Roger Planchon

Bir İdam Mahkumu Kaçtı, sinemada minimalizmin tadına varmak isteyenler için en iyi başlangıç noktası. Filmin büyük bölümü, Fontaine'i (François Leterrier) hücresinde yalnız başına, kendisi gibi tutsak olanlarla iletişim kurarken ve özgürlüğüne doğru adım adım ilerlerken gösterir. Tüm Bresson filmleri gibi bu film de, Bresson'un uzun çalışmalardan sonra geliştirdiği, "sinematograf" üzerine kuramlarını ortaya koyar: Dramatiklikten tamamen uzak bir oyunculuk sergileyen amatör oyuncular; görüntü dışı seslere ve onların aktardığı bilgiye olağanüstü bir vurgu; son ve görkemli ana kadar müziğin kullanılmaması. Fransız sinemasının diğer muhteşem hapishane filmleri olan Jaques Becker'in Le trou (Delik, 1960) ve Jean Genet'nin Un chant d'amour (Aşk Şarkısı, 1950) filmleri gibi, Bir İdam Mahkumu Kaçtı da insan ruhunun çektiği acıların ve kurtuluşa yönelten dürtülerin olağanüstü güçlü bir alegorisini sunar..

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.

1789'da gerçekleşen devrim tüm Fransa'yı kana bular. Devrimin Paris'teki önderleri arasında Danton ve Robespierre de vardır. Bu iki dost, temellerini attıkları cumhuriyetin üzerinden dört yıl geçmeden birbirlerine düşman olur ve sonunda Danton gönüllü bir sürgüne çıkar. Ancak çevresindeki herkesi rejim düşmanı olarak gören ve vatana ihanetten giyotine gönderen Robespierre'in aşırı sert politikalarına daha fazla dayanamaz. Ölümü göze alarak Paris’e döner ve Terör Dönemi denen çılgınlığa son vermeyi dener.

Biyografik nitelikteki bu film, ünlü Fransız heykeltraş Camille Claudel'in yaşam öyküsünü anlatıyor. Camille (Isabelle Adjani), dönemin ünlü heykeltraşlarından Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) ile büyük bir aşk yaşar. Rodin de onu sever, ama Rodin zor bir adamdır. Bu nedenle ikisi de büyük acılar çekerler. Etkileyici ve çarpıcı sahnelerle dolu bu film, bir sanatçının yaşamını anlatmaktan ziyade bir kadının dramını anlatıyor.

Başkanın suikastının ardından resmi soruşturma tek suçluya işaret ederek hızla kapanır. Ancak dürüst Savcı Henri Volney, olayın bir komplo olduğuna inanır ve kendi tehlikeli bağımsız soruşturmasını başlatır. Gerçeğe yaklaştıkça, sistemdeki güçlü ve tehlikeli isimlerle karşı karşıya gelir ve hayatı tehdit altına girer

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner.

In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in late 17th-century Paris. This is the first time a documentary filmmaker has been allowed to examine all the aspects of this great theatrical company. Sequences include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux, and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau.

French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.

This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.

Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.

Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was “the last refuge of poetry” - the only contemporary art form from which metaphor could still spring naturally and spontaneously.

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.