Pierre Arditi

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)

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. (imdb)

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend... (imdb)

Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous implications of life in showbiz as told by a variety of real-life French actors. (Tracie Cooper, Rovi)

Prof. Henri Laborit (played by himself) uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety... (imdb)

Six people collide and influence each other's lives in significant ways as they navigate the cold winter months in Paris. (IFC Films)

Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France. (imdb)

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the movie which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. (Wikipedia)

A Polish writer, disillusioned with the current political system, attends an event organized by former radicals. He soon finds himself in the middle of a protest he doesn't support which could destroy his livelihood.

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends... (imdb)

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband... (imdb)

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

A faux-documentary made by extraterrestrials about humans. (imdb)

Blaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith. (imdb)

The Classic tale from Alexandre Dumas. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego. (imdb)

A seven year old 'child' (played by an adult) decides to leave school declaring that listening to the other pupils discussing their studies for a while has allowed him to acquire enough knowledge. (bfi.org.uk)

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage...(imdb)

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

Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three rather gorgeous women live there, and old Guillaume is a randy old stoat. (imdb)

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her. (imdb)

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)

Gaspard lives in Paris and has an ex-wife and a career as a well-respected novelist. However, he is thoroughly bored with his life and is also short of funds for paying alimony. He decides to go to Brittany to visit his goofy brother and renew his ongoing affair with his brother's wife. Paul is equally at loggerheads with his life as a schoolteacher and is tired of forever adoring his wife and getting a cool response from her in return. On a whim, the two men decide to change places. (Allmovie)

Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. Gégé, his loyal friend, advises him to make money quickly, or face the consequences. But Fred, at this moment, has other ideas in his head. He is obsessed with his young ex, BB. Fred, without her, sees no reason to keep going. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts. He agrees to kill a man. (imdb)

A curator terrified of green plants, a ballet of Virgin Saints, a minister of Culture lost in an exhibition of sex organs, a car that has disappeared in the Rembrandt car park, visitors in love with the Impressionists, Gilbert and George, Picasso, Gauguin and Warhol - all are connected with an art museum. (imdb)

In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town. Among the suspects for this increasingly damaging activity are a cynical journalist and an unusually honest cop. The story proceeds to a climax in the town's church, while the increasingly vituperative townspeople clash with one another. (Allrovi)

In the large drawing room, the butler welcomes some friends whom the playwright, now deceased, asked to be summoned for the reading of his will and who all responded to the request. These 13 actors previously performed in his plays, including one in particular who was considered outstanding in her time. But is she still? (mubi.com)

For inspector Baroni,Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife. (imdb)

One sunny winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed. But this is not a straightforward road accident; it is an execution authorised by someone high up in the interest of national security. The only witness to the mass killing is Victorien, who saw that the passengers were gassed before they drowned....

In this star-laden slice-of-life comedy set in France, workers ponder a sign reading "Lonely Man" that hangs out the office facing theirs, a mix of visitors traverse the town square and the clerks of a local shop commingle with their patrons. (netflix)

Alex, entered the Legion to escape a debt owed to the Corsican Mafia ... 4 years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseille to find Katia, his love of youth.

Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. (imdb)

Newly wed couple, Clementine and Sebastien, are forced to welcome Sebastien's mother into their flat. (imdb)

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle. (imdb)

God writes a screenplay and goes to earth to find someone to make the film. (imdb)

Thanks to the law of 1948 and to her grandmother, the nominal tenant who is always absent, Francesca and all of her family and friends live on a shoestring in a very big apartment. This is not to the liking of supercilious owner Charlotte, who has been intent for some time on having them evicted for obvious speculative reasons.

Gaspard, famous television presenter, is starting the decline of his career. Along with dealing with his aging, must lodge Hubert, his elderly and rebellious father. Hubert hates all attendants hired for him until Zana enters their lives (imdb)

Jean Nevers is a solitary middle-aged bachelor whose apartment is next to that of Cora Elbaz, an erotic dancer who lives alone with her five year old son Antoine. (imdb)

Documentary about a murder case in early 20th Century Le Havre, France, in which Jules Durand, a member of the workers union at the time, was unjustly convicted.

A couple in crisis. He, disillusioned, sees his life upset the day an entrepreneur offers him to plunge back into the time of his choice. (imdb)

Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak. (imdb)

Delphine passes herself off as her boss's lover. (imdb)

A psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer is brutally shot while his wife is standing over him with a revolver in her hand. (imdb)

A young man is accused of raping a young woman.

In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends? Without Alceste's croissants, Agnan's glasses, Clotaire's mischief, far from their beloved wasteland? Helped by his friend

His name is Alphonse and he lives in France. "I'm here, ladies, to satisfy all your desires, even the most unavowable. All of them. I'll become whoever you want: your childhood sweetheart, your idol, your pet or your tormentor. Whatever your looks or age, you'll be the most beautiful woman in the world," he promises, for a fee to be negotiated.

Sketch comedy about the life in a luxury hotel, through its staff and guests. (imdb)