Jean-Claude Petit

Through the Mill (2018)

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true eve ...

Dalida (2017)

Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed s ...

First Growth (2015)

Winemaker son, Charlie Marshall left Burgundy to become a Parisian renowned winemaker, author of a successful guide whose notes are annually tremble vineyards. But in Côte-d'Or, his father lost the taste of wine and mistakes the family winery rush toward ...

Hôtel Normandy (2013)

At 40, Alice has everything a woman of her age could want - everything except one vital accessory: a man. Since her husband was killed in a road accident a few years ago, she has resisted all attempts to start a relationship with another man, despite the b ...

Visage (2009)

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. ...

Dance with Him (2007)

Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misant ...

One Summer (2006)

A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city. ...

Simon le juste (2003)

A Loving Father (2002)

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact ...

Lumumba (2000)

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director R ...

Paddy (1999)

Jean and Paddy haven't recovered from Ben's death. Ben was Paddy's lover but also Jean's. Their threesome filled their existence. Today, while they still love each other, Jean and Paddy are torn apart. ...

Bitter Sugar (1998)

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Gu ...

Aristotle's Plot (1997)

Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies. ...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays. ...

The Horseman on the Roof (1995)

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. ...

Foreign Student (1994)

A French football playing exchange student falls in love. ...

Nobody's Children (1994)

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child. ...

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem (1994)

Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace ac ...

The Playboys (1992)

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Alber ...

Guilty of Innocence (1992)

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead ...

588 rue Paradis (1992)

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society. ...

Mother (1991)

Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which ...

Rue du Bac (1991)

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer. ...

Uranus (1990)

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, b ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy. ...

Headstrong (1989)

Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little drama tells the story of Virgile (Thomas Langmann), a sixteen-year old boy who has grown tired of being a virgin, and decides to seduce Carla (Kristin Scott ...

Deux (1989)

The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. ...

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aram ...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête (1989)

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it ...

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 ...

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (1987)

Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him. ...

Manon of the Spring (1986)

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier. ...

Jean de Florette (1986)

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. T ...

Le Caviar rouge (1986)

Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor. ...

Billy Ze Kick (1985)

Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick. ...

Sadness and Beauty (1985)

Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity. Lea soundly rejects him, and her student Prudence fee ...

Slices of Life (1985)

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal! ...

L'Addition (1984)

For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzea ...

Vive la sociale ! (1983)

A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends. ...

Tusk (1980)

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny... ...

Crime Thief (1969)

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself. ...

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau (2022)

In The Tracks Of - Special Edition (2020)

This documentary brings the audience into the creative process of film scores by featuring the interviews of some of the world's most renowned film composers, including Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia), Bruno Coulais (The Chorus), Georges Delerue (Jules ...

Toujours seuls (1991)

A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Nevertheless ...

Lotus Flower (1988)

After his family was brutally murdered by French settlers on his wedding day, an Algerian man joins the French army and is sent to Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War. ...

Testament of Orpheus (1960)

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to a ...