Jacques Penot Movies

Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some o...

Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.

The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...

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...

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...

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to t...

Two would be producers launch a singer's career.

In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by doing con...

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 expres...

Roufa is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of "bezness:" he's a sex-for-hire boy for the tourists...

Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an...

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

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...

A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.

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 dr...

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...

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 famil...