Claude Melki

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colette Descombes

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernadette Lafont

Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

In the far away African country of Tagabombo a millionaire adventurer has died. His ex-wife and a private detective are more than interested in his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dora Doll

Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-François Balmer

André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roger Sweig

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Wilkin

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dominique Erlanger

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Assier

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Castel

In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Higelin

A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Abeillé

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Melki

A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Micheline Dax

A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Perrin

A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frederick Stafford

Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Philippe Gasté

A short film by Jean Douchet

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Cast: André Oumansky

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean...

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Cast: Philippe Sollers

Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Jean Daniel Pollet’ was 22 when he made his debut short movie, "Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse" in 1957. It is a study of loneliness...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Melki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Galabru

Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie-Paule André

Lieutenant Gilles Castelet would have liked to marry like anybody else. But he has always been under the sexual spell of Colonel Popoti's wife. Once...

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Cast: Michel Galabru

Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Bedos