|
|
|
Le livre des morts de Belleville (2006)
Character: N/A
Michael thought he'd seen his mother for the last time when she passed away in a Paris hospital, but months later she reappears in the neighborhood of Belleville, talkative as ever, and full of insight.
|
|
|
Louise Wimmer (2011)
Character: Didier
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain public housing, Louise scrapes by on a day-to-day subsistence that’s only a few Euros away from skid row.
|
|
|
La ligne blanche (2010)
Character: André
Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.
|
|
|
Petite princesse (2020)
Character: Jean
Anna only knows the world through the news articles read by her father. One hot summer’s day, she is forced to confront reality.
|
|
|
Le Mental de l'équipe (2008)
Character: N/A
A staging of Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Emmanuel Bourdieu's play "Le Mental de l'équipe" by Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Denis Podalydès. In this comedy, two professional soccer teams go head-to-head. The players observe different tactical schemes proposed by the coach, under the guidance of a psychological trainer, who ensures the team's mental strength.
|
|
|
Clémence (2007)
Character: N/A
A young mother caught up in an uncontrollable spiral of passion after meeting a stranger abandons everything and leaves Paris.
|
|
|
Les complices (2013)
Character: Jérôme
Returning from a romantic getaway, a CEO and his mistress do not see a bus, which, to avoid them, swerves and flips over. The couple does not stop, and silently continues on their way. The accident claims many victims, mostly children. A car was seen nearby.
|
|
|
Par accident (2004)
Character: Vincent
Isabelle Blanc, a 30 years old biologist who works at the university, awakes in an hospital and doesn't remember why she is in the hospital.Little by little the doctor explains her that she had an accident driving by night under the rain and that accident provoked the death of a person.After her work Isabelle met her companion Vincent and then went alone by car: Vincent called her by cell phone, they spoke about their future and Vincent wanted that Isabelle listens to to a song; then came the crash.After going with Vincent to the place of the accident (where she saw a bouquet of flowers for the dead person) Isabelle reads in the newspaper the death notice of Marie Delhomme.
|
|
|
Indiscrétions (2013)
Character: Arthur Delepine
A piano teacher suspects her entourage of being responsible for the disappearance of a former pupil she was putting up. She starts to grow suspicious of everyone's behavior.
|
|
|
Clémence (2003)
Character: Thierry
Clémence is a fulfilled woman, happy with her job as an investigating judge and her family. But everything changes when she learns that her husband, Philippe, is cheating on her.
|
|
|
La Tueuse caméléon (2017)
Character: Valetti
Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, becomes their friend and confidante and then kills them and takes their identity, their job and their apartment. Police investigator Judith Corel serves as bait in an attempt to trap the chameleon killer.
|
|
|
Louise Violet (2024)
Character: N/A
France. End of the 19th century. Louise Violet 40, a Parisian teacher, is sent on a mission to the French countryside. But in a place where the daily life is linked to the seasons, land and crops, she must first convince parents to send their kids to school. With the help of the mayor, she is gradually accepted by the parents and their children. But soon, her past catches up with her. Despite the obstacles she faces, Miss Violet will give her heart and soul to her belief that education is the key to freedom.
|
|
|
Café de Flore (2011)
Character: Louis
Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.
|
|
|
Oscar et la dame rose (2009)
Character: Le père d'Oscar
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market
|
|
|
Ni reprise, ni échangée (2010)
Character: Franck
Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunch of little naive thugs manages to remove it. Because it is often obnoxious with his entourage, his family decided not to pay anything for her release. Shocked, Ellie began to join her captors in order to concoct a revenge more expensive. The unsympathetic billionaire turns against her will in a sort of Robin embittered and vengeful wood. Soon, his family is forced to pay more attention to his kidnapping: worrying samples are taken by Juliette, free-spending ...
|
|
|
Ma France à moi (2023)
Character: Jean-Paul, le médecin
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus. This is the story of two worlds that collide, get used to each other and end up reaching out to each other.
|
|
|
Le clan des Lanzac (2013)
Character: François Lanzac
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanzac authoritatively leads an important industrial group specializing in wood. Her eldest son, Nicolas, is her named successor, but he dies in a road accident. When the will is read, the family is stunned to learn that he has left his share to Julien, his secret son...
|
|
|
|
|
J.R.R. Tolkien: Des mots, des mondes (2014)
Character: N/A
This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished literary work. We will try to trace back to the origins of his inspiration so as to understand why his work met and still meets with so much success. How did JRR Tolkien manage, through the power of words alone, to so widely instill wisps of magic in the midst of a particularly disenchanted 20th century?
|
|
|
Les Drapeaux de papier (2018)
Character: Jean, the father
He is 30 and just got out of jail after 12 years of detention. She is almost 24 and has a simple life away from the city. One day, he comes to her and she let him stay with her. That's complicated when your older brother needs to get back to a normal life. Between tenderness and bursts of laughter, his anger is sometimes out of control. However, she wants to help him. As for him, he wants to meet with his sister again.
|
|
|
Un Hiver en été (2023)
Character: Léonard
It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.
|
|
|
Deux escargots s’en vont (2017)
Character: (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
|
|
|
Couple in a Hole (2016)
Character: Andre
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
|
|
|
Ma place au soleil (2007)
Character: L'homme en noir
Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.
|
|
|
Un Prince (presque) charmant (2013)
Character: Bertrand
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...
|
|
|
Rio Sex Comedy (2010)
Character: Robert
A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
|
|
|
Un père idéal (2024)
Character: Max
Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down when his teenage daughter is murdered. The community has his back but soon rumor spreads and Michel is singled out. From the ideal father, he becomes the ideal culprit.
|
|
|
さようなら (2015)
Character: N/A
The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.
|
|
|
Le Refuge (2009)
Character: Le médecin
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
|
|
|
Jacquou le Croquant (2007)
Character: Vidal, l'avocat
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
|
|
|
La Famille Bélier (2014)
Character: Doctor Pugeot
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
|
|
|
Papa est parti, maman aussi (1989)
Character: Lucien
A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
|
|
|
Les envoûtés (2019)
Character: L'amant de Pilar
For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist who claims his mother appeared to him at the precise moment she died. Coline is particularly intrigued since her beautiful neighbor Azar insists the same thing happened with her father! On the night they meet, Simon attempts to seduce Coline, who resists but falls in love...
|
|
|
La Tête de maman (2007)
Character: Frédéric 'Fred' Pénéard
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
|
|
|
Chevrotine (2022)
Character: Phil
Pierre is still mourning his dead wife when he meets Laura, a joyful and sensual woman with whom he will have a new child, little Autumn. But will this passionate and unexpected love be able to resist the demons of the past?
|
|
|
Au fond des bois (2010)
Character: Capitaine Langlois
A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.
|
|
|
L'ordre des médecins (2018)
Character: Mr. Hamon
Simon is an experienced doctor who rubs shoulders with death on a daily basis as part of his job in an intensive care unit. Like any good professional, he has learnt to shield himself from it. But when his mother is hospitalised in a nearby unit, and is in a critical condition, his private life and professional life clash spectacularly. Simon’s whole world, and all his certainties and beliefs, are shaken to the core – even to the extent of re-evaluating his career...
|
|
|
Quand sort la recluse (2019)
Character: Veyrenc
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
|
|
|
L'été dernier (2023)
Character: Invité apéritif
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
|
|
|
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Character: Bastoche
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
|
|
|
Entre vents et marées (2014)
Character: Etienne Quemener
In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady real estate developers who wanted to transform the little fishing village into an ultra-modern marina for wealthy clients.
|
|
