Patrick Paroux

Une Régate au Paradis (2024)

The President's Wife (2023)

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decid ...

La Plus belle pour aller danser (2023)

Marie-Luce Bison, 14 years old, is raised by her father in a cheerful boarding house for seniors where he is the director. It is soon the costume party of her new college: her father does not want her to go ... and anyway, she is not invited. But pushed by ...

The Time of Secrets (2022)

Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and unearthe ...

Two Snails Set Off (2017)

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "C ...

Wolfy: The Incredible Secret (2013)

Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they live the easy life in the Land of the Rabbits. But Loulou, who thought he was an orphan, learns that his boh ...

Passage of Desire (2012)

Retired police detective Lola and her neighbor Ingrid investigate a murder. ...

The Skin of Sorrow (2010)

It's 1832, 22-year-old Raphaël's gambling has driven him to the brink of suicide. As he is about to throw himself in the Seine, a shopkeeper offers him something: a mysterious "skin of sorrow", which will grant all his wishes, but in doing so will shrink ...

Raboliot (2008)

In the French countryside at the beginning of the 20th century, Raboliot, who gets his name from looking like a burrowing rabbit, is a small-time poacher who loves and lives for freedom. Married with two children but traumatised by the war, it is only when ...

La Femme coquelicot (2005)

A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love. ...

L'homme qui voulait passer à la télé (2005)

Fascinated by the dazzling small screen, Bernard leaves home sweet home, daddy and mummy and his native city (Toulouse) to try his luck in Paris. ...

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for ...

L'Américain (2004)

Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul. ...

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days. ...

Penn sardines (2004)

In 1924, female workers in a sardine cannery in Brittany went on strike. ...

Corto Maltese - Autres aventures (2003)

Amélie (2001)

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will ...

Prison à domicile (1999)

Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to re ...

Inner City (1995)

Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Deborah. His everyday life is divided between a job where he is exploited, discussions with his friends and brot ...

Deus ex machina (1994)

It's all in a days work for the man inside the photo booth at a train station; His crush, unnerving children, clowns and murder. ...

Les Clés du Paradis (1991)

Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives. ...

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 ...

Delicatessen (1991)

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her fami ...

Killing Time (1987)

A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be. ...

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977)

Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, symbol of youth and a certain beauty. ...