Nicholas Jones

biography: Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor who has appeared on stage, film and television.

Blue Heelers

overview: Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series.  Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day.  We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.

original_name: Blue Heelers

Jonathan Creek

overview: Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

character: Claude Bergman

original_name: Jonathan Creek

A Touch of Frost

overview: Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

character: Major Harvey

original_name: A Touch of Frost

Silent Witness

overview: A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

original_name: Silent Witness

Spooks

overview: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

character: Michael Collingwood

original_name: Spooks

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Laertes

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Commander

overview: Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur the line between her professional and personal lives.

original_name: The Commander

Eleventh Hour

overview: Professor Ian Hood is a former physics professor recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective and Special Agent Rachel Young is the companion bodyguard hired to protect Hood from the people who want to see his work put to an end.

original_name: Eleventh Hour

Wings

overview: The trials and tribulations of a daring group of young pilots in the Royal Flying Corps as they prepare for battle in World War I. The lead character joins the RFC without being the right class for some of his fellow pilots.

character: Captain Owen Triggers

original_name: Wings

New Tricks

overview: New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

character: Michaela Pendle

original_name: New Tricks

A Dance to the Music of Time

overview: A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.

character: Bob Duport

original_name: A Dance to the Music of Time

Anna Karenina

overview: Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.

original_name: Anna Karenina

Hornblower

overview: Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

character: Lieutenant Buckland

original_name: Hornblower

Jericho

overview: Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.

character: AC Graham Cherry

original_name: Jericho

Rebus

overview: Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.

character: Commander Steelforth

original_name: Rebus

For the Greater Good

overview: For the Greater Good is a three-part 1991 BBC Two television drama serial written by G.F. Newman and directed by Danny Boyle. It centres on three politicians attempting to reform the British prison system. However, their efforts are undermined when the tabloid press exposes their private lives.

character: Julian Brind

original_name: For the Greater Good

Bramwell

overview: The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress.

character: Lord Edward Carstairs

original_name: Bramwell

The Beggar Bride

overview: The Beggar Bride was a British two-part television programme adapted from the Gillian White novel of the same name.

character: Sir Fabian Ormerod

original_name: The Beggar Bride

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

overview: Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.

character: Cecil Croom-Phillips

original_name: Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Father Brown

overview: Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

character: Colonel Cecil Gerard

original_name: Father Brown

Anne

overview: Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Anne stood defiantly alongside other parents and their families who fought for justice for the 96 loved ones who lost their lives at a football match.

character: Sir Murray Stuart-Smith

original_name: Anne

Waking the Dead

overview: A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

character: Leo Harding

original_name: Waking the Dead

Casualty

overview: Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

character: John Packard

original_name: Casualty

Lewis

overview: Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

character: Philip Hathaway

original_name: Lewis

The Moorside

overview: In February 2008, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews is reported missing. A frantic search quickly becomes a murder inquiry. Led by Julie Bushby, the community rallies around Shannon's grief-stricken mother Karen, determined to find her daughter and show that, although she's from a poor background, Shannon's life is as important as any other. As hope fades and doubts about Karen arise, Shannon is found — with a man her mother knows. Who is this man, and what is his connection to Karen?

character: Judge

original_name: The Moorside

The Flame Trees of Thika

overview: Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings.

character: Hereward

original_name: The Flame Trees of Thika

Twenty Twelve

overview: A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.

character: Tony Griffiths

original_name: Twenty Twelve

The Hollow Crown

overview: A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

character: Archbishop of York

original_name: The Hollow Crown

House of the Dragon

overview: The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

character: Lord Bartimos Celtigar

original_name: House of the Dragon

The Crown

overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.

The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

character: Lord Moran

original_name: The Crown

origin_country: GB US

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Reverend Moreland

original_name: Midsomer Murders

character: Ernest Bradley

The Price

overview: English computer millionaire Geoffrey Carr and his wife have plans for a country house in Ireland. Irish terrorists have plans for the wealthy couple.

character: Andrew

original_name: The Price

origin_country: IE GB

Theatre Night

overview: A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

original_name: Theatre Night

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

character: Detective Inspector

original_name: Screen Two

Lipstick on Your Collar

overview: During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.

The Protectors

overview:
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation.

The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.

name: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

overview: The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.

original_name: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

Foyle's War

overview: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Little Dorrit

overview: Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

overview: Aging historian Gerald Middleton is taciturn and methodical, a creature of habit who prefers his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and disapproving of his youngest son’s job, Middleton's life and career are beginning to lose meaning. Keenly aware of his faults and the void he's created around himself, Middleton is forced back into society once more as his past catches up with him.

Kavanagh Q.C.

overview:
John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this has come at a price as his dedication to work has taken its toll on his private life…

Going beyond traditional courtroom dramas, “Kavanagh Q.C.” uncovers the pressures of legal battles and the problems of defining the truth, providing a compelling representation of the euphoric ups and costly downs of success and failure in the legal world.

The Alan Clark Diaries

overview: The Alan Clark Diaries is a television serial dramatising the colourful diaries of controversial British Conservative politician Alan Clark. The six-episode series was transmissioned from 15 January to 19 February 2004 on BBC Four.

Our Mutual Friend

overview: After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

Absentia

overview: A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.

Silk

overview:
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as 'taking silk'.

Passionate defence barrister Martha Costello faces challenging cases and surprising clients, which test her faith in the criminal justice system. Gifted colleague Clive Reader is called to the bar with her. They work hard with pupils, Nick Slade and Niamh Cranitch, but ultimately only one can eventually be taken on as a member of chambers.

Sharpe

overview:
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal.

The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.

ITV Playhouse

overview: ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Sensitive Skin

overview: Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.

Private Affairs

overview: Series of plays about the romantic entanglements hidden behind the public images of famous historical figures.

Number 10

overview: Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.

Thirty-Minute Theatre

overview: An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

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Nicholas Jones

biography: Nicholas Jones (geboren am 3. April 1946) ist ein englischer Charakterdarsteller, der auf der Bühne, im Film und im Fernsehen aufgetreten ist.

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尼古拉斯·琼斯

biography: 尼古拉斯·琼斯（Nicholas Jones，1946年4月3日-）是一位英国角色演员，曾出现在舞台、电影和电视上。

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尼古拉斯·瓊斯

biography: 尼古拉斯·瓊斯（Nicholas Jones，1946 年 4 月 3 日-）是一位英國角色演員，曾出現在舞台、電影和電視上。

title: Daisy Miller

overview: Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

title: Flawless

overview: A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

title: Hornblower: Mutiny

overview: Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.

title: Gobble

overview: As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

title: The Blockhouse

overview: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert

title: Sharpe's Company

overview:
Spain, 1812.
 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz.  A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman to revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?

title: On Wings of Fire

overview: Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees of India.

title: Hornblower: Retribution

overview: Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

title: Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop

overview: Miss Willoughby is an educator and keen adventurer, an heiress to a family fortune who, along with her ex-forces butler, Robert, and cheeky but reliable Jack Russell, Bentley, gets pulled into mystery and adventure surrounding a haunted antique bookshop.

original_title: Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop

title: Unnatural Causes

overview: Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.

title: The Beggar Bride

overview: How far will she go for money?  "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us."  Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap.  She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod.  She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement.  And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...

title: The Sun Is God

overview: A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

title: Beyond the Pale

overview: Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently returned from India with his family.

title: The Glory Hole

overview: Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.

title: Philomena

overview: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

title: The Best of Men

overview: Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.

title: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

overview: Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to get back "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"

title: Surveillance 24/7

overview: Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.

title: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

overview: In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.

title: Sharpe: The Legend

overview: Several  years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

overview: 1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll.

title: The Iron Lady

overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

title: In the Heart of the Sea

overview: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

title: This Year's Love

overview: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.

title: The Little Minister

overview: In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

title: Effie Gray

overview: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

title: Margaret

overview: A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

title: When the Whales Came

overview: A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

title: Darkest Hour

overview: In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

title: The Price

overview: Geoffrey Carr  is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal.  Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

title: War Machine

overview: A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.

title: Mr. Turner

overview: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner  lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

title: The Canterville Ghost

overview: The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed.  An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

title: Crucible of Horror

overview: A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

title: Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood

overview: Robert of Locksley is harbouring a runaway serf. A warrant is then issued for Robert's arrest: he is now an outlaw. Stars David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron and Ciaran Madden

title: The Children Act

overview: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

title: The Saint: The Brazilian Connection

overview: Sleuth Simon Templar ties a London baby's kidnapping to a black-market baby ring based in Brazil.

title: Fellow Traveller

overview: In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.

title: The Lady

overview: The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

title: Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert

overview: 1799: George, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of mad King George III, awaits the Pope's judgement on his marriage to the twice-widowed Mrs. Fitzherbert.

title: Vanity Fair

overview: In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.

title: Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

overview: MI5 operative Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov, who has approached MI5 claiming that he has highly classified information that he wishes to sell to pay for a triple heart bypass.

title: Hamlet

overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

title: This Land

overview: Roisin stands alone in the rugged Irish countryside, a guardian of the mystical land that has been in her family for generations. As a greedy relative seeks to exploit the earth beneath her feet, Roisin's unwavering will and deep-rooted connection to the land propel her to fight back, unyielding in her defence of the magic that lies at the heart of the landscape.

title: Daisy Miller

title: Flawless

title: Hornblower: Mutiny

title: Gobble

title: The Blockhouse

title: Sharpe's Company

title: On Wings of Fire

title: Hornblower: Retribution

title: Unnatural Causes

title: The Beggar Bride

title: The Sun Is God

title: Beyond the Pale

title: The Glory Hole

title: Philomena

title: The Best of Men

title: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

title: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

title: Surveillance 24/7

title: Sharpe: The Legend

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

title: The Iron Lady

title: Vera Drake

title: In the Heart of the Sea

title: This Year's Love

title: The Little Minister

title: Effie Gray

title: Margaret

title: When the Whales Came

title: Darkest Hour

title: The Price

title: War Machine

title: Mr. Turner

title: The Canterville Ghost

title: Crucible of Horror

title: Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood

title: The Children Act

title: The Saint: The Brazilian Connection

title: Fellow Traveller

title: The Lady

title: Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert

title: Vanity Fair

title: Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

title: Hamlet

title: This Land


Alain Cavalier

biography:
Alain Cavalier (born September 14, 1931) is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987. His upcoming film Pater is scheduled to premiere In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

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Spécial cinéma

overview: Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

original_name: Spécial cinéma

24 portraits d Alain Cavalier

job: Director

department: Directing

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biography: Director de cine francés. Tras estudiar Historia, ingresó en el Instituto de Altos Estudios Cinematográficos de París (IDHEC), colaborando con Louis Malle en Ascensor para el cadalso y Los amantes. Los primeros largometrajes de Cavalier fueron, Le combat dans l'île (1962) y La muerte no deserta (1964). Ambos tratan más o menos directamente sobre la Guerra de Independencia de Argelia. A pesar de contar con estrellas de la interpretación en alguna de sus comedias, Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Alain Delon, estas películas fueron fracasos comerciales. Sus primeros éxitos vinieron con la película policiaca Mise à sac (1967, basada en una novela de Donald E. Westlake y, sobre todo, con el drama burgués El amor es un extraño juego (1968), adaptación del libro La chamade de Françoise Sagan. Ocho años más tarde, regresó al cine con Le plein de super (1976), una road movie coescrita con los propios actores a partir de experiencias personales. Después rodó Martin et Léa (1979). Alain Cavalier va afinando progresivamente su nueva manera de hacer cine, utilizando un tono casi documental, con actores no profesionales o poco conocidos, reduciendo sus equipos técnicos. En 1979 rodó Ce répondeur ne prend pas de messages, en la que reflejó su propia intimidad sentimental. En Un étrange voyage (1981) su hija cuenta su propia vida. Con Thérèse (1986) consiguió el mayor éxito de su carrera. Inspirado en la vida de la joven carmelita Thérèse de Lisieux, ganó el Premio del Jurado del Festival de Cannes de 1986 y obtuvo seis Premios César en 1987, entre otros el de mejor película y mejor guión original. La depuración y originalidad de su estilo cinematográfico llegó aún más lejos con Libera me (1993), película sin diálogos donde recoge con fuerza los temas de sus primeras obras, como son la opresión o la tortura.

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biography:
Alain Fraissé, dit Alain Cavalier, est un réalisateur français, né le 14 septembre 1931 à Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher).

Son père, socialiste avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, devient antisémite et anticommuniste après la défaite de 1940, alors que le jeune Alain considère les résistants comme ses héros.

Il passe 7 ans en pensionnat, expérience qui l'influence durablement puisque, comme il l'a raconté, «on mène une vie collective. Impossible de planquer un carnet. On est dans la compétition, la rigolade, l'amitié, dans l’impossibilité terrible de la solitude».

Après des études d'histoire, Alain Cavalier entre à l'IDHEC, puis devient assistant de Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Les Amants).

Il débute dans la réalisation avec le court-métrage Un Américain (1958). Puis il se fait connaître avec deux longs-métrages politiques, subtils et rigoureux, qui lui attirent les foudres de la censure: Le Combat dans l'île (1961) et L'Insoumis (1964), tous deux traitant plus ou moins directement de la guerre d'Algérie. Malgré la présence de comédiens connus dans ses films (Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, ou encore Alain Delon), ce sont des échecs commerciaux: Alain Cavalier s'essaye alors à un cinéma plus traditionnel. Il connaît ses premiers succès avec le polar Mise à sac (1967) et, surtout, le drame bourgeois La Chamade (adapté du livre éponyme de Françoise Sagan). Mais c'est au moment où il se retrouve le plus en vue qu'il choisit de s'éloigner. Sa femme Irène Tunc meurt dans un accident de voiture en janvier 1972.

Huit ans plus tard, il revient au cinéma avec Le Plein de super (1976), road-movie coécrit avec les acteurs à partir de leurs expériences propres, puis Martin et Léa (1978), où le couple incarné à l'écran est un vrai couple dans la vie. En «documentarisant» ainsi les acteurs (professionnels ou non, en tous cas peu connus), Alain Cavalier affine progressivement sa nouvelle manière de faire des films. Réduisant ses équipes techniques, renonçant peu à peu à toute action dramatique traditionnelle, il aspire de plus en plus à filmer au plus près des êtres, ce qui va l'amener inévitablement vers le documentaire.

Après Ce répondeur ne prend pas de message (1979), inclassable performance où Cavalier met en scène sa propre intimité sentimentale, et après Un étrange voyage (1981, prix Louis-Delluc 1981), une étape capitale dans sa méthode de travail va être franchie avec Thérèse (1986). Simple et radical, le film questionne la sainteté au travers de la vie de la jeune carmélite Thérèse de Lisieux. Le film est ovationné au festival de Cannes 1986 où il reçoit le prix du jury, puis est plébiscité aux Césars l'année suivante, avec six récompenses obtenues dont celles du meilleur film, du meilleur réalisateur et du meilleur scénario. ...

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Alain Fraissé
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title: L'Amitié

overview: “I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain. Filming that affection today is no act of nostalgia. Paths once crossed make things simple. People who have been behind the camera, or in front of it, giving the movie their all, are without illusion.” (Alain Cavalier)

original_title: L'Amitié

title: Pater

overview: During a year, they would meet and film each other. The filmmaker and the actor, the President and his prime minister, Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon. In Pater, you will see them in real life and in the fiction that they invented together.

character: Alain Cavalier

original_title: Pater

title: Le Filmeur

overview: From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life, fragments of images, this film composes a mosaic where the spectator is invited to also find his place by himself...

original_title: Le Filmeur

title: I'd Like to Share Spring with Someone

overview: Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changing experiences in attempts to discover a new film language

character: Alain

original_title: J'aimerais partager le printemps avec quelqu'un

title: The Unvanquished

overview: In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.

character: Un passant à Lyon (uncredited)

original_title: L'Insoumis

title: Journal filmé à la Cinémathèque française

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

overview: Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on the former’s autobiography, “Tout s’est bien passé” (Everything Went Fine). In it, she tells how her father asked her to “end it” in the wake of a heart attack. Cavalier suggests that she plays herself, and that he plays her father. One winter morning, Emmanuèle calls Alain; they will have to postpone the shoot until the spring, as she needs an urgent operation.

original_title: Être vivant et le savoir

title: Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine

overview: A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.

title: Roger Diamantis or Real Life

overview: Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early days, talks about the filmmakers who found their place with him, and his film “Si j'te cherche, j'me trouve”.

original_title: Roger Diamantis ou la vraie vie

title: Cavalier Seul

overview: Alain Cavalier is a childlike nonagenarian, a filmmaker who turns his immediate surroundings into an escape route. Yves Jeuland offered to create a portrait of him, somewhat 'in his style.' The rules of the game: five meetings in the small studio. The result: a funny and sensitive journey with this pioneering and enchanting figure of cinema, capable of doing more with less.

original_title: Cavalier Seul

title: Complices

original_title: Complices

title: Thanks for Coming

overview: The final episode of Alain Cavalier’s video diary. “Le Filmeur” traces his life since “Pater”: the approach of death and the beauty of life —both human and animal— intertwine with the filmmaker’s doubts and contradictions as he encounters others.

original_title: Merci d'être venu

job: Screenplay

title: A Matter of Resistance

overview: In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.

department: Writing

original_title: La Vie de château

title: Martin and Lea

overview: A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.

original_title: Martin et Léa

title: Martin and Lea

title: Fill 'er Up with Super

overview: When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want to ride south.

original_title: Le Plein de super

title: Le Combat dans l'île

overview: The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.

original_title: Le Combat dans l'île

title: Pillaged

overview: Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

original_title: Mise à sac

title: Libera me

overview: "In this film you will see a woman's handkerchief tied around a man's wrist, a well-shaven pig's head, some adolescents who are more inventive than their elders in struggling against oppression... You will not, however, hear any dialog. Words do not prepare, do not accompany, do not comment upon the action. This is not a silent film, but a film in which the only moment of life retained for the cinematographic spectacle are those where people do not speak. The spectator will find, perhaps, a greater freedom of interpretation in it and, we hope, a particular pleasure in this." (Alain Cavalier)

original_title: Libera me

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title: The Encounter

overview: A filmmaker meets a woman. Delicately, he starts videoing moments of their life together. He slowly realises he’s not storing memories, but making a film. He asks her permission to continue. After filming for a year, a 75-minute edit is ready…

original_title: La rencontre

title: L'Amitié

job: Director of Photography

title: L'Amitié

department: Camera

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: Provincial Chronicle

title: 10 films inédits d'Alain Cavalier

overview: Thibault de Chateauvieux - La Pie Rouge - Pascal Blaise - Marie Bornat - Miles Davis - Clint et Kyle Eastwood - Zoé Chantre - George Bush - Finale

title: Le Filmeur

title: Thérèse

overview: The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.

title: Thérèse

title: Heartbeat

overview: The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

title: Heartbeat

title: Paradise

overview: "Since childhood, I've had the good fortune of going through two mini depressions of happiness, and I'm serenely awaiting the third. This alone is enough for me to believe in a certain beauty to life and to have the pleasure of attempting to film it in all its forms (trees, animals, gods, humans...) and to do so when love is intense. The filmmaker has lost a part of innocence. It's so difficult to spot it around you, so difficult not to lose it during a film shoot. I'm grateful to those who you look at on screen. To stand up to time, I've a tactic, which is to dig into my stock of emotions and old images. Not so as to find what will never come back, but to discover the signs of spring in winter. This allows me to begin another day with an easy, light step." (Alain Cavalier)

title: Pater

title: Irene

overview: In a film as moving as a confession, the filmmaker portrays a veritable journey into the valley of the shadows to find Irène, his Eurydice.

title: Un étrange voyage

overview: A man walks a length of railroad track, looking for his elderly mother whom he believes fell from the train at some point. He brings his daughter along.

title: Un étrange voyage

title: Fill 'er Up with Super

title: The Unvanquished

title: Le Combat dans l'île

title: Holy Places

overview: Through the public and private toilets that he has enjoyed filming over fifteen years, Alain Cavalier evokes our daily lives which are less trivial than they would appear.

title: Appelez le 17

title: Haiku

overview: Alain Cavalier's contribution to 2009's Haiku project

title: L'Amitié

title: René

overview: René, a children's theater performer, has a problem : he is a hearty eater and he weighs no less than 155 kilos. After being abandoned by his girlfriend, René decides to go on a diet, notably to reconquer her. It is also an opportunity for him to question his former lifestyle and to define new values...

title: This Answering Service Takes No Messages

overview: A man repaints his apartment. Through objects, photos, drawings he plunges back into his past. His future seems so dark that he ends up painting the whole apartment in black, including the windows, to absolute black.

title: Le Caravage

overview: Each morning, Bartabas works with his favorite horse, Caravage. They share a silent conversation in which they guide each other. Will they reach a certain perfection which will allow them to perform before the public ? The filmmaker has been given access to witness this intimate relationship: health hiccups, sessions that don't work out and the questioning they lead to, perfecting the act, tasting the joy of a flawless performance. As the film goes by, a trio comes to life, where hearts beat as one. The spectator will perhaps make the trio a quartet.

title: Elevator to the Gallows

overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

title: The Illusionist

overview: An enchanting mini-portrait of Antoinette, an 86½-year-old magician. Clad in a dress coat and white satin top hat, the elegant Parisienne performs ostensibly simple tricks with astonishing sleight-of-hand. With no more than a napkin, tissue paper or a rain of plastic flowers, Antoinette conjures up a hopeful universe.

title: René

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

title: Pillaged

title: The Lovers

overview: A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.

title: Portraits: Première Série

overview: "These portraits are encounters I wanted to be kept from oblivion, even if it is only while you are watching them. They are women who work, who have children, and who, at the same time, keep their independence of mind. I shot 24 portraits of 13 minutes each. I have chosen this short running time for several reasons: not becoming a bother, escape tv adds cuts, shoot the movie quickly, in one pace and without too many scratches. I am not a documentaries maker. I am more like a faces, hands and things lover. To show reality is not my goal. “Reality” is just a word, just like its twin sister “fiction”, which I practice as well, but with a different delight." (Alain Cavalier)

title: Portraits: Première Série

title: Bonnard

overview: "I have been lucky enough to be able to film the cleaning and restoration work on a painting by Pierre Bonnard: Nu dans la baignoire. I completely inhabited this canvas. It drew me to it and allowed me to record the palpable cinematic evidence of Bonnard's art of painting. It has led me along the hidden path of his private life." (Alain Cavalier)

title: Portraits: Deuxième Série

title: Liberté, liberté chérie

title: Les Braves

title: Cavalier Express

overview: Cavalier Express offers a new reading of eight short films by Alain Cavalier, conceived and presented in the form of a unique story. A look of the filmmaker on his contemporaries, but also on his own cinematographic approach which, from the 60s to today, has continued to evolve towards a refinement, a stripping, always in the pleasure of filming. Past and present collide, overlap and nourish each other in this new opus of the Une mémoire en courts collection.

title: Lettre d'Alain Cavalier

overview: A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.

title: Cadeau de naissance

title: Le pâtissier japonais

title: Six portraits XL : 1 Léon et Guillaume

overview: Léon :  This morning, Léon the shoe-repairer puts up a sign in his store that he's managed for forty-six years : "Closing down in two months." Panic sets in among the neighborhood inhabitants, who adore this big-hearted Armenian with an amazing face. Is there some way to make stay longer ? Guillaume :  Four o'clock in the morning, Guillaume arrives at work first, ahead of his team. At the end of the day, he will have sold all his cakes and bread, that's how good they are. In the evening, he and his wife Jasmine dream of buying a bigger and better located pastry store.

title: Six portraits XL : 2 Jacquotte et Daniel

overview: Jacquotte :  Once a year, in July, on the way to vacation, Jacquotte relives her childhood for a few hours in her beloved parents' home, which has remained intact. They died long ago, but nothing has been touched in the house. One day, it may be necessary to sell it. Daniel :  Before leaving his apartment, Daniel checks ten times that he's closed the windows and turned off the taps properly. Obsessed by cleanliness, washing his hands is a whole ritual. He goes down to the café to try his luck with scratch cards. In the past, he was a very talented filmmaker, before giving it up. Why does he never want to talk about it ? He jokes and moves on to another subject.

title: Six portraits XL : 3 Philippe et Bernard

overview: Philippe :  An actress, a member of the Académie française, a boxer, an actor... Philippe, an all-round athlete of the televised interview, prepares to interview them one after the other. Half an hour each, without deletions, in a single afternoon. He takes some pills to calm himself down. He expects the marathon to be tough.  Bernard :  With improvised lighting on the stage of a small theater in Beauvais, Bernard, an actor, performs for the first time a play that he wrote and in which he's the only actor. He moves the spectators, but can't yet imagine where this performance will lead.

title: Un américain

overview: An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots. A look at the bohemian Parisian life of the fifties.

title: Vies

overview: "If I get along well with someone, if I am attracted to what that person does, then I have an annoying tendency to desire to film that person. I get rejected or not. It sometimes happens that ones has a change of heart after saying yes. The shoot can last years or simply an afternoon. So I stock a lot of films that I edit, that I abandon or eventually take up again. And then, simple pleasure in the middle of disorder, four films come together merely to form one. Without any of the persons who make up the ensemble ever meeting." (Alain Cavalier)

title: Georges de La Tour

overview: "Since a long time I have been linked to the painter Georges de La Tour. His paintings helped me in making my films. Even more, in a precise way they crossed my personal life. The film I shot about La Tour is about that : an intimate emotion followed by the love for the works of La Tour. [...] Georges de La Tour's paintings (it remains 30) are fixed images gifted of a rare radiation and density in the history of human labour. It happens that me, a film-maker, with my movement of twenty four images per second, I am a little jealous of this completion." (Alain Cavalier)

title: Sept gouttes de sommeil

title: Elle, seule

title: J’attends Joël

title: Agonie d'un melon

title: 8 récits express d'Alain Cavalier

title: Faire la mort

title: Ma femme vit dans la peur / C'est plein / Le roi des biberons

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

title: Pillaged

title: Pillaged

title: 8 récits express d'Alain Cavalier

title: The Unvanquished

title: The Unvanquished

title: Sodomites

overview: Pornographic shortfilm directed in 1998 for a campaign against AIDS, in association with French Ministry for Health. Phallus, a muscular Maciste with a huge penis, and  Sodoma, a beautiful sodomite with a ponytail, find each other in the night, in an empty place. The king gives them, witnessed by  Amazons in combat dress, a condom and a lube.

title: Variations

overview: Variations of the three portraits of the movie L'amitié.

title: France 1961

overview: A short film made by Alain Cavalier for the 2010 dvd release of ‘Le Combat Dans L’ile’.

title: L'Orangère

title: La Matelassière

title: La Dame-Lavabo

title: The Illusionist

title: La repasseuse

title: Pater

title: Pater

title: Les alchimistes

overview: Documentary on France's industrial chemistry.

title: Faire l'affiche

title: Marier deux arbres

title: Thanks for Coming

title: Thanks for Coming

title: Complices

title: Libera me

title: L'Amitié

title: Pater

title: Le Filmeur

title: I'd Like to Share Spring with Someone

title: The Unvanquished

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

title: Roger Diamantis or Real Life

title: Cavalier Seul

title: Complices

title: Thanks for Coming

title: Martin and Lea

title: A Matter of Resistance

title: Martin and Lea

title: Fill 'er Up with Super

title: Le Combat dans l'île

title: Pillaged

title: Libera me

title: The Encounter

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: L'Amitié

title: Provincial Chronicle

title: 10 films inédits d'Alain Cavalier

title: Pater

title: Le Filmeur

title: Irene

title: Paradise

title: Heartbeat

title: Thérèse

title: The Unvanquished

title: Le Combat dans l'île

title: Thérèse

title: Heartbeat

title: Un étrange voyage

title: Fill 'er Up with Super

title: Un étrange voyage

title: Holy Places

title: Appelez le 17

title: Haiku

title: L'Amitié

title: René

title: Le Caravage

title: Elevator to the Gallows

title: The Illusionist

title: René

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

title: Pillaged

title: The Lovers

title: Portraits: Première Série

title: Portraits: Première Série

title: Bonnard

title: Portraits: Deuxième Série

title: Liberté, liberté chérie

title: Les Braves

title: Cavalier Express

title: Lettre d'Alain Cavalier

title: Cadeau de naissance

title: Le pâtissier japonais

title: Six portraits XL : 1 Léon et Guillaume

title: Un américain

title: Georges de La Tour

title: Vies

title: Sept gouttes de sommeil

title: 8 récits express d'Alain Cavalier

title: Elle, seule

title: Agonie d'un melon

title: J’attends Joël

title: Faire la mort

title: Living and Knowing You Are Alive

title: Pillaged

title: Pillaged

title: 8 récits express d'Alain Cavalier

title: The Unvanquished

title: The Unvanquished

title: Sodomites

title: Variations

title: France 1961

title: L'Orangère

title: La Matelassière

title: La Dame-Lavabo

title: The Illusionist

title: La repasseuse

title: Pater

title: Pater

title: Les alchimistes

title: Faire l'affiche

title: Marier deux arbres

title: Thanks for Coming

title: Thanks for Coming

title: Complices

title: Libera me


James Bobin

biography:
James Bobin is a British film director, writer, and producer. He has worked as a director and writer on The 11 O'Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, and helped create the characters of Ali G, Borat, and Bruno.  In 2003 and 2004, he directed and co-wrote all of the 12 episodes of Ali G in da USAiii for HBO.

With Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, he co-created Flight of the Conchords, also for HBO. Bobin had previously seen Clement and McKenzie perform and signed on to co-create the show.  He has also directed campaigns for Diet Coke and Lloyds TSB.  In January 2010 he signed on to direct The Muppets written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller.

Description above from the Wikipedia article James Bobin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

name: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast

overview: Hosted by Aryan Simhadri, it features behind-the-scenes stories, cast and crew interviews (including Rick Riordan), and fun insights that celebrate the world and fandom of Percy Jackson.

original_language: en

Comedy Lab

overview:
Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998.

Several pilots first shown on Comedy Lab have gone on to spawn full series, most notably Trigger Happy TV, Fonejacker, That Peter Kay Thing, Meet the Magoons and FM. It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos.

The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife, Orcadia, Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr.

The 2008 series features the episodes Headwreckers, Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool, Pappy's Fun Club, School of Comedy and Slaterwood.

2010's shows are iCandy, Happy Finish, Penelope Princess of Pets, Jack Whitehall Secret Census, Filth, Moviemash and Hung Out.

The 2011 lineup includes: Anna & Katy, Totally Tom and Rick and Peter.

original_name: Comedy Lab

Da Ali G Show

overview: Da Ali G Show is a British satirical television series created by and starring English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In the series, Baron Cohen plays three unorthodox journalists: faux-streetwise poseur Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and gay Austrian fashion enthusiast Brüno Gehard. These characters conduct real interviews with unsuspecting people, many of whom are celebrities, high-ranking government officials, and other well-known figures, during which they are asked absurd and ridiculous questions.

original_name: Da Ali G Show

job: Writer

Flight of the Conchords

overview: The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York City in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand Consulate), one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.

original_name: Flight of the Conchords

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

The Mysterious Benedict Society

overview: Four gifted orphans are recruited by an eccentric benefactor to go on a secret mission. Placed undercover at a boarding school known as The Institute, they must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications, while creating a new sort of family along the way.

original_name: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

overview: Percy Jackson is on a dangerous quest. Outrunning monsters and outwitting gods, he must journey across America to return Zeus's master bolt and stop an all-out war. With the help of his friends Annabeth and Grover, Percy's journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, and who he's destined to be.

original_name: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

MTV Europe Music Awards

overview: The MTV Europe Music Awards "(EMA)" were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers consider the best in music. The awards are chosen by MTV viewers throughout Europe. The MTV Europe Music Awards always changes its host city.

original_name: MTV Europe Music Awards

Enlightened

overview: After a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, Amy tries to get her life back together.

original_name: Enlightened

Flight of the Conchords

job: Creator

department: Creator

Italiano

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english_name: Italian

Pусский

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english_name: Russian

title: Flight of the Conchords: On Air

overview: Behind the scenes look at the cult comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine trying to make it big in their adopted home of New York. It follows the duo in the United States before and after the release of the first series, as they speak candidly about the road to fame, and we meet the other personalities, cast and crew that helped make their show a smash hit in America, NZ and the rest of the world. As Bret McKenzie's long-term partner, director Hannah Clarke was in a unique position to gain access to the Conchords at their most relaxed, as well as their most frantic and exhausted, and was able to get an up-close-and-personal glimpse into this experience. Through her insider's eye we are granted an intimate look into the lives of this great comedy act and discover how they won the hearts of America.

original_title: Flight of the Conchords: On Air

title: A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

overview: Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as they step into worlds fit for gods, battle unforgettable creatures, and perform legendary stunts.

title: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

overview: The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

title: The Best of Borat

overview: Series of reports from Borat Karabzhanov, the Kazakhstani TV journalist, a character featuring in DA ALI G SHOW, as he travels in Britain looking at British culture and customs, including visits to Henley Regatta, Saville Row and a tea party, and looking at aspects such as fox hunting. Made up of footage taken from DA ALI G SHOW plus new footage and links comparing life in Britain and Kazakhstan

original_title: The Best of Borat

title: The Muppets

overview: When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his felt-faced brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a telethon show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.

original_title: The Muppets

title: Ali G, Aiii

overview: Clips from Da Ali G Show with unaired sketches from the show.

original_title: Ali G, Aiii

title: Muppets Most Wanted

overview: After the success of their telethon and renewed fame, the Muppets go on a world tour and find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

original_title: Muppets Most Wanted

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

overview: Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

original_title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

title: Spyz

overview: A short film made by the people who make Ali G. Used to sell the idea to Hollywood producers

original_title: Spyz

title: Dora and the Lost City of Gold

overview: Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.

original_title: Dora and the Lost City of Gold

title: Ali G, Innit

overview: Ali G travels throughout Britain, interviewing unsuspecting leaders and politicians.

original_title: Ali G, Innit

title: Ali G: Bling Bling

overview: Bling Bling is an assortment of Ali G's interviews; a couple of them with possibly the last people in Britain who didn't realise that someone was pulling their leg and several with American grandees of various sorts, including economist JK Galbraith and former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner. The real selling point, however, is Ali G's undeniably spectacular Comic Relief interview

title: The Angry Birds Movie 2

overview: Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fight a common threat. Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice are planning to use an elaborate weapon to destroy the fowl and swine.

title: Thumb Candy: The History of Computer Games

overview: A documentary about the history of computer games. Featuring interviews with Steven Poole, Nolan Bushnell, both Space Invaders and Pac-Man creators, Clive Sinclair, Shigeru Miyamoto and Matthew Smith of Manic Miner fame. Hosted by Iain Lee.

title: Muppets Most Wanted

title: Dragon's Lair

overview: A live-action adaptation of the popular ‘80s video game.

title: Flight of the Conchords: On Air

title: The Best of Borat

title: The Muppets

title: Ali G, Aiii

title: Muppets Most Wanted

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

title: Spyz

title: Dora and the Lost City of Gold

title: Ali G, Innit

title: Ali G: Bling Bling

title: The Angry Birds Movie 2

title: Muppets Most Wanted

title: Dragon's Lair


Jacques Sereys

biography:
Jacques Sereys (2 June 1928 – 1 January 2023) was a French actor and theatre director.

Raised by a single mother who worked as an embroiderer, Sereys grew up in Marseille. He began to make money at the age of 14 while working for Crédit Lyonnais. In 1951, he was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique and attended classes taught by Henri Rollan. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1955, first as an associate before becoming a sociétaire in 1959.

In 1964, Sereys left the Comédie-Française to devote himself to boulevard theatre, a period in which he met the likes of Jacques Charon and Robert Hirsch. However, he returned to the Comédie-Française in 1977 and regained his membership in 1979. He retired in 1997 and became a de facto honorary sociétaire. He regularly continued to perform at the Comédie-Française until 2014

Sereys married actress Philippine Pascal, the stage name of Philippine de Rothschild, with whom he had two children: Camille (born 1961) and Philippe (born 1963). The couple divorced on 25 October 1999. Their children became the owners of Château Mouton Rothschild, Château d'Armailhac, and Château Clerc Milon.

Sereys died on 1 January 2023, at the age of 94.]

Source: Article "Jacques Sereys" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

At Theatre Tonight

overview: At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

character: M. Roussel

original_name: Au théâtre ce soir

Nestor Burma

overview: Cynical private detective Nestor Burma investigating murders, missing persons, kidnapping and extortion cases in every arrondissement of Paris.

character: Pierre

original_name: Nestor Burma

origin_country: FR BE

Palace

overview: The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

character: Client qui organise une partouze

original_name: Palace

character: Le duc financé par Canibouffe

character: L'un des deux hommes de Conversation sur la terrasse

Adios

overview: Miniseries based upon the autobiographical novel by sport jounalist Kléber Haedens.

character: Gédéon Dutoit

original_name: Adios

The Gravy Train

overview: A four-part comedy about bureaucratic bribery and corruption in the European Union.

character: Villeneuve

original_name: The Gravy Train

Le Paria

overview: Julien Mauriès, the youngest of a perfumer's family was forced to go into exile after having an unfortunate experience in the estate business. He spent 20 years in Venezuela and made fortune in the perfume business. Now, Julien has decided to come back in France in order to start again and to cleanse his honour.

character: Jacques Mauriès

original_name: Le Paria

Le Grand Échiquier

overview: Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

original_name: Le Grand Échiquier

Discorama

original_name: Discorama

Maigret

overview: The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

character: Le docteur Bouchardon

original_name: Maigret

origin_country: BE FR

La Comédie-Française

character: Le maître de danse

original_name: La Comédie-Française

At Theatre Tonight

job: Stage Director

Français

biography:
Jacques Sereys est un acteur et metteur en scène français, sociétaire honoraire de la Comédie-Française, né le 2 juin 1928 à Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne) et mort le 31 décembre 2022.

Élevé par une mère célibataire, brodeuse de son état, il passe son enfance à Marseille. Il gagne sa vie dès l'âge de 14 ans en entrant au Crédit lyonnais, rue Saint-Ferréol. Chargé de l'accueil des clients au palier de la Direction, il y côtoie de nombreux notables marseillais qui rendent visite à son illustre directeur, Louis-Bernard Dancausse, qui préside alors l'Olympique de Marseille et la Ligue française de football. L'accueil théâtral qu'il leur réserve ainsi que les tirades qu'il déclame en entrant dans les nombreux services de la banque lui attirent la sympathie de tout l'établissement. Décidé à en faire son métier, il s'installe à Paris en 1947.

Il est reçu au Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique en 1951 dans la classe d'Henri Rollan. Muni de deux Premiers prix de Comédie classique et moderne, il est engagé dès sa sortie en 1955 à la Comédie-Française où il passe dix ans, tout d'abord comme pensionnaire, puis comme sociétaire à partir de 1959. Il démissionne en 1964 pour se consacrer au théâtre de boulevard, où il continue de côtoyer d'anciens partenaires comme Jacques Charon et Robert Hirsch, et à la comédie musicale avant de réintégrer la Comédie-Française en 1977 et de retrouver - fait exceptionnel - son statut de sociétaire en 1979. Ayant fait valoir ses droits à la retraite en 1997 et devenu de fait sociétaire honoraire, il retrouve sa liberté, collaborant notamment avec Jérôme Savary sous la direction duquel il avait chanté Ménélas dans La Belle Hélène de Jacques Offenbach à l'Opéra-Comique en 1983. Il joue ainsi L'Avare en 1999 au Théâtre national de Chaillot et au théâtre des Célestins et La Mascotte, opéra-comique d'Edmond Audran, au Capitole de Toulouse et à l'Opéra-Comique en 1999 et 2001.

Jacques Sereys continue à se produire régulièrement à la Comédie-Française, comme son statut le lui permet, jusqu'en 2014. Passionné de littérature, il conçoit en 2005 un «seul en scène» autour de l’œuvre de Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Proust, et demande à Jean-Luc Tardieu, avec lequel il vient de créer Le Vent des peupliers de Gérald Sibleyras au théâtre Montparnasse, de le mettre en scène. De cette collaboration naîtront trois autres spectacles: Au soleil de Daudet d'après l’œuvre d'Alphonse Daudet en 2007, À la recherche du temps Charlus d'après Proust en 2011 et Si Guitry m'était conté d'après l’œuvre de Sacha Guitry en 2015-2016, ainsi que la reprise de Cocteau-Marais, conçu et créé par Jean Marais et Jean-Luc Tardieu en 1983 d'après l'œuvre de Jean Cocteau.

Jacques Sereys meurt le 31 décembre 2022 à l'âge de 94 ans. ...

Source: Article "Jacques Sereys" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Deutsch

Jacques Sereys

biography:
Jacques Sereys (2. Juni 1928 – 1. Januar 2023) war ein französischer Schauspieler und Theaterregisseur.

Sereys wuchs in Marseille bei seiner alleinerziehenden Mutter, einer Stickerin, auf. Bereits mit 14 Jahren verdiente er sein erstes Geld bei der Crédit Lyonnais. 1951 wurde er am Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique aufgenommen und besuchte dort Kurse bei Henri Rollan. 1955 trat er der Comédie-Française bei, zunächst als Mitglied, bevor er 1959 festes Mitglied wurde.

1964 verließ Sereys die Comédie-Française, um sich dem Boulevardtheater zu widmen. In dieser Zeit lernte er unter anderem Jacques Charon und Robert Hirsch kennen. Er kehrte jedoch 1977 zur Comédie-Française zurück und wurde 1979 wieder Mitglied. 1997 zog er sich zurück und wurde faktisch Ehrenmitglied. Bis 2014 trat er regelmäßig an der Comédie-Française auf.

Sereys heiratete die Schauspielerin Philippine Pascal, Künstlername Philippine de Rothschild. Aus der Ehe gingen zwei Kinder hervor: Camille (geb. 1961) und Philippe (geb. 1963). Das Paar ließ sich am 25. Oktober 1999 scheiden. Ihre Kinder wurden die Besitzer von Château Mouton Rothschild, Château d'Armailhac und Château Clerc Milon.

Sereys starb am 1. Januar 2023 im Alter von 94 Jahren.

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english_name: German

title: A Simple Story

overview: A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.

character: Charles

original_title: Une Histoire Simple

title: The Fire Within

overview: Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

character: Cyrille Lavaud

original_title: Le Feu follet

title: L'Addition

overview: For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous public prosecutor! Once incarcerated, the poor comedian has to deal with the harassment of one of the guards, a kind of dangerous sociopath frustrated with life.

character: Prison Director

original_title: L'Addition

title: L'Opération Corned Beef

overview: The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.

character: Le ministre de la Défense

original_title: L'Opération Corned Beef

title: Chouchou

overview: Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.

character: Le père de Stanislas

original_title: Chouchou

title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué

overview: La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)

original_title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué

title: The Gang

overview: In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?

character: The Prefect

original_title: Le Gang

title: La serva amorosa

overview: Coraline, a young servant in love with Florindo, will thwart the plans of Beatrice, the second wife of Ottavio, father of Florindo, who wants to capture the legacy of Florindo for his own advantage and that of his own son.

character: Ottavio

original_title: La serva amorosa

title: Brother and Sister

overview: A 50-something lawyer's solitary life is upended when he discovers he has a 15-year-old half sister!

character: Félix Cellini

original_title: Frère & sœur

title: The Horseman on the Roof

overview: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

character: Old man

original_title: Le Hussard sur le toit

title: Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

overview: Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn.

character: Daniel Savary, armateur, prétendant d'Henriette

original_title: Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

title: Heartbeat

overview: The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

character: Johnny

original_title: La Chamade

title: Le Bon Plaisir

overview: Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

character: Le ministre des Affaires étrangères

original_title: Le Bon Plaisir

title: Comme des rois

overview: Two Polish brothers arrive in Paris with dreams of becoming rich and famous, and sure enough, they are soon participating in some forgotten film festival as a producer and a director -- but will this get them anywhere?

character: Monsieur Botteret

original_title: Comme des rois

title: The Savage State

overview: L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.

character: Prime Minister

original_title: L'État sauvage

title: La Petite Amie

overview: Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each other... at first.

title: La Dame de chez Maxim

title: Towards Zero

overview: Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.

title: Murmur of the Heart

overview: This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

title: I... for Icarus

overview: Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

title: Ah ! La Police de papa

title: Nina

title: Appelez-moi maître

title: Le Pirate

title: Les Femmes savantes

title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life

overview: On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across the country. Depressed by the turmoil around him, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, philosopher and musician. Helping out at Schweitzer's jungle hospital, Indy finds his faith in humanity restored and his outlook on life forever changed in this beautiful and moving film.

title: The Governor's Party

overview: A French civil servant throws The Governor's Party when his daughter comes of age regardless of colonial unrest and her parents' stormy marriage.

title: On Guard

overview: France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

title: Demons at Midnight

overview: This drama's main asset is Charles Boyer as Pierre, a father out looking for his son one night. Pierre receives a call from a woman who says she will kill herself because of his son. Naturally disturbed at this news, Pierre takes off to find his son and avert disaster. Along the way, he picks up a malcontent, wealthy young woman who decides to stick with him and help him look for his son. After traveling through some of the worst aspects of Paris' demi-monde, Pierre begins to wonder if his son will ever be found. Meanwhile, the relationship with his newfound wealthy friend is heating up.

title: The Elegant Criminal

overview: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

title: The Bit Between the Teeth

overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

title: La vie de Galilée

overview: Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.

title: La Chanson du maçon

overview: Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.

title: La Faute

title: La Reine Blanche

title: Disco

overview: Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.

title: La Méprise

title: La Galette du roi

overview: In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.

title: Ferveur - Comédie Française

title: T'inquiète pas, ça se soigne

overview: Junior doctors do their first internship in a big hospital in Paris. A mandarin position is to take.

title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

title: Sara

title: Le bonheur des autres

title: L'Or et la paille

title: Le Pirate

title: A Simple Story

title: The Fire Within

title: L'Addition

title: L'Opération Corned Beef

title: Chouchou

title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué

title: The Gang

title: La serva amorosa

title: Brother and Sister

title: The Horseman on the Roof

title: Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

title: Heartbeat

title: Le Bon Plaisir

title: Comme des rois

title: The Savage State

title: La Petite Amie

title: La Dame de chez Maxim

title: Towards Zero

title: Murmur of the Heart

title: I... for Icarus

title: Ah ! La Police de papa

title: Nina

title: Appelez-moi maître

title: Le Pirate

title: Les Femmes savantes

title: The Governor's Party

title: On Guard

title: Demons at Midnight

title: The Elegant Criminal

title: The Bit Between the Teeth

title: La vie de Galilée

title: La Chanson du maçon

title: La Faute

title: La Reine Blanche

title: Disco

title: La Méprise

title: La Galette du roi

title: Ferveur - Comédie Française

title: T'inquiète pas, ça se soigne

title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

title: Sara

title: Le bonheur des autres

title: L'Or et la paille

title: Le Pirate