Catherine Lachens

Molière's Last Stage (2024)

Royal Palace Theatre, Paris . February 17th 1673, the King's theatre group is playing « Le Malade Imaginaire » when Moliere started spitting blood, but he takes the decision to keep playing until the end. During his agony, he let enter in the theatre a ...

French Cuisine (2015)

François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quar ...

Bright Days Ahead (2013)

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Espec ...

Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur (2012)

A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem, he makes believe for several years to ... ...

À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

One Fine Day, a Hairdresser (2004)

How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills? ...

Confession of a Dredger (2001)

During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One afternoon, while the eye follows a young girl he had noticed for several days, he made the acquaintance of F ...

It's Hard Killing Someone Even on a Monday (2001)

Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous. ...

French Twist (1995)

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 same again. ...

The Beautiful Story (1992)

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are ju ...

The Maid (1991)

A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank. ...

Le Cri du cochon (1991)

On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse. ...

Le Sixième Doigt (1990)

Venetian Red (1989)

Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats of pickpockets who practice their craft each, displaying a colorful rainbow and sounds. At every corner, t ...

The Two Crocodiles (1987)

A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble. ...

Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986)

A radiant young sex worker thrives amidst the clients of Paris's Les Halles under the protectiveness of her pimp. Her carefully balanced existence unravels when she meets a working‑class man and falls in love, forcing her to confront the emotional and so ...

The Blood of Others (1984)

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection. ...

Swann in Love (1984)

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him. ...

Pauvre Eros (1983)

A man decides to use the classifieds to replace his mistress who left him. ...

It Could Be Worse (1983)

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up. ...

The Prize of Peril (1983)

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television. ...

Bad Hats (1982)

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and they end up on the coast of France, close to the fighting they wanted to leave behind. Once on shore, they m ...

On s'en fout… nous on s'aime (1982)

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Two Lions in the Sun (1980)

Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go on vacations together. This last vacation has been a washout and so is their return. ...

The Other One's Mug (1979)

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, h ...

The Medic (1979)

The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting. ...

Le Divorcement (1979)

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Th ...

Dumb But Disciplined (1979)

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance. ...

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he bec ...

Cop or Hood (1979)

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police co ...

Too Shy to Try (1978)

Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model ...

These Sorcerers Are Mad (1978)

Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leu ...

Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)

In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and ...

Monsieur Papa (1977)

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

Dis bonjour à la dame !.. (1977)

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert ...

Violette & Francois (1977)

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal. ...

The Gang (1977)

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will ...

Silence... We're Shooting (1976)

Monsieur Albert (1976)

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noi ...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)

A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie. ...

Winter Is Approaching (1976)

An intimate report on Paris. A heavy, mysterious night-time Paris: that of a young homosexual wandering the streets in search of desire. ...

Incorrigible (1975)

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is ...

Flic Story (1975)

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampag ...

The arrest (1975)

A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people's lives. ...

Ariane (1974)

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur. ...

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped. ...

What a Flash! (1972)

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. Improvisatio ...