Movies & TV Shows/Series by Action Films at a glance

19 movies found (page 1/1):

Céline and Julie Go Boating(1974)

3.4/5 (with 57 votes)

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.

Directed by Jacques Rivette - With Dominique Labourier, Juliet Berto, Marie-France Pisier, Bulle Ogier, Barbet Schroeder, Jean Douchet, ...

The Lacemaker(1977)

1h 47min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.

Directed by Claude Goretta - With Isabelle Huppert, Sabine Azéma, Agnès Château, Anne Deleuze, Annemarie Düringer, Christian Baltauss, ...

Loulou(1980)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Nelly, a restless young woman abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed wild, leather-clad bad boy Loulou, whose charms include focusing his energy into sex.

Directed by Maurice Pialat - With Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Humbert Balsan, Guy Marchand, Christian Boucher, Jacqueline Dufranne, ...

Under the Sun of Satan(1987)

1h 38min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 52 votes)

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

Directed by Maurice Pialat - With Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Frédéric Auburtin, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Yann Dedet, ...

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Christ Stopped at Eboli(1979)

3h 40min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Gian Maria Volonté, Lea Massari, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas, Paolo Bonacelli, Antonio Allocca, ...

Providence(1977)

1h 50min | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Denis Lawson, ...

Bye Bye Monkey(1978)

1h 53min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Directed by Marco Ferreri - With Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Stefania Casini, Francesca De Sapio, ...

The Bronte Sisters(1979)

2h | Drama

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Directed by André Téchiné - With Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee, Julian Curry, ...

Butterfly on the Shoulder(1978)

1h 37min | Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.

Directed by Jacques Deray - With Claudine Auger, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Bouise, Laura Betti, Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, ...

Messidor(1979)

2h 3min | Adventure, Drama

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

Directed by Alain Tanner - With Clémentine Amouroux

Blood of the Innocent(1994)

| 1h 30min | Action, Thriller

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.

Directed by Bob Misiorowski - With Thomas Ian Griffith, John Rhys-Davies, Rutger Hauer, Artur Żmijewski, Katarzyna Śmiechowicz, Aleksander Wysocki, ...

Doctor Francoise Gailland(1976)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.

Directed by Jean-Louis Bertucelli - With Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer, Isabelle Huppert, Alain Boyer, Alain David, ...

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Your Turn, My Turn(1978)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.

Directed by François Leterrier - With Albina du Boisrouvray, André S. Labarthe, Annette Poivre, Catherine Rich, Daniel Duval, Laurence Badie, ...

The Middle of the World(1974)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Directed by Alain Tanner - With Juliet Berto, Denise Péron, Jacques Denis, Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Roger Jendly, ...

The Boldest Job in the West(1972)

1h 41min | Western

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A bandit gang successfully executes a complicated bank heist but disagreements arise in the aftermath.

Directed by José Antonio de la Loma - With Carmen Sevilla, Fernando Sancho, Piero Lulli, Patty Shepard, Frank Braña, Poldo Bendandi, ...

The Accuser(1977)

1h 42min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.

Directed by Jean-Louis Bertucelli - With Albert Michel, André Rouyer, Anton Diffring, Charles Cioffi, Christine Pascal, Daniel Sarky, ...

Scrambled Eggs(1976)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.

Directed by Joël Santoni - With Jean Carmet, Albert Michel, André Penvern, Anna Karina, Christian de Tilière, Claude Legros, ...

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder(1982)

57min | Documentary, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

Retour à Marseille(1980)

1h 57min

1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later, his return to Marseilles, for his aunt's burial will abruptly change the life of all of his family, who was first fascinated by his social success. He is regarded as the son who made it like wonder. Michel is the only one who has emigrated. They have all remained in the home country ("le pays") and their social status has hardly changed: workmen, small employees, craftsmen, all living in a modest framework.

Directed by René Allio - With Andréa Ferréol, Ariane Ascaride, Jean Maurel, Philippe Caubère, Raf Vallone, Gilberte Rivet, ...

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