Christian Charmetant

Les Héros du Louvre (2026)

Purplemind (2021)

Sally aka Purplemind, a telepath who once founded a superhero collective, now lives in a retirement home. Interviewed by a journalist who wants to write her biography, Purplemind looks back on her past. The traumatic discovery of her powers in the 90s, the ...

Vagabondes (2019)

Au revoir… et merci ! (2018)

Do Not Disturb (2014)

Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a ...

La Trouvaille de Juliette (2014)

Torpédo (2012)

Michel Ressac wins a dinner with cyclist legend Eddy Merckx in an advertising campaign to promote the sales of sofas and hopes that he can do his own father, who is a huge cycling fan, a favour. But unfortunately he arrives too late at the dinner. Ressac t ...

Le piège afghan (2011)

A doctor on a French military base in Afghanistan, Nadia, in her thirties, works for the coalition of major Western powers. When she is sent on a mission to a village in a strategic location, her convoy falls into an ambush. Nadia and a soldier of Tajik or ...

Beauties at War (2009)

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot. ...

Le Cactus (2005)

Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated ...

93, rue Lauriston (2004)

93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On t ...

Clara and Me (2004)

Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. All his loneli ...

L'empreinte de l'ange (2004)

In a highly civilized society of the future, a capsule is sent on an expedition, in search of parallel universes. Astronaut Oria will soon realize that, beyond this ultimate frontier, no human proportion can anymore be conceived: the creature she's been ri ...

Marie's Children (2002)

During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly. ...

The High Life (2001)

On a hospital bed, Marcello is plunged into a deep coma. His guardian angel asks the angel in charge of bringing him back to the afterlife to extend the contract of his protégé. ...

Harrison's Flowers (2000)

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him. ...

Une femme neuve (2000)

Les Insaisissables (2000)

Romain, a well read and articulate real estate agent, protects his grandmother from a bailiff that wants to seize her property, ...

The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it ...

The Libertine (2000)

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

Marty's World (2000)

One morning Martin Sauvier ten years, said Marty opens the door of the room Berrant Antoine, Permanent resident service geriatrics. This septuagenarian paralyzed and mute most of his time going to search for Alzheimer's is definitely appropriate password. ...

Une journée de merde ! (1999)

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bou ...

Les collègues (1999)

This is the story of a small Marseilles football club on the verge of extinction that ends up in an amateur tournament organised during the World Cup (inevitably referred to as "La Mondialette"). It's their opportunity to save the club. The team, made up o ...

Bimboland (1998)

A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity. ...

Mauvaises affaires (1997)

An investigating judge uncovers a corruption case in which his own politician brother is compromised. ...

A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love (1997)

French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experienced by males in his family. If Zak does not impregnate a woman before his 33rd birthday, the joys of sex ...

Tonka (1997)

A famous sprinter considers quitting competition, when he gets to meet Tonka, an Indian woman living in a big advertising coke can near Roissy Charles De Gaulle airport. She is naturally talented for running, and the sprinter decides to train her to become ...

Pierre and Marie (1997)

A humoristic view of the lives of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity. ...

Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996)

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit ...

Une fille à papas (1996)

An energetic teenager gives a hard time to her father, an artist, and her stepfather, an unemployed executive not very comfortable with young people. ...

News from the Good Lord (1996)

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God. ...

The Liars (1996)

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before loc ...

Boxer (1995)

Patrick, a not so successful boxer, meets Nathaniel - and adventures started. ...

All That... for This?! (1993)

The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples. ...

Pétain (1993)

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial. ...

Le Voleur et la menteuse (1993)

The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head o ...

As in Heaven (1992)

Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother's stories, begins to mix past and future in her imagination, travelling back to the 14th century. ...

The Austrian (1990)

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days. ...

Moitié-moitié (1989)

A man and a woman quarrel over an old building, a heritage they share. Their opposing characters make the situation conflictual. ...

On a volé Charlie Spencer ! (1986)

Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a re ...

Frankenstein 90 (1984)

French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'am ...

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! (1982)

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it. ...

Courage fuyons (1979)

At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful! ...