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- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouJanine MagnanAn exploration of the formation of a couple from both points of view.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLucia AmramMarie-Ange AnièsJean d'EstréeSensationalist view of the role of woman in social life.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGuy MairesseJanine MagnanJean FranvalA middle aged man gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJanine MagnanJean-Pierre KalfonJacques PortetFive youths quit their low paying work to become thieves, and inspired by film noir study boxing and judo to set up a school for future gangsters.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouPierre BarouhJean-Pierre KalfonFour prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsYves MontandCandice BergenAnnie GirardotThe bitter relationships between a journalist and his women.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouCaroline CellierJanine Magnan"Life, Love, Death" was made before the abolition of capital punishment in France. Its central message is the inhumanity of the guillotine. The film, which is shot somewhat in a cinema verite style, divides roughly into three acts. In Act One, there is a series of murders of prostitutes in Paris. An obviously deeply disturbed man is hiring these prostitutes and then strangling them. Suspicion falls on François (Amidou), a married man with a child. The police put him under surveillance. (Viewers will recognize the inspector in charge of the team as Marcel Bozzuffi, who would play Popeye Doyle's nemesis in The French Connection a couple of years later.) Ironically, François is experiencing spiritual healing and renewal through the power of love---not with his wife, of course, this being a French film, but through an affair with a beautiful young woman he has met (not a prostitute). But just as this is happening and François seems to have lost the need to commit violent crimes, he is arrested. Act Two is the arraignment, trial and exposition of François's life and history. His recent transformation, of course, makes no impression on the court, and he is sentenced to death by guillotine. Act Three is a documentary-style record of François's last days in prison and his execution. The last scene in the film is an image of the guillotine's blade beginning its descent; it slows and freezes and there is a fade to black, as a voiceover issues a passionate plea for abolition of the guillotine.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnnie GirardotMaria Pia ConteFilming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Louis TrintignantDanièle DelormeCharles GérardStory about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine AllégretAmidouJean CollombCharles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income. They are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim?
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLino VenturaJacques BrelCharles DennerWhen they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in Latin America. They get framed by a guerrilla leader, who had been kidnapped by them before, and while being tried the French Government decides to let them flee to Africa where they get on with the same old game.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLino VenturaFrançoise FabianCharles GérardReleased from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarthe KellerAndré DussollierCharles DennerThe movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsBulle OgierRufusMarie DéaFrom 1944 to 1974, the evolution of a couple established in Normandy. As the husband climbs the ladder of social hierarchy, the relationship with his wife slowly deteriorate.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMichèle MorganSerge ReggianiPhilippe LéotardA very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarlène JobertJacques DutroncBrigitte FosseyThe story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine DeneuveAnouk AiméeCharles DennerCatherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the lost years and tries to built up a close relationship to her already grown-up son. Despite some tensions when she finds out that he has a love affair with her best girl-friend, her efforts work out and in the "happy" end they become a real family when she finds the perfect lover - Simon's teacher.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJames CaanGeneviève BujoldFrancis HusterThe story of gaining the West with dedication of the people that built it. All framed up in a photograph of a couple's legacy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCharles DennerJacques VilleretJean-Claude BrialyTwo misfits meet at a dating agency and breakthrough in the social world in ways they never imagined.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine DeneuveJacques DutroncJacques VilleretSimon Lacassaine a thief with cultural attachments has just broken out of jail. Through circumstances, he falls in with upmarket hooker Deneuve, also on the constabulary's wanted list, and between them they spend the better part of the movie evading both the Gendarmes and US Authorities.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsRobert HosseinNicole GarciaGeraldine ChaplinThrough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several of them, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor, at an anti-famine concert.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsEvelyne BouixJacques VilleretFrancis HusterThe world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan's loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf's gift for tragic love songs.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCharlotte RamplingMichel PiccoliJean-Louis TrintignantThe movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnnie GirardotJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianSalomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantRichard BerryJean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean YanneMarie-Sophie L.Patrick BruelOn the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoRichard AnconinaLioA successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGérard LanvinPatrick ChesnaisAnnie GirardotHow can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGérard LanvinBéatrice DalleVincent LindonJesus is a French gypsy who might have become a bull fighter had he not been framed on a drug charge and sent to prison. Odona is a con artist pursued and protected by a Paris policeman. Marie, who knew Jesus as a girl, loses her job when she teaches reincarnation and lets her young students kiss honey bees. All experience love, all suffer losses, and all seek peace. Throughout, Jesus's colorful gypsy family provides dance and music, mystery and celebration. As part of the reincarnation theme, the main characters appear in flashbacks set during the time of Christ and the persecution of early Christians.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarie-Sophie L.Francis HusterFabrice LuchiniMarie, a young lawyer, leaves with her husband Fabrice and a couple of friends, Francis and Alessandra. They are engaged in a dangerous sentimental game together, from which their relations will not come out unseemly.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoMichel BoujenahAlessandra MartinesA variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsFabrice LuchiniBernard TapieAlessandra MartinesBenoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAlessandra MartinesPierre ArditiMarc HollogneOnce a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Pierre MarielleAnne ParillaudAlessandra MartinesSeveral attractive actresses in their 30s are in difficult financial situation and schemed a cunning plan...Each of them will seduce the same rich man and rob him without having sex with him.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJeremy IronsPatricia KaasThierry LhermitteA jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMathilde SeignerMaïwennMassimo RanieriA picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsFanny ArdantDominique PinonAudrey DanaA popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAudrey DanaDominique PinonRaphaël HarocheIlva runs her stepfather's Eden Palace cinema in wartime Paris against a background of Resistance activities, the frequent sight of less fortunate Parisians being shipped east in cattle-trains and, later, the impact of the D-Day landings. Over time a number of other lives intersect with hers, including a German officer and then two American servicemen. A post-war shooting comes to dominate her story along, perhaps surprisingly, with cinema itself.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJohnny HallydaySandrine BonnaireEddy MitchellA war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcilate him with his family by telling them a big lie.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean DujardinElsa ZylbersteinChristopher LambertFrench famous film score composer goes to India to compose the score for an Indian adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. There he meets the wife of the French ambassador to India, and a complicated relationship ensues.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsEric Dupond-MorettiJohnny HallydayNadia FarèsThe lives of people facing various romantic complications gather for a jazz festival in the Burgundy wine-country town of Beaune.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Louis TrintignantAnouk AiméeSouad AmidouAn old man is having memories of a former lover who is still alive. Images of their affair showing them young combine with dreams and poetry
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarianne DenicourtStéphane De GroodtElsa ZylbersteinThis story revolves around an orchestra in a provincial town putting on a performance on a national holiday.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsSandrine BonnaireGérard DarmonAry AbittanFriends since they're out of jail, Gerard, Ary and Philippe swore always to remain honest. 20 years later, Gerard learns he's about to die. His two friends want to offer him a last love, since he always repeated: love is better than life.