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ParaFrance Communication est une société française de production et de distribution de films et d'exploitation de salles, active de 1963 à 1991.

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Filmography of Parafrance (13 films)

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Production

Edith and Marcel, 2h42
Directed by Claude Lelouch, Alain Maline
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Évelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Bouise, Charles Gérard

In 1947, the singer Édith Piaf and the boxer Marcel Cerdan are both at the peak of their respective careers. Their encounter gives birth to a passionate love affair lasting some two years, cut short by Cerdan's death in an air crash.
Shot Pattern, 1h28
Directed by Jean-Claude Missiaen
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Michel Constantin, Véronique Jannot, Mario David, Steve Kalfa, Pierre Londiche

Un soir, après avoir dîné au restaurant avec son amie Carine, employée dans une parfumerie de luxe, Antoine, fripier aux puces de Clignancourt, la raccompagne jusqu'à la gare. Mais dans le train qui la ramène à Enghien-les-Bains, celle-ci est agressée par trois voyous patibulaires, Samson Balestra et ses deux acolytes, Daniel Verlot et Michel Poubennec, sous les yeux des autres voyageurs, pétrifiés. Un coup de karaté du plus brutal d'entre eux, Balestra, est fatal à la jeune femme. Alors que l'inspecteur Gagnon commence son enquête, Antoine, désemparé, revit sa rencontre avec Carine, quelques mois plus tôt...
Choice of Arms, 2h15
Directed by Alain Corneau, Pascal Ortega, Gilles Katz, Laurent Ferrier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Christian Marquand

After escaping from prison, Mickey (Gerard Depardieu) and his elderly mentor Serge face a gangster hit squad and a shootout with the police.

Distribution

Louisiana
Louisiana (1984)
, 3h7
Directed by Jacques Demy, Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Actors Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Andréa Ferréol, Victor Lanoux, Lloyd Bochner, Len Cariou

L'action se situe en Louisiane au milieu du XIX siècle. Virginia va se battre pour entrer en possession du domaine de Bagatelle.
The Blood of Others, 2h15
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran

In Nazi occupied France, Jean Blomart sits by a bed in which his lover Hélène lies dying. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn about both characters and their relationship to each other. As a young man filled with guilt about his privileged middle-class life, Jean joins the Communist Party and breaks from his family, determined to make his own way in life. After the death of a friend in a political protest, for which he feels guilty, Jean quits the Party and concentrates on trade union activities. Hélène is a young designer who works in her family's confectionary shop and is dissatisfied with her conventional romance with her fiance Paul. She contrives to meet Jean, and although he initially rejects her, they form a relationship after she has an abortion following a reckless liaison with another man. Jean tells Hélène he loves her even though he believes he does not. He proposes to her and she accepts.
Edith and Marcel, 2h42
Directed by Claude Lelouch, Alain Maline
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Évelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Bouise, Charles Gérard

In 1947, the singer Édith Piaf and the boxer Marcel Cerdan are both at the peak of their respective careers. Their encounter gives birth to a passionate love affair lasting some two years, cut short by Cerdan's death in an air crash.
The Passerby, 1h50
Directed by Jacques Rouffio
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Klein, Helmut Griem, Dominique Labourier, Mathieu Carrière

During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, responsible for the extermination of his family.
Shot Pattern, 1h28
Directed by Jean-Claude Missiaen
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Michel Constantin, Véronique Jannot, Mario David, Steve Kalfa, Pierre Londiche

Un soir, après avoir dîné au restaurant avec son amie Carine, employée dans une parfumerie de luxe, Antoine, fripier aux puces de Clignancourt, la raccompagne jusqu'à la gare. Mais dans le train qui la ramène à Enghien-les-Bains, celle-ci est agressée par trois voyous patibulaires, Samson Balestra et ses deux acolytes, Daniel Verlot et Michel Poubennec, sous les yeux des autres voyageurs, pétrifiés. Un coup de karaté du plus brutal d'entre eux, Balestra, est fatal à la jeune femme. Alors que l'inspecteur Gagnon commence son enquête, Antoine, désemparé, revit sa rencontre avec Carine, quelques mois plus tôt...
Choice of Arms, 2h15
Directed by Alain Corneau, Pascal Ortega, Gilles Katz, Laurent Ferrier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Christian Marquand

After escaping from prison, Mickey (Gerard Depardieu) and his elderly mentor Serge face a gangster hit squad and a shootout with the police.
Escape from New York, 1h39
Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Prison films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton

In 1988, following a 400% increase in crime, the United States Government has evacuated Manhattan and turned the island into a giant maximum-security prison in which all inmates serve a life sentence. A 50-foot (15 m) containment wall surrounds the island and routes out of Manhattan have been dismantled or mined. Armed helicopters patrol the rivers and harbor.
Death on the Nile, 2h20
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Peter Ustinov, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, George Kennedy

The film begins with a meeting between wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles) and her close friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Mia Farrow). Jacquie wants her fiancé, Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale), to work for Linnet, but he and Linnet have a whirlwind affair and end up marrying. While honeymooning in Egypt, they are continually hounded by the jilted Jacquie. In an attempt to get away, the Doyles pretend to go to the Cairo Railway Station before backtracking to board their booked cruise on a Nile paddle steamer, the S.S. Karnak.
The Garden of Torment, 1h30
Directed by Christian Gion
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Roger Van Hool, Tony Taffin, Ysabelle Lacamp, Robert Bazil, Raymond Jourdan, Jean-Claude Carrière

C'est en 1926 – soit un tiers de siècle après l'action du roman de Mirbeau – qu'un jeune médecin français compromis dans une sale affaire, Antoine Durrieu, doit fuir la France. Sur le bateau qui le conduit en Chine, en proie à des convulsions prérévolutionnaires, il fait la connaissance de la séduisante et perverse Clara Greenhill (chez Mirbeau, son nom de famille n'apparaît jamais), qui est la fille d'un homme d'affaires puissant et sans scrupules. Il est fasciné par elle et se laisse un jour conduire par elle dans un jardin mystérieux, où il découvre avec horreur qu'elle prend son plaisir à regarder supplicier des esclaves.
Menace
Menace (1972)
, 1h30
Directed by Sergio Gobbi
Origin France
Genres Crime
Actors Charles Aznavour, Marie-Christine Barrault, Raymond Pellegrin

Le grand chirurgien Charles Bernard rentre de croisière avec sa femme Françoise et leur fille Viviane, âgée de trois ans. Dans sa villa de la Napoule, Bernard rencontre un inconnu qui le menace de tuer sa petite fille s'il ne lui verse pas 100 millions en espèces. Le complice de l'inconnu, Albert, tient l'enfant au-dessus du vide. Ne pouvant s'opposer aux deux bandits qui se sont entourés d'un grand luxe de précautions, Bernard s'incline. Le lendemain il prend l'avion avec l'inconnu pour aller chercher la somme à la banque. Pendant leur absence, l'inconnu a laissé à son complice Albert le soin de surveiller la femme de Bernard et sa fillette. Le chirurgien apprend que sa femme a été violée. Désormais, il n'a plus qu'un but: se venger des deux crapules .