Name: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Director: Robert Bresson
Released: 1944
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Elina Labourdette, Paul Bernard, Jean Marchat, Lucienne Bogaert, Maria Casarès

Elina Labourdette

Paul Bernard

Jean Marchat

Lucienne Bogaert

Maria Casarès

Yvette Étiévant

Maria Casarès à propos de la place de l'acteur

Gros Plan

A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Français

VF - SD

VF - HD

Corinne Marchand

Dorothée Blank

Marc Michel

Margo Lion

Jacques Harden

Annie Duperoux

Carlo Nell

Anouk Aimée

Lola is a cabaret dancer who&rsquo;s raising her son alone and awaiting the return of his long-lost father. When another love-struck soul, the wanderer Roland, falls in love with her, she is ultimately unwilling to entertain his adoration.

Nouvelle Vague

Lola

Deutsch

Daniel Gélin

Anne Vernon

Yette Lucas

Jean Galland

Jacques François

Jean Riveyre

William C. Tubbs

Jean Toulout

Betty Stockfeld

Grégoire Gromoff

Jean Marsac

Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude&#x27;s. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain is in love with Caroline, and they spite Edouard because he&#x27;s poor. At the party, Edouard must play the piano to make himself known by Claude&#x27;s important acquaintances. But just before leaving, Edouard and Caroline quarrel about clothes, and Edouard goes alone.

Edward and Caroline

Magali Noël

Jean Marais

Gaston Modot

Jean Richard

Ingrid Bergman

Mel Ferrer

Elena is a very attractive Polish Princess. She is quick to get involved in what she sees as a worthy cause or person and just as quick to let them drop. She successively becomes the muse and inspiration of a composer, an industry baron and General Rollan, the hero of the hour. However, Elena realizes that by spending all her time on others, she has had no time for herself. She forsakes the men who need her for the man she needs.

Elena and Her Men

french - SME

OV - HD

OV - SD

Fernand Ledoux

Suzy Delair

Michel Bouquet

Jean Debucourt

Arlette Thomas

Betty Daussmond

Jock, a well-to-do fishmonger, brings a woman called Odette from Saint-Brieuc to the small port in Brittany where he lives. K&eacute;riadec, a ruined squire, and Maurice, his bastard brother, are fascinated by the new arrival. Although Odette becomes the squire&#x27;s mistress, she is madly in love with Maurice and agrees to become his instrument of retaliation against K&eacute;riadec. Maurice sets the date for his revenge on same day as Jock and Odette&#x27;s wedding, and a happy celebration turns into stark tragedy.

Réalisme poétique français

White Paws

Madeleine Renaud

Madeleine Robinson

Georges Marchal

Pierre Brasseur

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Proven&ccedil;al mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle.

Summer Light

FR - HD 

Henri Crémieux

Jean Gabin

Jean Dasté

Michèle Morgan

Charles Blavette

Henri Poupon

Nane Germon

René Bergeron

The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, Andr&eacute; Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard. The captain falls in love with Catherine and leaves his wife for her. When he offers to come away with Catherine, she declines and leaves him. He will have lost the two women he loved.

Stormy Waters

Charles Vanel

Pierre Labry

Gabriel Gabrio

Marcelle Chantal

Jean Dax

José Noguero

Nestor Ariani

Geo Laby

Régine Dancourt

A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.

In the Name of the Law

Robert Manuel

Danièle Delorme

Gabrielle Fontan

Gérard Blain

Robert Pizani

Germaine Kerjean

Robert Arnoux

Aimé Clariond

Jean-Paul Roussillon

Gérard Fallec

Liliane Bert

Andr&eacute; Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that Andr&eacute; left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, Andr&eacute; accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.

Deadlier Than the Male

Jean Desailly

Lino Ventura

Annie Girardot

Paulette Dubost

Olivier Hussenot

Gérard Sety

A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Montmartre.

Maigret lays a Trap

french-SME

Pierre Renoir

Jean-Louis Barrault

Jacques Castelot

Paul Frankeur

Jane Marken

Marcel Herrand

Marcel Pérès

 Arletty

Louis Salou

Fabien Loris

Etienne Decroux

Palau

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her.

Children of Paradise

Roger Pigaut

Jean Brochard

Orane Demazis

Jean Murat

Pierrette Caillol

Édouard Delmont

Henri Calef

Carmelle is a beautiful servant in love with Jacques, a poor young man who suggests her to seduce an old and rich farmer named Rabasse.&nbsp;

Wench

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Charles Aznavour

Yul Brynner

Jean Cocteau

The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

Le Testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi

François Périer

Juliette Gréco

Marie Déa

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Orpheus

Orphée

VO - HD - SND

Jean Champion

Pierre Arditi

André Dussollier

Sabine Azéma

Fanny Ardant

Geneviève Mnich

Jean-Claude Weibel

Louis Castel

Françoise Rigal

Françoise Morhange

In Uz&egrave;s, a mysterious, austere town, four characters who live in seclusion have a simple yet superb life. It is the story of two couples. The first, Judith and J&eacute;r&ocirc;me, have been living for ten years in deep, exalted mutual understanding. Both clerics, they have their own ideas on faith. Elisabeth and Simon are the other couple. Their love which is a few months old is shot through with a terrible, inescapable threat: that of their separation. Life and death, red and black, happiness and pain, passion and solitude come together in exaltation. She is illuminated by their mutual love. He is dark and tortured by a disturbing memory. This film goes beyond analysis, calling for an emotional approach. Like the passion which shines through it, it radiates violence, suffering, but above all, an immense hope, that of triumphant love.

Love Unto Death

Françoise Arnoul

Marcelle Arnold

Edmond Ardisson

Pierre Mondy

Jacques Ary

Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can&#x27;t get a decent job or place to stay in his town. Things get worse when the man gets fired and his family find out. And there&#x27;s more complications to follow for both of them.

People of No Importance

Freebox - VF - SD

Antoine Monnier

Tina Irissari

Henri de Maublanc

Laetitia Carcano

Régis Hanrion

Nicolas Deguy

Geoffrey Gaussen

Vincent Cottrell

Laurence Delannoy

Pour le plaisir 04/05/1967 : Robert Bresson à propos du cinéma

Signes de vie 02/03/1959 : conférence de Robert Bresson à l'IDHEC

A group of young people rebel against a decadent, hopeless society that is destroying the environment. Charles, an upright, twenty year-old romantic member of the group, is searching for the meaning of life. But matters of the heart added to his trouble coping with life cast him into a deep depression where death is the only release.

The Devil Probably

english

Freebox - VF - HD

Nadine Nortier

Jean-Claude Guilbert

Marie Cardinal

Jean Vimenet

Marie Susini

Paul Hébert

Marine Trichet

Suzanne Huquenin

Liliane Princet

Raymonde Chabrun

Robert Bresson à propos du cinéma

Pour le plaisir

Conférence de Robert Bresson à l'IDHEC

Signes de vie

Tournage de Mouchette

Cinéma, Cinémas

Cinéma, Cinémas 26/01/1967 : tournage de Mouchette

Bresson&rsquo;s follow-up to &laquo;Balthazar&raquo; performs another&nbsp;minor miracle while actually treating one: a series of vicious vicissitudes befalling a young girl leading her to martyrdom and a near-Biblical state of grace. Economy of expression and intensity of effect contribute to a wrenching magnificence.

Mouchette

François Leterrier

Charles Le Clainche

Maurice Beerblock

During the Occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine of the Secret Army is arrested by the Germans and sentenced to death. Day by day, he awaits execution in his cell &#x27; his only hope, escape. In a tense atmosphere, his minute technical preparations take shape: a sharpened spoon, a jimmied lock, some rope, and a few hooks. The situation comes to a head. He finally manages to escape, taking his new cell mate with him. A Robert Bresson masterpiece.

A Man Escaped

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