Patrick Raynal

Les Mystères de la duchesse (2022)

Cyril is doing his Taï-Chi in a corner of the Domaine du Manoir. A golf club slams into the back of his neck, killing him with a deadly blow. The investigation is entrusted to Maud Arthuis, who is more than 8 months pregnant but widowed. ...

Le Prix de la trahison (2022)

Captain Marie Jourdan invites her friend Commandant Paul Danceny to celebrate her 30th anniversary at the restaurant her husband Pierre just opened. The party is brutally interrupted when agents come to arrest their son Marc for murder. ...

N'écoutez pas mesdames (2021)

Pour te retrouver (2021)

Lucas, 11 years old, disappears one morning from the family home. His departure plunges Marion and Alexis, his recently separated parents, into unbearable anxiety. Their child is absolutely not equipped to face the outside world alone; Lucas is autistic an ...

The Woman with Red Hair (2016)

In Saint Gilles, in the Brionnais, country of churches that invites serenity, the atmosphere becomes gradually agonizing, the past playing with the present. Antoine, a reporter and then a volunteer in the humanitarian field, returned to France after experi ...

My King (2015)

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. ...

WTF (2014)

Rémi Gaillard is the real character of the World network, troll, provocateur, one of the biggest-selling comic actor in Europe. One and a half milliards of viewing and millions of fans. A day came, and he decided to steady down: got married, settled down ...

L'Amour en jeu (2011)

J'étais à Nüremberg (2011)

Nina, a young Polish woman exiled in London, and Pierre Bernard, envoy of General de Gaulle, are part of the international team assembled in Nuremberg after the Second World War to try twenty-four Nazi war criminals. ...

Manhunt (2010)

A young terrorist is trapped by Gavras, a hunter of the Special Intervention Unit who is tracking him. Then starts a long walk through the forest, each one trying to dominate the other. ...

Le Pain du diable (2010)

Comme un jeu d'enfants (2009)

Leo, a 12-year-old orphan in the care of social services, struggles to fit in with the families he is placed with. Social services give him one last chance by placing him with the Dumont family, who live on an isolated farm in Haute-Provence, until he reac ...

Nuages (2008)

Cécile has returned to her childhood village. She is going to marry François. But a meteorological phenomenon will turn everything upside down. ...

Clémence (2007)

A young mother caught up in an uncontrollable spiral of passion after meeting a stranger abandons everything and leaves Paris. ...

Frozen Memories (2007)

Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006)

Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly ch ...

À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

La tresse d'Aminata (2004)

A child from Senegal is adopted by a French family in the Bretagne soon learns that she is not the only child. ...

Le Marathon du lit (2002)

L'Héritier (2002)

Les hirondelles d'hiver (1999)

In the 18th century in Savoy, the friendship of two poor children who are part of a team of chimney sweeps. ...

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 ...

Bonnes vacances (1998)

They're broke and they're going on vacation in a cave, an economical solution... ...

Miranda, La cuvée du tonnelier (1998)

Le Chambon (1994)

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps. ...

Pleins feux (1992)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Adeline Margaux. Catherine maneuvers her way into Adeline's role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in ...

La Fille du magicien (1990)

Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love. ...

Headstrong (1989)

Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little drama tells the story of Virgile (Thomas Langmann), a sixteen-year old boy who has grown tired of being a virgin, and decides to seduce Carla (Kristin Scott ...

Guys in the Cafe (1989)

A night of drinking in a local cafe quickly turns to tragedy for two of its patrons. ...

Once More (1988)

Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay. ...

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. ...

La Petite Fadette (1983)

A farmer's son falls in love with a young peasant girl despised by the people of the village where she lives. ...

Richelieu ou La journée des dupes (1983)

A historical television film directed by Jean‑Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, Richelieu, or The Day of the Dupes recounts the political tensions that came to a head in November 1630, when Marie de' Medici attempted to remove Cardinal Richelieu from power. ...

Le pont japonais (1978)

François le Champi (1976)

A young miller takes under her protection an orphan brought up by an old woman. ...

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another. ...

Vagabond Humor (1972)

Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the difference in the standard of living is trying, and he loses his bearings among this crowd of anonymous people. A ...