Cast: María Casares

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Plot It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · María Casares · François Périer · Marie Déa

Plot Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into...

Direction Jorge Semprún

Cast Santiago Carrillo · María Casares · Ian Gibson · Federica Montseny

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Plot Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Renée Faure · Gérard Philipe · Lucien Coëdel · Louis Salou

Plot Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Paul Bernard · María Casares · Elina Labourdette · Lucienne Bogaert

Plot A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Tom Conti · Miki Manojlovic · María Casares · Zorka Manojlovic

Plot Someone Else's America opens in Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan, where the skyscrapers loom like a steel-and-concrete promise forever beyond the immigrants' reach. Bayo, from Montenegro, has been...

Direction Alain Resnais · Robert Hessens

Cast María Casares · Jacques Pruvost

Plot On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine

Plot Constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called Marie decides to become a professional reader. Having placed an advertisement in...

Direction Henri Calef

Cast María Casares · Roger Pigaut · Jean Murat · Orane Demazis

Direction Jeanne Labrune

Cast Sami Frey · Patrick Catalifo · André Dussollier · Clémentine Célarié

Plot Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast María Casares · Marc Cassot · Monique Chaumette · Silvia Monfort

Plot Documentary about the National Popular Theater, an important experimental theater room which was under the direction of Jean Vilar. Franju combines the filming of the drama with documentary footage, creating...

Direction André Zwoboda

Cast Georges Marchal · María Casares · Aimé Clariond · Catherine Arley

Plot An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town.He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property)...

Direction Henri Calef

Cast Simone Signoret · María Casares · Jean Marchat · Pierre Dux

Plot A world-wide known piano player whose favorite composition is Tchaikovski's Piano Concerto part one has problems :during her concert,she begins to go nuts ,much to the musicians' dismay.They say her...

Direction Jacques Renard

Cast Miou-Miou · Sandrine Bonnaire · Gérard Klein · Patrick Chesnais

Plot A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the...

Direction Julián Esteban

Cast María Casares · Jorge Sanz · Julieta Serrano · Ovidi Montllor

Direction Gianfranco Mingozzi

Cast Florinda Bolkan · María Casares · Claudio Cassinelli · Anthony Higgins

Plot Italy 1600: A convent of nuns are invaded by the Tarantula Sect on their annual pilgrimage. The cultists defile the place of worship, orgying in the chapel and desecrating the...