Patrick Chesnais

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results...

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is...

Jean and Sylvia left France with a stolen diamond to start a new life in South America. They land in Lima to live their passion. But the diamond is...

Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may...

Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous...

Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the...

Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of...

Laurent loves Camille but he can’t bring himself to marry her. Then he meets Elodie and discovers what love really is – not the mild cozy...

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several...

Dans les années 70 Bruno Caprice a connu un succès éphémère avec "Quand tu t'en vas", son premier et unique 45 tours. Aujourd'hui oublié, il...

An upper-class family's dysfunctional harmony collapses when their daughter begins an affair with a cynical cop who unearths a long-buried secret.

Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has...

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with...

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief...

True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But...

A family’s secret, it’s a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968...

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

A journalist very attached to freedom of information conflicts with the management of his channel.

The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their...

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these...

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of...

In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his...

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among...

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son...

If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the...

A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores...

The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis.

A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its...

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When...

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of...

A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her...

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets...

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom...

Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and...

When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.

Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her...

Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.

Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in...

The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and...

Charles and Pierrot are inseparable. When Charles takes early retirement, it seems the world is their oyster. They can spend even more time together....

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all,...

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is...

The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly...

When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing...

Driss, carefree, smug and naive, lives off petty theft and minor racketeering. Until he meets Danny, an old crook who takes him under his wing and...

Mathieu disappeared ten years ago. Every year, he calls on Mother's Day. But his mother cannot stand it anymore. Believing she sees her son in the...

The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler...

Alice leaves a party with her best friend, who tries to kiss her. She pushes him away, and he becomes violent... Alice then flees into a dreamlike...

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually,...

The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their...

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French....

The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

Micha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself. Charles, 20 years old, works for a real estate agency and...

Burdened by debt after a long dry spell, actor Marius de Villeduc finds himself forced to accept the lead role in the new film by Richard Favard, a...

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le...

Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial...

After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their...

Comedian Jean-Paul Bolzec has just performed in Azerbaijan. On the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandoned on a desert...

This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.

In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests. None of them have...

A young director will make his first film, about the deportation of Jews during World War II. With a diva in the lead role.

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him....

In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It's an inexplicable murder.

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.

Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon...

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend...

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier)...

Lauren, a lovely 29-year-old it-girl, tries to break into the world of fashion by skimming Parisian parties. Olivia, a 28-year-old psychologist, has...

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The...

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion...

Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will...

A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up...

To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily...

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at...

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to...

Everyone's favorite fun-loving Granny Aurore goes overboard while partying and has a little accident! She loses her memory and gets put in a nursing...

Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits...

Show recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son.

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in the underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate...

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

A staging of Georges Feydeau's play "Feu la mère de Madame" by Jean-Luc Moreau.

Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his psychoanalyst, Charles, hits him with the news: his...

Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thirteen-year-old godson, accepts Francis' proposal...