Guy Mairesse

The New Avengers

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977....

March or Die

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when...

Minichronique

Z

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the t...

Tamango

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango....

That Most Important Thing: Love

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalie...

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.

The Confession

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relativ...

Choice of Arms

A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

Shock Troops

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional...

The Diabolical Dr. Z

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bid...

The Mask of the Gorilla

Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a danger...

The Sicilian Connection

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the...

S.A.S. San Salvador

Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko...

The Right to Love

The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prison...

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, whil...

To Skin a Spy

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine...

The Impure Ones

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latt...

Sahara on Fire

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put...

The Black Hand

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his...

The Sicilian

A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a...

When the City Awakes

An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.

Le chien qui a vu Dieu

In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent...

In the Affirmative

The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news...

Skipper Next to God

Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on hi...

Sister Angele's Secret

A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing; the sister...

The Red Cloak

Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knig...

Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French...

Hue and Cry

After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property...

The Purloined Letter

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

The Road to Damascus

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles rem...

Les Ratés

A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jea...

Pauline et l'ordinateur

Seeking medical advice to lose a few pounds, a woman lands up finding out about the usefulness of a computer, n...

Piédalu député

In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow citizens won h...

A Tough Day

A strike has broken out in a big factory in the North of France. Two workers, Robert and Etienne, go through th...

The Merry Pilgrims

With no contract in view, Aimé Barelli, the leader of the band of the same name, decides to take a holiday. As...