Movies: Pierre Banderet

À la vie, à la mort ! (1995) In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret. There is José, the owner, a big-hearted gypsy who loves...

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close pro...

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this ...

Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, howev...

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons....

Sylvie and Marie-Christine, two young girls abducted by force by pimps in order to make them participate in perverse shows, testify against their captors and are subsequently assassinated. Commissioner Beauclair and her teammates vigorously tackle th...

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood frie...

The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime....

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem endless, they constantly stray from the plot, but the story slowly takes shape around garage mechan...

Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition....

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter ...

Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband also died. The young, very pregnant widow feared that her lover, the Palestinian activist Djibril, might...

Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor....

A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives....

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How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city....

Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of ma...

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front....

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A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become....