Jean Desailly
1920 - 2008
La pitié dangereuse
Édouard Molinaro
Mathieu Carrière, Jean Desailly
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the paralyzed daughter of the count, who is the richest man in the region.
La pitié dangereuse
Cambiamento d'aria
Gian Pietro Calasso
Álvaro Mosca, Marina Suma
Лори Сен-Жюст - эксперт, который работает для известного ювелира и по порядку, реализует для крупного клиента высококачественное ожерелье и дизайн стоимостью тридцать миллиардов долларов. Но после смерти его жены, Саин Просто попадает в депрессию, и по совету врача решает переехать в другой город, для здоровой «смены воздуха». Здесь он встречает Кону, проститутку, которая сначала провоцирует его, а затем отрицает его. Сент-Жюст хочет сделать все, чтобы иметь его, и решает организовать грабеж против ювелира, украсть ожерелье, уповая на абсолютное уважение и уверенность, что он лелеет для него, но предостережение от Коны с копией драгоценности. Во время грабежа ювелир убит, а Святой справедливо наследует свое состояние. Дайте Коне копию ожерелья, но когда она замечает обман, она решает отомстить, проиграв Сент-Джону одним махом все, что у нее есть, наследие ювелира, ожерелье и себя: она совершит самоубийство, смоделируя убийство и отказ от доказательства вины Сен-Жюста.
Cambiamento d'aria
Les Rois Maudits
Claude Barma
Gilles Béhat, Hélène Duc
Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, Tha Accursed Kings begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War.
Les Rois Maudits
Le Doulos
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Le Doulos
The Soft Skin
François Truffaut
Françoise Dorléac, Jean Desailly
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
The Soft Skin
The Professional
Georges Lautner
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Hossein
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
The Professional
La vingt-cinquième heure
Henri Verneuil
Anthony Quinn, Serge Reggiani
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
The 25th Hour
Jocelyn
Jacques de Casembroot
Jean Desailly, Simone Valère
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a priest, the Revolution forced him to take refuge in the Alps. There he meets Laurence, first disguised as a young boy. A great friendship binds them which turns into love when Jocelyn discovers the girl's true identity. Yet faithful to the promise he made to the Superior of his Seminary, Jocelyn will not abandon his faith.
Jocelyn
Le voyageur de la Toussaint
Louis Daquin
Assia Noris, Jules Berry
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Maigret tend un piège
Jean Delannoy
Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Maigret Sets a Trap
Avec André Gide
Marc Allégret
André Gide, Roland Alexandre
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the With André Gide was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.
With André Gide
Sylvie et le fantôme
Claude Autant-Lara
Odette Joyeux, François Périer
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
Sylvia and the Ghost
