Francis Lax

On a volé ma VF (2024)

Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgan Freeman, the most talented and k ...

Panier de crabes (1999)

A French adaptation of Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", staged by Jacques Rosny. ...

Marie's Counter (1998)

A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside. ...

April and the Sandman (1994)

The wonder of Christmas lights the world when kindhearted Sandman uses his magic sand to make toys come alive. One little doll named April gets sprinkled and is delighted that she can now talk, walk and sing. She takes off for an adventure into the real wo ...

Le Pélican (1992)

Three friends finish a meal washed down with plenty of wine. The host proposes a riddle: It's the story of a guy who goes to a restaurant. He reads the menu and orders pelican. The waiter serves him, the guy tastes the pelican, and he commits suicide. Why? ...

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 ...

Trois partout (1990)

Les p'tits schtroumpfs (1988)

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Le bébé schtroumpf (1984)

One night when the moon was blue, in the land of the Smurfs, a stork left a strange little basket containing a baby Smurf on the doorstep of a house. ...

Un dîner intime (1983)

Rock and Torah (1983)

This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons. ...

Fais gaffe à la gaffe ! (1981)

Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office. ...

Une nuit rêvée pour un poisson banal (1980)

In an elevator, a group of young people are in conversation... ...

Beaufils et fils (1980)

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 ...

L'Exercice du pouvoir (1978)

At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic. ...

Le Rabat-joie (1978)

Le Gentleman des Antipodes (1976)

The Bottom Line (1976)

An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruit ...

Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead (1975)

Thanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his childhood. But he is obsessed by the memory of this house, because the owners were, one by one, victims of an evil ...

Le Bougnoul (1975)

A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it ...

An Invitation to the Hunt (1974)

Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he's a val ...

A Cloud in the Teeth (1974)

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris. ...

The Nada Gang (1974)

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's ...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic ...

Blue Racer Blues (1972)

Japanese Beetle helps the lonely Blue Racer make friends with humans. Beetle tries everything from making him a pet who can sing and do tricks, disguising him as a dog, and joining a hippie parade. However, all plans fail. ...

A Very Curious Girl (1969)

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her. ...

The Hotshots (1968)

A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way. ...

If I Were a Spy (1967)

A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out have been involved in espionage (maybe). ...

Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (1967)

A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression. ...

Coplan, Agent 005 (1964)

In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan. ...

Les Culottes rouges (1962)

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom. ...

Give Me Ten Desperate Men (1962)

This is a story that is less a developed tale than a thumbnail sketch about imaginary events on a kibbutz in Palestine. Set in the period just before Israel gained its status as an independent nation, the drama shows the occupants of the kibbutz engaged in ...

Fortunate (1960)

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman. ...

Les mains liées (1956)

François Jauréguy is a young Basque who would love to devote his life to God. But meeting Maïté and the example of the worker priests makes him doubt the wisdom of his choice. Marie-Jeanne, his mother, suffers from this situation. She knew a man, Jean ...

Fais gaffe à la gaffe ! (1981)

Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office. ...