Jean-Pierre Bacri

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

The story of human beings who know perfectly what they would do in someone else's place but don't do very well in their own. (Sony Pictures Classics)

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

The story of a factory owner who meets an actress who is a friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives for an interior decorator who is the wife of the factory owner who would like to befriend with some artists who... (Offline Releasing)

Odile (Sabine Azéma) is looking for a new, bigger appartment. Her younger sister Camille (Agnès Jaoui) just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent who is responsible for Odile's apartment and who has an elder employee (imdb)

Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting (imdb)

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. (imdb)

A self-absorbed writer (Jean-Pierre Bacri) becomes obsessed with his psychologist's watch, supposedly worn by John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated.

After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future. (Wikipedia)

In this French fantasy-comedy, a magical moonbeam turns a dog into a man's best friend. Annabelle (Caroline Cellier) is a reporter who is sent on an overseas assignment and doesn't think it would be such a great idea to bring Didier, her Golden Retriever, along, so she leaves the pooch in the care of her friend Costa (All Movie Guide)

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce. (imdb)

Jaoui directs and stars as Agathe, a self-regarding feminist who is entering into politics, returns to her childhood home only to be persuaded by the housekeeper's son (Jamel Debbouze, Amélie), an aspiring filmmaker, and his friend (Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jaoui's creative partner) to be the subject of a series of programmes on 'successful women'.

Actress Nicole Garcia directed L'Adversaire in 2002 and is even more ambitious with this complex story of a range of characters in a French town on the Atlantic Coast. It should be said first that Charlie is a ten year old boy - and that it is not always what he actually says that is important. Rather, as the original title suggests, this is life 'according to Charlie', life through Charlie's perceptions. (habitusnetwork.org)

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee (Lena Weber) marries a soldier (Michel Korski) to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student (Madeleine) loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor (Costa Segara), gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point. (imdb)

Bronsky (Jean-Pierre Bisson) is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. (imdb)

Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldi, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma. (Allmovie)

Jean-Marie (Alain Delon) has a successful practice in Paris when his marriage crumbles and he is sent to operate in a field hospital in an unspecified war zone in Europe. He is driven up the wall by Harmony (Veronique Jannot) an attractive assistant whose sunny disposition grates on the surgeon's nerves, or at least, on the one he has left. Then he discovers that Harmony is suffering from an incurable disease and the pathos begins. (Allmovie)

Carole and Jaque are a happily married couple until young and beautiful Edith and her husband move next door. Against all the odds Edith falls for Jaque.

Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from his emotional isolation and daydreams to help trap the crooks. (Allmovie)

When their factory is closed down, some irreducible people stay to live in the factory city where they've been spending all their lives. A group of them also keeps going to work, to repair the machinery.

The inspector Robert Staniland, a quite special cop, investigates the murder of the pianist Charly Berliner. He discovers that the victim had a passionate affair with a certain Barbara, who turns out to be a femme fatale.

Fane wants nothing but a quiet countryside life with the woman and the sweet, brain damaged brother he loves. Envious neighbours however have plans of their own. (imdb)

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors. (imdb)

Frederic is a young man in social rehabilitation. He has just found a night internship, in an isolated hotel in the mountains when, one evening, he sees his boss, Jacques, together with this son, hiding a car in the parking lot. The day after, he learns that one of the clients left the hotel without notice... (imdb)

During the Second World War, the Americans landed in Algeria, in the battle of North Africa. The landing took place near a small town called Tadjira. This sub-prefecture composed mainly of Algerians will welcome the American soldiers and live with them.

People annoy and bore a Paris veterinarian (Jean Rochefort), until he meets someone (Miou-Miou) new and awkwardly falls in love.

Charles and Emmanuelle are an older couple who have decided to finally enjoy life. But who will succeed them at the head of the Vanbert perfumery? Charles, on the occasion of the annual seminar where all the executives of the company are gathered, decides to choose his replacement.

In this deliciously ironic French comedy, Damien, an absent-minded professor of Asian Studies, is pressured by his theatre director partner to badger his high-ranking civil servant father into helping an illegal immigrant friend-of-a-friend to avoid deportation to the former Yugoslavia. Trouble is, Damien loathes his dad. The issue is further complicated by the couple's mutual infidelity and their shared concerns over their troublesome son. (Arts Picturehouse Synopsis)

With the help of his twin daughters, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the heads of the clan of jews Pied-Noir. (imdb)

A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply for the presence of Maria De Medeiros, the central two of the film are captivating. What spoils it is the stereotypical and under developed second characters and an overly wistful outlook. But I defy any man watching this film not to fall madly for Aimee and everyone will cherish the scenes between Aimee and Maurice. (letterboxd.com/film/lhomme-de-ma-vie/)

The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. (allmovie.com/movie/escalier-c-v125321)

François Sim considers himself worthless and he may have good reasons for that. Hasn't he lost his job as well as his wife Caroline? Isn't he unable to relate to Lucy, his teenage daughter? So, when Sim is unexpectedly offered a job, he takes it, hoping one more time to give a little bit of meaning to his life. Even if his task amounts to driving across France and trying to sell... a "revolutionary biological toothbrush" to reluctant dentists! (Guy Bellinger)

Martine and Jacques knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people - witness the fact that they have been putting up with having writer Georges be their informal roommate, as he sleeps on their living-room sofa off and on over the years whenever he is between jobs. (imdb)

Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. (imdb)

A hectic wedding party held in an 17th century French palace comes together with the help of the behind-the-scenes staff. (imdb)

When all the elves get sick, Santa must find a cure on Earth to save Christmas.

Castro, once a tv star, is now an animator on the way back. Today his driver, Manu leading him to the housewarming party of his old producer and girlfriend Nathalie, has moved to a beautiful house in the neighborhood of Paris . Hélène, the sister of Nathalie and ex-wife of Castro, is also invited. When they were young, they shared the same ideals, but success did Castro in a pragmatist (or rather cynic) remained faithful to her convictions while Hélène. (imdb)

Nora starts a new job only to find that her new boss and his wife know her dad from his college days, which leads to conflicts at work. (imdb)

Acerbic comedy set in a small French town, where Edmond Zweck's funeral business is ailing. One morning, a body finally turns up, and Zweck and his employees Georges and Eddy have some work on their hands. As they set for the graveyard though, this glimmer of hope turns to disaster.

The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur. (imdb)