Jean Chapot

Honorin et l'enfant prodigue (1994)

In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child. ...

Polly West est de retour (1993)

Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic actress causes trouble among the inhabitants. After having received her in confession, the priest seems to be ...

Honorin et la Loreleï (1992)

During the inter-war period, a young German woman and her little girl arrive in a peaceful Provencal village. They have come to find the father of the latter, a Frenchman who was formerly a prisoner in Germany. But she arrives on the very day of his funera ...

The Pleasure of Love (1991)

Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Thr ...

The Cocottes (1991)

A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these gorgeous young women from the big city strolling on the village square under the watchful eye of a chaperone a ...

Velvet Paws (1987)

Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter's late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of ...

Charles and Lucie (1979)

An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South ...

Nea (1976)

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes ...

The Burned Barns (1973)

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder. ...

Les Années Lumière (1972)

Film montage of documents shot between 1895 and 1900 by the operators of the Lumière brothers. ...

Le Fusil à lunette (1972)

La Voleuse (1966)

Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her. ...

Skies Above (1965)

The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders. ...

The Thousandth Window (1960)

An old man against the public housing project. ...

Romy: Anatomy of a Face (1967)

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress. ...

A Bomb for a Dictator (1957)

RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up the dictator's private plane as he returns, but at the last second he changes plans and travels on a comme ...