Claude berri

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poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand

Robert Macaire and Bertrand

11mn - Comedy, Crime

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

poster Crainquebille

Crainquebille

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

poster La Parisienne

La Parisienne

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

poster Entr'acte

Entr'acte

22mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …

Algiers

96mn - Drama, Action, Mystery

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture ar…

poster He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped

80mn - Drama, Romance, Thriller

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and beco…

poster Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

113mn - Adventure, Drama, History

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The…

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…

poster Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys

When a street-smart teenager's wealthy Texas uncle announces a visit, he must convince his gang to pose as the six siblings his late father bragged about having, leading to hilarious hijinks and unexpecte…

poster Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil

Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assi…

poster The King and the Jester

The King and the Jester

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

poster Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

Protéa

50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

poster Léonce Loves Morels

Léonce Loves Morels

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

poster Clancy in Wall Street

Clancy in Wall Street

Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebe…

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