Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin (July 13, 1941 – April 21, 2022) was a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.
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Goliath
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist for a chemical corporation.
Rémi sans famille
Ten-year-old orphan Rémi is taken from his adoptive mother by traveling musician Vitalis, learning the difficult life of an acrobat and singer. Rémi's journey across France unveils friendships, support, and the secret of his origins.
Borderline
A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge.
Konferenz der Tiere
A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavour to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.
Océans
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Le petit lieutenant
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
L'enfer
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Les choristes
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Le peuple migrateur
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
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.
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography.
L'univers de Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
Stanno tutti bene
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Paroles et musique
Margaux, à l'occasion d'un concert qu'elle organise, rencontre deux chanteurs, Jeremy et Michel. Tous deux sont passionnés de musique et unis par une solide amitié. Jeremy voue un amour fou a Margaux et s'éloigne peu a peu de Michel.
Parole de flic
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own investigation to avenge the killers and their backroom leader.
L'année des méduses
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
L'honneur d'un capitaine
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
La légion saute sur Kolwezi
In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.
La part du feu
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both.
Le Crabe-Tambour
Sur un escorteur chargé d'escorter des chalutiers en direction de Terre-Neuve, un commandant et deux autres membres d'équipage se souviennent du Crabe-Tambour, un personnage qu'ils ont côtoyé et qui a participé aux guerres d'Indochine et d'Algérie.
Il deserto dei tartari
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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.
Home Sweet Home
Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He and his twenty supporters will oppose the management, the firefighters and even the gendarmes.
Blanche
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.
Peau d'âne
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
L'étrangleur
'Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man.
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.
L'écume des jours
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Les demoiselles de Rochefort
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
L'horizon
Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his patriotic father to honor his military commitment even if it means he will die.
1 homme de trop
A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.
Un uomo a metà
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
La ligne de démarcation
Durant l'occupation, dans un village du Jura à la limite de la zone libre, la résistance s'organise, obligeant les habitants à prendre position et à se dévoiler.
La 317ème section
In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked.
Compartiment tueurs
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
La corruzione
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Et Satan conduit le bal
Ivan, an arrogant yet handsome douche, crashes the car he lifted from an auto garage for a joyride. Rather than go to jail the kid talks the owner into letting him pay the damages with money he can squeeze out of his girlfriend Manuelle and her mobster father.
Cronaca familiare
A man recalls the life of his late younger brother.
La ragazza con la valigia
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
La vérité
A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.
La verte moisson
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.
Les tricheurs
Dans le années 1950 à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, la jeune Mic rencontre Bob par l'intermédiaire d'une bande d'amis. Les différences de classes sociales,l'orgueil, les sentiments dissimulés auront raison de leur amour...
Les portes de la nuit
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.