5 Movies Starring Franèois Pèrier

Orpheus

Orpheus

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-11-29

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (6817 Reviews)

Director:

Jean Cocteau

Fullplot:

Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice.

Gervaise

Gervaise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-11-11

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (769 Reviews)

Director:

Renè Clèment

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

èmile Zola (novel)

Jean Aurenche

Pierre Bost

Fullplot:

Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer. After working very hard a few more years, she succeeds in buying her own laundry (her dream)... But Coupeau starts to drink after having fallen from a roof, and Lantier shows up... A faithful adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "L'Assomoir", depicting the fatal degeneration of a family of workers, mainly because of alcohol.

The Nights of Cabiria

The Nights of Cabiria

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-05-26

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (23604 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Federico Fellini (screenplay)

Ennio Flaiano (story)

Tullio Pinelli (story)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Federico Fellini (story)

Maria Molinari (novel)

Fullplot:

Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We follow her nights (and days): a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire from her and nearly drowns her, a movie star on the Via Veneto takes her home with him, at a local shrine she seeks the Madonna's intercession, then she meets an accountant who's seen her, hypnotized on a vaudeville stage, acting out her heart's longings. He courts her. Is it fate that led to their meeting? Is this finally a man who appreciates her for who she is?

Stavisky...

Stavisky...

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-05-15

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1173 Reviews)

Director:

Alain Resnais

Fullplot:

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.

Police Python 357

Police Python 357

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-02-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

125 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1004 Reviews)

Director:

Alain Corneau

Genres:

Thriller

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)

Daniel Boulanger (screenplay)

Alain Corneau

Kenneth Fearing (novel)

Fullplot:

An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proofs is against him.

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