Didier Bezace

The World Under the Bombs, from Guernica to Hiroshima (2017)

Beginning with Guernica and the Chinese cities of Chongqing and Shanghai in 1937 and ending with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, World War Two saw a new art of warfare in the form of extensive, worldwide bombing campaigns. ...

The Origin of Violence (2016)

A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald. ...

François Mitterrand: Family Albums (2016)

Twenty years after his death, François Mitterrand remains an enigma. Never before has a French politician generated so much contradictory comments, both during his lifetime and after his death. Beyond his political career, his complex and mysterious perso ...

Best in Bed (2014)

Raised to believe in performance and in the idea that all abilities must be optimized, Emma is a young, methodical woman who appears determined and relatively sure of herself. But two consecutive failures (real or imagined) lead her to believe that she has ...

Le Bœuf clandestin (2013)

Mr. Berthaud, a wealthy bourgeois, manages a bank. To get a promotion, he wants to curry favor with his manager. So, he imitates him. At first, his daughter is delighted... ...

The French Minister (2013)

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legiti ...

Clemenceau (2012)

1917, German troups are moving forward to Paris, the French government calls a providential man : Clémenceau. ...

State Conspiracy (2012)

French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the a ...

The Desert of Love (2012)

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child. ...

The Minister (2011)

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is ...

Mission sacrée (2011)

Vivace (2011)

A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time tog ...

Special Treatment (2010)

Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama ...

La maîtresse du président (2009)

Parisian socialite Marguerite Steinheil meets President Félix Faure, who falls madly in love with her. But her life changes forever when the President dies in her arms. Overwhelmed and accused, she must face justice and society trials. ...

The Life Coach (2009)

Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client. ...

Adieu De Gaulle, adieu (2009)

May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrations. An intimate portrait of the General through the tale of 68'events. ...

L'Abolition (2009)

The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France . ...

The Bird Walker (2007)

Since childhood, the farmer's daughter Sarah Minarel neighbors considered a strange child and bullied her. When she grew up and became an attractive girl, nothing changed. ...

Premonition (2006)

A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values. ...

Granny boom (2006)

Love Is in the Air (2005)

Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots' abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn't even follow the love of his life when she moved to ...

Mon fils d'ailleurs (2004)

A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family. ...

Les amants du bagne (2004)

In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inh ...

Cause toujours ! (2004)

This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a fixation with the moths that begin to cluster in frightening quantities throughout her apartment, Léa fi ...

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress (2004)

The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination. ...

Mariages! (2004)

A wedding is an opportunity for three couples of different generations to question commitment and the strength of love. ...

Pierre et Jean (2004)

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, Jean his law studies. A rivalry is born between the brothers when Jean, the youngest, inherits the fortune ...

Ce qu'ils imaginent (2004)

"What they imagine" - Bernard chokes to death on a boiled egg while his wife looks on. Juliette watches him suffocate without intervening and, as though waking from a long sleep, she abruptly leaves their house, marching straight ahead. Arriving in Havre b ...

Special Delivery (2002)

An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances. ...

This Is My Body (2001)

Gifted student Antoine goes against his family's wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director's film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to ...

Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week. ...

La otra cara de la luna (2000)

Juan and Julia are a mature and conventional marriage. Juan is shy and vulnerable, opera enthusiast and, above all, is recognized worldwide as a chess grandmaster. Julia is the author of crime and horror novels and is now writing a biography of Humphrey Bo ...

Pretty Devils (2000)

Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game. ...

The Happiest Place on Earth (1999)

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943). ...

It All Starts Today (1999)

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students. ...

Desproges est vivant (1998)

It is with a semblance of chronology and to the rhythm of Antoine De Caunes' not unpleasant voice-over that we are told the story of this unusual troublemaker, who, with his extraordinary ease of writing, put the competition light years away in the 1980s. ...

The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but ...

Quand j'étais p'tit (1997)

Thieves (1996)

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightcl ...

Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)

It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of s ...

Low Profile (1993)

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal. ...

Night Taxi (1993)

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all politica ...

The World of Ludovic (1993)

Ludovic, a 12-year-old boy from a well-off home who is neglected by his parents, who are part of the art scene, falls head over heels in love with Sofie, the daughter of a piano teacher, when he has to pass a test of courage in the schoolyard during recess ...

L.627 (1992)

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnes ...

Between Heaven and Earth (1992)

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently c ...

Dédé (1990)

In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is pr ...

The Little Thief (1988)

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mis ...

Civil Wars in France (1978)