Francis Leplay

Prime Rush (2025)

The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary attaché Nino is charged with persuading his longestranged father, a reclusive senator, to accept the post. ...

Robespierre (2024)

After a long absence, Max returns to Paris and settles in with his father in the lively Belleville district. He wanders the streets, curious about others, eager to meet new people, but soon finds himself confronted with a profound malaise. ...

The Good Teacher (2024)

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl's older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire scho ...

Not My Type (2022)

Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to ...

Brother and Sister (2022)

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven't seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face. ...

My Best Part (2020)

Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother. ...

Opération Finot (2019)

Charles Finot, a municipal employee, becomes the scapegoat of a local corruption scandal. A wild, wacky escape ensues. When he learns that he has been betrayed by Ada, his colleague and the woman he's in love with, Charles must take matters into his own ha ...

Who You Think I Am (2019)

Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo. ...

A Violent Desire for Joy (2018)

Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beaut ...

Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen (2018)

Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined husband,in a rigged trial as the result of political negotiations and power struggles. ...

Ce que vivent les roses (2018)

Jealous (2017)

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors. ...

Tomorrow and Thereafter (2017)

Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother. ...

Nelly (2017)

A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan's colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly's alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked th ...

Kill Skills (2016)

An assassin accidentally kills his fiancee, who happens to be the daughter of an Israeli gangster. Forced to flee, he starts working with a former mercenary, and they travel all over Europe doing dirty work for a rich industrialist. ...

Les Cowboys (2015)

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter. ...

The Clearstream Affair (2015)

Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-e ...

3 Hearts (2014)

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters. ...

Bright Days Ahead (2013)

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Espec ...

Looking for Hortense (2012)

Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his ...

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (2012)

A staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Denis Podalydès. ...

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. ...

Imogène McCarthery (2010)

Elle est rousse. Elle est écossaise. Elle aime le rugby et la cornemuse. Elle vit à Londres, mais se considère en exil. Elle a un fichu caractère et une sacrée descente au whisky. Elle s'appelle Imogène Mc Carthery… du clan des McLeod ! ...

Rien dans les poches (2008)

25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother. ...

Intrusions (2008)

Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quelques mois plus tard, son mari lui annonce qu'il veut la quitter, Pauline, furieuse, laisse sur le téléph ...

Modern Love (2008)

Several couples break up and get back together. ...

Le Mental de l'équipe (2008)

A staging of Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Emmanuel Bourdieu's play "Le Mental de l'équipe" by Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Denis Podalydès. In this comedy, two professional soccer teams go head-to-head. The players observe different tactical schemes p ...

The Resistance: Live Free or Die (2008)

La Résistance , is a French television film (docu-fiction) in 2 parts: First part: Live free or die and a Second part: When it was necessary to save the Jews , directed in 2007 by Félix Olivier and broadcast in 2008 . This docu-fiction, enhanced with pre ...

The Price to Pay (2007)

Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly d ...

Marie Antoinette (2006)

A retelling of the story of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. ...

Zim and Co (2005)

Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that. ...

Kings & Queen (2004)

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to ...

Clémence (2003)

Clémence is a fulfilled woman, happy with her job as an investigating judge and her family. But everything changes when she learns that her husband, Philippe, is cheating on her. ...

Only Girls (2003)

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the ju ...

Ma caméra et moi (2002)

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agree ...

Love Bites (2001)

Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him ...

Jamel Show (1999)

Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests for a comedy special to celebrate the end of the millennium. ...

Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life. ...

I Hate Love (1997)

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard. ...

Rai (1995)

Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a ...

Acts of Love (2021)

When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates. ...