Monique Chaumette

Des Gens Bien (2019)

During a misfire, Gabriel and Raphael, two robbers Sunday, escape by accidentally kidnapping Paloma, an 8-year-old girl. Michel, an experienced cop, makes it a point of honor to stop the two men and recover the girl. Soon Gabriel and Raphael discover that ...

Alone in Berlin (2016)

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime's victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel's son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long belie ...

La Lumière du phare (2013)

Delicacy (2011)

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker. ...

Turk's Head (2010)

A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all wi ...

You'll Miss Me (2009)

In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the p ...

L'Abolition (2009)

The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France . ...

Aurore (2006)

Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has n ...

The Two of Us (1992)

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. ...

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries (1990)

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary. ...

Camomille (1988)

A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs. ...

Lamento (1988)

Chronicles the hopeless reunion between a mother and daughter, as they try to rekindle their relationship after twelve years of being apart. ...

Beatrice (1987)

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family t ...

Masques (1987)

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he? ...

A Sunday in the Country (1984)

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often. ...

The Hatter's Ghost (1982)

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour). ...

Instinct de femme (1981)

Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior. ...

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981)

"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion ...

Clara and the Why Not (1981)

In 1981, in Grenoble, Mickey, Bertrand, Frédéric, Charles, Louise, and Aimée—brought together by a shared desire to make music—are the members of a band called the "Why Notes." During a wedding ceremony in a church where Charles is playing the harmo ...

The Bit Between the Teeth (1979)

Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnat ...

Félicité (1979)

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments. ...

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour (1978)

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The Lacemaker (1977)

Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks i ...

Solemn Communion (1977)

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a f ...

Boomerang (1976)

A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer. ...

Monsieur Albert (1976)

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noi ...

The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders ma ...

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another. ...

Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris. ...

The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought ...

Poil de carotte (1973)

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide. ...

La Grande Bouffe (1973)

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death. ...

Five Leaf Clover (1972)

A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters. ...

Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe (1972)

In the autumn of '43, Mina, a little girl of Jewish origin, is entrusted to farmers in the Cévennes. Shocked by Jeroboam's frustrated manners and Deborah's cruel reflections - who is still suffering two centuries later from the struggle between Protestant ...

The Widow Couderc (1971)

The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit. ...

The Confession (1970)

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for ...

Mr. Freedom (1969)

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty ...

Shock Troops (1967)

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy. ...

The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)

Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was r ...

The Overworked (1958)

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris. ...

Le Théâtre National Populaire (1956)

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar. Franju combines sequences from theatrical performances with documentary images, creating links and confrontations between theater and the real world. ...