
Sacha Briquet
Actor · 1930 – 2010 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Movies23
Movie7.0ComedyThe ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964 · 953 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaA woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
Movie6.4DramaCrimeParis, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Movie5.1ComedyRomanceAt the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
Belle Maman
1999 · 49 votes
Movie5.2DramaNaive villagers find themselves duped by a pair of con artists who sweep into town proclaiming themselves "Holy Father" and "Holy Mother." Soon the pair of cons are making out like the bandits that they are, as the villagers hand over their money and their lands.
Ave Maria
1984 · 5 votes
Movie5.9ComedySeven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaBum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceA modern Cinderella in Paris: While the plain Kelly Carter works as a dresser for the famous fashion designer Francesco, she dreams of designing shoes for him. However she can't win his attention... until she helps a good fairy on the street who, unbeknownst to Kelly, enchants a pair of Kelly's shoes so that she turns into a supermodel whenever she wears them. She attends Francesco's Ball and immediately wins his heart. Now, how can she make him love her real self?
If the Shoe Fits
1990 · 23 votes
Movie4.4DramaGrigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceSet in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Movie5.4CrimeComedyFive swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
Movie5.9ComedyA closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
Movie5.3ComedyA dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Movie4.7AdventureComedyAn international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Movie4.1ActionThriller1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move the house, it won't be long before he sees in Philippe, his new neighbor, an ideal Prince Charming for his mother.
Movie4.4DramaTV MovieWhen the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Eugénie Grandet
1994 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaAn upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.
Movie5.1ComedyDramaYou're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
MovieComedyLa Fessée
1978
Movie8.0ComedyPère Noël et fils
1983 · 1 votes
Movie4.9ComedyDramaChick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceA wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
Movie7.5DramaFates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Series6
TVCrimeLes Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
TV7.9CrimeMysteryThe pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Maigret
1991 · 26 votes
TV9.0CrimeMysteryFrançois Vidocq has been sentenced to eight years' hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. Escaped with the help of his faithful friends Desfossés and Fil de fer, the convict is pursued by his lifelong enemy: the policeman Flambart. Between scams and disguises, Vidocq initially leads an undercover life in 19th-century Paris. Eventually, the two men team up to fight criminals... And Vidocq succumbs to Annette's charms.
Vidocq
1967 · 3 votes
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Les Jupons de la révolution
1989 · 2 votes
TV10.0DramaSaccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
L'Argent
1988 · 1 votes
TV7.0ComedyA prostitute named Nana Coupeau rises from the very bottom of the social ladder to become one of the most sought-after courtesans.
Nana
1981 · 1 votes