Cinematography: Jean Penzer

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Patrick Dewaere · Carole Laure · Michel Serrault

Plot Thoroughly safe and mild compared to Going Places--the anarchic, something-to-offend-everyone earlier collaboration of Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and French director Bertrand Blier--the 1977 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is an outwardly...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Yves Montand · Mathilda May · Françoise Fabian · Patrick Fierry

Plot A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many...

Direction Philippe Labro

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Dominique Sanda · Sacha Distel · Carla Gravina

Plot A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Geneviève Bujold · Julien Guiomar · Charles Gérard

Plot Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't...

Direction Francis Girod

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Michel Serrault · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Michel Auclair

Plot Relates the story of a French president who has an illegitimate child whose existence becomes a state secret.

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catriona MacColl · Barry Stokes · Christine Böhm · Jonas Bergström

Plot When his wife dies in childbirth, a proud aristocrat refuses to accept that his new offspring is a girl. He names her Oscar and brings her up as a boy,...

Direction Edouard Niermans

Cast Alain Delon · Fabrice Luchini · Elsa · Wadeck Stanczak

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Georges Wilson · Marcelle Arnold · Paul Préboist · Magdeleine Bérubet

Plot Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows the...

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Philippe Noiret · Bert Convy · Valentina Cortese · Fernand Gravey

Direction Alex Joffé

Cast Bourvil · Laurent Terzieff · Etienne Bierry · Teddy Bilis

Plot In French prison camps in Germany during WWII, those who tried to escape were forced to wear red pants. Anthony Rossi tried six times. Hard to live with, he exasperates...

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Les Charlots · Gérard Rinaldi · Gérard Croce · Jacques Legras

Plot This year, Gerard, Phil, Jean Guy and Jean planed to go on holidays to Spain. When tey arrive, they're employed in a big hotel. Blunder after blunder, they're fired from...

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Françoise Fabian · Jean Rochefort · Evelyne Buyle

Plot Nicolas is an actor who only manages to get small roles in films, theatre and commericals. His domestic life does not fare much better as his mistress leaves him and...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Sydney Penny · Jean-Marc Bory · Jean-Marie Bernicat · Philippe Brigaud

Plot In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, their 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate daughter,...

Direction Sylvain Dhomme · Max Douy

Cast Marie-José Nat · Perrette Pradier · Dominique Paturel · Jean-Marc Tennberg

Plot Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment of “Les sept...

Direction Christian de Chalonge

Cast Jacques Perrin · Julie Christie · Michel Serrault · Robin Renucci

Direction Roger Hanin

Cast Michel Piccoli · Roger Hanin · Niels Arestrup · Patachou

Plot Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps...

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Geneviève Cluny · Jean-Louis Maury · Robert Vattier

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Danièle Delorme · Dominique Sanda · Jean Sorel · Orane Demazis

Plot In the summer of 1927, the author Colette reflects on her life from her Saint-Tropez home as she deals with aging and the idea that her romantic adventures are over....

Direction Robert Ménégoz

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Barbara Lass · Julien Carette

Direction François Leterrier

Cast Marlène Jobert · Philippe Léotard · Daniel Duval · Micheline Presle