
Paloma Matta
Actor · 1945 – 2017 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Movies9
Movie7.2WarDramaNear the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.
Movie6.8ThrillerCrimeIn a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
Movie5.3DramaClaude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
Movie5.5ComedyDramaA film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
Movie6.2DramaHistoryBiography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982 · 2 votes
Movie7.0AdventureTV MovieIn 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mine.
Movie8.0DramaAn aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Le Roi Lear
1965 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhen his uncle Paul died, Lucien Berlemont inherited a telescope and a sextant, which only aggravated his aversion to the high seas. At the age of 20, he began taking clandestine navigation courses. During his vacations in St-Lunac, even Mr. Dumesnil's daughters struggled to distract him from his marine reveries. But one evening, he inadvertently finds himself locked up with Marie-Angeline; the consequences of this prolonged evening force him to make a decision and commit himself, for better or for worse, to one of the Dumesnil girls.
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA group of comedians who travel from village to village witness the old traditions of rural Spain.
Series3
TV7.4Action & AdventureDramaAdapted from the novel by Eugène Le Roy, this series tells the life of Jacquou Féral, a peasant who revolted against the Count of Nansac in Périgord in 1819.
Jacquou le Croquant
1969 · 4 votes
TV6.5DramaThe young knight d'Artagnan did not inherit much from his father: a yellow nag and a letter of recommendation to his father's friend. On his way from Gascony to Paris, the knight loses this letter in a brawl. But d'Artagnan quickly wins the friendship of the three inseparable musketeers Athos, Aramis, and Porthos—and the love of the beautiful Constance, who is kidnapped by agents on behalf of the Cardinal.
D'Artagnan
1969 · 2 votes
TVSci-Fi & FantasyMysteryLa femme en blanc (1970) is a 13-episode French television series directed by Pierre Gautherin. It is an adaptation of the 1860 mystery novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The series aired beginning June 5, 1970, on the second channel of the ORTF.