Nadia Barentin

On Air (2012)

At 40, Molina is the most famous radio host in France: she hosts a nightly call-in show where she answers questions from callers with sexual and emotional problems. When she decides to look for her mother whom she never knew, she discovers her living in th ...

The Round Up (2010)

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it. ...

Fissures (2007)

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made ...

The Red Sofa (2007)

Marie returns to live in La Rochelle, the city of her childhood, with her husband Marc, a policeman, and meets Nadia. The two young women scour the city's stores, looking for a red sofa. They soon discover one in the store of Maxime, a second-hand dealer. ...

Old Goriot (2004)

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsi ...

The Light (2004)

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operat ...

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine) (2003)

Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours a ...

Agathe et le grand magasin (2001)

A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribut ...

Beautiful Memories (2001)

Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the cli ...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001)

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his ...

Felix and Lola (2001)

Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix ...

L'Amour sur un fil (2000)

Sandrine, a former fashion designer who is unemployed, is now working in a garment factory as a worker. There she meets Mathieu, the company's human resources manager and a former childhood sweetheart. The two of them get closer, but their relationship is ...

Brigade des mineurs (1999)

Hard Off (1999)

This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perfo ...

In All Innocence (1998)

High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardis ...

De gré ou de force (1998)

A subsidiary of Générale Financière d'Investissement (GFI), Medic-Hall, a medical equipment company, employs nine salespeople. As part of the restructuring of the group, management decided to separate from them, without paying them severance pay. For ...

Un grand cri d'amour (1998)

A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate. ...

Agathe tricote (1998)

65 years old Agathe Ledu refuses to grow old alone. That's why she's visiting the graveyard on a daily basis, honouring her husband and son, Breton sailors lost in sea five years ago. She's talking to them, all the while knitting. But for whom is Agathe kn ...

A Self-Made Hero (1996)

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. ...

Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)

It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of s ...

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. ...

Les Ritals (1991)

This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother. ...

Marriage of the Century (1985)

Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and i ...

Our Story (1984)

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woma ...

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! (1982)

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it. ...

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)

Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfri ...

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's (1981)

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates. ...

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears (1979)

Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention... ...

The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)

The second part of the Seventh Company adventures. ...

The Beguines (1972)

Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Bég ...

Huit femmes (1972)

Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman. ...