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2010
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Marthe
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2010
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Simultaneously recalling Richard Curtis's Love Actually (2003), and - on a more culturally proximate note - Cedric Klapisch's...
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Julia
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2009
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French director Nicolas Bary's wacky, family-friendly fantasy comedy The Children of Timpelbach concerns the titular...
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Madame Drohne
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2008
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Fate brings together two people with seemingly nothing in common in this French romantic comedy. Helene (Carole Bouquet) is a...
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Helene
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2008
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The shocking story of a young man sentenced to a brutal juvenile home comes to the screen in this drama based on an...
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2008
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2006
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2006
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Helene
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2005
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In Housewarming (the original title of which translates as Remodeling: You Know When It Starts...), Carole Bouquet stars as...
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Chantal
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2005
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The Mother
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2005
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Hélène Dunan
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2004
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A budding misfit finds his troubles are just beginning when he's sent to a school run by his mom and dad in this comedy from...
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Geneviéve Massu
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2004
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Francis Palluau's directorial debut Bienvenue Chez les Rozes (Welcome to the Rozes) is a comedy about a hostage situation....
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Beatrice
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2003
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A cop from the city of lights finds adventure and romance in the Land of the Rising sun in this thriller. Hubert (Jean Reno)...
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Sophia
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2002
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A group of friends and mutual acquaintances embark on a number of vacations -- concealed or otherwise -- for relaxation and...
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Lulu
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2002
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A young woman bent on revenge becomes a legendary thief in the vein of Robin Hood in director Bernie Bonvoisin's 2002 comic...
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Anne of Austria
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2002
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Mina
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2000
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Viviane
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1998
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This is a comedy with an edge about a world-famous cellist, Jascha Steg, in love with Ana, a violinist. Jascha's world tour...
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1998
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French philosopher/semiotician Roland Barthes once asked "Why and how do singers find their emotions in their voices?" This...
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1997
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During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad....
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Lucie Bernard
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1997
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Produced for French television, this two-part screen adaptation of the classic novel by Henri Beyle Stendhal concerns two...
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1997
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This romantic comedy concerns Kate Swallow (Carole Bouquet), who works in a French department store to help support her...
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Kate Swallow
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1994
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A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual...
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Carole
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1994
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If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic...
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1993
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With a storyline straight out of tragedy, this comedy was wildly popular in its native Italy. In the 1970s, Renzo...
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Margherita
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1992
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Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the...
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1991
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Bertrand Blier's films have explored the sometimes misogynistic sexuality of younger men, but here he offers an absorbing,...
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Florence Barthelemy/Neighbor
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1990
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The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each...
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1989
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The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the...
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Clara
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1989
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Cristophe (Michel Voita) is a reporter who is assigned to interview the prominent archaeologist Tober (Jean Bouise) in this...
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1987
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Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from...
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Eleonore
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1986
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In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind -- even in one's mature years -- this series of mood...
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Helene
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1986
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In this so-so actioner, a cop possessing expert knowledge of computer software (a detail revealed late in the proceedings)...
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Isabelle Rodin
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1985
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Bebee Senanques
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1984
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In this low-brow satire, French comedian Coluche exploits his talents for comic vulgarity in his role as the 10th-century...
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Héméré
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1984
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The film tells the tale of the adolescent son of two wealthy socialites who have left him home alone while they go out on...
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1984
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An unconvincing tale of stolen microfilm, prostitution, and murder barely stretches out to the 94-minute running time of this...
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Mystere
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1983
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Like his more famous loin-clothed tree-swinging, yodeling counterpart, Bingo Bongo was raised in the jungle by apes. This...
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Laura
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1982
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In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession...
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Carol Schneider
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1982
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For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the...
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Melina
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1981
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Valentine
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1980
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Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the...
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The young woman at the end
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1979
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Richard Hell, one of the most important and influential figures in the late-'70s New York punk rock scene, stars in this...
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1979
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Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from...
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Conchita
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1977
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