Jean Martin
Jean Martin (6 March 1922 - 2 February 2009) was a French actor. Coming from a Berry family, he spent part of his childhood in Biarritz, where his father worked for a furrier. During the Second World War, he hid to escape the Forced Labor Service. Staying in Paris, he appeared... Read full bio →
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Lucie Aubrac
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Le roi et l'oiseau
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
La femme flic
Corinne Levasseur, a Paris police inspector, uncovers some embarrassing evidence during one of her investigations and is transferred to a northern French mining town.
Inspecteur la Bavure
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Le dossier 51
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
Le juge Fayard dit Le Shériff
The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.
Il gatto
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life.
Une femme à sa fenêtre
Romy Schneider plays an aristocratic woman in 1936 Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
L'aile ou la cuisse
Charles Duchemin is an exquisite restaurant owner and runs a magazine of fine French dining. He is an expert of tasting food and when arch enemy Jacques Tricatel opens a fast-food restaurant that sells fabricated French meals, Duchemin fells challenged and must prove that he is the best. A cult French comedy with Louis de Funès.
Un genio, due compari, un pollo
Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
Peur sur la ville
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
La Course à l'échalote
An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
La moutarde me monte au nez
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora.
The Day of the Jackal
An assassin targets the president of France in this tense Frederick Forsyth thriller.
L'héritier
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Il mio nome è Nessuno
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Laisse aller... c'est une valse
Serge Aubin vient de passer trois ans en prison pour vol de bijoux. Dénoncé par sa femme Clara, il décide de se venger et l'enlève avec l'aide de Michel, un ami. Clara ne tarde pas à se réconcilier avec son mari. Mais des tueurs, désireux de récupérer les bijoux, sont à leurs trousses...
Les compagnons de Baal
Journalist Claude Leroy reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir. An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world.
Je t'aime je t'aime
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
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.
La religieuse
Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone.
La battaglia di Algeri
The French Colonel...who was forced even to torture! One of the many women...who stopped at nothing to win! The Algerian Street Boy...who became a rebel hero!
Fortunat
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Cécile est morte!
Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.