Hélène Surgère Movies

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector...

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is...

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their...

Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and...

Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to...

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the...

Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated,...

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a...

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the...

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers)...

Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed...

After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath...

Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years,...

Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir...

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...

Paul a Mayerling, un ritratto is a personal and choral account of a life inextricably linked to cinema. In the mid-2000s, chance led me to meet Paul...