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22 Bullets (2010)
, 1h55Directed by Richard Berry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, La provence, Gangster films
Actors Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Richard Berry, Marina Foïs, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, JoeyStarr
Three years ago mafia boss Charly Matteï retired and left the business to his old friend Tony Zacchia, and has led a peaceful life since, devoting himself to his wife and two children. His past catches up with him when he is ambushed by an eight-man hit squad in a parking lot and left for dead with 22 bullets in his body. Against all odds, he survives to take revenge on his killers.
A Prophet (2009)
, 2h29Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Prison films, La provence, Ghost films, Gangster films
Actors Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Gilles Cohen
Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old French youth of Algerian descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by Cesar Luciani, who enforces a brutal rule.
, 1h33Directed by Alain Berberian
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films, La provence, Serial killer films
Actors Alain Chabat, Gérard Darmon, Chantal Lauby, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby, Sam Karmann
Odile Deray (Lauby) is the publicist for the slasher movie Red is Dead, which features a serial killer whose weapons of choice are the hammer and sickle. She is invited to the Cannes film festival, where she is faced with the unanimous opinion that the movie is extremely bad. However, Red is Dead soon attracts the public attention when its projectionist is murdered by what seems to be a copycat of the movie's killer. Ecstatic, Odile brings the movie's intellectually disabled star Simon Jérémi (Farrugia) to the festival and hires bodyguard and self-proclaimed womanizer Serge Karamazov (Chabat) to protect them. One by one, all the projectionists assigned to the movie are murdered, keeping Red is Dead in the spotlight. Meanwhile, detective Patrick Bialès (Darmon) investigates on the murders and starts a romantic relationship with Odile.
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
, 2h23Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Andrew Marton, Alain Bonnot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Assassinat, Spy films, La provence, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Terence Alexander, Derek Jacobi, Alan Badel
In the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on the President of France General Charles de Gaulle by the militant French underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. As the president's motorcade passes, de Gaulle's unarmoured Citroën DS car is raked with machine gun fire, but the entire entourage escapes without injury. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-Thiry and several other members of the plot are captured and Bastien-Thiry is executed.
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
, 2h15Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Isabelle Carré, Pierre Arditi, Claudio Amendola, François Cluzet
In July 1832, Italian patriots hiding out in Aix, France, are betrayed by one of their own, and Austrian agents are on their trail. One patriot, Giacomo, is dragged away and executed. His wife runs off to warn their friend, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italian revolution against Austria. As the agents descend on his apartmant, Angelo escapes into the countryside.
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
, 1h31Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet, Josiane Balasko, Roland Blanche, François Cluzet, Didier Bénureau
Barthélémy Bernard, owner of a BMW car dealership, is married to a beautiful woman, Florence, but he falls in love with a very plain-looking woman, Colette, who has been hired as an interim secretary to his store. This relationship will change his life, as much as Schubert's music.
The Woman Cop (1980)
, 1h43Directed by Yves Boisset
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes La provence, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Marc Thibault, François Simon, Roland Blanche, Leny Escudero
Mutée à Lens (Pas-de-Calais), une jeune inspectrice de police enquête sur un réseau de prostitution enfantine et se heurte aux notables locaux.
The Well Digger's Daughter (2011)
, 1h47Directed by Daniel Auteuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, La provence
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Jacques Mazel, the son of a wealthy merchant, and Patricia Amoretti, daughter of a well-digger, live in a small village in the Provence region of France while Europe is at the brink of World War I. She has just turned 18 and is smitten with the handsome Jacques when he carries her across a stream to bring lunch to her father who is digging a well. After their second encounter Jacques, a French Air Force pilot, is unexpectedly reassigned. He must leave immediately to replace a pilot who recently broke his leg. Because he cannot meet Patricia as planned the next morning, he leaves an explanatory letter for her but his overly protective mother burns the letter. Patricia concludes Jacques rejected her because they come from different social classes. Later, Patricia discovers that Jacques has left her with child. The parents of Jacques reject the idea that their son conceived a child out of wedlock and refuse to acknowledge the baby. Her father, who had idolized her, sends Patricia to live with his sister in another village to spare his four other daughters from learning of the illegitimate child. Patricia declines an offer of marriage from her father's friend, Félipe, partly because her younger sister, Amanda, has a crush on him. Eventually, Jacques, who was thought to have been shot down by the Germans, returns from a POW camp and learns he has a son.
French Connection II (1975)
, 1h59Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Picking up two or three years after where the original left off, narcotics officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). Orders from his superiors send Doyle to Marseilles, France, to track down the criminal mastermind and bust his drug ring. Once in France, Doyle is met by Inspector Henri Barthélémy (Bernard Fresson), who resents his rude and crude crimefighting demeanor. Doyle then begins to find himself as a fish out of water in France, where he is matched with a language he cannot understand. Doyle is shown round the police station where he finds his desk is situated directly outside the toilets. He tells Barthélémy that he is not satisfied with this positioning and hopes it is not a joke at his expense. Barthélémy informs Doyle that he has read his personnel file and is aware of his reputation and especially hopes he has not brought a gun with him as it is strictly forbidden in France for visiting police officers from other countries to carry firearms.
Zarafa (2012)
, 1h18Directed by Jean-Christophe Lie, Rémi Bezançon
Origin France
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about slavery, La provence, Films about racism, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cows, Mise en scène d'une girafe, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Simon Abkarian, Ronit Elkabetz, Max Renaudin-Pratt, Vernon Dobtcheff, Roger Dumas, Clara Quilichini
The film consists of a village elder (Vernon Dobtcheff) telling a story to a group of eager children.
Overdrive (2017)
, 1h36Directed by Antonio Negret
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Mafia films, La provence, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Gangster films
Actors Scott Eastwood, Freddie Thorp, Ana de Armas, Gaia Weiss, Simon Abkarian, Clemens Schick
Les frères Andrew et Garrett Foster sont des pilotes d'exception, mais aussi des voleurs d'exception. Leur spécialité : voler les voitures les plus chères au monde. À Marseille, ils parviennent à dérober une sublime Bugatti Type 57 de 1937, joyau de l’exceptionnelle collection de Jacomo Morier, parrain de la mafia locale. Ce dernier décide alors d’utiliser leur talent à son profit contre son ennemi juré, Max Klemp. Mais s’ils acceptent de rentrer dans ce jeu, c’est qu’ils ont en réalité conçu un coup d’une audace inégalée.
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
, 1h53Directed by Olivier Dahan, Christian Duguay
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, La provence, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Patrick Bruel, Dorian Le Clech, Elsa Zylberstein, Kev Adams, Christian Clavier, Bernard Campan
Dans la France occupée, Maurice et Joseph, deux jeunes frères juifs, sont envoyés par leurs parents dans la zone libre et font preuve de malice, de courage et d’ingéniosité pour échapper aux occupants et tenter de réunir à nouveau leur famille.
Promise at Dawn (2017)
, 2h11Directed by Éric Barbier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers, La provence, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nemo Schiffman, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine McCormack
Mina Kacew, jeune femme juive d'origine russe, élève seule son jeune garçon Romain Kacew en Pologne. Elle imagine pour lui une carrière toute tracée d'écrivain et de diplomate, l'empêchant même de se consacrer à la peinture qu'elle déconsidère, où il montre pourtant quelque talent. Dynamique, travailleuse et douée en affaires, elle monte une petite entreprise de mode à la manière de la France, pays qu'elle admire. Le négoce est prospère jusqu'à la montée de l'antisémitisme, époque où on lui fait sentir qu'elle n'est plus la bienvenue puis dépouillée de ses biens.
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
, 2h8Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, La provence, Films about television
Actors Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien, Olga San Juan, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi
Down on his luck, veteran movie director and writer Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards (Warren Stevens), who has decided he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego. Looking for a fresh leading lady, they discover, in a Madrid night club, stunning dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner), a blithe but proud spirit who likes to go barefoot and has a troubled home life.
The Razor's Edge (1946)
, 2h25Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes La provence, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall
The film, in which W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois. Elliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.