Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director,... Read full bio →
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Janis et John
Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes
At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oral mountains and Shanghai.
Promenons-nous dans les bois
A group of artists, composed of the young actors Wilfried and Matthieu and the actresses Sophie, Mathilde and the dumb Jeanne, is hired by a millionaire, Axel de Fersen, to present a performance of Little Red Riding Hood in his isolated castle to celebrate the birthday of his grandson.
Le prince du Pacifique
French war ship is arriving to Polynesian shore during at 1918 - and adventures begin...
Harrison's Flowers
When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.
...Comme elle respire
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.
Les démons de Jésus
Les aventures de la famille Jacob, quelques mois avant celle de Mai 68, composee d'un pere alcoolique, d'une mere au foyer, de deux freres arnaqueurs, d'un autre intello, du dernier qui se demande pourquoi il va a l'ecole et enfin d'une soeur trop belle pour eux.
Le cousin
Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gérard Delvaux takes over. Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the illegal practices of the policemen.
Ponette
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back.
Le cri de la soie
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Les apprentis
Antoine est un écrivain raté et dépressif. Fred ne fait pas grand-chose de sa vie et semble s'en contenter. Tous deux partagent un appartement et vivent de petites combines foireuses. Les aventures et surtout mésaventures de ces deux copains un brin loosers, leur permettront de s'apercevoir que l'amitié est bien la plus grande des richesses.
Les marmottes
A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
Cible émouvante
Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets Renée, an art forger who has earned the wrath of powerful mob leaders.
Betty
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel lodgings, extends friendship and care, and listens to her story. Laure's lover, Mario, the proprieto...
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
Contre l'oubli
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Nuit d'été en ville
Unable to sleep in the sweltering heat, a young couple bares their bodies --- and their souls --- to each other over one life-changing night. They didn't know each other when the night began. It got hot, they stayed in. Now they know each other better than most.
Alberto Express
A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every expense from his own birth until he left home.
Une affaire de femmes
During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.
La terrazza
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
Série noire
In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur.
Mon amour, mon amour
Vincent and Agathe live together since many years. They're not married. Vincent had to move to Nice because of some professional projects. Agathe keeps living in Paris. Now Agathe discovers she's pregnant. Must they marry?