Retired gangster Charlie Matteï (Jean Reno) embarks on a violent quest for revenge after being pumped full of bullets by his...
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Director
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2010
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Maximilien Chêne
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2009
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A man saves the life of a stranger and lives to regret it in this dark comedy from France. Jean (Richard Berry) is a hired...
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2008
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A lawman infiltrates Paris's criminal underground to bring a gang of killers to justice in this violent thriller. Abel Vargas...
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Vincent Drieu
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2008
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Maitre Foix
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2007
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Director, Screenwriter
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2005
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Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno headline this comedic chase film about a pair of escaped convicts with two very different...
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Vernet
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2003
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2003
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French filmmaker and professor of music Denis Dercourt directs the family drama Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres (My...
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2003
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Director, Screenwriter
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2003
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2002
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French filmmakers Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz write and direct the comedy Ah! Si j'etais Riche (If I Were a Rich Man)....
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2002
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Two people on opposite sides of the law are brought together under unusual circumstances in this thriller. Lea (Elsa...
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2001
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In this comedy, director Patrick Timsit plays a modern-day Quasimodo accused of 17 murders. The film uses the classic story...
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Frollo
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1999
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1999
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Neither the youthful or the experienced have a monopoly on the joys or the follies of romance -- or at least that appears to...
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Jean-Francois
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1999
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1998
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Based on a short novel by Ania Carmel, this dark drama follows the survival developed by a brother and sister forced to grow...
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1996
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A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy....
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Alexandre
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1996
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1995
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This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store...
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Alain
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1995
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This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as...
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Simon
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1995
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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1995
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Is there such a thing as an amicable divorce? This French drama, explores the subject in depth as it examines the post...
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Romain
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1994
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This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000...
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Director
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1994
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This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst...
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Armand
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1994
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The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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Maurice Bettoun
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1992
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This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years...
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Pierre Zakar
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1992
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In this affecting melodrama, a plucky ten-year old, who is the one delight her divorced parents enjoy together, is diagnosed...
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Adam Leibovich
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1992
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In this spy drama, a man with amnesia is perplexed to find himself pursued by international agents, Interpol spies, and...
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1991
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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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Psychiatrist
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1991
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1991
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Wanting to learn more about his Jewish heritage, a French philosophy professor moves to an Israeli kibbutz located near the...
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Sacha
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1991
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One might assume that the original title of this French production was C'est La Vie. Wrong: the film was initially released...
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Michel
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1990
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Three rebellious bickersome brothers reunite to drive their father's title car from their Detroit homes to Florida. The auto...
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Songwriter
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1990
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Fabrice (Richard Berry) is an otherwise brutish truck driver who loves the disciplines involved in bicycle racing. He's no...
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Fabrice
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1990
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1989
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1989
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Karim Hamida
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1988
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French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec...
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Noel Caradec
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1987
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Jerome
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1987
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This comedy is set in Hollywood in 1961, where a group of young men join the National Guard in an attempt to escape Vietnam....
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Songwriter
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1986
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It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully...
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Himself
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1986
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A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy...
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1986
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An unusual assortment of characters is brought together in this film noir influenced story: Petrus (Claude Brasseur) spends...
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Gerard Lepetit/Manuel del Castillo
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1986
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In a standard psycho-killer thriller, Cecile (Nathalie Baye) goes from her home in Canada to New York after her boyfriend is...
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Michel
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1985
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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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David Ackerman
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1985
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When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist...
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Jean-Pierre Mougin
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1985
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Lucien Sabatier
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1984
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This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to...
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Bruno Vinclert
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1984
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In yet another, standard feature-length film about life in the wilds -- the hinterlands and forests of Canada, South...
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1984
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In this comic and perceptive story, Billy mistakes another apartment for his own on the eve of his wedding and wanders in to...
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Billy
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1983
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Director Bernard Favre has created the "look and feel" of a moment in time that has long since disappeared -- 1859-60 in the...
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Joseph
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1983
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Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship...
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1983
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1982
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Francois Guilbaud
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1982
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In the French-made film (La Balance), a couple get caught between the French underworld and the cops who pledge to destroy...
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Palouzi
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1982
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Henri Natange
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1981
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Jacques
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1981
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A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or...
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Maurice Beitoun
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1981
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1981
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Poignant and with several delicately wrought moments, this otherwise by-the-book tearjerker is about a little brother and big...
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Jean Decaze
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1980
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1980
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This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really...
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Son
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1978
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In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through...
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1974
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