Self (Archival Footage)
The true story of Amélie
Jean
Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children communication, miscarriage or divorce.
Self
Roger Morels
Jacques Jarjeau
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
Le voisin
That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. Noémie can no longer stand her husband Aldo’s infidelities. A little-known orchestra performs for the last time…
Roger Baudouin
Le vieux Jules
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
Joseph (voice)
An elderly woman discovers an adolescent wild boar on her doorstep and decides to adopt the beast as her last -- and most beloved -- child.
(voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Emile
세상에 대한 궁금증은 많지만 소극적인 ‘루크’는 대학에 진학하면서 암스테르담에 있는 자신감이 넘치고 활동적인 형 ‘알렉산더’를 찾아간다. 항상 사람들에 둘러 쌓여 있는 형의 모습만 바라보던 동생 ‘루크’는 어느 날 ‘알렉산더’의 즉흥적인 히치하이킹 여행에 함께하게 된다. 자유를 찾아 떠난 두 형제는 서로가 있어 두려움 없이 자유를 만끽한다. 암스테르담을 떠나 프랑스 어느 마을에 도착한 두 형제는 ‘조세핀’이라는 아름다운 소녀를 만나게 되고, ‘알렉산더’는 소녀를 따라 프랑스에, ‘루크’는 다시 네덜란드로 돌아가면서 형제는 헤어지게 된다. 그 후, ‘루크’는 ‘알렉산더’의 뜻밖의 사고 소식을 듣게 되는데… 과연 두 형제는 다시 만날 수 있을까?
Lucien
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.
Le chauffeur de taxi
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
Jean
이제 막 의사자격증을 손에 쥔 아프리카 콩고 출신 ‘세욜로’는 프랑스 시민권을 얻기 위해 프랑스 북부의 시골 마을 ‘말리 고몽’의 의사가 되기로 결심한다. 말리 고몽은 파리에서 300km나 떨어진 곳으로, 주민 전체가 흑인을 평생 본 적 없는 깡촌. 말리 고몽 시장은 흑인인 세욜로가 절대 마을 주민들에게 환영 받지 못할 거라고 만류하지만, 그는 한술 더 떠 아프리카의 가족들까지 모두 프랑스로 불러들이며 핑크빛 미래를 꿈꾼다. 프랑스 하면 파리!? 세욜로의 가족은 에펠탑과 샹제리제를 상상하며 한껏 들떠 말리 고몽에 도착했는데… 오~마이 갓! 여기는 고향 콩고 보다 더 낙후된 마을. 세욜로 가족은 크게 실망하고, 설상가상 살면서 흑인을 처음 본 마을 사람들은 그들을 마치 벌레 보듯 경계하기만 하는데…
Concierge
악한이 등장하는 절제된 버디 코미디. 사형당한 프랑스 귀족의 두개골과 막연하게 연관된 두 오래된 친구가 겪는 도시 모험담을 그리는 는 전형적으로 불손한 이오셀리아니식의 짧은 여행으로, 클래식한 파리 아파트촌을 배경으로 하여 과거와 현재 그리고 미래를 응시한다. (2015년 제20회 부산국제영화제)
Le Ruf
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
Le Dantec
Doctor Andreausse
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
François, le pasteur
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
Piquoiseau
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.
Levantour
Père Clément Rozière
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives.
Forcade
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
Émile
Le commissaire
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes and more precisely vindicators serving causes they are interested in. But relations between the various members will go on deteriorating.
Pistille
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.
La Surette
Fernand
제2차 세계대전 중의 프랑스를 무대로, 나치의 박해 속에서도 진정한 자유를 갈구하는 집시 가족의 이야기를 그린 작품.
Roi Cyril John Delagny
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
le père de Thomas
In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. He runs into Florence, an old school friend, who invites him to dinner with her husband and two children.
Rectus
In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans.
The Bishop
A movie inspired by the life of Marie Pape-Carpantier.
Fouchs
The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It’s run by a former prison warden, based on ‘rehabilitattion’ trough manual labor and strict discipline. Young Reynard, a novice to crime and juvenile detention, meets horrible hardened villains and sadistic staff as well as people with some heart among fellow inmates and their supposed educators.
Jean-Pierre
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at this point in his life is harder than he had imagined.
Edmond
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...
Marullaz
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so majestic mountain which draws up face them very quickly reveals dangerous. All the techniques of orientation learned at the scouts will do nothing there. The teenagers find themselves delivered to themselves. Lost in the abrupt throats, the eight boys are confronted cold, with the hunger and the fear.
Cremer
La vie est bien ingrate pour François Berthier : un chien hurle toute la nuit et l'empêche de dormir, la machine a café lui explose au visage, il pleut, le chef de bureau à la banque l'humilie et le menace de renvoi. Et puis, du jour au lendemain, tout ce qui était violent ou pénible pour François se transforme comme par miracle. Que se passe-t-il ? Pourquoi le monde devient-il si brusquement doux
le conseiller du calife
In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place—melting Djinn, invisibility spell, cursed diamond, voodoo doll… But no amount of cunning or obstinacy can make up for sheer, hilariously bad luck.
Breton
제 1차 세계대전이 끝날 무렵. 프랑스인 마띨드는 전쟁에 참가한 자신의 약혼자 마네끄가 군법재판소에서 사형 언도를 받고 동료 죄수 네 명과 함께 적군과 아군 사이의 비무장 지대에 버려졌다는 사실을 전해 듣는다. 살아남았을 가능성은 전혀 없다는 사실과 함께. 사랑하는 사람의 죽음을 인정할 수 없었던 마띨드. 마네끄의 생사여부를 밝히기 위한 그녀의 길고도 힘든 여정은 그때부터 시작된다. 마띨드는 마네끄의 마지막 며칠에 관한 사실을 밝혀나가면서 사람들로부터 조금씩 다른 증언을 듣게 되고, 그때마다 절망에 빠진다. 그러나 그녀는 희망의 끈을 놓지 않는다. 그래야만 살아날 힘이 생기기에… 선천적으로 낙천적인 성격의 마띨드는 약혼자가 분명히 살아있다는 믿음을 가지고 주변 사람들을 설득해 마네끄의 행적을 찾아 나선다. 그러나 시간이 흐르면서 다섯 명의 사형수가 겪은 엄청난 시련이 점점 모습을 드러내고, 마띨드는 전쟁이 수많은 사람들에게 남긴 여러 모습의 비극을 지켜보게 된다.
Monsieur Silberman
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home to tell his beloved wife, Perla. Later, Maurice discovers the part has gone to a famous American star, but he must play the role of his life to be sure Perla, who has become very ill with cancer, doesn't find out.
Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.
Le père de Mathilde
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
Oscar
M. de Biron
This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become the peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the same year. The negociation, lead by Henri de Malassise (Jean Rochefort), and the Earl of Biron for the Catholic side, and Mr. d'Ublé and M. de Mélynes for the protestants side.
In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester, driven by clever mechanisms. Nina, the clockmaker's little girl, begins to dream. She is a little street singer. And a ballerina in love with a little tin soldier. And a princess in search of her beautiful knight lost in the enchanted forest. From burglary to castle attack, from mermaid to dragon, the adventure never stops... like the hands of a clock.
Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's total, absolute. But Alix's life catches up with them. During the course of the performance of the play, they'll pretend that nothing has happened.
Hubus
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Prof. Bergot
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Grinval
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth.
Raphaël Poulain
오랜만에 느끼는 아빠의 다정한 손길에 두근거리는 심장을 심장병이라고 오해한 아빠 덕분에 학교는 구경도 못해본 아멜리에. 노틀담 성당에서 뛰어내린 관광객에 깔려 엄마가 하늘 나라로 가 버리고, 유일한 친구 금붕어마저 자살을 기도한 뒤 그녀는 정말로 외톨이가 된다. 하지만 어느날 빛 바랜 사진과 플라스틱 군인, 구슬이 가득 담긴 낡은 상자를 우연히 발견하면서, 그녀에게 마법 같은 일들이 시작된다. 주변 사람들에게 행복을 찾아주는 기쁨을 통해 삶의 행복을 발견했다고 굳게 믿던 그 순간 그녀의 심장이 또다시 두근거리기 시작하는데...
Mordechai
슬로모(Shlomo)가 걱정스런 소식을 가지고 마을로 돌아온다. 그 소식은 이웃 마을의 유태인 거주자들이 나치에 의해 추방되었다는 것. 마을 사람들은 밤새 고민한 끝에 마을 원로회(the Old People's Board)를 소집, 마을의 공공 자산으로 낡은 기차를 구입하려 한다...
Harmonica
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
Dieu l'infirmière
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Henri
After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion.
Un spectateur au cinéma
40세 연극연출가와 15세 수학 천재소녀의 사랑은 이루어질수 있을까요?
Octave
A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love.
Mr. Gallibert
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.
Peeler
한 과학자에 의해 만들어진 인간인 크랭크는 완벽한 인간이 아닌 조로증 환자이다. 크랭크는 꿈을 꾸기 위해서 아이들을 유괴해서 그들을 꿈을 훔치고 있다. 남자는 차력 등의 재주를 보여주는 힘이 장사인 광대로 크랭크에게 잡혀간 동생을 찾기 위해 어린 도둑 일당인 미에트와 함께 크랭크의 본거지인 '잃어버린 아이들의 도시'에 도착한다. 거기에는 난장이 비스마스 부인과 실패한 복제인간들이 크랭크의 지배하에 아이들을 납치해와 그들의 꿈을 훔치고 있다. 그러나 아이들은 크랭크를 무서워해서 언제나 악몽만을 꾸게 된다. '잃어버린 아이들의 도시'에 도착한 남자는 그와 함께온 몇명의 아이들과 함께 탈출을 시도한다
Thénardier 1830 / 1990
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
Commander Perleau
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.
Robert Kube
세상이 황폐하고 식량을 못구하는 절박한 상황에서 사람의 고기를 먹는게 당연시 되는 기묘한 시대. 푸줏간 간판을 내건 한 낡은 건물에 갖가지 성격의 사람이 살고 있다. 어느날 전직 서커스 광대 출신인 루이종이 푸줏간 주인이 낸 광고를 보고 찾아온다. 잡일 인부로 채용된 루이종은 계단에서 우연히 푸줏간집 딸 줄리를 만나게 되고 둘은 서로 가까워 진다. 푸줏간 주인은 루이종을 계속 죽일 음모를 꾸미고 루이종은 매번 위기를 모면한다. 위기를 느낀 줄리는 지하세계의 지하인간들을 찾아가 도움을 청한다. 한편 푸줏간 건물의 세입자들은 굶주림에 지쳐 푸줏간 주인과 함께 루이종을 죽이러 나간다. 사람들에게 쫓긴 뤼종은 쥴리와 함께 목욕탕 안으로 도망쳐 들어가고, 함께 옷을 벗어 배기구와 틈새를 틀어막아 목욕탕 안 가득히 물을 채운다. 급기야 현관문을 부수고 들어와 목욕탕 문을 열던 사람들은 오히려 맹렬하게 밖으로 터져 나오는 물에 휩쓸려 계단으로 굴러 떨어지고 만다. 분노에 치를 떠는 푸줏간 주인. 나락은 건물이라 중앙 바닥이 무너져 내린 목욕탕에서 간신히 변기를 붙자고 매달린 뤼종을 향해 그는 목욕탕 아랫층에서 뤼종을 향해 도살용 칼을 던지지만 빗나가고 때마침 트로글리디스트에게 납치되었다가 돌아온 쁠뤼스가 뤼종의 부메랑을 건넨다. 푸줏간 주인은 다시 한번 뤼종을 향해 힘껏 부메랑을 던지지만 부메랑은 다시 돌아와 자신의 이마에 꽂히고 만다. 건물의 옥상, 상황은 정리되고 처음 뤼종과 쥴리가 함께 연주하던, 단조롭지만 애조를 띤 음악 소리가 흘러 나온다. 뤼종과 쥴리가 평화롭게 톱과 켈로의 이중주를 하고 있고, 그 옆에서는 따삐오까 부부의 두 아들이 이들의 연주를 흉내내고 있다.
Canler
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Inspecteur de justice
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
L'abbé Girard
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
Sigisbert
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises him to get his "face" back or bad things may happen to him. So he sets out to Paris... and discovers Paris as a world full of strange things and weird behavior.
Vladimir
Policeman
완벽주의자인 영화감독 백치 왕자가 영화 필름이 든 캔을 보며 눈을 빛낸다. 백치 왕자는 오늘 밤까지 이야기를 완성해 전달하면 지난 과오를 용서받으리라 믿는다. 한편, 스튜디오에서는 리타 미츠코의 밴드 뮤지션들이 연습을 하고 있다. 이들은 알맞은 음을 찾아 완벽한 화음을 만들기 위해 애쓴다.
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.
Le moine
청년이 된 로져는 여름휴가를 보내기 위해서 아버지가 마련해준 시골별장에 내려간다. 건장한 일꾼들과 하녀들 간에 은밀히 행해지는 유희를 호기심에 차 관찰하던 로져는 서서히 이성에 대한 안목이 뜨여간다. 그 무렵 2차세계대전에 휘말려 젊은 일꾼들이 모두 전장으로 나가게 되어 별장에는 늙은 신부와 로져, 이렇게 두 남자만 남게 된다. 이를 기회로 로져는 젊은 하녀와 애틋한 연정의 싹을 틔우게 되고, 휴가가 끝날 무렵, 로져는 어엿한 성인이 되어 별장을 떠난다.
Cyprien
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-bound and eventually makes the acquaintance of the pizza-driving aspirant and decides to give him the money he needs -- though this act of generosity in no way shields him from his own destiny. Other characters wander in and out of the story, such as Jeanne (Martine Kalayan), the young man's lover.
Le Garrec, l'éleveur de poulets
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
Antoine
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Patrick Delbaut
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both.
Sgt. Triand
외인부대의 지휘관과 젊은 병사 사이에서 한 여인이 삼각관계의 갈등을 겪는 이야기.
Georges Badar
폴란드 출신의 사무원인 트렐코프스키는 투신자살을 해 죽은 여자가 살았던 파리의 허름한 아파트에 입주를 한다. 별로 친절하지 않은 이웃과 트렐코프스키 사이에 충돌이 자주 일어나고 그는 자신이 느끼는 감정의 심각성을 인지하며 자신이 이로 인한 정신적 압박감으로 인해 자살을 하게 될지도 모른다고 믿게 되는데...
Mathieu
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.
Michel
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
Gendarme
Claude
Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.
Jérémie
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or money. Bild believes he is the child abandoned by Mathilde, while Jeremiah is attracted to his daughter, Maurine. When Bild dies, Jeremiah learns that he is the son of Matilda and that consequently Maurine is his sister. He takes to flight ...
Henri
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
Mr. Pemberton
Cannes Festival 1974
Cannes Film Festival 1973
Un méchant
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Vicar (uncredited)
In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case with a big haul of money they found in a jungle shoot-out. When he returns to France one of the first things he does, quite by chance, is to go see the act of Le Grande Magic Circus. The circus keeps coming into his life for the rest of the movie, as he tries to live a "regular" life.
Jacques Combassous
Le barman
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
Tom Coupar
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
Tom Mills
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses!
—Guy Bellinger
Charles
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
L'éleveur de pigeons
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
Wesson
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noonan et de son fils Billy. Une jeune strip-teaseuse et son compagnon gangster viennent troubler leur tranquillité.
Russian Violin Teacher
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Raymond Aulnay
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
Larobesse
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Corbeau
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
le comptable de Philippe
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.
Freddie Fric
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Dog (uncredited)
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969.
