Jacques François
Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions. During World War II, he served as a captain in the... Read full bio →
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Je suis votre homme
A bisexual good-nature girl with a movie critic, a husband who is hoping to win back his wife, a spirited young man with twisted situations a little too excited. A mysterious brothel that offers shock treatments, led by dominatrices, "to relieve all problems of libido".
Les acteurs
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Le roi danse
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Les couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility.
Triplex
A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.
L'opération Corned-Beef
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
Mes meilleurs copains
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend.
Twist again à Moscou
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once.
The Blood of Others
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Papy fait de la résistance
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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.
Le père Noël est une ordure
La permanence parisienne SOS détresse-amitié est perturbée le soir de Noël par l'arrivée de personnage marginaux farfelus qui provoquent des catastrophes en chaîne.
Le gendarme et les gendarmettes
Cruchot and his gendarmes from Saint-Tropez receive a highly responsible government mission - to ensure the safety of four young beautiful female gendarmes officers. In a few days they begin to be abducted by mysterious villains.
On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus
A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.
Celles qu'on n'a pas eues...
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette
L'inspecteur Chodaque s'introduit dans le milieu des jeux télévisés afin de retrouver la trace de l'animateur-vedette Patrice Rengain, mystérieusement enlevé. Il decouvre que c'est le directeur de la chaine lui-même qui a organisé le rapt pour s'approprier la rancon.
Confidences pour confidences
This is the story of a generation of women, told with verve by Pascal Thomas through the story of the three Roussel sisters, suburbanites who became Parisians in the 1960s.
La zizanie
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces.
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes.
Sorcerer
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Le jouet
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment.
Section spéciale
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Les chinois à Paris
Les Chinois ont envahi la France. Devant leur calme et leur discipline, un seul moyen pour les chasser, faire de la France le pays du plus mauvais exemple. Quelques Français s'attelent à cette tâche...
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.
The Day of the Jackal
An assassin targets the president of France in this tense Frederick Forsyth thriller.
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
The racist industrialist Victor Pivert by accident gets kidnapped by an Arabic revolutionist. Pivert dresses up as a Rabbi in order to confuse them and gets mistaken for Rabbi Jacob as a Parisian neighborhood in New York celebrates his return. A screwball comedy.
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
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.
Le clair de terre
Pierre Brumeu, a twenty-year-old young man, leads a drab life in Paris with his father, a man he does not understand very well, and his friends Michel and Sophie. Father and son live in the memory of Pierre's mother, who died too early. One day, Pierre decides to go to Tunisia, the sunny country where he was born...
To Paris with Love
A middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other.
Les grandes manoeuvres
Sûr de son charme, un soldat en garnison parie avec ses camarades qu'il est capable de séduire la première femme qui passe, avant les grandes manoeuvres. Il met son plan en oeuvre et tombe amoureux de la jeune modiste choisie au hasard.
Si Versailles m'était conté...
The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
South of Algiers
A British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic.
Les 3 Mousquetaires
Alexandre Dumas's classic tale is one of the most filmed epic adventures...
Édouard et Caroline
Edouard is a young, headstrong musician. Caroline is his flibbertigibbet spouse. The two quarrel over an evening dress, they separate and then reunite.
Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler.
Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life.
The Barkleys of Broadway
A married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress.
L'affaire du collier de la reine
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
Le capitaine Fracasse
Par amour pour une comédienne, Isabelle, le baron de Sigognac se joint à une troupe ambulante en route pour Paris. Quand un acteur décède, il reprend son rôle : celui du capitaine Fracasse.