
Acting
Jacques Robiolles
Born 1935-03-06 · Coutances, France
Acting credits
5.5Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.
Sophie's Ways
1971
7.3It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
The Secret Wife
1986
7.3The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Stolen Kisses
1968
7.1Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Bed and Board
1970
6.4Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Bluebeard
1963
7.1Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
The Bride Wore Black
1968
6.1A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
Rookies Go to War
1974
6.7The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
Barres
1984
5.5A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
5.2A newlywed couple travels to a small town to visit the bride's cousins—her last two surviving relatives—at the castle where they live, only to discover that the cousins have just died and the castle is now inhabited by vampires.
The Shiver of the Vampires
1971
10.0A 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
6.4Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive nanny. Teenager, he works as butcher in Paris. On Saturday, he made “silly little things” that sometimes lead to prison.
Rebelote
1984
4.2Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
Line Up and Lay Down
1973
6.3Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
Clockwork Bananas
1974
5.5Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
Zig Zig
1975
4.9Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Cinématon
1978
7.0No synopsis available yet.
L'homme qui venait du Cher
1969
10.0A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.
La Bonne Peinture
1967
Anna Luna lives everywhere, that is to say nowhere, without a fixed address, without a room of her own. She finds herself in cafes, telephone booths, waiting rooms, public toilets.
Anna Luna
1980
7.5At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.
Démons de midi
1979
4.2A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies.
5 Kittens
1973
5.7After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
It's Tough for Everybody
1975
No synopsis available yet.
La Maison qui pleure
1979
5.9Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
The Bit Between the Teeth
1979
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
La Maison qui pleure
1979
No synopsis available yet.
La Maison qui pleure
1979
NRA woman finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We do not know anything about the father who could be a simple ... bilboquet!
Les yeux de maman sont des étoiles
1971
NRA woman finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We do not know anything about the father who could be a simple ... bilboquet!
Les yeux de maman sont des étoiles
1971
NRA woman finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We do not know anything about the father who could be a simple ... bilboquet!
Les yeux de maman sont des étoiles
1971
NRA little girl, a sort of Alice in the Land of Cinema, explores this new Garden of the Hesperides that is the cinema. She follows its main paths, rubs shoulders with the great mythical figures of this art form, and discovers her own image. Having become a woman by eating a magical caramel cream, she confuses her own existence, her own birth, her childhood, and her daily life with her own myth of being a great star.
Le jardin des Hespérides
1975
A film by Jacques Robiolles.
Le Daguemaluakh
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Lost 50 min featurette.
Le train de Transylvanie,
1973
A film by Jacques Robiolles.
Essais pour Richard III, roi d'Angleterre
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