Gérard Desarthe Movies

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade

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Cast: Sami Frey

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Claude Brasseur

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Blanc

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Decleir

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Giraudeau

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

Genre: History

Cast: Rufus

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Genre: War

Cast: Philippe Noiret

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvie Testud

After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robin Renucci

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicole Garcia

A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they...

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Cast: Gérard Desarthe

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simone Signoret

Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow actors. Back in Paris he tells...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Desarthe

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gérard Blain

A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ewa Swann

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Michel Bouquet

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Catherine Sellers

A woman wants to film a prisoner being tortured.

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Cast: Gérard Desarthe

Genre: History

Cast: Georges Goubert

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Auteuil

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: François Marthouret

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stanley Weber

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Desarthe

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician,...

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Cast: Bernadette Lafont

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Umberto Orsini

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valentine Varela

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: André Engel