Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor. Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976... Read full bio →
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Germinal
t's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Le bal des casse-pieds
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
La controverse de Valladolid
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls?
Merci la vie
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
La reine blanche
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival.
Le château de ma mère
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseille, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing.
La vouivre
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury.
L'invité surprise
During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.
Les fugitifs
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Canicule
Dog Day is a 1984 film starring Lee Marvin. A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. The supporting cast includes Tina Louise and Juliette Mills. The movie was directed by Yves Boisset.
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.
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!
Guy de Maupassant
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
La soupe aux choux
Le Glaude et le Bombé, deux vieux paysans portés sur la bouteille, vivent très retirés de la vie moderne. Une nuit, un extra-terrestre atterrit en soucoupe volante dans le jardin du Glaude. En gage de bienvennue, ce dernier lui offre un peu de sa fameuse soupe aux choux...
Allons z'enfants
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
La banquière
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
Buffet froid
Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Violette Nozière
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Nozière rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Plus ça va, moins ça va
In Provence, a young woman is found naked and hanged. Inspectors Pignon and Melville lead the investigation. After an initial arrest, they quickly realize that the case is more sinister than it seems.
La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune
Mark Bailey, known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for appearing on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. He is a self proclaimed "confused hippie" known for his thin goatee and long hair.
Alice ou la dernière fugue
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. Its a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems theres no way out...
La victoire en chantant
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans.
Dupont Lajoie
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets).
Un linceul n'a pas de poches
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.
Les gaspards
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Le retour du grand blond
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir
Three vignettes and a musical interlude showcase acclaimed auteur Jean Renoir's eclectic range at the end of his career: the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless; an opera-like story of a woman obsessed with polishing her floors; Jeanne Moreau performs 'When Love Dies'; and an elderly man and his young wife coming to…
Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard
Antoine Robineau est démarcheur en boissons. Il réussit toutes ses ventes en pleurnichant sur son sort. Il séduit les dames par le même procédé, ce qui lui vaudra, par le biais d'une richissime nymphomane, de devenir directeur d'un palace.
Bons baisers... à lundi
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.
Pleure pas la bouche pleine!
Being the adventures of a young woman during a summer in the French countryside.
Le concierge
A brilliant yet unemployed university graduate becomes the caretaker of a high-end apartment building, where he makes himself indispensable.
La raison du plus fou
The supervisor of a nursing home accompanies in their escape two young loving residents who dream of seeing the sea.
Les malheurs d'Alfred
Les aventures d'Alfred, architecte désespéré, qui au moment de mettre fin a sa vie, rencontre une presentatrice de télévision qui a eu la même idée.
Le viager
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall.
Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Elle cause plus, elle flingue
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case...
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.
Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Des truands se servent d'Alfred pour passer des diamants en Turquie dans un cercueil...
La rupture
A father injures his son. He moves in with parents who blame the child's mother. They hire someone to find info about her for an upcoming custody hearing. He and girlfriend secretly lodge at her boarding home to undermine her life.
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause!
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
And Soon the Darkness
The story of two young English women on a cycling holiday in France, who run into difficulties.
Une veuve en or
A woman has got to get rid of her husband to claim her inheritance.
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
A man who left his wife finds himself chased by the police and a killer who take him for an American mobster.
Les gros malins
Paul Blanc, a butcher who loves betting on horses, once takes one of the sleeping pills his brother has sent him from Argentina. Thanks to it, he sees in his sleep the race unfold complete with the winning horses. When his secret is unveiled, everybody wants the miracle medicine.
Faut pas prendre les enfants du Bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages
Rita a l'habitude de prendre des gangsters pour amants. Celui qui est actuellement en titre l'a grugée en ne lui donnant pas sa part dans un partage de lingots d'or. Furieuse, Rita decide de se venger. Elle fait appel a sa tante Léontine, une vieille dame qui a inspiré autrefois la terreur dans le monde des truands.
Alexandre le bienheureux
Alexandre est cultivateur dans une petite ferme française, mais sa femme le pousse à bout de force en lui imposant chaque jour une liste de travaux démesurée. Devenu brutalement veuf, il éprouve un grand soulagement et se sent libéré de son labeur : il décide de s'accorder un repos qu'il juge mérité, afin de prendre le temps de savourer la vie.
Un idiot à Paris
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles").
Les deux orphelines
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
La métamorphose des cloportes
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years.
Les gorilles
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Allez France!
Henri accompagne en bus des hooligan jusqu'à Londres, pour un match de rugby Angleterre-France à Twickenham. Mais voila : ce dernier est supposé se marier dans quelques jours. Gags en pagaille et humour rythmeront les aventures d'Henri.
Mélodie en sous-sol
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Le diable et les 10 commandements
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his sister. 4) God in person lands at a remote farm and works miracles there. 5) Pierre learns that his mother is not…
Le caporal épinglé
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
La belle Américaine
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertible by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover.
Cigarettes, whisky et p'tites pépées
Martine runs a sports center for women ,but they are short of the readies .To avoid seizure,she turns her health club into a nightclub with plenty of whiskey and wild women.
Un drôle de dimanche
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...
Bonjour sourire!
A Prime Minister kidnaps three comedians from Paris to make a frowning princess smile for a royal photo, all while secretly dealing with a prisoner hunger strike. The King remains unaware of his mischievous plan.
Ça va barder
A con man (Eddie Constantine) is approached by a shipping magnate to become one of his security agents.
Trois de la Canebière
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Minuit... Quai de Bercy
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail.
La tournée des grands Ducs
Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.
Knock
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill.
Ils étaient cinq
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing.
Pas de week-end pour notre amour
The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders, is dramatized.
Copie conforme
Un cambrioleur realise des hold-ups d'une folle audace grace a sa ressemblance avec le paisible Mr Dupont.
Les enfants du paradis
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Les mystères de Paris
Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.