Mayrig
Azad Zakarian est né en Armenie, le 11 mai 1915, l'année du premier génocide du XXe siècle. Son père Hagop, sa mère Araxi et ses deux tantes Anna et Gayane débarquent à Marseille un matin de 1921. Azad a 6 ans. Après l'exil, ils vont devoir faire face aux difficultés de l'intégration....
Les Morfalous
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 awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and...
Le Corps de mon Ennemi
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 have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has...
Weekend at Dunkirk
Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. He , then, tries to organize the life for him and his soldiers friends between German raids and shells.
Anyone Can Win
Charles, a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino. Bad luck and Francis's...
A Monkey in Winter
L'hôtelier d'une petite station balnéaire de Normandie a juré à sa femme de ne plus toucher à un verre d'alcool. C'était sans compter avec l'arrivée de Fouquet qui surgit avec la tentation.
Le Président
At 73, France's ex-president, Emile Beaufort, faces declining health, but he still plays a vigorous role behind the scenes as a philosopher and, potentially, as a power broker. In particular, his relationship with Philippe Chalamont comes into play: Chalamont seems in line to be the next Prime...
Le Boulanger de Valorgue
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers...
Le Fruit Défendu
Charles Pellegrin, 40-year-old country doctor, buys a practice in Arles, a provincial town near Marseille. In five years, he has a large practice and a lovely (but more efficient than passionate) wife, when he meets spectacularly sexy, sensuous Martine, who seduces him. Soon, he's honoring that...
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588 Rue Paradis
Plus de quarante ans ont passé depuis l'arrivée d'Azad Zakarian à Marseille. Il s'appelle maintenant Pierre Zakar et ses oeuvres sont jouées sur toutes les scènes du monde. Ses souvenirs d'enfance vont resurgir quand, à la mort de son père, il va retrouver sa mère, Mayrig.
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
Journaliste à La Tribune, Kerjean apprend que l'homme politique Benoit Lambert a reçu un pot-de-vin pour faciliter une transaction internationale. Après son article, Benoit-Lambert se suicide, en apparence. La rumeur était fausse. Comprenant qu'il a été manipulé, Kerjean se cache en...
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Fear over the City
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the
Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil
Sahara, 1963. Rocco, chauffeur expérimenté, fauche avec sa fiancée Pepa un camion flambant neuf et son mystérieux chargement, dont la livraison doit rapporter 100000 $. Son employeur, le douteux Castiglione dit "la betterave", charge un autre chauffeur, Marec dit "Plouc", de les rattraper.
Le Grand Chef
Antoine et Paulo, deux laveurs de voitures, espèrent s'enrichir en kidnappant le fils d'un riche commerçant. Mais il se rendent compte, trop tard, qu'ils ont enlevé un véritable petit monstre, tout à fait ravi de cette aventure.
The Cow and I
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
Des Gens sans Importance
Some People without Importance: Clothilde is a waitress at a wayside cafe, gas station and lodge, enduring boredom in the middle of nowhere by a truck route. She is disenfranchised by her family because of a former lover who has now dumped her anyway. She puts up with cafe patrons who can be...
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The Lovers of Lisbon
He is a French taxi driver in Lisbon carrying the scars of a wife's infidelity that ended in tragedy when he found her with his lover upon returning from the war. She is a French woman in trouble with the law and she has a police inspector on her tail. They fall passionately in love, but because...
Actors
Daniel Gelin, Marcel Dalio, Trevor Howard, Françoise Arnoul, Ginette Leclerc, Amália Rodrigues
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L'Ennemi Public
Pour une simple erreur, Joe Calvet est pris pour un redoutable criminel. Il se prend au jeu.
