Direction: Bertrand Tavernier

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Torreton · Maria Pitarresi · Nadia Kaci · Didier Bezace

Plot Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Dexter Gordon · François Cluzet · Lonette McKee · Christine Pascal

Plot A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Sabine Azéma · Pascale Vignal · Maurice Barrier

Plot January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Didier Bezace · Charlotte Kady · Philippe Torreton · Nils Tavernier

Plot This gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan,...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Bertrand Tavernier · Thierry Fremaux · Jacques Becker · Jean-Paul Belmondo

Plot Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Louis Ducreux · Sabine Azéma · Michel Aumont · Geneviève Mnich

Plot In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Torreton · Samuel Le Bihan · Bernard Le Coq · Catherine Rich

Plot Philippe Torreton stars as a dedicated career soldier who eagerly serves the band of fifty "irregulars" under his command, with an often open disregard for the methods of his superiors....

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Marie Gillain · Olivier Sitruk · Bruno Putzulu · Richard Berry

Plot Three adolescents, a girl who serves as the priming and two boys, kill two men cold blooded who were known by the girl only for to steal the money of...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Romy Schneider · Harvey Keitel · Harry Dean Stanton · Max von Sydow

Plot Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Michel Galabru · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Claude Brialy

Plot A judge has to decide whether a murderer is guilty or insane.

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Jacques Denis · Yves Afonso

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Christine Pascal

Plot France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Jane Birkin · Odette Laure · Emmanuelle Bataille

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Julie Delpy · Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu · Nils Tavernier · Monique Chaumette

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Stéphane Audran

Plot 1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Jacques Gamblin · Denis Podalydès · Marie Gillain · Charlotte Kady

Plot In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Nathalie Baye · Michel Galabru · Philippe Noiret · Flore Fitzgerald

Plot Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Michel Piccoli · Christine Pascal · Michel Aumont · Gérard Jugnot

Plot A touching portrait of modern life, whether showing the human dimension of large issues, or deftly detailing the intimate reverberations of a casual love affair. A successful writer-director rents an...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Isabelle Carré · Jacques Gamblin · Bruno Putzulu · Laura Guirao

Plot "Holy Lola" is the story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child. This desire leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia, on...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Raphaël Personnaz · Niels Arestrup · Bruno Raffaelli

Plot Political satire featuring Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, the French foreign minister, who is always up for consorting with the powerful in order to consolidate his nomination for Nobel Peace Prize.