Alain Beigel

L'Homme debout (2023)

Clémence Alpharo, who, in order to get a permanent contract in the company that has just hired her, must push Henri Giffard, a sales representative at the end of his career, towards early retirement. But Giffard refuses. His work is the only thing that st ...

The Apparition (2018)

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village. ...

A Woman's Life (2016)

Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Lit ...

In Her Name (2016)

In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autop ...

1992 (2016)

It's 1992. Martin is 17 and he films his daily life with his Hi8 camera. He films anything and everything—his room, the world around him... But never his father, the thought doesn't occur to him. One day he meets Dominique. He's 23 and works as a student ...

My King (2015)

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. ...

Blood from a Stone (2012)

The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees. ...

En marge des jours (2007)

Loser Takes All! (2004)

Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks h ...

Those Facing Us (2001)

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is trave ...

Milestones (1999)

Following the death of their best friend, four guys and the dead men's sister steal his body and burn it on a beach in Italy to fulfill his last wish. ...

Mauvais Genre (1997)

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings ...

Romaine (1997)

First adventure : Romaine takes a holiday alone because she doesn't have any friends and meets three lumbering guys, a bald one, a fat one and one with grey hair. So what... Second adventure : Romaine wants to go on a course because she has no passions in ...

Au petit Marguery (1995)

Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can't cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. B ...

Corps inflammables (1995)

Juliette loves Bruno, but he does not notice. Perhaps because he is mad about Corinne, and Corinne is not aware of it. She does not seem to love anybody, but she has an affair with Luc. Luc is gay, and he wonders how to tell Bruno he loves him. ...

Le bus (1995)

A short feature forming part of the COURS-Y-VITE programme. ...

Le cri coupé (1994)

In 1869, while investigating gruesome murders, a detective allies himself with a success-hungry newspaper editor. ...

A Bottle of Wishes (1994)

4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcen ...

Ce que femme veut... (1993)

Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike Pierre, who dreads the prospect of fatherhood... That is when Isabelle, an ex of Pierre's, turns up. Like Pierre, s ...

À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop (1992)

The film tells the story of a group of pensioners desperate to visit Le Mont-Saint-Michel. ...

Un type bien (1991)

Tonton (aged 59, with a weak heart), drives his taxi by day. By night, his nephew Jules takes the wheel. They adore each other. This evening, however, Tonton is celebrating his sixtieth birthday in the bar on the corner; for the first time ever, Jules miss ...

The Party 2 (1982)

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it. ...

The Party (1980)

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce. ...

Naturally (2002)

A modest and run-of-the mill early-middle aged couple, Sandra and Benoit, travel to a vacation house in southern France, to spend some holidays with friends. When they arrive, they find that all their companions live completely according to nature; that is ...

Milestones (1999)

Following the death of their best friend, four guys and the dead men's sister steal his body and burn it on a beach in Italy to fulfill his last wish. ...