Movies in Occitan - Films en occitan

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

In the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

Follows late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, as he researches the painter Goya in a trip filled with culture, cinema, emotion, painting and Spain.

In the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses. Tom dreams of becoming a good person. But he's thwarted by the hostility flung in his general direction, which shows no sign of abating.

France. End of the 19th century. Louise Violet, a Parisian teacher, is sent on a mission to the French countryside. She has to impose the free, compulsory and secular school of the Republic.

Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. Toulzac. This one, a retired school teacher, has a passion: to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. One day Sylvie meets Roland, a pianist and composer back home in Carcassonne. A handsome and good man, he instills new hope into Sylvie's troubled mind. Unfortunately her uncle asks her then to renounce the world and to follow him down into a secret cathedral he has just found...

Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.

A provincial is hired for a commercial and discovers Paris. He soon discovers that the city is not so different than his small village.

In the Pyrénées, in the nineteenth century, Gaston is one of the seven sons born into a family of poor peasants.Wanting to escape his condition, he captures a bear cub, raises it secretly with the help of his fiancée Estala, and trains it with a view to showing it in the fairs and the villages of the region. He has become a bear leader.

The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he sells his number to Florent, a rich merchant, and takes the place of Florent's son, Arnaud, who has been drafted. Woodcutting with his brother, Pierre leaves his axe in a tree to await his return home. He spends his last night in the barn with his redheaded sweetheart, Henriette... Emperor Napoleon III declares war on Prussia, and the Prussians invade. In Alsace, Pierre's regiment fights the invaders in a forest. Many French are killed; Pierre escapes, wounded. He finds a cottage. Inside a boy is hiding. The redheaded boy speaks only the Alsatian dialect of German...

Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.

Young country-boy Gaston leaves his parents' farm to look for work in paris. The people he encounters there, and the problems he meets in his job, lead him to realise how much young workers in insecure jobs are exploited; while life in the capital makes him more aware of his roots in the country.

The leader of a gang of drug traffickers, loved and esteemed by everyone for protecting the weak, ends up killing his greatest enemy.

Merlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school - pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small group of lonely boys is left behind with Merlusse as their overseer. Merlusse doesn't get along with the boys very well and they pull various tricks on him but on Christmas Morning boys wake to find a huge surprise waiting for them...

A young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.

In a country town of Provence, a landowner threatens to kill himself after the neighbor he has sold a property to wants to chop down the trees.

A small town seeking publicity tries to bring together the quintuplet grandsons of the town's oldest inhabitant.

A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.

Third documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

To avenge her father's death, Manon blocks the source of water for local villagers.

Antoine helps two former acquaintances escape the country, who repay him with a debt transfer. All he has to do is collect from some Léonard Michalon, but for that he will have to go into much trouble to keep the man alive.

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

Young Justinien, aka Cyrano-Nose-The-Less, born in 1683, leaves his adoptive parents to join a monastery, only to live a series of misadventures through which he will learn the secrets of his birth.

A confirmed bachelor,a council employee from a small village, is fascinated by a refined schoolteacher.

A middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown.

Three childhood friends who had not seen each other for a long time find themselves on the burial of the aunt of one of them.

The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again

A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the teeming streets of 17th century Paris, Jean Baptiste received a good Jesuit education and was fascinated by the street fairs and traveling carnivals that flourished in spite of the religious repression and hypocrisy of those cruel times. As a young man he joined the theatrical Bejart family to establish the Illustre-Theatre, which soon went bankrupt. The troupe reformed, found patronage, and went on the road for thirteen years, performing all over France. Poquelin developed his stagecraft adapting Commedia dell Arte plots to please brutalized peasants and cynical townspeople. He also married Madeline Bejart, the widowed daughter of the troupe's founder. Later he entered into a love affair with Mme Bejart's daughter, to the dismay of all. The troupe eventually returned to Paris and, on October 24, 1658, greatly impressed the 20-year old King Louis XIV, later to be called the Sun King. Moliere's life became bound up with the magnificent court at Versailles, and with its intrigues. He wrote, staged and acted in the plays now famous all over the world. He fought with his enemies and his friends, enjoyed success followed by failure, organized court festivities and defended himself against increasingly fanatic religious authorities. Above all, his theater was taken from life as his life was theatrical.

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Even after WW2,oranges were luxury modest people could only afford for Christmas in France.

One year in the life of a French peasant family, whose existence is closely tied with the changing of the seasons.

Biquefarre is a small farm in Aveyron. The changing economics of farming lead Raoul, in late middle age, to decide to sell and move to Toulouse. At least two neighboring farmers want to buy Biquefarre: Lucien and the young Marcel. Behind the scenes, Henri, whose brother is Marcel's father and who is also Lucien's brother-in-law, negotiates with Raoul so that Marcel's father can secretly sweeten Marcel's offer. Will dad and uncle succeed? In the background is the hard daily work of farming: milking cows, harvesting at night, and finding help when a farmer falls ill. Progress brings challenges: polluted water, factory farms, and skyrocketing land prices.

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.

During the French Revolution, an isolated monastery between mountains is commandeered by the insurgents. The coexistence with the soldiers will make change the brave monk Gabriel, as well as the silent presence of Marianne, a young and attractive black girl.

In the Landes de Gascogne forest, bird cages are hoisted up to the tree tops with pulleys. A man on watch in a large low hut camouflaged by pine needles awaits the opportune moment to pull the strings. A strange and fascinating woodland theatre... Bucking all commentary, Marine de Contes depicts a practice in all its ritualistic complexity. A city dweller and a woman, so doubly an outsider, she holds her breath along with the small group of attentive watchers. Without reneging on its status as an ethnographic documentary about the techniques, space and vocabulary of wood pigeon hunting, THE GAME also takes an interest in the community that the sport sustains, in an identity that binds generations and in the distribution of the sexes (women visibly are only passers-by). Waiting is an integral part of the hunt, filled by learning - even in one's eighties - how to play Candy Crush on a smartphone, or by telling stories in the Gascon dialect. The waiting is all the more fruitful for the filmmaker as it soon appears to be the mirror of her own documentary filmmaking: when you film without a scenario, you surely also set up a dispositif that acts as an "event-trap", capable of closely espousing the image and sound of an elusive passer-by's sudden intrusion into the frame. The increasingly loud and disquieting noise of a pine tree being felled suggests that wood pigeon hunting will soon be no more than a folkloric memory. A hand-over - at least metaphorically speaking - has taken place.

Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.

The fates of two partners are divided.

A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.

"Saint-Far-la-Mauderne", a small village hit hard by the crisis and desertification. His last hope: revive the salmon smoking factory. Only problem, insurance require the presence of a doctor at home. However, the last retired there more than five years without ever finding a replacement. Germain Behind their gruff but charismatic mayor, residents will do everything to convince the Parisian doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is in Saint-Far-la-Mauderne.

After the strange and brutal death of her childhood friend, Laura returns to her native village with the idea of transforming her family home into a hotel and must also face the inhabitants' hostility.

Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era.

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Madame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV. With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls.

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

In 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.

Léa, Adrian and their little brother Théo, born deaf, go on vacation to Provence with their grandfather whom they never met because of a family quarrel. Unfortunately, it's not the vacation they dreamed of.

A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

David is a teenager like any other. His world is filled with loud music and imaginary encounters. His mother away and his father nowhere to be found, David is forced to stay on his uncle's farm, where life lacks the excitement he craves.

Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.

A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.

Revisiting his childhood memories on the family farm in the north of Périgord, Patric La Vau invites us to a sensitive discovery of the Occitan language and culture of yesterday and today. With interviews, he transmits a taste for Occitan.

"Gaspard De Besse" is a Robin Hood's French brother,a friend to the poor.

An old-fashioned guy ends up in a hippie community for the holidays.

After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.