François Maistre

Acting

François Maistre

Born 1925-05-14 · Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France

Acting credits

Belle de Jour poster
7.3

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Belle de Jour

1967

Angelique: The Road to Versailles poster
6.6

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.

Angelique: The Road to Versailles

1965

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
7.5

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

Madame Bovary poster
6.2

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

Madame Bovary

1991

The Flower of Evil poster
6.1

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

The Flower of Evil

2003

Angelique poster
6.7

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

Angelique

1964

The Phantom of Liberty poster
7.5

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

Story of Women poster
7.3

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury, and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting up with a young lover.

Story of Women

1988

The Serpent poster
6.1

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.

The Serpent

1973

Violette Nozière poster
6.7

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Violette Nozière

1978

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl poster
4.0

Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl

1968

The Milky Way poster
7.1

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

The Milky Way

1969

Innocents with Dirty Hands poster
6.2

Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975

Thank You, Natercia poster
9.0

A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.

Thank You, Natercia

1960

Paris Belongs to Us poster
6.6

A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.

Paris Belongs to Us

1961

No artwork available
NR

Hopelessly in love, young aristocrat Octave seeks the help of a magician to exchange bodies with his beloved's husband. But his inability to speak her native language soon estranges him from 'his' wife, while the real husband, stuck in Octave's body, is out for revenge. Based on a story by Théophile Gautier.

Avatar

1964

The Conquistadores poster
10.0

A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.

The Conquistadores

1976

Special Section poster
7.1

In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government is quick to capitulate. Unable to apprehend the actual culprits, Minister of Justice Joseph Barthélémy decides the execution of token Frenchmen will suffice, but the problem is finding judges and jurors eager to participate in a sham trial of innocent men. The solution is a Special Section, a court comprised of individuals handpicked for this exact purpose.

Special Section

1975

À fleur de peau poster
10.0

When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up by her father for his second wife, the troubling Irène; so troubling, in fact, that she immediately set about conquering her daughter-in-law's fiancé... This doesn't faze her husband, Paul Brémont, the famous builder of Télébremont television sets, who is busy with his business and, above all, with the charms of his secretary. But it does seem to worry the house gardener, who is more than a little attached to his seductive boss (which makes Rose, the cook, sick with jealousy).

À fleur de peau

1962

Distracted poster
6.1

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Distracted

1970

Une glace avec deux boules... poster
3.7

A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

Une glace avec deux boules...

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dom Juan

1985

Famous Love Affairs poster
4.4

An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure her lover with acid; a medieval wife faces the wrath of her husband's father, who has her condemned to death; and a stage actress provides advice on life and love to her young colleague.

Famous Love Affairs

1961

Mamito poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mamito

1980