Gérard Desarthe Movies

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no...

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists....

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into...

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist...

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to...

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his...

A woman wants to film a prisoner being tortured.

French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.