François Périer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor. He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was... Read full bio →
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Madame Bovary
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
Soigne ta droite
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Le battant
Jacques Darnay exits prison after 10 years for a jewel robbery with missing diamonds. The jeweler's death is unresolved. Police, former accomplices investigate while Darnay conceals his motives.
Le bar du téléphone
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
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.
La raison d'état
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its high official Leroi, and two African countries. Before making the public statement, Marrot finds himself under surveillance.
Le fond de l'air est rouge
A breathtaking beautiful movie to shake our minds and think about the world around us.
Baxter, Vera Baxter
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.
Police Python 357
Orléans. Meurtrier de sa maîtresse après qu'il a appris sa liaison avec l'inspecteur Ferrot, le commissaire Ganay confie l'enquête à ce dernier. Tous les indices se retournent bientôt contre l'inspecteur Ferrot.
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.
Antoine et Sébastien
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him to marry Nathalie, the girl he grew up with. But Nathalie is in love with an American, and the day Sébastien has a leave, she leaves with her lover.
Vogliamo i colonnelli
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe).
L'attentat
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival.
Che?
During her Italian vacation, a beautiful young American tourist finds herself a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.
Max et les ferrailleurs
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Juste avant la nuit
What happens when you kill your best friend's wife during sex games and no one sees? This is exactly what happens to successful advertising executive Charles.
Les caprices de Marie
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
Le cercle rouge
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist.
Z
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Le samouraï
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught...
1 homme de trop
A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.
Week-end à Zuydcoote
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
La visita
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.
I compagni
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle. Written by alfiehitchie
Dragées au poivre
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
L'amant de cinq jours
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.
Tous peuvent me tuer
Five French criminals pull a jewelry heist, hide the loot and create an alibi by getting themselves sent to prison for a minor infraction but there they are targeted by someone who seeks information about their hidden loot.
Rendez-vous à Melbourne
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy in the documentary-filmmaking world over the fact that the Aussies signed over exclusive distribution rights to a French firm, resulting in a boycott from other movie companies.
Les louves
Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Bernard is determined to take refuge with Hélène, his war grandmother, a woman with whom he has been carrying on a romance by correspondence and Gervais agrees to accompany him.
Le notti di Cabiria
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Villa Borghese
Six vignettes set in the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome
Bonjour Paris
Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s chimeras and gargoyles try to break them up, but they fly off to see the city and visit their old friend, M. La Tour, an anthropomorphized Eiffel Tower.
Sous le ciel de Paris
Une journee parmi tant d'autres a Paris, charriant son lot de drames, d'espoirs de raisons de vivre.
Souvenirs perdus
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can!
Orphée
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Retour à la vie
Return to Life (French: Retour à la vie) is a 1949 French drama film directed by Georges Lampin, André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean Dréville. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.
Un revenant
A man returns to his hometown after 20 years: to the woman he loved and the man who tried to kill him.
Sylvie et le fantôme
A teenager becomes fixated on the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her uncle oversees three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her - but little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls......
La tentation de Barbizon
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
Lettres d'amour
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
La fin du jour
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
La chaleur du sein
Gilbert Quercy, jeune homme de 18 ans, tente de se suicider pour un chagrin d'amour. Se succèdent à l'hôpital pour lui remonter le moral les trois anciennes femmes de son père, archéologue et égyptologue toujours en voyage, qu'il appelle ses "mères". D'une bonne volonté, celles-ci se révèlent vite intrusives.
Hôtel du Nord
Un hôtel modeste au bord du canal Saint-Martin abrite une clientèle bigarrée. Pierre et Renée, un couple d'amoureux, décident d'en finir avec la vie. Ce qui va s'avérer plus difficile que prévu. Un autre couple, M. Edmond, mystérieux homme, et Raymonde, une prostituée, vont se mêler à l'histoire des amoureux désespérés.