Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, knew how to give him his letters of nobility on the big screen was Pierre Richard who interpreted seven times the characters of Perrin and Pignon. Two cult characters from the imagination of the famous director and screenwriter Francis Veber. For 15 years, the collaboration of the Pierre Richard-Francis Veber duo offered huge public and popular successes that have stood the test of time and entered the pantheon of the greatest French comedies.
Rachel is a lawyer. She is the adopted daughter of a large family of magistrates dominated by Maxime (Michel Bouquet), a ruthless and strange prosecutor. She has not left the world of carelessness, between dreams and nightmares. She often indulges in strange daydreams, but the reality of this case is going to clash with her life. Her first client has just committed suicide in prison. In front of this woman's coffin. Everything comes back to her, the visiting room, the scene of the crime, the story of an abused life. As children, they lived in the same village. Like in a fairy tale, the gate of a castle separated them. The truth about their relationship is revealed. Rachel must face her obsessions.
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Marcel Germon
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
Self
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
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Marcel Fabre (2014)
A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
Raoul
A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.
Auguste Renoir
Côte d'Azur, 1915. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) é atormentado pela morte da esposa, as dores da artrite e a preocupação com o filho Jean (Vincent Rottiers), que luta na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Eis que surge em sua vida Andrée (Christa Theret), uma jovem bela e radiante que desperta no pintor uma inesperada energia. Rejuvenescido, Renoir a torna sua musa. Quando Jean retorna à casa do pai para se recuperar de um grave ferimento na perna, ele se envolve com Andrée e a torna também sua musa, mas de um sonho ainda distante: o de fazer cinema.
Edmond
Edmond se recusa a ir para um asilo ou abrir mão da sua autonomia, até que uma queda o deixa dependente da ajuda da acompanhante Rose. Com o tempo, o velho e a jovem começam a ficar mais próximos e se tornam confidentes um do outro.
Self
A thoroughly researched documentary on Chabrol, exploring the creative process and the great artistic process of the master of cinema.
Le Président
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
Set mostly in the woods in the south of France, a fateful encounter changes the lives of a man and a woman.
le Vieux
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Narrator
Arbres is the story of the Tree and trees. It begins with the Origins and then embarks upon a journey through the world of the tree and the trees of the world. The film reveals the huge differences and slight similarities between the Tree and Man, investigating the fascinating idea that, amongst plants, the tree fulfils the role played by man in the animal kingdom.
Maurice
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The film is a biography of Giuseppe Tomasi (Bouquet), the prince of Lampedusa, who is the author of Il gattopardo, one of the most influential Italian novel of XX century and is adapted on screen by Visconti, THE LEOPARD (1963, 8/10). Directed by Roberto Andò, a native from Palermo, stars two French cinema icons Bouquet and Moreau (as the princess Licy).
Narration (Voice)
This film is based on the testimonies of some of the actors still alive (in 1995-1996) of the Occupation period, whether they were on one side or the other. Each of them tells the story of the French militia, which was created in Vichy at the end of January 1943 by Pierre Laval, from his own point of view.
Samuel
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
Baugin
Após a morte da esposa, o músico do século XVII Monsieur de Sainte Colombe se isola e dedica sua vida à música e às suas filhas. Um dia, um jovem chega com um pedido: que o músico o ensine a tocar viola da gamba. Logo começa um romance com a filha do tutor.
Old Thomas
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
Quid
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter’s late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of them, Kaplan hones in on the women’s by-necessity connection. The director foregoes her own cameo in favor of ones for colleagues Jean Chapot and Claude Makovski, both as nurses.
Hubert Lavoisier
Em um vilarejo pacato, um médico, um açougueiro e um advogado tentam comprar a casa de um carteiro para fechar um grande negócio imobiliário. Porém, o jovem lê todas as cartas antes de entregá-las. Assim que descobre o plano, ele decide não dar a ninguém a satisfação de lucrar com sua propriedade.
Javert
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
L'abbé Troubet
Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
Récitant / Narrator
French TV movie.
Banquier Muller
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Francis Jobin
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its high official Leroi, and two African countries. Before making the public statement, Marrot finds himself under surveillance. In the critical circumstances his Italian friend and partner Angela takes action and the game continues.
Maugras
At fifty, René Maugras has lost everything. This wealthy press boss fell into a coma and was rushed to hospital. He has since emerged from his worrying state of health but remains unable to move and communicate. He must also begin rehabilitation, which turns out to be particularly humiliating. Fortunately for him there is Blanche, his nurse, who surrounds him with affection. Blanche takes her case to heart.
Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
Pierre Vergne
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
Claude Balard
French movie
André, the father
Nez-D'Boeuf
Procureur Delarue
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Le français
In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use.
Doctor
Arriving at a copper mine in South America, Jonathan (Chris Mitchum) arrives and comes into conflict with the brutal mine manager.
Georges Noblet
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness. The children, Daniel and Nadine, are busy with their studies and their loves. The bourgeois life of Hélène is troubled by the murder of her lover, Philippe, a friend of her son. She finds the body when she goes to one of their appointments. In shock, she still thinks to take away the address book of the victim where her name appears - object compromising for her marriage. The police are interested in her. A stranger blackmails her. She is caught in a gear that she can not get out of. She then suspects that all is a revenge from her husband.
Claude Reverson
1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on the same landing, Georges and Claude: one burying his mother, the other about to marry his daughter. Two family events which, on that day, are going to have to co-exist as best they can!
Commissioner Goitreau
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Paul Cristiani
When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that Bruno, Juliette's brother, also died that same night in a car accident...
Morlaix
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
Lelong
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
Storm
"The Holy Family" - A woman of powerful character and a priest create a religious sect, through a nun who practices automatic writing dictated by the Virgin Mary.
Tavel
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Lempereur
Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political activist. A police informer, Darien, is forced to lure Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to make a television coverage about the Third World. Arriving in Paris, Sadiel is captured and delivered to his opponents. Disgusted by the way he has been manipulated, Darien tries to turn back the clock, unknowing who’s dealing with.
Narrator (voice)
Albert
Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.
Marcel Bingeot et 19 autres rôles
In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move on and all elements for a tragedy are there.
Tartuffe
French television adaptation of Moliere's play.
Marc the Boss
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Charles Masson
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Charles Dideloo
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
l'inspecteur Favenin
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.
Ludovic Regnier
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Jauran
A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal, unaware he is the killer. The younger man is accused of the woman's murder, but the paratrooper begins to feel overwhelmed with guilt. The longer he remains silent about the crime, the more psychological torture he must endure.
Maître Rinaldi
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Valberg
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
Récitant
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.
Comolli
Adaptado de um livro por William Irish, é um conto noirish (meio "Noir") de um homem que encomenda uma noiva por correspondência, mas recebe em vez disso uma mulher vigarista. Louis Mahe é um plantador de tabaco em Reunion Island. Ele está esperando Julie Roussel para casar com ela. Ele só a conhece por carta. A mulher que vem não gosta do estlo que ele tem, mas ele se casa com ela de qualquer maneira. Logo, ela foge com o dinheiro de Louis. Ela não era a verdadeira Julie Roussel, mas Marion. Louis tenta encontrá-la... Outro filme de Truffaut sobre paixão. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos).
Charles Desvallées
Um homem começa a acreditar que sua esposa está traindo ele. Charles Desvallées tem boas razões para acreditar que sua esposa o está traindo e contrata um detetive para provar que está certo. Uma vez que ele fica sabendo que o amante é o escritor Victor Pégala, ele vai até seu apartamento, se apresenta calmamente como o marido, inicia uma conversa e depois o mata a sangue frio. A polícia busca a esposa, mas quando ela descobre por acidente uma foto que poderia incriminar seu marido, ela decide ficar calada. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Coral
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Sharps
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
Le docteur Sansfin
Filme Francês.
Jacques Vermorel
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Father Trennes
O filme é baseado no romance de Roger Peyrefitte, vencedor do prêmio Renaudot e provavelmente, a obra mais conhecida do autor na atualidade. Autobiográfico, descreve as relações íntimas de dois rapazes num colégio interno católico e como estas foram destruídas pelos sentimentos pedófilos de um padre pelo mais jovem dos dois.
The daily life of patients and the work of doctors, including Dr. François Tosquelles, at the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban in Lozère.
Narrator
Short film by Nelly Kaplan about the life and works of Rodolphe Bresdin
Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film in 1960. This quiet and intelligent film is a remarkable interpretation of a young monks perspective into a world of meditation, sacred geometry, and coming of age. A tribute to Buddhism, introspection and the wonders of nature...a short but lasting work of art.
Bibesco
O Czar Alexandre II conhece uma jovem estudante, Kátia. Ele percebe que a ama e tenta mandá-la embora, mas acabam se vendo novamente e se tornam amantes. Com a ajuda de Kátia, Alexandre prepara uma constituição liberal, mas essas reformas o tornam inimigo dos súditos mais privilegiados.
Le commissaire
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Louis X
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide.
Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.
Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Maurice
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
Second
França, recém-libertada do jugo alemão. Apanhados como clandestinos a bordo de um navio, Manon, uma jovem que foi acusada de colaborar com os nazistas, e Robert, um soldado da Resistência que a salvou das represálias, contam ao capitão sobre os muitos desafios que enfrentaram para sobreviver. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Le tuberculeux
São Vicente de Paulo (Pierre Fresnay) teve uma infância extremamente pobre e sofrida, e passou muitos anos trabalhando como escravo. Anos depois, ao tornar-se padre, começou os primeiros trabalhos humanitários de caridade, trabalhando para trazer paz e harmonia entre os nobres e os pobres durante o século XVII, na França, numa época em que a peste negra dizimava milhares de vidas.
Le tueur
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
