Christine Boisson

Calamity Who? (2015)

Documentary about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter. ...

Coloscopia (2011)

The sublime Jackie Larose, queen of the charm and the eroticism, undergoes an operation of the bowel which leaves her with a colostomy. ...

State Affairs (2009)

A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, ge ...

All About Actresses (2009)

A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game an ...

I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)

Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some fam ...

Une lumière dans la nuit (2008)

During a visit to the Braille Museum in Coupvray, Aurore Blin, a 21-year-old blind woman, is given a signet ring that belonged to her father, who died twelve years earlier in a strange accident. Despite her blindness, the young woman, intrigued, decides to ...

How Much We Hated Each Other (2007)

Paris, 1950. Jürgen is sent to Paris as a reporter to cover the preliminary negotiations for the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, where he unexpectedly meets Marie again. During the war, Jürgen, a Wehrmacht officer, was stationed i ...

Ma culotte (2006)

La vie à mains nues (2005)

A business school graduate causes consternation in his family when he decides to become a mason, like his grandfather. ...

The Timișoara Syndrome (2004)

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara. ...

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has be ...

To the Extreme (2000)

Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a living, so his days are bacchanalia-filled affairs that run into each other in a hazy bliss. The only one cap ...

The Mechanics of Women (2000)

Based on a notorious novel by Louis Calaferte, this erotic drama concerns a man exploring the boundaries of female sexuality through a variety of sexual encounters with beautiful women he barely knows. La Mecanique des Femmes features copious male and fema ...

Love Me (2000)

Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members. ...

Across the Road (2000)

Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends ...

The Deep End of the Ocean (1998)

A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case. ...

The Ex (1996)

Yann leads a seemingly happy life with his two children and a beautiful, loving, dynamic woman Julianne. Yet he is unhappy. For ten years, he has dreamed of writing a great novel that wins the Prix Goncourt, but all he gets on paper is the adventures of th ...

La rage au cœur (1995)

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her. ...

Bonjour Tristesse (1995)

Cécile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. Anne, a mature and cultured friend of Raymond's late wife, arrives at Raymond's villa for a visit. ...

Something Fishy (1994)

A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is ...

Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary (1994)

A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas ...

The Groundhogs (1993)

A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems. ...

A New Life (1993)

In a shock after her mother's sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise. ...

Oh pardon ! Tu dormais... (1992)

A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish. ...

My Wife's Girlfriends (1992)

A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated. ...

Suffocating Heat (1991)

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie ...

There Were Days... and Moons (1990)

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. ...

Sandra (1989)

Sandra, a schoolteacher, would like to control every moment of a life she finds too banal. Even if she seems to have found an ideal in love, she takes two lovers, in the person of Pierre, ordinary but in love, and of Blaise a splendid black photographer. ...

Radio corbeau (1989)

This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radi ...

Jeanne's House (1988)

Jeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. ...

Sorceress (1987)

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who liv ...

La part de l'autre (1987)

Two twin brothers, Romain and Sylvain, live together in an isolated house by the ocean. Between them, violent relationships that oscillate between love and hate. The guardians of the house watch, fascinated and powerless, their dangerous games. Until the d ...

Jenatsch (1987)

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truth ...

The Dreamers (1987)

Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles ...

The Dawn (1986)

In a drama in which even Gad has a role as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance ...

The Passage (1986)

Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but Th ...

The Way Out (1986)

Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him. ...

Liberty at Night (1984)

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman. ...

Street of the Damned (1984)

In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet ...

Identification of a Woman (1982)

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the ...

La Chanson du mal-aimé (1982)

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire. ...

Alone (1981)

Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an a ...

Exterior Night (1980)

Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her ...

Adom ou Le sang d'Abel (1977)

Adom is red in Hebrew, and the first times of the first men could only be a confrontation with the elements, nature, characters and differences. Caien lives as a farmer while Abel is from the pastoral people. ...

Born for Hell (1976)

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them. ...

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 ...

Divine (1975)

Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in ...

Thomas (1975)

In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged co ...

Playing with Fire (1975)

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers. ...

Emmanuelle (1974)

An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage. ...

Love at the Top (1974)

A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent. ...

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slima ...