Movies by Catherine Rouvel
Borsalino and Co.
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Bluebeard
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Black and White in Color
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
La Demoiselle de Coeur
The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.
Les Grands Moyens
The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk.
The Breach
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Law Breakers
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.