Orane Demazis

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based...

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman nam...

Marius

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fann...

César

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discove...

Fanny

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her m...

Until the Last One

Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed do...

Harvest

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the...

French Provincial

In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.

Heartbeat

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony...

Wall Engravings

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always w...

Break of Day

A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animals while ref...

Angele

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a...

The Case of Dr. Laurent

A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community,...

Police Judiciaire

The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four criminal cas...

Le Mistral

In a small Provençal port, a young girl tries to divert a fisherman from his laborious life and his chaste love...

Rude journée pour la reine

Wench

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

The Blonde Gypsy

As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue.

Fire in the Straw

Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately become...

Bastien, Bastienne

Catherine (Juliet Berto) is the temporary head of the family while her husband, whom she loathes, is away fight...

The Mill in the Sun

The sentimental adventure of an old bachelor, mayor of his village and owner of a mill, who suddenly falls in l...