Going Places (1974)
Going Places (1974) Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joi
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetic
Catherine Co (1975)
Catherine Co 1975 Catherine, a young prostitute living in Paris, decides to incorporate herself after learning the basics of big business from her clients She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors
The Bishops Bedroom (1977)
The Bishops Bedroom (1977) Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde (Muti). Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so en
Beaupère (1981)
Beaupère (1981) Remy is morose, nearing 30 with his career as a musician going nowhere and his eight-year marriage to Martine souring. Then, Martine dies in a car crash, and Marion, her 14-year-old, wants to stay rather than move to her father's. Remy likes the idea: he loves her, he's raised her,
Série noire (1979)
Série noire (1979) Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds t
Hôtel des Amériques (1981)
Hôtel des Amériques (1981) Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she co
Heat of Desire (1981)
Heat of Desire 1981 In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt A right wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize wi
The Best Way to Walk (1976)
The Best Way to Walk (1976) In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep on humiliating Philipp
A Bad Son (1980)
A Bad Son (1980) Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
Mille milliards de dollars 1982 A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries The journalists obj
The French Detective (1975)
The French Detective (1975) When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarr