François Leterrier

The Son of the Mekong (1992)

Tran and three of his friends flee Vietnam by swimming across the Mekong river. They take refuge in Thailand. ...

Imogène (1989)

Loosely based on the book series by Charles Exbrayat. ...

Slices of Life (1985)

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal! ...

The Bodyguard (1984)

Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his mis ...

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)

Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfri ...

Rat Race (1980)

Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting with a former comrade, who had become an actor, brought him into contact with the world of cinema. He me ...

Pierrot mon ami (1979)

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him l ...

Your Turn, My Turn (1978)

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car. ...

Emmanuelle 3 (1977)

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy. ...

Milady (1976)

Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. ...

Private Screening (1973)

Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past rem ...

The Royal Chase (1969)

Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice. ...

A King Without Distraction (1963)

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation o ...

Naked Autumn (1961)

Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then ...

Bobosse (1959)

Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he ...

Provincial Chronicle (1958)

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. ...

The Essence of Forms (2010)

L'essence des formes (The Essence of Forms), a documentary from 2010 in which collaborators and admirers of Bresson's, including actor François Leterrier and director Bruno Dumont, share their thoughts about the director and his work. ...

Stavisky... (1974)

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and t ...

A Man Escaped (1956)

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison. ...