Édith Scob
Édith Scob (October 21, 1937 – June 26, 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960). Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general... Read full bio →
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Mon inconnue
A man tries that his wife fall in love with him again, after to wake up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
Le cancre
Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection.
L'avenir
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
Une famille à louer
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children.
Le règne de la beauté
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
Gemma Bovery
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Holy Motors
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old.
L'heure d'été
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Didine
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosses the threshold of a elderly person caregivers’ agency where, faced with an extrovert teenager, a charming man, and a cruel, elderly woman, she takes hold of her existence and encounters love.
La question humaine
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
L'annulaire
A la suite d'un léger accident de travail, Iris quitte son usine et trouve un emploi d'assistante dans un laboratoire aux activités étranges. Sans vraiment comprendre ce qui se joue sous ses yeux, elle s'engage peu à peu dans une troublante relation amoureuse avec son mystérieux employeur.
Ce jour-là
That Day (French: Ce jour-là) is a 2003 French comedy film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
Bon voyage
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
L'homme du train
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Vidocq
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
Le pacte des loups
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
La fidélité
Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
Vénus beauté (institut)
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart.
Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons
The second film covers Joan's trial and the end of her life.
Casa de Lava
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
On peut toujours rêver
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
L'été meurtrier
Shortly after Elle Wieck moves to a small French village, she begins dating Pin-Pon, a quiet young mechanic who has grown obsessed with the beautiful newcomer. But Elle has her own reason for the relationship...
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.
La vocation suspendue
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
À chacun son enfer
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
Un beau monstre
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie.
La voie lactée
Two tramps going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, meet different christian heresies. They meet too the Marquis of Sade.
Thomas l'imposteur
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate.
Judex
After abducting a corrupt banker to make him pay back the people he swindled, a conjuring vigilante must rescue the man's daughter when she is kidnapped by the scheming family governess.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants.
Le bateau d'Émile
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property.
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.
Les yeux sans visage
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion.
La ligne de mire
After many years, Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, where he lived with his uncle.
La tête contre les murs
Un jeune homme passionné et idéaliste, dont l'équilibre est précaire, s'oppose à son père, avocat autoritaire qui le fait enfermer dans un asile psychiatrique.