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Marie Soleil (1964)
Character: N/A
He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He's a runner and a pretty boy. She's beautiful and unscrupulous. They like each other. People gossip about them. He persists. She leaves, afraid to see such a beautiful love deteriorate. She returns. He wants to marry her. She tells him it's no longer possible. Out of spite, he throws stones into the bushes. And then, after all, he comes to his senses.
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Electric Blue 006 (1981)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Vanessa del Rio hosts this men's video magazine which features profiles on British photographer Suze Randall and transsexual adult film star Sulka, centerfold models Felicity (Michelle Bauer) and Terri (Barbara Peckinpaugh), celebrity nude Hazel O'Connor (complete with her music video for “Hanging Around”), clips from the adult Alice in Wonderland with Kristine DeBell and more.
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Tentazioni proibite (1965)
Character: Herself
Italian documentary film shot in several European towns (Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Venice) as well as in Rome's De Paolis Studios. The movie features a series of strip-tease numbers intermixed with real-life scenes and interviews.
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Mag Bodard, un destin (2005)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
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Il était une fois… Le Mépris (2009)
Character: Self
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch.
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Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Character: N/A
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship. And yet, Emmanuel Barnault's "Morceaux de Cannes" (Pieces of Cannes), by this leading expert on Italian and French cinema, convinces us otherwise. The third largest event in the world (after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup) reveals its secrets only sparingly, as this film attests. The result of passionate research in the INA archives, these 52 minutes, without interviews or voice-over narration, string together rare and sometimes previously unseen footage. Taken together, they tell a surprising, original, and heartwarming story of the Festival. On the beach, on a street corner, in a restaurant, or in the privacy of a hotel room, these forgotten archives summon the greatest filmmakers, actors, and actresses of the last seventy years, from Jean Cocteau to David Lynch, for an anthology of the Festival's history.
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Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)
Character: Self (archive footage)
She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys as well as her torments show through. She managed to protect her family, her loves, her choices from the curiosity of magazines and her public. A tour de force for a sixty year long career with more than one hundred and thirty films shot with the greatest filmmakers in the world. However, the raw material for a very personal account of Catherine Deneuve exists: it can be found in the interviews given by the actress from her beginnings until today. They allow us to discover another Catherine Deneuve.
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Coming Apart (2017)
Character: (archive footage)
"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release, to fully grasp Godard’s modernist gestures, poised between a fullness of mythic and classical meaning, and the possibilities of a newly fragmented universe of signs."
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French Love (1998)
Character: N/A
Between the first stripping of Brigitte Bardot, at the end of the 1950s, and the beginning of the 1980s, French cinema developed a certain taste for eroticism and pornography.
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Lykke og krone (1962)
Character: N/A
Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.
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She's French (2018)
Character: N/A
She's chic, slim and sexy like Brigitte Bardot. She's French. But she's not all French women, right?
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Le Mystère Bardot (2012)
Character: Self
Who hides behind Brigitte Bardot? Extraordinarily photogenic, a tumultuous love life, the ultimate sex symbol for the 1950s and 1960s, the actress, singer and animal rights activist left an indelible mark on her era. Despite over 30,000 photos published in the press, her true personality has long-remained in the shadows.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable (2022)
Character: N/A
"And God Created Woman", "Il Sorpasso", "A Man and a Woman", "The Conformist", "Amour"... the list of successes by Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022) may be impressive but his films say little about the man himself. A look back over the life of a discrete and deliberately enigmatic actor.
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Zwischen Glück und Krone (1959)
Character: N/A
The story of a young woman named Maria, who unexpectedly inherits a royal title and a castle after the death of her uncle, a king. Heavily reliant on archival footage of various notables, both stars and royalty.
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Electric Blue 22 (1986)
Character: Herself (archive footage)
In the first of two main segments, the Electric Blue girls, along with Ricky Diamond, are in St. Tropez for more sun, surf, tits and sub-Benny Hill jokes. The second main story ("The Love Machine") is a parody of Back to the Future. Other segments include a brief profile of Brigitte Bardot, a brief look at the girls of the Australian Stubbies Surf Classic (and a wet t-shirt contest), the Electric Blue Dance Troupe and several erotic stories.
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Lafayette: The Lost Hero (2010)
Character: Self (archive footage)
No one in recorded history has suffered a fate quite like Lafayette. Once, he was the most famous man in the world; today, few people know who he was or what he accomplished. Ever since he died, there has been a conflict over the true meaning of his accomplishments. It is time to re-evaluate his crucial role in the establishment of America's democracy.
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Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
Character: Self
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
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Bardot, la méprise (2013)
Character: N/A
An intimate portrait of Brigitte Bardot, the great French actress of the 1960s and 1970s who worked with leading directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean-Luc Godard. The artist shares her family archives with us.
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Futures vedettes (1955)
Character: Sophie Dimater
Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.
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Le Portrait de son père (1953)
Character: Dominique Dupond-Durand, la demi-sœur de Paul
When Paul returns to claim his estranged father's department store, he faces a frosty stepmother and a rebellious half-sister. His determination revives the once-thriving Galeries Parisiennes, healing familial rifts, and leaving a lasting bond with wise Marie-Louise.
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Beautiful Like a Poem (2020)
Character: Self (archive footage)
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 portraits of classical actresses whose films I'm familiar with. Difficult choices from all over the world. They each have their own beauty.
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Paparazzi (1964)
Character: Self
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
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Cette sacrée gamine (1956)
Character: Brigitte Latour
Accused of dealing in counterfeit, Paul entrusts his daughter Brigitte to the care of a friend, Jean Clary. The girl, a walking catastrophe, finally wins Jean's heart. They unmask the forgers, clearing Paul's name and can now concentrate on their love.
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Une ravissante idiote (1964)
Character: Penelope 'Penny' Lightfeather
A Russian spy is assigned to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilisation. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted Soviet intelligence agent needs all the help he can get from his 'talented' partner Penelope Lightfeather as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendezvous while trying to avoid being caught by counterintelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
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Shalako (1968)
Character: Countess Irina Lazaar
While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.
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Brigitte Bardot, le serment fait aux animaux (2019)
Character: Self
In 1973, at age 39, Brigitte Bardot decides to stop her acting career at the height of her fame to dedicate herself to Animal welfare and protection. Her rebellious nature finds in this cause a genuine expression of who she really is. This intimate portrait including exclusive interviews provides a unique account of her journey as a movie icon turning into a radical advocate for wildlife protection ahead of her time.
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La mariée est trop belle (1956)
Character: Chouchou
Catherine is scouted by magazine editor Judith and her co-worker/boyfriend Michel. Promoted under the stage name 'Chouchou', Catherine becomes a big asset but things become complicated when she and Michel start developing mutual romantic feelings. These are exacerbated when Judith gets the idea of doing a wedding-themed shoot, wherein Catherine plays the part of the blushing bride and Michel finds himself as the groom.
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Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune (1958)
Character: Ursula Desfontaines
Novitiate Ursula leaves the convent and becomes involved with Lambert, who blames her lecherous uncle, the count Ribera, for his sister's death.
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Le Repos du guerrier (1962)
Character: Geneviève Le Theil
After rescuing a man from a suicide attempt, Geneviève's life is hijacked by his verbal and emotional abuse, yet she can't seem to tear herself from him.
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La Lumière d'en face (1955)
Character: Olivia Marceau
Traumatised by a serious accident, truck driver Georges Moreau knows that he must avoid strong emotions and any kind of stress. Recently wed, he hopes to start anew by opening a restaurant on the National 7 highway, although he's none too pleased when the truckers start flirting with his lovely wife. Opposite the restaurant is a petrol station owned by Pieri, whom Georges begins to suspect of having an affair with his wife. Doubtful of her fidelity, Georges realises that he's heading for a nervous breakdown.
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Bernadette Lafont : Et Dieu créa la femme libre (2016)
Character: N/A
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.
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Les Pétroleuses (1971)
Character: Louise 'Frenchie King' Miller
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
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Les Dents longues (1953)
Character: la femme du témoin au mariage (uncredited)
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
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Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary looking at how nudity has been used in the movies, sometimes shrewdly and other times without thought.
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Le Trou normand (1952)
Character: Javotte Lemoine, fille d'Augustine, cousine d'Hippolyte
To inherit his uncle's hotel and restaurant, a naive and simple man must pass his primary school exam.
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Masculin féminin (1966)
Character: Brigitte Bardot (uncredited)
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
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Citizen Jane, l'Amérique selon Fonda (2020)
Character: N/A
Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aerobic queen, activist and fearless businesswoman… In a lifetime, Jane Fonda may have reconciled all the facets of America without renouncing her own integrity. Through her portrait, the film tells a social and political story while drawing the picture of a typically American phenomenon.
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Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
Character: N/A
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers' puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence to no end on a daily basis. If it is true that American movies reflect American society, the United States have yet another severe problem: a lack of open sexuality and eroticism.
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Don Juan ou si Don Juan était une femme... (1973)
Character: Jeanne
Modern-day Don Juan-styled Jeanne prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, and reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.
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Les Femmes (1969)
Character: Clara
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
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Brigitte Bardot, l'insoumise (2022)
Character: self
Rejecting wealth and ostentation, Brigitte Bardot leads a simple life in Saint-Tropez. In an interview with Mireille Dumas, she discusses the different periods of her life.
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Le Mépris (1963)
Character: Camille Javal
Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
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Belmondo l'incorrigible (2022)
Character: N/A
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
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La Bride sur le cou (1961)
Character: Sophie
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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Boulevard du Rhum (1971)
Character: Linda Larue
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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Du côté de la côte (1958)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.
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Helen of Troy (1956)
Character: Andraste
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Dear Brigitte (1965)
Character: Brigitte Bardot
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
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Le Testament d'Orphée (1960)
Character: Elle-même (non crédité)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
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Manina, la fille sans voiles (1952)
Character: Manina
After discovering a fragment of a Phoenician amphora while in Corsica, 25-year-old scuba diver Gerard goes hunting for a treasure Troilus is alleged to have lost in the sea following the Peloponnesian War. His meeting with the lightkeeper's beautiful daughter Manina jeopardises his goals.
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Bardot Amoureuse (2017)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers, writers, and photographers have dissected her from every angle. Because she is a myth, and always will be. we have examined the life of Brigitte Bardot through a dimension of her life that she displayed and championed: love. Because her frenetic quest for love reveals her, in the midst of her glory and her wounds, better than any linear biographical account. Her life—her childhood, her many lovers, the love-hate relationship the public felt for her, her ties to cinema—her entire life can be read through this prism. An exceptional 111-minute documentary about the woman who remains the unrivaled French star. The absolute icon who was one of the most loved, admired, criticized, and scrutinized women on the planet. And who, for twenty years, until she abandoned cinema to dedicate herself to animal rights, inspired a mixture of hatred and adoration.
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Un acte d'amour (1953)
Character: Mimi
While on holiday on the French Riviera, former soldier Robert Teller recounts his time in WWII-era France, where he meets and falls in love with a poor girl named Lise. However, they're unable to marry when Lise is accused of prostitution and Teller's commanding officer forbids the match. The couple's love is again tested when Teller learns the truth about his would-be wife's whereabouts.
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The Passions of Louis Malle (2003)
Character: Self - Interviewee
A documentary portrait of the legendary French film director Louis Malle featuring many of his collaborators including playwrights David Hare and John Guare, his brother Vincent Malle, his wife Candice Bergen, the Observer film critic Philip French and a myriad of the movie stars, actors and actresses he worked with.
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Gainsbourg, toute une vie (2021)
Character: N/A
Serge Gainsbourg died on March 2, 1991, at the age of 62. If the general public has remained on his television appearances of the 80s, the fact remains that Gainsbourg had several careers before these last years. With Gainsbourg stripped of his masks, this is the theme of this self-portrait documentary: "In the end, I was left with the watermark of this shy and secretive child who implies candor, innocence, insubordination and savagery". Each sequence of this modest and passionate portrait reveals a secret, intimate, funny and touching Gainsbourg, at a good distance from Gainsbarre, his last public face.
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Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret (2019)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How a young and wild tomboy Tunisian girl became a great actress by accident. Claudia Cardinale : the fanciful destiny of a paradoxical movie star, who appeared in Federico Fellini's, Luchino Visconti's, Blake Edwards' and Sergio Leone's films.
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Vadim Mister Cool (2016)
Character: Self (archive footage)
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
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Hollywood Invasion (2011)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Italy, Europe and America during the 'Dolce Vita' years narrated with unseen and rare footage from NBC Archives in New York.
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Voulez-vous danser avec moi ? (1959)
Character: Virginie Dandieu
Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his delectable new wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff, is picked up by sexy dance teacher Anita Flores. Sensing trouble, Virginie follows him, only to find him circumstantially incriminated in murder. Soon, the dance school has a gorgeous new instructress, whose slightly scatterbrained attempts to clear her husband's name confuse both police and suspects...and bringing potential danger.
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Si Versailles m'était conté (1953)
Character: Miss de Rosille
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
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That's Sexploitation! (2013)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
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À cœur joie (1967)
Character: Cecile
Cecile is a young and beautiful Frenchwoman married to a much older Englishman. She loves her husband and seems content with her life, until she meets a younger man and feels forgotten passions stirring within. She now finds herself confronted with a choice: stay with the steady and peaceful love of her husband, or run off for excitement and adventure with a new love?
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Show Bardot (1968)
Character: Self
And the image created the myth... Bardot as a brunette, blonde or redhead. Bardot in thigh-high boots, mini-dress or swimsuit, Bardot in London, at La Madrague or on a Harley... In all her states, BB sings with Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel: "Bonnie and Clyde", "Comic strip", "Mister Sun"... Reichenbach's camera sublimates the icon.
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Le fils de Caroline chérie (1955)
Character: Pilar d'Aranda
A French officer and his sister develop an inappropriate attraction, leading to comical misadventures and an unexpected twist that brings them closer despite their forbidden desire.
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Brunes et Blondes (2010)
Character: Self
Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.
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Gainsbourg, l'homme qui aimait les femmes (2010)
Character: Self - Actress (voice)
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Régine, France Gall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou... An intimate portrait of the man who could not live without them.
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Godard, seul le cinéma (2023)
Character: N/A
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
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Une nuit à l'Opéra (2020)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
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L'Ours et la Poupée (1970)
Character: Felicia
A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life.
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Les 12 travaux d'Astérix (1976)
Character: Vénus
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
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Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The fall of 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of Lino Ventura's death. Whether in the role of tough cops or tough guys - in the 1960s, Lino Ventura was one of the most popular French character actors. The new portrait begins with the actor's childhood. He came to Paris from Parma in Italy as a child with his single mother and faced many humiliations in a xenophobic environment. The documentary explores the man behind the rough exterior and the tough characters he embodied, most of whom were courageous but introverted loners.
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Haut les filles (2019)
Character: N/A
What if French Rock were born with Edith Piaf? From sweet sixties pop to today's gender-indifferent anthems, from feminist rebels of the seventies to fashion icons of the social media age, from Françoise Hardy to Christine & The Queens, via Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Ringer, Charlotte Gainsbourg and many more, Oh Les Filles! tells the untold story of French female rock stars. Narrated by Clémence Poésy, this groundbreaking documentary combines interviews and iconic footage to radically reverse perspectives and give the patriarchy a kick!
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Fantômas démasqué (2022)
Character: N/A
The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.
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Famous T & A (1982)
Character: Jeanne (archive footage)
A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on.
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Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (1959)
Character: Babette
Beautiful housekeeper Babette travels to England after the Nazis invade France. There, British intelligence devise a plan for Babette to sneak back home, where she could use her feminine charm on key Nazi officer Schulz, gleaning valuable information for England. However, Babette, although willing and spirited, is naïve and untrained, making her less than ideal for matters of national security.
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L'Affaire d'une nuit (1960)
Character: Brigitte Bardot
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
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En cas de malheur (1958)
Character: Yvette Maudet
Leading lawyer Andre Gobillot takes the case of Yvette, a young criminal. As he works on her defence, an unexpected romance blooms between them, only to be cut short by a tragedy.
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Vie privée (1962)
Character: Jill
After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
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En effeuillant la marguerite (1956)
Character: Agnès Dumont
Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
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Viva Maria! (1965)
Character: Maria I
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
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Brigitte Bardot : Divine B.B. (2004)
Character: Herself
While Brigitte Bardot is best known in North America as one of the sexiest women to ever appear on a movie screen, in her native France she also enjoyed a successful career as a pop singer, and this retrospective offers a comprehensive look at the high points of her musical career, drawn from television appearances and promotional clips. Brigitte Bardot: Divine BB includes several of Bardot's collaborations with Claude Bolling and Serge Gainsbourg; selections include "Everybody Loves My Baby," " Le Belle et le Blues," " Bubblegum," " Bonnie and Clyde," " Saint-Tropez," " Comic Strip," " Harley Davidson," and many more.
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The Summer of Love (2017)
Character: N/A
In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of music and popular culture arrived in the UK and USA.
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Bardot (2025)
Character: Narrator (voice)
An intimate look at the life of international icon Brigitte Bardot. With exclusive access and the full support of Brigitte Bardot and her team, we will uncover her life, with its hardships, trials and struggles, her work and her legacy.
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Bert Stern - Original Madman (2011)
Character: N/A
The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern advertising. Ground-breaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern as a celebrity in his own right.
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Tradita (1954)
Character: Anna
In 1915, at a time when Austria, Germany and Italy were supposed to be allied, two Italian brothers are pitted against each other not only for divisive politics but also because they love the same girl, Anna, the niece of an Austrian lieutenant.
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Amours célèbres (1961)
Character: Agnès Bernauer
An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure her lover with acid; a medieval wife faces the wrath of her husband's father, who has her condemned to death; and a stage actress provides advice on life and love to her young colleague.
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Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
Character: N/A
A journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band, an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London shaped the entire world’s view of music and fashion. The film is not only a fascinating, often hard-hitting social and cultural document of the time, but a brutally honest story of how friendships can be won, lost and ultimately regained.
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Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Character: N/A
A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim (2012)
Character: (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
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Histoires extraordinaires (1968)
Character: Giuseppina (segment "William Wilson")
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
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Les Scandaleuses (2024)
Character: Self
Béatrice Dalle, Lio, Brigitte Fontaine, Corinne Masiero, Aïssa Maïga, Virginie Despentes, Maria Schneider, Gisèle Halimi, Juliette Gréco, and Adèle Haenel—these women lived on their own terms, defying conventions and embracing lives often deemed "scandalous." Labeled frivolous, hysterical, or simply too free and too loud, they faced criticism yet used controversy as a force for change, challenging norms and advancing women's rights. This documentary retraces seventy years of their bold and unconventional journeys, telling the story of the fearless women who shaped history and fought for a more equal world.
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La Femme et le Pantin (1958)
Character: Eva Marchand
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
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Spanish Western (2015)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
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Et Dieu… créa la femme (1956)
Character: Juliette Hardy
18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.
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Doctor at Sea (1955)
Character: Helene Colbert
A youthful doctor tires of general practice and signs up to be a ship's doctor in an effort to bring some excitement into his life. Unfortunately, the cargo boat he joins is skippered by a formidable martinet captain and, worse still, there are only two women on board. Luckily for the fun-loving medic, one of them, a beautiful French girl, is more than impressed with his bedside manner.
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Brigitte Bardot confidentiel (2022)
Character: N/A
The incredible journey of the one who was the most beautiful woman in the world. Emblem of women's emancipation at 20, pioneer of the animal cause at 40.
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
Character: Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Histoires de festival (2002)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Une parisienne (1957)
Character: Brigitte Laurier
Brigitte, the beautiful daughter of the French premier, falls for one of her father's aides, the womanising Michel, and attempts to get him to settle down with her. However, as Michel can't curb his flirtations with other women, Brigitte makes a play to seduce the married Prince Charles, resulting in a battle of wills between the gorgeous girl of privilege and her beau.
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Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune (2021)
Character: N/A
The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made France laugh, then the world, flying from success to success, rising higher and higher, until he came a little too close to the sun.
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La Vérité (1960)
Character: Dominique Marceau
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
Character: N/A
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.
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Grace face à son destin (2006)
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
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Mio figlio Nerone (1956)
Character: Poppea
On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie (2018)
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
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Les Novices (1970)
Character: Agnès
Sister Agnès runs away from her convent in Brittany and seeks refuge in Paris with prostitute Mona Lisa. With absolutely no qualifications, the young novice has a hard job finding work, so Mona Lisa tries to teach her the ropes of the oldest profession of them all!
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Les Grandes Manœuvres (1955)
Character: Lucie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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Trintignant par Trintignant (2021)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
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