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2009
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Renée Michel
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2009
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With this high-concept, all-star French comedy (it features at least sixteen Gallic marquee names including Michel Blanc and...
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le mère en Chanel
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2008
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Gallic actress-turned-director Josiane Balasko - a Euro cinema mainstay best known for her unconventional romantic lead in...
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Director, Screenwriter, Irene
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2008
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2008
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An elderly man's friendship with a young girl is viewed with suspicion both those around him in this drama from British...
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Stephanie
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2008
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This French remake of Claude Autant-Lara's black comedy classic details the adventures of a group of travelers who stop for a...
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Rose Martin
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2007
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Stephanie
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2007
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Six of France's greatest screen comedians reunite in this long-awaited sequel to the classic box-office hits Les Bronzes and...
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Screenwriter
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2006
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Two women try to pass along what they've learned about life, love and work to a handful of kids with unexpected results in...
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2005
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The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat...
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2005
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Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter
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2005
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2003
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The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed...
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Eddie
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2001
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When a man kills his wife -- who happened to be the most hated woman in the village -- no one is sure if he should be...
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Lulu Braconnier
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2001
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2000
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A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this...
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2000
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Gabriel Aghion directs this bawdy period romp about a day in the life of 18th century philosopher and sensualist Denis...
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Baroness d'Holbach
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2000
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Director, Play Author, Screenwriter
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1998
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A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme...
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Cinematographer, Arlette
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1997
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In this French fantasy-comedy, a magical moonbeam turns a dog into a man's best friend. Annabelle (Caroline Cellier) is a...
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1997
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In this French comedy, a man discovers that he has something unexpected in common with his wife -- they're both involved with...
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Director, Screenwriter, Marijo
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1995
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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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Herself
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1994
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Eleven-year old Alexandrine (Sandrine Blancke) may be making something more out of what is happening in her family than is...
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Sophia
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1993
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This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and...
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Irene
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1993
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Léah (Josiane Balasko) has been longing to be beautiful for years, but the best she's been able to accomplish on her own is...
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Director, Screenwriter, Leah
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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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Colette Chevassu
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1990
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1989
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1988
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Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls...
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Director, Screenwriter, Mireille Molyneaux
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1988
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1986
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Although the plot in this funny, well-acted romantic comedy is written by the numbers, the story entertains because of the...
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Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter, Fréde
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1986
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Aline
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1986
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There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. The series of 11...
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1985
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Josiane Balasko ("the housewife's heroine") has been writing and directing good roles for herself since first entering the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Anita
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1985
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Some young international terrorists are holed up in the apartment Loulou Dupin (Coluche) inherited from his recently deceased...
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1984
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In a satire on family values that tends to pass off human cruelty as amusing, this story about an odd family of five...
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Simone
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1984
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Director Gérard Lauzier shoots diatribes at "liberals" from his own conservative perspective in this movie about a...
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1984
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In this routine romantic comedy, a veterinarian who mingles with humans of a higher pedigree gets an unwelcome visit from a...
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Beatrice
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1983
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In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the...
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1983
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Three workers in a social services office on Christmas Eve find themselves the center of a vortex of rag-tag humanity that...
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Screenwriter, Madame Musquin
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1982
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Set in Paris, this romance centers on a pair of lovers who wrangle over whether or not they want to marry and have children....
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Screenwriter
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1981
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This comedy features large French woman, Balasko, who, when dumped by her fiance, moves in with a silly model. ~ Rovi...
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Screenwriter, Lydie
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1981
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Gerard Barbier (Michel Coluche) has taken on a temporary job at a small elementary school and soon finds himself involved in...
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Miss Lajoie
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1981
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The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anesthesiologist and so when she accidentally hits Gilles...
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Colette
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1981
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Louise
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1980
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The tendency for a life of crime to continue unabated is a part of this conventional crime comedy by director...
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Screenwriter
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1980
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Nathalie
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1979
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Six vacationers from France find themselves on the sunny shores of Africa in a vacation village where organized fun is the...
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Screenwriter, Nathalie
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1978
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Corinne
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1978
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1977
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This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a...
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1977
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Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Michel Gauché, a stunt double and trickster who is crazy in love with his former fiancee, work-mate,...
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1977
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an...
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1976
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While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family...
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Simone
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1976
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