Bernard Stora

Villa Caprice (2021)

Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions. ...

La Douce Empoisonneuse (2014)

An elderly lady is visited each month by her good-for-nothing nephew who relieves her of her regular pension. When he appears again one winter day accompanied by two hideous but eager pals who start roasting a freshly captured piglet on her back lawn befor ...

La Dernière Campagne (2013)

December 15, 2011. In front of an audience stunned, the penalty falls : Jacques Chirac is convicted and sentenced by the correctional court of Paris, a 2-year suspended prison sentence. Never in the history of the Republic, a former president had suffered ...

Le Troisième Jour (2010)

Suzie Berton (2004)

Une preuve d'amour (2003)

A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again. ...

Demain et tous les jours après (2002)

In Africa, two occidentals, a man and a woman, with totaly different minds, are obliged to make a long trip together in a cab. ...

L'Aîné des Ferchaux (2001)

Ferchaux, a rich and powerful businessman, becomes the target of an investigating judge convinced of his involvement in a huge political and financial scandal. To obtain Ferchaux's confession, the judge throws his brother and partner in jail. Very attached ...

Mémoires en fuite (2000)

Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father, Marcel Lemoyne, doctor, took care for wounded members of the Resistance and helped them to find hiding places.Every year Jea ...

A Considerable Disturbance (2000)

Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart... ...

George Dandin (1999)

Theater play "George Dandin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999. ...

Crédit bonheur (1996)

Settled in Brittany with their four children in an old semi-decayed house, a couple of slightly idealistic Parisians is sucked into a spiral of credits. ...

Sixième classique (1996)

By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life. ...

The Flood (1995)

This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, be ...

Mutual Consent (1994)

There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their daughter, Madeleine - she will live with her mother and spend every other week-end with her father. But Roma ...

Couchettes express (1994)

Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who w ...

Max & Jeremie (1992)

Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowl ...

Stranger in the House (1992)

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, h ...

Six crimes sans assassins (1990)

A legendary police commissioner is at the edge of writing his memoirs when he asked to help out with solving a locked room mystery where two people are found dead in an apartment that was locked from the inside. ...

La Petite Amie (1988)

Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each other... at first. ...

Vent de panique (1987)

Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having bec ...

An Impudent Girl (1985)

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her on ...

The Judge (1984)

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring. ...

Pablo Est Mort (1983)

A retired doctor, who participated in the events of May 1968, is led to reconnect with former comrades still active in the underground. ...

Le Jeune Marié (1983)

Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party. ...

Adoption (1979)

A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. But then the harmonic situation escalates as the boy falls in love with his "adoptive mother". ...

The Recourse to the Method (1978)

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultura ...

French Connection II (1975)

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York. ...

Impossible Object (1973)

Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of ...

Killer (1972)

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda. ...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why ...

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they ...

The Sicilian Clan (1969)

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them. ...

Staircase (1969)

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile ...

The Tattoo (1968)

An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier. ...

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume. ...

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs (2024)

Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020)

Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema. ...

The Clouzot Scandal (2017)

Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyr ...

They Saw Inferno (2010)

A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project 'Inferno' was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjunct to the main feature, offering a glut of interviews wi ...

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic origi ...