Claude Rich
Claude Rich (8 February 1929 – 20 July 2017) was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955. He married actress Catherine Renaudin on 26 June 1959. They had two daughters, Delphine (an actress) and Nathalie (a painter),... Read full bio →
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Cherchez Hortense
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Et si on vivait tous ensemble?
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
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.
Le crime est notre affaire
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Président
Secrets d'Etat, convictions sincères, foules exaltées, train de vie royal, journalistes inquisiteurs, disparitions suspectes : les coulisses du pouvoir ou la vie quotidienne d'un Président. Entre l'amour d'un père pour sa fille et les contradictions d'un chef d'Etat, que reste-il d'essentiel quand on a le pouvoir suprême ?
Coeurs
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Le parfum de la dame en noir
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Le cou de la girafe
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Le mystère de la chambre jaune
La fille du Pr. Stangerson, Mathilde, a été l'objet d'une tentative d'assassinat. Le journaliste Rouletabille et son ami photographe Sainclair vont enquêter sur le mystère.
Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre
Asterix and Obelix go to Egypt to help build a palace for Cleopatra.
Concorrenza sleale
Roma, fine anni Trenta. Due commercianti di stoffa, l'uno cattolico, l'altro ebreo, conducono le proprie attività commerciali sulla stessa strada e sono in perenne conflitto.
Les acteurs
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Lautrec
The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding.
Capitaine Conan
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Le jardin des plantes
In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate.
Le colonel Chabert
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
La fille de d'Artagnan
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Promotion canapé
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
Escalier C
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.
La guerre des polices
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
Le Crabe-Tambour
Sur un escorteur chargé d'escorter des chalutiers en direction de Terre-Neuve, un commandant et deux autres membres d'équipage se souviennent du Crabe-Tambour, un personnage qu'ils ont côtoyé et qui a participé aux guerres d'Indochine et d'Algérie.
Adieu, poulet
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors.
Stavisky...
Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s.
La femme de Jean
Jean leaves Nadine after eighteen years of living together. Nadine sinks into pain and despair, then slowly regains courage, reacts: you have to take care of your son, look for work.
Une veuve en or
A woman has got to get rid of her husband to claim her inheritance.
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?
Je t'aime je t'aime
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
Oscar
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes.
Les compagnons de la marguerite
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
Paris brûle-t-il?
Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city.
Les copains
Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire.
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 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...
Le diable et les 10 commandements
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his sister. 4) God in person lands at a remote farm and works miracles there. 5) Pierre learns that his mother is not…
Le caporal épinglé
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
La chambre ardente
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
Tout l'or du monde
Businessman Victor Hardy (Noiret) wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons (all played by Bourvil) don't want to sell...
Ce soir ou jamais
Des jeunes gens montent un spectacle, mais au dernier moment il faut remplacer la vedette principale. Cela provoque au sein du groupe des révélations d'ordre sentimental...
Ni vu, ni connu
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Les grandes manoeuvres
Sûr de son charme, un soldat en garnison parie avec ses camarades qu'il est capable de séduire la première femme qui passe, avant les grandes manoeuvres. Il met son plan en oeuvre et tombe amoureux de la jeune modiste choisie au hasard.