Cast: Roger Dumas

Direction Rémi Bezançon

Cast Jacques Gamblin · Zabou Breitman · Déborah François · Marc-André Grondin

Synopsis The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008) follows the lives of the Duval family over five pivotal days, each marking a turning point for one of its members. Through joy, heartbreak, and everyday struggles, the film explores...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Charlotte Vêry · Frédéric van den Driessche · Michel Voletti · Rosette

Synopsis Felicie and Charles have an intense summer holiday romance, but lose contact due to a simple mistake. Five years later, Felicie is living in wintertime Paris with Elise, her daughter from that short relationship. She negotiates the serious attentions of...

Direction Radu Mihaileanu

Cast Aleksei Guskov · Mélanie Laurent · Dmitri Nazarov · Valeriy Barinov

Synopsis Le Concert (The Concert) (2009) follows Andrei Filipov, a disgraced former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, now working as a janitor. When he discovers an invitation for the orchestra to perform in Paris, he secretly gathers his old musician friends,...

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · John Malkovich · Jeanne Moreau · Christian Clavier

Synopsis The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter...

Direction Samuel Benchetrit

Cast Anna Mouglalis · Édouard Baer · Jean Rochefort · Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Philippe Noiret · Robin Renucci · Bernadette Lafont · Monique Chaumette

Synopsis Christian Legagneur (Philippe Noiret) is a fabulously successful gameshow host who makes his living presenting softhearted fantasies for aged couples. He engages a writer, Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci), to commemorate his illustrious career in book form and they retire to...

Direction Olivier Assayas

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Charles Berling · Isabelle Huppert · Olivier Perrier

Synopsis Pauline is twenty-years-old when she and Jean first meet at a ball in Barbazac in the Charente. Jean, a minister married with children, has just recently resigned himself to the failure of his marriage with Nathalie. No matter the pressures...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Seberg · Maurice Ronet · Daniel Gélin · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis 1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone.

Direction Yamina Benguigui

Cast Fejria Deliba · Zinedine Soualem · France Darry · Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign...

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Françoise Dorléac · Jean Servais · Roger Dumas

Synopsis Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves steal an Amazon figurine from the Trocadéro and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · François Berléand · Patrick Bruel · Thomas Chabrol

Synopsis Magistrate Jeanne Charmant has been assigned an extremely complex case involving the misappropriation of public monies. The charges are being brought against the chairperson of a powerful industrial firm. The more her inquiry progresses, the more the magistrate begins to...

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Annie Girardot · Philippe Noiret · Catherine Alric · Hubert Deschamps

Synopsis Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Philippe Noiret · Catherine Deneuve · Sophie Marceau

Synopsis French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. He catches the eye of Madeline, the daughter of...

Direction Safy Nebbou

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Benoît Poelvoorde · Dominique Blanc · Mélanie Thierry

Synopsis Alexandre Dumas and his ghostwriter Auguste Maquet are at the height of their successful collaboration. Maquet decides to pass himself off for Dumas in order to seduce Charlotte, an admirer of the illustrious writer. A confrontation between the two men...

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Henry Silva · Carlos Sotto Mayor · Pierre Vernier

Synopsis Commissaire Philippe Jordan (Belmondo) is determined to crush a notorious drugs syndicate run by the elusive magnate Sauveur Meccacci (Henry Silva). His methods are far from orthodox, however, and his one-man crusade is not appreciated by his police colleagues...

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Valérie Kaprisky · Francis Huster · Lambert Wilson · Patrick Bauchau

Synopsis An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Dissatisfied by her performance, the eccentric filmmaker (Francis Huster) begins a rigorous course of indoctrination, sexual domination, and acting lessons, leaving the...

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Mireille Darc · Roger Dumas · Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Convinced that the concession is a fake, Monestier...

Direction Enki Bilal

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Carole Bouquet · Maria Schneider · Roger Dumas

Synopsis In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Roger Hanin · Maria Mauban · Daniela Bianchi · Roger Dumas

Synopsis A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Micheline Presle · Louis Jourdan · Marcel Amont

Synopsis A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model