Micheline Presle

A unique detective thriller, replete with unexpected plot twists. Bo Ancellin (Stévenin), a beautiful, young transsexual with a troubled past, becomes entangled with nosey Police Chief Huysmans (Boringer) as a series of demented killings erupts in Brussels' underground. (Picture This! Entertainment)

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry a man she doesn't love. (imdb)

Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him... (imdb)

Rich socialite, Sandra Dee meets and marries photographer Bobby Darin and attempts to "train" him to be the perfect husband... (imdb)

For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing... (imdb)

Based on Diderot's novel, this is the story, set in 18th-century France, of a young woman whose parents force her against her will into a convent. Once there, she finds it impossible to accept that her fate is to live away from the world forever.

During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Though Francois pursues her ardently, they become separated and she marries Jacques. But when Marthe and Francois meet again, their mutual feelings prove stronger than ever, and they begin an extramarital affair...regardless of potentially tragic consequences. (imdb)

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers. (imdb)

Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner (Alain Delon) and the young Christine (Romy Schneider). Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end? (imdb)

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model (imdb)

A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback.

The story revolves on a handsome man stumbling into the former love of his life, but she doesn't seem to recognise him. The girl, Sandra, suffers from a bad case of amnesia and her overly vain mother protects her from the outside world. Oscar doesn't give up and, with the help of a befriended doctor; he learns that Sandra's condition got caused by the traumatic witnessing of her young son standing next to his father's dead body with a pistol in his hands. (imdb)

Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance. (imdb)

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

A daring sea captain risks both his life and the lives of his crew as he attempts to rescue a lovely servant girl who was falsely imprisoned for murder. After his plan succeeds, his real troubles begin.

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. (imdb)

A North African immigrant to Paris gets work and finds romance despite his scatty character. (imdb)

Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus... (imdb)

Alexandre (Vincent Perez) thinks that living together is always to become rutinary and trivial, so he decides to escape the routines in a very strange way and constitute the relations upon platonic love. (Wikipedia)

Two men are in love with the same woman.

On the run from gamblers he double-crossed, expatriate jockey Danny Butler tries to justify his son's faith in him as a winner. (imdb)

This French morality play is fraught with cynical undertones as it tells the tale of a group of French people from every social strata trying to flee the Nazis who have just invaded Paris. En route they meet a cruel German officer who threatens to kill the others if the heroine Presle refuses to sleep with him. (www.allmovie.com)

A series of sketches depicting the consequences of breaking one or more of the ten commandments.

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the 1st time in his life, this is for real. (imdb)

A banker whose unusual generosity gets him put in a mental institution escapes and hides out in a boarding house.

The history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present.

The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece. (imdb)

A young girl whose father is a divorce lawyer is put in a boarding school, where her classmates join together to protest against divorce.

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacquleine Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van-Rooyen as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. (imdb)

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

A curator terrified of green plants, a ballet of Virgin Saints, a minister of Culture lost in an exhibition of sex organs, a car that has disappeared in the Rembrandt car park, visitors in love with the Impressionists, Gilbert and George, Picasso, Gauguin and Warhol - all are connected with an art museum. (imdb)

Shirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad (Italy, specifically), assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. She becomes romantically involved with Sanders' current employer, the always charming Brazzi, unaware that he has a dark family secret. (imdb)

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man.

Maxime is the best detective of a French agency. She is always very busy driving many investigations at one time. She divorced 15 years before, when she got the job. During an investigation she finds her son, who had not seen since he was a baby, so she begins to have memories of her past life that she belived forgotten. Another investigation leads her to discover dirty bussiness of her ex-husband. (imdb)

Gina Lollobrigida stars in this lavish historical epic dramatizing the life of Paulette Bonaparte, tempestuous sister of French emperor Napoleon, and the diminutive tyrant's jealous attempts to control her fiery behavior. Twice forced by Napoleon to marry men she does not love and suffering his disapproval of her many lovers, she nevertheless stands by her brother's side through his darkest days of exile. (Netflix)

One morning in May, Jean, a former baron of union struggle in 1960's and today Seller on Place Sainte-Geneviève is back in friendship for Rene, a former comrade. From his book, he orchestrates the phone strike couriers. The radio announces a black day. Paralysis of transport, general event. Quickly, thanks to Jean, spirits ignite. The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève is erupting. The residents held a banner: "We want to live a historic day. " (Wikipedia)

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father. (imdb)

Part II of the "Mistress of the World" series, directed by William Dieterle.

Depuis que Charlie (Mélanie Thierry) est morte, Boris (François-Xavier Demaison), homme d'affaires, Elie (Nicolas Duvauchelle), scénariste intégré dans la haute sphère, et Maxime (Pierre Niney), naïf de 20 ans, ont perdu la femme de leur vie. Ces opposés se retrouvent embarqués dans un voyage de 900 km vers la maison qu'aimait cette sœur, cette amie, cet amour... (Wikipedia)

'Marie Prieur is a 28-year-old, recently qualified doctor who is about to take up her first post at Oudessant, a small island off the coast of Brittany. She receives a lukewarm welcome from the locals; in fact, the only person who seems pleased to see her is the old schoolteacher, Mademoiselle Leblanc... (Willems Henri)

Actress Maria de Medeiros directs a documentary to pay homage to another actress that she admires, Micheline Presle, whose career started in the early thirties. Evoking the renowned filmmakers with whom she worked, Micheline Presle mentions Luis Aramcheck, a director she worked with in 1939. Maria tries to track the mysterious director without ever imagining that this could in any way endanger her life (en.unifrance.org)

As they are gay, Thomas and Stéphane cannot have children. But they love each other and their happiness would be perfect only if they could raise a little one. After failing to adopt a child in Martinique, they decide to hire a surrogate mother. Carole, a very pretty woman, agrees to bear their baby but only through "natural reproductive methods". Which of the two men will sacrifice himself? Will Carole actually give birth to a baby? (imdb)

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. (imdb)

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. (imdb)

The film portrays the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci (Wiki)

The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. (Wikipedia)

Every Friday, businessman Gérard Barbier locks himself up in his attic so that he can pass the time with his old friend Jean-Louis Deshayes. Naturally, his wife Adelaide feels neglected, so she starts an affair with the young Achille Bellorson. Too sure of Adelaide's fidelity, Gérard is not remotely jealous, but he finally gets the message when Adelaide disappears one Friday with Achille. (KG)

In the town of Pompeii, 79AD, a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax, who has a grudge against Lysias, and is not what it seems, it is intended to drive whoever takes it insane. (imdb)

Even wartime offered no incentive for mutually loathing neighbors Dalban (Saturnin Fabre) and Mme. Ancelot (Gabrielle Dorziat) to mend their differences, particularly over the budding romance between their kids (Georges Marchal, Micheline Presle). Dalban badgers his chanteuse tenant Zazu (Josephine Baker) to find a showgirl for his son, but the sly songstress is more interested in playing Cupid!

Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Bernard is determined to take refuge with Hélène, a woman with whom he has been carrying on a romance by correspondence and Gervais agrees to accompany him. Unfortunately, Bernard is killed by a train before they get to destination. Gervais then decides to present himself to Hélène who, never having seen Bernard, mistakes the newcomer for him.

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill. (imdb)

In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay.

Three old sisters get together on Epiphany day

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year old publisher. When he drops her for her older sister, should she seek revenge or recapture? In subplots, she gets along badly with her sister and her father, and she encourages her mother's affair with dad's sister. Axel has problems too besides the determined Sibylle: he must come to terms with the drowning death of his mother years ago. (imdb)

Two playful young men about town take a break from ogling the ladies passing by, to reminisce about how one of them first learned the meaning of Lechery as a schoolboy. (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.

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.

Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.