Valérie Donzelli

Vultures (2025)

Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern and daughter, cover the murder of a young girl for their magazine. Through their investigation, they discover disturbing similarities with the murder of another woman. ...

The Musicians (2025)

Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father's dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert, eagerly expected by music lovers around the world. But Lise, George, Peter and Apolline, the four virtuosos recruited for the occas ...

This Life of Mine (2024)

Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities. ...

Rue du Conservatoire (2024)

In 1996 I took the conservatory exam. I missed it. A year ago I was asked to do a masterclass on acting in cinema. I went there. I met a lively, joyful and passionate youth. Among my students there was Clémence. The following year, she asked me to film th ...

Making Of (2024)

Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the ...

Azuro (2022)

It's summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They d ...

Hear Me Out (2021)

Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Cla ...

Madeleine Collins (2021)

Judith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance, made up of lies, secrets and back and fo ...

Starring Grandma (2020)

Frankie Wallach, 25-year-old director, is fascinated by her grand-mother Julia, 94 years old, her death camp survivor story and her joyful personality. She wants to immortalize her as an heroine of fiction for her movie but it's without thinking about the ...

Notre Dame (2019)

Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm. ...

Losing It (2019)

Roman loves Camille as much as he loves his two daughters. But he is hiding from all of them a serious problem of addiction, which could endanger his dearest. Does love have a chance to survive when trust is broken? ...

50 Days in the Desert (2016)

Documentary about the making of Les Chevaliers blancs, the film Lafosse worked on for seven weeks in the Sahara. A shooting period marked by unusual working methods and unexpected challenges. ...

The White Knights (2015)

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to ...

A Stormy Summer Night (2015)

Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in a tiny hotel in a small Andalusian city. This small city has been the scene of a crime of passion. The poli ...

Saint Laurent (2014)

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece. ...

Cinéast(e)s (2013)

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to t ...

Opium (2013)

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical. ...

Longwave (2013)

It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland's aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip wit ...

The Big Bad Wolf (2013)

Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situatio ...

Hand in Hand (2012)

From the moment they meet - and against their will - Helene and Joachim begin a lovers' dance they are powerless to stop. ...

Cap Nord (2012)

A party, musical love stories: head North, on a Northern Soul rhythm. ...

Declaration of War (2011)

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try har ...

The Art of Seduction (2011)

Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. H ...

Iris in Bloom (2011)

An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer. ...

Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)

Nervous about his upcoming wedding, a man faces temptation from another woman. ...

Belleville Tokyo (2011)

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu'il part en rejoindre une autre et s'en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. ...

Ivory Tower (2010)

The film revolves around a sibling rivalry between two brothers, Hershell and Thadeus Graves (played by Gonzales and Tiga, respectively), as they compete during a game of chess. Peaches plays Marsha Thirteen, a former performance artist and the shared love ...

The Good Life (2009)

Desillussioned by life, Béa decides to commit suicide. She is interrupted by a phone call with a proposal of work for a financial tycoon. Far from the watchful eyes of her boss, she practices fraud, but it seems it gonna last not so long. ...

The Queen of Hearts (2009)

In this musical take on everyday life, Adele is devastated after a painful breakup. Her distant cousin, Rachel, finds her a job and suggests that Adele sleep with other men to get over her heartbreak. The search begins, but Adele can't escape the visage of ...

What Love Means (2008)

The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story. ...

Il fait beau dans la plus belle ville du monde (2008)

Adèle, a thirty years old woman decides to contact Vidal, a musician she admires. He answers and she's surprised. Messages are exchanged, a date is arranged. Adèle goes to the met, radiant with joy, but also worried : there's a detail she forgot to menti ...

Capri (2008)

Abattoir (2007)

Marc works in a slaughterhouse. All day long, he operates a bandsaw. One day an accident occurs: the band breaks, slicing off Marc's left hand. Contrary to his wife's advice, Marc brings the dismembered hand back home. ...

The Man Who Wanted a Child (2007)

Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But mor ...

The Untouchable (2006)

On her birthday, a young actress learns her father is a Hindu man her mother met in India. She decamps to Varanasi to find him. ...

Odile... (2006)

An ordinary bakery beside a country road. Behind the counter stands Odile, so ordinary it hurts. One day, a gang of bikers stops in front of the bakery. The past will invade Odile's life, bringing with it her most violent memories. This confrontation slowl ...

7 Years (2006)

A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu's consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film's sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct ne ...

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 ...

In His Hands (2005)

In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to wat ...

Time Has Come (2005)

In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron's daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter a ...

The Best Day of My Life (2005)

Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them. ...

The Necrophile (2004)

A story of a very ordinary man who just happens to be necrophile. (He is also like to eat cockroaches.) Problems begins when his pretty orphan cousin came to live with him... ...

Frédérique amoureuse (2004)

In what way is the life of a woman with a reliable husband and two nice kids transformed when what she expects most from life is her next orgasm with her lover ? ...

Who Killed Bambi? (2003)

Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. ...

The Vanishing Lion (2003)

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic's apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disap ...

Motus (2003)

Josephine, married and mother of two children, is gradually moving away from her husband Antoine. She rediscovers physical pleasure in the arms of a lover. ...

Right Under My Eyes (2002)

Young computer enthusiast Liam runs a website streaming video of his every action captured on a webcam. He lives a reclusive life, temporarily staying in a friend's apartment in Paris until waitress Alison and her British husband, James, move in. ...

Tender Souls (2001)

Jacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming Claire for dinner. Broke but clever, Jacques concocted a sumptuous meal. Everything looks great when, suddenly, a door slams and turns the evening into a fiasco. Jac ...

Martha... Martha (2001)

Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the ...

Le chien, le chat et le cibachrome (2001)

Samuel goes to Nice to pass the exam of the School of Fine Arts. He is accompanied by Nordine, uncultivated in art who takes some holidays. ...

Come Undone (2000)

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the b ...

Cold Lands (1999)

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son. ...

Rue du Conservatoire (2024)

In 1996 I took the conservatory exam. I missed it. A year ago I was asked to do a masterclass on acting in cinema. I went there. I met a lively, joyful and passionate youth. Among my students there was Clémence. The following year, she asked me to film th ...

Just the Two of Us (2023)

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by li ...

Notre Dame (2019)

Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm. ...

The Revelations 2017 (2017)

For this 11th edition, the brilliant Valérie Donzelli demonstrates all her attachment to youth by associating her talent with the 34 Revelations 2017. A true surge of poetry and romanticism, Valérie Donzelli's cinema touches, disconcerts and makes us fe ...

Marguerite & Julien (2015)

Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion. ...

Just Love! (2013)

Silvia's father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she's promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress. ...

Hand in Hand (2012)

From the moment they meet - and against their will - Helene and Joachim begin a lovers' dance they are powerless to stop. ...

La Vie parisienne (2012)

Pierre and Marion, a couple of Parisien teachers, have a life regulated. When they meet Marion's childhood love, Remi, their life is lighten to a new day. ...

Declaration of War (2011)

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try har ...

The Queen of Hearts (2009)

In this musical take on everyday life, Adele is devastated after a painful breakup. Her distant cousin, Rachel, finds her a job and suggests that Adele sleep with other men to get over her heartbreak. The search begins, but Adele can't escape the visage of ...

Il fait beau dans la plus belle ville du monde (2008)

Adèle, a thirty years old woman decides to contact Vidal, a musician she admires. He answers and she's surprised. Messages are exchanged, a date is arranged. Adèle goes to the met, radiant with joy, but also worried : there's a detail she forgot to menti ...

Regarde-moi (en face) (2003)

Antoine lives with his father Gaston. The latter is a voyeur and keeps his son at home through emotional blackmail. Gaston is forced to make a financial agreement with the neighbor across the street, Goran, in order to be able to continue watching Dune, hi ...