Jean Benguigui

The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023)

The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son. ...

The Sofa (2022)

In a supermarket, in the sofa section, director Fabien Romains comes to choose the sofa that will be the main feature of the set for his next play. Priscilla Gabor, his ex-wife, who stars in the play, insists on deciding for herself which sofa she will res ...

La Moustache (2020)

Today is a big day for Sylvain Sabourdin: he has to meet his future father-in-law, go through a job interview and make big decisions. But while he is getting ready, a power outage prevents him from shaving completely and leaves him with a moustache: Hitler ...

Conviction (2019)

Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor's office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she ...

Like Me : La Fête Interdite (2018)

Lili Within the Clouds (2018)

While on vacation with Meï at her grandfather's place, Lili decides to build a plane to go and visit the person she misses. ...

Brillantissime (2018)

After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist. ...

Un homme d'État (2016)

Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the polls, leader of the most powerful right wing party he is trying to find a mainstay. ...

Les Gorilles (2015)

Alfonso, brutal agent of the Department of Protection of High Personalities, is forced to team up with young inexperienced recruit Walter, fascinated by the world of show biz. This improbable duo is in charge of the protection of Jal-Y, a young R'n'B star ...

Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître (2012)

Bay of Algiers (2012)

The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the ...

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder (2012)

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that up ...

La Croisière (2011)

A Cat in Paris (2010)

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening. ...

Fatal (2010)

Fatal... short for Fatal Bazooka, a hardcore bling-bling rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tons of hits, 4 Artist Of The Year Music Awards of Music, a fashion line, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park: Fataland. He is the undisputed numb ...

Coco (2009)

Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah. ...

So Happy Together (2009)

Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont ...

Aïcha (2009)

A few miles from Paris, on the other side of the northern ring road, stands a ghetto neighborhood with countless rows of dilapidated apartment buildings, their concrete crumbling and iron rusting. A multiracial community has long been rooted here, while mo ...

Chat en Poche (2009)

Hello Goodbye (2008)

French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where ...

Listen from the Nay: Separations (2008)

The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the efforts of a handful of people seeking peace in Istanbul in the days leading up to the 1798 Ottoman-French ...

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves (2007)

The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident. ...

Gomez vs. Tavarès (2007)

Two crooked lawmen (Stomy Bugsy, Titoff) search for a precious stone to collect an inheritance. ...

Those Happy Days (2006)

Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings... ...

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre (2005)

A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life. ...

Lucky Luke and the Daltons (2004)

Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history... ...

Qui mange quand ? (2004)

Two young parents are desperate to regain more defined roles when they realize that their son does not know his father from his mother. ...

Grosse chaleur (2004)

On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in his haven of tranquillity and prevent them from watering in circles. Wife, child and mother-in-law in the ...

Le prix (2004)

A Pepe Carvalho story. ...

Les mers du sud (2004)

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in orde ...

La rose d'Alexandrie (2004)

When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña. She was married to a wealthy owner belonging to a well-known A Coruña family and had traveled to Barcel ...

Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)

The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet India ...

Mixed Marriage (2004)

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged. ...

Cita mortal a l’Up & Down (2003)

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a prison officer. The police suspect a young delinquent who had threatened to kill the officer. But Carvalho and Biscuter are on the trail of a friend and ex-cell partner of the defendant called "el Navajas" ("the pe ...

I, Cesar (2003)

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and hi ...

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix. ...

The Young Casanova (2002)

Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova races through life with irrepressible energy. Violinist, writer, soldier, spy, gambler, adventurer - it is as ...

Dead Weight (2002)

After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket. ...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months. ...

La juge Beaulieu (2001)

Sophie Beaulieu, examining magistrate, cannot manage to find the limits between her work and her family life. The boundaries are further blurred when, following the violent death of her son, the judge finds herself involved in the investigation. Beaulieu t ...

One Way Ticket (2001)

Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (Lorant Deutsch) dans son pays d'origine. Celui-ci appartient à la tribu des Hommes Gris d'Irghiz, réf ...

Across the Road (2000)

Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends ...

Tal como éramos (1999)

Carvalho is hired to investigate the alleged threats to the daughter of the civil governor of Barcelona. Step by step, Carvalho realizes that there is something hidden in core of the mystery that goes back to something that happened in the past and that is ...

Buscando a Sherezade (1999)

Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona leads him to Italy, where she is supposed to have taken a cruise on the Mediterranean. ...

La soledad del manager (1999)

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man's wife has given him. But he cannot imagine that the issue goes far beyond and is at a much bigger scale than anyone may think. There is a large multinational behin ...

Padre, patrón (1999)

Mister Joaquim Pelletier and his wife request the services of the private detective Pepe Carvalho to find the murderer of their only son, Mariano. As the investigations progress, Pepe finds out that Mariano was not such a model son as his father thought. H ...

El hermano pequeño (1999)

Leo Minués, who used to be a classmate of Carvalho, is found dead the same day he had to testify in a case of corruption and someone asks Carvalho to investigate it. He accepts the case and finds out that Leo was collecting illegal funds for his political ...

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer (1999)

To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner o ...

Man's Best Friend (1999)

This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier area and his business is prospering. He promised Amir that he would help him get his legal papers, but he has ...

The Swindle (1997)

Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them on a globe-trotting ...

Over the Rainbow (1997)

An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants. ...

Salut cousin ! (1996)

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcas ...

Still Waters Run Deep (1996)

Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place b ...

Son of Gascogne (1995)

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts o ...

Tango (1993)

Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. ...

The Big Pardon 2 (1992)

The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and wh ...

Loulou graffiti (1992)

A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he steals. ...

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 ...

The Jackpot! (1991)

To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger. ...

My Life Is Hell (1991)

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She deci ...

A Day to Remember (1991)

Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long to out their true intentions which are merely material on her estate. Also, Bertille is afflicted by her ...

Le Cri des hommes (1991)

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions. ...

My New Partner II (1990)

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked repl ...

Plato's Banquet (1989)

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial. ...

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale (1988)

The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. ...

La Culotte (1987)

At Théobald, it's not Louise who wears the pants. And for good reason: she just lost hers in public! The court official already feels shamed and does not hesitate to blame his half. However, this little female neglect will bring him much more than he thin ...

Lorfou (1987)

Control (1987)

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine. ...

Milan noir (1987)

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life. ...

The Fugitives (1986)

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action. ...

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 ...

Souvenirs souvenirs (1984)

A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved i ...

The Bitch (1984)

After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before. ...

The Judge (1984)

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring. ...

Le Grand Carnaval (1983)

The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942. ...

The African (1983)

Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arr ...

Le Jeune Marié (1983)

Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party. ...

Maman Que Man (1982)

While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer. ...

The Big Pardon (1982)

The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. The ...

Buffet Froid (1979)

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur. ...

Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of ...

The Red Sweater (1979)

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Southern France. The publicity the ...

The Bit Between the Teeth (1979)

Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnat ...

No Trifling with Love (1977)

Perdican, his studies completed, returns to his family castle at the same time as Camille, returning from the convent where she was raised. The two young people are promised to each other, but the young girl appears distant. Out of spite, Perdican courts R ...

The Question (1977)

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers. ...

Little Marcel (1976)

A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms. ...

The Story of Paul (1975)

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons. ...

The French Calvinists (1972)

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons. ...

H 93 (1981)