Le serpent a mangé la grenouille (1998) Comedy Drama Movie
N/A Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Alain Guesnier |
| Writer: Valérie Duval, Alain Guesnier |
| Actors: Jean Rochefort, Marisa Paredes, Alex Descas |
N/A Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Alain Guesnier |
| Writer: Valérie Duval, Alain Guesnier |
| Actors: Jean Rochefort, Marisa Paredes, Alex Descas |
Based on Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu King which was considered as a precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd, the film tells the story of Ubu who seizes the throne of Poland after having massacred the King Wenceslas. Year 1979.
| Generes: Animation, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Jan Lenica |
| Writer: Alfred Jarry, Jan Lenica |
| Actors: Michel Poujade, Janine Grillon |
A single man on a desert island. A cabin, a desolate beach. Robinson regularly sees, during hallucinations, a woman and a man motionless and dumb. Year 1968.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet |
| Writer: Jean-Daniel Pollet, Rémo Forlani, Jean Thibaudeau |
| Actors: Tobias Engel, Maria Loutraki |
Philippe Morin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteri… Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Yves Allégret |
| Writer: Yves Allégret, Jacques Sigurd, Philippe St-Gil |
| Actors: Gérard Philipe, Michèle Cordoue, Umberto Spadaro |
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores. Year 1973.
| Generes: Comedy |
| Director: Claude Zidi |
| Writer: Claude Zidi, Georges Beller, Michel Fabre |
| Actors: Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli |
N/A Year 1959.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Walter Kapps |
| Writer: Pierre Chichério, Bernard Dimey, Gérard Gohier |
| Actors: Frank Villard, Hélène Chanel, Michel Roux |
Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man’s country estate with the eccentric extended family. Year 1987.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: Claude Chabrol |
| Writer: Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol |
| Actors: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont |
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to be… Year 1973.
| Generes: Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Claude Pinoteau |
| Writer: Jean-Loup Dabadie, Claude Pinoteau, Francis Ryck |
| Actors: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon |
The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend, who lives in poverty, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of child… Year 1976.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: François Truffaut |
| Writer: François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman |
| Actors: Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix |
After he learns that a heart attack may be imminent, Pierre Francois, an old psychiatrist, becomes physically attracted to Odile, a sensuous young woman. Odile later uses their relationship to fulfill an exhibitionist fantasy. Year 1994.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Claude Miller |
| Writer: Claude Miller |
| Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Seigner |
Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collecti… Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Amos Gitai |
| Writer: Amos Gitai, Tonino Guerra |
| Actors: Jerome Koenig, Hanna Schygulla, Samuel Fuller |
A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary. Year 1970.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin |
| Writer: Sergio Bazzini, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Luc Godard |
| Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan |
A candidate at an election ,afraid of a gangster at large , asks his cousin to take his place :they’re as like as two peas in a pod. Year 1979.
| Generes: Comedy |
| Director: Pierre Tchernia |
| Writer: Jean Poiret |
| Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Curd Jürgens |
The story of priest Alfred Stanke, interned by the Gestapo of Bourges in 1944-45. Year 1968.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Claude Autant-Lara |
| Writer: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Marc Toledano |
| Actors: Hardy Krüger, Béatrix Dussane, Jean-Pierre Dorat |
N/A Year 1978.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Paul Barge |
| Writer: Paul Barge |
| Actors: Raymond Bussières, Marcel Dalio, Germaine Delbat |
A story of hot and desperate bond between two girls. Year 1991.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Bertrand Blier |
| Writer: Bertrand Blier |
| Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc |