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.
Most Popular Alain Sarde Trailers
Total trailers found: 168
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.
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.
05 September 2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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.
15 October 1999
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke.
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.
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.
14 May 2004
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician.
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.
02 September 1992
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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.
18 October 2001
A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.
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.
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.
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.
23 September 2005
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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.
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.
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.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
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.
28 May 2013
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
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 June 1980
On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life.
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.
15 September 2004
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel.
03 April 2001
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
25 September 1996
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
18 October 1985
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine.
23 September 1986
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax.
01 December 1983
A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
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.
15 November 2000
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together.
02 December 1981
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel.
05 February 2004
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber.
09 January 2002
During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals.
19 April 1989
Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory.
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.
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.
11 November 1994
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her.
20 June 2001
39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.
28 May 2014
"The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin.
23 May 1984
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life.
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.
01 June 1994
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
18 October 1995
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her.
19 May 2010
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday.
27 February 1985
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him.
07 January 2004
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.
08 September 1993
This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.
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.
24 June 1992
The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart.
