Maurice Jacquemont

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

1970'lerdeki Latin Amerikan tarihinin belleği niteliğindeki Sıkıyönetim, ABD'nin bu kıtadaki müdahalelerini de çarpıcı bir dille gözler önüne sererken, yakın tarihin ciddi yaralarından birini deşiyor ve bir insanlık suçunun gelecek nesiller tarafından bile unutulmayacağını dehşetle gösteriyordu. Yine olağanüstü oyunculukları ve Theodorakis'in enfes müziğiyle politik sinemanın kilometre taşlarından.Film 1970'de gerçekleşen gerçek olaylara dayanan bir hikâye anlatıyor. 1960-67 yılları arasında Uruguay'da hükümet karşıtı muhaliflerin işkence edilip mahkemeye bile çıkarılmadan hapse atılıp öldürüldükleri dönemde geçiyor. Uluslararası bir örgüt için çalışan bir adam kaçırılır. Halk, onun daima insanlığın yararına çalışan bir iyiliksever olduğuna inanmıştır. Oysa film boyunca yürütülen araştırmada, bu İtalyan asıllı Amerikalının sanılan kişi olmadığı, tersine ülkede meydana gelen birçok siyasal olaydan sorumlu olduğu anlaşılır.

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Francois Leclerc (Jean-Paul Belmondo), işlemediği bir cinayet yüzünden yedi yıl hapis yattıktan sonra, evine, Kuzey Fransa'daki sanayi kentine döner. Neden hapse girdiğini sakin kafayla düşününce bazı ipuçlarını birbirine bağlamayı başarır. Her şey, güçlü bir sanayicinin kızıyla arasında başlayan bir aşk yüzünden başlamıştır. Bu ilişki sayesinde girdiği yeni ortamlarda önüne çok para kazanacağı fırsatlar çıkmaya başlayan Francois, bir süre sonra özel bir gece kulübünün yöneticiliğine getirilir. Fakat bir takım tehlikeli düşmanları ona, hapse girmesine yol açan bu çifte cinayet tuzağını kurmuşlardır. Geçen yedi yıldan sonra artık intikam zamanıdır...

İtiraf, Artur London'un aynı adlı otobiyografik romanında sinemaya uyarlanmış ve başrolünü Yves Montand'ın oynadığı 1970 tarihli film. 1952 Prag Mahkemeleri döneminde Çekoslovakya'da yaşananları konu edinir.

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.

A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys.

Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.

Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.

Chronicles Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.

"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.

Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.

A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.

In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own idiosyncratic way. The play harks back to Molière's plays 'Femmes savantes' and 'Précieuses ridicules'

A French crime anthology show, and one of two entires (with "Mésaventures") in the "Drôles d'histoires" umbrella title that ran for 10 years.