Francis Huster
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1947-12-08
Locus Natus: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Et ut:
I Married a Shadow
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
release : 1983.02.16popularis : 3.887
The Dinner Game
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who...
release : 1998.04.15popularis : 9.931
Je suis Pierre Rivière
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste
release : 1976.04.07popularis : 0.507
All That... for This?!
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge...
release : 1993.06.09popularis : 3.567
A Man and His Dog
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
release : 2009.01.14popularis : 12.27
Bolero: Dance of Life
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the...
release : 1981.05.27popularis : 7.853
Comme t'y es belle !
Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina, linked by their Sephardic families as much as by their friendship, share their lives between love affairs, a beauty...
release : 2006.05.10popularis : 4.745
The Demise of Father Mouret
Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by...
release : 1970.10.14popularis : 3.268
The Public Woman
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in...
release : 1984.06.16popularis : 4.544
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence....
release : 1978.04.25popularis : 0.969
There Were Days... and Moons
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its...
release : 1990.04.11popularis : 3.049
Why (Not) Brazil?
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book...
release : 2004.09.15popularis : 1.047
Mad Love
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a...
release : 1985.02.27popularis : 6.164
On ne badine pas avec l'amour
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to...
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 0.521
The Sewers of Paradise
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the...
release : 1979.03.14popularis : 3.864
L'avare
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante,...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.549
Another Man, Another Chance
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild...
release : 1977.09.28popularis : 5.451
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is...
release : 1995.07.01popularis : 5.162
Première Classe
A César award winning short drama film.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 1.147
Parking
Orpheus is a rock star who composes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. As he wrestles with his additional love for Calaïs,...
release : 1985.05.29popularis : 2.376
Lorenzaccio
This stage play from 1977 is adapted from the well-known play "Lorenzaccio" written by French poet and playwright Alfred de Musset. Set in...
release : 1977.09.16popularis : 1.988
Taking Wing
This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him...
release : 2000.07.05popularis : 1.038
The Curse of Edgar
Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light...
release : 2013.10.27popularis : 2.693
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years...
release : 2003.01.06popularis : 2.285
The Adolescent
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity...
release : 1979.01.24popularis : 3.479
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two...
release : 1972.01.12popularis : 6.285
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
release : 1973.10.24popularis : 2.464
A Second Chance
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...
release : 1976.09.30popularis : 3.311
The Role of Her Life
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
release : 2004.06.16popularis : 2.492
Equator
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle...
release : 1983.08.17popularis : 1.701
My Name Is Bernadette
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from...
release : 2011.11.30popularis : 3.555
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
The actress Lola Dewaere recounts the film career and traumatic life of celebrated actor Patrick Dewaere, the father she never knew, under the...
release : 2022.05.17popularis : 1.662
Edith and Marcel
This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 2.168
Everyone's Life
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their...
release : 2017.03.15popularis : 5.462
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
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...
release : 1986.12.24popularis : 3.287
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives,...
release : 1982.06.05popularis : 2.98
Julien l'apprenti
The apprenticeship of Julien with the Rosmers, furriers, beginning in 1933 just before their world is transformed by anti-Semitism.
release : 2000.10.14popularis : 1.429
La Station Champbaudet
The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies...
release : 1972.12.27popularis : 0.674
The Hawk
Detective Frank Zodiac is a cop traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident that also left his daughter in a coma. This tragedy prevented...
release : 1983.09.14popularis : 2.037
Pourvu qu'il soit heureux
Everything was fine in Camille’s life until his parents accidentally discovered his homosexuality. How will Claudine and Maxime react? ...
release : 2019.12.17popularis : 0.598
Mausolée pour une garce
Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed...
release : 2001.11.17popularis : 0.987
Lumière
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...
release : 1976.03.24popularis : 1.868