María Casares

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bern...

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at...

Discorama

Orpheus

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a my...

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Bapti...

Testament of Orpheus

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a serie...

Flavia the Heretic

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed mem...

Les Nuits révolutionnaires

La Lectrice

A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes re...

The Charterhouse of Parma

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Gr...

Les Énigmes de l'Histoire

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair be...

The Lives of Albert Camus

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of...

Guernica

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines i...

Les Deux mémoires

The Two Memories, “an investigation into Republican and Francoist memories”, in the words of Jorge Semprún, is...

Les Bonnes

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss resi...

Shadow and Light

A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now...

Sand and Blood

Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco...

Amour de vivre

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish o...

Blanche and Marie

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, w...

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life

Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, keep a long...

Someone Else's America

This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's fr...

Wench

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to bec...

Roger the Disgrace

Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his poss...

Les chevaliers de la table ronde

The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur...

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

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

Love Around the House

In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters....

The Seventh Door

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to hi...

Macbeth

The Revenge of Roger

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers th...

Le Théâtre National Populaire

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar. Franju co...

María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas

A portrait of the Spanish actress María Casares (1922-96).

The Man Who Returns from Afar

A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out,...

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