Patrice Valota

Through the Mill (2018)

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true eve ...

Demain, je me marie (2011)

Saviors in the Night (2009)

Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant Marga and her daughte ...

The Vintner's Luck (2009)

A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas. ...

Hymne à la gazelle (2003)

A lady unwittingly seeks shelter in a bar, where she attracts the unwelcome attentions of one of the customers. ...

Quand je vois le soleil (2003)

Raphaël, a draughtsman, and Margot, a prima ballerina, love each other passionately. But they learn that Margot suffers from an incurable disease. ...

Simon le juste (2003)

Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard (1993)

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is a ...

Toujours seuls (1991)

A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Nevertheless ...

The Tenth Man (1988)

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another ma ...

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon h ...

Follow My Gaze (1986)

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with t ...

Billy Ze Kick (1985)

Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick. ...

Brigade mondaine: Vaudou aux Caraïbes (1980)

Corentin and Brichot investigate drug trafficking in Fort-de-France, Martinique. ...

Marrakesh Cult (1979)

The crime squad follows a track that leads to a Morrocan drug and prostitution ring. They end up involved into an international school to form a mercenary army for non democratic governments. ...

Vice Squad (1978)

A young woman is found dead, nude and drugged with tropanyme (a powerful aphrodisiac). Inspector Corentin from the vice squad will go after this new drug and prostitution ring. ...

The Grapes of Death (1978)

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics. ...

5 Kittens (1973)

A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies. ...