Released Date:
1986-10-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1714 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierA bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.
Released Date:
1990-06-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (4126 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteGeorges Simenon (novel)
Patrice Leconte (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Patrick Dewolf (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Released Date:
1991-10-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (813 Reviews)
Director:
Claude BerriMarcel Aymè (novel)
Claude Berri
Arlette Langmann
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Released Date:
1991-08-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (4904 Reviews)
Director:
Peter GreenawayWilliam Shakespeare (play)
Peter Greenaway
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Released Date:
1995-07-12
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1458 Reviews)
Director:
Michel BlancGenres:
ComedyMichel Blanc (scenario and dialogue)
Bertrand Blier (original idea)
What is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. What defines a famous person? Is it their public self or their private self? What is the public's legitimate claim on their fame? With the glitterati of French Cinema starring as themselves, the anonymous faces in the audience gain a glimpse into the downside of public recognition.
Released Date:
1996-04-19
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (7055 Reviews)
Director:
Roberto BenigniVincenzo Cerami (story)
Roberto Benigni (story)
Michel Blanc (french adaptation)
Roberto Benigni (screenplay)
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and provide evidence for his arrest - but things don't quite go according to plan...
Released Date:
2002-10-09
Languages:
French, English, German, Italian
Countries:
France, UK, Italy
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2053 Reviews)
Director:
Michel BlancMichel Blanc
Joseph Connolly (book)
Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of his father's employee... More, at the end of the summer all of them will join the same party...
Released Date:
2006-02-01
Languages:
English, Italian, French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
(2302 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteGenres:
ComedyJosiane Balasko
Michel Blanc
Marie-Anne Chazel
Christian Clavier
Gèrard Jugnot
Thierry Lhermitte
Movie about friends who reunite after 20 years and a lot of things have changed.
Released Date:
2006-01-11
Languages:
French, Romanian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2353 Reviews)
Director:
Isabelle MergaultWhen farmer Aymè Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. Soon, he realizes he won't make it alone and he needs another companion to cope with it. But finding a new spouse is no simple task in his small rural town: Aymè turns to a matchmaker who quickly understands that he's not after a soul mate and advises him to go to Romania where young women will do anything to escape poverty. And indeed, it's in Romania that Aymè meets Elena...
Released Date:
2007-03-07
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2106 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGenres:
DramaAndrè Tèchinè (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Laurent Guyot (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Viviane Zingg (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Michel Canesi (idea)
Jamil Rahmani (idea)
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer's return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Adrien likes Manu, loves him even, in a Platonic relationship. Sarah, a writer, and Mehdi, a vice-squad cop, have an infant. Sarah discovers she has no taste for parenthood. Adrien bring Manu to Sarah's country cabin where Mehdi saves Manu from drowning. Back in Paris, an affair begins as a plague descends on Parisian gays. There are tests, illness, anger, relief, separations, and death. A year later, these friends meet again at the summer place. They are witnesses to how happiness has changed.
Released Date:
2009-03-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(1176 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGenres:
DramaAndrè Tèchinè (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Odile Barski (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Jean-Marie Besset (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Jean-Marie Besset (play)
Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her? In a subplot, Bleistein's grandson, Nathan, prepares for his bar mitzvah and, through an encounter with Jeanne, experiences intimations of manhood.
Released Date:
2011-04-20
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1102 Reviews)
Director:
Jennifer DevoldèreJennifer Devoldère
Romain Lèvy (collaboration)
Cècile Sellam (collaboration)
Released Date:
2011-10-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1849 Reviews)
Director:
Pierre SchoellerGenres:
DramaTransport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis... Everything follows in quick succession and clashes. Emergencies follow on each other's heels. What sacrifices are men prepared to make? Just how long will they hold up in a state that devours those that work for it?
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