Bernadette Lafont
Bernadette Lafont is a French actress (born October 28, 1938 - died July 25, 2013). Thanks to his roles in “Les Mistons” (1957) by François Truffaut, “Les Bonnes Femmes” (1960) by Claude Chabrol, “La Fiancée du pirate” by Nelly Kaplan (1969), or even “La Maman et la Putain”... Read full bio →
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Attila Marcel
Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.
Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Le Skylab
1979. Albertine, 10, and all family members have gathered in Britain to celebrate the birthday of the grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA, will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
Une vie de chat
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
La première étoile
A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
48 heures par jour
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
Broken English
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children, while she's in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage".
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Mona lives in a ruined castle by the sea. She is a princess but lives a life of misery, mistreated by an odious pair of rats. But one day an adorable little unicorn appears and declares that she is there to assure her happiness.
Prête-moi ta main
Luis (Alain Chabat), 43, happily single, mollycoddled by his family (mum and 5 sisters, known as the G7), has a successful career and an easy life. Tired of taking care of him, the G7 decide he should get married within a year. The problem is Luis doesn't want any kind of serious relationship since they ruined his first true love.
Les aiguilles rouges
While hiking in the mountains, some boys are put to the test.
Le prestige de la mort
Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work.
Ripoux 3
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories left, the money from their cronies having evaporated over time. Everything comes to an end. Until it starts again.
Les amants du Nil
During the Second World War, in 1943, Anne Frendo, a young dreamer and artist, living alone with her father in Tunisia, discovers, by chance, the lifeless body of a French soldier, parachuted in.
Généalogies d'un crime
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Le fils de Gascogne
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you.
Ville à vendre
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Dingo
Traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris...
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Les saisons du plaisir
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Waiting for the Moon
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Masques
Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.
Inspecteur Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Le pactole
Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket.
L'effrontée
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Gwendoline
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.
Canicule
Dog Day is a 1984 film starring Lee Marvin. A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. The supporting cast includes Tina Louise and Juliette Mills. The movie was directed by Yves Boisset.
Cap Canaille
Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in the underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief.
On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.
Le roi des cons
Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.
Il ladrone
Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks.
La gueule de l'autre
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him.
Violette Nozière
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Nozière rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Chaussette surprise
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Noroît
Morag se rend au chateau de Giulia, fille du soleil, pour venger son frère, tué par des amis de celle-ci.
L'ordinateur des pompes funèbres
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise.
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs.
Out 1: Spectre
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
Les gants blancs du diable
A murder at the Whisky Bar leads a Buddhist policeman on the trail of a strange deal that links the owner to a crooked politician. A zany, satirical detective story that denounces a certain milieu where politicians and crooks coexist. The politician, a drug dealer and employer of hired assassins, becomes the target of a blind hitman.
La maman et la putain
Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed young man involved in a love triangle with both his girlfriend Marie, and a Polish nurse, Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), which he picked up at a café.
L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Une belle fille comme moi
A young sociologist researching criminal women selects a captivating inmate as his subject. As he conducts interviews in prison, her troubled past and justifications for her actions intrigue him. His growing interest soon blurs professional boundaries, testing his ability to resist her charm.
Out 1, noli me tangere
While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.
Les stances à Sophie
Searching for release, Céline turns to painting and writes essays on the inequity between genders as she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world.
La ville-bidon
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
Elise ou la vraie vie
Une jeune Bordelaise rejoint son frère à Paris. Employée dans une usine d'automobiles, elle y rencontre un jeune Algérien dont elle tombe amoureuse.
Paul
Paul, a middle-class young man, in a break with his sphere, meets a group of wandering vegetarians who live begging; he decides to join them.
La fiancée du pirate
Une jolie vagabonde se venge des humiliations subies par elle et sa mère en séduisant tous les notables d'un village.
Le révélateur
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light.
Un idiot à Paris
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles").
Pleins feux sur Stanislas
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Compartiment tueurs
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Jusqu'à plus soif
A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption.
Et Satan conduit le bal
Ivan, an arrogant yet handsome douche, crashes the car he lifted from an auto garage for a joyride. Rather than go to jail the kid talks the owner into letting him pay the damages with money he can squeeze out of his girlfriend Manuelle and her mobster father.
Les godelureaux
Par jeu, Ronald, une jeune homme de bonne famille, fait et défait un couple formé par l'un de ses amis et Ambroisine, une jolie jeune femme un peu simple.
Les bonnes femmes
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.
L'eau à la bouche
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age.
À double tour
Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think, that the murderer was the milk-man, the friend of the maid, but Marcoux' daughter's fiance Lazo, who is aware of the corrupt situation in that family doesn't agree with them.
Le beau Serge
François returns to his village after a long absence. He finds his friend Serge who has married Yvonne, and has developed an alcohol problem after the death of their stillborn child. Serge has become an angry, bitter figure not unlike the roles of James Dean, refusing to face reality and adulthood and François must help him.
Les mistons
A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend's love.