Guillaume Schiffman

Love Lessons (2026)

On the day of his retirement, Émile, a literature professor in Dieppe, gives his young students one last lesson on literature and love, encouraging them to become the poets of their own lives. A student asks him about his own feelings. Is Émile still in ...

A Hint of Love (2025)

Mélanie, a lawyer suffering from an incurable disease, has decided it's time to enjoy life! She whisks Benjamin, her childhood friend, off on a road trip to Spain to explore their sensuality in a brothel. Now here they are, onboard a rundown van driven by ...

Once Upon My Mother (2025)

In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. ...

Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu (2025)

An eccentric archaeologist goes on an unexpected journey to find King Khufu's lost treasure with his daughter and grandson. ...

Give a Little Beat (2024)

When her teenage son Henri threatens to move in with his father, Justine improvises a road trip along the Atlantic coast with her new partner Ludo and stepson Joseph, giving her family one last chance to unite. ...

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 ...

All to Play For (2023)

Sylvie lives with her two children whom she's raising on her own. One evening, there's an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat. ...

Consent (2023)

In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions ...

A Radiant Girl (2022)

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for the theatre. The aspiring actress is living her youthful life without a care in the world, but she does no ...

Waiting for Bojangles (2021)

A boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy. ...

My Cousin (2020)

Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who makes ...

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 ...

The Lost Prince (2020)

Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordinary stories come to life somewhere in an imaginary world inhabited by knights, pirates and other dragons. I ...

The Translators (2019)

Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker. ...

The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)

Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time. ...

Oh Les Filles! (2019)

What if French Rock were born with Edith Piaf? From sweet sixties pop to today's gender-indifferent anthems, from feminist rebels of the seventies to fashion icons of the social media age, from Françoise Hardy to Christine & The Queens, via Vanessa Parad ...

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema (2019)

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others. ...

Angel Face (2018)

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she ...

Return of the Hero (2018)

France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up. ...

M (2017)

Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. ...

Godard Mon Amour (2017)

In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her. ...

150 Milligrams (2016)

In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out. ...

Jailbirds (2016)

In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. While she exclusively relies on him to survive in this prison setting, Mathilde has not heard from him since her imprisonment. Isolated, with her son as her on ...

Smile (2016)

During a glory night where she gets a prize for her performance as an actress, Françoise walks around radiant in the warm light that the eyes of the others cast. She glows in a dress, which fits her like a glove. Back home, the dress zipper resists. The l ...

Public Friends (2016)

In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis. ...

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. ...

The Search (2014)

A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. ...

Turning Tide (2013)

Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Frank at the last minute for the start of the Vendée Globe. Nine days into the race and leading, Yann is fo ...

On My Way (2013)

Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly know ...

Populaire (2012)

An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest. ...

The Players (2012)

Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging fro ...

The Artist (2011)

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break. ...

Chez Gino (2011)

Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. His quiet life is turned upside down when he learns of the imminent death of his uncle, godfather of the Mafia, Italian billionaire with a promised big inhe ...

Leila (2011)

Gab has a well-ordered life: a fiancée, a wealthy family. Leïla, who struggles to juggle her studies, odd jobs, and a brother to support, does not allow herself to live her own life... When Gab meets Leïla, it is a clash of worlds, the beginning of a gr ...

The Counsel (2010)

A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him. ...

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62. ...

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue. ...

A Simple Heart (2008)

Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephe ...

Lady Bar (2007)

Jean and Polo are two old friends who decide to go to Thailand to change their minds. ...

Ain't Scared (2007)

Ambitious (2007)

On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of na ...

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue. ...

Belzec (2005)

Although it was in full operation for less than one-year, Belzec was a very efficiently run Concentration Camp were over 600,000 Jews were slaughtered. As the Russian army was drawing closer and closer to the camp, the Nazi dismantled Belzec and eradicated ...

Chok Dee: The Kickboxer (2005)

Dida Diafat plays himself in this story based around his thai boxing career. ...

93, rue Lauriston (2004)

93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On t ...

The Great Role (2004)

When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role afte ...

Anatomy of Hell (2004)

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable". ...

Brocéliande (2003)

Chloé, a student specializing in Celtic History, participate in a dig in the forest of Broceliande while a series of murder occurs on the campus. Chloé must soon face the mythical monster behind the string of murder and use her knowledge to make it out o ...

La bande du drugstore (2002)

In the sixties, the Drugstore "minets" were the best dressed, believed only in themselves and imagined themselves reinventing everything. The drag, the clubs, the first joints, the vacations on the Normandy coast, but also love and show-offs. Philippe and ...

Clement (2001)

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women. ...

Young Blades (2001)

Young Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a trio of Musketeers as they attempt to thwart a plot to send France and Spain into war. ...

Kennedy et moi (1999)

If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the "normal" people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen ...

Class Trip (1998)

A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. ...

Love Reinvented (1997)

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be ...

So What? (1996)

Lisa drives Marie home but Marie doesn't want to end the night. Lisa suggests they go for a drive. Lisa tries to keep her distance from Marie, because she has a secret. However, Marie wants to be close to Lisa. ...

Bernie (1996)

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted hi ...

Le Sourire (1994)

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment. ...

Justement Schubert (1989)

One morning, in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paul and Charlotte meet. They had dated years before. The past resurfaces. ...

An Impudent Girl (1985)

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her on ...

La Classe américaine (2012)

The story of the successful publicity campaign that made it possible for the French film The Artist (2011) to win five Academy Awards: an intimate look at what happens when a silent, black-and-white French film astounds Hollywood. ...

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue. ...

Out 1 (1990)

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash. ...

Two English Girls (1971)

In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage. ...

The Wild Child (1970)

The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy. ...