Michel Robin Movies
Character lead, onscreen from the '70s. ~ Rovi... (read more)Character lead, onscreen from the '70s. ~ Rovi
Aquarium
2002
Director Antoni Krauze takes the helm for this adaptation of former Soviet GRU spy Victor Suvorov's landmark memoir Inside the Aquarium. A world-class spy who gathered...
Amélie
R 2001
One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic fantasy from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amelie...
Merci Pour le Chocolat
PG 2000
Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s. Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller (Isabelle...
De l'historie ancienne
2000
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L'Amour Conjugal
1995
This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who...
Les Enfants du Naufrageur
1992
The small port town in Brittany in this movie has its charms, but they are largely invisible to the children growing up there. In the first place, they are deeply disturbed at the...
Le Cerf Volant
1991
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Toto the Hero
PG 1991
Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto Le Héros. The title character is an fictional...
La Gamine
1991
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Marquis
1989
Ribald, violent, surreal and satirical, Marquis offers a unique take on the events leading up to the French revolution as seen from the perspective of the notorious {%Marquis...
La Nuit de l'eclusier
1989
In this meditative, poetic comedy, a strait-laced young bureaucrat has been informed that, rather than being promoted, he is being apprenticed to the town archivist in...
Les Maris, Les Femmes, Les Amants
1988
This gentle, mildly satiric French comedy follows the romantic adventures of a group of men who have gone with their children to spend the summer in their vacation homes on the...
Harem
1985
This film's two well-known stars -- Nastassja Kinski as Diane, a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange, and Ben Kingsley as Selim an Arab mogul -- are...
The Blood of Others
1984
Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by Claude Chabrol. Set during World War II, the film...
Gwen ou Le Livre Du Sable
1984
In a beautifully animated story with the thinnest of plot lines, Gwen is a young orphan adopted by a nomadic tribe whose desert landscape is occasionally showered with artifacts...
Une Pierre Dans la Bouche
1983
This story about a wounded American gangster seeking refuge in the country villa of a blind, sophisticated, and aging actor has an uneven script that alternates sharp dialogue...
La Mort de Mario Ricci
1983
The Death of Mario Ricci is a Swiss/French/West German coproduction, filmed on location in Switzerland. Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote...
Le Marginal
1983
In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a...
La Femme Enfant
1982
A compelling but very strange relationship between a young and lonely fourteen-year-old girl and a mute peasant farmer is at the core of this curious film by Raphaele...
La Chèvre
R 1981
One the best, most serious detectives in France (Gérard Depardieu) is teamed up with a luckless stumble-bum (Pierre Richard) and sent off to Central America to search for...