Alice Sapritch

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.

In the small town of Louvun, Marie and Léon Besnard live quite comfortably. But on 25 October 1947 Léon passes away. Nobody, including the doctor who issued the burial permit, is doubtful that his death was natural. Nobody except Louise Paniou, a friend of the couple's, who is persuaded that Marie has poisoned her husband.

Movie producer Léon Blachurpe is about to produce a big budget movie about Adam and Eve. In order to get the money, he agrees to hire ex movie star La Maldiva to play the lead part, but she's old and ugly, so the scenes are actually shot with the stunt woman !

One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche;nevertheless,Charles has many friends including sweet blind young Juliette and her sister Marianne, Mac Miche's maid ,Betty,her boyfriend Donald ,and even the judge. (by dbdumonteil)

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Vincent and his friend Antoine are convinced to find fortune by following precisely their horoscope. But as they go along the zodiac forecasts, they accumulate absurd misunderstandings.

Two unemployed men, heavily in debt due to losses at the racetrack, are hired by a criminal mastermind to harass the guests of a hotel he hopes to purchase at a below-market price in order to access a tunnel below the building that leads directly to a nearby bank.

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

The eventful and incredible vacation of a Parisian family come to rest in a small village located in the heart of Alsace.

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.

부인과 헤어진 마르코는 운전학원을 운영하며 아들이 하나 딸린 사랑스런 아내 이렌느와 동거중이다. 이렌느는 미장원을 운영하며 마르코와 달콤한 동거 생활을 이어가는데 맞벌이 부부라 가사는 가정부가 돌보고 있어 늘 식사가 부실하다. 그러던 어느 날 마르코의 건강에 이상이 온다. 과로려니하고 들린 병원에서 청천벽력 같은 소리를 듣는다. 남자인 마르코가 임신을 한 것 같다는 것이다. 놀란 마르코 부부는 전문의를 찾아 검진을 하지만 전문의는 오히려 남자의 임신에 대해 인정을 하고 이를 자신의 의학 전문기관을 통해 학술 발표를 하며 이일은 일파만파의 파장을 불러온다. 사회적 센세이션을 일으킨 이 사건으로 당사자인 마르코 부부는 처음엔 당황하고 부끄러워하지만 의학계에서는 오히려 종의 변형을 시대적으로 인정을 한다. 각종 환경의 변화와 음식물, 의약품의 검증되지 않은 부작용등의 사례를 들어 임신원인의 타당성을 규명한다. 이때 때를 맞추어 임산부 전문 용품 회사에서 남성용 임산용품 전속 계약이 들어오고 이들 부부는 어리둥절한 채로 현실을 받아들이게 된다. 사회 저명인사가 되어 학식 있는 사회 유명 인사들의 반 친환경적인 현대인의 환경요건과 종교적 규범까지 연일 토론의 장이 열리고 덩달아 마르코는 나날이 부풀어 오르는 배를 애지중지 잘 보호를 하지만 임신 7개월이 넘어서서 종합 검사 결과 임신이 아님이 밝혀진다. 단지 비만이었던 것이다.

French gangster movie

With her nose buried in her books, a librarian broods bitterly over her failure in love. But a theft of jewelry will suddenly give her the perfect opportunity to win back her lover's heart and get rid of her rival. Will she take the plunge?

The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...

He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.

Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.

The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Cannes, lures her to his hotel room and strangles her. His mother finds out, but can she keep her mouth shut to protect her son? Meanwhile, the young killer meets another pretty blonde...

Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.

An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly.

In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

A man becomes obsessed with a woman, who is unreceptive to his advances. Jealous of her attraction to another, he becomes increasingly desperate. His frustration reaches a peak when the woman hints at another liaison.

The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.

값싼 댄스홀에서 피아니스트로 일하는 샤를리에. 하지만 그의 진짜 이름은 에두아르드 사로얀이며, 예전에는 명성이 드높았던 피아니스트였다. 그는 아내의 도움에 힘입어 유명해졌지만, 뒷받침을 위해 아내가 매니저의 정부 노릇을 했다는 사실이 밝혀지자 아내는 자살하고 만다. 한편, 그의 이런 과거를 알고 있는 댄스홀의 종업원 레나는 그를 사랑한다. 또한, 샤를리에의 여러 형제 중 한 명인 치코는 갱을 피해 선술집에 몸을 숨기고 있는데...

Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering from the loss of their only son in an automobile accident that happened some time in the distant past. Thelma tends to drown her sorrows in alcohol, while Jess is introspected and morose. After they hire a maid to help out with the housework, she falls for the taciturn Jess. Her interest seems to be only a simple attraction, yet appearances, as it turns out, are deceiving.

‘시인 3부작’의 마지막 작품이자 장 콕토의 유언과도 같은 작품. 콕토 자신이 시인으로 직접 출연하여, 시인의 삶과 죽음, 부활을 보여 준다. 시의 영감을 얻기 위해 다른 세계를 통과하는 여정이 이중인화, 음화, 디졸브, 슬로모션 등 다양한 효과를 통해 판타스틱하게 그려지고 있다. 장 마레, 마리아 카사레스 등 절친했던 배우들은 물론이거니와, 파블로 피카소, 프랑수아즈 사강, 샤를 아즈나부르, 율 브리너 등 쟁쟁한 인물들이 카메오로 출연했다.

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…

A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.

Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.