Jean-François Stévenin

Jean-François Stévenin

Birthday: 1944-04-23

Place of Birth: Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France

Biography: Jean-François Stévenin (23 April 1944 – 27 July 2021) was a French actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in 150 films and television shows since 1968. He starred in the film Cold Moon, which was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Jean-François Stévenin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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36 Fillette
36 Fillette

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self...

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Small Change
Small Change

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physical...

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Day for Night
Day for Night

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises,...

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Ménage
Ménage

Tenue De Soirée (1986) is a dark comedy by Bertrand Blier starring Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, a...

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The French Revolution
The French Revolution

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

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A Room in Town
A Room in Town

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-c...

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The First Man
The First Man

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he trave...

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Man on the Train
Man on the Train

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will ro...

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Between Us
Between Us

Elodie and Laetitia live in close love and dream of having a child. As Elodie discovers that she can...

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Brotherhood of the Wolf

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the...

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The Limits of Control
The Limits of Control

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...

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This Night
This Night

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a...

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Room of Death
Room of Death

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satch...

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La part du lion
La part du lion

Jacky is a lion tamer in a traveling circus. He was born there, he has lived there, and he intends t...

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23h58
23h58

This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle ra...

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On Guard
On Guard

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is tre...

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Quand je serai jeune
Quand je serai jeune

May 68. While, outside, people are demonstrating, a man is finishing the editing of Baisers volés....

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Cold Moon
Cold Moon

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any oth...

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Blindfold
Blindfold

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A World of Ours
A World of Ours

Noé comes into sixth grade at the same time he discovers a new city and a new house where he has jus...

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Dust of Empire
Dust of Empire

In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic wo...

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L’Elegance
L’Elegance

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the m...

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Double Gentlemen
Double Gentlemen

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years ...

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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab

When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his p...

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Barocco
Barocco

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend....

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Because of Her
Because of Her

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher...

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Adieu voyages lents
Adieu voyages lents

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My Afternoons with Margueritte
My Afternoons with Margueritte

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman....

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Adieu Paris
Adieu Paris

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They w...

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A Burning Desire
A Burning Desire

Yann and Rose are young, they love and want to have a child. Nine months later ... still no baby in ...

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White Lies
White Lies

Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris....

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The Beast of Gevaudan
The Beast of Gevaudan

A new tell about the most famous legend in France....

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Total Western
Total Western

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for c...

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Stolen Childhood
Stolen Childhood

How do you grow up into a well-functioning adult, when you are uprooted time and time again? It's a ...

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No Big Deal
No Big Deal

Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past....

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Camping à la ferme
Camping à la ferme

Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, ...

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Psy
Psy

Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients...

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The Line
The Line

Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has...

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Black for Remembrance
Black for Remembrance

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is k...

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Le Pont du Nord
Le Pont du Nord

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. I...

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Four Lovers
Four Lovers

Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners....

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For Sale
For Sale

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The m...

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Our Story
Our Story

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emp...

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All About Love
All About Love

Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having th...

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Sister
Sister

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wea...

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A Summer Day
A Summer Day

The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance....

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Like a Star Shining in the Night
Like a Star Shining in the Night

A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne an...

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The Silence of Joan
The Silence of Joan

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English....

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The Boy Soldier
The Boy Soldier

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father,...

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Jean-François Stévenin - Simple Messieurs
Jean-François Stévenin - Simple Messieurs

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Tied
Tied

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress....

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Little Lion
Little Lion

A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe....

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How Good the Whites Are
How Good the Whites Are

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six ...

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Fait d'hiver
Fait d'hiver

This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier, a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced fath...

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Mountain Pass
Mountain Pass

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a...

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Lune Froide
Lune Froide

A César award winning short drama based around Charles Bukowski's two stories "Copulating Mermaid of...

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Grosse
Grosse

A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in ord...

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Les Bidochon
Les Bidochon

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymon...

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Cop's Honor
Cop's Honor

Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Ala...

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Poulets à l'amende
Poulets à l'amende

Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic des...

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Tata Bakhta
Tata Bakhta

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The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers

In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children tak...

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La Gamine
La Gamine

A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. Ther...

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Bright Days Ahead
Bright Days Ahead

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of h...

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Home
Home

Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isola...

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Snow
Snow

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users....

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Les Jours et les Nuits
Les Jours et les Nuits

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), ...

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The Path
The Path

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find...

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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Like a Turtle on Its Back

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his lif...

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Incident Urbain
Incident Urbain

Two enigmatic figures with code names, Costello and the Colonel, bound seemingly by some mysterious ...

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The Last Diamond
The Last Diamond

Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Flor...

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Due volte vent'anni
Due volte vent'anni

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Force
Force

Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander ...

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Johnny made in France
Johnny made in France

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In Safe Hands
In Safe Hands

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonym...

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Love Me
Love Me

Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis imperson...

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Les Parents modèles
Les Parents modèles

The divorce of a couple seen through the terribly lucid eyes of their two young children....

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Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête

Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for br...

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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud....

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Strong Shoulders
Strong Shoulders

A young woman obsessively trains to be a track-and-field star....

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Two Lions in the Sun
Two Lions in the Sun

Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pa...

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Heartbeat
Heartbeat

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover....

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See Here My Love
See Here My Love

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a stra...

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La rebelión de los colgados
La rebelión de los colgados

The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Han...

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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
L'amour est un jeu d'enfant

Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, l...

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La soule
La soule

In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of ...

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Adam et Ève
Adam et Ève

Returning from work, Louis finds a letter from his wife saying their marriage is over. He’s just los...

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The Wild Child
The Wild Child

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

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The First Summer
The First Summer

Two sisters meet up late one summer to clear out the house of their deceased grandparents....

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Pablo Est Mort
Pablo Est Mort

A retired doctor, who participated in the events of May 1968, is led to reconnect with former comrad...

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Out 1
Out 1

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian s...

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The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small Afri...

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Les frères Gravet
Les frères Gravet

Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral....

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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Is There a Frenchman in the House?

An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the de...

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The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldie...

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Les aveux de l'innocent
Les aveux de l'innocent

Serge Perrin is 23 and unusually happy at the prospect of spending the rest of his life in jail for ...

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Itinéraire bis
Itinéraire bis

35-year-old Jean still lives with his mother in a small village in Corsica and works as a cook in th...

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Seances
Seances

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencin...

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The Young One
The Young One

Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the res...

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La Couleur de l'abîme
La Couleur de l'abîme

Jacques, Dominique, and their children go on vacation to their house in the Cévennes. Once there, th...

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Sous le signe du poisson
Sous le signe du poisson

At the "Hôtel des pêcheurs," men gather to participate in a fishing competition. Everything suggests...

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Mona and I
Mona and I

Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their he...

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...

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Il a suffi que maman s'en aille…
Il a suffi que maman s'en aille…

A coupe get a divorce; the father gets to keep the youngest daughter....

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Olivier, Olivier
Olivier, Olivier

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoo...

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Genet à Chatila
Genet à Chatila

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. ...

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Fast
Fast

Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfath...

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Mischka
Mischka

An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on v...

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Volpone
Volpone

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying...

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Mirage of Love
Mirage of Love

1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser f...

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De force avec d'autres
De force avec d'autres

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make ...

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Flight to Berlin
Flight to Berlin

A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents....

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The Patriots
The Patriots

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent ...

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Mad Love
Mad Love

1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed i...

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Merry-Go-Round
Merry-Go-Round

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mut...

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Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Se...

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Salomé
Salomé

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting He...

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Go, Toto!
Go, Toto!

A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the mar...

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Silent Streams
Silent Streams

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From th...

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Vent de panique
Vent de panique

Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad...

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Le deal
Le deal

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Sale Destin
Sale Destin

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rach...

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I Hate Actors
I Hate Actors

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up ...

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Godard's Passion
Godard's Passion

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory ...

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Blackout
Blackout

Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who hav...

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François Truffaut l'insoumis
François Truffaut l'insoumis

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the l...

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The Police War
The Police War

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of com...

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Le Renard jaune
Le Renard jaune

Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars o...

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Vénéneuses
Vénéneuses

An aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde...

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Of Snails and Men
Of Snails and Men

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment....

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Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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True Friends
True Friends

The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in ...

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Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in ...

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The Big Pardon 2
The Big Pardon 2

The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker...

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L'Affaire Ben Barka
L'Affaire Ben Barka

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The Butcher's Daughter
The Butcher's Daughter

Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family b...

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The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast ...

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Deux
Deux

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin....

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Roberte
Roberte

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and insp...

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Nuisibles
Nuisibles

The unexpected meeting of a father and a son in the working world....

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Sushi Sushi
Sushi Sushi

Maurice Hartmann, a Parisian academic, annoys his young mistress with his cynical and disillusioned ...

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Dirty Money: Undercover
Dirty Money: Undercover

A Swiss policeman infiltrates an international money laundering ring. Based on a true story....

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Valparaiso
Valparaiso

A young member of the European Parliament faces a conflict of interest as she leads an investigation...

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Entre l'arbre et l'écorce
Entre l'arbre et l'écorce

A young Parisian in quarrel with his father goes to join his uncle who runs a sawmill in the provinc...

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Thick Skinned
Thick Skinned

Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer....

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The World of Jacques Demy
The World of Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...

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I’m So Far
I’m So Far

Sometimes, things that seem simple… just aren't. The trials of a senior with limited mobility trying...

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Mais où et donc Ornicar
Mais où et donc Ornicar

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have lo...

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L'éducatrice
L'éducatrice

Stephanie is a hostile and mute newcomer in a home for troubled minors. She disorients the staff. Lo...

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Let My People Go !
Let My People Go !

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappoin...

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Cop Goes Missing
Cop Goes Missing

One morning, a worn-out field cop, nicknamed Ping-Pong by everyone, burns his police ID and disappea...

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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...

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Lettre de la Sierra Morena
Lettre de la Sierra Morena

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) i...

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Wacko
Wacko

An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played f...

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The Desert of Love
The Desert of Love

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child....

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Roger Diamantis or Real Life
Roger Diamantis or Real Life

Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his voc...

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Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont....

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Napoleon
Napoleon

Napoleon (French: Napoléon et l'Europe) is a six-part French–Polish historical miniseries that aired...

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Grand Tour
Grand Tour

Two men are waiting in a car when a majestic bird lands in front of them....

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Fils de zup
Fils de zup

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