François Négret

Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara (2024)

The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Ra ...

Scarlet (2023)

A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter. ...

Spare Keys (2022)

Nancy, East of France. Summertime. Seeking to escape her troublesome family environment, Sophie, 15, jumps at the chance to get the spare keys to her wealthy friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought deserted for summer, she bumps i ...

Correspondance Mélodrame (2020)

To the Ends of the World (2018)

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên ...

The Immortal (2018)

Haunting dreams and visions lead An to a mysterious cave where she discovers the terrifying secrets of Hung — a man who lived across three centuries. Hung's tumultuous life reveals a story filled with ambition, vengeance and dark magic. ...

The Summer House (2018)

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle ...

Mrs. Hyde (2018)

Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she now be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained? ...

Graziella (2015)

A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act. ...

Tip Top (2013)

Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top. ...

Grand Central (2013)

A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates. ...

The Nun (2013)

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although ...

Dans la tourmente (2012)

Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l'insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d'un détournement de 2 millions d'euros. Franck, l'un de ses salariés l'apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, décide avec Max ...

Les Nuits de sister Welsh (2010)

Family Tree (2010)

When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the ...

Regrets (2009)

After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya. ...

La France (2007)

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbid ...

A City Is Beautiful at Night (2006)

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love s ...

The Exterminating Angels (2006)

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure. ...

Komma (2006)

A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life. ...

Caché (2005)

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the conte ...

Those Facing Us (2001)

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is trave ...

Hantises (1997)

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and lonely ...

La rançon du chien (1996)

A young police inspector dreams of being accepted by a wealthy bourgeois couple. ...

Les enfants du diable (1994)

In 1940, a young teacher who dreams of the Mediterranean is appointed to a remote village in Lozère. Despite the war and the savagery of the world, he awakens in his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But he will have to leave the refuge of childhood ...

Poorly Extinguished Fires (1994)

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and qu ...

Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun (1994)

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married ...

La Légende (1993)

A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become an actress, is summoned by a director who wants to remount the play and offers her the role of her mother ...

Diên Biên Phu (1992)

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh. ...

Red Fox (1991)

"Red Fox" tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay by James McManus, it tells the story of when Geoffrey Harrison (Brian Cox), a top executive with British De ...

Night and Day (1991)

Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city. One day, Julie meets Joseph, the daytime cabbie, and soon Julie spends her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack. ...

Alcyon (1990)

On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children's prison, which was destroyed by a mutiny and a fire a long time ago. ...

Plein fer (1990)

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them ...

Mister Frost (1990)

Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be. ...

White Wedding (1989)

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone. ...

Snack Bar Budapest (1988)

While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss. ...

Sound and Fury (1988)

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends ...

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Ba ...

Mauvais Sang (1986)

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping ...

Family Business (1986)

A recently released safecracker returns to stealing in order to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to induct his teenage son into the 'family business'. ...