Gérard Desarthe Movies

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no...

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

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is...

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into...

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists....

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his...

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle 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...

A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they...

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to...

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to...

A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician,...