Movies: Jean Rougerie

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another....

This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW...

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance....

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld....

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tri...

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first....

The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered th...

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies....

In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant....

Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies....

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam....

In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who ...

A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer....

Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript ...

Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m....

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A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensi...

Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least o...

In the year 100, the village of Lutèce was invaded by a Roman troop. The Gauls decide to send their naked women to confuse them....

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel....