Laurent Bateau

The Future Awaits (2025)

In July 1942, during the Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any ...

Not Without My Shrink (2024)

A successful psychoanalyst's life is turned upside down by a very anxious and extremely clingy patient who starts dating his daughter. ...

The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trai ...

Brigade du fleuve (2024)

À qui profite le doute ? (2024)

Lightning-Struck (2024)

Lucie and her husband Samuel Carrera are celebrating their wedding at the Inn of "Lac de Guéry" in the French mountains of Auvergne when lightning strikes them and five others. ...

Les Blagues de Toto 2 - Classe verte (2023)

This field trip seemed to be a good idea... Five days away from school, away from parents, in an organic farm, in order to enjoy the fresh air and initiate to ecology... But, in fact, everyone was a bit worried. Toto's parents, leaving their son for the fi ...

Inédit en Europe (2023)

Boomerang (2023)

Sexually assaulted by a colleague, a young worker in a paper company tries to end her life. Faced with the denial of the aggressor and the management, the women and men workers led by Louise, the undisputed leader of the company, will mobilize and do every ...

Les Têtes givrées (2023)

Alain, a former mountain guide, decides to change his life and become a teacher. He finds himself faced with colorful ninth graders who are not interested in anything. Seeking to motivate them and bring them together, Alain decides to organize an outing... ...

Temps de chien (2023)

C'est magnifique ! (2022)

When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he comes from. Raised in nature, Pierre has never been confronted with society. He does not know the codes. He will team up with Anna who will help him in his ...

King (2022)

King, a trafficked lion cub, escapes from the airport and takes refuge with Inès and Alex, who then have the crazy idea of getting him back to Africa. Anything can happen when Max their kooky grandfather, decides to join the adventure. ...

Emma Bovary (2021)

1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Flaubert, the man on trial. Madame Bovary is charged with obscenity and offending public morals. As the two sides lay out their cases, the novel springs to lif ...

Delicious (2021)

France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very firs ...

Mention particulière : Bienvenue dans l'âge adulte (2021)

Intraitable (2021)

Gabriel refuses to obey a prefectural decree which requires him to treat his vineyard with pesticides. As an advocate of biodynamic principles, he opposes the use of chemical products on vines. ...

Copy Cat (2020)

Newly promoted Lieutenant Valentine Ventura finds herself working with famous Captain Antoine Thomas who just came back from his medical leave after the tragedy he lived a few months ago : victim of a car crash that killed both his wife and the child she w ...

The Speech (2020)

Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for h ...

Les Blagues de Toto (2020)

Back-to-school! For troublemaker Toto, it's the best playground for fooling around. When a sculpture collapses during the opening of a museum, Toto is immediately blamed. To prove his innocence, Toto has no other option but making a pact with Igor, the sc ...

10 Days with Dad (2020)

Antoine is the Head of HR of a big company. Managing people is his thing, so when his overwhelmed wife suddenly decides to go on holiday and leave him with the responsibility of the house and their four kids, he knows it will be a piece of cake for him. Bu ...

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 ...

Le Canal des secrets (2020)

Marseillette in the Aude: stuck in a lock, a woman's corpse. Following the first findings against her husband, who's a judge, a Parisian police commissioner is mandated to investigate. She will have to work with a gendarme from the region. ...

Disclaimer (2019)

Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent audiences stoke the jealousy even within La Grande Chaîne which he is the undisputed star. His thirst ...

Losing It (2019)

Roman loves Camille as much as he loves his two daughters. But he is hiding from all of them a serious problem of addiction, which could endanger his dearest. Does love have a chance to survive when trust is broken? ...

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him. ...

Une vie après (2018)

Marion does not love her husband anymore. She decides to leave him to live fully, not to be locked in the reassuring comfort of a family life. Dominique lives with his wife an identical situation but he can not take the plunge. ...

Me and El Che (2018)

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che's last companions. It was somewhere over there, in ...

Rolling to You (2018)

Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair. ...

When Margaux Meets Margaux (2018)

20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the same person, at two different ages and stages of their life… ...

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. ...

Dirty Kids (2017)

French seniors enroll in summer camp. ...

Dalida (2017)

Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed s ...

Family Heist (2017)

A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him. ...

Murder in Martigues (2016)

Elisabeth Richard, a district attorney, and Paul Jansac, a police officer are in charge of the investigation of the death of Pierre Saint-Florent whose corpse was found in a beach near Martigues. ...

Super Lola (2016)

Les Naufragés (2016)

A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island. ...

The Sense of Wonder (2015)

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought. ...

Des roses en hiver (2014)

Ce monde est fou (2014)

Junior (2014)

Alex is in love with Sandra since childhood but has never dared approach her.He asks Antoine, a lonely writer to help him seduce her, because in his time he was the only one to conquer the heart of the mother. ...

Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014)

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud. ...

15 jours ailleurs (2013)

Unbearable pressure, unfair competition from a young assistant: Vincent burned out in the middle of a business meeting. With his wife's consent, he was admitted to a psychiatric ward. Neglected by an overworked care team, he befriends Hélène, a young psy ...

Des gens qui passent (2013)

Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious. ...

Radiostars (2012)

Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefe ...

Chase (2011)

The quiet Luis commits a robbery. Two of his childhood friends try to help him get away with it. ...

Polisse (2011)

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically documen ...

À dix minutes de nulle part (2011)

The Stievenart family decides to spend their vacation far away and puts an ad on the internet. The Mailon family responds by offering to exchange homes. But the Stievenart family has an environmentally friendly house, while the Mailons consume a lot of ene ...

Mort d'un président (2011)

Hereafter (2010)

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways. ...

Préliminaires (2010)

Un divorce de chien (2010)

The Pimp (2010)

A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp. ...

State Affairs (2009)

A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, ge ...

The Concert (2009)

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, ...

LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2009)

Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother. ...

Beauties at War (2009)

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot. ...

Coluche (2008)

French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections. ...

Une lumière dans la nuit (2008)

During a visit to the Braille Museum in Coupvray, Aurore Blin, a 21-year-old blind woman, is given a signet ring that belonged to her father, who died twelve years earlier in a strange accident. Despite her blindness, the young woman, intrigued, decides to ...

Ça se soigne ? (2008)

Tom has everything going for him! He is a renowned and celebrated conductor, sought after all over the world, and his talent is a source of national pride. He is rich, intelligent, and cultured. He has a dream wife with a promising future in aerospace. He ...

Mariage Surprise (2007)

When Franck, a cool and laid-back heartthrob, meets Lily, a trendy and pretty girl, sparks fly. After a sensual and tender dance, he walks her home... But the rude awakening comes... Together, they promise never to see each other again. But fate has other ...

Je t'aime à te tuer (2006)

A Canadian policewoman tracks down a 40-year-old man in France who is suspected of killing a woman in Montreal and who, in the meantime, has begun a relationship with a single mother. ...

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. ...

Chambre 616 (2006)

The immediate consequences that Mr Cossé's failed suicide attempt has for some of his neighbors' lives. ...

Passés troubles (2006)

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a po ...

Bel ami (2005)

In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major financial newspaper. Forestier manages to find him a position at the newspaper. With his friend's support, G ...

Edy (2005)

Edy, an insurer with questionable morals, knows his business inside and out, so much so that he is not stingy with all kinds of schemes to help some of his privileged clients collect their spouse's life insurance. However, Edy is tired of this life, which ...

Cavalcade (2005)

Leo, an accomplished playboy, neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he suffers an accident. He survives, but his whole life is about to change when he becomes wheelchair-boun ...

The Best Day of My Life (2005)

Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them. ...

Je hais les enfants (2003)

Wrongly suspecting her husband of being unfaithful, a young mother leaves him alone for a week with their three unruly children. ...

Comme si de rien n'était (2003)

Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's total, absolute. But Alix's life catches up with them. During the course of the performance of the play, they'll pretend that nothing has happened. ...

My Wife Is an Actress (2001)

A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems in their relationship. This is a story about trust and a comedy about the actions between men and women. ...

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the mu ...

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 ...

Captain Conan (1996)

The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield. ...

CASTING (1986)

Short film by Michael Klier. ...