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Actors: François-Xavier Demaison, Léa Drucker, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Bateau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Alexandre Astier, Denis Podalydès, Valérie Crouzet
Synopsis: To the French, Michel "Coluche" Colucci (1944-86) was not merely a household name but a veritable institution. A stocky, goofy comic who often turned up in big screen farces such as L'Aile Ou la Cuisse (1976) and Inspecteur la Bavure (1980) , Colucci gained notoriety for his emotionally rocky and Read More
Actors: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Blu Yoshimi
Synopsis: With Quiet Chaos (Caos calma), acclaimed Italian helmer Nanni Moretti steps away from his standard directorial role to essay the lead and co-author the script in a gentle psychological drama directed by Antonello Grimaldi. Moretti stars as Pietro, a film executive whose life takes an irreversible Read More
Actors: Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Bouchitey, Amelie Lerma, Micheline Dax, Virginie Efira
Synopsis: Filmmakers Frédéric and Samuel Guillaume team to direct this charming tale of a 15-year-old who sets out to find his long-lost father and instead stumbles into the adventure of a lifetime. Max's father was a famous troubadour named Johnny Bigoude who disappeared shortly after his boy was born. Now Read More
Actors: Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Lionel Abelanski, Jeanne Balibar, Denis Podalydès
Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Diane Kurys pays homage to another French woman of the arts in this screen biography of internationally celebrated writer Francoise Sagan. As the film opens, it's 1954 and Sagan (played by Sylvie Testud), still in her teens, has become a literary celebrity overnight with the Read More
Actors: Laure Marsac, Denis Podalydès, Claire Borotra, Alexia Stresi, Justine Gallou
Actors: Hélène Fillières, Jérémie Renier, Amira Casar, Denis Podalydès, Anne Consigny
Synopsis: A newly married attorney accepts the murder case that could establish him as a top defense lawyer, only to find himself hopelessly intertwined with a prime suspect after meeting the mysterious beauty at the scene of the crime. Approached by this brother with a case that seemed especially Read More
Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Émilie Dequenne, Denis Podalydès, Valerie Benguigui, Marilyne Canto
Synopsis: A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand (Denis Podalydes) is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math Read More
Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow
Synopsis: Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found Read More
Actors: Natacha Régnier, Adrien Michaux, Denis Podalydès, Olivier Gourmet, Alexis Loret
Synopsis: The lives of two troubled souls unexpectedly intersect in this ambitious drama from French auteur Eugène Green. Sarah (Natacha Régnier) is a gifted operatic vocalist who has been cast in a production of Monteverdi's Lamento Della Ninfa that's being recorded for release on LP. While Sarah's talents Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Anne Brochet, Lorant Deutsch, Raphael Katz, Annie Girardot
Synopsis: The gently evocative, nostalgia-seeped autobiographical drama A Year In My Life cinematizes writer-director Daniel Duval's recollections of his youth in 1950s France. As a thinly-veiled onscreen fictionalization of the filmmaker, Raphael Katz is Pippo, a 9-year-old boy whose parents are arrested Read More
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet
Actors: Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner
Synopsis: Valerie Lemercier's royal comedy Palais Royal! stars Valerie Lemercier as a commoner who is married to a prince (Lambert Wilson). When the king dies, the queen (Catherine Deneuve) pulls strings to have the Prince jump the order of succession and take control. The wife has little aptitude for being Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Denis Podalydès, Marina Hands, Michel Vuillermoz
Synopsis: A series of tragedies befalls a small French town near the front during World War I in Yves Angelo's Grey Souls. As the film opens, the body of a young girl, Morning Beauty (Joséphine Japy) is found on the banks of the river, an apparent murder victim. We then flash back several months. Lysia (Marina Hands Read More
Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Borini
Synopsis: A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the Read More
Actors: Simon Abkarian, Zabou Breitman, Denis Podalydès, Vincent Elbaz, Lubna Azabal
Synopsis: A group of Jewish Holocaust survivors attempt to restart their lives after Europe's liberation from Nazi occupation in director Michel Deville's 2002 ensemble drama Almost Peaceful. Husband and wife couple Albert (Simon Abkaryan) and Lea (Zabou Breitman) attempt to rebuild their tailoring business Read More
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Clovis Cornillac, Axelle Laffont, Husky Kihal, Camille Japy
Synopsis: Eric Veniard's quirky comedy A Great Little Business is the story of a chef, Jean-Jacques (Clovis Cornillac), who dreams of running his own eatery. He takes a business class from Claude (Denis Podalydes), a frustrated novelist. When his stewardess girlfriend is away, Jean-Jacques becomes addicted Read More
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich
Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady
Synopsis: During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of Read More
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Karin Viard
Synopsis: A group of friends and mutual acquaintances embark on a number of vacations -- concealed or otherwise -- for relaxation and unexpected romantic hijinks in French actor/director Michel Blanc's fourth directorial effort, the romantic ensemble comedy See How They Run. While hosting a dinner party Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Guilaine Londez, Bruno Podalydès, Patrick Pineau, Eric Elmosnino
Synopsis: A father who is determined to enjoy his vacation even if it kills him hits the high seas -- and the high seas hit back -- in this comedy from France. Jacques Monot (Denis Podalydes) is spending a few weeks of the summer at the seaside with his wife, Albertine (Guilaine Londez), and their four Read More
Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Hélène de Fougerolles, Denis Podalydès, Miki Manojlovic, Yves Renier
Synopsis: An analyst discovers just how troublesome his most difficult patient can be in this darkly witty comedy drama. Michel Durand (Jean-Hughes Anglade) is a divorced psychiatrist in his early forties with a successful practice in Paris. One of his patients is Olga Kubler (Helene de Fougerolles), the Read More
Actors: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier
Synopsis: A man who thinks he's found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial injuries render him unrecognizable in this wartime drama. In the summer of 1914, Adrien Fournier (Eric Caravaca) is an engineer conscripted into the French Army, where he is Read More
Actors: Philippe Clevenot, Jérôme Robart, Isabelle Ronayette, Vanessa Larre, Marion Beulque
Actors: José Garcia, Denis Podalydès, Jackie Berroyer, Edouard Baer, Alexandra London
Synopsis: Frederic Jardin directs this enjoyably nasty showbiz farce starring a veritable who's who of Gallic comedy. Elderly milquetoast Jacques Soeur (Denis Podalydes) has written a 450-page tome which his brother Charlies Souer (Jose Garcia) longs to direct. After making no progress in the tried and true Read More
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Nils Hugon, Charles Berling, Edith Scob
Synopsis: A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre (Isabelle Huppert and Denis Podalydes) are the busy parents of a nine-year-old son, Camille (Nils Hugon). Camille feels neglected by his hard-working mom and dad and often Read More
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard
Synopsis: While pioneering pre-feminist author George Sand has been the subject of several film biographies focusing on her ten year relationship with Frederick Chopin, Les enfants du siècle looks at an earlier period in Sand's life, in particular her stormy romance with poet Alfred de Musset. In the early Read More
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Valentina Cervi, Michel Piccoli, Bernadette Lafont
Synopsis: Rien sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple (Fabrice Luchini) is a journalist who writes an article about a Bosnian film he had never seen, calling it "pure fascist propaganda." (The director, Pascal Bonitzer, was once the editor of the celebrated film Read More
Actors: Dominique Blanc, Denis Podalydès, Michelle Goddet, Fanny Florido
Synopsis: French filmmaker Claire Devers directs this powerful drama about poverty and injustice. Francoise Barnier (Dominique Blanc), a single mother who works as a cleaner at a slaughterhouse, can barely put food on the table for her two young daughters, but her fierce pride prevents her from seeking out Read More
Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Virginie Ledoyen, Carole Bouquet, Guillaume Canet, Aurelie Verillon
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Jeanne Balibar, Isabelle Candelier, Cecile Bouillot, Jean-Noel Broute
Synopsis: In this 122-minute sequel to the 47-minute Versilles -- Rive Gauche (1991), the brothers Bruno and Denis Podalydes provide the central installment of their trilogy of films named after different Versailles train stations. Awkward Albert (Denis Podlydes), a balding nerdy sort, is a soundman working Read More
Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valerie Bonneton, Frédéric Gorny
Synopsis: This French musical features dialogue and songs by Paris University's Jacques Martineau on a wide range of subjects -- from immigrant workers to book-selling. Travel agency receptionist Jeanne (Virginie Ledoyen and the singing voice of Elise Caron) is always on the lookout for men, and she thinks Read More
Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Emmanuelle Seigner, Élodie Bouchez
Synopsis: Two very violent men have conspired to steal a valuable solid gold image of an African deity from the museum in Mali where it is being kept. They had it smuggled out with a number of well-made but very cheap replicas. The plan was to give each of the replicas to the members of a new squash club as Read More
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt
Synopsis: In this satiric comedy-drama from France, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) is an assistant professor of philosophy disenchanted with teaching and distracted enough that he can't (or won't) finish the dissertation that would allow him to become a full professor. Esther (Emmanuelle Devos) has been his Read More
Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Anémone, Olivia Bonamy, Antoine Dulery
Synopsis: An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he Read More
Actors: Patrick Dell'Isola, Francois Dyrek, Stephane Ferrara
Actors: Denis Podalydès
Actors: Anémone, Roland Bertin, Grégoire Colin, Michel Didym, Denis Podalydès
Synopsis: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her Read More
Actors: Isabelle Candelier, Denis Podalydès, Philippe Uchan, Michel Vuillermoz
Synopsis: In this very short comedy, Arnaud has planned a quiet, romantic dinner with a pretty woman at his apartment. He is a mild-mannered young man and has charms that only become evident over time, so he needs plenty of time and space to woo anyone successfully. The last thing that he needs is for his Read More
Actors: Themis Bazaka, Denis Podalydès, Francisco Algora
Synopsis: For some reason, the enigmatic Xenia (Themis Bazaka) feels she must give birth to her child in the mountainous country of Andalusia in Southern Spain. As she travels to her rendezvous with birth, she hooks up with a young actor (Denis Podalides) on his way to an audition there. His car has broken Read More
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