Self (archive footage)
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.
Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Self (archive footage)
Mysteries, hidden defects, scandals or family secrets? Nothing like that in the life of the filmmaker Claude Chabrol. Just a lifestyle of a Buddha gourmand, a sneaky anarchist, an insolent lover of life. There is a question though… How was he able to make 58 movies in 50 years? This is the story about his outstanding life, told by Cécile, his adopted daughter and also his collaborator for many years.
(archive footage)
"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release, to fully grasp Godard’s modernist gestures, poised between a fullness of mythic and classical meaning, and the possibilities of a newly fragmented universe of signs."
Self (archive footage)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Self (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
Narrator
Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"
Michel
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest area and their son's tombstone. Having lost the keys to their car, they walk down into the woods together, then apart, to better find themselves and each other.
Leópold Scheitzer
Após a derrota na Batalha do Bussaco, as tropas francesas do Marechal Massena forçam as forças anglo-portuguesas a retirar para Lisboa. Para defender a capital, bem como a eventual retirada dos ingleses, Wellington fez erguer, num ano e meio e no maior segredo, o maior sistema de defesa que Portugal já viu: as Linhas de Torres Vedras. A retirada, acompanhada de uma operação de "terra-queimada", é o pano de fundo para uma história de dramas pessoais, em que as vidas de várias pessoas diferentes são profundamente afectadas pela guerra e pela devastação.
Le père
Antoine d’Anthac, célebre dramaturgo, convoca, depois da sua morte, todos os seus amigos que interpretaram a peça Euridíce. Estes actores têm como missão ver uma encenação desta obra por um novo grupo, a Compagnie de la Colombe. O amor, a vida, a morte, o amor depois da morte ainda têm lugar num palco? São eles que têm de decidir. Mas as surpresas ainda agora começaram…
Man with the Wine Stain
O senhor Oscar parece um importante executivo indo para o escritório ao entrar em sua limusine, mas seu "trabalho" real é um pouco mais complexo: ele tem uma série de compromissos durante o dia, onde encarna personagens, desde uma idosa pedinte, um milionário em estado terminal, até um assassino frio. O objetivo e a motivação de Oscar, no entanto, são misteriosos.
Self
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
Melville
Após a morte do Papa, o Conclave reúne-se para eleger o seu sucessor. São necessárias várias votações até que se veja a fumaça branca no céu do Vaticano. Quando finalmente é eleito um cardeal, os fiéis amontoados na Praça São Pedro esperam em vão o novo soberano. O cardeal escolhido não parece pronto a suportar o peso de tal responsabilidade. Angústia? Depressão? Medo de não se sentir à altura? O mundo se inquieta, enquanto no Vaticano buscam-se soluções para superar a crise – entre elas o auxílio de um dos mais renomados psicanalistas da Itália.
Self
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Self
Maurice Reverdy
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.
Self
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch.
Spyros
Diretor de cinema conta a sua história e a de seus pais, revelando a sua trajetória familiar.
Le grand Hou
Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funeral parlour after the close of business. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, locking himself in the coffin.
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
Le roi Lear
Marcel
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health.
Papa
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Nikita Khrushchev
A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII is screened.
Vidame de Pamiers
Narra a conturbada relação entre um general francês e uma dama da alta sociedade parisiense.
Henri Husson
Trinta e oito anos após os acontecimentos do clássico A Bela da Tarde de Luis Buñuel, Henri Husson pensa ter visto Séverine certa noite em um concerto. Ele a segue e a faz enfrentar seu passado, vingando-se lentamente dela.
Marie, la mère de Vincent
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Prof. Heschel
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.
Writer
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
Director
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
Himself
Narrator
An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.
Ferdinand (voice)
Quarenta dias e quarenta noites de chuva - o mundo já viveu um dilúvio desses e, agora, está acontecendo tudo de novo. Os sapos, que anunciaram a catástrofe, tentam alertar os humanos. Fugindo da chuva, os vovôs Ferdinand e Juliette levam o netinho Tom e a amiguinha Lili para um enorme celeiro, que depois do temporal se transforma em uma Arca de Noé improvisada. Nessa inacreditável casa flutuante, eles reúnem os animais da fazenda e os bichos do zoológico da vizinhança. O mundo é inundado e tudo que eles têm para comer são 28 toneladas de batatas. Animais carnívoros e herbívoros precisam viver em paz para sobreviver. Como fazer? Inicia-se uma fantástica e divertida aventura.
acteur qui joue Simon
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
Harald
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.
During a party somewhere in Paris, an apprentice filmmaker, Boris, and a young executive, Marilyne, play at being a loving couple when they've only just met. They end up really falling in love. Five years later, Marilyne, accompanied by Boris and their two kids, goes to Ibiza on a business trip. Just as Boris, tired of being a househusband, is about to leave her, Marilyne takes off on a lover's spree. Five years later,; Marilyne reappears in the depths of the Pyrenees as the leader of a group of American women on a "personal growth" tour. She learns that the man who is to introduce them to the mysteries of coqs de Bruyère mating rituals is none other than Boris. In the same way that, five years earlier, they played at being intimate when they'd only just met, Marilyne and Boris will now play at being strangers when they know each other, For the very best.
Self
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those who knew her, who loved her, go back to the filming locations, make archive images speak for themselves... and try to detect the part of mystery that Romy Schneider conceals for ever.
Damiano, um cinegrafista jornalístico, fica detido no interior da Basílica da Natividade de Belém, durante o cerco das tropas israelenses em abril de 2002. Além de outros jornalistas, padres, freiras e refugiados, há também uma mulher palestina grávida, prestes à dar a luz. A criança nasce justamente no momento das negociações que conduzem a libertação dos jornalistas, e Damiano deixa a igreja e volta ao seu hotel.
Uma vez em segurança, Damiano sente que deve fazer algo para salvar o filho recém-nascido. Assim, ele retorna para a igreja, esconde a criança, ganha a confiança dos palestinos e consegue levá-la para fora com a ajuda dos frades franciscanos. No entanto, fora da igreja, há um ponto de verificação israelita esperando por ele. E os soldados israelitas começam suas buscas…
Gilbert Valence
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
Writer
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.
Director
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.
Louis
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother. Each responds differently to his return according to how her character evolved from her relation with him and his unexpected departure. They eventually realize, though, that the somewhat elderly father is quickly losing his memory and his ability to function, and the youngest daughter's decision to accept him again while she can ends up permanently changing her family ties with her sisters.
Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
as Self
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Uncle Tony
Michel des Assantes
The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
Writer
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Director
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
Georges Didier
René, o criminoso, é defendido por Solange, a advogada, cujo seu objectivo será demonstrar a complicada teia de relações de um jogo subtil entre a vítima e o sobrinho durante mais de dez anos. Pouco a pouco, vai descobrindo uma teoria controversa que irá ter que provar: o jovem não só terá castigado a tia devido ao interesse doentio que aquela demonstrava por ele, mas também devido à sua clara predisposição para matar. Mas, à medida que a investigação prossegue, algo inesperado acontece e vai mudar o rumo da história: o jovem começa a identificar Solange com a falecida tia, enquanto que a advogada reconhece em René a imagem do seu filho, morte num acidente de viação. O fantasma da tia Jeanne encarna Solange, dando ao jovem criminoso uma nova oportunidade. A defesa de Solange conhece um grande sucesso, pese embora a oposição da ordem dos psiquiatras: René é absolvido. Solange e seu cliente apaixonam-se e vão viver juntos.
Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
Michel
This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.
Cosimo
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.
Prince de Conti
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Himself
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.
Simon Cinéma
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.
Paul Belmont
Georges Feuvrier
Stephane, the wife of an older, prominent magistrate, coldbloodedly shoots a male visitor in her upscale home, then claims she was defending herself against a rapist. Victim turns out to be Wadek Aslanian, a gangster who's viewed as a modern-day Robin Hood. Paul, the lawyer hired by Stephane's husband, learns more than he really cares to know about his client, thanks to a series of anonymous letters. The notes provide a road map through the sordid areas of Stephane's past, allowing Paul to discover her history as an ex-prostitute, a porno movie performer -- and a frequent cohort of Aslanian. Naturally, Stephane's husband knows nothing about her past. Just as naturally , nothing that Paul discovers keeps him from falling in love with this mysterious woman.
Writer
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Director
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Presenter
Adam
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
Paul
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all well-to-do, but mainly lost at sea without a ship. The lover : Paul, a lone wolf who tries to escape from his memories through drink or by chasing women as though they were the cure to everything. The best friend : Lucie, coming and going, suitcase in hand , as though she were carrying a corpse or a time bomb, ready to flee at the drop of a hat with her suitcase of course. The mother : Marthe. Between shovel and incinerator, she counts her dead, cat and husband included. And then, there is Lucien, madly running after Lucie, screeching guitar in hand. And the others, always running.
Henri Toussaint
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Self (archive footage)
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Leonard Wilde
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
Chateaubriand (voice)
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
Désiré, l'homosexuel
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Edouard Frenhofer
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view
Self
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Director
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Marcel Spadice
Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on the Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux directed this short film for the Seven antenna, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of excerpts from Jean Genet's text, “The Tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.
Mr. Armand
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.
Edouard Frenhofer
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Marcel Spadice
Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
Le baron de Leisenbohg
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell. Klare shows no gratitude however.
Ernst
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
Milou
No sul da França, uma família se reúne em sua propriedade no campo para o funeral da matriarca, ao mesmo tempo em que ocorrem as revoltas estudantis de 1968 em Paris. Mesmo com as notícias dos tumultos chegando pelo rádio, a família ainda se concentra em pequenas brigas e assuntos pessoais.
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length and extensive coverage of its subject, it is of particular interest to those who are already keenly interested in its subject matter.
L'avocat
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
Pierre Willer
Batz
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.
Père Jean-Marie
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
Raoul Bergeron
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Kassar
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.
Damien Malleville
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Friedrich Hofreiter
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, which is generally referred to in English as The Vast Domain and was also adapted by Tom Stoppard as Undiscovered Country.
Pierre
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
Marc
Paris, num futuro próximo. Marc e Hans são dois ladrões que devem dinheiro a uma mulher americana implacável. Tendo duas semanas para pagar a dívida, planeiam roubar e vender o antídoto de um novo vírus chamado STBO, que está a matar os que fazem sexo sem amor. Para os ajudar contratam Alex, um rapaz rebelde que acabou de terminar a relação com a namorada. Mas quando Alex conhece Anna, a jovem amante de Marc, fica perdidamente apaixonado.
der Tölpel
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
Étienne Sembadel
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.
Caffarelli
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
Simon Lerner
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Graham Tombsthay
Os ricos Tombsthays contratam um professor de viola, David Aurphet, para a sua filha Vivian. A esposa, Julia, inicia um caso amoroso com David. Edwige, a nova vizinha de Julia, também se interessa por David. David é atacado uma noite ao regressar a casa, mas acaba por ser salvo por um misterioso estranho, Daniel, que se revela um assassino contratado. David começa a suspeitar que o seu caso não é mais segredo.
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.
Récitant (voice)
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
French Official
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland and the politics of exile at a West End theater. His single-minded determination to succeed causes him to take advantage of others, and because of his need for backing, he turns to a low-life businessman (John Hurt) to bail him out. His wife is anything but happy about his behavior and dislikes this last decision even more. This is an interesting study of how a father and son become alienated in a conflict between cultural identity and its exploitation.
Michel Perrin
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
Akiva Liebskind
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
Producer
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
Frédéric Mallaire
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
José Viss
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
Edmond Leroyer
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Tío Agostino
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
Mr. Mutti
Tom Berenger stars in this Italian film featuring legendary Italian star Marcello Mastroianni. Berenger is Matthew, an American engineer who falls in love with Nina (Eleanora Giorgi), a woman who holds many disturbing secrets.
Michel Boulard
Diretor polonês lida com produtores e obstáculos para fazer um documentário sobre luz e imagem.
King Louis XVI
Em 1791, durante a Revolução Francesa, uma carruagem tenta sair da França, levando passageiros que querem fugir da situação enquanto enfrentam seus dramas. Entre eles, um patriota americano, um escritor e o famoso conquistador Casanova.
Max Baumstein
Durante uma entrevista, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respeitado presidente de uma organização humanitária, atira a sangue frio no embaixador paraguaio e o mata. Julgado por assassinato em primeiro grau, ele próprio explica: o embaixador era um ex-oficial nazista, responsável pelo extermínio de sua família.
Por que ele cometeu um ato que, aparentemente, anula os princípios que ele se esforçou tanto por defender? Eventualmente, ele revela um segredo sobre si mesmo que ele manteve escondido de sua esposa mais nova, Lina (Romy Schneider), e que de uma forma indireta também diz respeito a ela. É a conclusão de uma luta que começou muitas décadas antes, quando Elsa Wiener (Romy Schneider), uma cantora alemã exilada em Paris, sem dinheiro ou relações, uma refugiada entre muitos outros, enfrentou dois problemas difíceis: sobreviver em uma cidade estrangeira e salvar seu marido Michel das garras dos nazistas.
Leonid
Self
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema.
Jean-Paul Chance
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Bertrand Malair
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
Professor
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
Le père
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
Joseph
Lou, um pequeno gângster que sempre se achou grande coisa, conhece e se apaixona por uma sexy funcionária de cassino chamada Sally. Ela precisa de sua ajuda para realizar seu sonho de ir a Monte Carlo, um símbolo da vida glamourosa que ela está desesperadamente procurando.
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.
Mauro Ponticelli
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship and tries to get Giovanni arrested.
Morrand
Pierre Chazerand
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Victor Navarro
Naples: Raffaele, a cafe musician, is cajoled into performing a night-time serenade outside an apartment block. However, his mandolin playing is rudely interrupted by gunshots and a falling Jamaican man, who plummets from a window above. A camp character is also ejected from a window and Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation. It transpires that a celebrated maestro, Victor Navarro is being blackmailed. Lucia, Navarro's attractive daughter-in-law, was present at each murder. The amateur detective is drawn to her and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving death threats and a macabre secret...
Grezillo
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Conrad Brukner
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Orlaville
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.
German film.
Robert Hansen
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both.
Saint-Rame
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Bernard Rougerie
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
Ispettore Marchand
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Simon Léotard
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...
Etienne
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a way out end up in failure, his friends Étienne and Jean-Pierre are powerless to help him, and the dreamy yet desperate hero loses his mind.
Lui
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Michel
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
Dr Losseray
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Producer
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
Richard
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
Co-Producer
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
L'enquêteur
Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
François
Três amigos enfrentam crises de meia-idade. Paul (Serge Reggiani) é um escritor que está bloqueado. François (Michel Piccoli) perdeu seus ideais e pratica a medicina pelo dinheiro; Sua esposa vive distante, eventualmente hostil. O encantador Vincent (Yves Montand), favorito de todos, enfrenta a falência, sua amante o deixa, e sua esposa, de quem ele está separado, quer o divórcio. As tensões entre os homens começa a se mostrar particularmente na amizade de François e Paul e na saúde de Vincent. Um homem mais jovem, Jack, torna-se atraente para Lucie, a esposa de François. Outro jovem amigo, o boxeador Jean, que é como um filho de Vincent e cuja namorada está grávida, vai lutar com um impiedoso lutador. A felicidade escapuliu desse círculo de amigos?
Le deuxième préfet de police
Uma série de situações surreais que criticam os padrões da sociedade: o homem que mostra fotos 'pornográficas' para duas crianças, o atirador que mata as pessoas do topo de um prédio, a falta de educação à mesa, os monges e sua sexualidade, e por aí vai.
Producer
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
Michel
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
Georges Sarret
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
Producer
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Buffalo Bill
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
Michel
Quatro amigos ao atingirem a meia idade estão satisfeitos com o seu status social, mas alguma coisa nas suas vidas pessoais começa a tornar a existência um peso difícil de carregar. Decidem trancar-se em um final de semana sozinhos em uma mansão e cometer suicídio, mas a forma que escolhem é o mais poderoso paradigma da burguesia europeia: comer; comer até morrer.
Pierre Maury
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...
Themroc
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
Pierre
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.
Narrator (voice)
Rosalie é amigavelmente divorciado, dividindo seu tempo entre a casa de sua mãe, com seus irmãos e filha pequena, e César. Ele é um self made man, o rei do ferro-velho, extrovertido, simpático, apaixonado por ela. Surge David, um artista e velho apaixonado de Rosalie antes de seu casamento. De uma forma tranquila, planejada, ele procura recuperar Rosalie. As explosões ciumentas de César saem pela culatra e levam Rosalie aos braços de David. César continua tentando: ele compra a casa de férias à beira-mar da infância de Rosalie como um presente, a ganha de volta, e então pede a David para se juntar a eles, para Rosalie voltar a ser feliz. Quando Rosalie descobre a cumplicidade de César e David, ela mais uma vez afirma sua liberdade, deixando os homens sozinhos.
Colonel Kassar
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.
Le Ministre
Um grupo de amigos de classe média/alta tenta várias vezes promover um jantar, mas alguma coisa sempre dá errado e lhes impede de conseguir todo o requinte necessário para uma digna refeição burguesa.
Giorgio's friend
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.
Padre Amerin
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Paul Regis
A philosophy professor is investigating the sudden demise of one of his students, who had mental problems.
Valentin
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Max
Max é um detetive de Paris, distante, independente, rico e frustrado por bandos de ladrões a quem ele não consegue pegar. Para restabelecer seu prestígio ele decide induzir um grupo de pequenos ladrões (liderados por um conhecido antigo) a roubar um banco. Um capitão relutante fornece para Max a inteligência e Max começa a passar as noites com Lilly, uma prostituta que é a namorada do líder dos ladrões. Ele se apresenta como um rico banqueiro com dinheiro para queimar e encoraja Lilly a pensar sobre o futuro dela. Ele tagarela sobre uma folha de pagamento que vem através de seu banco. A trama funciona, os pequenos ladrões pensam que estão prontos para um grande golpe, e os policiais estão à postos. O que poderia dar errado com o frio plano de Max? Quem será apanhado?
Marcello
A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
Pierre Bérard
Pierre, um engenheiro de sucesso na construção de autoestradas sofre um acidente de trânsito. Estando seriamente ferido, ele está deitado à espera da morte e lembrando seu passado em flashbacks.
Jacques Granville
André Devereaux é um homem contratado para checar rumores de mísseis russos em Cuba durante a Guerra Fria. Além disso, ele deve descobrir tudo sobre um espião da Otan chamado Topázio, o que nos leva à mortes, traições e um suspense para sabermos se ele irá conseguir ou não expôr o agente.
François Desailly
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the Côte d'Azur. They get closer during the long voyage and the man invites her to his marital home.
Marquis de Sade
Dois peregrinos decidem percorrer o sagrado Caminho de Santiago de Compostela. Durante a travessia, eles encontram personagens bíblicos e confrontam os dogmas do cristianismo.
Glauco
De regresso a casa, Glauco, um designer industrial, encontra a mulher na cama com uma grave dor de cabeça. Ela deixou-lhe o jantar pronto mas já está frio. Glauco decide, então, preparar para si uma refeição gourmet. Enquanto Glauco procura os acessórios de cozinha, encontra um revólver embrulhado num jornal datado de 1934 com uma notícia que anuncia a morte do famoso criminoso John Dillinger…
The absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the bombardments of war.
l'invité pressé au vernissage
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
Charles
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Ginko
Um dos grandes filmes baseados em histórias em quadrinhos de todos os tempos do diretor Mario Bava.
Count Philippe
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Marrades
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.
Henri Husson
Séverine é bela, jovem, rica e frustrada com a vida que tem. Com o marido trabalhando o dia todo a moça resolve trabalhar num discreto prostíbulo todos os dias a tarde, o momento em que pode largar sua vida real e se tornar a Bela da Tarde sem que ninguém saiba. O problema é que os clientes que recebe são pessoas que podem estar tentando fugir da mesma vida vazia que ela.
The Extra Man
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Paul Javal (archive footage)
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)
Simon Dame
Delphine e Solange são duas irmãs de 25 anos que vivem em Rochefort, na França. Delphine é professora de dança, enquanto Solange ensina piano. Ambas sonham em encontrar um grande amor, assim como os rapazes que chegam à cidade e passam a frequentar o bar da família.
Self
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.
Edgar Pisani
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.
Narrator (voice)
Imagens e poemas do famoso casal Louis Aragon e Elsa Triolet. A juventude de Elsa recordada por Aragon, com comentários dela.
Edgar Piccoli
Um filme que conta duas histórias: a criação de um novo romance e a vida de um casal que espera o nascimento do filho. As pessoas que o marido escritor conhece são absorvidas pelo livro, transformadas e distorcidas.
Werner Kreuz
Julia, casada há dois anos, confessa ao marido Werner que teve um filho há seis anos e que o abandonou. Ela agora só pensa em tê-lo de volta.
Alexandre Saccard
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
L'antiquaire
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
Inspector #1
Um grupo de espanhóis refugiados na França tenta organizar protestos contra o governo em Madri. Sua rede está sob constante ameaça pela polícia espanhola e alguns deles foram recentemente presos. O personagem principal Diego (Yves Montand) dedicou toda a sua vida à batalha, mas ele se sente afastado para sempre. Ele não encontra seu lugar nem em seu país adotivo (França) nem no amor. Mas este filme não é sobre a história, é sobre estilo. Alain Resnais tem uma abordagem original neste filme e isso é o que faz com que esse filme valha a pena ser assistido. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Capri / Bruno
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend with his victims' relatives and friends...
Kafka
Lecoeur
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
René Cabourg
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.
Dom Juan
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.
Georges Sarrassin
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Récitant (voice)
Philippe Decharme
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Raoul
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.
Writer
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
Texte dit par (voice)
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
Himself
Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard is a documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
Narrator (voice)
An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
Jean, the reporter
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship.
Monsieur Monteil
Após o estupro e assassinato de uma garotinha, camareira de uma família excêntrica muda de emprego e vai trabalhar com o homem que acredita ser o autor do crime. Ironicamente, se trata de ninguém mais, ninguém menos que seu noivo, e passa a reunir indícios que comprovem a autoria do crime.
Narrator (voice)
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
Paul Javal
Paul Javal é um roteirista que vai a Roma para trabalhar em uma adaptação da obra A Odisséia, que contará com a direção do cineasta alemão Fritz Lang. Enquanto decide os últimos detalhes para aceitar o trabalho, sua relação com a esposa, Camille, começa a desabar, em um jogo de paixão, ciúmes e desprezo.
Antoine
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?
Nuttheccio
Recém-saído da prisão, Maurice planeja um roubo junto com o amigo Silien. O comparsa, no entanto, o delata para a polícia, que impede o roubo e fere Maurice. Recuperado, ele orquestra um plano de vingança.
Récitant (voice)
Récitant (voice)
Paul
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
Serlon de Savigny
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Console Publicola
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
Récitant (voice)
L'homme
A man developes an obsession with a wig.
Brian Cannon
Chvokhniev
Robert
Commissaire Jacques Guimard
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
Tom, jeune
Jacques Forestier
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Franck Marchal
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Pianist
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wives and mistresses in the greatest secrecy. But their joyous merry-go-round threatens to collapse at the slightest misstep.
Le directeur de l'aéro-club
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
James Putnam
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.
Récitant (voice)
Father Lizardi
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.
Un officier
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.
Maurice Rouger
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
Récitant (voice)
Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Em 1890, o Cancan ainda está na moda, mas nem os shows da dançarina Lola ajudam o Café Le Paravent Chinois a sair da decadência. Henri, amante de Lola e dono do Café, tem a idéia de popularizar a dança no bairro boêmio de Montmarte. Ele conhece Nini, uma lavadeira com o dom natural da dança. Os problemas começam quando Lola fica enciumada com Nini.
Georges
A 1955 French crime drama film based on André Héléna's novel of the same name, about a young man's descent into hell with a femme fatale.
Gérard
Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
Slim Spring
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
Tommy Goudchote
Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
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.
Un journaliste aux archives
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.
Lebel
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her.
Georges Gohelle
Socially conscious and realistic treatment of hard working coal miners in the north of France, and a struggle between a younger and older engineer.
Un villageois
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.
