Corinne Marchand
Corrine Marchand began her career as a vocalist, singing in nightclubs, operettas and revues. In addition, she was a successful photographic model who eventually made her motion picture debut as an oriental dancer in Cadet Rousselle (1954). After several years playing minor... Read full bio →
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La mélodie
A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.
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.
Innocence
The film follows a year in the life of the girls in the third dormitory at a secluded boarding school, where new students arrive in coffins.
Le parfum d'Yvonne
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?
Attention bandits!
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife.
Coup de tête
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Travels with My Aunt
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt"s shady schemes.
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.
Le passager de la pluie
Melancolie Mau is a lonely woman on the French seaside who falls victim to a horrific rape, but she manages to turn the tables and kill her attacker. She chooses not to tell anyone and dumps the body, but it comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel arrives, mysteriously armed with full knowledge about her ordeal.
Borsalino
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
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"...
Arizona Colt
Arizona Colt heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's henchmen murders a saloon girl, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer.
L'heure de la vérité
At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure. The only way out would seem to be murder. Hour of Truth was lensed largely on location in Israel.
Nunca pasa nada
A French vedette is forced to leave her touring company behind after she suffers a medical emergency in a village near Burgos, Spain. Her arrival causes a commotion amongst the small-minded inhabitants, most notably her doctor and his wife.
Cléo de 5 à 7
Agnès Vardas’ first feature film is an hour an a half from the life of singer Cléo in which she walks through Paris while waiting the results of a cancer test. The film showed the Nouvelle Vague the first woman to become famous from the film school.
Lola
Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
Gigi
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor (Louis Jourdan) in Paris offers them all to Gigi (Leslie Caron). But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.