Charles Denner
Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch... Read full bio →
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Golden Eighties
Employees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.
Mille milliards de dollars
Paul Kerjean, journaliste, reçoit un jour un coup de téléphone anonyme. Son interlocuteur accuse Jacques Benoît-Lambert, un industriel, d'avoir reçu un pot-de-vin, pour céder à l'étranger une usine française. L'enquête de Kerjean confirme cette accusation.
L'honneur d'un capitaine
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
La verdad sobre el caso Savolta
Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths.
L'homme qui aimait les femmes
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that 40 years old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
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.
Mado
Simon Léotard, 49, a real estate developer, meets Mado, 22, a prostitute, and discovers in her a secretive and endearing character.
La première fois
Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look very studly, he has a hard time realizing his fantasies. When he's finally got an invitation to a steamy afternoon by Carole, his father intercepts the letter...
Peur sur la ville
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Toute une vie
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Les gaspards
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Un officier de police sans importance
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed.
L'héritier
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
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.
L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Les mariés de l'an deux
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
Les assassins de l'ordre
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
Le voyou
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Z
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
La mariée était en noir
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?
Le vieil homme et l'enfant
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
Rouli-roulant
Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early days of skateboarding in Montreal.
Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha
Marie-Chantal Froidevaux des Chatenets travels by train to her cousin's home in order to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from somewhere abroad - entrusts her with transporting a jewel in the shape of the head of a blue tiger with ruby eyes over the Swiss border. Unknown to her, this phony jewel contains within it ...
Compartiment tueurs
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Mata Hari, agent H21
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.
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 pieds nickelés
Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
La vie à l'envers
Real estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.
Landru
Follows a family man who meets women through lonely-hearts ads.
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.