Lionel Abelanski

For years, friends and actors Maurice, Sami, Simon, Elie, and Edouard have been waiting for their big break. The future looks bright when famous American director Rudolph Grichenberg (Coyote) offers Maurice the part of Shylock in his Yiddish screen adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice". But his fortunes reverse quickly when Maurice learns that his beloved wife Perla is seriously ill. With his friends' help, Maurice takes on the greatest role of his life, and in playing his part, illuminates the meaning of art, love, and truth. (First Run Features)

This haunting and powerful comedy is both the story of a village's dream and a suspenseful tale of great escape. (Paramount Classics)

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)

A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm). (imdb)

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system. Museum curator Faussier (Jean-Francois Balmer) brings in a noted Egyptologist, Glenda Spencer, to examine the findings, and she announces that the mummy inside the coffin was actually the evil spirit Belphegor. (imdb)

One is too shy to start a relationship, other too unsettled to stay in one. Will their friendship help them to find the right woman for both? (imdb)

A young couple have just bought a house, but the young man will soon discover that it is haunted by five disco-addicted poltergeists who party all night in his basement.

Andrei Filipov, former conductor of the Bolshoi of Moscow, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians and therefore become a family man. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. (Wikipedia)

Jean-Claude is a 50 year old bailiff who lives alone and has a boring life. At weekend he usually visits his rude, old father in the retirement home. But then he takes tango lessons and meets the beautiful Françoise.

As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Rouve). (rottentomatoes.com)

Tour organizer, Richard Dacier, bites off more than he can chew when he loses at poker to the South African mob. Coming face to face with Africa's cruellest Godfather, Mr. Charles, he is given two choices: either Charles' men kill Bako, or add an extra tourist to his upcoming safari and ensure the safe delivery of a locked briefcase. A simple task it seems... (imdb)

Delphine and Yvan's love story told by Thierry Roland and Jean-Michel Larqué like a soccer game broadcast. (imdb)

a man wins in lottery and everybody changes... till to the end.

Adapted from a hugely popular French comic strip, this traces the adventures of a boy and his dog - a familiar tale, except this time we get to see it all from the dog's point of view. Bill the red cocker spaniel is languishing in the pound when a red-headed boy appears - they're fated to be together.

Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife. (imdb)

When he receives a call from Sheriff Bornsville announcing the coffin Pamela Rose has been stolen, Douglas Riper agent sees an opportunity to reconnect with former teammate Richard Bullit. A former friend with whom he quarreled for years, following an unfortunate history of women and Fuego. The two former glories FBI has-beens become pure, so gather to investigate the desecration, without knowing that they are actually drawn into a trap by a man who wants them much. (Allocine)

Kim Huang and Michel Boudriau are two cops "life to death" since they are crossed at the orphanage. Michel Boudriau is a very marked by the Catholic education he received at the orphanage cop. This salutary lesson, he retained values ​​that honor the police .

18 February 2010 The whole world discovered the front page of every newspaper photos of Israeli Mossad agents caught assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior official of the Palestinian Hamas, a month earlier in Dubai. Against all odds, it is the leaders of the Mossad who are most surprised by this revelation, knowing with certainty that those responsible for the operation are not part of their ranks.

On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose. (imdb)

Jean-François, a psychoanalyst, is in love with one of his patients. However, when she decides to stop his therapy, things begin to go awry. (imdb)

Eric, a second-rate sitcom producer, and Fred, the "star" of the series, find a call girl dead after an erotic game gone wrong. Shocked, they agree to try and make the body disappear. Unfortunately Benoit, the young intern of the team, recorded Fred and Eric's secret pact. Now taking advantage of his position of strength, he decides to blackmail the two men while gradually becoming their accomplice.

Biography based on the life of conman Gilbert Chikli who invented the "CEO scam" and was able to persuade bank and company officers to transfer money by simply ringing them and impersonating their CEO. He is now living in luxury in Israel. (imdb)

One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater. (imdb)

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them. (letterboxd.com)

What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer in Brittany? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when, back to the wall, he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole .

A sexual revolution starts in an internment center when an empathetic caretaker takes seriously the claim of a quadriplegic rude and nasty man to visit a prostitute. Should we all be granted sexual rights? (imdb)

Short film by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano.

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.

On New Year's Eve, Oulage is determined to take the plunge. He will finally seduce Brigitte who organized a costume party in her parents' house. (imdb)

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best! (imdb)

Dumped for a younger man by his 80- year old lady friend, an aging gigolo enlists his preteen nephew to help find his next millionaire. (imdb)

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

A doctor is shot in the back in her home, her husband is murdered and her infant daughter kidnapped. Faced with inept police, who at times suspect her, she begins her own hunt for her baby and the culprits. (imdb)

Maxime, an ambitious, Cartesian executive, thinks of nothing but his career and his future marriage to Nadège, his boss's daughter. On the verge of burn-out, and the only person who doesn't realise it, he finds himself caught up in his worst nightmare by his future father-in-law Romain... A wellbeing course run by Clara and Luc, a couple of 'clairvoyants', with trainees each more lunar than the last.

A quick-tempered 60-year-old man in a French village who decides to go to school to finally learn to read and write and a busy young teacher tasked with educating him.

Lawyer suffering from a condition preventing him from lying takes a cross-country road trip in France. Musical fantasy blending trumpet and piano. Original Ibrahim Maalouf soundtrack. (imdb)

Lea opens an agency where anybody can rent her to play the part the clients need: :a daughter, a girlfriend, a customer--you name it.. (imdb)

A married couple planned on spending the year traveling abroad. Instead, their 27-year-old daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and move in, derailing any plans for the big trip. (imdb)

To regain the one he loves and his children, Alex Meyer, composer and director of musicals, hard hit by his marital breakdown dating back three years, decides to rebuild himself. (imdb)