Josiane Balasko

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing...

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel...

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the...

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games,...

After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye,...

Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He...

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...

Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various...

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...

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive...

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on...

Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is...

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...

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of...

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...

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his...

Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to...

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...

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments...

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do...

Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement...

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

When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the...

Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play...

"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel,...

After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find himself...

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

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

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and...

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is...

An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.

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

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....

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with...

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce....

The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In...

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the...

Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between...

25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He...

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She...

This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian...

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

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

Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society...

Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge...

Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.

A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure....

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,...

This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most...

A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

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

When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she...

Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile Attilem, a new genetically...

A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.

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...

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...

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt....

Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of...

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Sylvie, Corinne and Sophie all live in the same accommodation in Paris. The first sells clothes on the steps. The second works in a factory...

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he...

Françoise and Jean-Jacques Lombard, very wealthy tax exiles whose fortune is based on the inventions of their husbands, are preparing to...

At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and...

In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next...

Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her...

A bunch of actors (mixed theater gangs from Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid) are reunited in a movie theater to watch an anonymous porn...

At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment,...

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le...

While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family are occupied with their...

It's Julie's birthday but she seems to be the only one who remembers... Until Marco, the man she secretly loves, calls her and tells her he's going...

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

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

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and...

An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of...

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a...

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in...

In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to...

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a...

Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another...

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with...

Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely...

In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in...

A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.

Five women are about to give birth. They do not know each other, are not alike, but will find themselves in the same maternity to live the best day...

When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only...

Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.

In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly...

A writer must face the sudden death of his father, but after the burial, the latter reappears to him. He will have to learn to live with this...

For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist...

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to...

Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her...

Parents with empty nest syndrome find a clever way to make their kids stay interested: winning the lottery.

A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.

Seeking medical advice to lose a few pounds, a woman lands up finding out about the usefulness of a computer, not just for her diet but also for...