Géraldine Pailhas

Baise-en-ville (2026)

Sprite, a 20-year-old young adult, returns to Chelles after a breakup. To pay for his driver's license and please his parents, he joins Allo Nettoyo, a night-time cleaning start-up in the Paris suburbs. Unable to get around without a permit, he adopts the ...

A Magnificent Life (2025)

In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol's childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: ...

Les Malvenus (2024)

After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and his job as an engineer to live out his childhood dream: to start a snail farm. Carole, his partner and par ...

À jamais les premiers (2023)

The story of the 1992-1993 season, when the Olympique de Marseille became the first french soccer team to win a European Cup. ...

The Butcher's Daughter (2022)

Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in life... She's about to sell it when Mar- tial, who worked for her father, wants to take it over, but she is ...

Everything Went Fine (2021)

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. ...

The Sower (2017)

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, ...

The New Life of Paul Sneijder (2016)

Following a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived him, his two sons despised him ... How can we continue to live under ...

Mobile Étoile (2016)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2016)

1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by Lucette, his wife and his cat Bebert. ...

Rouge (2015)

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the p ...

Portrait of the Artist (2015)

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not ...

Disappeared in Winter (2015)

Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winter's day, he stops at a roadside parking lot and is approached by Laura, an 18-year-old young woman who ask ...

SMS (2014)

At 9:00, Laurent receives a worrying text message. 9:01, his mobile's stolen. 9:30, his son disappears. 10:00, his house burns down. 10:15, his wife leaves him. 10:30, his company goes bankrupt. 11:00, he's in custody. The day's got off to a bad start. ...

Divin enfant (2014)

A large house surrounded by vineyards. A Christmas Eve in a very blended family turns into an absolute nightmare when the mistress of the house tells her new husband that she is pregnant. She doesn't know that he can't have children... ...

La rupture (2013)

Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance s ...

Young & Beautiful (2013)

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year. ...

It Happened in Saint-Tropez (2013)

Zef's stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife's funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only fo ...

Vanished (2012)

A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband. ...

Le Paradis des bêtes (2012)

Dominique, a formidable and possessive husband and father, manages a large pet store, the Paradis des Bêtes, with his sister. One day he goes too far and disrupts his family. ...

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde (2011)

A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with his dangerous stunts, his laughter, his jokes, and his refreshing ease and impertinence. Cultivating the art of the counterpunch, ...

Une nouvelle vie (2011)

In a small town in the North, Nathalie, a nurse of 40 years, is waiting with great hope that her husband wakes up from a deep coma. For a year, she lives with her two children in the illusion and denial, refusing to admit that the man she loves is no longe ...

His Mother's Eyes (2011)

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who lives ...

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues (2011)

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand d ...

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010)

Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic. ...

Bus Palladium (2010)

A comedy that follows the break-up of a French rock group. ...

Spy(ies) (2009)

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists. ...

Château en Suède (2008)

In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore, his wife; Aunt Agathe, Hugo's sister, an old maid attached to traditions; Sébastien, Eléonore's brother, to whom he is devoted with a troubled affectio ...

Hikers in Saint-Tropez (2008)

Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on the Côte d'Azur. To their surprise, who should they meet in St-Tropez but Eric, the guide-from-Hell wh ...

Didine (2008)

Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosses the threshold of a elderly person caregivers' agency where, faced with an extrovert teenager, a charming ...

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 ...

Family Hero (2006)

A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he ...

Made in Paris (2006)

Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann's loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann ...

Sur la terre comme au ciel : Making of Les Chevaliers du Ciel (2006)

Sky Fighters (2005)

Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. ...

The Returned (2004)

The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them. ...

Five Times Two (2004)

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is els ...

Les parallèles (2004)

Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals. ...

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. ...

The Cost of Living (2003)

Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi ...

The Adversary (2002)

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based ...

L'Héritière (2002)

After the death of her father, whom she never knew, a young woman finds herself at the head of a large company. ...

The Officers' Ward (2001)

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever... ...

Enchanted Interlude (2000)

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms elsewhe ...

Peut-être (1999)

Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ak ...

Hikers (1997)

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives. ...

The Son Of... (1995)

A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas). ...

Tom est tout seul (1995)

After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons. ...

Suite 16 (1994)

After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicappe ...

Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an une ...

La folie douce (1994)

Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious. ...

Un homme à la mer (1993)

Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him. There and at the Grand Hotel de Cabourg with a very young new conquest. Each in their own way will try to flush him out and allow him to come to terms wit ...

Comment font les gens (1993)

Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will make them meet other characters. ...

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992)

Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's already occupied by an older man who's been sleeping in the back, Léon Marcel. ...

Snow and Fire (1991)

While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the ...

Les arcandiers (1991)

In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. T ...

Three Seats for the 26th (1988)

Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime. ...