Movie List for "french"

Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his main objective in life is to live happily with his wife and Pierrot, the son she h… Year 1958.

In Paris, a woman is making enquiries: Why did leftist Alfred Katz simply disappear in 1938? In that year, Alfred, worker and poet, is politically active in a Parisian Trotskyite cell. Hitler’s Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet … Year 1998.

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed. Year 1981.

The story of a Parisian psychiatrist (Auteuil) who is treating a patient who confesses to having killed his wife. At first the psychiatrist lends little credence to his unusual client but as events unfold he has to take him “dead”… Year 1996.

A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy’s fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody reve… Year 1987.

N/A Year 1969.

Hamou left his native Algeria to make his fortune in Paris. Unfortunately, this is only a chimerical dream because he has difficulty living on expedients in the Barbes district. Year 1984.

N/A Year 1979.

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, “those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence”, Alain Tanner’s third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director. Year 1973.

The torpedo BB and his psychopath right hand Melvin has a plan of robbing a former opera singer for one of his beloved rare fishes and sell it back to him. The opera singer is in love with Myrtille, but is also a crook. Year 1999.

N/A Year 1954.

A provincial chemist’s daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives,a stranger ,who has just escaped from an insane asylum ,claims he is the famous cousin. Year 1952.

An exotic dancer is sent on an undercover mission to Thailand to investigate a secret biochemical factory. Year 1984.

A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal. Year 1975.

N/A Year 1954.

A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosop… Year 1969.