Movies: Jean-François Stévenin

  • 2011
    The First Man

    The First Man (2011)

    The First Man

    6.52011HD

    Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those deman...

    The First Man
  • 1998
    For Sale

    For Sale (1998)

    For Sale

    51998HD

    A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective....

    For Sale
  • 1995
    The World of Jacques Demy

    The World of Jacques Demy (1995)

    The World of Jacques Demy

    6.81995HD

    Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes....

    The World of Jacques Demy
  • 1982
    A Room in Town

    A Room in Town (1982)

    A Room in Town

    6.41982HD

    Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady....

    A Room in Town
  • 2016
    The Young One

    The Young One (2016)

    The Young One

    5.82016HD

    Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures....

    The Young One
  • 2000
    Total Western

    Total Western (2000)

    Total Western

    6.22000HD

    After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have....

    Total Western
  • 2011
    A Burning Desire

    A Burning Desire (2011)

    A Burning Desire

    4.72011HD

    Yann and Rose are young, they love and want to have a child. Nine months later ... still no baby in sight. They then show great imagination and try everything ... no matter what it is. But they wish so hardly to be three that, is not likely they fi...

    A Burning Desire
  • 1986
    Salomé

    Salomé (1986)

    Salomé

    51986HD

    John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her ...

    Salomé
  • 1981
    Psy

    Psy (1981)

    Psy

    4.41981HD

    Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses....

    Psy
  • 1979
    See Here My Love

    See Here My Love (1979)

    See Here My Love

    4.91979HD

    Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him....

    See Here My Love
  • 1979
    Roberte

    Roberte (1979)

    Roberte

    4.21979HD

    Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during th...

    Roberte
  • 2012
    Of Snails and Men

    Of Snails and Men (2012)

    Of Snails and Men

    6.62012HD

    One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 30...

    Of Snails and Men
  • 2002
    Mischka

    Mischka (2002)

    Mischka

    5.32002HD

    An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka....

    Mischka
  • 1982
    L’Elegance

    L’Elegance (1982)

    L’Elegance

    01982HD

    1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman....

    L’Elegance
  • 2021
    M'abandonne pas

    M'abandonne pas (2021)

    M'abandonne pas

    7.32021HD

    How do you grow up into a well-functioning adult, when you are uprooted time and time again? It's a bitter dilemma that 12-year-old Achille knows all too well. After ten happy years, the young boy is torn from his foster family and sent to live with ...

    M'abandonne pas
  • 1979
    The Police War

    The Police War (1979)

    The Police War

    6.21979HD

    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 underworld....

    The Police War
  • 2022
    Cop Goes Missing

    Cop Goes Missing (2022)

    Cop Goes Missing

    4.82022HD

    One morning, a worn-out field cop, nicknamed Ping-Pong by everyone, burns his police ID and disappears. During one night and one day, his colleagues look for him, meet him and lose him in Toulouse and its suburbs. But every hour that passes brings Pi...

    Cop Goes Missing
  • 2008
    L'Affaire Ben Barka

    L'Affaire Ben Barka (2008)

    L'Affaire Ben Barka

    12008HD

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    L'Affaire Ben Barka
  • 1989
    La soule

    La soule (1989)

    La soule

    6.71989HD

    In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive. He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon. He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him throu...

    La soule
  • 2012
    The Desert of Love

    The Desert of Love (2012)

    The Desert of Love

    02012HD

    A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child....

    The Desert of Love