Michel BoujenahFilmography

God's Offices

Actors: Anne Alvaro, Nathalie Baye, Rachida Brakni, Michel Boujenah, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A group of women struggling with their sexuality speak openly with the female counselors who wonder if such a thing as "sexual freedom" is truly possible in this tale of the incredible hidden in mundane, everyday events. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trois Amis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

18 Ans Apres

Actors: André Dussollier, Michel Boujenah, Roland Giraud, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Madeleine Besson

Synopsis: Coline Serreau's 18 Ans Apres (18 Years Later) is a sequel to her 1985 film Three Men and a Cradle, which was re-made in America as Three Men and a Baby. Marie (Madeleine Besson) is now on the verge of turning 18. She decides to spend a summer vacation with her mother Sylvia. Joining them are Read More

Pere et Fils

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbe, Marie Tifo

Synopsis: Directed by Michel Boujenah, Pere et Fils (Father and Son) centers around retired traveling salesman Leo Serano's (Philippe Noiret) decision to become closer to his three children, albeit late in life. Leo's first son, David (Charles Berling), is a longtime overachiever who runs his own plumbing Read More

Don Juan

Actors: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz, Ariadna Gil

Synopsis: Actor Jacques Weber made his directorial debut with this film adaptation of Don Juan written in 1665 by Moliere (1622-1673). In early 17th-century Spain, two women (Penelope Cruz, Ariadne Gil) believe Don Juan (Weber) when he promises marriage to both, but they soon are left to ponder his Read More

XXL

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Gérard Depardieu, Elsa Zylberstein, Catherine Jacob, Maurice Chevit

Synopsis: Ariel Zeitoun directed this French comedy depicting Ashkenazic-Sephardic rivalries in the Jewish garment district of Paris. Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death Read More

Une Femme Très Trè Très Amoureuse

Actors: Nagui, Cristiana Reali, Michel Boujenah, Thomas Langmann, Maria Pacome

Synopsis: French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experienced by males in his family. If Zak does not impregnate a woman before his 33rd birthday, the joys of sex evaporate forever. However, Zak's interest Read More

Ma Femme Me Quitte

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Miou-Miou, Thierry Lhermitte, Line Renaud

Synopsis: Misunderstandings create romantic mayhem in this French comedy. Joanna Martin is an investigative television reporter who has lived happily with prominent lawyer Samuel Bosquier for over 15 years. The trouble begins when her station assigns Joanna to investigate the phony marriage/immigration Read More

Un Été à La Goulette

Actors: Gamil Ratib, Mustafa Adouani

Synopsis: Set in a Tunisian melting-pot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker Ferid Boughedir, this bittersweet comedy-drama tells the tale of how the secret conspiracy between three teen girls to lose their virginity before they turn seventeen wreaks havoc on the lives and Read More

Les Misérables

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on the story of two men, a father and a son, whose life stories bear striking similarities to Hugo's character Jean Valjean. The father is Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

Le Nombril du Monde

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Delphine Forest, Thomas Langmann, Marie-José Nat, Souad Amidou

Synopsis: Bajou (Michel Boujenah) is an enterprising, talented man. He has risen from poor, humble beginnings, and thanks to a gift for mathematics, a willingness to work hard and occasionally cut corners, he is now a wealthy, successful man. He is a careful man in most respects, and does not generally Read More

La Totale!

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell, Michel Boujenah, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant who has been immured in a dead-end job. In reality, he is a very competent secret operative for the government. Meanwhile, Helene (Miou-Miou), the mother of his two Read More

Moitie Moitie

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Zabou, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Antoine Dulery

Synopsis: The new owners of a country estate only received it recently, in an inheritance from their grandmother, but they have known it since childhood. Arthur (Michel Boujenah) is an architect and deal-maker. He wants to replace it with a housing development. His cousin Sarah (Zabou) wants it left just as Read More

Three Men and a Cradle

Actors: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected lesson in the challenges of fatherhood when a young infant turns up on their doorstep in this popular, appealing French comedy. The child was unknowingly fathered by one of the roommates, but the mother, who had relationships with each man, leaves Read More

Prunelle Blues

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Vincent Lindon, Valerie Steffen, Karim Allaoui, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: This thriller concerns Freddy (Michel Boujenah), the unsophisticated manager of a porno theater who has fallen in love with the young striptease artist who supplies entertainment between hardcore films. But unknown to Freddy, she is also involved in a drug ring. One day Freddy is shot during a Read More

La Derniere Image

Actors: Véronique Jannot, Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, Michel Boujenah

Synopsis: Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Read More

Le Voyage à Paimpol

Actors: Myriam Boyer, Michel Boujenah, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Dora Doll

Synopsis: In an amusing comedy that looks at the life and dreams and absurdities of a middle-class housewife, director John Berry has condensed everywoman's youthful experiences into the persona of Maryvonne (Myriam Boyer). The upbeat heroine works hard in a factory and one day meets and eventually falls Read More

Tranches de Vie

Actors: Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Michel Boujenah, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. The series of 11 vignettes vary in length, in hilarity, in quality, and in content. In the segment on the changing culture of Paris, a French housewife has adapted to her neighborhood Read More

Incertain Leo Ou L'Amour Flou

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Christine Pascal, Catherine Leprince

Le Prefere (Rock and Torah)

Actors: Christian Clavier, Charles Denner, Rosy Varte, Patricia Fauron, Michel Boujenah

Synopsis: With comedy sequences that wobble between parody and sentiment, director Marc-Andre Grynbaum has attempted to present the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group ("Rock and Torah") and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once Read More

Mais Qu'est-Ce Que J'Ai Fait Au Bon Dieu Pour Avoir Une Femme Qui Boit dans Les Cafes Avec Les Hommes

Actors: Robert Castel, Antoinette Moya, Michel Boujenah, Lorraine Bracco

Synopsis: The main distinguishing feature of this comedy could be its long title, perhaps the longest in cinematic history. Director Jan Saint-Hamont follows up his 1979 film about a European-Algerian family with the same ethnic focus here. This time around the "Pied-Noirs," or French-Algerians, are Read More

Fais Gaffe A La Gaffe

Crew: Director

Actors: Roger Mirmont, Daniel Prévost, François Maistre, Marie-Anne Chazel