Gérard Desarthe Movies

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists....

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no...

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into...

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the...

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow actors. Back in Paris he tells...

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

A woman wants to film a prisoner being tortured.

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician,...

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of...

After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of...

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.