Screenplay: Alain Corneau

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Anne Brochet · Caroline Silhol

Synopsis It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Myriam Boyer · Marie Trintignant · Bernard Blier

Synopsis Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon Mona, the seventeen-year-old girl Frank's fallen for, pays Staplin to...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · François Périer · Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Galabru

Synopsis Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Sylvie Testud · Kaori Tsuji · Taro Suwa · Bison Katayama

Synopsis Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to begin work as a translator for the giant Yumimoto Corporation. For Amélie, who spent her childhood in Japan, this is a dream come true. It is her chance...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Carole Laure · Marie Dubois · Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to leave her for the girl who is bearing his child. Hysterical, Dominique threatens suicide then goes to a meeting between...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Timsit · Alain Chabat · Samuel Le Bihan · Caroline Proust

Synopsis Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over....

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Ludivine Sagnier · Kristin Scott Thomas · Mike Powers · Patrick Mille

Synopsis Isabelle works under Christine. They think alike. They are quite different. They might be lovers. But Christine takes credit for Isabelle's brilliant ideas. A struggle ensues between these two attractive and powerful women, the two top executives in the French...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Philippe Noiret · Catherine Deneuve · Sophie Marceau

Synopsis French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. He catches the eye of Madeline, the daughter of...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Monica Bellucci · Michel Blanc · Jacques Dutronc

Synopsis Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Rachel McAdams · Noomi Rapace · Karoline Herfurth · Paul Anderson

Synopsis An erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed to Kill and Basic Instinct, Brian De Palma’s Passion, which remakes the film ‘Crime d'amour’ (2010) from Alain Corneau, tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Timsit · Thierry Lhermitte · Marie Trintignant · François Berléand

Synopsis In 1918, Alfred de Morsac, the heroic captain of a French military naval ship happens upon Fenua Poerava, a lost paradise island in the Polynesian archipelago. There he and his men discover an ancient warrior tribe, the Hiva, under the...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Richard Anconina · Ambre · Michel Duchaussoy · Yan Epstein

Synopsis The meeting of a marginal cop and a rootless mixed-race woman led by an investigation into a dangerous world which they did not suspect.

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Nicolas Chatel · Sarah Grappin · James Gandolfini · Alicia Silverstone

Synopsis Born in 1943 during German occupation of their French town, Patrick and Marie-José have been best friends; now teens, they experiment with sex, which doesn't seem to bring them closer. Patrick has also taken to American jazz, hanging out at...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Michel Bouquet · Allyn Ann McLerie · Roland Dubillard · Joel Barcellos

Direction Nadine Trintignant

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Michel Bouquet · Charles Denner · Juliet Berto

Synopsis When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Sylvie Testud · Sergi López · Camille Gauthier · Mar Sodupe

Synopsis Clara works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored,...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Clémentine Célarié · Otto Tausig · T.P. Jain