Movies: Jean Pommier

The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis....

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence....

Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both....

Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspecto...

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians....

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris....

A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past....

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history...

An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper....

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers....

Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy s...

A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery....