Serge Merlin

Amélie

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others...

The Count of Monte Cristo

A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for...

Witnesses

Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and He...

The City of Lost Children

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging pro...

Danton

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre...

The Man Who Laughs

During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are stil...

Under a False Name

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desi...

Two Snails Set Off

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in m...

Simon, the Magician

A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural po...

Pitchipoï

Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Befo...

Cinématon

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever...

Samson

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prej...

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...

Tusk

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...

Blaze

All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than other...

Diary of a Seducer

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is...

Me and Kaminski

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski...

The Song of Roland

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La C...

Le intermittenze del cuore

Coma

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl

Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of g...

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcera...

The Last Judgement But One

The relationship of István Kozár and his wife has reached the point where neither is prepared to hear even a si...

L'Énergumène

A historical investigation that examines how, at the end of the 16th century, the devilish acts of Marthe Bross...

A Bad Encounter

Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a bench in a squ...

The Golem

Athanase Pernath is a gem cutter in the Prague ghetto. In spite of himself, he becomes embroiled in the lives o...

The Two of Us

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement...

Une preuve d'amour

A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemi...

Cinématon n°158 : Serge Merlin

Cinématon XVI

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.