Jacques Denis
Nascimento : 1943-05-12, Fès, Morocco
Morte : 2015-12-03
Patron café
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.
The commissioner
A retired old man sees his life turned upside down by the discovery of the corpse of a young woman.
Brizoulet
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Despaul
Logo após ser reeleito o presidente Marc Jarry (Gabriel Cattand) é morto. Após um ano de investigações, a comissão Heiniger concluiu que o assassino tinha sido Karl Eric Daslow, um louco que agiu sozinho. Entretanto o procurador Henri Volney (Yves Montand), que fazia parte da comissão, se recusa a assinar o relatório final e começa investigar o caso com sua equipe. Logo ele percebe que o assassinato de Jarry foi obra de uma conspiração muito bem tramada.
Gérard Dutilleux
David Martinaud (Gérard Depardieu) é um contador. Ele deixa a cidade toda sexta-feira, fingindo que vai cuidar de seus pais. Mas, na verdade, seus pais estão mortos e ele passa os fins de semana trabalhando em um chalé, no qual pretende morar com Lise (Dominique Laffin), uma mulher que ele ama desde a infância. Mas Lise casou-se com outro homem e tem um bebê. Entretanto o amor doentio de David é capaz de tudo, não reconhecendo obstáculos. Ainda com Miou-Miou... Baseado no livro “This sweet sickness”, de Patricia Highsmith.
Henri Charlegue
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
A guerrilla
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
Marco
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.
Laurent
Marcel
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
Jolivet
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Antoine, friend of Michel
Michel é um relojoeiro no distrito de Saint-Paul, em Lyons. Vive pacatamente, apenas em companhia de seu filho quase adulto, Bernard. Um dia a polícia aparece afirmando que Bernard matou o proprietário de uma fábrica. A partie disso, Michel começa a descobrir o quão pouco conhece seu próprio filho.
Lucien
A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.
Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves.
Paul
Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
Narcisse
As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. So begins a series of strange incidents.