Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette,... Read full bio →
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Jodie Foster - Hollywood dans la peau
Golden Globe winner, Jodie Foster, in a documentary covering her entire long career. She started as a child actor in the 1970s and since then has never taken a break from the silver screen.
The Other Side of the Wind
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Le jour des corneilles
Boy lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father Courge, a tyrannical giant who reigns triumphant and prevents his son from exploring beyond limited boundaries. Ignorant about the ways of men, the boy grows up wild, with the placid ghosts who haunt the forest his only company.
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Avida
Un sourd-muet et deux drogués à la kétamine ratent l'enlèvement du chien d'une milliardaire plantureuse. Elle en profite pour les forcer à réaliser ses dernières volontés.
Au coeur du mensonge
In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found assassinated. René, an artist by profession and the girl's art teacher, is the last person to have seen her. He is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge.
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.
L'été en pente douce
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business.
Polar
A private detective ponders another profession until a mysterious woman hires him to solve her roommate's murder.
L'animal
The funny misadventures of a dating duo of movie stunt professionals in France.
La rupture
A father injures his son. He moves in with parents who blame the child's mother. They hire someone to find info about her for an upcoming custody hearing. He and girlfriend secretly lodge at her boarding home to undermine her life.
Les biches
Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
Brigitte et Brigitte
Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Paris vu par...
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and...
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 ...
L'oeil du malin
On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Albin tries to seduce Hélèn and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life.
Paris nous appartient
A young French girl becomes embroiled with some young Spaniards, who fear for their lives in regards to some organization is out to get them becuase of some supposed involvement in a conspiracy. But, the Spaniards chose suicide over murder.
Les jeux de l'amour
Victor and Suzanne are a couple at odds about commitment. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem?
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.
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.