François Perrot

Marie et Tom (2020)

Marie Bertin is in at a dead end, both personally and professionally. When Pierre Gendreau, a former Canadian minister, asked for her help in writing his briefs, she saw the solution to a situation that had become unbearable. She hoped for a lot in this ne ...

The French Minister (2013)

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legiti ...

The Night Clerk (2011)

Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disappears one evening and is later found dead, Frédéric suspects he may have been killed by the family who ...

A Man and His Dog (2009)

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means. ...

I'm Staying (2003)

A self-centered engineer tries to win back his wife after she takes a new lover. ...

My Father Saved My Life (2001)

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a cha ...

The Heart at Work (2000)

A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives. ...

Evasions (2000)

In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrog ...

One 4 All (1999)

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Pari ...

Une journée de merde ! (1999)

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bou ...

Mauvais Genre (1997)

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings ...

Jaguar (1996)

A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very e ...

La rançon du chien (1996)

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

Les Milles (1995)

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promise ...

Les Faussaires (1994)

This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul Gauguin in an upcoming book. Cohn, an obnoxious crook and pathological liar originally from Paris, has been ...

See You Tomorrow (1992)

Family life in a parisian apartment during the 60's. ...

Stranger in the House (1992)

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, h ...

Who Wants to Kill Sara? (1992)

A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well. ...

The Beautiful Story (1992)

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are ju ...

Les Clés du Paradis (1991)

Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives. ...

Lola Zipper (1991)

With his job in the balance, Gérard bets his boss that he can transform bad-tempered street person Lola into television star material. With the inducement of stardom as his lure, he takes Lola in hand and becomes her instructor, sending her to ballet and ...

Thank You, Life (1991)

Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AID ...

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries (1990)

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary. ...

Life and Nothing But (1989)

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross. ...

Les Seins de Lola (1987)

The plot of the play revolves around Lola, a sexagenarian, divorced and not very well off, who gets it into her head to have a breast reconstruction. ...

The Discoveries of a Modern Couple (1986)

Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth's days are numbered. ...

Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)

In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnat ...

Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe (1986)

Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up ag ...

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi (1985)

A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys. ...

The Flight of the Phoenix (1984)

Staubli is happy. He has just concluded a considerable deal with El Farik, one of his biggest successes as an arms dealer. To sign his final contract, Staubli takes the plane with Loussif, Serge Tournier and his wife Laura. During a stopover, a mechanical ...

The Vultures (1984)

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfull ...

A Friend of Vincent (1983)

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the perso ...

My Other Husband (1983)

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first. ...

My Best Friend's Girl (1983)

The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his f ...

Sarah (1983)

An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. ...

Surprise Party (1983)

Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's. ...

Banzaï (1983)

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or ...

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! (1982)

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it. ...

The Roaring Forties (1982)

Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win th ...

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and d ...

The Shock (1982)

Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Clair ...

Josepha (1982)

An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film. ...

Hotel America (1981)

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, an ...

Coup de Torchon (1981)

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it. ...

Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from at ...

Inspector Blunder (1980)

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later. ...

Three Men to Kill (1980)

A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in cont ...

Womanlight (1979)

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance. ...

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he bec ...

Swimming Instructor (1979)

Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Mari ...

Other People's Money (1978)

Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's o ...

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977)

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women. ...

Madame Claude (1977)

Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also invo ...

To Each His Hell (1977)

After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst. ...

Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)

One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things a ...

The Game of Solitaire (1976)

A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young orphan boy as the real murderer. Why is the psychiatrist claiming the murder as his own? ...

The Body of My Enemy (1976)

A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce. ...

Marie, the Doll (1976)

Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and be ...

La Limousine (1976)

Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)

Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes ...

Monsieur Bébé (1974)

In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act ...

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 ...

L'Inconnue de la Seine (1973)

The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will the culprit be unmasked? ...

The Vertical Smile (1973)

A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another ...

Le Chevalier des Touches (1966)

An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly. ...

Évariste Galois (1965)

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night. ...

Un cas intéressant (1963)

Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a perfectly healthy man. ...

Dangerous Love Affairs (1959)

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly ...

The Severed Heads (1957)

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. ...

Diamond Machine (1955)

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case. ...

Dames Don't Care (1954)

Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme. ...