Jean-Christophe Bouvet

The Rebellious (2024)

Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame an ...

Down in Paris (2022)

Richard, a 40-year-old filmmaker conquered by an unexplained anxiety attack, lets go of his current shoot and wanders through nocturnal Paris, in search of answers, solace and inspiration. During this sleepless night, at random encounters, sometimes warm, ...

La rupture (2020)

The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges willy-nilly, until fate puts them face to face with one another. In one version of the film, the main couple is mad ...

Men in Blue: 12 Stories (2020)

Facing Francisco, each protagonist strips off in front of his camera and speak about themselves in a documentary format, animated in rotoscopy with more than 500 blue ballpoint pen drawings. ...

The Egg Lasts (2019)

After "Omelette" and "Les yeux brouillés" shot with a Super 8 camera, Remi starts a newspaper filmed with two HD cameras. One day he meets Dino, a young Marseille artist who falls in love with him. Shortly after their meeting, Dino announces to Rémi that ...

The Legend (2018)

At 25 years old, Jean-Christophe Markovich is at the top of his career as a professional basketball player. Though courted by the most prestigious teams in Europe, Jean-Christophe surprisingly decides to join his former club which has recently been promote ...

Tempting Devils (2018)

A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey. ...

Sélection Officielle (2017)

Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulyss ...

Where Horses Go to Die (2017)

Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three « working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses unravel ...

4 Days in France (2016)

A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating ...

Two Rémi, Two (2015)

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi? ...

Par consentement mutuel (2015)

When a group of friends and family gather to celebrate a wedding, things take an unexpected turn when the groom runs away. ...

The Mole (2014)

When an important cache of seized heroin is stolen from a regional customs depot and two officers left dead, it becomes clear that there is a mole within the customs services. Commandant Sandra Longo, of internal affairs, is dispatched from Paris to unmask ...

A small room with simple colors (2013)

Mister Jones, old blind painter and admirer of Van Gogh, is looked after in a rest home by Bob, a young male nurse with whom he falls in love. As their relation evolves between fantasy and reality, the small room is transforming into one of Van Gogh's famo ...

You and the Night (2013)

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen. ...

Gare du Nord (2013)

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here... ...

Chaos (2012)

Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, who looks forward to a quieter life, some kind of return to nature. His wife, a renowned international pian ...

Occupe-toi d'Amélie (2012)

Paris by Night (2012)

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris's demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don't bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he's between a rock and ...

Qui êtes-vous Paul Vecchiali? (2012)

A documentary about the French film director Paul Vecchiali. ...

Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi (2011)

The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king. ...

Our Paradise (2011)

Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, menaces of r ...

Belleville Tokyo (2011)

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu'il part en rejoindre une autre et s'en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. ...

Cat Run (2011)

When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her. ...

L'Imprésario (2010)

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris's famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing ...

Black Venus (2010)

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and g ...

The Other Dumas (2010)

Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration ...

Services sacrés (2009)

The Wolberg Family (2009)

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor ...

Cineman (2009)

A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film. ...

The Red Inn (2007)

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to s ...

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 ...

Private Life (2007)

Death's Glamour (2007)

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world wi ...

Il sera 1 fois... (2007)

Pierrot, a young boy, does not live in the present. One night, Pierrot finds himself face to face with the old man that he will be himself. A strange journey then begins for the unlikely duo. ...

Taxi 4 (2007)

Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got ra ...

One to Another (2006)

A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters - from his sister L ...

Un Flic (2006)

Schneider is a cop, a real one. A man of integrity that corruption revolts and disgusts compromise, an intractable citizen and respectful of others like himself. Fallible, it is driven by a powerful ambition: to tirelessly fight evil without ignoring the s ...

Marie Antoinette (2006)

A retelling of the story of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. ...

The Tiger Brigades (2006)

The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade. ...

Comedy of Power (2006)

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she ...

Lisa et le pilote d'avion (2006)

Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to. ...

Des terres minées (2006)

Saïd, 15, a teenager lacking in direction, lives with Soumia, his 14-year-old sister and Souad, their mother who has been depressed for a long time. One night, Souad falls into a coma and is taken to the hospital. Saïd and Soumia, left to their own dev ...

À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

Like a Brother (2005)

Sebastien is a small town boy who moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there. When a friend from back home calls to announce he's coming to Paris, Sebastien confronts some unrequited feelings. ...

Prisoner (2004)

I knew someone who lived in an attic for a long time. He told me that it was because of an upset in love. He didn't want to elucidate! I like this mystery. ...

The Story Of My Life (2004)

Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Rap ...

Notre Musique (2004)

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself. ...

Aux folles les pompiers ! (2004)

Clarisse's Neck (2003)

Antoine loves Clarisse and wants to marry her. Or how a simple story about a lost ring leads a young woman to say yes, finally! ...

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

Taxi 3 (2003)

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship cr ...

Zone reptile (2002)

17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives him into a loneliness to which rockmusic not only brings tranquillity and comfort but flings him into the ...

The Red Siren (2002)

Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police b ...

Shipwrecked on Route D17 (2002)

During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France's most desert-like region. The cast is as follows: An astrophysician who works alone with Geraldine in an observatory high in the mountains. He'd like to seduce Geraldine, but s ...

Accidental Saint (2002)

Raph and Swan, two thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenceless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find the dirty trick t ...

The Revolution on Two Horses (2002)

It's the dawn of April 25, 1974, when Marco, a 25-year old Italian and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. The goal of their trip is Lisbon, which on that night was freed from Europe's longest dictatorship. The two are joined ...

Gay refuge (2002)

Being Light (2001)

Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack Lesterhoof, a rich businessman who offers to be his interpreter for an important meeting. Maxime accepts. ...

La Boîte (2001)

Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, were excluded from the only nightclub in the region. With nothing else to do they plan to open a competing nightclub in the garage of two of the father of two of them. ...

Le chien, le chat et le cibachrome (2001)

Samuel goes to Nice to pass the exam of the School of Fine Arts. He is accompanied by Nordine, uncultivated in art who takes some holidays. ...

The Dark Room (2000)

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls' behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out ...

Lise and Andre (2000)

Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging parish priest Father Andre. Sebastien becomes involved in an auto accident that sends him into a ...

Une rue dans sa longueur (2000)

A young man encounters three men separately. Three stages of a journey, three moments of apprenticeship. ...

Taxi 2 (2000)

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers. ...

Les éléphants de la planète Mars (2000)

Miss Jacobonot, a schoolteacher, has a crush on Jimmy, a student in her class. Jimmy loves to tell stories. But his teachers kick him out of school and sent him to an institute for unsuitable children. ...

Lovers (1999)

A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant. ...

Recto/Verso (1999)

Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to suc ...

The Passengers (1999)

The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain ...

Pain au chocolat (1998)

Pierre Cassou, an accountant with Copy Corp, finds his colleagues increasingly unbearable. He decides to confess his difference in his own way. ...

Midnight Exam (1998)

When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she came into contact with through the classifieds in "Le Chasseur Français", a magazine for hunters. But she gets to kno ...

Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) (1998)

Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally with a bang and ends with a strangulation. In between there are numerous events both strange and unpredictabl ...

An arrangement (1998)

Alphonse Dutilleux, a Paris Shoemaker, closes shop and makes his way to the Bois de Boulogne, the male pick-up and prostitution scene. His wife and his son are waiting for him for dinner... ...

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition (1998)

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. ...

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 ...

Vicious Circles (1997)

When a young man is arrested for trafficking drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some big money as a member of an exclusive group of high-end prostitutes. ...

Des progrès en amour (1996)

In his middle management office, Dubreuil uses erotic messaging. He tries to find the excitement lost. ...

The Rock of Acapulco (1996)

Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who pers ...

The Complex of Toulon (1996)

It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him. ...

Dialogue au sommet (1996)

A worker and his boss hold each other prisoner 250 feet above the ground. Let's have laugh before joining the dole queue ! ...

J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites (1995)

Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things. ...

Cold Water (1994)

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ...

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown. ...

Dadou (1994)

Krapatchouk (1993)

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems t ...

Savage Nights (1992)

Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura, does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy. ...

Bouvet et son texte (1992)

Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words. ...

I Don't Kiss (1991)

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is ...

Under the Sun of Satan (1987)

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers. ...

La madone au minitel (1987)

A little girl finds a minitel by chance, and responds to "old dogs looking for puppies" with a nickname "little jesus loves animals. ...

Un garçon de France (1985)

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love. ...

Cinématon XXXIII (1984)

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Archipelago of Love (1983)

Nine short films about love. ...

Peinture à l'eau (1983)

En voilà 2 (1983)

Second part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy. ...

Far from Manhattan (1982)

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery. ...

En veux-tu, en voilà (1982)

First part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy. ...

C'est la vie ! (1981)

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a n ...

Légitime défense (1980)

The One-Eyed Man (1980)

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world. ...

The Theatre of the Matters (1977)

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs. ...

La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

The Porno King (1976)

This is a documentary on the 70's French porn industry. There are generally two kinds of porn documentaries--those that actually take an insightful look behind the scenes, and those that are just an excuse to show a lot of nudity and XXX porn footage. This ...

Beyond Love and Evil (1971)

Loosely adapted from de Sade's play "Philosophy in the Bedroom". Set in the present day, a cult of depraved hedonists cavort at a remote, elegant mansion. ...

Bouvet et son texte (1992)

Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words. ...

Les dents de ma mère (1991)

Paulette, Jean-Christophe's mother, talks too much; after ten years of struggle Jean-Christophe notices that Paulette talks less, but one night he sees his mother's dentures in a tooth glass. Kind friends explain to him that Paulette has passed from the or ...

La Relève (1986)

En voilà 2 (1983)

Second part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy. ...

En veux-tu, en voilà (1982)

First part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy. ...

La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

Ce que cherche Jacques (1970)

A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed authorities such as the family and the prejudices it states, or unavowed as the economy that no individual alone expresses. ...

Paulina Is Leaving (1969)

Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal confrontations. Thrust into a world of madness and violence (or is it gaslighting?), Paulina is shuttled from a p ...