Liliane Rovère

Call My Agent! The Movie (2026)

Five years after the series finale, Andréa Martel is now a director on her first film. Things, however, are not running smoothly. When her lead actor drops days before cameras are set to roll, she must get the team back together, rekindling all the old fr ...

The Safe House (2025)

An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest. When an illustrious guest seeks refuge in the apartment, the family's dynamics change. ...

Present Perfect (2024)

Presents: most of us look forward to them. Others dread them, or even forget about them. With two days to go before Christmas, the Stain family is full of ideas, but they are far from all good. ...

Juliette in Spring (2024)

Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and fami ...

Oldies But Goodies (2024)

As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France. ...

La mécanique des tournesols (2023)

Re-belles (2023)

Sale race (2023)

Almost Fall (2022)

Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier. ...

Retirement Home (2022)

A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape. ...

Les Particules élémentaires (2022)

2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying pl ...

Stuck Together (2021)

Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l'Humanite - and they didn't escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours. ...

Mama Weed (2020)

A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing. ...

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu (2019)

Voyages (2019)

A woman meets a man in a bar late in the evening and goes to his apartment. A woman picks up a girl from school and runs with the child through the park. If we see such scenes in a movie, or are we watching such situations in life, we quickly believe we kn ...

Roxane (2019)

What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole. ...

Adopt a Daddy (2019)

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has be ...

Dilili in Paris (2018)

With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, eac ...

Dirty Kids (2017)

French seniors enroll in summer camp. ...

Les Yeux ouverts (2015)

Anne has been blind since birth, François' been blind from the age of seven. This couple is happy. But their daily routine changes the day François is given an artificial cornea transplant and regains his sight. ...

Ordinary Victories (2015)

Marco, in his thirties, is a little lost and tormented at the thought of truly settling. A former war photographer, he no longer wants to cover conflict and is more interested in the world of longshiremen. ...

La storia di Cino (2014)

In a small village In the Italian Piedmont, Cino, nine years old, lives with his brothers and sisters in extreme poverty. His parents had no choice other than to hire a carter to the French, who must take him in his country. There, it will be rented out fo ...

Coup d'éclat (2011)

Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute ...

Blank (2010)

In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to Anna, and like Ann ...

Eleanor's Secret (2009)

Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's literature. They ar ...

Great life (2009)

Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom in his lethargic high-school students. Circumstances lead him to Paris where he encounters a new student i ...

Anything for Her (2008)

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocenc ...

Ugly Melanie (2008)

This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice. ...

True Enough (2007)

Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though. ...

The Grocer's Son (2007)

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to rep ...

J'invente rien (2006)

Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something. ...

You Are So Beautiful (2005)

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena. ...

Alex (2005)

Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has no trouble matching up to the men. She works on renovating an old dilapidated house, high up and lonely in ...

La Bastide bleue (2005)

Nickel and Dime (2003)

Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wann ...

Seaside (2002)

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about an ...

The Idol (2002)

An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house. ...

Demain et tous les jours après (2002)

In Africa, two occidentals, a man and a woman, with totaly different minds, are obliged to make a long trip together in a cab. ...

Safe Conduct (2002)

During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals. ...

La fille de son père (2001)

A man decides to pose as his friend and claim to be the father of a child that isn't his. ...

Veloma (2001)

Philippe, a sailor, finishes a sailing race around the world, solo and nonstop. After this tour of the world, Philippe can no longer resume the rhythm of everyday life with his wife Lucie and son Vincent. ...

Les fantômes de Louba (2001)

Louba never knew her father and lost her mother when she was five years old. Placed in a host family, she meets Jeannie, a pretty and sensual girl. But, haunted by her past, Louba is unable to express her emotions and her need for love. ...

The Captive (2000)

Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she goes out, asks questions all the time, even in the most intimate moments. Ariane seems to take it all in strid ...

With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel. ...

Passionnément (2000)

On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets ...

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 ...

Voyages (1999)

In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel's delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the b ...

The Happiest Place on Earth (1999)

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943). ...

Venus Beauty Institute (1999)

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out ...

Artemisia (1997)

The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. ...

A Saturday on Earth (1996)

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is c ...

Adultery (A User's Guide) (1995)

This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both ...

Les genoux cagneux (1992)

The Girl in the Air (1992)

Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young pri ...

Black Mic Mac 2 (1988)

In the African district of Paris, a man tries by all means to find his jacket, accidentally lost, which contains a winning lotto ticket. ...

Waiting for the Moon (1987)

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in. ...

'Round Midnight (1986)

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks ...

Enigma (1982)

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer. ...

Comment passer son permis de conduire (1980)

Antoine, monitor driving school, is down-trodden by his daughter, his wife and his employ. The victim of an accident without gravity, he is led to the hospital. As a result of an error made by an internal, it is believed to have more than a month to live. ...

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. ...

Dirty Dishes (1978)

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20. ...

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, pro ...

March or Die (1977)

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who i ...

Andréa (1976)

Monsieur Albert (1976)

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noi ...

I Love You, I Don't (1976)

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay. ...

Femmes Fatales (1976)

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires t ...

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

An international assassin known as 'The Jackal' is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail. ...

A Tear in the Ocean (1973)

As the Germans marched into Poland, some Poles sought to join the resistance underground to harass or even stop the advance. Some members of the Jewish community joined them. A surprising number, more mystically inclined, did not. This French film takes us ...

Portrait of Marianne (1971)

Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne. ...