Christophe Malavoy

From Quai des brumes to Goupi Mains Rouges through La Bandera or L'Assassinat du Père Noël, Robert Le Vigan was one of the mythical supporting characters of French cinema. Best friend of the writer Louis- Ferdinand Céline, he was involved in the collaboration during the Second World War. Sentenced to ten years in prison upon liberation, he ended his days in exile in Tandil, South America.

On May 2, 1945, Soviets take control over the Fuhrerbunker. On May 5th, they find bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun buried in the garden near the bunker. Investigation of Hitler's death was kept secret until now.

Martinique, 1942. Rose, a young teacher, is fired from her job by the Vichy regime of Admiral Robert. Rose seeks to leave the island by boat with a group of fellow dissidents. Her plans are thwarted by the landing on the island of a German officer, and her meeting with Jacques Meyer, the captain of the local navy. A strange confrontation between the German officer, Captain Meyer and rebellious Rose then begins.

Арно Мюстье — само олицетворение успеха. Юрист и красноречивый философ, который своими словами умеет завести слушателей в тупик. Но в один прекрасный момент все начинает рушиться. Пара прыщей, странное поведение — и Арно получает диагноз — С. П. — синдром подростка. Это одно из редчайших расстройств, которым страдают взрослые мужчины, вновь проходя через кризис шестнадцати лет. Арно открывает для себя целый мир подростков, удивляя своим поведением всех окружающих. И первым, кто видит героя в новом «амплуа», оказывается его собственный брат-подросток.

Баварский король Людвиг II стал легендой еще при жизни. Тонкий любитель искусства, знаток музыки и архитектуры, возвышенный юноша… Да, трудно представить себе менее подходящую кандидатуру на баварский престол — особенно в век расцвета воинствующих империй. Красавец Людвиг, более увлеченный оперой, чем пополнением казны, и сам сомневался в том, что оправдает надежды отца и станет достойным преемником. Между тем, почувствовав вкус политической игры, Людвиг становится ключевой фигурой баварской истории.

В один прекрасный день сказочно обворожительная Натали целует молодого коллегу Маркуса. Без особых на то причин, просто так. И даже не придает этому никакого значения. Но Маркус ошеломлен: случайный поцелуй перевернул его жизнь! Теперь он не может думать ни о ком, кроме Натали. Молодому человеку предстоит завоевать сердце коллеги, которая его почти не замечает…

Под занавес своего долгожданного, но неудавшегося путешествия в Париж три девушки от скуки заходят в пятизвездочный отель, и их жизнь совершает головокружительный поворот: одну из них принимают за избалованную англичанку, наследницу огромного состояния. И вот тыква превращается в карету, скромное платьице — в шикарный наряд, Золушка — в принцессу, а Париж — в Монте-Карло с вездесущими папарацци, частными самолетами, и незабываемой романтикой.

После смерти своей матери 32-х летняя Элиза получает право опеки над своей непутевой сестрой подростком Одри. Повинуясь последней воле своей матери, они рассеивают ее прах на острове Мон-Сен-Мишель, в родном городе, в месте, с которым связано много легенд о призраках. В этой драматической обстановке Элиза встречает своих давних друзей юности. Но в ночь на весеннее равноденствие, во время знаменитого прилива, который отрезает город от "основной земли", Одри исчезает с дочерью мэра, труп которой волной выбрасывает на берег, когда наступает отлив... Одри стразу же становится основной подозреваемой в убийстве.

A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.

Мсье Домбе, владелец преуспевающей фирмы, счастлив: у него родился сын, который станет продолжателем его дела. Но Поль растет хилым и болезненным ребенком, только любовь его старшей сестры Флоранс, которую отец практически не замечает, дает ему силы преодолевать свои недуги. На выпускном балу в пансионе, куда отдали учиться наследника, Полю становится так плохо, что его вынуждены перевезти домой. Вскоре он умирает на руках сестры, а обезумевший от горя Домбе-старший покидает дом...

Симон приезжает в Ла-Рошель провести новогодние каникулы вместе с родителями. Попытка разобраться в собственной сексуальности и в отношениях с близкими оборачивается трагедией...

During WW-I Odette gets to know that her husband André has fallen. Her littler son never saw him. He tries to recapitulate his last hours.

During WW-I Odette gets to know that her husband André has fallen. Her littler son never saw him. He tries to recapitulate his last hours.

The deeds of Jean Moulin, a hero of the French Resistance.

Juliette has fought to keep her family's oyster business, called La Claire, afloat. She is ready to fight even harder, now that her heritage is threatened. On her Breton island, Juliette has to face developers who want to occupy her production site at any price to build a thalassotherapy center. Despite their tempting offers, Juliette refuses to sell and inevitably attracts the enmity of the industrialists who only think in terms of profitability and easy money. The conflict becomes more and more radical, each side sticks to its position and the confrontation risks going beyond the legal framework.

Evocation of the life of Jesus Christ.

On the platform of a train station, the pretty Laurence is waiting for her fiancé. They have planned to go to Venice, but the young woman waits for hours for Prince Charming, who never comes. Meanwhile, Bruno Lombart, who lives on petty theft, has decided to lock his son Timothée in Laurence's apartment. The little boy's mission is to steal as many objects as possible. When the young woman returns home, disappointed, she is surprised to find little Timothy! He explains to her that if he doesn't bring back any booty from his expedition, he will be beaten. Out of pity, Laurence gives him a few trinkets, then drops him off in the street after having given him her coordinates...

Othilie spends her vacations with her uncle Antoine, an old lonesome bear. In charge of a regional park, Antoine lives a long way from Paris, in company of the shepherd Tambourin, whose frightening face hides the innocence of a new-born child. Since the arrival of Othilie, odd things happen. A slaughtered sheep is found and weird howls are sounding through the night. The wolves are not far away.

A black cloud brings 1600 days of rain to Buenos Aires, while traffic and pedestrians move backwards. Aging actor Max (Eduardo Pavlovsky) runs the Mirror Theater in a former fish market, but lack of funding means a possible demolition. Max is attracted to Brazilian dancer Fulo (Angela Correa), who worries about her daughter back home. Amid political corruption and police brutality, Max's elderly colleague Enrique leads a protest for unpaid old-age pensions. The pensioners succeed in their demands, only to learn from a government official that no money is available to pay them.

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.

A volleyball professional has a hard time choosing between three different men in her life.

15-летняя Сабина, одаренная талантом к математике, выполняет домашние задания и контрольные работы для всего класса. Ей выпадает шанс продолжить учебу в Брюсселе. Неожиданно девушка знакомится с Жири, театральным режиссером из Праги, мужчиной намного старше ее. С ним Сабина впервые узнает, что такое любовь и секс.

An energetic teenager gives a hard time to her father, an artist, and her stepfather, an unemployed executive not very comfortable with young people.

Three runaway children end up on an island where a lonely sculptor lives.

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

In this somewhat literary exploration of the meaning of romance, loosely based on the works of Henry James, five modern-day couples gather at a country estate to mark the anniversary of their long friendship. Their romantic maneuverings, past and present, are too complex to summarize here. However, it is clear that they love to talk about love, and will do so endlessly, given the slightest opportunity.

Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.

Очередная экранизация бессмертного романа Гюстава Флобера сделана мастером французского кино Клодом Шабролем. Трагическая история женщины, вышедшей замуж не по любви, а от удушающей ее провинциальной скуки и тоски, изменившей мужу и брошенной любовниками, и сейчас смотрится с интересом и притягивает художников. Замечательная игра Юппер. Картина вошла в десятку лучших фильмов года.

Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde Seurat, the actress and Julie Renard, the aristocratic wife and a mother (Delphine Forest plays both) with the same face who came from the different parts of society and at one point exchanged their identities and their lives. The movie also features Giancarlo Giannini and great Vittorio Gassman.

Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Everybody has something to hide, everybody seems guilty.

In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive. He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon. He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him through hell. He finds him two years later in a village in the Dordogne. Francois Lemercier is the town's shoemaker and above all the captain and hero of the local soule team, a ball game that dates back to the Middle Ages. Cursey will discover in Lemercier a man of chivalrous honor.

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

A small town in the south of France. Sun, deserted streets. Unshaven, wearing poorly, Vic came, driving his 4x4, his wife has been released from the psychiatric hospital where she was serving a sentence of 5 years for killing their child. But is she really healed ?

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.

Экранизация одноименного романа Патрисии Хайсмит. История человека, которого бросила жена. В Виши, где Робер Форестье работает дизайнером, он знакомится с молодой девушкой, Жюльеттой. Она влюбляется в Робера и отказывает своему жениху Патрику. Но Робер травмирован изменой своей жены Вероники, которая продолжает преследовать его загадочными звонками. Жюльетта, не видя ответного чувства со стороны Робера, покончила жизнь самоубийством. Погибают Патрик и Вероника. А Робер Форестье все время оказывается в ситуации человека, внушающего подозрение полиции… Клод Шаброль, французский Хичкок, оправдал свое прозвище, сняв захватывающий психологический триллер.

Четверо приятелей когда-то вместе учились на высших коммерческих курсах. Их жизненные пути складываются по разному: Тьерри и Жерар преуспевают, Франсис становится простым клерком в банке, а Даниэль живет, одалживая деньги у своих друзей. Зная его репутацию вечного неудачника, друзья смонтировали на видеокассете выигрыш купленного им лотерейного билета. А тот, приняв розыгрыш за действительность, взял и заложил магазинчик матери, чтобы купить землю и построить Луна-парк. Поняв, что никаких денег он не выиграл, Даниэль обращается за помощью к выпускнику их училища Бернару Асслеру, который собирался обмануть незадачливого предпринимателя. С этого начинается цепь злоключений, в которой и грабеж, и тюрьма, и похищенные четыре миллиона...

Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...

Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris hotel under Nazi control, where he meets his former friend Pierre (Christophe Malavoy), who is on a secret assignment to mislead the Nazis on the date of the Normandie invasion. Pierre, alias Augustin, cannot figure out if Delancourt is a real resistance fighter or if he is a double agent. Circumstances create a larger and larger gap between the former friends while the plot goes through several twists and turns before Pierre's doubts are resolved.

Фильм о романтичном преподавателе игры на гитаре. В его жизни есть все: внезапная страсть, соприкосновение с циничным убийцей, странные встречи. Обретет ли он свое счастье? Этот вопрос остается неясным до самого конца фильма…

Based on a book by Nikos Athenassiadis titled A Naked Young Girl, this slight, uneven fantasy-romance takes place on an isolated Greek island with a unique, petrified tree -- a part of the reason why Mathieu, a geologist (Christophe Malavoy) has arrived to do some research there. Other than the boatman who ferries back and forth to the mainland, the island's only inhabitants are a fisherman and his very pretty daughter Eleni (Eleni Drogoumi). Eleni seems a bit different right from the beginning; on the one hand, she likes wandering around dressed only in a long shirt, and on the other, she has a penchant for swimming all night with the dolphins. When the usually arrogant geologist starts transferring some of his interest from rocks to Eleni's comings-and-goings, he wonders if there is not something fishy about her parentage.

A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved in very bad things .Arrested, he is released thanks to the teacher's evidence who provides him with an alibi before leaving him for good.

The emotional interplay between an arguing couple, in love but not happy with their relationship, is meant to be the sustaining force in this crime drama with little other action. Thomas (Christophe Malavoy) has been blackmailed into carrying a shipment of explosives in his Peugeot to Egypt, where the devices will be forwarded to guerrillas on Cyprus. He brings his lover Veronique (Victoria Abril) along for the dangerous ride from Switzerland to the south, knowing the explosives can be easily detonated by accident and enemy agents as well as government agents are out to capture him. Both protagonists have a short fuse themselves, and as they separate and then come back together, their final destination looms ever closer in more ways than one.

In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.

Патрицию Карон повергают в шок высказывания на теледебатах о ее давно погибшем муже. По голословным обвинениям, ее муж, капитан Марсель Карон- является военным преступником, замучившим и убившим десятки людей во время войны в Алжире. И хотя совместная жизнь супругов Карон была скоротечна, а сам Марсель погиб более двух десятков лет назад, вдова не намерена мириться с подобными заявлениями и подает иск за клевету. В Париже начинается судебное разбирательство...

В парижском Бельвиле убивают полицейского информатора-осведомителя, игравшего важную роль в балансе сил в районе. Полицейским срочно нужна замена. В противном случае рост преступности причинит им массу проблем. Перебирая возможные кандидатуры, они останавливают свой выбор на одной паре: проститутке и сутенёре-рецидивисте. Есть только одно «но». Парочка совершенно не горит желанием сотрудничать с полицией…

A young, loving couple and their two children travel around the French countryside with an old-fashioned carousel in tow, setting it up in small towns and fairgrounds to earn a living. They are happy, supportive, and free-spirited, yet as time goes by, life on the road becomes more difficult -- it can be boring, and the family is sometimes eyed with distrust by the more conservative provincials and by the police. As the family begins to feel the effects of these aloof attitudes, their solidity is invaded by cracks and chinks until they are well on their way to losing their once-happy union. At that point, one of the children has a bad accident, causing the family members intense anxiety, and as a result, the perspective on their differences starts to change.

Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...

Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.

Два одиноких человека без истории, двоюродные братья, работают в одном банке и проживают в одном доме в Париже. Поощренные своим работодателем отказаться от монотонного ритма жизни, они решают взять напрокат машину на выходные, чтобы поехать в Брюгге. Однако их едва начавшееся путешествие наконец прекращается после встречи с потерявшейся молодой девушкой...

1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.

Gerard has just lost his job and his marital life is falling apart. He accidentally falls off a bridge and meets Sarah who believes he wanted to commit suicide.