Claude Heymann

Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival interviews, and commentary from scholars and contemporaries including Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Jeanne Moreau. Directed by Anthony Wall with readings from Buñuel's autobiography by Paul Scofield. Six trims to meet copyright restrictions.

Essa história é verdadeira. Um Tribunal de Exceção, uma Seção Especial, foi formado para condenar seis homens inocentes. Mas todos os juízes que o compunham foram condenados primeiro, antes de cumprirem o seu grotesco papel. Na França ocupada durante a WW2, um oficial alemão foi morto. O colaboracionista Governo de Vichy decidiu atribuir a responsabilidade pela morte à seis criminosos "Pé-de-Chinelo". Juízes leais ao governo foram chamados para julgar e condenar o mais rápido possível. Aparentemente a tradução do título original para o Brasil foi meio capenga. Ficou Sessão com "ss" e não com "ç".

Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.

Charlie é um pianista clássico que mudou de nome e agora toca jazz em um bar parisiense. Seus irmãos Richard e Chico estão com problemas com os mafiosos, e Charlie os ajuda a fugir. A partir desse momento, ele também se torna um alvo para os criminosos.

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.

A young man from Marseille starts a jazz orchestra in Paris.

Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.

One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.

Perto do fim do século 19, durante as férias, os membros de uma pequena família burguesa decidem passar um dia no campo. Ao chegarem lá, estando mais próximos da natureza, eles decidem então fazer um piquenique nas proximidades do Rio Marne e aproveitar da calmaria do local. Porém, o contato com dois jovens camponeses da localidade apresenta-se como uma sedutora aventura para Henriette e sua mãe.

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Trent were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Trent is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Trent being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Trent.

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.

Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They meet by chance, not knowing who's who, and fall in love.

Lilian, a rich young girl, is to marry Baron de Plessis, captain of the bobsleigh team. However, Lilian is interested in Tressac, the captain of the opposing team. When everyone discovers that the baron is a burglar, Lilian can marry her lover.

A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a lover.She causes nothing but trouble.

A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.

A história surrealista de um homem e uma mulher completamente apaixonados um pelo outro, mas suas tentativas de consumar seu amor são frustradas por suas famílias, pela Igreja e pela sociedade burguesa.

A história surrealista de um homem e uma mulher completamente apaixonados um pelo outro, mas suas tentativas de consumar seu amor são frustradas por suas famílias, pela Igreja e pela sociedade burguesa.

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.