Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy, aloof,... Read full bio →
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Marcello Mio
Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her "Marcello".
Moonage Daydream
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
De son vivant
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
Terrible jungle
Eliott, a naive young adventurer, goes to Guyana in search of the mysterious hidden Otopis. But he'll soon find out that Otopis are not "noble savages", they are jungle gangsters, led by the fierce Albertine.
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
La vérité
Screenwriter Lumir's stormy reunion with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, set against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographical book and her latest role in a science fiction movie, as the daughter of a woman who never ages.
Le cancre
Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection.
Le tout nouveau testament
God lives in Brussels. On earth though, God is a coward, with pathetical morals and being odious with his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
La tête haute
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
L'homme qu'on aimait trop
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
Dans la cour
Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building.
3 coeurs
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant (Benoît Poelvoorde) romantically torn between two sisters (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni), in the new film from Festival veteran Benoît Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen).
Monsters University
A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University -- when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Linhas de Wellington
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the LOVE between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Astérix et Obélix: Au service de Sa Majesté
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
Les yeux de sa mère
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography.
Les bien-aimés
The Beloved (French: Les Bien-aimés) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Catherine Deneuve, Milos Forman, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Chiara Mastroianni. The story will be set in the 1960s and 1990s in Paris, Prague and London.
Potiche
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie
Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
La fille du RER
Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe.
Cyprien
Thirty-five years old and still a virgin, Cyprien is a shy, awkward young man until he discovers a magic deodorant that will transform him into a gorgeous and irresistible creature.
Cinéman
Professeur de mathématiques, Régis Deloux a un jour le pouvoir de voyager dans les films où il rencontrera enfin la femme de ses rêves... Trois ans après le succès phénoménal de Podium, Yann Moix choisit la comédie d’aventures pour son deuxième long métrage
Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops.
Un conte de Noël
The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. But can a Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, finally bring peace their clan?
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Mes stars et moi
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for them without being recognized. But those star actresses find him a simple stalker fan and make fun of him, but later recognize he is sincere and genuine.
Les plages d'Agnès
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Persepolis
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Le concile de pierre
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille.
Palais Royal !
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children.
Rois et reine
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Les temps qui changent
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Um Filme Falado
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans's famous 1994 autobiography).
8 femmes
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
The Musketeer
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Le petit poucet
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. There, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
Je rentre à la maison
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to.
Absolument fabuleux
Patsy has a penchant for alcohol, especially for a famous brand of champagne. Eddie is obsessed with her curves and perpetually electrified by cocaine, soothed by countless different sleeping pills.
Dancer in the Dark
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation.
Pola X
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Le vent de la nuit
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Est - Ouest
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev.
Belle maman
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
Place Vendôme
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever.
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.
Les voleurs
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son.
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
L'univers de Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Ma saison préférée
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
Indochine
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle.
La reine blanche
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival.
Fréquence meurtre
Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.
Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop.
Agent trouble
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake.
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.
Le lieu du crime
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance.
Paroles et musique
Margaux, à l'occasion d'un concert qu'elle organise, rencontre deux chanteurs, Jeremy et Michel. Tous deux sont passionnés de musique et unis par une solide amitié. Jeremy voue un amour fou a Margaux et s'éloigne peu a peu de Michel.
Le bon plaisir
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Fort Saganne
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
The Hunger
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Reporters
This documentary traces the unrewarding, cynical and difficult world of photographers.
Le choix des armes
The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.
Hôtel des Amériques
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up.
Le dernier métro
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Je vous aime
A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house...
À nous deux
Simon Lacassaine a thief with cultural attachments has just broken out of jail. Through circumstances, he falls in with upmarket hooker Deneuve, also on the constabulary's wanted list, and between them they spend the better part of the movie evading both the Gendarmes and US Authorities.
L'argent des autres
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's office and accused of negligence.
March or Die
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Casotto
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Anima persa
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Si c'était à refaire
Catherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the lost years and tries to built up a close relationship to her already grown-up son.
Le sauvage
A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
L'agression
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
Hustle
Phil Gaines is a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach. Gaines is experiencing a troubled relationship with a hooker, and things don't get any better when the dead girl's father launches his own investigation.
Touche pas à la femme blanche
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
La femme aux bottes rouges
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
Fatti di gente perbene
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder.
L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Un flic
Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edouard Colemane, who happens to be his good friend.
Liza
En croisiere sur un yacht avec des amis, Liza eprouve l'envie de tout quitter et nage jusqu'a l'ile la plus proche. Elle fait la connaissance du proprietaire des lieux, Giorgio, qui vit seul dans une boule de pierre. Ils passent la nuit ensemble. Giorgio la ramene a terre mais Liza revient, tue le chien et prend sa place.
Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres
Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
Tristana
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge.
Peau d'âne
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Courage fuyons
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
The April Fools
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss.
La sirène du Mississipi
Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
Mayerling
Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
La chamade
Alain Cavalier's adaption of Francoise Sagan's 1966 novel is the classic story of the wealthy, older lover, his mistress, and a younger man.
Benjamin ou Les mémoires d'un puceau
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Les demoiselles de Rochefort
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Belle de jour
A bored wife of a wealthy doctor spends her afternoons exploring exciting escapades as a call-girl in a chic Paris brothel.
Les créatures
A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.
La vie de château
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party.
Repulsion
Carol is a young beauty parlor worker who falls into violent paranoia (including terrifying hallucinations) over a weekend. This classic psychological thriller by Roman Polanski still holds up today.
Un monsieur de compagnie
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde
Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. 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 combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love.
Vacances portugaises
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Le vice et la vertu
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTUE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers, Roger Vadim.
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 collégiennes
A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival.