Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Simone Signoret · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII. France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) follows a group of affluent friends—aristocrats and diplomats—whose attempts to enjoy a sophisticated dinner are repeatedly thwarted by absurd and surreal interruptions. As they navigate a series of increasingly bizarre encounters, their veneer...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Sandrine Bonnaire · Jacqueline Bisset · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Aurore Clément · Helmut Griem · Magali Noël · Hanns Zischler

Synopsis Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their...

Direction Julian Schnabel

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner · Marie-Josée Croze · Anne Consigny

Synopsis The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) tells the inspiring true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a former French magazine editor who suffers a stroke that leaves him with locked-in syndrome, paralyzed except for one eye. Trapped inside his own body,...

Direction Juan Antonio Bardem

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antonio Casas · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Julia Gutiérrez Caba

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Ingrid Bergman · Sean Connery

Synopsis Murder on the Orient Express (1974) follows the renowned detective Hercule Poirot as he boards the luxurious Orient Express train. During the journey, a wealthy American passenger is found dead in his compartment, stabbed multiple times. With the train stranded...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Claude Brasseur · O.E. Hasse · Claude Rich

Synopsis An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental...

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the massacre of some students, Colonel Rol incites the public to...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · François Cluzet · Nathalie Cardone · André Wilms

Synopsis Paul has finally managed to buy the hotel that he has always dreamed of owning but he's also taken out an awful lot of loans to cover the costs of renovating it. Even if all goes well, it will take...

Direction José Luis López-Linares · Javier Rioyo

Cast Luis Buñuel · Eduardo Ducay · José Bello · Carlos Saura

Synopsis Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox....

Direction Ntshaveni Wa Luruli

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Junior Singo · Dana de Agrella · Innocent Msimango

Synopsis Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Two kids, 14, Madiba and Sipho play along the railway. A train passes by. A dead man rolls to their feet. On him, they find a...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yves Montand · Anthony Perkins · Jessie Royce Landis

Synopsis In this adaptation of Francoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful, 40-year old, highly successful businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming "gallant" who loves Paula...

Direction Alain Jessua

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Claudine Auger · Michel Duchaussoy · Eléonore Hirt

Synopsis Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Charles Dance · Burt Lancaster · Teri Polo · Adam Storke

Synopsis Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the Phantom, in a musical adaptation of Arthur Kopit's 1982 play,...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Jean Gabin · Brigitte Bardot · Edwige Feuillère · Nicole Berger

Synopsis Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Michel Bouquet · Annie Cordy

Synopsis Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her injured son convalesces in hospital and files for divorce. Charles’ bourgeois parents are determined that Hélène loses...

Direction Mathieu Kassovitz

Cast Jean Reno · Vincent Cassel · Nadia Fares · Dominique Sanda

Synopsis The Crimson Rivers (2000) follows two detectives, Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, as they investigate separate but mysteriously linked crimes in a remote French Alpine town. Niemans probes a brutal murder at a prestigious university, while Kerkerian looks into the...

Direction Franck Mancuso

Cast Jean Dujardin · Laurent Lucas · Agnès Blanchot · Aurélien Recoing

Synopsis capitán de policía

Direction Gilles Grangier

Cast Jean Gabin · Danielle Darrieux · Nadja Tiller · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Director Gilles Grangier adapted the screenplay of "Le désordre et la nuit" from the novel by Jacques Robert. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky...