Michel Robin
Michel Robin (13 November 1930 – 18 November 2020) was a French film, stage, and television actor. A sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1996, he also appeared in 120 films from 1966 to 2018. He won several awards for his acting, including the Moliere Award for Best... Read full bio →
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Dans la brume
When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies, Mathieu, Anna and their daughter Sarah try to survive the disaster.
Vous n'avez encore rien vu
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage?
Les adieux à la reine
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Adieu Berthe - L'enterrement de mémé
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Les aventures de Philibert, capitaine puceau
France 1550, Philibert learns from his dying father that his real father is Fulgence Bérendourt de Saint-Avoise. Philibert embarks on a journey to discover his origins.
Eden à l'Ouest
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden.
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
L'île de Black Mór
Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.
Les triplettes de Belleville
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Merci pour le chocolat
Milka Muller is the general director of Chocolates Muller, who lives in Switzerland with her husband André Polonski, a prestigious pianist, and Guillaume, the son of André. Jeanne Pollet is a young pianist who has not yet begun her studies at the conservatory and who one day discovers that when she was born she was about to be exchanged in the h...
Les enfants du siècle
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company.
Marquis
Pre-French Revolution Bastille holds political prisoners: a woman impregnated by king after rape, police chief accused of selling tainted meat, Marquis wrongfully charged with conspiring against king.
Les maris, les femmes, les amants
A group of women send their husbands and children to the island of Ré and stay in Paris to spend the month of August. During this time children try to become adults and their parents find themselves behaving like children.
Harem
A young American woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheik and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Gwen, le livre de sable
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
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.
Le marginal
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
La chèvre
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Les petites fugues
The old farm worker Pipe is old enough to retire. Even so he cannot imagine a life without work. So he keeps on doing his job and wonders what to do with his additional financial means.
Clair de femme
Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.
L'hôtel de la plage
A group of tourists arrive in Brittany for their annual summer holiday at the Hôtel de la plage. Everyone – infants, teenagers, husbands and wives, even those who are obviously past it – has just one thing on his or her mind: sex...
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.
La traque
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
L'important c'est d'aimer
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
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.
L'invitation
Rémi, a confirmed bachelor and model bureaucrat, invites his colleagues and superiors to a magnificent house to celebrate an inheritance. Under the influence of drink, they drop all pretence and reveal their true selves. But what will remain of this brief interlude the following day?
L'affaire Dominici
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons.
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
Anne et Lora, deux adolescentes pensionnaires dans une institution religieuse de province, decident de se consacrer au mal.
Le mur de l'Atlantique
1944. Léon Duchemin tient un restaurant avec sa sœur. Ses clients sont allemands, résistants et trafiquants. Le pauvre devient malgré lui résistant quand un pilote de la R.A.F. abattu trouve refuge chez lui et quand il dérobe aux services d'Hitler les plans de ses missiles V1.
L'aveu
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
L'astragale
While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and robbery to support herself.