Renée Faure

Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.

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

Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de Lussange, as beautiful as she is mysterious. The young man decides to court Fanny.

Año 1950. En la escuela donde estudia la joven de 16 años Janine Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg), comienza a notarse la frecuente pérdida de objetos de los estudiantes, y ya los profesores sospechan de una de las alumnas, mientras que las miradas de sus compañeras apuntan a Janine. Ladrona de oficio diario, la joven Janine busca parecerse a las estrellas de cine que ve con frecuencia en la sala de su barrio y sueña con una existencia parecida a la de ellas. A su vida llegarán luego los hombres, y queriendo encontrar también el amor, ella vivirá ese paso hacia la madurez con muchos reveses y con profundas experiencias que, quizás, transformen su vida para siempre.

Marc engaña felizmente a su esposa hasta que él descubre que ella hace lo mismo. Toman la decisión de vivir con sus respectivos amantes en el mismo apartamento.

Francia, 1893. Cuando Joseph Bouvier, un sargento francés, es rechazado por su novia, la mata y después se pega un tiro en la cabeza. Milagrosamente ambos sobreviven, y él es internado en un centro psiquiátrico. Con las facultades mentales aún perturbadas, sale del hospital y lleva una vida errante por las carreteras. Durante cinco años viola y mata a una docena de adolescentes en las granjas que va encontrando a su paso. Cuando, por fin, lo detienen, se declara un "anarquista de Dios". El ambicioso juez Rousseau se hará cargo del caso.

This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.

Adaptation for TV of the Jean-Jacques Varoujean play.

Lisa, fotógrafa de modas, mantiene un romance con un hombre casado. Ambos saben que la relación no les obliga sino a pasarlo bien. Cuando él atraviesa una delicada situación familiar provocada por la aventura de su hija con un hombre mucho mayor, Lisa comprende lo enamorada que está y lo poco que puede esperar de él. (FILMAFFINITY)

Se trata de una historia de tintes políticos que tiene lugar cuando Émile Beaufort, un antiguo primer ministro de Francia, retirado en una villa, se dispone a escribir sus memorias. Cuando estalla en el Elíseo una crisis de gobierno y se nombra como primer ministro a uno de sus rivales políticos, Beaufort decide regresar al primer plano de la escena política. (FILMAFFINITY)

Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.

A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.

In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.

Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.

Un historiador llega al ducado de Koenigsmark para efectuar ciertas investigaciones. No obstante, se dedica a seducir a la duquesa, a la que salva de las diabólicas intrigas de su ex marido, el duque Federico.

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the With André Gide was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.

André (Daniel Gélin) es un simpático Don Juan, que ha caído enamorado de la preciosa Catherine. Sin embargo, eso no le impide remememorar las gracias y favores de sus antiguas conquistas femeninas, como Christine, Minouche, Denise, etc. Pero eso no será fácil de compaginar con el amor de Catherine.

Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.

Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him.

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.

Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Desperate, Yann finds Sigrid in their childhood home in Savoy. Afraid of seeing their passion revive, he decides to leave with Léna for Africa.

Se anima a un joven prodigio musical dotado a perseguir sus talentos.

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.

An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.

The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marriage to a young man she loves, whom she will however end up marrying. The young girl herself is not without reproach; she has missed a mother's love: in this ordeal, she has no sense of feminine dignity.

Anne-Marie, una acaudalada joven, cree que ha encontrado su verdadera vocación al ingresar como novicia en un convento de monjas dominicas, que se dedica a la rehabilitación de mujeres delincuentes. La muchacha siente una extraña fascinación por Thérèse, acusada injustamente de homicidio, e intenta convencerla para que tome los hábitos y se arrepienta de sus pecados. Thérèse insiste en su inocencia, pero, cuando es puesta en libertad, asesina a balazos al autor del crimen por el que la encarcelaron y se refugia en el convento. Allí, no revela a nadie su secreto, mientras la investigación de la policía sigue su implacable curso.

Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.

Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.

A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).