Cast: Josiane Balasko
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Josiane Balasko. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 95
Le Hérisson
2009 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Mona Achache
Cast Josiane Balasko · Garance Le Guillermic · Togo Igawa · Anne Brochet
Synopsis This is the story of an unexpected encounter among some of the dwellers at number 2 of the Rue Eugène Manuel in Paris: Paloma Josse, an eleven-year-old hugely clever girl who has a secret plan; Madame Michel, the discreet and...
7.1
10K votes
7.1
10K votes
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Jean-Marie Poiré
Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Anémone · Marie-Anne Chazel · Gérard Jugnot
Synopsis Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he...
6.8
367 votes
6.8
367 votes
When Fall Is Coming
2024 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction François Ozon
Cast Hélène Vincent · Josiane Balasko · Ludivine Sagnier · Pierre Lottin
Synopsis Michelle, a model grandmother, is enjoying peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie arrives to drop off her grandson Lucas for the school holiday week. But nothing will...
6.8
698 votes
6.8
698 votes
Les bronzés font du ski
1979 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Michel Blanc · Marie-Anne Chazel · Christian Clavier · Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis After the Mediterranean Club, the merry troop of friends (more known under the name of Bronzed) are found with the winter sports. They will still live of other sentimental problems, and mishaps. The team even will lose itself in mountain.
6.7
397 votes
6.7
397 votes
The Bonfire of Destiny (TV Series)
2019 · Series · France
Direction Alexandre Laurent
Cast Lucien Dodge · Aaron Fors · Kellen Goff · Leticia Grassi
Synopsis TV Series (2019). 8 Episodes. After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil.
6.6
586 votes
6.6
586 votes
Hotel of the Americas
1981 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction André Téchiné
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Patrick Dewaere · Etienne Chicot · Sabine Haudepin
Synopsis Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away,...
6.6
103 votes
6.6
103 votes
By the Grace of God
2018 · Movie · 137 min. · France
Direction François Ozon
Cast Melvil Poupaud · Denis Menochet · Swann Arlaud · Eric Caravaca
Synopsis Alexandre lives with his wife and children in Lyon. One day he discovers by chance that the priest who abused him when he was a boy scout is still working with young people. Long repressed memories awaken. Distraught, Alexandre finally...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Jean-Marie Poiré
Cast Christian Clavier · Michel Galabru · Roland Giraud · Gérard Jugnot
6.5
68 votes
6.5
68 votes
The Year 01
1973 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jacques Doillon · Alain Resnais · Jean Rouch
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Miou-Miou · Gérard Jugnot · Coluche
Synopsis "Stop everything and reflect!". Built starting from this slogan, three accounts of political fiction imagined and filmed in the United States, in France and Africa. A merry utopia on the dream of the children of abundance, the imagined future of...
6.5
73 votes
6.5
73 votes
A Crime in Paradise
2001 · Movie · 93 min. · France
Direction Jean Becker
Cast Jacques Villeret · Josiane Balasko · André Dussollier · Suzanne Flon
Synopsis In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine... Written by...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
A Shadow of Doubt
1993 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Aline Issermann
Cast Mireille Perrier · Alain Bashung · Sandrine Blancke · Josiane Balasko
6.3
42 votes
6.3
42 votes
French Fried Vacation
1978 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Josiane Balasko · Michel Blanc · Christian Clavier · Marie-Anne Chazel
Synopsis Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
6.3
302 votes
6.3
302 votes
Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
1993 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Cast Josiane Balasko · Maurice Bénichou · Catherine Hiegel · Jean-François Dérec
Synopsis Irène is communist. Her candid faith in a bright future is cute, but not always resting for her family. She meets three red army choirs members in Paris, and kind of fall in love with them (in a pure way).
6.2
62 votes
6.2
62 votes
A Happy Event
2011 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Rémi Bezançon
Cast Louise Bourgoin · Pio Marmai · Josiane Balasko · Thierry Frémont
Synopsis She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Park Benches
2009 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Bruno Podalydès
Cast Florence Muller · Ridan · Jérôme Paret · Denis Podalydès
6.0
30 votes
6.0
30 votes
This Sweet Sickness
1977 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Claude Miller
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Miou-Miou · Dominique Laffin · Christian Clavier
Synopsis David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people's home. But actually his parents are dead, and he spends the week-ends converting a chalet. He intends...
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes
Too Beautiful for You
1989 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Bertrand Blier
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Josiane Balasko · Carole Bouquet · Roland Blanche
Synopsis Bernard Barthélémy is a successful car dealer who has a beautiful and adoring wife, Florence. His ordered, middle-class life is suddenly upended when he falls in love with his secretary, Colette. Although she is rather plain, vulgar and lacking in...
6.0
95 votes
6.0
95 votes
Demi-soeur
2013 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Josiane Balasko
Cast Josiane Balasko · Michel Blanc · Brigitte Roüan · Françoise Lépine
5.9
30 votes
5.9
30 votes
Angry Annie
2022 · Movie · 119 min. · France
Direction Blandine Lenoir
Cast Laure Calamy · Zita Hanrot · India Hair · Josiane Balasko
Synopsis February 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two children, comes into contact with the MLAC; an organization that performs illegal abortions in the public eye. Welcomed by the movement founded on tangible help for women...
5.8
81 votes
5.8
81 votes
Direction Guillaume Nicloux
Cast Guillaume Canet · Marie Gillain · Vanessa Paradis · Josiane Balasko
Synopsis Eric was abandoned at birth and doesn't know his father. He receives an urn containing the ashes of his father from a mysterious source who remains mysterious...
5.6
45 votes
5.6
45 votes