Lives and Deaths of the Poets (2011)

Actors: Patrick Michael Strange (actor), Patrick Michael Strange (actor), Tom Townsend (actor), Dave Cooperman (actor), Dave Cooperman (actor), Kendra North (actress), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Kevin Tan (actor), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress),

Plot: Lives and Deaths of the Poets spoofs and parodies incidents taken from the lives of famous writers, artists, and musicians (collectively "Poets") throughout history. Comprising a series of approximately 50 comic vignettes, the movie is the fictional story of what really did not happen to these famed Poets, who have so enriched all of our lives.

How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

Actors: Donald Sinden (actor), Phyllida Law (actress), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Felicity Kendal (actress), Alain de Botton (writer), Justin Amsden (editor), Peter Bevan (director), Peter Bevan (producer),

Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (1999)

Actors: Ingrid Caven (actress), Catherine Deneuve (actress), Damien Odoul (actor), Melvil Poupaud (actor), Vincent Perez (actor), Emmanuelle Béart (actress), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Marcello Mazzarella (actor), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Daniel Isoppo (actor), Patrice Chéreau (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Dominique Labourier (actress), Arielle Dombasle (actress),

Plot: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (1999)

Actors: Ingrid Caven (actress), Catherine Deneuve (actress), Damien Odoul (actor), Melvil Poupaud (actor), Vincent Perez (actor), Emmanuelle Béart (actress), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Marcello Mazzarella (actor), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Daniel Isoppo (actor), Patrice Chéreau (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Dominique Labourier (actress), Arielle Dombasle (actress),

Plot: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Mauvais genre (1997)

Actors: Monica Bellucci (actress), Thomas Chabrol (actor), Bruno Solo (actor), Zinedine Soualem (actor), François Perrot (actor), Edouard Montoute (actor), Jacques Nolot (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Jean-François Perrier (actor), Jean-Luc Gaget (actor), Michel Aumont (actor), Jacques Gamblin (actor), José Garcia (actor), Charles Gassot (producer), Elina Löwensohn (actress),

L'affaire Dreyfus (1995)

Actors: André Falcon (actor), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (actor), Mathieu Demy (actor), Helmut Berger (actor), Pierre Arditi (actor), Gérard Desarthe (actor), Jean-Claude Drouot (actor), Marc de Jonge (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Otakar Brousek (actor), Yves Boisset (actor), Marc Chapiteau (actor), Yves Boisset (actor), Jacques Dacqmine (actor), Michel Fortin (actor),

Belle Époque (1995)

Actors: Henri Serre (actor), Pierre Vernier (actor), André Dussollier (actor), Pierre Semmler (actor), Benno Fürmann (actor), Henri Poirier (actor), Alain Doutey (actor), Yves Jacques (actor), Philippe Lemaire (actor), Jacques Frantz (actor), Vincent Martin (actor), Luc Palun (actor), Fedele Papalia (actor), Jean-Michel Dupuis (actor), Rüdiger Vogler (actor),

Ginger e Fred (1986)

Actors: Giulietta Masina (actress), Moana Pozzi (actress), Franco Trevisi (actor), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Giulietta Masina (actress), Friedrich von Thun (actor), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Eolo Capritti (actor), Ennio Antonelli (actor), Franco Fabrizi (actor), Salvatore Billa (actor), Friedrich von Ledebur (actor), Pino Ammendola (actor), Federico Fellini (writer), Alberto Grimaldi (producer),

Plot: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons

Céleste (1980)

Actors: Eva Mattes (actress), Percy Adlon (director), Percy Adlon (writer), Percy Adlon (producer), Rolf Illig (actor), Jürgen Arndt (actor), Clara Fabry (editor), Leo Bardischewski (actor), Horst Raspe (actor), Benigna von Keyserlingk (producer), Norbert Wartha (actor), Barbara Gailling (costume designer), Wolf Euba (actor), Andi Stefanescu (actor), Joseph Manoth (actor),

Plot: In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.