Biography: André Cayatte |
André Cayatte was a lawyer fascinated with the notion of using film to express his opinions about the social and moral status of his native France. He decided to become a filmmaker in the mid-'30s and so left his law practice to begin working as a... more
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Il N'y a Pas de Fumée Sans Feu (1973)
Cast: Annie Girardot Mireille Darc
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller Film a Clef
Length: 120min
This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to serve as a political candidate running against a thoroughly corrupt and devious mayor. In a recent campaign, the mayor and his...
Cast: Bibi Andersson Michel Galabru
Tags: Drama Courtroom Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 96min
In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier (Annie Girardot) is one such magistrate who is called upon to determine whether Catherine, who has been having an affair with an...
Cast: Monica Vitti François Perier Michel Bouquet
Tags: Drama
Length: 110min
In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela (Monica Vitti) unsuspectingly accepts some documents from a friend. She becomes the object of a hunt by French government forces,...
Cast: Sophia Loren Jean Gabin André Cayatte
Tags: Psychological Drama Melodrama Drama Crime
Length: 95min
In Jury of One, French filmmaker Andre Cayatte once more probes into the intricacies of the Gallic justice system. Sophia Loren plays the widow of a man reputed to be a gangster. When Loren's son Michel Albertini is accused of murder, his father's...
Tags: Mystery Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 105min
Doucet (Jacques Brel) is a dedicated and happily married schoolteacher in a small town. One day he is accused of making sexual advances toward a fourteen-year old girl. One of his young students has come home with a ripped dress and a story about the...
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 100min
When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully able to continue investigating what went wrong, despite badgering by news reporters and curious neighbors. Her 19-year-old son...
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Mystery Psychological Thriller
Length: 115min
Dany Carrel is an amnesiac girl who is supposed to be a rich heiress. Her guardian Jeanne (Madeleine Robinson) tries to help her to regain her memory. The mystery unfolds in a series of flashbacks in which the girl finally realized who she is. This...
Tags: Film a Clef Romance Psychological Drama Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 110min
Originally Mourir D'Aimer, this 1970 French film is an "a clef" treatment of the once-notorious Gabrielle Russier case. Annie Girardot stars as a thirtyish schoolteacher, who falls in love with teenaged student Bruno Pradal. The boy's parents bring...
Les Chemins de Katmandou (1969)
Cast: Serge Gainsbourg
Tags: Drama
Length: 100min
Olivier (Renaud Verley) is a student rebel who scams a trip to Nepal to look up his big-game-hunting father. Sampling the decadent nightlife of Paris, he attends a party where his fashion-model mother is stripped naked. Olivier then joins a...
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 196min
A married couple presents their separate views on the state of their marriage in this domestic drama. The two segments are titled ""My Days with Jean-Marc" and "My Nights with Francoise." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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