Movie Plot : Balzac’s (Gérard Depardieu) life is characterized by three topics: loneliness, remorse and lack of love. It already started at his youth, when he was educated (read: was humiliated) by his exceptionally chilly mother. The friendly upper class lady Madame the Berney (Virna Lisi) let him experience his first love, but that experience also becomes a painful disaster.

Genre : Biography - Drama

Also starring : Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Virna Lisi, Katja Riemann, Gert Voss, Katja Studt, Marianne Denicourt, Sergio Rubini, Gottfried John, ...

Also starring : Pierre Caralp, Roland Blanche, Jacques Legras, ...

Movie Plot : Some men who are jealous on his luck have falsely accused Edmond Dantes. He is condemned to life imprisonment and is locked up in the prison on the island Chateau d'If. He gets acquainted with a fellow prisoner, the certified crazy abbot Faria. He tells him about an immense treasure, which lies hidden somewhere on a small island. He gives the position of the island to Edmond. When the abbot dies, Edmond takes the place of the dead body in the body bag and is thrown into the sea. He frees himself and swims to shore. According to the indications he finds the small island and the treasure. Edmond now is terribly rich and changes his identity in the Count of Monte Cristo. He makes his call at the high society and wins their faith. He however has only one aim: revenge.

Genre : Adventure - Drama - Romance

Also starring : Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort, Pierre Arditi, Florence Darel, Christopher Thompson, Stanislas Merhar, Julie Depardieu, Hélène Vincent, Michel Aumont, ...

Movie Plot : Bernie (Albert Dupontel) is a baby who has been thrown away by his parents in waste container of a building. After he had been taken away from the garbage, he grew up in an old-fashioned orphanage. Being thirty he decides to go out into the world to discover who he is. The paranoid and naive Bernie has made up his own life story according to script of a comic strip and with the tension of an American action movie. For thirty years he has saved his allowance, he is immensely strong and shy and timid as a predator that has been caged up too long. As a drunken crusader he travels around to find his father and his mother. He doesn’t talk, but hits, without hesitating and with deadly result. In his fantasies he was the victim of a crime and was kidnapped as a child instead of carelessly thrown away.

Genre : Comedy

Also starring : Alain Libolt, Albert Dupontel, Catherine Samie, Claude Perron, Hélène Vincent, Lucia Sanchez, Marie-Philomène Nga, Michel Vuillermoz, Roland Bertin, Roland Blanche, ...

Movie Plot : In a Swiss rest home an editor examines a strange story about a divine being that took possession of the body of a man (Simon) so he could have sex with his wife (Rachel).

Genre : Drama

Also starring : Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley, Aude Amiot, Roland Blanche, Marc Betton, François Germond, Jean-Louis Loca, Anny Romand, Monique Couturier, ...

Movie Plot : Bank robber Lucas wants to start a new life after five years imprisonment. If he goes to the bank as an honest customer, just at that time it is robbed by the amateurish Pignon, which takes Lucas as a hostage. While the police are persuaded that Lucas again is the perpetrator, he tries to find out how he can get rid of Pignon.

Genre : Comedy - Crime - Drama

Also starring : Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Maurice Barrier, Jean Benguigui, Roland Blanche, Anaïs Bret, Philippe Lelièvre, Yveline Ailhaud, Didier Pain, ...

Movie Plot : The Revolutionary Danton returns in 1793 in Paris and sees that its former partner Robespierre exercises a reign of terror at own profit with massive executions, until the tribunal judges him and his followers themselves.

Genre : Biography - Drama

Also starring : Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Ronald Guttman, Gérard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk, ...

Movie Plot : She has already tried everything, but Christine cannot find her run away son. Completely desperate she seduces two ex-lovers, a well-mannered teacher and a hard journalist to help her, by telling them separately that he is the father of her son.

Genre : Comedy

Also starring : Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Stéphane Bierry, Philippe Khorsand, Jean-Jacques Scheffer, Maurice Barrier, Roland Blanche, Bruno Allain, ...

Movie Plot : Two men escape from prison and go into hiding at their friend. One of the men also became deadly wounded so the police force is not their only enemy.

Genre : Crime - Drama

Also starring : Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean Rougerie, Christian Marquand, Etienne Chicot, Richard Anconina, ...