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.
Self (archive footage)
This year, Michel Audiard would have turned 100. To celebrate the life and work of the French screenwriter and director, Gaumont opens their vault and reveals some unknown information on the legendary witty dialogues writer.
Self (archive footage)
Documental sobre la filmografía de Claude Lelouch haciendo hincapié en sus títulos más relevantes.
Self
Odile
A middle age woman's life is turned upside down when she starts a relationship with a much younger man.
Joséphine
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?
Grandmother
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
Alphonsine
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Georges's Mother
Georges es el típico burgués: presenta un programa literario en televisión y lleva una vida acomodada con su mujer y su hijo adolescente. Pero, empieza a recibir unos paquetes anónimos que contienen cintas de vídeo, grabadas desde la calle, y unos dibujos inquietantes cuyo significado es un misterio. No sabe quién los envía; sin embargo, las secuencias que aparecen en las cintas se hacen cada vez más personales, lo que sugiere que el remitente le conoce desde hace algún tiempo. Georges siente que una amenaza se cierne sobre él y su familia, pero, puesto que no hay evidencias de delito alguno, la policía se niega a ayudarlo.
Marthe
In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who discovers the reality of war and leaves for the front in order to restore the sullied honor of his father who was executed for desertion.
Mme Mendelbaum
Claude Mendelbaum es un informático gris, soltero, tímido e hipocondriaco. Desde que rompió con su novia, ha llevado una vida miserable y solitaria, pero, cuando conoce a Serge, su vida cambia por completo. Porque, aunque Serge es el polo opuesto, la compenetración entre ambos es mágica. De la mano de su nuevo amigo, Claude se propondrá poner fin a su soltería y aprender a tratar con mujeres.
la mère Fadet
Landry and Sylvinet are identical twins who are distraught when they are separated at the age of fourteen. Sent to work on the neighboring farm because phylloxera has ruined his father's vines, Sylvain, the stronger of the two brothers, recovers from the shock but not Sylvinet, who keeps moaning and sulking. Caillaud, the rich farmer who employs Landry is pleased with the way Landry works and lets him woo his daughter Madelon. Some day, due to a misunderstanding between the twins, Sylvinet runs away from home and disappears in the forest. And while Landry tries to find him in the woods he is helped by a little savage, Fadette, who lives there with her spiteful grandmother and her mentally retarded brother. Against all odds, Landry will gradually for this dirty little wild child.
L'éléphante (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.
Broncka
Hannah Liebermann
Clotilde
The Mother
Una mujer, profesora de piano en un conservatorio, frecuenta cines porno y tiendas de sexo para escapar de la influencia de su dominante madre. Uno de sus alumnos se propone seducirla.
Marnie
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
Self
Documental que hace un interesante recorrido por la obra del realizador italiano. Cuenta con testimonios reveladores, las palabras del propio director y los recuerdos de aquellos que le conocieron, como Lucía Bosé, Claudia Cardinale, Annie Girardot y Helmut Berguer. Junto a ellos, figuras ya desaparecidas como María Callas, Vittorio Gassman, Marcelo Mastroianni o Burt Lancaster declararán en entrevistas lo que significó para ellos trabajar con Visconti.
Emma
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
Caroline Bonhomme
Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Montreal woman, Caroline (Annie Girardot), in her 60s and contemplating impending death. She destroys old correspondence, cleans her apartment by putting furniture in the street, and looks back on her life (as revealed via flashbacks and a film crew interviewing her daughters). Caroline's brief marriage to an Englishman gave her one daughter, successful businesswoman Rachel (Domini Blythe), and an affair with a rebel in the Congo resulted in her other daughter Myriam (Sheila Rose). Further memories rise to the surface when Caroline joins her long-time friend Maureen (France Castel) for a black-tie reception where their community work in Africa brings them an Order of Canada award.
Costanza
Mme. Tissaud
German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.
Edith
Laurence is 30 years old, has a loving husband and an exciting job. But her happiness is not complete because, despite numerous attempts, she is unable to have a child. Weakened by a miscarriage, her hope is reborn the day she meets Edith, a former nurse who has developed a personal method of care based on energy control. Thanks to Edith, Laurence regains her health and finally becomes pregnant. But there is a price to pay.
La mère Bidochon
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.
Elisabeth/Marie
Léa Botelli
The story of a young gymnast who has a serious accident during a competition and who will fight to be able to live again from her passion.
Thénardière 1942
Filme galardonado con el Globo de Oro en EE.UU a la mejor película extranjera que gira en torno a Henri Fortin, un muchacho huérfano que queda a merced de una infame pareja. Versión libre de la inmortal obra de Víctor Hugo "Los Miserables".
A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.
La mère de Cécile
In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
Laura Albani
Ada Roversi
This Italian TV mini-series (4 episodes) is directed by giallo great Sergio Martino and stars some of the most recognizable stars of Italian genre cinema, including Edwige Fenech, Ray Lovelock, and Alida Valli. Story: Sandra Venturi, studying to be a singer at the conservatory of music in the Italian town of Lucca, has a promising career in opera ahead of her. On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, during a thunderstorm, the young singer leaves the apartment she shares with her mother Nicole Venturi, a journalist. Sandra is on her way to a secret rendezvous with a married man. He is murdered shortly before Sandra arrives at the deserted villa outside the town which they had chosen as their meeting point. When Marco's corpse is discovered the next morning, Nicole senses that reporting this case will make her famous outside her local region. What she doesn't know is that her daughter is also missing ...
Reine
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely jealous new husband
Countess
Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.
Mrs. Chevillard
A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Neverthelesss, life goes on ,with mom's nervous breakdowns , dad's absences ;The daughter, Julie, an abandoned social worker,is always sobbing ; her sister , rehearsing the "Hebrew slaves chorus" is eagerly waiting for her drafted fiancee.
Evangeline Pelleveau, la mère âgée
Camille, una inocente estudiante de instituto, tras conocer a Joëlle, una chica promiscua, más experimentada y mayor que ella, la seguirá en un viaje de autodescubrimiento del amor, el sexo, la enfermedad y la vida.
La femme seule
Trata sobre la influencia de la Luna sobre varios personajes cuyas vidas, al entrecruzarse, originan historias de amor y ruptura, de equívocos, de sonrisas y de llantos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le Fléau
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
Marcelle
A romantic story about a few days from the life of Michel Legrand told by himself.
Marthe
Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.
Gertrude Stein
Biografía de Ernest Hemingway desde su infancia hasta su trágico final en 1962. Su espíritu aventurero lo llevó a falsificar su fecha de nacimiento para combatir en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Herido en el frente del Piave (Italia), fue ingresado en un hospital donde se enamoró de Agnes von Kurowsky, una enfermera diez años mayor que él. En ella se inspira su novela "Adiós a las armas". Ya en Estados Unidos, tras la negativa de Agnes a casarse con él, decidió contraer matrimonio con Hadley Richardson. El film recoge también su larga y estrecha amistad con el escritor John Dos Passos. Debido al largo metraje de la cinta (220 minutos), a veces se emite la versión abreviada.
La mère
Rachele Mussolini
El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) fue para Mussolini, el despótico dictador itliano, una etapa difícil, pues se vio obligado a contemplar impotente la inevitable derrota y el fracaso del imperio que trató de construir. Cuando ya no podía confiar en nadie, sólo su mujer Rachele y su amante Clara Petacci le fueron incondicionalmente fieles e intentaron protegerlo de las intrigas que lo amenazaban.
Hélène Rivière
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...
Colette
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
Emma Boccara
A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved in very bad things .Arrested, he is released thanks to the teacher's evidence who provides him with an alibi before leaving him for good.
Jeanne Dufour
Jacqui, David and Nathalie are persuaded by a barely known little criminal to do a hold-up in a bank. But they're squealed on, just used as diversion while a group of professional criminals gets away with lots of money. The three youths manage to escape with a hostage and hunt down the gangsters -- but are welcomed with bullets.
Claire
Jeanne Jouvert
Jeanne Jouvert, a crime writer, has won the Quai des Orfèvres prize. Her publisher devises a clever publicity ploy that results in her husband, Alfred, head of the anti-gang squad, being honored in her place. The policeman finds himself quite comfortable as a best-selling author and takes advantage of the situation. Tired of having been submissive for too long, Jeanne plans her revenge. She asks for help from her friend Anne Beaufort, herself disappointed by her husband, who pretends to help Third World countries by selling them weapons. The two of them will prove what they are capable of by organizing a hold-up of the central post office in Paris.
Jeanne
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
French Teacher
El ejecutivo George Dupler pierde los papeles y se ve obligado a trabajar como encargado de una tienda las 24 horas. Después de sugerirle a su hijo que corte su relación con Cheryl Gibbons, una humilde ama de casa que además es su prima, Cheryl intentará seducir a George.
Florence Nath
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
Laure
En Francia, Laure es una psiquiatra infantil que no ha sabido mantener una buena relación con su propio hijo, Julien, de 23 años. El joven reaparece en su vida tras doce años de separación. El reencuentro entre madre e hijo es difícil y áspero. No obstante, los dos deciden emprender juntos un viaje por carretera hasta España, adonde Laure se debe desplazar por motivos de trabajo. La psiquiatra, que todavía mantiene su atractivo, es un espíritu libre y de fuerte carácter, al que le gusta mantener relaciones sexuales con amantes esporádicos cuando le viene en gana. Esta situación altera a Julien, celoso de estos contactos. Se trata de una manifestación ambigua de amor filial, que complica aun más los tensos vínculos que unen a Laure y su hijo. De este modo, la convivencia entre ambos se hará más problemática según avancen en su viaje.
Lise Tanquerelle
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
Magda
Christine Clément
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...
Lucienne
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
Irène
Nada más empezar el verano, los italianos se lanzan a recorrer sus magníficas autopistas, de las que se sienten tan orgullosos que se arriesgan a soportar la inevitable consecuencia de una salida tan masiva: el atasco. En la autovía que lleva de Roma a Nápoles, cientos y cientos de vehículos han quedado atrapados, y sus ocupantes se verán obligados a convivir durante horas y horas... Adaptación del cuento "La autopista del sur", de Cortázar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marie Arnault
Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Suzanne Corbier
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings. After numerous interrogations, in which they entangle themselves in contradictions, they try to flee, but are soon both caught and brought to trial, he in England, she in France. Only when Catherine keeps on proclaiming her innocence, superintendent Corbier finally considers believing her.
Annie Larcher
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
Bernadette Daubray-Lacaze
Gillaume Daubray-Lacaze es el alcalde una pequeña ciudad. Pero además, ejerce de inventor, y un grupo de japoneses le han pedido tres mil unidades de su último invento, una máquina que elimina la contaminación atmosférica. Como no puede expandir su fábrica, tiene que desarrollar la producción en la propia casa, lo que le causará más de un problema con su mujer...
Danièle Gaur
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
Lise Tanquerelle
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
La patronne du Beauséjour
During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand becomes quite heated, and shots are fired. I n this comedy, the restaurant is run with an iron hand by its "patronne," (Annie Girardot), and the help eventually have had enough. If that weren't sufficient trouble, the children of the owners of both establishments are romantically entangled, further infuriating the passions of the feuding food fanatics. Such an unbearable situation naturally pits half of the population against the other. .
Annie
The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and the other is a wealthy and idle bourgeois.
Madeleine Girard
La pequeña Laurence ha sido secuestrada. Su madre, Madeleine, ha de plantar cara a la familia, la prenda, la policía, reúne el rescate, pero en vano. La película nos presenta el calvario y la dulzura de esta madre.
Jacqueline
A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history.
Mona
Jip, a young piano teacher in Paris, lived in the cozy comfort with his mistress Mona, who is twenty years older, until he met the young and lovely Rita. Together, they lead a bohemian lifestyle and go on a trip to the south. But on their return, Rita falls ill ...
Françoise Gailland
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
Maria Olivares
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
Ninie
Hugo Sennart es un gitano francés, buscado por la policía por ladrón. El mismo inspector que lo persigue también busca a un ladrón de joyas, Yan Kuq, cuya mujer ha muerto bajo circunstancias sospechosas justo después de un gran robo. El Gitano necesita un último golpe para asentarse y, por pura coincidencia, su camino se cruza con el de Yan, que se está escondiendo en el hotel de una amiga y antigua amante, Ninie. El Gitano vive según un código de honor, lo que lo pone en peligro a menudo; y desprecia a todo aquel que trata a su gente como a los perros. Pero, ¿hay honor entre los ladrones?
Léone
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
Teresa
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Hélène Douléan
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Juliette Vidal
Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a department store saleswoman Juliette Rozenec.
Ursule
Sylvie Peyrac
Una campaña electoral se vuelve más interesante cuando aparecen fotografías publicadas de forma anónima que muestran a la esposa de un candidato, el Dr. Peyrac, asistiendo a una fiesta sexual.
Hélène
Hélène Masson es guapa, inteligente y rica gracias a su empresa de ropa femenina. Pero tiene 38 años y se siente cansada por su ritmo de vida y temerosa ante los primeros signos de envejecimiento. Siguiendo el consejo de su mejor amigo, Jérôme, decide acompañarlo al exclusivo Instituto de Talasoterapia de los doctores Devilers y Bernard, situado en un lugar idílico junto al océano. Los ricos clientes del Instituto acuden para beneficiarse del nuevo descubrimiento de los doctores: un preparado a base de células animales capaz de obrar el milagro del rejuvenecimiento. Sin embargo, Hélène empieza a sospechar que algo terrible sucede en el Instituto cuando aparece el cuerpo de Jéròme destrozado entre las rocas y percibe que los trabajadores inmigrantes del centro desaparecen sin dejar rastro.
Rosemonde du Bois de la Faisanderie
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Marie-Louise Boursault
Séverine Lapierre
Paris, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with the two young grandchildren of the owner. Based on the novel "La Mandarine" by Christine de Rivoyre.
Muriel Bouchon
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Danièle Guénot
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...
Maria
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
Germaine
Germaine se gana la vida limpiando las casas de tres señores distintos. Todos ocultan algún asunto sucio y a Germaine le encantan los cotilleos. Por lo tanto, para redondear sus mensualidades, decide chantajearlos.
Mona Lisa
Una comedia que en su momento fue considerada el colmo de lo escabroso, no pudiéndose estrenar en España hasta después de la muerte de Franco. Su aureola de escándalo resulta algo excesiva, por cuanto parte de unas premisas bastante pacatas. Su pedestre realización impide que el conjunto tenga la frescura que pretende, resultando todo bastante forzado
Liliana
En este melodrama, una mujer italiana deberá decidir entre un antiguo amante y su marido. Karin es una bella chica que está en Roma para mejorar en la disciplina del piano. Cuando sale de una de sus clases choca con Bruno e inmediatamente se enamoran, por lo que comienzan una apasionada historia de amor a pesar de que Bruno está casado.
Françoise
In America, two French expats, composer Henri and actress Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
La mère
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Annie
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
Giovana
Cinco amigos de mediana edad se reúnen en una cena y debaten sobre las relaciones amorosas y su vida sexual.
Sabine - la cameriera
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...
la femme étrangère
Una joven pareja discute sobre si deben tener o no un hijo en unos días en los cuales una gran plaga azota la Tierra y hace que la población descienda más y más. A la vez, también deberán buscar un lugar seguro dónde poder refugiarse de las catástrofes que no para de sucederse por todo el planeta.
Marie la Belge
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
Reza
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Self
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
Catherine Colomb
Robert Coster, un importante periodista de la televisión francesa, vive feliz con su mujer hasta que una noche, en un hotel, conoce a una joven modelo de la que se enamora y con la que mantiene un romance a espaldas de su mujer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Herself
Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.
Valeria
Film dividido en cinco episodios protagonizados por Silvana Mangano. En "La bruja quemada viva", de Luchino Visconti, una estrella de cine atraviesa una crisis emocional. En "Sentido cívico", de Mauro Bolognini, Un hombre (Alberto Sordi) sufre un accidente de tráfico y Silvana Mangano se ofrece a llevarlo al hospital en su coche. En "La Tierra vista desde la Luna", de Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò se ha quedado viudo y busca una mujer para él y una nueva madre para su hijo. En "La siciliana", de Franco Rossi, se narra una historia de seducción, abandono y venganza típicamente siciliana. En "Una tarde como las demás", de Vittorio De Sica, una mujer está más que harta de su aburrido esposo (Clint Eastwood).
Kay
Después de ser abandonado por su mujer, un actor fracasado conoce en Nueva York a una ex condesa, y entre ambos surge una relación sentimental.
Suzette / Monique
El jefe del Servicio de Inteligencia norteamericano en Europa relata la historia de tres operaciones de espionaje en las que participó.
Eleonora
Two married women on vacation decide to see who the better seductress is. When the local authorities investigate the death of a local prostitute, their husbands do what they can to avoid trace of scandal and any implication that their wives are involved. Cracks in their relationships are revealed as is the hedonism and hypocrisy amongst the bourgeoise.
Sandra
Cuatro franceses nacidos en Argelia van a París en busca de fortuna y amor. Uno de ellos conoce a Sandra, que aspira a descubrir el sentido de la vida.
Maria
The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.
Clara
Antoine es un tipo que ha llevado una vida a lo grande, sin trabajar, gracias a la fortuna de su abuelo. Se pasa los días pescando y perdiendo el tiempo. Pero cuando su abuelo muere, el dinero se acaba, y Antoine tiene que aprender a buscarse el sustento por sí mismo. En su periplo tendrá que relacionarse con diversos individuos de distinto pelaje.
Clara
In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor of his best friend. Soon the selfish man finds himself deserted by all his friends. He winds up involved with his father's patiently waiting lover.
Agnès
Maria
Antonio conoce a María, que vive recluida en un asilo regentado por monjas. Vive así porque está avergonzada de cómo es: tiene pelos en cara y brazos. Antonio la convence para que se vaya con ella, ha visto un gran negocio: exhibirla como si fuera una mujer simia que encontró en la selva africana. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marie / Marinette / Maryse / Marie-Paule young
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Margherita
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.
Niobe
La acción se desarrolla a finales del siglo XIX en una fábrica textil de Turín. Los obreros reivindican la reducción de la jornada laboral de 14 a 13 horas, para evitar los accidentes que provoca el cansancio. La aparición del extraño y entrañable profesor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) hace que la protesta desemboque en huelga. La película, que oscila entre el sainete y la tragedia, presenta una galería de personajes antagónicos: ilusionados unos, reticentes otros, intrépidos y cobardes.
Juliette Morand
Durante el último año de la II Guerra Mundial, un grupo de hermosas jóvenes, prisioneras en un castillo francés, son utilizadas por soldados alemanes para saciar su apetito sexual. (FILMAFFINITY)
L'infermiera
Parodia italiana de la superproducción norteamericana sobre el desembarco de Normandía ("El día más largo", 1962). Los protagonistas son dos judíos que se convierten en héroes sin buscarlo.
Gabriella
An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.
Gabrielle Fenayrou
Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.
Fernande
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Madeleine
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
Mlle Duchesnois
Diversas historias de amor protagonizadas por personajes célebres de la Historia. Los episodios son "Lauzun", "Les comédiennes", "Agnès Bernauer" y "Jenny de Lacour".
Anna Kraemmer
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Nadia
Rosaria y sus cuatro hijos (Simone, Rocco, Ciro y Luca) abandonan su tierra natal, Lucania (la actual Basilicata), para emigrar a Milán en busca de trabajo y oportunidades que les permitan mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Allí encuentran a Vincenzo, el hermano mayor, que trabaja de albañil pero que está relacionado con el mundo del boxeo.
Danielle ('Le divorce')
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Lilla
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Cora
Infidelidades conyugales, detectives, recelos y una aparente jugarreta del destino.
Josy
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Yvonne Maurin
El célebre detective francés inmortalizado en decenas de novelas de George Simenon, se enfrenta a un peligroso psicópata adicto al asesinato de mujeres. Después de duros interrogatorios y de una meticulosa investigación a la vieja usanza, el comisario Maigret destapará al criminal.
Marie-Blanche Fayard
Hélène
Louis Bertain, propietario de un garaje respetable por el día, es el jefe de una banda de delincuentes conocidos por la noche. Cuando un atraco sale mal, el hermano más joven de Bertain, Pierre, es el principal sospechoso de haberlos vendido a la policía. Después de todo, él había sido interrogado por la policía y, posteriormente, había sido puesto en libertad. Cuando finalmente es capturado por el comisario Pluvier, Louis descubre que ha sido traicionado, no por Pierre, sino por otro miembro de su banda... (FILMAFFINITY)
Viviane
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results.
Gisèle Delmar / Lewarden
Une jeune fille
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
La madre
En sueños y visiones lo atormentan recuerdos con un trasfondo simbólico. Es el triste estado de un hombre que no puede aceptar que está envejeciendo. Por eso también se esfuerza por destruir la virilidad de su hijo.
