Movie List for "france 4"

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. Year 1970.

A woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths. Year 1983.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III’s devastation, told through still images. Year 1962.

A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover’s return night after night. Year 1957.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot. Year 1995.

It’s July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and “empty”, but this won’t last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her… Year 1986.

This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti. Year 1999.

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal. Year 2009.

“Cafe Transit” depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband’s truck stop café. Year 2005.

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life – and resorts to drastic means to do so. Year 1981.

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved. Year 1959.

It is the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco in 1981. Amina, accompanied with her seven years old son Mehdi, come to live with her father-in-law Ahmed in a small village in Morocco, after her husband was arrested for political reasons. Year 2003.

Three separate stories about the same thing: le plaisir (pleasure). Year 1952.

A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France. Year 1956.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer. Year 1959.

Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead. Year 1998.