François Perrot
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1924-02-26
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut:
I'm Staying
A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
release : 2003.10.01popularis : 4.702
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She...
release : 1975.03.26popularis : 4.477
Swimming Instructor
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time...
release : 1979.03.28popularis : 0.923
Womanlight
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
release : 1979.08.29popularis : 2.462
Le chevalier des Touches
An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly.
release : 1966.12.27popularis : 0.32
Alice or the Last Escapade
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice...
release : 1977.01.19popularis : 4.637
Thank You, Life
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new...
release : 1991.03.13popularis : 5.184
Life and Nothing But
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families'...
release : 1989.09.06popularis : 3.822
The Beautiful Story
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief...
release : 1992.03.18popularis : 2.802
My Best Friend's Girl
The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends....
release : 1983.08.31popularis : 5.851
The Night Clerk
Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the...
release : 2011.03.01popularis : 2.693
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful...
release : 1986.11.04popularis : 39.983
Banzaï
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess....
release : 1983.03.23popularis : 6.446
The Body of My Enemy
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would...
release : 1976.10.13popularis : 7.324
Mauvais Genre
The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok...
release : 1997.05.27popularis : 3.759
Jaguar
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French...
release : 1996.10.09popularis : 7.987
The Vultures
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush...
release : 1984.03.28popularis : 6.829
Evariste Galois
Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.
release : 1965.06.01popularis : 1.414
Hotel America
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the...
release : 1981.12.02popularis : 7.546
For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages...
release : 1982.05.12popularis : 5.903
Marie, the Doll
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a...
release : 1976.08.25popularis : 2.533
Other People's Money
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his...
release : 1978.09.27popularis : 3.204
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also...
release : 1982.11.03popularis : 3.43
Josepha
An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
release : 1982.03.10popularis : 2.438
Le Choc
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier...
release : 1982.04.28popularis : 5.674
Les Seins de Lola
The plot of the play revolves around Lola, a sexagenarian, divorced and not very well off, who gets it into her head to have a breast reconstruction.
release : 1987.01.09popularis : 1.263
Lola Zipper
With his job in the balance, Gérard bets his boss that he can transform bad-tempered street person Lola into television star material. With...
release : 1991.06.05popularis : 0.636
A Friend of Vincent
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of...
release : 1983.09.28popularis : 3.286
Madame Claude
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any...
release : 1977.05.11popularis : 3.801
The French Minister
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of...
release : 2013.11.06popularis : 7.406
Coup de Torchon
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
release : 1981.11.04popularis : 7.799
Une journée de merde !
This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents...
release : 1999.03.03popularis : 2.529
Dames Don't Care
Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme.
release : 1954.05.05popularis : 1.478
Marie et Tom
Marie Bertin is in at a dead end, both personally and professionally. When Pierre Gendreau, a former Canadian minister, asked for her help in writing...
release : 2020.01.31popularis : 0.951
Inspector Blunder
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed...
release : 1980.12.03popularis : 7.333
A Man and His Dog
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
release : 2009.01.14popularis : 10.621
Surprise Party
Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.
release : 1983.04.20popularis : 2.034
The Roaring Forties
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his...
release : 1982.08.11popularis : 1.134
Sarah
An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
release : 1983.04.27popularis : 2.073
Un cas intéressant
Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a...
release : 1963.01.15popularis : 0.946
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him...
release : 1985.01.29popularis : 2.825
Three Men to Destroy
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped...
release : 1980.10.31popularis : 7.471
Les Faussaires
This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul...
release : 1994.11.23popularis : 1.015
To Each His Hell
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
release : 1977.02.02popularis : 1.184
The Flight of the Phoenix
Staubli is happy. He has just concluded a considerable deal with El Farik, one of his biggest successes as an arms dealer. To sign his final...
release : 1984.09.26popularis : 2.486
Monsieur Bébé
In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is...
release : 1974.10.19popularis : 0.297
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins...
release : 1977.08.08popularis : 2.744
The Game of Solitaire
A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young...
release : 1976.11.24popularis : 0.994
Who Wants to Kill Sara?
A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.
release : 1992.09.03popularis : 1.22
My Father Saved My Life
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this...
release : 2001.04.25popularis : 2.072
Stranger in the House
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself...
release : 1992.10.03popularis : 3.358
Les Milles
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of...
release : 1995.08.22popularis : 2.527
Une robe noire pour un tueur
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon...
release : 1981.01.14popularis : 1.979
The Vertical Smile
A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about...
release : 1973.03.19popularis : 1.298
The Severed Heads
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie...
release : 1957.03.31popularis : 2.846
My Other Husband
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
release : 1983.09.21popularis : 4.07
The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are numbered.
release : 1986.12.24popularis : 2.827
See You Tomorrow
Family life in a parisian apartment during the 60's.
release : 1992.12.02popularis : 1.463
The Nada Gang
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his...
release : 1974.02.06popularis : 3.092
Evasions
In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the...
release : 2000.06.06popularis : 1.737
Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to...
release : 1986.08.06popularis : 0.844
L'inconnue de la Seine
The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will...
release : 1973.09.01popularis : 0.397
Diamond Machine
A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.
release : 1955.12.29popularis : 2.043
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix...
release : 1990.08.22popularis : 2.268
One 4 All
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the...
release : 1999.12.29popularis : 2.923