After having been in jail, Manuel becomes a bullfighter following dangerously his father's steps.
The Red Orchestra which was implanted right into the very heart of the nazi empire was considered the most important espionage net of World War II.
1863. Etienne Lantier, who has been fired from a railway company for being involved in union activities, lands a miner's job in the North of France. He finds bed and lodging at the Maheus',...
This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a ...
In a recently independent African state, whites still hold major positions in the administration: the brutal mercenary Tristan is in charge of the army; the cynical police commissioner ...
An old gentleman who loves his tender garden and pupil turns out to be an old killer.
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three solitary dreamers, adventurous waverers.
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Pierre used to be a top level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the chief inspector. In his dreams he is ...
On an impulse Danièle takes her grandchildren for a holiday herself without the permission of their parents. As time proceeds it becomes less clear if she and the children will ever return and resume their lives as before.
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women. The beautiful Tatjana, a 15-years-old on the run girl knocks at his door and he...
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police...
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie. Unfortunately, the cast are all egomaniacs or incompetents, and the set manager is too shy to purchase any equipment from the sex shops....
During his absence, secret (and normally undecipherable) documents have been stolen from Andrei Smoloff, a cultural attaché at the Soviet Embassy in Paris. Through an indiscretion, the ...
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).