Jacques Brel

From his long career in cinema to his personal life through his childhood, the director of A Man and a Woman tells his story, all in humility, in this intimate and caring documentary. (Télérama)

Reygadas' languorous meditation on the consequences of adultery in the world of a rural Mennonite family.

Three attendees at a puppet theatre don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them. (imdb)

This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process. (allmovie.com)

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him. (imdb)

In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. (imdb)

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in Latin America. They get framed by a guerrilla leader, who had been kidnapped by them before, and while being tried the French Government decides to let them flee to Africa where they get on with the same old game. (imdb)

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds. (imdb)

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence.

The film tells Jules Bonnot activities in the 1910s. Surrounded by anti-social and idealistic guys, he engages in criminal acts that put France into turmoil. (Wikipedia)

Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was... Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner's daughter, accuses him of trying to rape her. But although Doucet (happily married to schoolmistress Suzanne) has always had a conduct above reproach, the Roussels decide to file a complaint against him... (imdb)