Jean-Pierre Marielle

A super-powered boy helps a wheelchair-bound policeman in his attempt to bring down a mob kingpin. (imdb)

Max, a 6-year-old girl living with her father, invites Rose, a prostitute, to move into their apartment.

Gaspard, famous television presenter, is starting the decline of his career. Along with dealing with his aging, must lodge Hubert, his elderly and rebellious father. Hubert hates all attendants hired for him until Zana enters their lives (imdb)

A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs. (imdb)

Berengaria and Vincent were married according to bourgeois traditions. According to custom, families and friends gather at the village in a beautiful first day of spring. Happy day for some, painful for others, in any case decisive and memorable for everyone. That day will become a "moment of truth."

First it was a mine that exploded in the middle of the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain... Bazil doesn't have much luck with weapons. The first made him an orphan, the second holds him on the brink of sudden, instant death. Released from the hospital after his accident, Bazil is homeless.

Santa doesn't want to retire, but rules are rules and he must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be chosen from among millions of children, must be named Nicholas, be an orphan and have a pure heart. On the other side of the planet, there is a little boy who is a perfect match, but his lack of self-confidence and fear of heights make him a poor contestant. Will Santa agree to step down, and help his apprentice take his place?

Raphaël loses his last coin, then goes to the river to drown himself. On the way he enters an unusual shop and finds it filled with curiosities. The shopkeeper leads him to a skin hanging on the wall. It promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking each time. He is willing to let Raphaël take it but urges him not to accept the offer. Raphaël waves away his warnings and takes the skin, wishing for a royal banquet. He is immediately met by acquaintances who invite him to such an event. (Wikipedia)

A videostore clerk with a bullet lodged in his brain and his friends come up with a plan to destroy two weapons manufacturers.

Based on Dan Brown's popular and controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code begins with a spectacular murder in the Louvre Museum. All clues point to a covert religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect a secret that threatens to overturn 2,000 years of accepted dogma. (Sony)

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty. (imdb)

East of France, December 1917. In a village situated close to the front but protected from it by a hillside, the body of Belle de Jour, a little girl, is found by the canal. Judge Mierck, assisted by an Colonel Matzev representing the Armed Forces, investigates the case in his own way. The fact that the young victim's corpse lies a few yards from the manor of Destinat, the withdrawn, haughty-looking district attorney, who has always despised and humiliated him, doesn't escape him. (imdb)

Stuntman James Bataille is in love with Concia, who has dreams of being a country singer. But when a motorcycle stunt turns sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. He escapes determined to find Concia, but unfortunately tentacled monsters from another dimension invade the town.

A writer living with her mother finds her apartment cramped and makes various desperate attempts to battle writer's block.

Ludivine Sagnier stars as Lili, the love and muse of an idealistic young filmmaker named Julien. At odds with the serenity of the breathtaking French countryside, Julien rebels against his mother and her guests, while multiple intrigues of lust and power play out behind the scenes. (First Run Features)

Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous implications of life in showbiz as told by a variety of real-life French actors. (Tracie Cooper, Rovi)

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions. (imdb)

In late 1950s France an army deserter with literary ambitions recalls the erotically charged summer he spent with passionate beauty Yvonne. (Channel 4)

After he learns that a heart attack may be imminent, Pierre Francois, an old psychiatrist, becomes physically attracted to Odile, a sensuous young woman. Odile later uses their relationship to fulfill an exhibitionist fantasy.

In this provocative drama, adolescent girl Victorine (Anouk Grinber) struggles with her approaching teenage years while living in a lower-class neighborhood of Marseilles. Her overbearing mother (Myriam Boyer) and her alcoholic father (Marcello Mastroianni) propel her into an almost constant dream world, until she befriends a mysterious woman and later encounters her first love, Petit Paul (Olivier Martinez), with whom she has a brief affair. (www.netflix.com)

A socially awkward TV-addicted ambitious small time thug is ordered to take out a retiring professional hitman, a legend among his peers. However, the two grow to like each other and become friends instead and that's not what the mob wants. (imdb)

It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses... (www.imdb.com)

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back. (imdb)

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect supermarkets in the province. At his first visit the manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. In the same city Martial starts a relationchip with Francine, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. He decides to stay there for a while. (imdb)

While he visits his mother in Britain, Emile made ​​the acquaintance of René, owner of a box of striptease. It proposes to show him around the region. (Allocine)

Gerard Depardieu plays a bisexual petty criminal named Bob who encounters a married couple arguing in a bar... (imdb)

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages... (imdb)

Marc cheats on his wife Jeanne who throws him out and takes a lover (Antoine).Marc then meets Samantha.......Manage a square less credible but the comedians save the movie.

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually dumb, racialist and lustful) (imdb)

Two petty criminals without span dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go and work in Poitou as representatives of music encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrives from Paris and just messing. (Allocine)

Professor Landowski, Nobel Prize in Physics, accept the difficult task of giving his sperm to put to the test the new formula of artificial insemination of Professor Menzano. Nine months later, the fruit of his research is born: this is a charming toddler, an instant after childbirth starts talking ... (Allocine)

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbour from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X". (imdb)

Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'. (imdb)

Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. In a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter.

Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort) run away from their families at the same time. They indulge themselves by eating what they want to, when and where it pleases them. Trouble finds them in the form of their abandoned wives, and the film moves very much into the realm of symbolic and sexual fantasy from this point onward. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)

An advertising photographer (Francois) has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, Francois' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in (he thinks) a love movie. (imdb)

Is a comic strip that first appeared in a Rome evening newspaper and was subsequently collected into numerous books: Bolognese cartoonist Bonvi recounts the vicissitudes of the Nazis at the front during the war with a fierce satire aimed both at the fanatical officers and the block-headed troops... (wconnolly)

France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion lead by a Breton squire and of the famine to become archbishop... Description of the life of the court in this period of transition where the French Revolution smoulders.

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism. (imdb)

A salesman of umbrellas, Henri Serin (a magnificent Jean-Pierre Marielle), is having sex with all the women of which he paints a portrait and which he encounters during his travels. (imdb)

On a visit in the Norman countryside at the week-end, a young English woman, Helen Wells, who is looking for a country place to rent, is offered assistance by a Frenchman, Philippe Mansart, who is joining a hunting party later. Among the party, which includes supposedly respectable and influential locals, are the two Danville brothers, who come across Helen and assault her in a disused barn, before she manages to shoot one of them and escape...

Antoine (Jean Carmet) is a crybaby. This is an asset in his trade (sales representative for drinks) and for seducing women. Thus he becomes, through a rich nymphomaniac, director of a luxury hotel.

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer ? (imdb)

Tunisia is a rough placed to be trapped in, especially if you are an Israeli spy (Jean-Pierre Marielle) on the run. Fortunately, the French embassy gives the ill-fated fellow a place to hide. Unfortunately, they can't smuggle him out, because there is an airline strike. Fortunately, he finds love and comfort with a young Frenchwoman (Mireille Darc) working at the embassy. Eventually, she convinces a French friend of hers (Michel Constantin) to help them escape. (Allmovie)

Charlie, a forty-something looking for a job, meets two girls, Ghislaine and Josiane, who are similarly unemployed. All three decide to take to the road selling oilcloth to pay their way. The harmony reigns within the group until the arrival of Tony, a seller of miniature cathedrals.

The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex-shop but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive man.

Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders... (imdb)

Leon is the naíve tailor who believes men are coming to see his trollop sister Marie to have their palms read. Her boyfriend Maxime acts as her pimp. Marie saves Arlette from suicide and the shy Leon falls for the young provincial girl. Arlette is recruited by Maxime, and Leon learns the truth about his sister. He sends away Arlette's potential customers with a variety of ruses and excuses, eventually hoping to win the girl's heart himself.

A series of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders. (imdb)

Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs. (imdb)

A Marquise who lures motorists to her hotel by sabotaging their cars gets more than she bargains for when one guest turns out to be a bank robber on the run (imdb)

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. (imdb)

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer. (imdb)

In the period following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Roger Laroque became the owner of a small factory. But business was bad and Laroque found himself forced to borrow a huge sum of money. He finally managed to acquit his debt but the day after, Larouette, his creditor, was found murdered. Laroque, although innocent, was charged with the crime. Now Roger is back, determined to clear his name... (imdb)

Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. He, then, tries to organize the life for him and his soldiers friends between German raids and shells. (imdb)

French comedian Louis de Funes stars as Garnier, a shopkeeper who gets taken advantage of by a local banker. He decides to retaliate by planning a bank robbery. Rather than going about it in a more conventional manner, Garnier begins digging a tunnel from his store, intending to reach the bank vault across the street. (allmovie.com)

David Ladislas (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is enlisted to transport mysterious, valuable cargo to a secret location. Given his instructions by tight-lipped gamine Olga Celan (Jean Seberg), David drives blissfully into ignorance and danger as his beautiful companion parcels out just enough information to get to the next checkpoint. The pair travels from Barcelona, Spain, to Lebanon, then to Syria and across the sea again to Greece and Italy, leading to a climactic encounter in Bremen, Germany.

In this lightweight French comedy a pair of sharpers, Cathy (Jeanne Moreau) and her ex-husband Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) attempt to bilk a miserly millionaire out of his fortune during his visit to the French Riviera. Unfortunately for them, he is just as crafty as they are. (allmovie.com)