Released Date:
1976-07-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1015 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Charles TacchellaJean-Charles Tacchella
Danièle Thompson
Husband and wife Ludovic and Karine, and Ludovic's sixteen year old daughter Nelsa lead a relatively carefree life. Motorcycle riding Ludovic, a dance instructor, changes jobs every three years to keep himself interested in whatever he's doing. Ludovic recently remarried, this time to landscape designer Karine, a younger, beautiful woman who regardless is insecure due to her immaturity. Since she doesn't know how to handle that insecurity, Ludovic has placed Karine in various forms of therapy to help her with her life. Nelsa can see the cruelties that life has to offer, and although she doesn't like them, tries to embrace them to expose them for what they are. Ludovic wants to give everybody in his life, including Karine and Nelsa, as much freedom as they need to be happy. Husband and wife Pascal and Marthe and their adolescent son Eric lead a typical middle class life. Pharmaceutical salesman Pascal likes to think of himself as important to bolster his own sense of masculinity, which has led to him being a serial philanderer. Secretary Marthe knows about Pascal's unfaithfulness deep in her heart. The two couples meet when Ludovic's Uncle Jacques marries Marthe's feisty mother. At the wedding reception, Pascal and Karine head off to have a sexual dalliance. Both Ludovic and Marthe know what Pascal and Karine did, Pascal later admitting as much to Marthe. Although Ludovic and Marthe's friendship starts off solely about their respective cheating spouses, it becomes something more. After thinking about the situation over time, Ludovic and Marthe decide to take their relationship into the sexual realm. As time goes on, Ludovic and Marthe become more and more open about their affair, not only to Pascal and Karine, but to their entire combined extended family. Ludovic, Marthe, Pascal and Karine have to decide what to do about what is happening between Ludovic and Marthe, especially as they are now all family who see each other often at family functions.
Released Date:
1980-09-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1711 Reviews)
Director:
Maurice PialatArlette Langmann (scenario)
Arlette Langmann (adaptation)
Maurice Pialat (adaptation)
Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed layabout Loulou, whose charms include focusing his energy into sex.
Released Date:
1981-09-23
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
86 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2612 Reviews)
Director:
Claude MillerJohn Wainwright (novel)
Claude Miller
Jean Herman (adaptation)
Michel Audiard (dialogue)
Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates New Year's Eve, Gallien calls Martinaud to his office and interrogates him for hour after hour while Martinaud continues to maintain his innocence. We learn all about the evidence; we meet Martinaud's wife and learn all about the rift between the two; but will we, and Gallien, finally learn whether Martinaud is guilty?
Released Date:
1983-03-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1568 Reviews)
Director:
Claude MillerMichel Audiard (adaptation)
Jacques Audiard (adaptation)
Marc Behm (novel)
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.
Released Date:
1983-04-06
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1196 Reviews)
Director:
Diane KurysDiane Kurys (scenario and dialogue)
Diane Kurys (adaptation)
Alain Le Henry (adaptation)
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Released Date:
1986-03-19
Languages:
French, Latin
Countries:
France
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (251 Reviews)
Director:
Costa-GavrasGenres:
ComedyFrancis Ryck (novel)
Costa-Gavras (scenario)
French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
Released Date:
2006-10-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Portugal
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3239 Reviews)
Director:
Christophe HonorèAnna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and spends most of his time womanizing and fooling around. But what this apparent lightness conceals is a deep wound. Jonathan, in fact, has never been able to overcome the death of his beloved sister. Meanwhile Paul sinks into depression...
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