Arielle Dombasle

A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties. (imdb)

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel... (imdb)

"He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco (imdb)

One very full day in the life of Denis Diderot -- the 18th century philosopher and libertine who wrote the first encyclopedia -- during which he dodges the law, the church, his wife, and his definition of morality. (filmaffinity.com)

Avant-garde director Werner Schroeter's Deux (Two) is a willfully disjointed film about twin sisters played by Isabelle Huppert. As newborns, the two girls were separated. The film intercuts snippets from their lives. (Allmovie)

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested. (imdb)

Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday. Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri. (imdb)

Brought up in total ignorance of knighthood, Perceval meets one day five kights and he takes them for God surrounded by his angels, he decides to go to the court of the king Arthur to be rightly knighted... (Wikipedia.org)

In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party lose his majority in the election. But... But... Well everything would have been all right without those seven hazards. (imdb)

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings... (imdb)

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. (imdb)

Take Odette, an old actress forgotten in retirement... Take Augustin, part-time eccentric stage director, part-time pool boy at the Ritz... Take Bettina, a reigning star of mainstream tv series... Take Raphaël, a young, dangerously handsome, social worker... And now, let their dreams be fulfilled. It's Oh La La time. (festival-cannes.fr)

A sailor who was accused of killing a teenage girl and who was presumed to have drowned while making his escape, returns to the Mediterranean island where the alleged crime took place. (imdb)

Take a walk into the weird world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisted ride. A man which shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?) is the link between four different, yet similar, stories involving love, lust, crime, and time. (imdb)

Dan Gillis, an American screenwriter living in Paris, recently abandoned by his wife, and getting used to his new life as a bachelor while trying to take care of his son, Danny - is commissioned to write a script. (imdb)

Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme. (imdb)

An orientalist professor researching Delacroix's North African work becomes entangled in an S&M waking dream in Morocco. (imdb)

In the beach of Emeryville in San Francisco, during the shooting of Sans Soleil, Marker shoots works of unknown artists who uses things from the sea to build strange sculptures.

The Parisian broker Steph only needs the signature from his wife Patricia for their divorce - but she left 13 years ago for living with Amazonas indians. Steph finds her in the village and gets stuck for two days, where he learns that he has got a son, who grew up as an indian. Meanwhile he promises his son Mimi-Siku to show him Paris as soon as he will become a man. However, this happens next day when the tribe celebrates the children's festival. So both fly back to Paris... (imdb)

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? (imdb)

The film follows a French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.

Dombasle plays a blonde European woman who appears out of nowhere in the Central Asian desert. She is taken into captivity by two shepherds, Bo and Bu, who name her Ba and treat her as property and sexual object. (cinematheque)

Thérèse (Casta), a young country girl, gets away with her husband in pursuit of a better life in the city. There, she finds out that her spirit is uncontrollable, that she is an "âme forte". She meets another savage soul, Madame Numance (Dombasle), the cultivated, elegant and mysterious benefactor of the city. An intense relationship, based on mutual admiration, is generated between the two women, until Thérèse's husband decides to take advantage of the Numances' kindness and robs them.

A full-bodied comedy about boardroom and bedroom politics. (imdb)

October 1941. Eighteen months into France's occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins' political convictions. (mubi.com)

On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. (imdb)

A young actress, thought to be easy and have no morals, gathers three former school chums to find out which is her mother. Much of the movie takes place in flashback and the identity of her mother is not found out till the last few minutes. (imdb)

In this sequel to the mini-series, Lily must now find her father to save her newly found mother. Her mother, Judy went to Asia to interview the head of a revolutionary force. When she gets there, she is told that she was brought there so that they could ask for a million dollars ransom. Lily doesn't have that kind of money, so along with her mother's friends, Pagan and Maxine must find her father and ask him for the ransom. Her mother wrote three romans a clef about the man who's Lily's father. (imdb)

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man. (imdb)

The thwarted loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet, in the early 1920s. The death of Radiguet who did Cocteau sink in opium. A story under the influence of drug. A narrative description in the mind of Cocteau. A musical. (imdb)

Patrick Lechat learns that his father, the famous writer Jo Lechat, has died leaving a huge fortune. Albert Moulinot, half-brother of Jo, lives deep in the Dordogne. It is the sole beneficiary of the legacy of Jo Lechat. While Patrick will meet Albert. The latter is quite ready to give up his inheritance because he does not want anything, it is for the abolition of money. Only Patrick must bring Albert to Paris to sign his waiver of inheritance. This will take longer than expected ... (Wikipedia)

Set in the heart of the claret country, the Medoc. A cop is asked to look into the death of a member of one of France's big wine dynasties. The family say the death was an accident but the cop is not so sure. (explore.bfi.org.uk)

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?

A beautiful and popular 1950s movie star recalls her life as she considers committing suicide.

Heterosexual pretending to be gay to keep his work in the world of art, which is not without creating many misunderstandings with his wife and mother. (TMDB)

A "home movie" by Chris Marker of his visit to Tokyo with his girlfriend, actress Arielle Dombaste, beginning with a chat with a live mannequin in a store window, then through the subway and to the market.

Shy, charming Valentin is loved by all of the women in his building. He holds a housewarming party which unexpectedly triggers a spiral of violence.

Ariel and Jezebel discover Paris especially different aspects of its night life. (imdb)

Two teenage war orphans find themselves living in relative isolation from the outside world on the outskirts of their city.

Anthology of short films from various directors inspired by Jean Vigo's À Propos de Nice (1930).

A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous. (imdb)

Greg's life had been pretty quiet after the agency closed, until he decides to propose to Flo and has to introduce her to his crooked father and ex-actress mother. With no choice but to reopen the agency and find fake parents. (imdb)