Maxime Leroux Filmography

Excentric Paradis

Synopsis: A beautiful and successful French doctor finds herself placed into an asylum after she tells her snooty family that she has fallen in love with a formerly comatose ex-boxer in this charming French comedy. Now Melanie's new lover, the pugnacious Raymond and his pal Riton, an ex-con, attempt to Read More

Montparnasse-Pondichery

Actors: Miou-Miou, Yves Robert, André Dussollier, Jacques Perrin, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would think that Julie's (Miou-Miou) life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Read More

Colonel Chabert

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Daniel Prévost

Synopsis: This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a French soldier who served under Napoleon in 1807 and was thought to have died in battle. In fact, Chabert was nearly buried in a mass grave with a large number of deceased Read More

Tango

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Miou-Miou, Judith Godrëche

Synopsis: If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic point of the film seems to be this: unattached men long to live with women, and once they do, they long to live without them. In this story, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) is Read More

Faut-Il Aimer Mathilde?

Actors: Dominique Blanc, Paul Crauchet, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: Mathilde (Dominique Blanc) has had a number of children, but is still an attractive woman. One day her husband simply picks up and leaves without any explanation whatever. At about the same time, she is involved at an accident at her workplace which makes her strongly aware of the passage of time. Read More

Le Fils du Requin

Actors: Sandrine Blancke, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: The two brothers (Ludovic Vandendaele and Erick Da Silva) in this story are homeless and unsocialized; if they ever knew a loving family, it was from the outside looking in. They live by stealing, but they get their kicks from breaking things; at the beginning of the film they have stolen a bus Read More

L'Affaire Seznec

Dîen Bîen Phu

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Ludmila Mikael, Jean-François Balmer, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: Long before America was mired in an unwinnable conflict in Vietnam, the French had spent decades in an attempt to hold onto their Indochinese colonies, which included Vietnam. By the early 1950s, several generations of dedicated, independence-minded Vietnamese had fought the French to a Read More

Netchaïev Est de Retour

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Carolina Rosi, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: Very few people know that Pierre Marroux (Yves Montand) is the father of the famous terrorist Netchaiev (Vincent Lindon), and that's the way he likes to keep it. His boy is now presumed to be dead, and he has a job to do, protecting the safety of those who pay him. However, the boy has recently Read More

Les Carnassiers

Les Doigts Dans Le Mur

Actors: Maxime Leroux, Nathalie Richard, Christine Murillo

Interdit D'Amour

Actors: Maxime Leroux, Nathalie Richard, Christine Murillo

Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Maxime Leroux, Gilles Privat, Muriel Combeau

Synopsis: This easygoing French comedy -- originally and more wittily titled Romuald et Juliette -- is about conservative Parisian yogurt-company executive Romuald Blindet (Daniel Auteuil) who by circumstance finds himself drawing closer to his black cleaning woman Juliette Bonaventure (Firmine Richard). A Read More

Le Penitent

Actors: Maxime Leroux, Maurice Barrier

La Tribu

Actors: Stéphane Freiss, Catherine Wilkening, Maxime Leroux, Kader Boukhanef

Synopsis: Dr. Roussel (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is one of the handful of French doctors who earns really outstanding compensation. Dr. Olivier Rohan (Stephane Freiss) has just finished qualifying in his specialty (cardiology) and is one of the vast number of young doctors who don't earn very much at all. He has Read More

Jean Galmot, Aventurier

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Roger Hanin, Belinda Becker, Jean-Michel Martial

Synopsis: The 1926 commercial and social structure of French Guiana, the French former penal colony in South America, differed little from that of Haiti a century before. White settlers owned or exploited everything and everyone. No one else was permitted to benefit greatly, and even the modest success of Read More

Camille Claudel

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are portrayed in this passionate biographical drama, featuring an acclaimed performance by Isabelle Adjani. Beginning in the 1880s with a young Claudel's first meeting with Rodin Read More

Baxter

Actors: Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran, Jean-Paul Roussillon

Synopsis: The French-filmed Baxter is based on the American novel Hell Hound. The title character is a bull terrier, who in the course of the film has many masters--and for good reason. Baxter has been instrumental in the deaths or serious injuries of most of the human beings who've come in contact with Read More

Hiver 54, L'abbe Pierre

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Claudia Cardinale, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Read More

La Maison De Jeanne

Actors: Christine Boisson, Benoit Regent, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Pascale Audret, Michelle Goddet

Synopsis: Jeanne (Christine Boisson) takes care of her parents, husband and children along with her eccentric sisters while successfully running a resort hotel and eatery. With the arrival of the new landlord Pierre (Benoit Regent), Jeanne must choose between her husband and the sexually forward visitor. Read More

Chouans!

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Freiss, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Celine (Sophie Marceau) must choose between Tarquin (Lambert Wilson) and Aurele (Stephane Fries) in this historical drama set during the French Civil War of 1793. The Republican Army decimated Western France when an insurgence of peasants, clergy, and aristocrats loyal to the Royalists staged a Read More

La Passion Béatrice

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Nils Tavernier, Monique Chaumette, Robert Dhéry

Synopsis: In this 1987 film, director Bertrand Tavernier depicts French life in the Middle Ages as dreary, unromantic, and brutal. The story begins when a warrior leaves home to fight in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) between France and England. Before his departure, he gives his young son, François, a Read More

Levy et Goliath

Actors: Richard Anconina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world. However, his job requires that he travel between the diamond capital of Antwerp to Paris to deliver diamond powder to an auto assembly plant. Without his knowledge, a gang Read More

Le Moustachu

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Grace de Capitani, Jean-Claude Leguay

Synopsis: Duroc (Jean Rochefort) is a secret agent called on to deliver an exploding car to a gang of terrorists in this spy spoof. When someone leaks the plan to the terrorists, Duroc becomes the hunted rather than the hunter. He encounters several situations where people unwittingly interfere with his Read More

Cross

Actors: Roland Giraud, Patrick Bauchau, Marie-Anne Chazel, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: French pop singer Michel Sardou plays detective Thomas "Cross" Crosky in this uneven thriller. When Cross's ex-wife and daughter are kidnapped, he hires notorious hit man Eli Cantor (Roland Giraud) to help carry out his plan of vengeance. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Desordre

Actors: Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisele Glass, Lucas Belvaux, Simon de la Brosse, Remi Martin

Synopsis: After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter for director André Techiné, former movie critic Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this film. In the story, a penniless girl and two similarly impoverished boys with ambitions of becoming a successful rock group are sorely in need of some Read More