Movies: Francis Girod
- 1986
Descent Into Hell (1986)
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The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future......
- 1995
Lumière and Company (1995)
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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...
- 1991
Against Oblivion (1991)
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Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the pligh...
- 1969
Crime Thief (1969)
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A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself....
- 1984
Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
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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 mome...
- 1971
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy (1971)
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Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss....
- 1974
The Infernal Trio (1974)
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Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomèn...
- 1992
L.627 (1992)
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In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he ...
- 1975
Playing with Fire (1975)
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A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers....
- 1969
Pierre and Paul (1969)
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Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure. When the May Day ...
- 1973
The Italian of the Roses (1973)
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This thoughtful French film tells of the events leading to a young man's attempt at suicide. As Raymond (Richard Bohringer) sits on a ledge of his apartment building, and people try to talk him back inside, he remembers the events of his day and his ...
- 1978
The Savage State (1978)
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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 Afric...
- 2002
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère (2002)
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Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those wh...
- 1980
The Lady Banker (1980)
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The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular w...
- 1990
The Elegant Criminal (1990)
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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 fo...
- 1977
Rene the Cane (1977)
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"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and...
- 1969
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula (1969)
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A documentary about Dracula and vampirism....
- 1988
L'enfance de l'art (1988)
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This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallo...
- 2003
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film (2003)
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Documentary about the making of French director Claude Chabrol's first film Le Beau Serge in 1958....
- 1996
Death in Therapy (1996)
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Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's alread...