Uranus is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists.
Marlène Jobert is a French actress and author.
Les Grosses Têtes is a daily comedy radio programme on the French language RTL radio network. Broadcast since 1 April 1977, the current host since 2014 has been Laurent Ruquier.
Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and adapted from Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280. The film changes the novel's setting from an American Southern town to a small town in French West Africa. The film had 2,199,309 admissions in France and was the 16th most attended film of the year. It received the Prix Méliès from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics as the best French film of 1981.
Maud Forget is a French actress best known for her roles in "Mauvaises fréquentations", and "La vie promise" opposite Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory. She has also starred in other films such as "Tu ne marcheras jamais seul" and "U", and in several short films and television productions.
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru was a French actor.
Claude Pinoteau was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry, and his brother was the director Jacques Pinoteau.
The 7th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1981 and took place on 27 February 1982 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Orson Welles and hosted by Pierre Tchernia and Jacques Martin. Quest for Fire won the award for Best Film.
Renée Faure was a French stage and film actress.
A Week's Vacation is a 1980 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
L'Ampélopède is a 1974 French fantasy film directed by Rachel Weinberg and starring Isabelle Huppert.
Eaux profondes is a 1981 French thriller film directed by Michel Deville that stars Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Based on the novel Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith, it tells the story of a man who regains his wife's affections by killing two of her lovers.
Comedy of Power is a 2006 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert. The French title means "drunk with power". The film is loosely based on a true story involving the french former oil and gas company Elf Aquitaine and judge Eva Joly.
My New Partner II is a 1990 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. It is a sequel to My New Partner.
Famous Love Affairs is a 1961 French-Italian anthology film starring Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot and Jean Paul Belmondo.
Jean-Claude Dauphin is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman.
The Crime Is Mine is a 2023 French crime comedy film written and directed by François Ozon starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon, and André Dussollier. Set in the 1930s, the film follows an actress who gains notoriety after getting acquitted of murder for self-defence. It is a loose adaptation of the 1934 play Mon crime by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, which has been adapted into two American films, True Confession (1937) and Cross My Heart (1946).
