Francis Girod Movies

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with...

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the...

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship...

Célimène, a beautiful young widow, chooses to keep her many suitors hoping in order to preserve her freedom, even though she is drawn...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges...

Documentary about the making of French director Claude Chabrol's first film Le Beau Serge in 1958.

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his...

Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually...

Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is...

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of...

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.

"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La...

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point...

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia,...