Roger Dumas

Les Vieux Calibres (2013)

In search of the excitement of their youth, four retired people play gangster and make plans to rob the till in their retirement home. But when they learn of an upcoming ministerial visit, they decide to move up a gear and make the most of this unexpected ...

Zarafa (2012)

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, ...

Behind the Walls (2011)

In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares. ...

Jeanine (ou mes parents n'ont rien d'exceptionnel) (2010)

Jeanine, ten, can't take it anymore from her parents, former hippies, who only think of having fun. In order to gain access to the square and organized life of which she dreams, she secretly registers for a gymnastics competition with the hope of winning t ...

The Other Dumas (2010)

Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration ...

Jean Gabin intime (2010)

Mom Lost It! (2009)

Finding that her loved ones are neglecting her, Juliette decides to pretend she has amnesia. Her plan works perfectly, and her children finally decide to take care of her. But when she decides to reveal the truth about her condition, her husband decides to ...

The Concert (2009)

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, ...

La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil (2009)

After several years in the United States, Sylvain heads back to France to attend his grandson's christening. He wastes no time trying to catch up with his ex-wife and their children, but not everyone is pleased by his unexpected return... ...

Bank Error in Your Favour (2009)

After working with the bank for a long time, Julien decides to open a restaurant with his best friend. Unfortunately, when the bank refuses to grant him a loan, he comes up with a plan. ...

Le Lit près de la fenêtre (2009)

Three old gentlemen are in a hospital, where amazing things seem to happen, just outside the window. ...

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life. ...

Ca$h (2008)

A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive. ...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2008)

Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime. ...

What Love Means (2008)

The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story. ...

Hunting & Gathering (2007)

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck. ...

The Great Meaulnes (2006)

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty. ...

Comedy of Power (2006)

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she ...

Un amour en kit (2003)

Delphine, a saleswoman in a French fry stand, and Roland, a campsite warden, fall in love at first sight. They are in perfect love, but their big dream is to buy a house. Thanks to a friend, who puts together a fake file to obtain a loan, they acquire a pi ...

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)

A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and ...

Inch'Allah dimanche (2001)

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles ...

The Cane of My Father (2000)

A story of a big family living in French countryside between First and second world wars. ...

Sentimental Destinies (2000)

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them. ...

Monsieur le député ! (1999)

Satirical short movie ...

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family ...

Soleil (1997)

During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother. ...

Tykho Moon (1996)

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect do ...

Petit (1996)

After a night of drinking on the eve of his wedding, Léo wakes up as a child... ...

Petite sœur (1996)

The story of a young gymnast who has a serious accident during a competition and who will fight to be able to live again from her passion. ...

The New World (1995)

A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed. ...

Les Maîtres du pain (1993)

A New Life (1993)

In a shock after her mother's sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise. ...

Pétain (1993)

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial. ...

A Tale of Winter (1992)

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male c ...

Les Ritals (1991)

This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother. ...

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 ...

Le Retour de Lemmy Caution (1989)

The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, L ...

Bunker Palace Hotel (1989)

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly s ...

Chouans ! (1988)

Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides ...

Vaines recherches (1987)

An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very q ...

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? ...

Top Managers (1987)

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gér ...

The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)

The story of man who kills his friends during night party by toxin gas. He films the moment that the guests are breathing gas until they die. He attempts to kill other guests who didn't come to the party in several ways. ...

Appelez-moi Fouks (1986)

Follow My Gaze (1986)

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with t ...

Love on the Quiet (1985)

A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-by-side without issue - until an ex-boyfriend shows up and things start to go wrong. ...

The Public Woman (1984)

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. Sh ...

Fort Saganne (1984)

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. ...

The Outsider (1983)

Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal. ...

Général... nous voilà...! (1978)

A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard. ...

Dear Inspector (1978)

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy ...

The Phoney (1975)

While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a ve ...

Le Bougnoul (1975)

A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it ...

Raging Fists (1975)

Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not ...

L'Or et la fleur (1974)

Bruno: Sunday's Child (1969)

The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the tr ...

Line of Demarcation (1966)

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation bet ...

Our Agent Tiger (1965)

The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides b ...

Code Name: Tiger (1964)

A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him. ...

Chance at Love (1964)

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love. ...

That Man from Rio (1964)

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen ...

Squeak-squeak (1963)

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, ...

The Deadly Decoy (1962)

The directors of a company threatened by a railroad construction project in Africa decide to have the General Secretary of the Franco-African consortium killed. Géo Paquet, known as "Le Gorille", a DST spy, attempts to infiltrate the gang. ...

Cross of the Living (1962)

Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, t ...

Bells Without Joy (1962)

In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the ca ...

Signed, Arsène Lupin (1959)

At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece. ...

Rue de Paris (1959)

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times, but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. ...

Asphalt (1959)

Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers. ...

Mimi Pinson (1958)

Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predator ...

Isabelle Is Afraid of Men (1957)

During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her mother and aunt, worried about this tender friendship, forbade her to see again. This doesn't stop Isabelle ...

Her Bridal Night (1956)

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model. ...

Les Promesses dangereuses (1956)

Philippe Marcillac grew up in Sète, where he specialized in pranks of dubious taste. One day, as a teenager, he organizes a party in an abandoned villa. Philipe finds himself alone with Marie-Titite, who advises him to restart his life on a more serious f ...

Forgive Our Trespasses (1956)

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. ...

Maid in Paris (1956)

Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes fo ...

The First Outrages (1955)

Christian has just returned home after failing his A-levels. His father, incensed by his failure, asks a neighboring teacher to give him lessons. But Christian falls for Simone, the teacher's cousin. Jealous, Christian's girlfriend Bichette arranges for th ...

Wild Fruit (1954)

Lyon, 1953. Maria Manzana is the oldest of a family with five children and the only one who has a job. Maria's mother is deceased and her father is regularly drunk and violent. One evening when he wants to beat his daughter Christine, Mary helps her sister ...

OSS 117 Is Not Dead (1952)

OSS 117 is asked for help by a female acquaintance Muriel Rousset. She beseeches him to retrieve secret documents which have been stolen from Sir Anthony Lead, the father of Anita and Marion. He complies with her wish and no obstacle or danger can hinder h ...