Charles Gassot

Voir la Mer (2011)

Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it's been a long time, because it would make her happy… There's no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home ...

Agathe Cléry (2008)

Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman. ...

The Very Very Big Company (2008)

Four friends decide to confront a multinational agrochemical company that is polluting their region. They have 30 days to gather evidence. ...

Room of Death (2007)

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discove ...

Minotaur (2006)

Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss ...

Saint-Jacques… La Mecque (2005)

Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth. ...

The Giraffe's Neck (2004)

A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met. ...

Seven Years of Marriage (2003)

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life. ...

At Home with the Rozes (2003)

Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are w ...

If I Were a Rich Man (2002)

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share th ...

He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (2002)

A talented art student named Angélique is passionately in love with Dr. Loïc Le Garrec, a handsome married man whom she believes will leave his wife. When he eventually decides to stay in his marriage, it causes Angélique to spiral. However, as the stor ...

Tanguy (2001)

Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan. ...

Intimacy (2001)

Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventuall ...

Hotel Splendide (2000)

A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa. ...

The Taste of Others (2000)

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the cours ...

Eye of the Beholder (1999)

A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer. ...

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)

A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions ...

Michael Kael vs. the World News Company (1998)

A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term. ...

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 ...

Full Speed (1996)

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with ...

Family Resemblances (1996)

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce. ...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays. ...

Happiness Is in the Field (1995)

Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Ge ...

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 ...

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown. ...

Bad Ronald (1992)

A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family. ...

Auntie Danielle (1990)

Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in wit ...

Broken April (1987)

A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama. ...

Deadly Circuit (1983)

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe. ...

Making of 'La confiance règne' (2005)

A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon. ...

Deadly Circuit (1983)

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe. ...