Gérard Desarthe Movies

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....

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

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...

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...

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the...

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...

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

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

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

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

After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of...

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

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor...

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

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...

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...

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...

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