Jean-Pierre Cassel

An action thriller set in against the breathtaking backdrop of the French Alps, The Crimson Rivers stars Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel in a gripping who-dunnit involving a series of grisly murders, a child's death twenty years earlier, and the secret history of a small town. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. (imdb)

Many noble families are locked in a chateau due to the French Revolution. The infamous Marquis de Sade is there and is generally shunned by the others. A teen-aged girl befriends him behind her parents back and learns about him and life in general. He initiates her into sexual exploration and leads her to become an independent, sexually-liberated woman. (imdb)

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus... (imdb)

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers. Things start to escalate as the Lelievres find out that Sophie can't read and has brought Jeanne into their house against their wish. (imdb)

A film director tries to cope with his frantic producer, too-amorous actors, and a disaster-prone crew... (imdb)

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. (imdb)

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore... (imdb)

Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity... (imdb)

France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. (imdb)

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer.He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. (imdb)

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. (imdb)

In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women. (imdb)

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border. (imdb)

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. (imdb)

Narco is a French film about Gus, a narcoleptic, whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his narcolepsy.

When the police went to the house of the mysterious Mister Frost, he told them his backyard was full of bodies. Since he was institutionalized, he hasn't spoken a word for years. But now he'll speak again, to tell the new doctor that he's the Devil.

Indiana, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort. (IMDB)

Anthology film about marriage and betrayal in the modern world.

Malpertuis is a labyrinth where characters issued from the Greek mythology are made prisoners by Cassavius (Orson Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) as prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As the nephew (played by Mathieu Carrière) unravels the mystery, we find out he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than we were led to believe. (imdb)

Our heroes' Olympic adventures

On August 24, 1939, at a small French cafe, six friends are about to go their separate ways. They vow to reunite on that day each year at the cafe. The film follows each of their lives: one begins work with the French resistance, one joins the French commandos, another is forced to join the Nazi army, one becomes a flier, and the two others are just simple officers. On the day Paris is liberated, the three surviving friends meet at the cafe and get drunk. (imdb)

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). (imdb)

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. (imdb)

Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas' life.

La Truite opens to the unedifying sight of a glum-faced Isabelle Huppert squeezing sperm out of a dead fish. (imdb)

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved. (imdb)

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody... (imdb)

Family friendly adventure pic is centered on a serene young man who brings honor to the family firm as an outstanding race car driver. Fictional character first appeared in 1957 and has since been featured in 64 hardcover comic books. (Flixster)

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. (imdb)

A young taxi driver who dreams of becoming an actor gets involved with rich and perverted youths who throw parties (where they play at sadistic little games) all the time... (TonyS.)

Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec and given up for adoption shortly afterward. Michel goes there and meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. An accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. (imdb)

Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him. (imdb)

The pulse of life, feelings and types of relationships.

A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks. A rather simple love story ensues. (imdb)

This is the longer version of short film Squash (2002) by same director Lionel Bailiu (imdb)

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty. (imdb)

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.

Synopsis : Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce, driven by Felicia, a young, beautiful, wealthy and temperamental woman. And she knows it. She is very angry at him because he seems not to be under her charm. She decides to seduce him...

The plot centers around a preteen boy with a speech impediment who goes to live with his abusive mother in England. He makes friends with the beautiful model (Britt Eklund) who lives upstairs and her French boyfriend (Jean Pierre Cassell)... (imdb)

Simon, a retired police inspector, wants to solve a case in a retirement home.

Kirk Douglas plays an American soldier, participating in the 1944 liberation of France. Making the acquaintance of impoverished Parisian girl Dany Robin, Douglas takes pity on the girl, pretending to be married to her so that she won't be unfairly arrested as a prostitute. When Douglas attempts to make their union legal, he is denied permission by his superior officers. So far as they are concerned, Robin is just another little opportunist, marrying a GI in order to gain US citizenship. (allrovi.com)

There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. (Allrovi)

In this gentle, tragic drama, Olivier (John McEnery) is a wealthy young man with a lively and attractive mother (Valentina Cortese), which is a pity, really, as he can't bear her, or the men she gets involved with. When he gets too upset with her escapades, he begins to break things, or runs off. Otherwise, he spends his time building a boat on the lawn with his friend David (Jean-Pierre Cassal), a poor fisherman whom he grew up with. (allmovie.com)

In 1793 when terror is widespread in France,peasants known as Chouans help the revolutionaries. (imdb)

During archery in a wood, Fantaghiro is discovered by the hostile king's son Romualdo. He takes a short look at her before she escapes and falls in love with her. When he challenges her father for a duel to end the bloody war between their people Fantaghiro is send out to fight him due to a prophecy. Romualdo sees her dressed as a man so he tries to discover wether she is a man or a woman. She starts to fall in love with him, too, but her sense of duty is strong. Will love bring them together? (imdb)

Sandro is suffering from an identify crisis, his wife Laura has inherited a fancy bookshop in Venice and her husband has difficulty adjusting. In order to revive his interest in their marriage Laura disguises herself as a local streetwalker and has an affair with him. (bfi)

Theme tying four distinct characters together is that adultery is indispensable for a happy, lasting marriage. (bfi)

A Doctor's (Annie Girardot) tribulations at work and home take a toll when she develops lung cancer.

Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant in their scheme.

A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer that is arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he is viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces. (imdb)

The oddly featured poet Cyrano De Bergerac(Jose Ferrer, reprising an Oscar-winning role in Michael Gordon's Cyrano De Bergerac), he of the enormous nose, and musketeer D'Artagnan (Jean-Pierre Cassel) lend a hand to put down a revolution in 17th-century Paris. While they bravely fight for the monarchy, the men dally with two comely courtesans (Sylva Koscina and Daliah Lavi). Though paired off with satisfactory partners, the couples find that a switcheroo might afford them each true love. Director (allmovie.com)

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dull life in a council flat in the suburbs. Change, as hoped by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Great Happiness, in which they participate. (Allocine)

Secular thirty-somethings who never put much credence in adhering to their respective faiths, Ishmael, a Muslim arab and Clara, a Jewish woman, have remained together for four fun-filled years without incidence. When Clara discovers that she has become pregnant with Ishmael's child, however, the couple's carefree romance threatens to grow complicated as their ethnic backgrounds bleed into the forefront of their consciences (Amazon)

André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring! Lupin had indeed another son by a housemaid, Gérard Dagmar, a dancer, magician and - occasionally - burglar. (imdb)

A week before its delivery, a baby warns his pregnant mother he doesn't want to come out in this world and prefers to die instead. (imdb)

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world. (dmedhi)

A young French cabaret showgirl spends a few days in a provincial Spanish city recovering from an operation, altering with her brash self-confidence the narrow-minded customs of the place and awakening passion in the local physician and in a young teacher as well. (imdb)

Edouard Berlon is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponsibly from one affair to another. When he meets Helene Larouch, he woos her although she is married to Andre, until finally the combination of his youth, exuberance, absurd family (including a few infants of undetermined origin and a number of stray dogs) and eccentric way of life compared to the aridity of her marriage, overcome her resistance. They are both soon disenchanted. (imdb)

Victor takes life lightly. Jolly and offhand, he has been a very pleasant companion to Suzanne for two years now. But the young antique dealer is not satisfied with Victor's lightness any longer. (imdb)

Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble. (imdb)

A woman in Rome and a man in Paris are chasing the truth about their missing children in Argentina. Elena abruptly lost contact with her young daughter 20 years ago and has almost given up hope of ever knowing her fate during the junta era. Daniel had a son and a grandson. Both disappeared without a trace. Strong forces still protect the country's bloody history.

Jean Delvaux, nicknamed don Juan, is found dead. Was he murdered or did he kill himself? The investigation is assigned to Det. Montijoux, a disillusioned man. It leads him to the beautiful Emeline Silvani, who's suspected to be the dead man's lover.

After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspected arms dealer. In the meantime she and her CIA contact Devlin fall in love. (imdb)

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial. (imdb)

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 Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.

A dedicated layabout bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself. (letterboxd.com)