Pierre Vial
Dangerous Moves (1984)
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies ... (more)
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies ... (more)
The Visitors (1993)
This outrageous time-travel comedy follows the misadventures of a wacky medieval knight (Jean Reno) and his faithful servant when they are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. Mayhem rules as these 12th-century visitors try adapting ... (more)
This outrageous time-travel comedy follows the misadventures of a wacky medieval knight (Jean Reno) and his faithful servant when they are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. Mayhem rules as these 12th-century visitors try adapting ... (more)
Deep Water (1981)
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference. (more)
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference. (more)
La Vouivre (1989)
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who ... (more)
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who ... (more)
The Mystery of Alexina (1985)
In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in ... (more)
In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in ... (more)
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels ... (more)
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels ... (more)
Shadow Dance (1983)
The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge. (more)
The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge. (more)
Sans rires (1990)
An old man, former clown, comes back in the neighborhood where he used to lived for the funeral of his ex-wife, and finds old friends with whom he had lost contact. (more)
An old man, former clown, comes back in the neighborhood where he used to lived for the funeral of his ex-wife, and finds old friends with whom he had lost contact. (more)
Le roi de Paris (1995)
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star? (more)
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star? (more)
Just Kids (2020)
Jack, 19, Lisa, 17, and Mathis, 10, abruptly become orphans. Each sibling reacts differently to the family tragedy: Lisa spreads her wings. Jack, having just become of age is appointed as his brother’s guardian by court decision. A new life begins. But how does ... (more)
Jack, 19, Lisa, 17, and Mathis, 10, abruptly become orphans. Each sibling reacts differently to the family tragedy: Lisa spreads her wings. Jack, having just become of age is appointed as his brother’s guardian by court decision. A new life begins. But how does ... (more)
Maître Zacharius (1973)
Master Zacharius, the village watchmaker, dreams of giving a soul to the automatons he manufactures. A mysterious young man bursts in and seems to want to charm the watchmaker's daughter. After his passage, all the clocks go haywire, causing trouble. How far is ... (more)
Master Zacharius, the village watchmaker, dreams of giving a soul to the automatons he manufactures. A mysterious young man bursts in and seems to want to charm the watchmaker's daughter. After his passage, all the clocks go haywire, causing trouble. How far is ... (more)
