Cinematography: Edmond Richard

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Keith Baxter · John Gielgud · Jeanne Moreau

Plot Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's...

Direction Luis Buñuel

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

Plot Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Anthony Perkins · Romy Schneider · Jeanne Moreau · Orson Welles

Plot Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Ángela Molina · Carole Bouquet · Julien Bertheau

Plot Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next...

Direction Gìsèle Hauchecome

Cast Gìsèle Hauchecome · Jean Renoir

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 Henri Verneuil

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Omar Sharif · Isabelle Sadoyan · Nathalie Roussel

Plot Story about an Armenian family who arrive in France in 1921 and endure the pain and privations of exile in a foreign land.

Direction Robert Hossein

Cast Lino Ventura · Jean Carmet · Michel Bouquet · Evelyne Bouix

Plot The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Richard Berry · Omar Sharif · Nathalie Roussel · Claudia Cardinale

Direction René Clément

Cast Lea Massari · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Robert Ryan · Aldo Ray

Direction Jean-Pierre Mocky

Cast Marie-José Nat · Jean-Pierre Mocky · Nino Ferrer · Marisa Muxen

Plot An innocent couple who were observing the "color" of a local festival begin to feel afraid because of the eerie happenings at the celebration, and they decide to get out...

Direction Louis de Funès · Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Frank David · Hervé Vellon · Georges Audoubert

Plot Louis de Funès starring this adaptation of Molière's play.

Direction Orson Welles · Jesús Franco

Cast Francisco Reiguera · Akim Tamiroff · Orson Welles · Paola Mori

Plot Beginning in 1957 and continuing on-and-off for the next 15 years, Welles self-financed and directed an audacious film version of Cervantes' Don Quixote that brought the legendary knight and his...

Direction Jean Aurel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Claude Brialy · Sami Frey · Elsa Martinelli

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Jean Carmet · Jacques Villeret · Claude Gensac

Plot Two buddy farmers, portrayed as "country bumpkins" eating cabbage soup and farting all the time. The arrival of an alien (Jacques Villeret) from the planet of Oxo who takes a...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Horst Buchholz · Gina Lollobrigida · José Ferrer · Louis Jourdan

Plot A highly fictionalized filming of the early life of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".

Direction Jean-Pierre Mocky

Cast Michel Serrault · Carole Laure · Eddy Mitchell · Laurent Malet

Plot Because he whistled a penalty which made the local team lose, Maurice Bruno is hunted down by a bunch of wild supporters led by Rico. In spite of the efforts...

Direction Jean-Pierre Mocky

Cast Jane Birkin · Sabine Azéma · Jean-François Stévenin · Benoît Régent

Plot Estranged for many years due to the circumstances of their breakup, a formerly married duo is forced into one another's lives when each receives an eerie message suggesting their murdered...

Direction Gérard Pirès

Cast Lino Ventura · Mireille Darc · Jacques Dufilho · Jean Yanne

Direction Robert Benayoun

Cast Jerry Lewis · Mel Brooks · John Landis · Martin Scorsese

Plot TV Mini-series (1982). 6 Episodes. Film director & film critic Robert Benayoun follows the career of the actor Jerry Lewis.