Acting

Michel Debrane

Acting credits

Salsa poster
6.5

At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?

Salsa

2000

The Bleeding Star poster
NR

An Englishman arrives in a remote French town near the coast to collect his broken-down car. What he sees there will change his life forever.

The Bleeding Star

1987

Aimée poster
9.0

A young woman, fleeing the bloody 1934 events in Shanghai, is sheltered in France by two friends of her late father, the psychiatrist Freyer and cardiologist Ménard. While the first turns her into a subject of study, the second feels compassion for her

Aimée

1981

La petite enfance du cinéma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La petite enfance du cinéma

1979

The Sorceress poster
3.7

An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet

The Sorceress

1982

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers poster
4.9

Five young conscripts lead a peaceful life in the barracks of a small town. Their officer is an eccentric man who lets them spend their time listening to music. The atmosphere changes completely with the arrival of a new officer who wants to prepare them for major maneuvers.

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers

1981

L'Amour nu poster
5.0

Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with her illness and the potential for a mastectomy, she struggles with her self-image and decides to push Simon away, believing the diagnosis will change their future together.

L'Amour nu

1981

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV poster
7.1

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

1966

Night of Death! poster
5.6

When she takes up her new post at an eerie convalescent home deep in the French countryside, nurse Martine soon discovers that several missing co-workers may have fallen prey to an unspeakable evil rumored to roam the hallways at night. But as Martine looks deeper into the mystery, she suspects the home's aged residents know more about the menace than they let on.

Night of Death!

1980

Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

1980

Le jeu du renard poster
10.0

Tania, a young actress, puts everything at stake for her starring role in Dotez's play. But Dotez, blocked and hostile to Tania, only frees himself as the rehearsals progress, while his actress is exhausted in her daily life, divided between Yan, her lover, and Lila, his little daughter.

Le jeu du renard

1990

My Name Is poster
8.0

Portraits of individuals who were the victims of acts of violence in order to denounce the brutality of Western societies in the 20th century. Each describes the severity of their condition. They are of all ages and nationalities but have all experienced the same thing: oppression.

My Name Is

2002

No artwork available
10.0

Gilbert has been released from the mental hospital, but it's clear that whoever signed the form was either irresponsible, stupid, or naive. He's still completely nuts. The chaos he perpetrates around him causes as much violence as he does himself, but nothing stops him in his quest to get to the ocean. Suzanne never was in a hospital for the insane, but perhaps she should have been. The energy that sparks between them leads to yet more mayhem and death, but nothing, nothing at all can prevent Gilbert from seeing the ocean.

Les Enfants volants

1991