Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen

Plot Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean-Claude Brialy · Henri Attal

Plot Angela, a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Béatrice Romand · Aurora Cornu · Laurence de Monaghan

Plot The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, a romanian writer and old...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Diego Abatantuono · Sergio Castellitto · Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Rich · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Bouquet

Plot Julie Kohler, whose husband is inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by his mother. She leaves the town. She will track down,...

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Ornella Muti · Jean Rochefort · Pierre Arditi

Plot A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Mario Adorf · Jean-Claude Brialy · Nino Manfredi

Plot A naive countryside girl Adriana, who dreams of a career as a star in Rome, is not an escapist or introvert; on the contrary, she tries her best to socialize...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Juliette Mayniel · Guy Decomble

Plot Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Fanny Ardant · Sharon Stone · Valérie Quennessen

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Charles Vanel · Bruno Cremer · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Piccoli

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Betty Schneider · Giani Esposito · Françoise Prévost · Daniel Crohem

Plot Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Elsa Martinelli · Laurent Terzieff · Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Alan Bates · Geneviève Bujold · Jean-Claude Brialy · Julien Guiomar

Plot During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Virginie Vitry · Jacques Doniol-Valcroze · Jean-Claude Brialy · Anne Doat

Plot This short by Jacques Rivette is often cited as the first film of the French New Wave. It was co-written by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Marie Straub was the assistant director and...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Plot June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michèle Méritz · Bernadette Lafont

Plot François comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend...

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Isaach de Bankole · Alex Descas · Solveig Dommartin · Christopher Buchholz

Plot Natives of Benin and the West Indies, Dah and Jocelyn form a fine team. Dah is convinced that this time, luck smiles on them. They begin working for a restauranteur...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Michel Galabru · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Claude Brialy

Plot A judge has to decide whether a murderer is guilty or insane.

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Jean-Claude Brialy · Simon de La Brosse · Abdellatif Kechiche

Plot The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the...