Released Date:
1962-05-23
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (500 Reviews)
Director:
Jean RenoirGuy Lefranc (adaptation)
Jacques Perret (novel)
Jean Renoir (adaptation)
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.
Released Date:
1968-04-24
Languages:
French, Dutch, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1342 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisRecovering 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.
Released Date:
1977-11-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (379 Reviews)
Director:
Pierre SchoendoerfferJean-Franèois Chauvel (adaptation)
Pierre Schoendoerffer (adaptation)
Pierre Schoendoerffer (novel)
A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crab tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crab tambour" the drummer crab" was a boyhood nickname for the handsome young Alsatian whom the film depicts proving his courage, first in the war in French Indochina, and then again in the "Generals' Revolt" in Algeria. Courtmartialed because friends like the French naval captain were afraid to risk their own careers by testifying for him, the exiled "crab tambour" and his trawler, The Shamrock, is now a legend among the Grand Banks fishermen.
Released Date:
1992-12-23
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (262 Reviews)
Director:
èdouard MolinaroJean-Claude Brisville (play)
Jean-Claude Brisville (adaptation)
Yves Rousset-Rouard (adaptation)
èdouard Molinaro (adaptation)
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouchè to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
Released Date:
1999-11-24
Languages:
French, English, Russian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1415 Reviews)
Director:
Danièle ThompsonDanièle Thompson
Christopher Thompson
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
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