Noël Simsolo
Noël Simsolo is a French film historian, actor, screenwriter and director, as well as a well-known novelist
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L'homme qu'on aimait trop
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
Au coeur du mensonge
In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found assassinated. René, an artist by profession and the girl's art teacher, is the last person to have seen her. He is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge.
Mesmer
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
L'enfer
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity...
La cabale des oursins
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
Rosa la rose, fille publique
A Paris prostitute with a lenient pimp faces a dilemma when she falls for a young worker, forcing her to choose between love and her established life.
Chambre 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room, turn on the camera and sound recorder, and, in solitude, answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?".
Simone Barbès ou la vertu
Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema’s lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she’ll encounter a lonely man on the prowl.
Les héroïnes du mal
Three erotic tales: 1) Raphael's muse poses as his lover, witnessing his final moments. 2) A young girl's disturbing obsession with a stuffed rabbit. 3) A wealthy woman is kidnapped, and her dog attempts a rescue mission.
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...
Le mâle du siècle
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
Change pas de main
A well-known politician woman receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to black-mail her.
Femmes femmes
The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. In the end, their struggles are eased when the widow of a man they had both been married to gives them a small legacy. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
La maman et la putain
Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed young man involved in a love triangle with both his girlfriend Marie, and a Polish nurse, Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), which he picked up at a café.