Brialy, Jean-Claude

Le roi de coeur = King of hearts by Philippe de Broca( visu )
27 editions published between 1967 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 869 libraries worldwide
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance and bomb-defusing mission looming, Plumpick starts to prefer the acceptance of the insane locals over the insanity of the war raging outside. *"A surrealistic jewel of a comedy which you realize, when you can catch your breath between laughs, has made the case for the sanity of the lunatics and the madness of the war-waging sane." - Charles Champlin, **Los Angeles Times***

La reine Margot = Queen Margot by Patrice Chéreau( visu )
13 editions published between 1994 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 701 libraries worldwide
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between French Catholics and Protestants. Six days after her wedding, La Mole, a young man wounded by several sword injuries, frantically knocks on Margot's door. He is Protestant and must die like all the others, but Margot hides him, nurses him back to help and grows to love him

Les cousins by Claude Chabrol( visu )
40 editions published between 1958 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 525 libraries worldwide
Simple, good-hearted country cousin Charles comes to study at the Sorbonne in Paris where he stays at the luxury apartment of Paul, his cynical city cousin. Charles works hard but fails his exams, Paul doesn't but passes and gets Charles's girl. Chabrol's second feature film re-unites Jean-Claude Brialy and Gerard Blain, the two lead actors from his debut feature, 'Le Beau Serge'. Paul (Brialy) is a hedonistic and confident Parisian student living in his uncle's fashionable inner city flat. He spends his time drinking, carousing, sleeping with a variety of female friends and playing the role of matchmaker for his friends, arranging trysts in an ongoing merry go round of bed partners. He is an emotionally remote and decadent man, adhering to a dubious moral code, who approaches his friends love lives with devilish detachment. Charles (Blain) is his naive country cousin, a dedicated student, who stays with Paul whilst studying for his law exams. When Charles is introduced to Paul's swinging set, he instantaneously falls for Florence, a beautiful woman who is intrigued by Charles' innocence. Paul is perturbed as he observes the attraction between the two and the respect that Charles displays for Florence. A clash is inevitable as the rivalry for Florences affection grows. The contrast between the two main characters morality is acute, especially in their attitudes toward women. A dramatic study of class conflict and personal responsibility 'Les Cousins' is a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life. The City of Lights is captured by Decae's camera as if seen through the amazed eyes of Charles. The film won the Best Film award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1959. Also available on 16mm

Le beau Serge = Handsome Serge by Claude Chabrol( visu )
27 editions published between 1958 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 519 libraries worldwide
"Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend--now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic--and the provincial life he represents"--Container

Le fantôme de la liberté = The phantom of liberty ( visu )
15 editions published between 1974 and 2021 in French and English and held by 451 libraries worldwide
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements

Une femme est une femme = A woman is a woman by Jean-Luc Godard( visu )
8 editions published in 2004 in French and English and held by 421 libraries worldwide
Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lover's jealousy by seducing his best friend

La mariée était en noir by François Truffaut( visu )
33 editions published between 1968 and 2020 in 3 languages and held by 391 libraries worldwide
A newlywed sees her husband killed on their wedding day, and she exacts her revenge on his killers

Le genou de Claire by Éric Rohmer( visu )
44 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 362 libraries worldwide
Satirises a diplomat's sexual temptations. On vacation without his fiancee, he flirts with a brash, charming nymphet, while harboring a secret, peculiar obsession for her stunning teenage sister

Io la conoscevo bene = I knew her well ( visu )
14 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in Italian and Multiple languages and held by 301 libraries worldwide
The prismatic portrait of the days and nights of a party girl in sixties Rome is a revelation. It follows the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana as she dallies with a wide variety of men, attends parties, goes to modeling gigs, and circulates among the rich and famous. Despite its often light tone, though, the film is a stealth portrait of a suffocating culture that regularly dehumanizes people, especially women

Une femme est une femme by Jean-Luc Godard( visu )
62 editions published between 1961 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 295 libraries worldwide
A nightclub stripper wants to have a baby and settle down with her lover. When he refuses, she turns to his best friend