François Périer — Actor (23)
Testament of Orpheus (1960) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Le Testament d'Orphée
director: Jean Cocteau actor: Jean Cocteau / Edouard Dermithe
other title: Il testamento di Orfeo / Das Testament des Orpheus
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Le Samouraï (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Le Samouraï
8.0 (13 ratings) director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Alain Delon / François Périer
other title: Frank Costello, faccia d'angelo / Ekspert i drab
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Nights of Cabiria (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Le notti di Cabiria
9.0 (9 ratings) director: Federico Fellini actor: Giulietta Masina / François Périer
other title: Le notti di Cabiria / As Noites de Cabíria
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Orpheus (1950) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Orphée
director: Jean Cocteau actor: Jean Marais / François Périer
other title: Orfeo / Orfeu
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Gervaise (1956) [Movie] TMDB
Gervaise
director: René Clément actor: Maria Schell / François Périer
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Hôtel du Nord (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hôtel du Nord
director: Marcel Carné actor: Annabella / Jean-Pierre Aumont
other title: Albergo Nord / Hotel del Norte
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Z (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Z
director: Costa-Gavras actor: Yves Montand / Irene Papas
other title: Z - L'orgia del potere
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
The Organizer (1963) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
I compagni
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Renato Salvatori
other title: I compagni / Die Peitsche im Genick
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.
We Want the Colonels (1973) [Movie] TMDB
Vogliamo i colonnelli
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Claude Dauphin
other title: Vogliamo i colonnelli / Nous voulons les colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Stavisky (1974) [Movie] TMDB
Stavisky...
director: Alain Resnais actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / François Périer
other title: Stavisky, il grande truffatore / Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
What? (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Che?
director: Roman Polanski actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Sydne Rome
other title: Che? / Was?
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
A Grin Without a Cat (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB
Le fond de l'air est rouge
director: Chris Marker actor: Laurence Guvillier / Davos Hanich
other title: Rot ist die blaue Luft / Le fond de l'air est rouge
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary, the film examines revolutionary movements in France, Latin America, and beyond, reflecting on the ideals, failures, and fading hopes of a generation.
Return to Life (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Retour à la vie
director: Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Dréville actor: Bernard Blier / Jane Marken
other title: Rückkehr ins Leben / Retour à la vie
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir
director: Chris Marker actor: François Périer / Bibiane Kirby
other title: 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir
Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor movement of the 20th century. Mixing documentary reflection with speculative fiction, the film envisions contrasting paths for the future of workers and unions.
Max and the Junkmen (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Max et les ferrailleurs
director: Claude Sautet actor: Michel Piccoli / Romy Schneider
other title: Il commissario Pelissier / O Estranho Caso do Inspector Max
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
The Train Rolls On (1971) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Le Train en marche
director: Chris Marker actor: Aleksandr Medvedkin / François Périer
other title: Le Train en marche / Le Train en Marche
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.
Just Before Nightfall (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Juste avant la nuit
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Stéphane Audran / Michel Bouquet
other title: Sul far della notte / Vor Einbruch der Nacht
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Under the Paris Sky (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sous le ciel de Paris
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Brigitte Auber / Jean Brochard
other title: Sotto il cielo di Parigi / Unter dem Himmel von Paris
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Lovers on a Tightrope (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Corde raide
director: Jean-Charles Dudrumet actor: Annie Girardot / François Périer
other title: La corda tesa / La Corde raide
Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights on Cora's fortune. Daniel becomes suspicious and hires a detective to investigate, but the detective is unsuccessful in pinpointing Cora's extramarital activities.
Sylvia and the Ghost (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sylvie et le fantôme
director: Claude Autant-Lara actor: Odette Joyeux / François Périer
other title: Sylvia und das Gespenst / Sylvie et le fantôme
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.