François Périer

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in ...

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 ...

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera ...

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political ...

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after ...

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate ...

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who ...

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent ...

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to ...

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile ...

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend ...

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with ...

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find ...

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with ...

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking ...

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting ...