Xavier Gélin
Xavier Gélin (21 June 1946 – 2 July 1999) was a French actor and film producer, and son of French film star Daniel Gélin and actress-producer Danièle Delorme. Through his father, he was a half-brother of Fiona Gélin and Maria Schneider, also actresses. Gélin, a French actor... Read full bio →
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La boum 2
The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
S*P*Y*S
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
La gifle
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Salut l'artiste
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
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.
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.
L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Absences répétées
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
La ville-bidon
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
Le diable par la queue
Une famille de nobles desargentes, de connivence avec le garagiste du coin, s'arrange pour que les voyageurs de passage tombent en panne et fassent escale dans leur chateau. Un jour un trio insolite debarque. Ce sont en fait les auteurs d'un hold-up et la famille voudrait bien s'approprier le fruit de leur labeur.