Direction: Jacques Demy

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Anne Vernon · Nino Castelnuovo · Ellen Farner

Synopsis Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Anouk Aimée · Marc Michel · Alan Scott · Jacques Harden

Synopsis In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola, now a cabaret dancer. She's also the mother of a...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Françoise Dorléac · Danielle Darrieux · George Chakiris

Synopsis In the little town Rochefort lives Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac), two musical twins that teach music and dance to kids. One day, Etienne (George Chakiris) and Bill (Groover Dale) arrive in town, and need the twins...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Yves Demy

Synopsis This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail....

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Mann · Paul Guers · Henri Nassiet

Synopsis Demy’s second feature centres upon a relationship forged between compulsive gamblers over the roulette tables of Nice and Monte Carlo. Moreau’s ravishing divorcée draws the eye of younger thrillseeker Jean (Claude Mann) – but love duly proves as changeable as...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Dominique Sanda · Richard Berry · Danielle Darrieux · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated...

Direction Paul Grimault · Jacques Demy

Cast Paul Grimault

Synopsis While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several clips of his other films. Later on,...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Anouk Aimée · Gary Lockwood · Alexandra Hay · Carol Cole

Synopsis Gary Lockwood plays shiftless but innocuous George Matthews, who can't seem to get himself worked up about anything: the girlfriend he is about to lose, his soon-to-be repossessed car or even his draft notice. Until one day, he sees a...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Marais · Jacques Perrin · Micheline Presle

Synopsis The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. A king and queen live happily until her sudden death. The king decides to marry his lovely daughter. She's willing, but the Lily Fairy serves as a social conscience, intent...

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Synopsis Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Allard · Angelo Bellini

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Bernard Toublanc-Michel

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Donovan · Donald Pleasence · Diana Dors · John Hurt

Synopsis The story of the Pied Piper who gets rid of the town of Hamelin’s rats, reveals a gripping story of evil in the Middle-Ages, a time when millions of people across Europe died of the plague. Demy focuses on the...

Direction Jacques Demy

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

Synopsis 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 highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past and...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jacques Demy

Synopsis Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man...

Direction Jacques Demy

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

Synopsis 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, sharing her childhood with André, the son of a domestic...

Direction Jacques Demy

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Francis Huster · Laurent Malet · Keiko Ito · Gérard Klein

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Marcello Mastroianni · Micheline Presle · Marisa Pavan

Synopsis Marco Mazetti, a driving school instructor, has a harmonious life with his girlfriend Irène, the owner of a hairdresser’s salon, and their young son. Then, one day, Marco begins to experience inexplicable bouts of nausea. On the advice of Irène’s...

Direction Jacques Demy