Claude Berri

A bittersweet and sexy romantic comedy that shows how hope can come to the hopeless and love to the lonesome. (Palm Pictures)

Lucie and Raymond's story is one of love, of the French Resistance in World War II, and of life. Cunning, resourceful, and romantic, Lucie risks her life for what the couple believes in. Her efforts to rescue the husband she passionately loves would seem to spring from the fertile imagination of a novelist... but this film is based on a true story. (October Films)

In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property... (imdb)

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside... (imdb)

Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking... (imdb)

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away in the country, at a couple of elderly's. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter and a anti-semite, but he does not know about Claude's religion. The film is the story of their mutual growing affection. (imdb)

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them (imdb)

Love might be closer than you think...

Claude Langmann is a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva (answers.com)

An early black-and-white short film by Maurice Pialat from 1961, Janine (16:35) with Hubert Deschamps and Claude Berri as two men who meet casually and find they both love the same woman, a prostitute called Janine (Evelyn Kerr). (DVD times)

L'un reste, L'autre part is the story of two old time friends, both in their fifties, both married, who fall for two younger women. The cast is nothing less than stellar: Daniel Auteuil, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Charlotte Gainsbourg

The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex-shop but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive man.

Story about marriage and lovely dog.

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back. (imdb)

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher. (imdb)

Lybia, 1940. Lupi is a young officer working in the Army Health department. There he meets Oscar Pilli, a doctor whose behaviour is rather strange. (mubi.com)

A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. (imdb)

An autobiographical film in homage to his family - from Berri's happy childhood to his career as an actor.

Two friends bring their daughters with them on a beach vacation and find themselves in an awkward situation. A remake of the 1977 film "Un moment d'égarement". (imdb)

Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. In a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter.