Cast: Gérard Desarthe

Direction Stijn Coninx

Cast Antje de Boeck · Jan Decleir · Gérard Desarthe · Michael Pas

Synopsis In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Christine Pascal

Synopsis France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little...

Direction Patrice Chéreau

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Roland Bertin · Lisa Kreuzer

Synopsis A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Piotr Lysak · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ralf Wolter

Synopsis In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother...

Direction Marion Sarraut

Cast Stanley Weber · Mathilde Ollivier · Dominique Labourier · Gérard Desarthe

Synopsis The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Guy Heron · Gérard Desarthe · Sofia Torkeli · Victor Tazartesse

Direction Philippe Setbon

Cast Louise Monot · Frédéric Diefenthal · Marc Ruchmann · Jean-Michel Dupuis

Synopsis Suicidal Françoise Sorel wants to be buried in Castelnac, the village she was born in Périgord. Her daughter Lola, discovers she doesn't know anything about her parents and their past life. She spends a few days in Castelnac. A man,...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Catherine Sellers · Sami Frey · Dionys Mascolo · Diurka

Synopsis The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until...

Direction Jean-Claude Missiaen

Cast Gérard Lanvin · Eddy Mitchell · Françoise Arnoul · Raymond Pellegrin

Direction Yves Boisset

Cast Pierre Arditi · Gérard Desarthe · Christian Brendel · Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Eva Swann · Philippe Avron · Bruno Cremer · Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Once they have returned to Paris the woman disappears mysteriously.

Direction René Allio

Cast Philippe Clevenot · Jacques Debary · Gérard Desarthe · Dominique Labourier

Direction Mosco Boucault

Cast Simone Signoret · Gérard Desarthe

Synopsis In November 1943, 200 resisters from the Paris region were arrested by the Gestapo. 23 of them were shot on February 21, 1944. They are members of the "Manouchian" group, resisting communists foreigners, Jews for the most part.

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Lauren Hutton · Jean Bouise · Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis North Africa in the 1930s. Julien, a young, bored diplomat meets Clothilde, whose husband is on a mission in Siberia. He becomes infatuated with her, and soon ends up spending all his time with her, longing to know everything about...

Direction Robin Davis

Cast Claude Brasseur · Claude Rich · Marlène Jobert · Georges Staquet

Direction Jean-Claude Missiaen

Cast Robin Renucci · Véronique Genest · Gérard Desarthe · Michel Constantin

Synopsis After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in...

Direction Laurent Heynemann

Cast Nicole García · Thierry Lhermitte · Jean-Claude Brialy · Hubert SaintMacary

Synopsis During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go...