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Beau masque (1972)
Character: Cuvrot
Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS.
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Utopia (1979)
Character: Jean
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.
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La Grande Meute (1945)
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him that all his property was mortgaged. However, he wants to keep the pack of one hundred and ten hunting dogs that make him proud. In September 1939, the castle was destroyed during a bombardment, and the dogs escaped from their enclosure.
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Les jours gris (1974)
Character: N/A
An old man moves into a pension after leaving his house to his son. One day, his son picks him up and takes him to an old house, where he can enjoy the last good moments of life.
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Le Petit Marcel (1976)
Character: Berger
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.
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Le Temps des cerises (1938)
Character: Director's son
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
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Adieu Léonard (1943)
Character: Porcelain mender
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
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La vie est à nous (1936)
Character: L'instituteur / Teacher
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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Le Moine et la Sorcière (1987)
Character: Christophe
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
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Pourquoi Patricia? (1979)
Character: M. Folco
A young writer revisits the events leading up to the murder of the couple who were sheltering her.
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Noce blanche (1989)
Character: Le Concierge
A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.
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Picpus (1943)
Character: Le clerc (uncredited)
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
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Le Mystère Saint-Val (1945)
Character: The bailiff
Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
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Z (1969)
Character: Illya Coste, chauffeur
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor finds evidence of a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled account of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, Z captures the outrage about the US-backed military junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
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L'Amour à mort (1984)
Character: Dr. Rozier
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
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Une étoile au soleil (1943)
Character: N/A
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.
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La guerre est finie (1966)
Character: The Man in Charge
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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Le Crime d'amour (1982)
Character: L'homme de l'asile
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
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Croisières sidérales (1942)
Character: Pépin
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
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Une semaine de vacances (1980)
Character: le père de Laurence
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976)
Character: Le gardien du chantier
A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.
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L'Atalante (1934)
Character: Jean
Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.
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Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Character: L'Étudiant
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.
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Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Character: M. Louis
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
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L'Enfant sauvage (1970)
Character: Professor Philippe Pinel
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.
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Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour (1963)
Character: L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
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Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
Character: Model Maker
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
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Sous les yeux d'occident (1936)
Character: Georges
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
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Remorques (1941)
Character: Le radio
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
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Le Ciel sur la tête (1965)
Character: Bazin, le savant
The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
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Molière (1978)
Character: Le grand-père de Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
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Nuit docile (1987)
Character: Le chauffeur de taxi
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
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La Chambre verte (1978)
Character: Bernard Humbert
A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.
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L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
Character: L'urologue
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
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La Grande Illusion (1937)
Character: L'instituteur
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
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