Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Actor · 1920 – 1989 · Paris, France
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (born in Paris March 15, 1920; died in Cannes on October 6, 1989) was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director. In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.
Movies19
Movie4.7DramaRomanceEmmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
Movie7.6RomanceFantasyA famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Movie7.4DramaA lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976 · 412 votes
Movie5.5MysteryCrimeA banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Movie7.1ActionThrillerA thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Movie5.8ComedyDramaClaire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Le Bon Plaisir
1984 · 31 votes
Movie6.1DramaMarie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
MovieDocumentaryMag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaClaire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair being found out.
Movie6.3ComedyIn a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
Movie7.2MysteryDramaWhile two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Out 1
1990 · 64 votes
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeA father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Movie5.4DramaOn a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. A wealthy heiress, Emmanuelle, has designs on a handsome adolescent, Ivan, but his interests lie elsewhere. Having gratified Emmanuelle’s womanly needs, Ivan immediately sets out to make his next conquest, the mistress of a well-known writer...
Movie6.9MysteryDramaA melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring. She disappears after their relationship lasts a few days, and though he searches for her, those around him pretend not to know who he is speaking of.
Movie5.8DramaFrançoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Movie5.6ComedyDramaSteph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Le Bel Âge
1960 · 7 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeAfter a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline who helps him with his scam.
- Movie7.0Documentary
Le Beatnik et le minet
1967 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaMonica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her children is to spend the summer in Cadaqués.