Daniel Duval
Daniel Duval (28 November 1944 – 10 October 2013) was a French film actor, director and writer. Best known as an actor, Duval has credits in over 70 television and film productions. As a filmmaker, Duval was awarded the Silver Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film... Read full bio →
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Les Lyonnais
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime.
Des vents contraires
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Beau rivage
In this study of the lust for youth, Michel, a disillusioned cop nearing retirement, becomes obsessed with the body of a beautiful woman he meets on the beach. His search for an unattainable love drives him deeper into darkness.
De vrais mensonges
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
R.T.T.
When Arthur's wife leaves him to get married in Miami, he immediately flies there to get her back.
Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum
Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
Le deuxième souffle
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Jean de La Fontaine - Le défi
Biography of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine, who lived in the times of Louis XIV.
Gomez vs. Tavarès
Le « Tonton » de Tavarès est décédé et les deux flics à moitié ripoux ne savent pas où il a planqué son magot. Ce que l’on sait, en revanche, c’est que nos deux policiers marseillais n’ont pas envie de se partager le pactole et qu’ils partent à sa recherche, chacun de leur côté… La course au trésor est engagée !
Le temps des portes plumes
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Le temps qui reste
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Caché
Hidden is a film by Austrian director Michael Haneke. A suspenseful thriller with bloody elements from French history. A family man receives a video of him and his family yet there is nothing saying who it is from. This continues and it turns out to be someone that has know him for a while.
36 Quai des Orfèvres
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Le temps du loup
A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.
Gomez & Tavarès
Two very different cops are forced to work together...
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.
J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici
After the robbery of a bank that turns badly, François takes refuge with a friend of his father who is also in the "business". The threat of police hunt will soon burst the small band of gangsters.
Y'aura t'il de la neige à Noël?
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children.
Nefertiti, figlia del sole
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt.
Le bar du téléphone
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
La dérobade
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution.
Que la fête commence...
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
L'agression
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
La ville-bidon
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.