Monique Mélinand Trailers
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Total trailers found: 58
19 December 1990
In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor.
26 May 1950
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer.
22 September 1960
Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious background.
02 January 1992
Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris.
19 May 1999
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
08 September 1950
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion.
13 June 2006
Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior.
22 February 1967
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance.
29 September 2004
A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met.
22 September 2012
What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill.
05 December 1984
The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.
10 February 1971
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
06 January 2003
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
14 May 1969
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
08 December 1964
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him.
28 September 1982
A woman tries to come to terms with the death of her son, who was killed by a hospital error.
20 August 1956
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy.
22 October 1970
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
27 February 1953
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
24 December 1980
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came.
11 February 1976
15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.
10 February 1994
Jeanne has succeeded in lifting the siege of Orléans and Charles has been crowned King of France. However, she is injured in an attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court.
20 March 1971
It starts with the discovery of a woman's corpse, then gradually reveals the past of this woman as well as the police investigation which follows the discovery.
03 December 1975
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
19 February 1969
Delphine is a country girl who travels to the big city in search of feminine emancipation and freedom.
15 May 1996
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
23 May 1979
Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them.
10 April 1974
Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs.
22 December 1959
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress.
12 April 1967
Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war.
20 January 1971
A love story between a teacher, Danièle, 32 years and one of her students Gérard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68.
25 February 1970
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol.
04 May 1997
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
20 May 2001
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence.
08 May 1974
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline.
28 October 1967
TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.
10 December 1964
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
15 March 1978
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
03 September 1997
In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other men, while listening to advice from some older French women who are costume designers.
29 January 1964
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men.
10 February 1971
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window.
30 September 1949
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
02 March 1961
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered.
13 May 1971
Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.
02 May 1972
Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure.
23 March 1949
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris.
03 November 1993
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
09 July 1947
The adventures of the famous Joseph Rouletabille, an adventurous young journalist, gone to solve a murder in the south of France.
17 September 1977
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death.
29 March 1972
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery.
21 December 1948
Rouletabille's fiancée, a young journalist always on the lookout for an investigation to solve, tells him how she has just suppressed a spy.
24 September 1969
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
14 March 1979
A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.
21 September 1977
Gabriel Axel's penetrating study of the aftermath of a crime. Bernard and Catherine lead a quiet life in retirement, enjoying their occasional sorties to the theatre or the cinema.
06 October 1938
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique").