Movies: Jacques Penot
- 1999
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon (1999)
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Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see....
- 1987
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
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Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites h...
- 1983
For Those I Loved (1983)
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Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family....
- 1992
The Long Winter (1992)
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In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see ...
- 1985
Strictement personnel (1985)
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The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was aban...
- 1988
The Revolving Doors (1988)
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A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, ...
- 1989
Jour après jour (1989)
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Two would be producers launch a singer's career....
- 1998
Marie's Counter (1998)
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A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside....
- 1985
Diesel (1985)
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A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group....
- 1987
Les Nouveaux Tricheurs (1987)
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Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks....
- 1985
Farewell Fred (1985)
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Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do i...
- 1991
Milena (1991)
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Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspond...
- 1991
Fourteen Stations (1991)
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- 1982
Le Crime d'amour (1982)
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To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit....
- 1992
Ma soeur, mon amour (1992)
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In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Gaëtan, 7 years old. In this closed universe and in the absence of their mother, a great complicity is...
- 1984
Le Matelot 512 (1984)
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Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512....
- 1987
Sale destin (1987)
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Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon ...
- 1982
L'Apprentissage de la ville (1982)
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Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange....
- 1985
Charly (1985)
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Charly, a young man in his thirties, is illiterate. He hides this handicap by combining humor and a sense of trickery. Charly found his mode of expression: music, for which and by which he lives while searching in the metro with his friends. It is th...
- 1985
Blessure (1985)
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A young rock singer, Morgan, falls in love with the pretty Julie. But Dimitri, Julie's "ex", doesn't see it that way....