Patrick Chesnais

La Tournée (2025)

Burdened by debt after a long dry spell, actor Marius de Villeduc finds himself forced to accept the lead role in the new film by Richard Favard, a promising actor-director whom he knows nothing about. However, in order to receive his full fee, he must agr ...

The Islanders (2025)

The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it's already partly submerged underwater. ...

Another Alice (2024)

Alice leaves a party with her best friend, who tries to kiss her. She pushes him away, and he becomes violent... Alice then flees into a dreamlike world, revisiting a wonderland that resembles a nightmare. ...

Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste (2023)

Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has become a major figure in French cinema, but in her forties, she wanted to tell her own stories. She took a ...

Tous Inconnus (2022)

The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career, films, sketches & songs do exist but from someone else! ...

Chroma (2022)

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves? ...

We are Red Star (2021)

The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their experiences and testimonies. ...

Laval, le collaborateur (2021)

Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to ...

Like Thunder in a Cloudless Sky (2021)

Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous breakdown, making him unable to practise. ...

Him (2021)

Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest. ...

When Granny Meets Grandpa (2021)

Everyone's favorite fun-loving Granny Aurore goes overboard while partying and has a little accident! She loses her memory and gets put in a nursing home. When her grandkids hear her mention a mysterious man named "Gerry", they put all seven of their heads ...

Tant qu'il y a de l'amour (2019)

Sweetheart (2019)

A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother. ...

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 ...

The Emperor of Paris (2018)

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will ...

My Mother Is Crazy (2018)

A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son. ...

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 ...

School Is Over (2018)

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside. ...

Demi-sœurs (2018)

Lauren, a lovely 29-year-old it-girl, tries to break into the world of fashion by skimming Parisian parties. Olivia, a 28-year-old psychologist, has two obsessions: to save the confectionery of her parents, and to find her ideal husband. At the age of 26, ...

Noir Enigma (2017)

In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It's an inexplicable murder. ...

The Exes (2017)

In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests. None of them have anything in common. ...

The Summer of All My Parents (2016)

After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pim ...

Lost in Armenia (2016)

Comedian Jean-Paul Bolzec has just performed in Azerbaijan. On the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandoned on a desert road. He crossed the border with Armenia, in latent war with Azerbaijan for years. ...

The Roommates Party (2015)

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block. ...

Nevermore (2015)

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui (2014)

Où es-tu maintenant ? (2014)

Mathieu disappeared ten years ago. Every year, he calls on Mother's Day. But his mother cannot stand it anymore. Believing she sees her son in the street, she has a heart attack. Mathieu's sister, Caroline, decides to look for her brother. ...

Planter les Choux (2014)

The List of My Desires (2014)

When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is giving too lo ...

La Braconne (2014)

Driss, carefree, smug and naive, lives off petty theft and minor racketeering. Until he meets Danny, an old crook who takes him under his wing and shows him the ropes. Through knowing him, young Driss will gradually lose his innocence. ...

Bleu Catacombes (2014)

The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a ...

60 Going On 12 (2013)

Charles and Pierrot are inseparable. When Charles takes early retirement, it seems the world is their oyster. They can spend even more time together. Their motto is simple: "Make the most of life and have fun!». ...

Bright Days Ahead (2013)

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Espec ...

Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés (2013)

Show recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur. ...

Welcome Aboard (2012)

Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During his travels, he has a strange encounter with Marylou, a wild teenag ...

Hiver rouge (2011)

You Will Be My Son (2011)

Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems ...

The Great Restaurant II (2011)

The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager. ...

Je vous ai compris : De Gaulle, 1958-1962 (2010)

In Gold We Trust (2010)

A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over. ...

Vieilles canailles (2010)

Feu la mère de Madame (2010)

A staging of Georges Feydeau's play "Feu la mère de Madame" by Jean-Luc Moreau. ...

All Girls Cry (2010)

Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward. ...

Blame It on Mum (2009)

An upper-class family's dysfunctional harmony collapses when their daughter begins an affair with a cynical cop who unearths a long-buried secret. ...

Change of Plans (2009)

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family. ...

Home Sweet Home (2008)

A family's secret, it's a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968 protest movement, share the same house since the disappearance of the woman of Albert. ...

Melodrama Habibi (2008)

Dans les années 70 Bruno Caprice a connu un succès éphémère avec "Quand tu t'en vas", son premier et unique 45 tours. Aujourd'hui oublié, il gagne sa vie comme réceptionniste dans un grand hôtel parisien. Mais un coup de fil inattendu va changer le ...

The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)

Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved f ...

Héros (2007)

A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment. ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinki ...

The Price to Pay (2007)

Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly d ...

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. ...

Cheating Love (2006)

Laurent loves Camille but he can't bring himself to marry her. Then he meets Elodie and discovers what love really is – not the mild cozy affection he has for Camille but a cataclysmic, thunderous all-consuming earthquake of the soul. The only problem is ...

Not Here to Be Loved (2005)

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson... ...

J'irai cracher sur vos tongs (2005)

Micha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself. Charles, 20 years old, works for a real estate agency and is given a camera to film apartments. Not knowing how to use it, he practices one weekend and of course, h ...

Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte (2005)

The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis. ...

Casablanca Driver (2004)

This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969. ...

Mixed Marriage (2004)

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged. ...

Totally Nuts (2004)

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber. ...

Le ventre de Juliette (2002)

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother. ...

The Landlords (2002)

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connect ...

Sexes très opposés (2002)

Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several times over? Why do people tire of each other? What events lead to a break-up? If they could be identified, ...

Irène (2002)

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter. ...

Fool's Game (2001)

Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will have to utter to Perron's secretary. Perron (Miki Manojlovic) is the producer they have come to bully for igno ...

Te quiero (2001)

Jean and Sylvia left France with a stolen diamond to start a new life in South America. They land in Lima to live their passion. But the diamond is not easy to sell. They meet a French couple and hope to sell them the stolen diamond. ...

Charming Fellow (2001)

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free ...

Kennedy et moi (1999)

If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the "normal" people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen ...

Man of My Life (1999)

Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his psychoanalyst, Charles, hits him with the news: his analysis is over. It turns out to be a nightmare. Charles also has his own dilemma: his actress wife is pr ...

The Children of the Century (1999)

True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by ...

After Sex (1997)

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view. ...

Sidecar (1997)

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate. ...

Life's Little Treasures (1994)

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor. ...

Pas d'amour sans amour! (1993)

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of t ...

Drôles d'oiseaux (1993)

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared. ...

The Beautiful Story (1992)

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are ju ...

La Pagaille (1991)

To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divorced Martin gets into when he and his ex-wife Brigitte, the mother of his children, rekindle their long-do ...

Triplex (1991)

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client. ...

Netchayev is Back (1991)

Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion. ...

Promotion canapé (1990)

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss. ...

Le Sixième Doigt (1990)

The Austrian (1990)

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days. ...

Feu sur le candidat (1990)

Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since ...

There Were Days... and Moons (1990)

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. ...

Thank You Satan (1989)

Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her life is about to be shattered. So it makes a bit of sense that she is receptive to the possibility of selli ...

Kiss Me (1989)

The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and the dramas burst, the girl will try to find in his entourage someone able to listen and understand it, befo ...

Chère canaille (1989)

Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thirteen-year-old godson, accepts Francis' proposal to record a record without much enthusiasm. His voice, combined with his physique, gives rise to hope. Franc ...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête (1989)

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it ...

La Lectrice (1988)

A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores different neighborhoods and wintertime Provence, her imagination blends with reality, revealing the mysteri ...

Blanche and Marie (1985)

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germ ...

Les Sacrifiés (1983)

In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his revolutionary speeches. At the age of 27, he arrived in the Algerian slum of Nanterre. Roughly questioned b ...

Cap Canaille (1983)

Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in the underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, ...

Snow (1981)

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients. ...

First Voyage (1980)

When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father. ...

The Imprint of Giants (1980)

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965. ...

L'Œil du maître (1980)

A journalist very attached to freedom of information conflicts with the management of his channel. ...

Cocktail Molotov (1980)

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening som ...

Out of Whack (1979)

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right ...

Make Room for Tomorrow (1979)

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with ...

Dossier 51 (1978)

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'. ...

The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976)

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, noth ...

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 ...

Totally Nuts (2004)

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber. ...

Charming Fellow (2001)

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free ...