Movies: Serge Le Péron

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded t...

On a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice fu...

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power....

After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew, face the demons that haunt them with the help of Françoise Dolto....

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant...

A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her...

Filmed between 1973 and 1975, L’Olivier was produced by the Vincennes Cinema Group. This activist collective of teachers and filmmakers, formed on the occasion of this film, attempts to explain the Palestinian problem through interviews. The Olivier ...

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African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars....

Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, singer of rock of the sixties, today in prison, made a tour....

A double of Sacha Guitry watches several scenes from the artist's films, reads out his letters, goes through his personal archives, and even asks opinions from other film directors on the phone....

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....

A militant fictional film on the subject of a hard strike....

Documentary about new chinese cinema....

Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he has worked with....

An analysis of the comportement of the French Communist Party during the Algerian War...

In 1978, Gilles Jacob landed what must seem like a dream job to many film buffs -- he became the director of the Cannes Film Festival, the world's biggest and most prestigious event for international cinema. Born in 1930 to a Jewish family, Jacob sur...

Serge Daney was successively critic and editor of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 60s and 70s, then critic at Libération before founding Trafic a few months before his death. Through the dialogue established between some filmmakers of today and the thought ...