François Simon

The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon.

The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide to split up to pursue those pleasures they've denied themselves too long.

Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...

Basada en una novela autobiográfica de Carlo Levi ("Cristo si è fermato a Eboli"), destacado escritor y pintor antifascista que, en 1935, acusado de conspirar contra el régimen de Mussolini, fue condenado al destierro en un remoto pueblecito de Lucania (la actual Basilicata), una de las regiones más pobres y atrasadas de Italia. Levi define la situación de los campesinos lucanos como anterior a la era cristiana. El título expresa metafóricamente el hecho de que los medios de transporte, es decir, la civilización, se detengan en Éboli, dejando al margen del progreso el resto de Lucania.

When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.

A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day political situation.

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French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).

Sarah, una actriz cercana a los 40, invita a su lugar de vacaciones en la Provence (Francia) a la que ha sido su mejor amiga durante los últimos 16 años. Mientras toman el sol en sus hamacas, disfrutan de la conversación y recuerdos de años atras.

Tras heredar una inmensa fortuna, Claire es enviada a un hospital psiquiátrico por orden de Madame Basiter-Wegner. Sólo podrá recibir la herencia si recupera el equilibrio mental. Pero Claire, que no consigue adaptarse a ese ambiente, se escapa del centro y tiene la suerte de encontrar la protección de un granjero que vive aislado cuidando de sus caballos. Sin embargo, la felicidad no durará mucho; en cuanto la localizan, dos asesinos intentarán eliminar a la pareja.

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

A modern variation on the myth of Faust, the film features Henri Faust, an influential man at the head of a gigantic financial empire. One day, the Devil himself visits her. The Evil One offers him a range of happiness, youth, love, fortune, power; but Faust has everything he wants and he refuses the pact offered to him. However, a fault exists and the Devil will know how to discover it.

Después de la muerte de su madre, un empleado de seguros de mediana edad, hereda una pequeña casa de campo rodeada de un jardín. La venta de la casa que está situada en un terreno no explotado cerca del centro de una gran ciudad, lo convierte en un hombre rico y compra una casa grande en el campo. Toma algo de tiempo libre y decide hacer una fiesta de gran jardín en la casa e invitar a todos sus colegas de la oficina. Por culpa del alcohol, las personas se deshiniben y revelan rasgos de su personalidad y las frustraciones que normalmente mantienen ocultas.

With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the «extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an organising principle, and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.

Historia de la falta de comunicación entre un padre y su hijo, enamorados de la misma joven.

Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves.

A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard's parents accuse Danièle of statutory rape and complain. Danièle is trapped and the drama begins...

George (Francois Simon) takes care of his invalid wife and holds down a full-time job. When an investment firm wipes out his life savings, the middle-aged George is soon forced into retirement for health reasons. George takes up a life of crime when the company turns his back on him and the money is gone overnight. He is soon driven to the brink of insanity over the unfortunate series of events that transpire. - Dan Pavlides

Un acaudalado fabricante de relojes suizos decide abandonarlo todo el día del centenario de la firma uniendose a una pareja de marginados.

Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.