Alain Sarde Movies

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter...

The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes...

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion,...

Ismaël, a young thirteen-year old boy, is taken aback by the suicide of his best friend. Not only did he not have any idea that this dramatic...

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his...

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself...

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...

On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and...

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...

Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from...

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls...

Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do...

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his...

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also...

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...

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.