Serge Riaboukine
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1957-12-29
Locus Natus: Givors, Rhône, France
Et ut:
Bonsoir
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits...
release : 1994.01.19popularis : 3.459
Angel-A
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
release : 2005.12.21popularis : 10.241
Poor Bastards
Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story,...
release : 2019.06.05popularis : 1.194
Little Nicholas
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes....
release : 2009.09.30popularis : 12.66
Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...
release : 2005.06.07popularis : 3.173
The First Time I Turned Twenty
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of...
release : 2004.10.06popularis : 0.807
Boudu
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless...
release : 2005.03.09popularis : 4.655
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same...
release : 2004.02.18popularis : 14.837
La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive...
release : 2001.03.28popularis : 7.663
Grey Souls
In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.
release : 2005.09.28popularis : 2.334
Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it...
release : 2001.09.26popularis : 3.365
Le chignon d'Olga
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the...
release : 2002.08.22popularis : 1.539
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19...
release : 2002.09.07popularis : 2.548
My Friends
Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall....
release : 2006.06.21popularis : 3.111
White Lies
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.
release : 1998.08.15popularis : 1.835
Safe Conduct
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance...
release : 2002.01.09popularis : 4.685
Antilles sur Seine
Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the...
release : 2000.12.13popularis : 1.036
Lady Blood
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will...
release : 2008.07.18popularis : 1.742
Cabaret Paradis
Shirley and Dino arrive in Paris to take over a cabaret inherited from their uncle. On the verge of bankruptcy, the establishment is coveted by local...
release : 2006.04.12popularis : 2.212
Winter's Child
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome...
release : 1989.06.14popularis : 1.374
Mondays in the Sun
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They...
release : 2002.09.27popularis : 8.506
The Invader
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
release : 2011.11.23popularis : 7.64
Pretty Devils
Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.
release : 2000.02.09popularis : 2.395
Jimmy Rivière
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to...
release : 2011.03.09popularis : 3.145
Jimmy Rivière
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to...
release : 2011.03.09popularis : 3.145
Women or Children First
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex...
release : 2002.03.20popularis : 2.392
News from the Good Lord
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel,...
release : 1996.06.12popularis : 1.58
Une femme d'extérieur
Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her...
release : 2000.01.26popularis : 1.484
Lights Out
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A...
release : 2010.10.22popularis : 3.262
Quand tu descendras du ciel
A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.
release : 2003.03.19popularis : 1.235
Sleepless Night
Vincent, a police officer, and his partner Manuel steal a large amount of cocaine from José Marciano, a ruthless crime lord who is quick to...
release : 2011.11.16popularis : 6.382
Buisson ardent
Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie,...
release : 1987.05.20popularis : 1.606
La rupture
The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges...
release : 2020.04.22popularis : 0.655
Crime Scenes
The disappearance of a young woman puts two forensic police officers on the trail of a serial killer. Their fears are confirmed by the discovery of...
release : 2000.03.15popularis : 2.965
Fallen from the Truck
Stanislas, a fisherman, loses everything when his boat breaks down. Too old and illiterate, he decides to join forces with old fishermen who attack...
release : 2024.02.28popularis : 5.618
Western
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the...
release : 1997.05.09popularis : 2.76
L'empire du tigre
In the summer of 1938, in the heart of Indochina, a French colony, Pierre Balsan hear the latest news about conquering Czechoslovakia after Hitler...
release : 2005.10.08popularis : 1.231
Vacances
For the first time, Marie spends her holidays alone with her kids, without her husband. One evening, she is seduced by a strange and fascinating...
release : 2022.09.28popularis : 3.566
9mm
A gunshot tears to shred the outward appearance of a modest family: father, mother and son connected by love, faith, hate, anger and resentment. Who...
release : 2008.12.30popularis : 1.575
The Sandmen
Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are...
release : 2000.07.04popularis : 0.877
Two Ships
The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every...
release : 2012.01.22popularis : 2.065
Shooting Stars
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
release : 2002.04.24popularis : 7.413
Rendez-vous au tas de sable
A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.
release : 1990.01.31popularis : 1.149
Monsieur Joseph
Monsieur Joseph is a respected citizen of a small town in the North of France. For over four decades he has run a specialized bookshop in the...
release : 2007.12.15popularis : 2.164
Like a Bad Memory
A woman sends her lover to prison accusing him of raping her daughter. Fifteen years later, as he returns to prove his innocence, she is found dead.
release : 2009.10.03popularis : 0.77
Force
Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly...
release : 2011.10.26popularis : 2.725
Anti Z
A satirical zombie comedy, adaptation of the short film "Nostalgic Z" by Carl Bouteiller.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.249
Ablations
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He...
release : 2014.04.18popularis : 1.76
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity...
release : 1999.08.11popularis : 1.306
Dust
For some time the village was just sentenced to silence and dust. Not a soul out there, not even a noise. However this evening, something is moving...
release : 2013.11.16popularis : 0.479
Un petit air de fête
Jerome leaves his home to seek a job in the city. He finds a job at the town hall and works with Lucien. First they are responsible for the...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.349
Sleight of Hand
Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's...
release : 2014.08.19popularis : 1.983
Dr. Blanche's Clinic
In mid-19th century France, two doctors with very different methods compete in the brand-new field of psychiatry.
release : 2014.01.25popularis : 2.513
Midnight Exam
When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she...
release : 1998.10.28popularis : 1.121
Le danger d'aimer
Hélène and Julien have been married for ten years and feel very close to each other. But a serious problem undermines their marriage:...
release : 1998.11.19popularis : 0.611
Le Secret de la grotte
On the banks of the Ardèche, near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, kayakers find the body of the museum president of a recently discovered Paleolithic cave....
release : 2023.02.09popularis : 3.853
La maîtresse du président
Marguerite Jeanne Japy was born in Beaucourt, France to a family of fortune. She married French painter Adolphe Steinheil in July 1890. Steinheil did...
release : 2009.11.07popularis : 0.661
Marthe
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of...
release : 1997.10.28popularis : 3.428
Manipulations
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his...
release : 1984.10.03popularis : 0.706
I'm Dead But I Have Friends
Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop...
release : 2015.07.22popularis : 1.676
Out in the Country
In this French drama, an urban professional gives up his fast-track life in favor of the quiet of country life. Benoit now lives as a toymaker who...
release : 1995.04.05popularis : 2.485
Ligne 208
Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting...
release : 2001.01.31popularis : 0.665
I married a stranger
Young couple recently married. Soon a child comes. Perfect happiness. For their honeymoon, Emma and David chose a house in the forest. But the...
release : 2015.10.09popularis : 1.947
La Tour 2 contrôle infernale
Ernest Krakenkrick and Bachir Bouzouk are about to become pilots in the French army. But after the bad consequences of a test undertaken with the...
release : 2016.02.10popularis : 4.535
Look at Me
Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father,...
release : 2004.11.18popularis : 8.415
La leçon de guitare
A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and...
release : 2006.02.01popularis : 1.111
The First, the Last
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
release : 2016.01.27popularis : 6.346
Leon's Husband
The tragi-comic chronicle of a passionate friendship between Boris Lassef, brilliant but insufferable and tyrannical actor and director, and...
release : 1993.03.16popularis : 1.051
The Gentleman from the Courtyard
A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to...
release : 2014.09.12popularis : 0.92
Adieu De Gaulle, Adieu
May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student...
release : 2009.04.09popularis : 1.823
Boléro
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet....
release : 2024.03.06popularis : 5.556
Flesh Memories
After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever...
release : 2012.02.15popularis : 1.427
Les Apprentis
Women and a robbery preoccupy a nervous writer and his loafer roommate.
release : 1995.12.20popularis : 2.871
Little Girls
Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage...
release : 1997.01.15popularis : 1.07
Coluche
French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections.
release : 2008.10.15popularis : 4.436
My See-Through Heart
Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s...
release : 2018.05.16popularis : 2.081
The Screenwriter
To finish his script, Jonas is ordered by his producer to work with a talented Parisian scriptwriter, whose arrival at his home effects his life in...
release : 2017.05.01popularis : 1.49
A Thousand Pieces
Twenty-five years after the assassination of her son Olivier in 1977, Nicole Parmentier asks for a meeting with Eric Gaubert who has just served his...
release : 2018.10.03popularis : 1.016
Racer and the Jailbird
When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their...
release : 2017.10.04popularis : 5.621
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
An adaptation of Denis Diderot's novel "Jacques le Fataliste".
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.571
Locked Out
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
release : 2006.04.05popularis : 17.886
Wild Target
Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man,...
release : 1993.08.18popularis : 3.309
Time of the Wolf
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful...
release : 2003.08.28popularis : 8.652
Sachs' Disease
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he...
release : 1999.09.22popularis : 4.518
Death by Death
A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.
release : 2016.05.04popularis : 2.866
The Discreet
There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises,...
release : 1990.11.21popularis : 4.063