Benjamin Lavernhe

Les Misérables (2026)

After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man. He seeks redemption by reinventing himself as a respected dignitary under a new identity. He promises Fantine, a dying factory worker, to rescue and protec ...

Not All Men, But... (2025)

Simone, a cop with conservative ideas, infiltrates a feminist collective. However, her cover is thin. To divert attention and get out of this bad situation, Simone finds nothing better than to randomly accuse a man of having raped her. ...

Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024)

Through the streets of World War I Paris, Italian bohemian artist Modigliani attempts to outmaneuver bombs, policemen, girlfriends, and critics in a increasingly desperate search of a home for his art. ...

The Marching Band (2024)

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest. ...

40 (2024)

Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+. ...

Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion (2023)

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless. ...

Brecht & Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 (2023)

Theater director Thomas Ostermeier stages Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's timelessly magnificent "Threepenny Opera" with the ensemble of the Comédie Française in Aix-en-Provence, based on a new translation of the original text by Alexandre Pateau. In Lon ...

Jeanne du Barry (2023)

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress. ...

Grand Expectations (2023)

Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their f ...

In a Better World (2022)

On the road of Briançon, David's car hits a young immigrant chased by the police. Instinctively, David hides him into the boot, and brings him to his home with his wife Gabrielle and his two children. Upset by this teenager's fate, David will help him by ...

The Sixth Child (2022)

Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement. ...

The Accusation (2021)

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 model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris ...

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef. ...

Delicious (2021)

France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very firs ...

Canal+ Replay (2021)

Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings. ...

La Comédie-Française chante Gainsbourg (2021)

Le Show de Noël Must Go On (2020)

Hosted by French comedian Manu Payet, here to cheer you up for Christmas in such hard times. ...

My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cév ...

The Speech (2020)

Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for h ...

La Comédie-Française chante à l'Interlope (2020)

La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan (2020)

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (2020)

In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death ...

Les Fourberies de Scapin (2020)

Électre / Oreste (2019)

Curiosa (2019)

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier. ...

Love at Second Sight (2019)

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him. ...

The Revelations 2018 (2018)

For its 12th edition, the Révélations project called on Deniz Gamze Ergüven whose camera in Mustang, her first film awarded the César in 2016 and nominated for the Oscars the same year, was able to highlight the freedom and audacity of an indocile yout ...

C'est la vie! (2017)

Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micro ...

Les Fourberies de Scapin (2017)

The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. Faced with two authoritarian fathers, two sons, both of whom are thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, who is driven by a mad desire for reveng ...

Love Is Dead (2016)

Mathias Lonisse, founder of the company Love is Dead, is a breakup specialist. He is hired to break up relationships on behalf of those who, for one reason or another, prefer to avoid this often painful and delicate task. Mathias takes his job very serious ...

The Odyssey (2016)

The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life. ...

Un entretien (2016)

The Sense of Wonder (2015)

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought. ...

The Sweet Escape (2015)

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 Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak. ...

SK1 (2015)

The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers. ...

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran (2015)

Ictus érotique (2015)

Although Alain and Alice are a couple, they live at different homes separately: he wants to engage in a family life, she wants to build through her professional life. On the occasion of a classic romantic ski trip, an incident will disrupt all their plans ...

Number One Fan (2014)

Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knock on her door and ask for her help. ...

Nice and Easy (2014)

Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to ...

The Marchers (2013)

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resis ...

Going Away (2013)

Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama. ...

The Revelations 2013 (2013)

The academy highlights these young talents in order to help its members with the difficult choice of nominations for the César for Most Promising actor and actress. Directed by photographer Dominique Issermann, who knows how to sublimate her models so we ...

Radiostars (2012)

Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefe ...