Patrick Catalifo

Magnificat (2023)

When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the bishop decided to launch an investigation and asked the chancellor ...

Rogue City (2020)

Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille's warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands. ...

Un enfant (2019)

Adrien is twenty years old. He lives alone with his father, a famous actor with an overbearing personality. Adrien's summer in Paris is a succession of small failures and disillusions. More than ever, Adrien is a young man struggling with his self-confiden ...

Carbone (2017)

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling. ...

Le Viol (2017)

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ord ...

Borderline (2014)

A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge. ...

L'Homme de ta vie (2014)

The Father (2014)

A staging of Florian Zeller's play "The Father" by Ladislas Chollat. ...

C'est pas de l'amour (2014)

Le Jour de la grenouille (2012)

A dedicated archaeologist, Anna Brahé, is stubbornly engaged in exploring an underground site, convinced that she will soon come across some important burial artefacts. Her superior is more sceptical and, his patience exhausted, sends Peter Morel, a renow ...

A Gang Story (2011)

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing che ...

J'ai peur d'oublier (2011)

La France qui se lève tôt (2011)

Souleymane has been living and working in France for years, with no residence permit. One day, his boss reports him. A musical about illegal immigrants. ...

Fracture (2010)

Bérénice (2010)

A staging of Jean Racine's play "Bérénice" by Jean-Louis Martinelli. ...

Guy Môquet, un amour fusillé (2008)

The Year After (2007)

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will t ...

President (2006)

State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President. ...

Maldonne (2006)

Juliette is a wheelchair-bound nine-year-old who sees life as one big card game. She thinks it is her fault that her father abandoned her mother, Sandrine, when she was diagnosed with myopathy as a child. So when Juliette and her mom move into a new house, ...

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 ...

Trois jours en juin (2005)

June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senega ...

Imposture (2005)

A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own. ...

The Pleasure Is All Mine (2004)

A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm). ...

Le Choix de Macha (2004)

An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that ...

Mister V. (2003)

Lucas is a young scientist obsessed with the analysis of movement: that of the horses he studies in his laboratory, that of the clappers he practices as an amateur. His professional and sentimental life seems like a stalemate when his brother Luigi, a pass ...

Jean Moulin, une affaire française (2003)

Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation. ...

La Source des Sarrasins (2002)

Traquée (2002)

L'Oiseau rare (2001)

A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her frien ...

The Heart at Work (2000)

A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives. ...

Stand-by (2000)

A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a pros ...

L'Eté des hannetons (2000)

Pauline is trying to understand why her father, Baron Galtat, committed suicide. On the train taking her back to the place where she grew up, she remembers. As a child, she felt neglected by her parents, who were too enamored with each other. Jean Jouvence ...

Lovers (1999)

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

From Behind (1999)

Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends ...

L'Onzième Commandement (1998)

The perpetrator of a murder refuses to denounce himself, which results in the conviction of one of his friends. On leaving prison, 20 years later, he goes in search of his former boyfriend. ...

Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (1998)

Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based ...

Technical chaos (1998)

A physics teacher reunites with his former classmate who he lost touch with for 20 years. ...

Mordbüro (1997)

The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev goes to the organization for help because his bos ...

I Hate Love (1997)

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard. ...

Mon amour (1997)

Three years after the wedding husband Richard starts to set up his wife, the teacher Marion, with his love and jealousy. He wants to have a baby too. Her best friend and the head of the school only see the nice husband. Antoine, the fiend's brother, is the ...

La Joie de vivre (1993)

Monsieur Charme is an old man, and the love of his life passed away some years ago. Despite being wealthy and in relatively good health, he finds that life without her is no longer supportable. Determined to end it all, he approaches Reine, a home-care nur ...

Diên Biên Phu (1992)

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh. ...

Children of Chaos (1989)

Marie is a young woman recently released from prison on drug charges. As a condition of her release, she joins a theatrical troupe composed of young delinquents, and at the same time faces a difficult journey of reintegration into society and strives to re ...

Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988)

This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings wh ...

Sand and Blood (1988)

Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attend ...

The Cheat (1984)

In Bordeaux, a gay man's murder leads Inspector Verta to investigate. He develops feelings for Bernard, a musician suspect, jeopardizing his marriage and impartiality in the case. ...