Alain Sarde Trailers
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Alain Sarde, born March 28, 1952, in Boulogne-Billancourt, has been one of the most prolific French film and television producers since the 1970s. He has notably produced films by Andrzej Zulawski, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, and Anne Fontaine.
In the 1990s, he was accused of sexual assault and rape against several women and implicated in the Brumark-Bourgeois Affair. In May 2024, nine women testified against him regarding these acts.
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Total trailers found: 165
17 September 2002
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
16 September 1981
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father.
27 December 2000
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.
03 September 1997
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities.
06 June 2001
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia.
05 September 2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
24 December 2003
Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends.
15 September 2004
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel.
11 April 1984
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children.
14 September 1995
The struggles of a 28-year-old mother in Lyon who tries to combine her love life and raising her 12-year-old rebel son.
14 October 1987
A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble.
02 September 1992
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
26 February 1992
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
02 June 1980
On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life.
10 July 2013
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César".
26 April 2000
A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
26 August 1987
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
11 September 2003
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail.
12 February 2010
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
24 June 1992
The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart.
30 October 2002
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America.
19 September 1990
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis.
18 September 1996
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
26 May 1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
11 December 1983
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island.
24 November 2004
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia.
11 April 2001
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life.
01 September 1979
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction.
19 December 1997
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
18 March 1987
In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies.
15 October 1999
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover.
23 September 2005
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice.
18 October 2002
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
20 March 1991
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him.
21 December 1994
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies.
09 July 2013
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius.
15 February 2006
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area.
03 March 1999
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
10 December 1997
Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help.
20 April 2011
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities.
24 October 1984
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend.
15 March 2000
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment.
18 October 2001
A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.
03 October 1992
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink.
24 January 1995
Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this.
28 May 2013
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
23 August 1985
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation.
27 August 2003
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films.
23 October 1998
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy.
02 September 1992
Albert dreams of going to Australia. Jérôme loves Jeanne, but ignores her while cramming for exams.
28 August 2002
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand.
22 October 2004
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
31 January 1996
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby.
05 April 2000
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
09 May 1979
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
03 October 2001
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives.
12 May 1992
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left.
23 December 1981
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire.
