Marie-France Pisier

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others... (imdb)

Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon (imdb)

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama... (imdb)

One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously... (imdb)

This suavely-fashioned film with an all-female cast focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives... (imdb)

A film director tries to cope with his frantic producer, too-amorous actors, and a disaster-prone crew... (imdb)

The story of Barocco is about a girl (Adjani) that is in love with a boxer (Depardieu). They plan to went abroad after making a lot of money by cheating in a match. (imdb)

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station... (imdb)

Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. (All Movie Guide)

Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation , moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and spends most of his time womanizing and fooling around.But what this apparent lightness conceals is a deep wound. Jonathan, in fact, has never been able to overcome the death of his beloved sister. Meanwhile Paul sinks into depression... (imdb)

An ambitious Parisian fashion designer finds romance and great career success in this story about the life and loves of the legendary couturier, Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel. (All Movie)

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script. (imdb)

Mini-series adaptation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Beautiful Noelle Page meets dashing WWII American pilot Larry Douglas in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead Larry abandons her. In the United States, successful Catherine Alexander meets Larry Douglas and they marry. But Noelle hasn't forgotten Larry even as she's become a successful actress... (imdb)

Antoine and Colette is the second film -- a short -- in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel. Catches up with Antoine Doinel as a solitary 17-year-old who works at Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He meets Colette, a high-school student, at a concert and falls in love for the first time. The film traces his awkward courtship of the icy Colette, who never reciprocates.

"Les Apprentis Sorciers" is a thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one. (imdb)

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland. (imdb)

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town. (imdb)

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends. (imdb)

Orphée is a hugely popular pop singer deeply in love with his wife Eurydice. During a rehearsal, he dies of a short circuit and is send to hell. Once there, Hades realize he's been taken by mistake, decides to give him a second chance and send him back to earth. But a few days later, Eurydice dies of a drug overdose. Orphée decides to go down to hell to take her back...

In a remote English village of the 1840s, three sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Brontë. Although compelled to take up posts as governesses or private tutors, the four loyal siblings continue to nurture their artistic aspirations. Branwell's poems are beginning to interest other writers and each of the three sisters has published a successful novel. But then tragedy strikes.

A prelude announces the intent to tell nine stories, all marked with letters of alphabet, with the subsequent permutations of these stories. Not only the plotlines get mutated and re-ordered, so do the actors, hats, beards, accents, manners - whatever may identify a character ceases to be such an identifier. The plot itself becomes a mystery, since there are parallel searches for the treasure, the map of treasure, which as we learn is a treasure in itself, a coin, a kidnapped father etc.

Set in 1846, the story of the day in Normandy, when Frederic Chopin and George Sand split up.

An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately 'literary' ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

Peter is a laborer who dons fancy clothes and cruises the seedy dives of Dusseldorf for women. Whenever he is rejected by one of the females, he turns into a sadistic murderer. A shy young cabaret singer falls for Peter, but she too becomes a victim of his rage.

In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders and Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. (imdb)

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television. (imdb)

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings. (imdb)

Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after another. (imdb)

Tells the story of a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money as almost everybody has disliked her husband in a small town. (Wikipedia)

A travel guide (Sami Frey) engages an enigmatic interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) who's asked him for an entertaining story. As he spins his tales, one fascinates her most: a reality-bender almost beyond belief. In it, anarchists bomb a politician's family, killing all but a young girl. She's guarded by a sleepless man who clings to just one memory -- and if that memory dies, he'll end his life. (Netflix)

In this routine action film, Danny Fairchild (Wayne Rogers) and Vincent Reblack (Patrick Macnee) are partners in an art-scam operation in which Danny forges valuable paintings and Vincent authenticates them; both pretend to run a company that legitimately authenticates art for sale at auction. (allmovie.com)

When Justine Lacroix a charming TV reporter meets a seductive surgeon it is love at first sight and the beginning of a great love story. The cute blonde from Paris and the dark handsome man from Nanterre soon become inseparable although there is a little something Justine forgot to take into consideration: the man she loves is...an Arab, well, a Frenchman of immigrant background...A detail for Justine and Djalil but not for the Lacroix and the Boudaoud families... (imdb)

Terry Bartell, a U.P.I. reporter stationed in Rome is an inveterate ladies man who suddenly decides he's through playing meaningless romantic games and wants to find "Miss Right." As a prelude to beginning the search, he sets up a series of "farewell" dinners with his three current girlfriends, scheduled in his apartment in two hour intervals. (allmovie)

Lola, a 23-year-old student, is working on a law thesis while working part-time at a nursery. Lola lives in a studio under the small apartment that her mother, Claire Forestier, occupies with her younger brother, Guillaume, 15, high school student. From Italy where she spends her holidays, Claire sends postcards to her children. In fact, she does not decide to return. In raincoat and black glasses, she drags a suitcase on wheels in a street in Paris. It feels unstable, weird. (imdb)

A French sailor tries to reunite with his ex-wife after his shipmates tell him she is a movie star.

A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) goes into exile in a remote Austrian town after accidentally causing a death. Once in town, winter brings an epidemic of rabies that sweeps the entire population. (FILMAFFINITY)

The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.

Marie-Hélène lives in a manor but is not happy. Georges, her husband, is gentle to her but she feels stifled by the constant presence of Cécile, her intrusive mother-in-law. One day, Jacques, a friend of George's comes to visit him. He is in the company of a beautiful woman, Françoise. Marie-Hélène, who feels ill-at-ease in her new environment, gets more and more attracted to Françoise. To such an extent that the two women fall in love... (imdb)

Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector, son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige. (imdb)

Billie, poor relative of a wealthy clan, looks for a purpose in life in Paris, is left by her lover Edouard, marries her New York boss Ellis who dies of a stroke. She opens a boutique in LA and weds gifted but troubled film director Vito. (imdb)