Michel Bouquet

Jean Rougerie

Robert Le Béal

Jean Debucourt

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent (1947)

Allyn Ann McLerie

Marcel Gassouk

Georges Staquet

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use.

France, Incorporated

France, Incorporated (1974)

Stéphane Audran

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Laurent Brunschwick

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.—

The Breach

The Breach (1970)

Catherine Deneuve

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Martine Ferrière

Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry him. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her... Another Truffaut's film about passion.—Yepok

Mississippi Mermaid

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Alain Delon

Corinne Marchand

In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Borsalino

Borsalino (1970)

Pierre Richard

Jacques François

Yves Barsacq

When François, a journalist, is touring a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. All afraid of the despotic industrialist who is also the newspaper's owner, François is forced to agree to this masquerade. Becoming the friend of the child, he induces him, who wants to make a newspaper, to unveil publicly the real tyrannical way of life of his father.—Jean-Marie Berthiaume

The Toy

The Toy (1976)

Gérard Depardieu

José Garcia

Melvil Poupaud

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small-time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father, whom she blames for her mother's death.—Mattias Pettersson

Élisa

Élisa (1995)

Paul Spera

Vincent Rottiers

Romane Bohringer

The Côte d'Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation.
Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

Renoir

Renoir (2012)

Alexandra Stewart

Michael Lonsdale

Jeanne Moreau

After a botched attempt to put an end to her miserable existence, the emotionally scarred and irreparably destroyed widow, Julie Kohler, summons up the strength to pack up her things and leave her mother and town behind. Haunted by a horrible, life-altering incident and utterly surrendered to the palpable void of paranoia, Julie embraces black, the colour of death, and embarks on a devilish mission of revenge. Now, as the sinful past puts five seemingly unrelated men in harm's way, acknowledging death may be liberating. But, is there a limit to relentless Julie's determination? Above all, is there an escape from the clutches of the grim avenger with the doleful, dark eyes?—Nick Riganas

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black (1968)

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Clément Harari

Benoît Ferreux

When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, Juliette's brother, died that same night in a car accident...—Baldinotto da Pistoia

Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir (1973)

Adolf Hitler

Heinrich Himmler

Julius Streicher

One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.—Bill Randolph

Night and Fog

Night and Fog (1956)

Mimsy Farmer

On account of the influence and support of Germain, a warm and compassionate social worker, the repeat offender and former safe-cracker, Gino, is granted parole. Yearning to wipe the slate clean and bury the past, Gino, determined to go straight, gets a steady job and finds love, unaware that it is only a matter of time before he's forced to confront destiny. Now, with his old partners-in-crime almost begging him to pick up where they left off, Gino finds himself with the back to the wall as malevolent Inspector Goitreau re-enters his life, harbouring a decade-long grudge. Is there enough room in town for the two sworn enemies?—Nick Riganas

Two Men in Town

Two Men in Town (1973)

François Berléand

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Lolita Chammah

A who-done-it about misappropriation of Jewish-owned art treasures during the period leading-up to World War II. A third-generation descendant overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles and deception to uncover betrayals and lies to solve the case.—sftaxman

The Art Dealer

The Art Dealer (2015)

Guillaume Depardieu

Yves Lambrecht

It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viola.—Daniel Bjoerkman

Tous les matins du monde

Tous les matins du monde (1991)

Josephine Chaplin

Pauline Lafont

When a small town of Normandy begins losing its citizenry in a series of strange deaths, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his possessive and manipulative mother (Stephane Audran) ? Or a pushy trio of local public figures and land developers wanna-be?—Anonymous

Cop Au Vin

Cop Au Vin (1985)

Klaus Schindler

Alexandre von Sivers

Pascal Duquenne

Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.—Gary Dickerson

Toto the Hero

Toto the Hero (1991)

Cécile Aubry

Louis Vonelly

Franck Maurice

An adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel 'Manon Lescaut', updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder...—Michael Brooke

Manon

Manon (1949)

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