François Kraus

Love Lessons (2026)

On the eve of retirement, Émile delivers one final lesson about love and literature, urging his students to become the poets of their own lives. But is he still in love with himself? ...

The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024)

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantasy, Sarah Bernhardt tells us the love story that marked her life. ...

Les Boules de Noël (2024)

Every year, Christmas Eve turns into a nightmare for Nathalie and Antonin's family. Convinced that she is the victim of a curse, Nathalie makes a radical decision: this year we won't be celebrating! But Antonin and his children take matters into their own ...

Nice Girls (2024)

A maverick cop and a meticulous detective join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer's disappearance and save Nice from disaster. ...

Being Blanche Houellebecq (2024)

Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche Gardin. But unforeseen events will plunge our duo into the heart of a bizarre intrigue. ...

Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe (2024)

When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn't know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the "painter of happiness", appearing in mor ...

The Baby (2023)

Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of this birth ...

Summer Frost (2023)

It's summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet's Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of ...

Big Kids (2023)

Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complica ...

The Nannies (2022)

Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom of eight years old Arthur. Discoveri ...

Masquerade (2022)

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations. ...

Kung-Fu Zohra (2022)

Zohra is convinced that separating from her husband Omar would break her little girl's heart and so determines not to leave him despite the violence he metes out. Then she meets Chang Sue, the caretaker of the gym where she works to make ends meet. ...

Peaceful (2021)

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while ...

How to Be a Good Wife (2020)

Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husba ...

La Belle Époque (2019)

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing. ...

Little Tickles (2018)

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past. ...

My Guy (2018)

After a violent car crash, Marilyn must take care of her man, who suffers from severe head trauma. ...

All That Divides Us (2017)

A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds. ...

Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small mome ...

Five (2016)

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs. ...

Half Sister, Full Love (2016)

Mourning his brother's recent death, Pierrick accepts his best friend Tessa's invitation to stay in her family home — at last, a week alone. But when her gets there, he finds the house already occupied by Tessa's sister Marie. ...

Boomerang (2015)

When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family's present. ...

Standing Tall (2015)

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors' judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender. ...

May Allah Bless France! (2014)

The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for his rap band, but he must accept drug money for the sake of his project. Discove ...

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 ...

Désolée pour hier soir (2013)

Low Cost (2011)

Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they will do almost ...

A Burning Desire (2011)

Yann and Rose are young, they love and want to have a child. Nine months later ... still no baby in sight. They then show great imagination and try everything ... no matter what it is. But they wish so hardly to be three that, is not likely they finish a ...

Mon pote (2010)

The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief. ...

What War May Bring (2010)

A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn't share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship. ...

It Begins with the End (2010)

A woman, a man, a summer in Paris. Passion, break ups, reconciliations. A love story in disarray... ...

Student Services (2010)

Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path. ...

Bitter Victory (2009)

Xavier Alvarez est un petit architecte d'Aix-en-Provence en recherche perpétuelle de reconnaissance sociale. Il s'est fait tout seul et prospère, mais ne parvient pas à décrocher de gros marchés publics pour assouvir ses rêves de grandeur. Il décide ...

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 ...

Intimate Enemies (2007)

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence. ...

Teen Spirit (2007)

A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné l'existence. ...

The Role of Her Life (2004)

A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego. ...

I've Been Waiting So Long (2004)

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years. ...

I'm an actrice (2004)

Baba, a preteen from Belleville, Paris, must deal with her mother's determination to turn her into an actress. ...

Yes, But... (2001)

At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ready, but she is ...

Crac Crac Club, Fête l'amour (2021)

Polisse (2011)

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically documen ...