Philippe Dormoy

Sons of Ramses (2023)

Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d'Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tang ...

Bons Amis (2021)

Conviction (2019)

Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor's office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she ...

America's Great War 1917-1918 (2017)

Through unreleased archives and contemporary footage shot in the archeological digs of World War I's battlefields, this film tells the heroic and tragic tale of the American soldiers in this terrible conflict. ...

Oum Kalthoum, la voix du Caire (2017)

Slaves of the Seas (2009)

Mario and his brother Alonso become committed to fishing in a coral-reef in the southern Philippines. With many other children of different origin they work for starvation wages on the ship of unscrupulous captain Murène. Together they drive shoals of fis ...

Les vacances de Clémence (2008)

In Saint-Nazaire in 1967, a hotbed of workers' struggles, Clémence, 26, is married to a young worker, Gérard. Like many women of her generation, she does not work and takes care of her two children. But she longs for a different life while Gérard confus ...

One Step Behind You (2004)

Anne's ex-husband, a corrupt policeman, breaks one night in this house, in violation of a restraining order. During the discussion, the man accidentally falls down the stairs and dies instantly. But when the police show at home, the body is gone and Anne p ...

Battle of the Brave (2004)

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls ...

L'Affaire Dominici (2003)

During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of ...

Fan-Fan the Tulip (2003)

In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daug ...

Fidelity (2000)

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer. ...

La vie sauve (1998)

Senka, a young exile in France, decides to return to her country. She takes a look at a country that, for a moment, was her land of welcome, her last doubts about her return, her last encounters. ...

Still Waters Run Deep (1996)

Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place b ...

Quicksand (1996)

Set in France's Carmargue area during the late 1950s, this provocative, powerful drama chronicles the labor dispute between an exploitative farmer and his newest worker, a Spanish emigrant who turns about to much more than he first appears. Manuel comes to ...

Les Derniers Jours de la victime (1995)

Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal. ...

Up, Down, Fragile (1995)

A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris. ...

La Vie de Bohème (1992)

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. ...

Août (1992)

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart. ...

The Wicked (1991)

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into ...

Firing Squad (1991)

Based on the controversial case of Pvt. Joseph Pringle, a Canadian soldier convicted of murder in Italy in 1945 and executed by firing squad. ...

In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome. ...

Monsieur Hire (1989)

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated. ...

My Friend the Traitor (1988)

After the end of World War II, a collaborationist seeks redemption. ...

If the Sun Never Returns (1987)

In a remote Swiss mountain village, the self-proclaimed prophet and sorcerer Anzevui foretells that the sun will never return, plunging the community into eternal winter. As fear and panic spread among the villagers, most succumb to despair. However, a you ...

Tandem (1987)

Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appea ...

À la carte Company (1987)

Appelez-moi Fouks (1986)

Frankenstein 90 (1984)

French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'am ...

Paradise for All (1982)

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about ...