Hélène Vincent
Hélène Vincent, born 9 September 1940, is a French actress. She received a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1989 for her role as Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy in Life Is a Long Quiet River and another in 1992 for J'embrasse pas. Description above from the... Read full bio →
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Bernie
1996
Quand vient l'automne
Michelle, a retiree in Burgundy, expects her grandson Lucas but a mistake ruins her plans. Her friend Marie-Claude's son is released from prison, reviving Michelle's purpose.
Hors normes
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions.
Grâce à Dieu
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.
Le sens de la fête
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible.
Knock
Knock, a retired crook-turned-doctor, arrives in the small town of Saint Maurice. He intends to implement a scheme to make him rich by persuading the villagers that healthy people are simply people who don't realise they're unwell.
Le locataire
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag…
Good Luck Algeria
Sam and Stephane are two friends and associates working together in their workshop designing hand-crafted high-quality skis.
Samba
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives.
Attila Marcel
Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.
Quelques heures de printemps
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?
Les petits ruisseaux
Emile, septuagénaire et veuf, connaît une retraite sans heurts, faite de rituels et de loisirs paisibles. L'instant n'existe pas vraiment, la vie coule comme la Loire où il pèche régulièrement avec un autre retraité, Edmond. Mais un jour, Edmond, après lui avoir révélé qu'il avait une vie amoureuse et sexuelle cachée, meurt.
Trésor
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.
Les irréductibles
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate.
Enfermés dehors
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Itinéraires
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm.
Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune?
A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada.
Le comte de Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
Ma vie en rose
Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Bernie
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Blue This is the first film in a trilogy of films who’s colors make up the three colors of France. With the colors meaning – freedom, equality and brotherliness. “Blue” relating to the French ideals of freedom that are somewhat vague. A film by Krzysztof Kie?lowski.
Le bal des casse-pieds
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
J'embrasse pas
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.
Les maris, les femmes, les amants
A group of women send their husbands and children to the island of Ré and stay in Paris to spend the month of August. During this time children try to become adults and their parents find themselves behaving like children.
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
Cocktail Molotov
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not.
West Indies
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.
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.
Un nuage entre les dents
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Les camisards
King Louis XIV orders all Protestants to convert to Catholicism.