Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors,... Read full bio →
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Paganini
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
Les possédés
French-polish movie adaptation of the novel by Dostoievski (also known as Demons), directed by Andrzej Wajda.
I picari
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
Twist again à Moscou
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once.
Speriamo che sia femmina
Elena lives in a villa in Tuscany with multiple female relatives. When her former husband comes back to visit, family disagreements seem to unravel.
Je hais les acteurs
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Scemo di guerra
Story about a doctor in a Libyan military hospital who is mad, but no-one wants to declare him unfit, and he becomes the captain of a fighting unit. Through him the Germans risk losing a truce with the British, and therefore kill him and give him a hero's funeral.
Le due vite di Mattia Pascal
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives.
Amici miei - Atto III°
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic.
Passione d'amore
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant).
Voltati Eugenio
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it.
Série noire
In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur.
Buffet froid
Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Le corps de mon ennemi
After seven years in prison for a double murder he did not commit, François Leclerc returns to his hometown to find the powerful textile magnates who framed him and carry out his calculated revenge.
Calmos
Two men flee to the countryside to escape their sexual duties and settle for a quiet, rustic life.
C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule...
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Amici miei
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Les chinois à Paris
Les Chinois ont envahi la France. Devant leur calme et leur discipline, un seul moyen pour les chasser, faire de la France le pays du plus mauvais exemple. Quelques Français s'attelent à cette tâche...
Il piatto piange
In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
Bons baisers... à lundi
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a weapons factory.
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
Le tueur
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.
Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Elle cause plus, elle flingue
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case...
Laisse aller... c'est une valse
Serge Aubin vient de passer trois ans en prison pour vol de bijoux. Dénoncé par sa femme Clara, il décide de se venger et l'enlève avec l'aide de Michel, un ami. Clara ne tarde pas à se réconcilier avec son mari. Mais des tueurs, désireux de récupérer les bijoux, sont à leurs trousses...
Jo
Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard accidentally kills ...
Le distrait
Le destin de Pierre Malaquet, dont la distraction légendaire l'amène à vivre de nombreuses aventures.
Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Des truands se servent d'Alfred pour passer des diamants en Turquie dans un cercueil...
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause!
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Mon oncle Benjamin
In the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
Faut pas prendre les enfants du Bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages
Rita a l'habitude de prendre des gangsters pour amants. Celui qui est actuellement en titre l'a grugée en ne lui donnant pas sa part dans un partage de lingots d'or. Furieuse, Rita decide de se venger. Elle fait appel a sa tante Léontine, une vieille dame qui a inspiré autrefois la terreur dans le monde des truands.
Coplan sauve sa peau
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
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").
Si j'étais un espion
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
Lo straniero
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
Du mou dans la gâchette
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a hold-up. They get away with it as best they can and then find themselves in charge of liquidating a certain "Magnum"...
Le grand restaurant
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Casanova '70
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Les Barbouzes
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Il magnifico cornuto
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him.
Cent mille dollars au soleil
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
I compagni
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle. Written by alfiehitchie
Germinal
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union.
Le septième juré
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.
Le président
Agé de 73 ans, l'ex président français Emile Beaufort joue toujours un rôle central dans la vie politique du pays. La rédaction de ses mémoires lui permet de revenir sur son parcours et d'évoquer ses relations avec Philippe Chamalont, sur le point de devenir président du conseil.
Le monocle noir
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB
Le cave se rebiffe
Pour Charles, Lucas et Eric monter une affaire de fausse monnaie avec le "Dabe", c'est encore mieux que de s'associer avec la Banque de France. Tout est en place quand "le Dabe" apprend avec surprise que le graveur est un "cave".
Arrêtez les tambours
1944, a French Normandy village occupied by the German troops, its mayor, doctor as well, Mr Leproux is caught between a rock and a hard place. The Nazis search for a British pilot wounded, hidden by the good doctor while the French Resistance leads a battle in the shadows - But The D-Day battle is imminent..
Marche ou crève
Stefan Borba was a member of a spy ring during the war but after the end of the conflict he opted out. Now he is a miner in Belgium and lives happily there with his wife Denise. Unfortunately for him, his past catches up with him. One day indeed, Milan, a secret agent with whom he used to work, resurfaces and forces him back into action...
La famille Fenouillard
The story takes the Fenouillard family to Paris where they want to see the Eiffel tower;but they take the wrong train (after the laborious explanations of the station master),winds up on a ship who sails away to Brazil.
Marie-Octobre
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed.
Les yeux de l'amour
During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she's ugly, which she also believes. She takes in Pierre Ségur, who was fleeing the Germans and had his eyes burned out. His life is turned upside down.
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter!
La grande guerra
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Les misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Les grandes familles
Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.
Le joueur
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction.
La bonne tisane
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back. In the hard way. But every thing goes wrong for him. In the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
La Chatte
In 1943, a French Resistance female fighter falls in love with the undercover German Intelligence agent sent to investigate her.
Retour de manivelle
An unemployed Frenchman who saves the life of a rich man is hired as a chauffeur by the grateful man but gets caught in a murder-for-life-insurance-money scheme.
Crime et châtiment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Avant le déluge
Self-centered parents of the 50's targeted by drama in which teenagers panicking after burglary supposed to finance the run from the Third World War.
Suivez cet homme
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier (Bernard Blier) recalls two of his most-celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga (Suzy Prin). The second concerns the brutal broad-daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne (Veronique Deschamps).
Je l'ai été trois fois
A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third time. And yet it does.
Archimède, le clochard
Bum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
...Sans laisser d'adresse
Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emile Gauthier, who agrees to help her.
Souvenirs perdus
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can!
Manèges
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.
Retour à la vie
Return to Life (French: Retour à la vie) is a 1949 French drama film directed by Georges Lampin, André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean Dréville. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.
L'école buissonnière
Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old methods: boys' sitting still with arms folded memorizing facts. He uses modern methods: he becomes their guide.
Dédée d'Anvers
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
D'homme à hommes
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Quai des orfèvres
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Le café du cadran
Julien Couturier and his wife Louise, a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become the owners of the "Café du Cadran" ("Clockface Cafe"). On opening day, they meet the people who will become their clientele.
Messieurs Ludovic
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will find great love with one of them.
Seul dans la nuit
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite song. Suspicions lead to a chase through a nocturnal Paris, ending in a disused theater where the assassin has lured his final victim.
Le mariage de Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
La nuit fantastique
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
L'assassinat du Père Noël
The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).
Le jour se lève
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy...
Hôtel du Nord
Un hôtel modeste au bord du canal Saint-Martin abrite une clientèle bigarrée. Pierre et Renée, un couple d'amoureux, décident d'en finir avec la vie. Ce qui va s'avérer plus difficile que prévu. Un autre couple, M. Edmond, mystérieux homme, et Raymonde, une prostituée, vont se mêler à l'histoire des amoureux désespérés.
Grisou
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match.
Entrée des artistes
Isabelle, Cécilia et François, sont étudiants au conservatoire d'art dramatique. Cécilia est amoureuse de François, mais le jeune homme est amoureux d'Isabelle. Désespérée, Cécilia se suicide en s'arrangeant pour faire passer son suicide pour un meurtre que François aurait commis.
Gribouille
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house.