Pierre Arditi

On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film...

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this...

Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious...

Valentin, the general supervisor of a sub-prefecture cram school, has a strange power: all he has to do is wish for a certain person to turn into a...

Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and...

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”…...

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

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

In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of...

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant...

A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.

What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

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....

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does...

The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French...

Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company...

Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for...

To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would...

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and...

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the...

Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.

In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious...

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes...

In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For...

Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.

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...

Garlat, a former cop, agrees with Voltaire's maxim, but when confronted with evidence manipulation in one of his former investigations, he is forced...

A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and...

Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is...

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.

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...

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

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with...

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book...

Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to...

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not,...

Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their...

Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly,...

A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.

Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play...

A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky...

This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was...

Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.

The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an...

Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to...

A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this...

Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the...

A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and...

Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half...

Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby...

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art?

A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army...

Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the...

Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her...

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...

Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to...

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...

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits...

A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his...

Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in...

A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of...

40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.

Neighbors overcome, Cora and John meet in the favor of an accident - a fall from the balcony of the family apartment - which has suffered the son of...

WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January...

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...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his...

In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.

Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated...

Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth,...

A César award nominated short drama.

A César award nominated short comedy.

Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of...

France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her...

Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take...

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition,...

A boss decide to bring a Ferrari to a footballer and meet on the trip an ex-employee he fired few months ago. Since the boss get stopped by the...

A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.

After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed...

A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming

Christmas? The joy of rejoining the family and spending the most anticipated holiday of the whole year. Seeing family members you haven't seen for a...

She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and...

Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous...

In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it,...

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a...

Outvoted by his board of directors and hounded by the press, the Parisian CEO of a large company finds refuge for the weekend in a country inn run by...

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with...

Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings,...

Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart...

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris,...

Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline...

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love...

Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared...

A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school...

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the...

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate...

2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked...

"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount...

A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But...

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...

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a...

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin....

Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over...

Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger,...

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited...

He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

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

On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to...

A staging of Jean-Claude Grumberg's play "Rêver peut-être" by Jean-Michel Ribes.

A French documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as told by his French voice dubbing actor, Pierre Arditi.