Movies: Christian Barbier

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened ...

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a chari...

Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible t...

In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They...

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Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home....

The rise and fall of a journalist, named Max Torp, who runs a youth magazine, a private club, a tour agency and a pirate radio....

The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security....

Rivalries divide the sons of the owner of a wine estate in Cognac....

In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mine....

As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker....

In Bastia and the surrounding area, a deceived husband kills his rival in anger. But are things as simple as they seem?...

20 years old Denis is a mason for his father's small business. One day, his grand-mother won't wake up anymore....

Nénette, a promiscuous pipe-smoking girl, loves Claude, a gangster who has just pulled off a gainful heist. They both drive to Le Havre from where they plan to set sail for Desirade Island. But in Le Havre, Claude meets Raymond, a shipyard worker and...

Set against the grim backdrop of a Belgian city, the film depicts two young men who kill randoms and hunt people for nothing....

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage....

This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues o...