François Catonné Trailers
Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker TrailerThe Making of West Indies Trailer
Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker TrailerThe Making of West Indies Trailer
Total trailers found: 42
01 January 1979
Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as backstage activity and rehearsals on the set.
26 October 2005
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
08 October 1986
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays.
19 January 2000
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hear their son, virtuoso cellist Jascha, perform.
15 April 1992
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle.
16 April 1991
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
18 April 2014
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit.
05 April 2000
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.
17 January 1990
Born with their immune systems damaged, Tom and Lola are doomed to live their lives in isolation, sealed in separate plastic bubbles.
10 May 1989
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem.
27 August 1980
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance.
24 September 1975
There is a global gender war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.
19 March 1985
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
12 October 1983
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
08 December 1993
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
30 January 1974
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance.
29 August 2001
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated — be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing.
17 February 1971
Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for eternity.
05 October 1983
A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.
30 January 1985
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful.
01 June 2022
The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as a modern African cinema director and actor.
05 January 1999
A woman and a man recount their first sexual encounters to each other as they get out of bed and get dressed.
08 December 1992
A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.
25 August 2010
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
09 June 1994
Nick Matthews and his wife and business partner, Jennifer, are in Paris to close a deal with Charles, a Frenchman, to market their perfumes in France.
07 February 2018
Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France.
14 March 1995
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940.
06 March 1996
Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star.
02 January 1979
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression.
06 June 2007
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories.
16 December 1987
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis.
14 March 1984
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work, reluctantly helped by an old maid.
04 January 1973
An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
29 January 1986
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom.
26 July 1985
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe.
14 January 1998
This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired.
01 January 1979
This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context.
28 May 2003
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
25 May 2023
Thu, her fiancée Sophie and her brother Christophe meet in the emergency room where their grandma is rushed to after a fall.
01 June 1971
African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep.