Gaumont Archives

Dracula, Father and Son (1976)

Rating: ★★

Jun 29, 2016Dracula Parody

Almost certainly this is the one Christopher Lee Dracula film you will never have heard about. This was a French comedy made not long after Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, spoofing the Dracula film

Director: Eduard Molinaro

Actors: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Catherine Breillat

Category: Horror

29 June 201614 October 2025 by Roog

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 5, 2003Dracula Adaptation

Werner Herzog conducts a remake of the silent German classic with Klaus Kinski as Dracula. A very different film to the original but quite unique in Herzog's individualistic way

Director: Werner Herzog

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor

Category: Horror

5 February 200322 January 2025 by Roog

Deathwatch (1980)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 6, 2001Future Media Obsession with a Dying Woman

Quietly understated French SF film set in a future where all illness has been abolished and a woman becomes a media sensation when she is diagnosed with a terminal condition

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Actors: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max Von Sydow

Category: Science Fiction

6 July 20014 July 2020 by Roog

Hail Mary (1984)

Rating: ★

Dec 13, 2003Modern Day Immaculate Conception

A controversy-laden Jean-Luc Godard film that offers an irreverent modern-day retelling of the Immaculate Conception. An amusing idea that vanishes under Godard's pretensions

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Actors: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Juliette Binoche

Category: Fantasy

13 December 200310 March 2026 by Roog

Asterix vs Caesar (1985)

Rating: ★

Jul 31, 1999Animation/Comic-Book Character

One of the sillier among the animated Asterix films maintained at a high-level of slapstick and with badly dubbed voices that do not suit the characters

Director: Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi

Actors: Jack Bearber, Bill Kearns, Allen Wenger, Gordon Heath

Category: Fantasy

31 July 199923 September 2019 by Roog

Kamikaze (1986)

Rating: ★★

Apr 10, 2024Device That Can Kill People by TV

An early film written/produced by Luc Besson concerning a scientist driven crazy by tv announcers who invents a device that can kill people as they appear live on tv

Director: Didier Grousset

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Harry Cleven, Etienne Chicot

Category: Science Fiction

10 April 20247 June 2026 by Roog

Asterix in Britain (1986)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 12, 1999Animation/Comic-Book Character

One of several animated films based on the popular comic-book characters Asterix and Obelix made by Dargaud Films

Director: Pino Van Lamsweerde

Actors: Jack Bearber, Bill Kearns, Gordon Heath

Category: Fantasy

12 August 19998 July 2025 by Roog

The Visitors (1993)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 29, 1999Time-Travel Comedy

Hilarious French comedy where a filthy Mediaeval knight and his servant are transported into the present-day

Director: Jean-Marie Poire

Actors: Jean Reno, Christian Clavier, Valerie Le Mercier, Christian Bujeau, …

Category: Fantasy

29 August 19992 September 2022 by Roog

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Rating: ★

Sep 5, 2002Dracula Parody

Mel Brooks had a huge hit with Young Frankenstein, an affectionate spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films. Two decades on he returns to do the same for the Dracula film but with far more scattershot results.

Director: Mel Brooks

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNichol, Steven Weber, Mel Brooks, …

Category: Horror

5 September 200223 March 2026 by Roog

The Fifth Element (1997)

Rating: ★

Apr 19, 2004Space Opera/Showdown Against Ultimate Evil

A big-budget space opera from Luc Besson. This offers a dazzlingly designed future but the plot is an inane hodgepodge of bad SF elements with a tone that flails between action and camp

Director: Luc Besson

Actors: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 April 200424 October 2025 by Roog

Me Myself I (1999)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 10, 2000Woman's Alternate Life Pathways

An Australian variant on Sliding Doors in which single woman Rachel Griffiths suddenly finds herself in an alternate timeline where she is now married and has kids

Director: Pip Karmel

Actors: Rachel Griffiths, David Roberts, Yael Stone, Trent Sullivan, …

Category: Fantasy

10 June 20005 June 2026 by Roog

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 1999Historical Epic

Luc Besson takes on the Joan of Arc story with then wife Milla Jovovich in the title role but in Besson's hands it becomes a crazed historical action film that unquestioningly accepts Joan's visions as real

Director: Luc Besson

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, …

Category: Fantasy

16 November 199916 September 2019 by Roog

The Crimson Rivers (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 17, 2001Serial Killer Thriller/Secret Eugenics Program

A strong well-made French thriller that comes with the influence of Se7en involving murders on a mountainside glacier and a secretive boarding school with ties back to the Nazi era

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Actors: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Fares, Jean-Pierre Cassel, …

Category: Horror

17 July 200114 January 2026 by Roog

Just Visiting (2001)

Rating: ★

Apr 7, 2001Time Travel Comedy

The US remake of the French time travel comedy Les Visiteurs. With a script by John Hughes, this imports the original film's stars but misses its comedy charms by a mile

Director: Jean-Marie Poire

Actors: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Malcolm McDowell, …

Category: Fantasy

7 April 200130 September 2025 by Roog

The Science of Sleep (2006)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 24, 2006Dreams and Wacky Surrealism

A Michel Gondry film that blurs the line between dream and reality with hilariously offbeat regard. Gondry indulges his eccentricities to the maximum with quite sublime results

Director: Michel Gondry

Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Emma de Caunes, …

Category: Fantasy

24 July 200629 June 2026 by Roog

Chrysalis (2007)

Rating: ★★

Mar 8, 2008Cyberpunk Film

French Cyberpunk film with a detective investigating the murder of an illegal immigrant girl and finding a blackmarket in stolen and transplanted memories

Director: Julien Leclercq

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Melanie Thierry, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 March 200829 September 2025 by Roog

Have Mercy On Us All (2007)

Rating: ★★

Mar 8, 2008Modern Day Bubonic Plague Killer

French thriller about police investigating a killer who is infecting victims with the bubonic plague and leaving Mediaeval clues, all part of an elaborate revenge scheme

Director: Regis Wargnier

Actors: Jose Garcia, Michel Serrault, Olivier Gourmet

Category: Horror

8 March 200830 October 2025 by Roog

The Brøken (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 12, 2012Mirror Body Snatchers

Variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers with body-snatching doppelgangers emerging from mirrors. Directed with an impressive air of subtle, brooding disquiet, this manages to run up some reasonable twists on an oft-told tale

Director: Sean Ellis

Actors: Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Duncan, Ulrich Thomsen, …

Category: Horror

12 June 201213 September 2025 by Roog

Splice (2010)

Rating: ★★★

May 22, 2010Genetically-Engineered Creature

A genetically engineered creature film from Vincenzo Natali, this ventures into some fascinating places but ultimately returns to Frankenstein science territory

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Actors: Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 May 201016 March 2025 by Roog

Camille Rewinds (2012)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2013Time Travel/Divorcee Revisists Her Youth

This French film is an uncredited copy of Peggy Sue Got Married wherein director/star Noemie Lvovsky a dissatisfied divorcee who is propelled back to her high school graduating year and gets to relive her life choices

Director: Noemie Lvovsky

Actors: Noemie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Leaud, …

Category: Fantasy

12 April 201328 December 2025 by Roog

Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 15, 2023Gonzo Deadpan Vignettes

Another of Quentin Dupieux’s hilariously gonzo comedies made up a series of deadpan surreal vignettes, including a witty parody of the modern superhero film

Director: Quentin Dupieux

Actors: Gilles Lellouche, Oulaya Amamra, Anais Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 October 20231 July 2026 by Roog