Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Set during a summer holiday weekend in France, this is an edge-of-your-seat thriller in the tradition of Claude Chabrol and Alfred Hitchcock. (Wellspring)

Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)

Their mother having died of cancer when they were very young, Suzanne and Marie are raised by their widowed father, Lucien. As they grow older, tensions between the daughters and their father escalate and the family splits.

Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds. (imdb)

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)

In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses François and returns to his place. But once a whore, always a whore. (imdb)

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men... (imdb)

Racists beat and killed an Arab in the middle of a building complex of a suburban housing estate without anyone doing anything about it. Based on the original '70s French comic strip by Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff. (imdb)

A French man and his teenage daughter comes to Sweden to search for a viking treasure. When they arrive at the house they've rented the residents, two women, are still there.

Gilles and Christine a boy and a girl live in the outskirts of Paris, their families are ineffective and distant and they lead a purposeless life. They steal some records in a supermarket but she is caught and sent to a nursing home by force by her parents. She escapes and follows Gilles to a house where some other youths live. They then decide to go south: Christine has been told there is a commune there, where artists live. So they head south sleeping rough... (imdb)

Having reached middle age, a woman must choose between the two men in her life. (imdb)

When her son is kidnapped, a mother asks two former pals in crime for help. Deft plot twists, the flare-up of past romance and a secret act of vengeance keep us guessing in this nourish drama of love and loss. (San Francisco Film Society)

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. (imdb)

Etienne is a persnickety car designer who hasn't known many women in his life, preferring to wait for love at first sight. One day, Etienne experiences it by meeting Laure, a young, sensual woman, who's also attracted by Etienne. Surprisingly, Laure sets their first date five months later... Etienne accepts to wait and decides to train himself in the meantime to be the best lover that day... (TonyS.)

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin. (imdb)

Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again. (imdb)

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.

"Le Havre" tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child.

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

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)

A father in pre-WWII France is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper. (imdb)

October 1941. Eighteen months into France's occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins' political convictions. (mubi.com)

Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act. (imdb)

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering. (imdb)

Ever since childhood, Clim (Raoust) and Bébé (Ogou) have been in love. Indeed, such is their suitability that her parents (Ascaride and Darroussin) and his dad (Meylan) soon put aside any doubts about the couple's decision to marry so young. The only objection comes from the boy's strictly religious mother and sister, whose antipathy to the relationship intensifies when he's arrested and imprisoned for raping a woman.

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ... (imdb)

A pharmaceutical company throws a gala party where all the employees from the top to the bottom are invited. Asked to participate in a role playing game which is actually a massive training simulation for the management team, rumors begin to circulate the the company may be acquired and everyone begins vying to save his or her own skin. (imdb)

When Julien Foucault, headmaster of the very venerable investment bank Berthin-Schwartz, learns his dismissal, he sees the opportunity to realize his dream of always: open a restaurant with his best friend Etienne.

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles; and, various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands.

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, persuade her to accept the romantic advances of a much older man. To save face, Fanny accepts to marry Honoré Panisse, a rich merchant of the Vieux Port, 30 years her senior who will recognize her son.

Nicolás is a young man that lives with his parents in the country. He falls in love with María, but their love affair has a tragic end.

Brigitte and Xavier are a couple of cattle farmers living and working together in Normandy. They have always got on well but now that their two children have left the household routine and weariness have set in. One night, Brigitte, who has been invited to a party by a group of Parisians in the house next to their farm, lets herself be wooed by Stan, a witty, cool attractive young man. Some time later, giving a visit to a dermatologist as an excuse, she goes to Paris to meet him. (imdb)

Two old friends are traveling to India to save the life of one of them.

Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth (imdb)

A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman's life in the 19th-century. (imdb)

Today is Ariane's birthday and she is more alone than ever in her lovely home. The candles are lit on the cake, but the guests have apologized, for they won't be coming. So Ariane gets in her lovely car and leaves her lovely suburb to get lost in the big city.

Three grown children gathered at the picturesque villa of their dying father reflect on where they are, who they have become, and what they have inherited. (imdb)

Ernest Toussaint, a renowned architect, lives for his work and - it could even be said - hides in it. He has a life companion, Victoire, in whom he only takes a distracted interest. (imdb)

After six years of undercover work in Syria, French intelligence officer Malotru returns home, where he struggles to forget his undercover identity, train a young recruit, and investigate when a colleague disappears in Algeria. (imdb)

In Marseille, a family gathers for the birth of baby Gloria. But despite the joy, the young parents have fallen on tough times. As they try to make ends meet, they reconnect with Gloria's ex-convict grandfather. (imdb)

In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.

Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.

Tony, a withdrawn school bus driver in his fifties, lives alone after abandoning his wife and child twenty years earlier. Shaken by a heart attack, he finds the courage to confront his past and enroll incognito in the dance class led by his daughter, whom he has never met, in order to win her back and give meaning to his life.

Four friends. Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four modern guys, stable and immature, at a turning point in their lives. This particular spring, various events normal in any life – the death of a father, a wife’s infidelity, a daughter’s wedding – bring them even closer together. (https://en.unifrance.org/movie/23751/frenchmen)

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of offences the opportunity to dialogue through secure systems, supervised by professionals and volunteers such as Judith, Fanny or Michel. Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, sentenced for theft with violence, Gregoire, Nawelle and Sabine, victims of home jacking, robbery and purse snatching.

A private investigator (nicknamed Octopus) travels to the small town of Angernaud to collect the money he spent for the reconstruction of his family grave after it was vandalized by a group of young people. He seeks them out one by one but every time he finds the person dead. When he learns that a drunkard Scotsman, a local celebrity and an extreme right politician are involved and all signs lead to a boat in the harbor, he calls in his sidekick Pedro for reinforcement. (imdb)

A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life, she decides to quit everything and start afresh. (imdb)

Juliette, 35, an illustrator of children's books, returns to the place where she grew up to spend a fortnight in the company of those closest to her: a father who is a bit of a lunatic, a sister who has other things to worry about between her kids, her job, her doddering husband and her lover, a mother who is nowhere to be seen and a grandmother who is losing her mind. Buried memories, things left unsaid and family secrets rise to the surface.

Camille, a 12-year-old circus enthusiast, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents join a religious community based on sharing and solidarity, in which they are fully involved. The young girl has to accept a way of life that challenges her desires and her own torments. Little by little, the group becomes sectarian. Camille must fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.

Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve. (imdb)

Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they get to know each other. Jean is touched by the complicity that nurtures their relationship and discovers the joy of being together. (imdb)

This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdown. During a journey to Asia, where Tina attempts rediscover her zest for life, Franck gradually becomes indispensable as a guide, traveling companion and, soon, friend... Will Tina eventually fall in love with him ? (imdb)

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one. (imdb)

Pierre, a sixty-year-old technician on an offshore oil rig, has become a misanthropic loner. He had a wife but she died after a breakdown whose seriousness he had more or less deliberately overlooked. He had a lover, beautiful concert pianist Florence, but he left her without giving her any explanations. Now his only life companion is an alley cat he has adopted. (imdb)