Cast: François Périer

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · François Périer · Amedeo Nazzari · Aldo Silvani

Plot Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Folco Lulli

Plot The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni)...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Irene Papas · Jacques Perrin

Plot In a country ruled by a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set on erradicating all threats from the political left, a member of the parliamentary opposition...

Direction Armand Matellart · Valérie Mayoux · Jacqueline Meppiel

Cast Med Hondo · François Périer

Plot This film, made with Chris Marker's collaboration, was one of the first to acknowledge what had happened with Chile's Popular Unity government from its triumph in democratic elections in September...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Nathalie Delon · Caty Rosier · François Périer

Plot Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand

Plot Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing...

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 Claude Chabrol

Cast Henri Attal · Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Jean Carmet

Plot Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games...

Direction Jorge Semprún

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

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Aleksandr Medvedkin · François Périer

Plot This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930's, a sort of mobile film workshop complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands...

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Plot Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her...

Direction René Clair

Cast Maurice Chevalier · François Périer · Marcelle Derrien · Dany Robin

Plot Paris, 1920, period of the silent cinema. Emile, a film maker, takes under his wing Jacques and schools him in the art of seduction whilst counselling him never to fall...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Sandra Milo · François Périer · Mario Adorf · Gastone Moschin

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 Julien Duvivier

Cast Louis Jouvet · Victor Francen · Michel Simon · Madeleine Ozeray

Plot Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Annabella · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Louis Jouvet · Arletty

Plot At the family-run Hotel du Nord, a young couple check in, planning to commit a double-suicide. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) shoots his lover Renée (Annabella), but then panics and flees, leaving...

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Michel Piccoli · Romy Schneider · Georges Wilson · Bernard Fresson

Plot Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · François Périer · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective...

Direction Costa-Gavras

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

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Clifton Webb · Gloria Grahame · Robert Flemyng · Josephine Griffin

Plot British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of...