Josiane Balasko

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.

Tom est un romancier populaire à succès. Il va bientôt se remarier. Cependant, il rencontre dans un restaurant son épouse précédente. Elle est visiblement sans un sou, sans domicile et enceinte de sept mois et demi. Elle lui demande de l'aide. Tom décide de l'héberger. Rapidement, son ex-femme et son amie psychiatre envahissent son domicile.

An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...

Gigi a tout pour plaire aux femmes et au fisc : une clinique vétérinaire, unegrosse cylindree, une belle maison, ainsi que la vie mondaine qui se doit d'accompagner ces biens matériaux. Un beau jour tranquille, une inspectrice des Impôts, dont c'est le premier contrôle, débarque chez lui...

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.

Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.

Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.

A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.

After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew face, face with the help of Françoise Dolto, the demons that haunt them.

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.

Fanny, 30 years old and pregnant, is exhausted from living with her father alongside Virgil, her partner who’s a master of procrastination. When she stumbles upon a rent-to-own listing for a charming Parisian apartment with vintage appeal, she begins to believe she’s found her chance to finally turn her life around. But the saleswoman, Masséna, is far from fitting the image of a fragile, dying property owner. Determined to seize what she sees as her chance at independence, Fanny launches into a ruthless war against the woman she perceives as a calculating con artist.

25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.

The film tells the story of Michelle, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a charming Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. She eagerly anticipates her grandson Lucas spending the school vacation with her, but things don’t go as planned. Feeling lonely, Michelle loses her sense of purpose, until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.

A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.

Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.

Cinq femmes s’apprêtent à accoucher. Elles ne se connaissent pas, ne se ressemblent pas, mais vont se retrouver dans la même maternité pour vivre le plus beau jour de leur vie. Des premières contractions à la naissance, le film retrace leur parcours, entre rires et larmes.

Sylvie, Corinne et Sophie habitent toutes les trois, dans le même logement, à Paris. La premiere vend des vêtements sur les marches. La seconde travaille dans le restaurant d'une usine et la troisieme, est divorcée, a un enfant et fait des petits boulots...

Ce jour-là, Blanche enterre son mari, Camille, que tout le monde aimait bien dans le village de Savoie où elle tient un bistrot, "L'Étape", avec sa fille, la volubile Louise. Laquelle a fait mettre un téléphone portable dans le cercueil de son père pour que sa mère puisse... le joindre à tout moment. Parmi les habitués de "L'Étape", il y a La Puce, fils d'ivrogne et alcoolique lui-même, à qui les deux femmes reprochent de fréquenter aussi le bar concurrent de Louise Chevrier, "Le Virage", de l'autre côté de la route nationale. Habituée à recueillir des enfants brisés, Louise, qui croit au pouvoir des mots pour soigner les douleurs, a aussi un nouveau pensionnaire, Julien, réfugié dans son mutisme.

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovered the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power. A year earlier, Figon, tired of dubious deals and petty scams, is looking for a juicy blow. Close to the "middle" since his years in prison, he was given a large mission: to produce a documentary about decolonization, written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju, with the help of the famous Moroccan opponent Mehdi Ben Barka, hired as a historical consultant. This film project is a trap ...

Leah Lemonnier , 35 ans, mène une vie morne et déprimante, entre son travail de secrétaire d'un dentiste qui passe son temps à la houspiller, son analyste qui ne voit en elle qu'une source de revenus, son voisin obsédé sexuel et fêtard, et sa mère égoïste, avare, méprisante et narcissique. Mais un jour, elle invoque sans le vouloir un séduisant démon, Abargadon, qui lui propose un pacte : il se met à son service jusqu'à sa mort en échange de son âme... Léah signe le pacte, bientôt annulé par l'intervention de l'archange Gabriel, qui annonce à Abargadon qu'il s'est trompé de proie. La vie de Léah et de son compagnon va alors devenir un enfer.

While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending “a few days” with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy. These “few days” turn into “a few months”. Jacqueline quickly feels at home. She prepares dinners, monopolizes the television, reorganizes the kitchen... She is here, and no one knows for how long!