Georges Géret Movies

Loursat (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a lawyer who has spent the last decade drinking himself into insensibility with a huge cache of gourmet wine in response to his grief at the death of his beloved wife. In the process, he has managed to alienate his now-grown daughter and is barely on speaking terms with his housekeeper. However, finding the corpse of a murdered young man in a room in his house snaps him out of his protracted reverie. He sobers up, investigates the murder, and takes his place in the courtoom to straighten out this mess. In the process, he wins back the respect and affection of his family. This courtroom drama and mystery is based on one of Georges Simenon's many novels. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This drama concerns two lovers who clearly do not get along, though not everything else is quite that clear. Olivia (Frederique Hender) is a stripper in a downbeat nightclub and Dutch (Philippe Leotard) is her lover. When Dutch is not drinking himself into oblivion in-between Olivia's strip routines, the couple endlessly scream at each other. After this jarring introduction, the film segues to a garbage dump that is the home of Olivia's presumed parents. Olivia travels there to go back to live with her parents, but Dutch is hot on her heels. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In an overly-simplified parable about right and wrong, a folk singer and a boxer arrive in a small town together on the train, invited by the town to participate in a festival. When they get there, first the brutish military police search both of them for evidence of insurrection or rebellion, then the boxer finds out he is supposed to throw the fight with his military opponent, and the singer comes under close scrutiny because his lyrics are considered seditious. Once the fight is lost and the songs have been sung, one of the "law enforcement" thugs demands an autograph from each of the two men. The boxer agrees, the singer does not. An unceasing harassment follows in short order, and if events continue this way, both men will be lucky to leave the town intact. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel (Philippe Sfez) grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later youth in Paris. A filmmaker opts to interview Daniel for a documentary on delinquency, and that is how the young man's past and precarious present start coming to light. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi intelligence officer (Albert Filozov) developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned a German agent Max Richard (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) to carry out his plan, but it failed due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a Russian woman (Natalia Belokhvostikova) living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. In the meantime, the Soviet agent is in Paris to meet his lover from years ago, and modern terrorists pose threats that seem to have been carried across the decades. Alain Delon briefly appears as the ill-fated police inspector who must hunt down the terrorists. Teheran '43 won a Gold Medal at the 1981 Moscow Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This standard comedy thriller is more a vehicle to show off Jean-Paul Belmondo's stunts than to convey a suspenseful tale to a hoodwinked audience. Belmondo plays a conman who gets tangled in a complex series of hassles that involve some well-placed kicks to straighten out. Everyone is after a microfilm he has, and when he is not hanging from a helicopter to escape his enemies he is bedding down one woman or another. Life, after awhile, seems fairly predictable as he goes from being airborne to bedridden or vice-versa. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard (Georges Geret), one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde (Marie Laforet). This box-office smash was the first of four wildly successful collaborations between Belmondo and director Georges Lautner. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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 Englishman, conspired with him to murder her impotent husband, who condoned the affair. When Suzanne comes to a conclusion, she still must deal with the political demands of her office and her superiors. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

French attitudes toward their large Arab population are explored in this drama. Here a bus driver causes enormous trouble for an Arab passenger when he will not let him off the bus when he asks. The result of this obstinacy is an accident for which the Arab is blamed. During the trial these prejudices are discussed at some length. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Gerret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After a series of violent encounters, he discovers that she has been sold into prostitution -- and likes it. She marries one of her procurers, and that would seem to be that. However, when she is killed, the father has the opportunity to exact his revenge on at least some of the people responsible for the deplorable condition he found his daughter in. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

While in prison, aloof and stand-offish loner Eric (Hardy Kruger) longs to see his daughter, whom he remembers as a young girl. His manner brings him abuse from the other inmates and also from a guard (Raymond Pellegrin) who appears to enjoy the abusive side of his job. Eric is indeed The Loner. Then he receives a proposition from his guard and tormentor: if he robs the prison safe, the guard will help him escape. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

When intruders interfere in the robbery of Le Metaf (Michel Constantin) and his gang and a girl is murdered, they are set up for blackmail by an underworld figure who wants them to do a job for him. The thugs are double-crossed when they do the job, but Le Metaf wins free of their designs and gets a girlfriend in the process. This crime/caper film is in French. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide