Films with: Brasseur, Pierre

Candide ou, L'optimisme au XXeme siècle /

A 20th-century Candide joins the French army, is taken prisoner and tortured by the Germans, and is forced to join the Germans since he comes from a German-speaking region of France. Soon he finds himself inspecting concentration camps, then travelling to Asia, and finally to America, where he finds happiness.

DVD 13163

Enfants du paradis Children of paradise /

Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.

DVD 1603

Loi The law /

A beautiful young woman in a sleepy Italian village is desired by the son of a mobster, but she only has eyes for a handsome young engineer. Unfortunately, he is as poor as she is so Marietta decides to steal a dowry from their love nest. In so doing she exposes the town's biggest lies.

DVD 1006

Lumiere d'été

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provencal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.

DVD 9086

Portes de la nuit

Records the events of a single night in a dingy section of northern Paris in 1945, portraying the malaise of a city recovering from the German occupation. Tells the stories of a street musician, an informer, and a member of French underground who has been having an affair with a wealthy married woman.

DVD 13286

Portrait of an assassin

Carnival daredevil Fabius is tired of his dangerous job and his nagging wife, whom he jealously suspects of having an affair. A botched attempt to kill her accidentally wounds the seductive carnival owner Catherine, a woman turned on by reckless men. When he falls for Catherine, Fabius decides to stay with the carnival. But he must still deal with his troublesome wife, as well as Eric, one of Catherine's former lovers, now hopelessly paralyzed.

DVD 1000

Quai des brumes Port of shadows /

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good in life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as both acts of revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.

DVD 3197

Roi de coeur

A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.

DVD 1870

Yeux sans visage Eyes without a face /

A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.

DVD 3854