Michel Piccoli

American CIA agent learns of Cuban missiles and a NATO spy by the code name of TOPAZ from a defecting Russian.

Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.

A senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized chess tournament. Both become pawns in a much larger game, however.

Simon Cinema, a 100-year old producer/director whose memory is failing ... hires Camille, a beautiful young film student, to give his memory a daily aerobic workout and hash over pieces of his illustrious career. An array of dazzling movie stars pop in to visit and chat. His best friend is Italian ... his favorite ghosts are the Lumiére Brothers. While Camille brings joy in Monsieur Cinema's life, she also hatches a plan to con him out of his fortune....

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored. "The Grand Prix winner at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, La Belle Noiseuse (aka The Beautiful Troublemaker) is legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive...

"Middle-aged investor Simon faces the loss of everything when he learns his business partner, Julien, has amassed considerable debt with the unscrupulous businessman, Lépidon. When Julien is found to have committed suicide, Simon and his group find out just how deep they are in with Lépidon. Desperation sets in before Mado, a prostitute Simon frequents, offers a solution."--Container.

At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the...

The horror film about a medieval noblewoman whose premature death haunts her husband Richard. After years of mourning and with Leonor's body walled up in a tomb, Richard marries the much younger Catherin, but he still cannot find true happiness. Desperate the relive his life with Leonor, he makes a pact with the devil that indeed brings back his late wife, but she's cold to the touch and now possesses an unearthly hunger that could destroy everyone...

Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.

On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture. Against this backdrop, Javal's marriage to Camille, a young former typist, disintegrates. It opens with the couple talking in bed, she asking assurance that he finds her attractive. Later that day he introduces...