Simone Signoret

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.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.

Madame Rosa vive num prédio de seis andares, sem elevador, no bairro Pigalle, em Paris. Ela é uma prostituta aposentada, judia e sobrevivente do campo de concentração de Auschwitz. Vive adotando crianças abandonadas por outras prostitutas. Momo é o mais velho e seu favorito, um rapaz argelino que foi criado como muçulmano. Quando ele pergunta a ela sobre seus pais, ela sempre dá respostas evasivas. À medida que vai ficando mais velha e com mais crianças para cuidar, o dinheiro vai acabando e Momo precisa ajudar sua mãe. Um dia o pai de Momo aparece. E Madame Rosa, doente, não sabe o que fazer.

A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay, who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese, who is handicapped. Sylvia is found murdered, and Ferrot is assigned to investigate; Ferrot is convinced that Ganay killed Sylvia because she wanted to end their relationship, but to his dismay, Ferrot discovers that the killer has placed a number of false clues that point the blame toward Ferrot.

A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.

Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound solidarity with the socialist cause, Muel and his team showed great courage to mix the official registration of images with those triumphant, clandestine, of the nascent opposition.

The relationship between a middle-aged French widow (Simone Signoret) and a young drifter (Alain Delon) takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.

Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.

Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Anton Ludvik, conhecido como Gerard, é o vice-ministro das Relações Exteriores da Checoslováquia. Ele percebe que está sendo vigiado e seguido. Um dia, ele é detido e colocado numa prisão, em confinamento solitário. Veremos as torturas mentais durante as investigações e como um servo fiel de alto escalão civil, é levado a confessar a traição. Baseado na história verídica do comunista checoslovaco Artur London. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

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.

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.

Começando em outubro de 1942, o filme acompanha vários meses na vida de alguns combatentes congregados em torno de Phillipe Gerbier, um sossegado engenheiro civil que, na realidade, é um dos maiores líderes da Resistência.

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

A verdadeira história da retirada do exército alemão de Paris em 1944. Neste filme longo e cheio de estrelas, vemos as lutas das várias facções da resistência francesa para recuperar o controle de Paris, perto do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O general nazista encarregado de Paris, Dietrich von Choltitz (Fröbe), têm ordens de Hitler para queimar a cidade se ele não puder controlá-lo ou se os Aliados chegarem muito perto. Grande parte do drama gira em torno das deliberações morais do General Dietrich, do embaixador sueco Raoul Nordling (Orson Welles), e dos ansiosos mas desesperadas líderes da resistência francesa.

O MI5 recebe uma carta datilografada anônima acusando Samuel Fennan do Foreign Office de ser comunista durante sua juventude na Universidade de Oxford. Depois do agente Charles Dobbs ter uma conversa amigável com Fennan o homem comete suicídio. Foi surpreendente porque a conversa durante a caminhada no parque foi muito amável. Altos funcionários querem a coisa toda varrida para debaixo do tapete e ficarão felizes em encerrar como um suicídio. Mas Dobbs não está com a mesma certeza pois há uma série de inconsistências que simplesmente não podem ser explicadas. Dobbs também está tendo problemas em casa com sua esposa, a quem muito ama, que vem tendo casos com muita frequência. Ele tem também o prazer de rever o velho amigo Dieter Frey, que ele recrutou depois da guerra para o serviço de espionagem, o MI6. Com a ajuda de um colega e um policial aposentado, Dobbs tenta juntar as peças para descobrir quem é o espião e quem de fato assassinou Fennan.

An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

1933: Um transatlântico pertencente a uma empresa alemã de segunda categoria está fazendo uma viagem de 26 dias partindo de Veracruz, México, para Bremerhaven, Alemanha. Ao longo do caminho ele vai parar em Cuba para pegar um grande grupo de trabalhadores agrícolas espanhóis que estão sendo enviados para casa e que serão alojadas como gado na terceira classe. Vão também pegar La Condesa, uma condessa espanhola. Vão parar em Tenerife, onde os trabalhadores agrícolas irão desembarcar e onde La Condesa será enviado para uma prisão alemã por suas atividades "traidoras" em Cuba. Esta viagem será a última de três para o médico do navio, Willi Schumann, que tem uma doença cardíaca grave e que pensou que poderia encontrar algum sentido para sua vida através deste trabalho. Willi e La Condesa se apaixonam e o capitão do navio Thiele, que é o melhor amigo de Willie a bordo, acreditando que a viciada em drogas La Condesa está apenas usando-o para obter suas doses.

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.

Um clássico do cinema italiano dirigido pelo talentoso Antonio Pietrangeli (O Magnífico Traído) e estrelado pelos astros Marcello Mastroianni (A Doce Vida), Simone Signoret (As Diabólicas) e Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon Amour). Roma, 1958. Uma nova lei determina o fechamento dos bordéis da cidade e as prostitutas Adua, Lolita, Milly e Marilina precisam tomar um novo rumo na vida. Juntas, elas decidem abrir uma trattoria na periferia. Será que elas conseguirão deixar o passado para trás? Com roteiro co-escrito por Ettore Scola e sob a influência do Neo-Realismo, Pietrangeli realizou uma pequena obra-prima repleta de ternura e humanismo.

Final dos anos 1940, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. O jovem ambicioso Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), que acaba de se mudar da sombria fábrica da cidade de Dufton, chega a Warnley para assumir um cargo seguro, mas mal remunerado, no Departamento do Tesoureiro do Borough. Determinado a ter sucesso, e ignorando as advertências de um colega, Soames (Donald Houston), ele é atraído por Susan Brown (Heather Sears), filha do magnata industrial local, Brown (Donald Wolfit). Ele lida com a ascensão social de Joe enviando Susan para o exterior; Joe procura consolo com Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), uma mulher mais velha e infeliz que se apaixona por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.

The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956.

Die Windrose, distribuído no Brasil com o nome A Rosa-dos-Ventos (1957), Direção Geral de Alberto Cavalcanti e Joris Ivens. Aportes em criação de Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Helene Weigel (wife of Bertold Brecht) e Yannick Bellon. Produzido pela DEFA da Alemanha Oriental. São 5 episódios. O brasileiro Ana (1954) dirigido por Alex Viany. O italiano Giovanna (1956), dirigido por Gillo Pontecorvo.

Uma revolução eclode em uma cidade de mineração sul-americana. Um aventureiro malandro, um velho mineiro, uma bela prostituta, um deficiente auditivo e um ministro ativista escapam do regime despótico e fogem para a selva.

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret) and Laurent (Raf Vallone) think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law (French stage and screen diva Sylvie, in a scene stealing performance), it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up.

No submundo da Belle Époque parisiense, a sensual e atrevida Marie abandona seu namorado gângster ao se apaixonar por Manda, um ex-criminoso e carpinteiro honesto. Mas essa paixão dará origem a uma rivalidade no submundo que levará inexoravelmente à traição e tragédia.

A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.

Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van.

Em Paris, durante o verão de 1914, uma sucessão de ligações amorosas começam e terminam com um soldado, Georges. Um círculo de encontros entre uma prostituta, a doce Rose e a casada Sophie, através de um fascinante panorama da sociedade e as atitudes de amor.

A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.

Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.

Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activities. With a young journalist, her fiancé, she discovers his hideout.

Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...

A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.

Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.

In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marriage to a young man she loves, whom she will however end up marrying. The young girl herself is not without reproach; she has missed a mother's love: in this ordeal, she has no sense of feminine dignity.

A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.

At the end of the 15th century, two traveling minstrels Gilles and Dominique come to the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hugues' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Anne's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really in love: they were sent by the Devil to test desperate people. But Anne is so pure that Gilles is caught in his own trap... How will they fight against the Devil?

Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.