Michel Blanc
An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest. When an illustrious guest seeks refuge in the apartment, the family’s dynamics change.
Director: Lionel Baier
Actors: Dominique Reymond, Michel Blanc, William Lebghil, Aurélien Gabrielli, Liliane Rovère
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
Director: Gérard Jugnot
Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Patrick Timsit, Anémone, Gérard Darmon, Victoria Abril
Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
Director: Mélanie Auffret
Actors: Michel Blanc, Julia Piaton, Lionel Abelanski, Marie Bunel, Marie-Pierre Casey
The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor. She's despondent when he treats her as if she were a child. After Marie's father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to assist with a relative's harvest, Marie's mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When dad returns, what will the family and the doctor do?
Director: Jeanne Moreau
Actors: Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Laetitia Chauveau, Edith Clever, Jacques Weber
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
Director: Daniel Daert
Actors: Nicole Chomo, Christian Duroc, Pierre Forget, François Guillaume, Catherine Laborde
This series of sketches introduces doctor ApfelglĂĽck and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
Director: Thierry Lhermitte
Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Ticky Holgado, Martin Lamotte, Charlotte de Turckheim, Alain Chabat
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.
Director: Jean-Michel Ribes
Actors: Michel Blanc, Victoria Abril, Pierre Arditi, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Damien Barbin
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Director: Alain Corneau
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Eric Cantona
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
Director: Claude Miller
Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu, Michel Blanc
Pour Véronique et Pierre, c'est un drôle de samedi : les rencontres insolites et les événements imprévisibles se succèdent...
Director: Tunç Okan
Actors: Francis Huster, Carole Laure, Jacques Villeret, Michel Blanc, Catherine Alric
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.
Director: Jean-Luc Voulfow
Actors: Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru, Rabah Loucif, Pierre Mondy, Pierre Bertin
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an all-star cast.
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Chiara Mastroianni, Kim Basinger
Un réalisateur sans beaucoup d'expérience souhaite tourner un film pornographique.
Director: Gérard Pirès
Actors: Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Darras, André Pousse, Daniel Auteuil
Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to get himself hired for a trial research trip to Morocco, but he rapidly comes to realise that he’s seriously underestimated the job… Beguiled by Sofia, a feisty tourist guide, Yann gets swept up in an art trafficking operation led by the infamous mobster art dealer Dr Charoux and is plunged into an adventure where nothing will go as planned!
Director: Philippe Mechelen
Actors: Hakim Jemili, Christian Clavier, Michel Blanc, Manon Azem, Fred Testot
In a comedy that is dead-in-the-water, a disconnected series of events serves as a framework for Jerry Lewis to put on his stock-in-trade mugging act. He plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
Director: Michel Gérard
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, Charlotte de Turckheim, Michel Peyrelon, Gérard Hérold
Je vous présente la piece de theatre et non le film de "nuit d'ivresse" avec josiane balasko et michel blanc. Le pitch du film : "Jacques Belin, un célèbre présentateur de jeu télévisé, vient de recevoir un Dandy d'Or. Cette récompense vient couronner l'oeuvre de sa vie. Parti fêter ça, il rencontre Simone dans un bar, un de ces bistrots de gare ouverts toute la nuit. Il est seul, un peu saoul. Elle attend un train. Elle est assez vulgaire, alors que lui se croit chic. Tout juste sortie de prison, elle semble complètement paumée et ne reconnaît pas son compagnon de beuverie. Celui-ci y voit l'opportunité de trouver une oreille attentive, sincère et objective à ses bavardages. Ensemble, entre minuit et six heures du matin, ils vont vivre une folle nuit d'ivresse..."
Director: Alain Dhenaut
Actors: Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko, Jean-François Dérec
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...
Director: Roberto Benigni
Actors: Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Director: Patrice Leconte
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Catherine Jacob, Michel Blanc
À la suite d’un accident de voiture, quatre hommes se retrouvent à l’hôpital, où ils sèment la zizanie. Pendant ce temps, leurs épouses profitent pleinement de leur liberté retrouvée…
Director: Jean-François Davy
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Anna Karina, Christine Pascal, Michel Galabru, Bernard Haller
Il y a 55 ans, le 1er octobre 1968, le premier spot de publicité de marque débarquait sur le petit écran des Français. Durant trois décennies, des milliers de petits films créatifs vont séduire et construire la mémoire collective. Spots kitchs ou cultes, humour, slogans, musiques, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle ou sex-appeal : durant son âge d'or, comment la pub s'y prenait-elle pour convaincre ? Près de 400 clips publicitaires, véritables madeleines à déguster, sont ici réunis, racontés par Thierry Ardisson, pour revivre cette époque de conquête des esprits et des portefeuilles.
Director: Matthieu Jaubert
Actors: Thierry Ardisson, William Leymergie, Alex Métayer, Jacques Duby, François Berléand
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end of the year holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to reconnect with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years. The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of contention: CHRISTMAS. This family feud, which should never have left Bouzolles, will turn into a standoff between Jeff and a giant of Internet distribution.
Director: Olivier Baroux
Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Michel Blanc, Claire Nadeau, Sarah Stern
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
Director: Coluche
Actors: Coluche, Dominique Lavanant, Anémone, Martin Lamotte, Michel Blanc
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
Director: Charles Némès
Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Daniel Auteuil, Anne Jousset, Henri Guybet, Patricia Karim
Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.
Director: Julien Guetta
Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Grégoire Ludig, Marie Gillain, Michel Blanc, Satya Dusaugey
Account of a film director's brief affair with a young neighbour, and his involvement in the social and political ramifications of a tenancy dispute in an apartment block. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative block, enters into an affair with the much-younger Anne (Christine Pascal).
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Actors: Christine Pascal, Michel Piccoli, Michel Aumont, Gérard Jugnot, Arlette Bonnard
Quand on a vingt ans ou à peu près, que l'on vit en banlieue, que l'on s'y ennuie, que l'on y respire mal aussi, alors quand le dimanche arrive, on va a la campagne prendre un bol d'air. Mais quand on est quatre garçons et qu'il n'y a que deux filles, que l'on ne sait pas très bien que faire ni comment faire, quand finalement, on brusque les choses, alors on effarouche les filles et chacun rentre piteusement chez soi. Deux filles accompagnent à un pique-nique quatre garçons, qui n'ont qu'une idée en tête... mais tout ne va pas se passer comme prévu.
Director: Charles Nemes
Actors: Marie-Anne Chazel, Valérie Mairesse, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Michel Blanc
Gaston Dominici écoute avec attention le commissaire Sébeille lui expliquer que son grand âge lui fait encourir une peine bien moindre que ses fils s'ils venaient à être inculpés. Aussi, le vieil homme ébranlé décide de se laisser accuser et avoue le triple meurtre à un gendarme. Quant à ses fils, Gustave et Clovis, ils s'empressent de signer les papiers dénonçant leur père. Si le premier est plutôt faible et influençable, le second, en revanche, se venge ainsi, à sa manière, de son géniteur, qui a toujours refusé de lui donner son lopin de terre à cultiver. Bientôt, la gendarmerie organise une reconstitution du crime avant de reconduire Gaston en prison...
Director: Pierre Boutron
Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Blanc, Thomas Jouannet, Bruno Slagmulder, Julie Delarme
In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
Director: Gérard Pirès
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernadette Lafont, Mireille Darc, Lea Massari, Claude Piéplu
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?
Director: André Téchiné
Actors: Michel Blanc, Catherine Deneuve, Émilie Dequenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Mathieu Demy
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.
Director: Philomène Esposito
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Hippolyte Girardot, Clémentine Célarié, Fabrice Luchini, Sergio Castellitto