Bernadette Lafont

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village... (imdb)

It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend and a Polish nurse whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair.

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter -and inveterate womanizer- passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to succeed without the couch. That's why he decides to present his cousin, a rather naive karaoke fan, as his boyfriend. (unifrance.org)

Luis is living the charmed life: successful, handsome, carefree and above all... single. He dates whom he pleases and lives alone in the luxury of a man who has everything he wants. Luis' happy existence is threatened when his mother and five sisters decide it's time for him to marry...

During the hot summer, 5 kids, "Les Mistons", spy on two lovers. They follow Gerard and Bernadette everywhere. Les Mistons send a suggestive postcard to Bernadette once Gerard is away. But a newspaper learn to all of them that Gerard just died by accident. (imdb)

Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think, that the murderer was the milk-man, the friend of the maid, but Marcoux' daughter's fiance Lazo, who is aware of the corrupt situation in that family doesn't agree with them. (imdb)

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs... (imdb)

Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Rita has a fiancé whose family is obsessed with social distinction; Jane has a boy-friend in the army, but does not hesitate to enjoy herself with chance encounters; Ginette has a mysterious passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely; but who is that mysterious bike-rider who is constantly following her ? (imdb)

A surreal pirate adventure.

At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods. She reads Jeanne's journal, documenting René's criminal tendencies. Solange believes him innocent, manipulated into the murder or framed... (IMDB)

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally oriented than he is, and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around. (imdb)

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word "révélateur"/developper describes the product to develop or "reveal" film negatives.) (imdb)

Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic return visit to his home town in the country. Here he visits childhood friend Serge (Gerard Blain), and is appalled to find how far Serge has plummeted into alcoholism and self-pity. (amazon.com)

Roland Wolf wants to write a book about a TV game-show host, the hail-fellow-well-met Christian Legagneur, who invites Wolf to his country estate, promising several days of lengthy interviews. But Legagneur's laughter and easy intimacy are empty of content for a book, and he's constantly dashing off, promising Wolf more time later. Wolf seems to have his own mask: he's brought a gun with him, and he's curious about a woman who was a recent guest at the estate. (imdb)

Marianne, a young woman with a bright professional future, is tired of seeing her career stall because she has to take care of all the chores on top of her job. She adopts some fairly radical methods to force her husband Bruno, a financial wheeler and dealer, to do his share of their daily tasks. 48 Hours a Day is a comedy on the fate of women today who continually juggle with their jobs, husbands, children and domestic lives. (comedyfilmfest.com)

Gwendoline arrives in China in a box, and is helped out of her immediate predicament by a female contact and a devil-may-care adventurer. She's on a mission to find her father, who was last seen searching for a rare butterfly in the Land of the Yik Yak. They confront the evil Cheops in an attempt to find Gwen's lost father and the butterfly, and face many other challenges to their mission. (imdb)

Out 1 is about two different theater troupes trying to put on plays by Aeschylus. As the film continues these characters and a few others begin to cross paths and interact.

Leon is the naíve tailor who believes men are coming to see his trollop sister Marie to have their palms read. Her boyfriend Maxime acts as her pimp. Marie saves Arlette from suicide and the shy Leon falls for the young provincial girl. Arlette is recruited by Maxime, and Leon learns the truth about his sister. He sends away Arlette's potential customers with a variety of ruses and excuses, eventually hoping to win the girl's heart himself.

In a complex sequence of romantic musical chairs, this routine New Wave style drama looks at a series of couples that have come together for awhile in the villa of a wealthy tycoon who has a few emotional hang-ups. (allmovie.com)

In this standard comedy of sex and odd manners, a few men and women converge on a picturesque chateau for the reading of a will and then start pairing off. (allmovie.com)

An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier. (imdb)

short movie about death, suicide, after-life and living deads among us. adaptation of a story by Will Self

A bored rich fellow devises an elaborate revenge scheme to get back at a random stranger for moving his car

François Lesbuche has become commissioner of IGS. Despite his rank and his willingness to be incorruptible, he does not hesitate to help his old friend Rene, who is a retired recluse on his barge...

A voyeuristic madman purchases a bear trap, luring two beautiful phantoms into his home for a perverse game of cat and mouse.

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening. (imdb)

It may be named after an 850-ton space station that famously spiralled out of control and hurtled back to Earth, but Le Skylab is a lightweight contraption that represents a confidently handled and shrewdly commercial fourth feature from writer-director-star Julie Delpy. (The Hollywood Reporter)

In this bitter social drama, young provincial Elise works in a factory in Paris. She falls in love with an Algerian native co-worker. She becomes painfully aware of the prejudice he experiences. Her love and concern for the man causes her to search for him after he disappears. (allmovie.com)

In order to dispense with the people around him who are making his life a misery, a man uses a pocket computer to devise the most believable fatal accidents that could happen to them and then encourages them to happen. (imdb)

A couple of innkeepers trying to sell his property to the highest bidder. (Allocine)

Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'... (imdb)

Adrien Blausac comes out of prison, where he has just served an eight-year sentence. But he has the unpleasant surprise of discovering that his wife, Theresa, has made a life with Roger, a bus driver at the RATP, while his daughter, Odile, spends his time in the nightclubs and that his son, Gilles, steals mopeds.

A robber, fraud and charlatan, who lives during the life of Christ, meets the Messiah one day, without realising who He is. The thief only sees Him as a man who makes miracles that he would like to imitate. (bfi)

Charles and Emmanuelle are an older couple who have decided to finally enjoy life. But who will succeed them at the head of the Vanbert perfumery? Charles, on the occasion of the annual seminar where all the executives of the company are gathered, decides to choose his replacement.

Walter (Michel Blanc), the leader of a nudist colony, enlists the help of left-wing militant Henriette (Jacqueline Maillan) in this political satire. He feels he has been snubbed by the government when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. The release of the film coincided with the elections in France, but none of the political issues of the time were reflected in the subject matter. (Allmovie)

Whe police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it's predictable that she's charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for defence. He begins inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, her brother, died the same night in an accident... (imdb)

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business. (imdb)

Director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) invokes memories of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati in his first live-action film, about a mute, sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash marvellous musical fantasies. (tiff.net)

France in the fifties. The teenage orphan Sylvie is put in an institution for "fallen" or endangered girls, subjected to harsh treatment by the bigoted nuns who run the institution like a prison. Sylvie befriends a girl who wants to escape. (imdb)

George is an eternal romantic, who mixes work and feminine conquests. One day, Sophie Labranche, rings at his door for an opinion poll. He immediately falls in love with her. Seduced by him, as much as by his talent to guess the results of the polls, she decides to hire his agency.

Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Elisabeth Wiener and Emma Cohen are 4 pretty girls rooming together. After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street! They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot in this lighthearted caper comedy with a bit of nudity! Serge Gainsbourg did the bouncy score. (imdb)

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls. (imdb)

In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Antoine immediately ditches his bride and heads for Greece, but not before giving his friend Antoine (Jean-Claude Brialy) his honeymoon cruise tickets. Aboard the boat, Antoine meets and falls in love. (allmovie.com)

In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Communists who throw tomatoes at them. To get them to stop, the actor changes their minds by placing emphasis on the romance between the two rather than the politics. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Yves and Anne are a happy couple with a child. They live a quiet life until the day when .. (imdb)

A corrupt politician, who is also a drug dealer, becomes the target of a hitman.

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda, who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. (rovi)

Andrej, a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travelers to transport the contraband out of the country. (imdb)

Mathias and Antoine become a modern-day odd couple when they move in together in London. But while establishing house rules is easy, handling relationships with the opposite sex is another matter! (imdb)

The story follows young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. (imdb)

Two friends work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. (imdb)

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading a 20th century philosophical text about totaliarism) at the theater. Returning home, the couple decide to go on vacation in the mountains. (imdb)

A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power. (imdb)

It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.

Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.