Gérard Desarthe

The Wounded Man

A fleeting encounter in a train station draws a withdrawn young man into a shadowy world of desire and danger....

Uranus

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party t...

Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius

Stella

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. Wh...

Ange de feu

Suicidal Françoise Sorel wants to be buried in Castelnac, the village she was born in Périgord. Her daughter Lo...

Let Joy Reign Supreme

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the...

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

The Elegant Criminal

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police i...

A Love in Germany

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40...

Priest Daens

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working condi...

Thérèse Humbert

Hecate

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism j...

Bye Bye Barbara

A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.

The Nansen Passport

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, be...

Terrorists in Retirement

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of un...

Notti e nebbie

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to...

The Police War

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating seri...

La Question ordinaire

A woman wants to film a prisoner being tortured.

The Conquistadores

A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so di...

France, Incorporated

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leade...

La Sainte Famille

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

La Baston

After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally...

The French Calvinists

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mo...

Chicken Soup

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a...

Roxana's Hands

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtu...

The Ponzi Scheme

Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the...

Peer Gynt

Jaune, Le Soleil

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "...

The Eyes Closed

Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow...

Je tue à la campagne

1788

The story of a small village in Touraine between 1788 and 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, with its l...

Travail du comédien

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by t...

Peer Gynt

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.

Cherokee

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he...