Jean-Louis Richard

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...

Release Date1997-02-26

Charactersd Mr. Henry

Vote Count71

The Professional

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

Release Date1981-10-21

Charactersd Colonel Martin

Vote Count562

The Sentinel

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.

Release Date1992-05-20

Charactersd Bleicher

Vote Count38

The Outsider

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.

Release Date1983-10-26

Charactersd Antoine

Vote Count214

Melody for a Hustler

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.

Release Date1998-10-14

Charactersd Alexandre

Vote Count10

Agathe et le grand magasin

A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.

Release Date2001-12-17

Charactersd M. Debarre

Vote Count1

Dead Tired

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Release Date1994-05-18

Charactersd The Psychiatrist

Vote Count117

Le Choc

Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...

Release Date1982-04-28

Charactersd Maubert, Inspector of the DST

Vote Count32

The Last Metro

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Release Date1980-09-17

Charactersd Daxiat

Vote Count508

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

Release Date1982-10-03

Charactersd 'Le Cerveau'

Vote Count576

Confidentially Yours

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Release Date1983-08-10

Charactersd Louison

Vote Count209

Breathless

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Release Date1960-03-16

Charactersd A Journalist (uncredited)

Vote Count1942

The Soft Skin

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.

Release Date1964-04-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Man in Street (uncredited)

Vote Count209

The Secret Wife

It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?

Release Date1986-09-17

Charactersd Stirner

Vote Count1

Les Misérables

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.

Release Date2000-09-04

Charactersd Scarponi

Episode Count4

Vote Count101

La Vie de Marianne

In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.

Release Date1997-09-08

Charactersd Ami de madame de Miran

Vote Count6

Le Prof

A teacher uses new methods to captivate his audience. Some kids take it too far, some colleagues are worried traditional ways are going to be lost... but eventually, everything turns out OK.

Release Date2000-04-12

Charactersd Père Alexandre

Vote Count3

The School of Flesh

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided, and sometimes hindered, by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.

Release Date1998-11-18

Charactersd M. Thorpe

Vote Count24

Fort Saganne

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Release Date1984-05-11

Charactersd Flammarin

Vote Count64

Lost in Transit

A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.

Release Date1993-09-01

Charactersd Monsieur Armanet

Vote Count6

Les Deux Fragonard

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.

Release Date1989-04-19

Charactersd Saint-Julien

Vote Count3

Hôtel de France

A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.

Release Date1987-05-20

Charactersd Pierre Galtier

Vote Count4

It Means That Much to Me

Eddie Constantine stars as a reporter mixed up in the spy world in this routine espionage actioner by first-time director Pierre Grasset. After taking some illicit photos for a new story he is working on, Eddie (Constantine) is coerced into doing a job for the French Secret Service. There is a mole in the French missile sites who is passing on classified information, and Eddie is enlisted as bait to draw the culprit -- or culprits -- out. Along the way, he finds himself running for his life, fighting, and romancing until the final denouement.

Release Date1961-05-03

Charactersd Chief

Vote Count4

Fiesta

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

Release Date1995-11-15

Charactersd Commandant Romerales

Vote Count8

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.

Release Date1968-04-24

Charactersd l'homme du wagon-restaurant

Vote Count96

Radetzky March

At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.

Release Date1995-12-27

Charactersd Kapturak

Episode Count3

Vote Count5

La vie nue

The story is inspired by the biblical myth of Lazarus. The main character is called Lazarus who was a follower of Jesus, brother of Martha and Mary who was resurrected by Jesus.

Release Date2003-06-04

Charactersd Le patron

The Juliette Year

Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress....

Release Date1995-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Sobel

Vote Count18

Jules and Jim

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Release Date1962-01-23

Charactersd Customer in Cafe

Vote Count1027

Mister V.

Lucas is a young scientist obsessed with the analysis of movement: that of the horses he studies in his laboratory, that of the clappers he practices as an amateur. His professional and sentimental life seems like a stalemate when his brother Luigi, a passionate horse breeder and little crook,who is accidentally killed by a stallion, Mister V. He knows that the animal is the subject of an insurance scam and must be shot against the will of his brother, who had seen in him a future champion. He then decides to take care of the farm and his sister-in-law, for whom he has always had an attraction. Tugged between his feelings, Luigi's memory and the pressures of the former crook partner, he will draw strength and power from the murderous stallion whose savagery fascinates him.

Release Date2003-11-12

Charactersd Patrice Lemoigne

Vote Count6

Adolphe

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair.

Release Date2002-10-30

Charactersd Mr. d'Arbigny

Vote Count8

La nuit de l'océan

After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.

Release Date1992-06-03

Charactersd Capitaine du chalutier

Skin of Man, Heart of Beast

After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.

Release Date1999-08-11

Charactersd Tac Tac

Vote Count6

J'ai faim !!!

A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome lover back.

Release Date2001-11-07

Charactersd le docteur de Montalembert

Vote Count25

Sueurs froides

Release Date1988-02-06

Charactersd Édouard

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Août

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.

Release Date1992-01-08

Charactersd Lance

Vote Count1

Joan the Maid I: The Battles

Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.

Release Date1994-02-09

Charactersd La Trémoille

Vote Count24

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.

Release Date1994-02-10

Charactersd La Trémoille

Vote Count20

Life Is a Bed of Roses

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

Release Date1983-04-20

Charactersd Father Jean Watelet

Vote Count33

The Boat on the Grass

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

Release Date1971-04-16

Charactersd M. Lagrève (uncredited)

Vote Count7

Don't Forget You're Going to Die

Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control with drugs, alcohol, and nightclubs.

Release Date1996-01-03

Charactersd Benoit's Father

Vote Count23

Des enfants dans les arbres

An old farmhouse in southwestern France, not far from the Spanish border, serves as a refuge for Jewish refugees during World War Two.

Release Date1994-10-22

Charactersd Caxarnau

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Release Date2018-04-02

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Vote Count5

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in book form, he didn't imagine that more than four years would pass before Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock finally appeared in 1966. Not only in France but all over the world, Truffaut's Hitchcock interview developed over the years into a standard bible of film literature. In 1983, three years after Hitchcock's death, Truffaut decided to expand his by now legendary book to include a concluding chapter and have it published as the "Edition définitive". This film describes the genesis of the "Hitchbook" and throws light on the strange friendship between two completely different men. The centrepieces are the extracts from the original sound recordings of the interview with the voices of Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Helen Scott – recordings which have never been heard in public before.

Release Date1999-08-05

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs

Release Date1987-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count3

Emmanuelle

An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.

Release Date1974-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count797

The Click

A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek revenge against his blackmailer.

Release Date1985-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Day for Night

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Release Date1973-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count634

Mata Hari, Agent H21

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

Release Date1964-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

After Sex

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

Release Date1997-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

Fahrenheit 451

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

Release Date1966-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1032

The Bride Wore Black

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

Release Date1968-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count276

Diane's Body

Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. Julien becomes extremely jealous when he suspects Diane of having a lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane jealousy make Diane resentful to the point she considers pushing him off a cliff.

Release Date1969-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Good Luck, Charlie

Charlie Pattison, a wealthy American, lands at Athens airport, where he has just received an emergency phone call from his friend Maurice. The two men met in prison camps and have vowed to track down a certain Nazi doctor, Hermann Geiss, a connoisseur of masterpieces who is guilty of criminal experiments on prisoners. But Maurice doesn't show up. As soon as he arrives, Charlie investigates his friend's disappearance. He ends up meeting a painting dealer, Cardin, whose client Geiss is said to have been.

Release Date1962-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

It's Tough for Everybody

After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.

Release Date1975-06-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

Male of the Century

The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.

Release Date1975-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Le Petit Docteur

Release Date1986-09-12

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator