Jean-François Stévenin

Between Us (2023)

Elodie and Laetitia live in close love and dream of having a child. As Elodie discovers that she cannot get pregnant because of a health problem and encounters financial troubles, they decide to take a roommate. ...

La part du lion (2023)

Jacky is a lion tamer in a traveling circus. He was born there, he has lived there, and he intends to die there. But today, he received a letter. The government is going to ban the breeding of wild animals. Soon, only animals considered domestic will be al ...

The Line (2023)

Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragile, immature 55-year-old woman who blames Margaret, her firstborn, for ruining her dreams of a career as a ...

Cop Goes Missing (2022)

One morning, a worn-out field cop, nicknamed Ping-Pong by everyone, burns his police ID and disappears. During one night and one day, his colleagues look for him, meet him and lose him in Toulouse and its suburbs. But every hour that passes brings Ping-Pon ...

Adieu Paris (2022)

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the "kings of Paris"… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and ...

The Butcher's Daughter (2022)

Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in life... She's about to sell it when Mar- tial, who worked for her father, wants to take it over, but she is ...

Les Jours et les Nuits (2021)

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin. ...

Lost Illusions (2021)

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams. ...

Stolen Childhood (2021)

How do you grow up into a well-functioning adult, when you are uprooted time and time again? It's a bitter dilemma that 12-year-old Achille knows all too well. After ten happy years, the young boy is torn from his foster family and sent to live with strang ...

Jean-François Stévenin - Simple Messieurs (2020)

Silent Streams (2019)

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love. ...

I’m So Far (2019)

Sometimes, things that seem simple… just aren't. The trials of a senior with limited mobility trying to leave his home with the help of some friends. ...

In Safe Hands (2018)

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to ...

Johnny made in France (2018)

Go, Toto! (2017)

A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. ...

Vénéneuses (2017)

An aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde who asks him to kill her uncle (Richard Bohringer) because he guards her money but prevents her from using it. She asks the gangster to kill him and that w ...

The Young One (2016)

Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures. ...

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016)

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film's most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Mi ...

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture (2016)

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud. ...

Seances (2016)

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjur ...

Mirage of Love (2016)

1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love. ...

The Forbidden Room (2015)

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love. ...

Mad Love (2015)

1959. Guilty of a double murder, a man is guillotined. The dead man's head rolls into a basket, from where it recounts a tale. ...

The First Summer (2015)

Two sisters meet up late one summer to clear out the house of their deceased grandparents. ...

François Truffaut l'insoumis (2014)

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his int ...

Ceux qui dansent sur la tête (2014)

Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing. The friendship comes under pressure during a dance audition in Paris, where one clearly is superior to the other. A unique film with the passion ...

The Last Diamond (2014)

Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale which is a considerable personal and fami ...

Incident Urbain (2014)

Two enigmatic figures with code names, Costello and the Colonel, bound seemingly by some mysterious revolutionary past, engage in an intense conversation concerning the architecture surrounding them, with possible catastrophic consequences. ...

Le Renard jaune (2013)

Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regularly insult him. One morning he is found dead in his home. For inspector Giraud, it is clear that the culpri ...

Bright Days Ahead (2013)

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Espec ...

True Friends (2013)

The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in love with his friend Paul. ...

Little Lion (2013)

A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe. ...

Tied (2013)

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress. ...

Of Snails and Men (2012)

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 wor ...

Tata Bakhta (2012)

Sister (2012)

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. ...

The Desert of Love (2012)

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child. ...

Valparaiso (2012)

A young member of the European Parliament faces a conflict of interest as she leads an investigation into an oil tanker disaster. ...

Juliet Berto, where are you? (2012)

Documentary on the french actress Juliet Berto. ...

Let My People Go ! (2011)

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can't help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes t ...

The First Man (2011)

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding i ...

Itinéraire bis (2011)

35-year-old Jean still lives with his mother in a small village in Corsica and works as a cook in the family's restaurant. His future, to his great despair, is all mapped out: he'll take over the restaurant. But one day Nora, a young and forceful woman, is ...

A Burning Desire (2011)

Yann and Rose are young, they love and want to have a child. Nine months later ... still no baby in sight. They then show great imagination and try everything ... no matter what it is. But they wish so hardly to be three that, is not likely they finish a ...

The Silence of Joan (2011)

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite. ...

Four Lovers (2010)

Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners. ...

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman. ...

Blackout (2010)

Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn't been able to leave Rwa ...

The Limits of Control (2009)

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own cons ...

This Night (2009)

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup d'eta ...

Like a Star Shining in the Night (2008)

A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after they mar ...

Home (2008)

Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway ...

A World of Ours (2008)

Noé comes into sixth grade at the same time he discovers a new city and a new house where he has just moved with his father, Marc. Coached by him, Noé takes intensive training of combat sport. And Mark does not hesitate to put him in a situation of attac ...

Captain Ahab (2008)

When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade la ...

Nuisibles (2008)

The unexpected meeting of a father and a son in the working world. ...

L'Affaire Ben Barka (2008)

Blindfold (2008)

Dirty Money: Undercover (2008)

A Swiss policeman infiltrates an international money laundering ring. Based on a true story. ...

Room of Death (2007)

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discove ...

Le deal (2007)

The Path (2007)

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother. ...

Il a suffi que maman s'en aille… (2007)

A coupe get a divorce; the father gets to keep the youngest daughter. ...

A Summer Day (2006)

The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance. ...

Camping à la ferme (2005)

Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante jug ...

Volpone (2004)

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends". ...

Strong Shoulders (2003)

A young woman obsessively trains to be a track-and-field star. ...

No Big Deal (2003)

Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past. ...

The Beast of Gevaudan (2003)

A new tell about the most famous legend in France. ...

Deux (2002)

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin. ...

Man on the Train (2002)

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, ...

A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon. ...

The Repentant (2002)

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themse ...

Mischka (2002)

An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka. ...

All About Love (2001)

Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single da ...

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. ...

Entre l'arbre et l'écorce (2000)

A young Parisian in quarrel with his father goes to join his uncle who runs a sawmill in the provinces. ...

Total Western (2000)

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have. ...

Love Me (2000)

Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members. ...

Genet à Chatila (1999)

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written n ...

Fait d'hiver (1999)

This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier, a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced father whose wife has custody of their children and who barricades himself with the kids in his country house. The police and the press surround the house, but ...

For Sale (1998)

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective. ...

White Lies (1998)

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris. ...

On Guard (1997)

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the ...

Les Parents modèles (1997)

The divorce of a couple seen through the terribly lucid eyes of their two young children. ...

Les aveux de l'innocent (1996)

Serge Perrin is 23 and unusually happy at the prospect of spending the rest of his life in jail for a series of crimes he did not commit. This black French comedy attempts to explain via flashback the twisted reasons why an innocent youth would so cavalier ...

Les Bidochon (1996)

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate. ...

L'éducatrice (1996)

Stephanie is a hostile and mute newcomer in a home for troubled minors. She disorients the staff. Louise, a young educator, is determined and determined to overcome the aggressiveness of the girls, who give her a hard time. She gets caught up in the game a ...

Les frères Gravet (1996)

Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral. ...

The World of Jacques Demy (1995)

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes. ...

Black for Remembrance (1995)

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline rema ...

Fast (1995)

Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Jean-Louis was a 25-year old virgin when a free-spirited young Parisian woman was temporarily stranded in his village after a bus broke down. She left h ...

Wacko (1994)

An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. ...

The Patriots (1994)

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. ...

Due volte vent'anni (1994)

L'amour est un jeu d'enfant (1994)

Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neith ...

23h58 (1993)

This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race. Throughout the film are constant references to other movies in the genre. A policeman investigating the robbery is surprised to discover that the heist ...

Because of Her (1993)

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer. ...

De force avec d'autres (1993)

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. ...

The Big Pardon 2 (1992)

The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and wh ...

Olivier, Olivier (1992)

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother. ...

La Gamine (1992)

A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. There's only one problem : her behavior brings the two of them more than once in trouble. ...

Poulets à l'amende (1992)

Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud. ...

Sushi Sushi (1991)

Maurice Hartmann, a Parisian academic, annoys his young mistress with his cynical and disillusioned words and the void of his existence. The proposal of one of his students upsets his life: the young Kiyoshi offers him to taste his assortment of sushi and ...

Cold Moon (1991)

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant ...

Out 1 (1990)

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash. ...

Mona and I (1990)

Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own. ...

Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (1990)

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from "Cahiers du cinéma", then of "Liberation". In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette's career, his ...

Thick Skinned (1989)

Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison. ...

The French Revolution (1989)

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was ...

The French Revolution: Years of Hope (1989)

First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792. ...

La soule (1989)

In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive. He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon. He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him through hel ...

The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers (1989)

In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their ...

36 Fillette (1988)

A 14-year-old pursues romance with a man while vacationing with her family in Switzerland. ...

How Good the Whites Are (1988)

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, ...

Lune Froide (1988)

A César award winning short drama based around Charles Bukowski's two stories "Copulating Mermaid of Venice" and "Trouble with the Battery" ...

Quand je serai jeune (1988)

May 68. While, outside, people are demonstrating, a man is finishing the editing of Baisers volés. ...

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 ...

Sale Destin (1987)

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon become ...

La rebelión de los colgados (1986)

The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence. ...

Double Gentlemen (1986)

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one's mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old frien ...

I Hate Actors (1986)

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyon ...

Salomé (1986)

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the he ...

Ménage (1986)

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits. ...

Treasure Island (1986)

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures. ...

Cop's Honor (1985)

Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own investigati ...

Grosse (1985)

A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working. ...

Under the Sign of the Fish (1984)

At the "Hôtel des pêcheurs," men gather to participate in a fishing competition. Everything suggests that they have been more drawn to the enchanting song of Antoinette, the pretty guest staying in room number three. Pascal, a forty-something man with a ...

Our Story (1984)

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woma ...

Flight to Berlin (1984)

A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents. ...

Adam et Ève (1983)

Returning from work, Louis finds a letter from his wife saying their marriage is over. He's just lost his mother, and now he's lost his wife as well. Shaken, he tries to understand: why the illness? Why the separation? ...

Dust of Empire (1983)

In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their p ...

La Couleur de l'abîme (1983)

Jacques, Dominique, and their children go on vacation to their house in the Cévennes. Once there, the couple meets Rod and Melanie, two Americans who are passionate about caving. Together, they set off to explore a cave. A series of supernatural events wi ...

Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983)

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. ...

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. ...

A Room in Town (1982)

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady. ...

Godard's Passion (1982)

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities. ...

Is There a Frenchman in the House? (1982)

An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspir ...

Le Pont du Nord (1982)

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotte ...

L’Elegance (1982)

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman. ...

Merry-Go-Round (1981)

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery. ...

Escape to Victory (1981)

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime. ...

Snow (1981)

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients. ...

The Boy Soldier (1981)

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films. ...

Psy (1981)

Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses. ...

The Dogs of War (1980)

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues. ...

Two Lions in the Sun (1980)

Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go on vacations together. This last vacation has been a washout and so is their return. ...

See Here My Love (1979)

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him. ...

The Police War (1979)

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld. ...

Roberte (1979)

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. ...

Mais où et donc Ornicar (1979)

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids. ...

Adieu voyages lents (1978)

Mountain Pass (1978)

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him in the car, have continued th ...

Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978)

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this come ...

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977)

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women. ...

Barocco (1976)

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend. ...

Small Change (1976)

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience. ...

Day for Night (1973)

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. ...

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs. ...

The Wild Child (1970)

The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy. ...

Heartbeat (1968)

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover. ...

Tromper n'est pas jouer (2011)

Mischka (2002)

An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka. ...

Double Gentlemen (1986)

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one's mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old frien ...

Mountain Pass (1978)

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him in the car, have continued th ...

Maîtresse (1976)

After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling for her, Olivier returns periodically, and an impulsive romance blossoms despite Ariane's profession. Soon ...

Zig Zig (1975)

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. ...

Near Orouët (1973)

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures. ...

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs. ...

Bed and Board (1970)

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pre ...