François Périer

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in ...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written ...

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera ...

Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of ...

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and ...

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after ...

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of ...

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who ...

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent ...

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to ...

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working ...

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend ...

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of ...

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find ...

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with ...

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting ...

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead ...