Urbain Cancelier

Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist mes ...

La Belle Époque (2019)

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing. ...

Best Intentions (2018)

A 50-year-old who is over-invested in humanitarian work is competing in the social center where she works. She will then embark her students in literacy class, with the help of a pretty foolish monitor, on the dangerous road of the code of the road. ...

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 ...

School of Life (2017)

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of ...

R.A.I.D. Special Unit (2017)

The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determi ...

Les deux canards (2016)

Du vent dans les branches de sassafras (2016)

John Rockefeller is completely overwhelmed by events: he must simultaneously face the perpetual attacks of "colorful" Indians , the multiple romantic imbroglios which are playing out within his home, the sudden crisis of dementia of his wife and finally th ...

The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the desce ...

Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (2015)

September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is conv ...

The Scent of Mandarin (2015)

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair. ...

The Session (2014)

A photographer gets to take a last picture of a muse he is obsessed with during a rather strange session. ...

Belle and Sebastian (2013)

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be 'the beast' that has been kil ...

The Suicide Shop (2012)

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Child's Battle (2011)

A young French boy deals with the effects of war. Conflicts arise as his trusted neighbor and advisor is taken away by the Germans and the boy loses respect for his father, who tries to appease the German soldiers lodging in the family home. ...

Voir la Mer (2011)

Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it's been a long time, because it would make her happy… There's no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home ...

Clara, une passion française (2009)

A Day at the Museum (2008)

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des pro ...

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 ...

The Red Inn (2007)

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to s ...

Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things. ...

Les Aristos (2006)

The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they ow ...

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 ...

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 ...

Malabar Princess (2004)

A man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy's mother died. ...

Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up (2003)

A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city. ...

Frou-Frou les Bains (2003)

Le passage du bac (2002)

For Julie and Bastien, it is the year of the baccalaureate. Following an accident, Bastien is assisted by his grandfather who has enrolled in the same high school. Julie convinces her grandmother to take the baccalaureate to support her... ...

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 ...

Le monde d'Angelo (1998)

Angelo believes his father works with extraterrestrials on a top secret project. ...

La dame aux camélias (1997)

The beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gauthier (Cristiana Réali), who is called a "Lady of The Camellia" because of the preference for these flowers, has many devotees among Parisian aristocrats. He really loves one - young Armand Duval (Michaël Co ...

La Puce à l'oreille (1996)

Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. Her best friend advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. Both of them send him a false letter, written by a beautiful stranger, giving him an appointment at the "M ...

Ridicule (1996)

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles. ...