Movies: Michel Charrel

A girl is placed in a strict Catholic boarding school by her hateful mother after the divorce of her parents. There she is physically and psychologically tortured by the nuns because of her brutal use of language and anti-clerical upbringing. Her onl...

All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate....

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom....

Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission al...

A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him....

Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the difference in the standard of living is trying, and he loses his bearings among this crowd of anonymous peopl...

Richard le Noir, disguised as a woman, helps free the local girls of the California town of Harriba Lannana, from enslavement at a local brothel called the Golden Saloon....

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the natur...

A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. An...

Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband....

All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than others. France, for instance, was relatively prosperous. In this grim drama, a sturdy Polish boxer and his family have settled into a mining tow...

Varen and Bob are a couple of buddies who get mixed up with a white-slave trader. Pursued by a pair of mob-connected brothers, Bob is killed. Varen retaliates by killing one of the brothers, then enlists the aid of his friend Agnès in tracking down t...

Inspector Dubois investigates burglaries carried out by the Barbus gang. He tracks down the criminals and shoots some of them dead, before discovering that one of them is his brother....

Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle....

Lydia, a model, and Helga, a flight attendant, live together and share the rent. Lydia gets a job in a cabaret, but the owner soon asks her to become a trainer, which she refuses. To punish her, he locks her up in his house. Thanks to her friend Helg...

A refugee crisis in Vietnam occurs which complicates an French army captain's primary mission of securing a fort....

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Jeff, a notorious gangster, has just served 3 years in prison for pimping. He reunites with his accomplices and sets up a cigarette smuggling business, all the while maintaining a perfect alibi. We're in Dieppe, and the bustling harbor life allows a ...

Thanks to the complicity of his friend Laura, Jo, sentenced to 20 years in prison, escapes from the central prison. Hiding in an old disused mill, Jo sends his young friend to a certain Freddy, gangster and nightclub owner in Pigalle, who owes his fr...