primer día es invitado a una reunión de vecinos.
De guante blanco
Ispettore Marchand
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.
Mado
Simon Léotard
Un empresario de media edad, Simon Leotard encuentra su futuro en peligro cuando su compañera Julien se suicidad por las deudas. Su enemigo en los negocios, Lépidon, le ofrece comprarle la empresa por una irrisoria cantidad. Simon decide no caer en la trampa y salir de la crisis a su manera, aunque para ello tenga que contratar a una prostituta llamada Mado.
F as in Fairbanks
Etienne
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a way out end up in failure, his friends Étienne and Jean-Pierre are powerless to help him, and the dreamy yet desperate hero loses his mind.
One Way or Another
Lui
Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor siciliano Leonardo Sciascia. Mientras Italia se ve asolada por una terrible epidemia, los máximos líderes del partido gobernante se reúnen en un apartado convento para decidir un nuevo reparto del poder. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni), el cura que dirige el retiro espiritual, con la intención de acercarlos a Dios, se muestra dispuesto a tratarlos con mano dura para conseguir que expíen sus pecados. Un amanerado presidente (Gian Maria Volonté) trata de mantener su liderazgo mientras que privadamente se tortura con dudas y temores perversos. La situación se complica cuando los políticos comienzan a ser asesinados.
La última mujer
Michel
Gérard es ingeniero en una fábrica de Créteil a las afueras de París. Su mujer Gabrielle acude a las reuniones del Movimiento de Liberación Femenino y acaba por abandonarle por razones puramente feministas. La pareja tiene un niño, Pierrot, al que Gérard ama profundamente y del que se hace cargo tras el abandono de su mujer. Un día, tras llevarle al médico, entabla una relación con Valérie, la puericultora que atiende al pequeño. Ella se preparaba para viajar a Túnez con Michel, un amante ocasional, pero acaba aceptando instalarse, durante algún tiempo, en la casa de Gérard.
Siete muertes por prescripción facultativa
Dr Losseray
Es la historia de dos cirujanos, Pierre Losseray y Jean Pierre Berg, que con 15 años de intervalo, y en la misma ciudad de provincias, son empujados al suicidio por las fuerzas retrógradas de su profesión, personalizadas en el profesor Brezé, cirujano, miembro del consejo de la orden. En la lucha que el viejo Brezé mantiene contra ellos, están permitidos toda clase de golpes: chantajes, embustes, acusación profesional y campañas de difamación. Toda esta estrategia es incapaz de derribar la reputación de los cirujanos, el uno, figura aclamada; el otro, médico clínico adorado por sus enfermos, irreprochable y competente.
Leonor
Producer
Entre los siglos XIV y XV, Richard, desde lo alto de su castillo, gobierna todos sus territorios. Está casado con Leonor, una mujer a la que adora. Cuando ella muere, él tiene la esperanza de encontrar a otra mujer que le haga olvidar a Leonor. Catherine, su segunda esposa, le da dos hijos. Pero, transcurrido cierto tiempo, Leonor vuelve a la vida.
Leonor
Richard
Entre los siglos XIV y XV, Richard, desde lo alto de su castillo, gobierna todos sus territorios. Está casado con Leonor, una mujer a la que adora. Cuando ella muere, él tiene la esperanza de encontrar a otra mujer que le haga olvidar a Leonor. Catherine, su segunda esposa, le da dos hijos. Pero, transcurrido cierto tiempo, Leonor vuelve a la vida.
Weak Spot
Co-Producer
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
Weak Spot
L'enquêteur
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
Tres amigos, sus mujeres... y los otros
François
Drama sobre un grupo de amigos y sobre los valores de la vida: amistad, matrimonio, trabajo. (FILMAFFINITY)
El fantasma de la libertad
Le deuxième préfet de police
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.
Grandeur nature
Producer
Michel es un hombre maduro que tiene todo lo que puede desear: un buen trabajo, una esposa brillante y una amante joven y apasionada. Pero un día adquiere por capricho una muñeca hinchable que casi parece una mujer real. Así empieza a disfrutar de la sumisión y la docilidad que no puede encontrar en su esposa, llegando incluso a tener celos y a desconfiar de aquellos que puedan desearla o “mancillarla”.
Grandeur nature
Michel
Michel es un hombre maduro que tiene todo lo que puede desear: un buen trabajo, una esposa brillante y una amante joven y apasionada. Pero un día adquiere por capricho una muñeca hinchable que casi parece una mujer real. Así empieza a disfrutar de la sumisión y la docilidad que no puede encontrar en su esposa, llegando incluso a tener celos y a desconfiar de aquellos que puedan desearla o “mancillarla”.
El trío infernal
Georges Sarret
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...
No tocar a la mujer blanca
Producer
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.
No tocar a la mujer blanca
Buffalo Bill
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.
Un amour de pluie
Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Far West
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
La gran comilona
Michel
Polémica película que narra como cuatro personas se reúnen en una casa para suicidarse en una orgía de comida y sexo. Cuatro amigos unidos por el hedonismo y el tedio más absoluto se reúnen en una mansión con la idea de suicidarse comiendo sin tregua. Pronto añaden a la gula otro pecado capital: la lujuria, y así empiezan a llegar las prostitutas. El sexo obsceno se entremezcla con los cerdos, los quesos, los jamones y el caviar... y cuando todos están cebados, comienzan las deserciones.
Relaciones sangrientas
Pierre Maury
Paul Delamare (Claude Piéplu) es un diputado municipal francés muy ocupado con su cargo, viaja constantemente a París y su mujer Lucienne (Stèphane Audran) se siente abandonada. Además Paul es impotente. Clotilde Mauri (Clotilde Joano), casada con Pierre (Michel Piccoli), sufre una enfermedad desde hace años que lógicamente le ha amargado su carácter, siendo una mujer totalmente distinta de la que Pierre se enamoró. Cuando Lucienne y Pierre se conocen se sentirán irremediablemente atraídos y acabarán manteniendo una fogosa aventura extramatrimonial.
Themroc, el cavernícola urbano
Themroc
Michel Piccoli interpreta a un trabajador de una fábrica que, una mañana, harto de la rutina de su trabajo, se convierte en una especie de cavernícola humano, expresándose a través de gruñidos.
La dama de azul
Pierre
Una tarde Pierre, un crítico musical, ve en una tienda a una misteriosa y elegante joven vestida completamente de azul, que llama poderosamente su atención. Desde entonces, no puede dejar de pensar en ella y empieza a buscarla por todo París. Aurélie, la mujer con la que mantiene una relación, primero se enfada, pero después acepta la situación y le ayuda a buscarla con la secreta esperanza de que acabe cansándose y olvidando esa extravagancia.
Ella, yo y el otro
Narrator (voice)
Rosalie, una mujer divorciada con una hija pequeña, divide su tiempo entre su familia y César, el hombre del que cree estar enamorada. Cuando Rosalie conoce a David, su plácida vida se verá alterada por su incapacidad para elegir entre los dos hombres.
El Atentado
Colonel Kassar
Sadiel, un destacado líder rebelde norteafricano, se ha refugiado en Suiza tras el triunfo de un golpe de estado en su país. Desde el exilio, organiza una oposición democrática contra la dictadura de su país. Consciente de la amenaza que Sadiel representa, el coronel Kassar se pone en contacto con los servicios franceses para que lo eliminen. Film basado, aunque no haya ninguna referencia explícita, en el caso de Mehdi Ben Barka, político marroquí que luchó por la independencia y más tarde fue un destacado disidente del régimen de Hasan II. Ben Barka nació en Rabat en 1920 y murió en extrañas circunstancias en París en 1965. Su secuestro y asesinato a manos, presuntamente, de los servicios secretos marroquíes con el beneplácito de los servicios secretos franceses fue uno de los episodios más significativos de la historia de Marruecos durante la llamada "época de los años de plomo".
El discreto encanto de la burguesía
Le Ministre
Don Rafael Costa, embajador de Miranda, y el matrimonio Thévenot están invitados a cenar en casa del matrimonio Sénechal, pero a causa de un malentendido tienen que ir a un restaurante. Cuando llegan, no pueden cenar porque el dueño del lugar ha muerto. A partir de ese momento, las reuniones de este selecto grupo de burgueses se verán siempre interrumpidas por las circunstancias más extrañas, algunas reales y otras fruto de su imaginación.
Liza
Giorgio's friend
Liza sustituye poco a poco a Melampo, el perro de Giorgio. Mientras ella lo acepta, Giorgio la fuerza a llevar collares y correas.
La audiencia
Padre Amerin
Amedeo (Enzo Jannacci) es un hombre vulgar y sencillo que llega a Roma desde el norte de Italia con el propósito de tener una audiencia privada con el Papa. Lo que pretende es discutir con él sobre asuntos de carácter filosófico y teológico que le preocupan. Sin embargo, sólo encuentra trabas que le impiden conseguir su objetivo. Llega incluso a ser vigilado por un policía que, compadeciéndose de él, le presenta a Aiche (Claudia Cardinale), una escultural mujer que tiene oscuras relaciones con personajes de la jerarquía eclesiástica.
La década prodigiosa
Paul Regis
Theo Van Horn (Orson Welles) es un magnate excéntrico que vive en un castillo con su joven esposa, a quién él ha cuidado desde que la adoptó en un orfanato. Además adopta un hijo (Anthony Perkins), que se convierte en un extraño escultor. Dentro de este ámbito se desarrollará una sórdida historia de secretos, incesto y chantajes.
Touch and Go
Valentin
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Max y los chatarreros
Max
Amargado por la falta de eficacia de la justicia y por la proliferación de la delincuencia profesional, el juez Max (Michel Piccoli) abandona su carrera y se hace detective privado. En una ocasión, para detener a una peligrosa banda, decide infiltrarse en ella. Así es como conoce a Lily (Rommy Schneider), una prostituta que es la novia del jefe. Pronto surgirá entre ellos una irresistible atracción.
Invasion
Marcello
Un profesor y su mujer son humillados por un grupo de disidentes que protestan contra la supremacía de las clases superiores.
Las cosas de la vida
Pierre Bérard
La mente de Pierre Bérard, un exitoso arquitecto de mediana edad, está dividida entre su inestable presente con Hélène, su joven amante, y sus felices recuerdos del pasado con Catherine, su exesposa; pero su verdadero destino le espera en una encrucijada de camino a Rennes…
Topaz
Jacques Granville
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…
La invitada
François Desailly
Un hombre casado se enamora de una joven muchacha y la introduce en su casa como 'invitada'.
La vía láctea
Marquis de Sade
Dos trotamundos franceses que, desde las afueras de París, deciden ir de peregrinaje a Santiago de Compostela, conocen numerosos personajes y viven situaciones estrechamente vinculadas a las creencias religiosas
Dillinger ha muerto
Glauco
Cuando Glauco regresa del trabajo, encuentra a su mujer enferma. Mientras se prepara la cena, descubre un revólver que pudo haber pertenecido al famoso delincuente Dillinger. Fantasía y realidad se confundirán entonces dramáticamente...
Délire à deux
The absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the bombardments of war.
La prisionera
l'invité pressé au vernissage
Una mujer celosa se arroja en brazos de un fotógrafo maniático del control, cuya biblioteca privada está llena de fotografías sadomasoquistas que, a la vez, le repelen y la atraen.
El amor es un extraño juego
Charles
París. Lucille, una mujer joven y guapa, vive, rodeada de lujo y placeres, con Charles, un viejo millonario que le proporciona todo lo que desea. Pero Lucille no corresponde a los sentimientos de Charles, que está profundamente enamorado de ella. Un día se tropieza con Antoine, un atractivo e impulsivo estudiante que no tiene donde caerse muerto. En su primer encuentro se muestran muy interesados el uno por el otro, en el segundo aumenta la atracción mutua y en el tercero se convierten en amantes.
Danger: Diabolik
Ginko
Diabolik (John Phillip Law), atractivo y educado ladrón de una época muy psicodélica, no está contento con todas las cosas buenas y brillantes que le da la vida. Menos aún cuando existen montañas de dinero que robar ante las mismísimas narices de estirados oficiales del gobierno, y joyas valiosas que extraer de los cajones de los súper ricos. Este esquivo canalla encuentra las más diversas maneras de vivir siempre al límite... (FILMAFFINITY)
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Count Philippe
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
My Love, My Love
Marrades
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.
Bella de día
Henri Husson
Sévérine, una joven casada con un atractivo cirujano, descubre la existencia de la prostitución diurna. Impulsada por la curiosidad, ingresa en la casa de citas de Anaïs y termina acostumbrándose a llevar una doble vida. La aparición de Marcel, un delincuente que se enamora de ella, complicará la situación de la protagonista. En 2006 contó con una secuela, "Belle Toujours", dirigida por Manoel de Oliveira.
Sobra un hombre
The Extra Man
Un grupo de franceses son liberados por la Resistencia, pero sospechan que entre ellos hay un traidor.
The Dinosaur and the Baby
Paul Javal (archive footage)
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)
Las señoritas de Rochefort
Simon Dame
Dos hermanas, ambas profesoras de música ( Deneuve y Dorléac), viven en la pequeña población de Rochefort y sueñan con encontrar un gran amor. Homenaje a los grandes musicales de la época dorada de Hollywood.
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
Self
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.
¿Arde París?
Edgar Pisani
En agosto de 1944, las tropas americanas están a punto de liberar París. Mientras tanto, Hitler ha ordenado a uno de sus generales que mantenga el control sobre la ciudad o que la destruya. Fresco histórico sobre la liberación de París por las fuerzas aliadas. Impresionante reparto con guión de Coppola.
Elsa the Rose
Narrator (voice)
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
Las criaturas
Edgar Piccoli
Tras un accidente de coche, un novelista termina en una curiosa nave y descubre que ha adquirido el poder de actuar sobre los demás
La Voleuse
Werner Kreuz
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
El engaño
Alexandre Saccard
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.
The Devil's Tricks
L'antiquaire
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
La guerra ha terminado
Inspector #1
Durante la dictadura franquista, un destacado miembro del Partido Comunista de España afincado en París, viaja a menudo de forma clandestina a España para organizar las actividades de la resistencia contra la dictadura. Sin embargo, la inutilidad del esfuerzo y su progresiva decepción respecto a la ideología del Partido lo desalientan y va cayendo en el escepticismo.
Le coup de grâce
Capri / Bruno
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend with his victims' relatives and friends...
Marie Soleil
Kafka
Lady L
Lecoeur
En su propiedad de la campiña francesa, Lady Landale, a quien todos conocen como Lady L, se dispone a celebrar su ochenta cumpleaños. Obispos, banqueros, diplomáticos y generales acuden a felicitar a la gran señora. Una vez terminado el banquete, Lady L conduce a su pabellón de verano al famoso escritor Sir Percy, encargado de escribir su biografía y empieza a contarle su vida.
Los raíles del crimen
René Cabourg
Durante un viaje en tren desde Marsella a París, seis personas comparten un coche-cama. Cuando uno de ellos aparece asesinado, la policía comienza a investigar.
Dom Juan
Dom Juan
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.
Agentes dobles
Georges Sarrassin
Diplomáticos británicos están a pocas semanas de concluir un acuerdo con un país del Oriente Medio para un nuevo contrato del petróleo favorable para sus intereses. Sólo hay un problema, el hombre con el que debían cerrar el trato, el Príncipe Jamil, heredero al trono de este rico país, aún no ha llegado a la edad mínima necesaria para gobernar. El gobierno británico tiene miedo a que, durante las semanas que faltan antes de su cumpleaños, el joven sea asesinado. Para evitar que esto ocurra, la Oficina Británica en el Exterior echa mano del Coronel Drexel, un veterano héroe de guerra, y de David Frazer, un soldado americano. (FILMAFFINITY)
Café tabac
Récitant (voice)
Chance at Love
Philippe Decharme
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
All About Loving
Raoul
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.
Paparazzi
Writer
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
Paparazzi
Texte dit par (voice)
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard
Himself
Documento sobre la filmación de "El desprecio" de Jean-Luc Godard con Brigitte Bardot y Michel Piccoli.
Cinéastes de notre temps : Luis Buñuel
Narrator (voice)
An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
L'été en hiver
Jean, the reporter
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship.
Diario de una camarera
Monsieur Monteil
Una joven entra a trabajar como doncella en casa de una familia aristocrática. Adaptación de una novela de Octave Mirbeau que Jean Renoir ya había llevado al cine en su etapa americana.
Hola cubanos
Narrator (voice)
“Salut les Cubains” anima mil quinientas de las más de cuatro mil instantáneas que Varda tomó durante sus vacaciones en Cuba. Mediante el montaje, la realizadora consigue que las personas retratadas canten y bailen, en lo que ella denomina como "socialismo y cha cha cha". (FILMAFFINITY)
El desprecio
Paul Javal
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), un autor dramático francés, acepta reescribir algunas escenas para "La Odisea", una película que se va a rodar en Capri bajo la dirección del renombrado director alemán Fritz Lang (Fritz Lang). En un primer encuentro con el productor, el arrogante norteamericano Prokosch (Jack Palance), el escritor deja que su mujer, la bella Camille (Brigitte Bardot), se vaya en el coche con el productor a la finca de éste, lo cual da lugar a un grave mal entendido entre el escritor y su esposa, que cree que la ha ofrecido como moneda de cambio para obtener un mejor pago. Como consecuencia de esta situación, el escritor se verá inmerso en una dolorosa crisis matrimonial.
The Day and the Hour
Antoine
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
El confidente
Nuttheccio
Tras salir de la cárcel, Maurice Faugel asesina a su amigo Gilbert Varnove. A continuación prepara un atraco para el que necesita una serie de herramientas que le proporcionará Silien (Belmondo), un individuo sospechoso de ser confidente de la policia. El robo sale mal, y Maurice, que sospecha que Silien lo ha traicionado, decide ajustar cuentas con él.
Le Temps des assassins
Récitant (voice)
Parisienne... Parisiennes
Récitant (voice)
Rendezvous
Paul
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
Hauteclaire
Serlon de Savigny
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Las vírgenes de Roma
Console Publicola
La acción tiene lugar cuando Roma aún no domina Italia. Derrotados sus ejércitos por los pueblos vecinos, los romanos deben entregar a sus jóvenes vírgenes como rehenes.
Quarante fontaines
Récitant (voice)
La chevelure
L'homme
A man developes an obsession with a wig.
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
Danger in the Middle East
Brian Cannon
La dragée haute
Les Joueurs
Chvokhniev
Le chalet sous la neige
Robert
Mientras sus amigos asisten a la Misa del Gallo, Robert (Michel Piccoli) queda atrapado en una casa totalmente cubierta por la nieve.
Beast at Bay
Commissaire Jacques Guimard
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
La nuit de Tom Brown
Tom, jeune
Tabarin
Jacques Forestier
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
Sinners of Paris
L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Nathalie
Franck Marchal
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Le plus heureux des trois
Pianist
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wives and mistresses in the greatest secrecy. But their joyous merry-go-round threatens to collapse at the slightest misstep.
Sunday Buddies
Le directeur de l'aéro-club
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
The Witches of Salem
James Putnam
Salem, 1692. El agricultor John Proctor ha hecho el amor dos veces con Abigail, una joven de 17 años que él y su esposa han acogido. Su esposa Elisabeth lo ha estado rechazando durante siete meses, por su puritanismo y frialdad. Cuando Elisabeth encuentra a John abrazando a Abigail, echa a la muchacha de su casa y John, sintiéndose condenado, está de acuerdo. Abigail jura venganza. Su oportunidad llega cuando acusa a Elisabeth de brujería y manipula a las niñas más jóvenes para apoyar sus afirmaciones de ver espíritus. El ministro de la ciudad y los políticos quieren una causa: liberar al pueblo de la brujería. John también es acusado; Abigail le ofrece una manera de evitar la horca. Elisabeth tiene su propia confesión.
La France romane
Récitant (voice)
La muerte en este jardín
Father Lizardi
En un país hispanoamericano, Shark, un aventurero europeo, se enfrenta a la represión encabezada por el capitán Ferrero. Tras varias peripecias, Shark huye en una embarcación con la prostituta Djin, el rebelde Castin, el padre Lizzardi y la joven María. En la huida, los prófugos tendrán que enfrentarse a los peligros de la selva amazónica y a las pasiones que se desatan entre ellos.
Las maniobras del amor
Un officier
Armande de la Verne (Gérard Philipe), un célebre mujeriego, apuesta que puede seducir a cualquier mujer. La elegida es la divorciada Marie-Louise Rivere (Michèle Morgan). La amenaza de la guerra es el telón de fondo de las "maniobras" de seducción. Mientras intenta ganar la apuesta, el Don Juan se enamora locamente de la bella y decidida Marie-Louise.
Bad Liaisons
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Maurice Rouger
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
Croissance de  Paris
Récitant (voice)
French Cancan
Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Tanto Nini, una guapa chica que trabaja en una lavandería, como otras atractivas jóvenes son contratadas por Monsieur Danglard para unirse a su compañía de teatro. Danglar tiene previsto abrir un nuevo cabaret en París, el Moulin Rouge, donde la gran atracción será el cancán. A pesar de que tiene novio, Nini es seducida por Danglard, pero su principal admirador es el príncipe Alexandre. Tras 15 años de estancia en los Estados Unidos, "French Cancan" supone el regreso de Renoir a su país.
Interdit de séjour
Georges
A 1955 French crime drama film based on André Héléna's novel of the same name, about a young man's descent into hell with a femme fatale.
Tout chante autour de moi
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Gérard
Tres destinos de mujer
Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Tres episodios: un hombre al que nunca vemos presenta a las tres protagonistas del film. Elizabeth, una víctima de la II Guerra Mundial; Juana, que hizo la guerra, y Lisístrata, que luchó contra la guerra.
Torticola contre Frankensberg
Chicago Digest
Slim Spring
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
Terreur en Oklahoma
Tommy Goudchote
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste aux archives
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Lebel
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her.
The Mark of the Day
Georges Gohelle
Socially conscious and realistic treatment of hard working coal miners in the north of France, and a struggle between a younger and older engineer.
The Bellman
Un villageois
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.