Movies: Jacques Spiesser

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Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of bein...

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A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money....

Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a contract to travel to Congo captaining a ship called Florida that is shipwrecked as soon as it reaches ...

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A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance....

In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies....

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A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared....

At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off...

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland....

The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an obsession....

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Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. ...

Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanaly...

Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon star...

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Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she can't go to the sea with other children of the village. Then she meets Vincent, a younger boy who sta...

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, ...