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Gaumont Film Company is a French mini-major film studio founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946). It is the first and oldest film company in the world, founded before other studios such as Pathé, founded in 1896, as well as Nordisk Film, founded in 1906, and Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures, which were both founded in 1912. Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films. (95% of Gaumont's 2011 consolidated revenues came from the film division.) However, the company is increasingly becoming a TV series producer with its new American subsidiary Gaumont International Television as well as its existing French production features.
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(1993)Filmography of Gaumont (1424 films)
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Un début prometteur (2015)
, 1h30Directed by Emma Luchini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Veerle Baetens, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Fabrice Luchini, Manu Payet, Guillaume Briat, Émilie Gavois-Kahn
Martin est un homme désabusé, alcoolique et sans fierté qui, au contact de son petit frère et d'une femme mystérieuse, va reprendre petit à petit goût à la vie.
Grace of Monaco (2014)
, 1h43Directed by Olivier Dahan
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Nicole Kidman, Milo Ventimiglia, Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Tim Roth, Derek Jacobi
Grace of Monaco is focused on former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles de Gaulle in 1962 as well as her considering a return to Hollywood to film Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie.
Take-Away Romance (2014)
, 1h25Directed by Amelle Chahbi
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Amelle Chahbi, Aude Pépin, Noom Diawara, Sébastien Castro, Nader Boussandel, Marie-Julie Baup
À Paris, Amelle (Amelle Chahbi), trentenaire d'origine algérienne, se rend au petit matin chez son amoureux et découvre qu'il la trompe. Scandalisée elle rompt. Noom (Noom Diawara), trentenaire d'origine malienne, se fait chasser par sa nouvelle conquête, déçue de son absence de performance sexuelle. Barbara (Aude Pépin), célibataire, est l'amie d'Armelle. Julien (Pablo Pauly), célibataire sans emploi, est l'ami de Noom.
The Connection (2014)
, 2h15Directed by Cédric Jimenez
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs
Actors Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Yvonne Gradelet, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Gouix
1970s Marseille is ruled by a brutal drug gang importing morphine from Turkey, transforming it and exporting heroin to New York, called la French. The gang, led by the cold-hearted Gaètan Tany Zampa (Gilles Lellouche), is rounding up its incomes with extortion and robbings. Former Juvenile Court judge Pierre Michel is transferred to organized crime, but finds out that la French's crimes are difficult or impossible to prove and that the police unit investigating heroin trade under Captain Aimé-Blanc has nothing relevant to report.
Mea Culpa (2014)
, 1h30Directed by Fred Cavayé
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La provence, Transport films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche, Nadine Labaki, Gilles Cohen, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Velibor Topic
A police inspector and his former colleague investigate a series of murders in Toulon. Eventually they detect a killer gang who works for the Serbian mafia. The criminals stop at nothing to follow through on their mission but neither do the Frenchmen.
Nice and Easy (2014)
Directed by Benjamin Guedj
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Baptiste Lecaplain, Charlotte Le Bon, Félix Moati, Denis Podalydès, Isabelle Candelier, Jean-Yves Berteloot
Sébastien, 25 ans, talentueux mais éternel étudiant, se voit forcé par ses parents d'entrer dans la vie active. Il emménage donc à Paris chez Anna, qui enchaîne les stages dans l'édition, et Bruno, qui vivote de petits boulots en petits boulots. Mais voilà… Sébastien n'a qu'une ambition : ne rien faire, pour continuer à vivre.
Samba (2014)
, 2hDirected by Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa, Hélène Vincent, Christiane Millet
Samba Cissé (Omar Sy), a migrant from Senegal to France, works as a dish washer in a hotel. After a bureaucratic slip-up lands him in a detention, he is ordered to leave France. With the help of an immigration officer (Charlotte Gainsbourg), he fights to stay in France.
Gemma Bovery (2014)
, 1h39Directed by Anne Fontaine
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Madame Bovary
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Elsa Zylberstein, Mel Raido, Édith Scob
Martin (Fabrice Luchini), an ex-Parisian with a deep appreciation for Gustave Flaubert, has settled in a village in Normandy as a baker. He sees a British couple moving into an old property across the road. Their names, Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng), echo those of the leading characters in Flaubert's 1856 masterpiece Madame Bovary. Martin engages with the young couple and observes Gemma's behaviour replicates that of her namesake, including a series of romantic and sexual liaisons that suggest she is headed for a tragic finale like that of the novel. He intervenes but cannot alter the inevitable conclusion.
Our Summer in Provence (2014)
, 1h45Directed by Roselyne Bosch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Jean Reno, Anna Galiena, Chloé Jouannet, Lukas Pélissier, Aure Atika, Charlotte de Turckheim
Tandis que leur père a annoncé qu'il quittait la maison, et que leur mère en recherche d'emploi a accepté un stage à Montréal, Léa, Adrien et leur petit frère Théo, sourd de naissance, partent en vacances en dernière minute en Provence chez leur grand-père Paul qu'ils n'ont jamais rencontré. En effet, Paul et sa fille sont brouillés depuis 17 ans, et il n'a jamais été rendre visite à ses petits enfants. C'est leur grand-mère, Irène, épouse de Paul, qui les emmène sans prévenir ce dernier. Dès leur installation, le choc des générations se fait ressentir entre ces ados citadins et connectés, et ce grand-père de prime abord psychorigide et arriéré. Au fil du temps, les petits-enfants découvriront chez leur grand-père, que derrière ce personnage bourru se cache une personne pleine de surprises, ancien hippie et motard ayant parcouru le monde entier avant de se retirer et de cultiver des oliviers. Les vacances ne s'annonceront pas si désastreuses que cela, entre les moments en famille et les rencontres et premières amourettes au village, le pizzaiolo pour la jeune fille, les belles touristes suédoises pour le plus grand. Quant au tout petit, il n'aura d'yeux que pour son grand-père, et ce malgré ses fêlures et son net penchant pour l'alcool.
Breathe (2014)
, 1h32Directed by Mélanie Laurent
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films, Films about school violence
Actors Lou de Laâge, Joséphine Japy, Yvonne Gradelet, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim, Roxane Duran
Charlène, surnommée Charlie, une lycéenne de 17 ans, vit dans la région de Montpellier. Elle habite chez sa mère, Vanessa, dépressive, qui se laisse maltraiter par son père. Malgré tout, Charlie est une adolescente équilibrée, discrète et bonne élève, avec la même bande d'amis depuis la sixième.
The Gate (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Régis Wargnier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, Steve Driesen, Georges Bigot
L'histoire est basée sur des faits réels. Alors que les Khmers rouges prennent peu à peu le contrôle du Cambodge, François Bizot, un membre de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient continue son travail d'étude des sites archéologiques. Il est marié à une Cambodgienne avec laquelle il a eu une petite fille et parle couramment le khmer.
Paranoia (2013)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Luketic
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Lucas Till, Amber Heard, Josh Holloway
Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meachum, blackmail Adam into becoming a corporate spy for Wyatt by threatening to have him arrested for fraud.
Adore (2013)
, 1h51Directed by Anne Fontaine
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Ben Mendelsohn, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville, Jessica Tovey
In New South Wales, childhood friends Roz and Lil and their families live next door to each other. Roz's son Tom and Lil's son Ian, who are both 18, are also best friends, and the four of them spend all their time together.
, 1h45Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Kyle Catlett, Kyle Catlett, Callum Keith Rennie, Dominique Pinon
T.S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett) is a 10-year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. He lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles; his father (Callum Keith Rennie), a cowboy born a hundred years too late; and his 14-year-old sister (Niamh Wilson) who dreams of becoming Miss America. His twin brother Layton (Jakob Davies) died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened. One day, T.S. receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian Institution, telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his invention of a perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the United States to reach Washington, D.
Only God Forgives (2013)
, 1h30Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Rhatha Phongam
Julian is an American expatriate who runs a muay thai club in Bangkok, Thailand, that is a front for a drug smuggling operation. His older brother Billy rapes and kills an under-age sex worker and is caught by the Thai police. Lieutenant Chang allows the girl's father, Choi Yan Lee, to beat Billy, but Choi kills him. However, Chang does not care about Billy's death; instead, Chang cuts off the father's forearm for allowing his daughter to be a sex worker.