Cast: Patrick Chesnais

Direction Julian Schnabel

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner · Marie-Josée Croze · Anne Consigny

Synopsis The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) tells the inspiring true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a former French magazine editor who suffers a stroke that leaves him with locked-in syndrome, paralyzed except for one eye. Trapped inside his own body,...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Françoise Béliard · Patrick Chesnais · Jenny Cleve · Jean Dautremay

Synopsis French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "Dossier no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and...

Direction Stéphane Brizé

Cast Patrick Chesnais · Anne Consigny · Georges Wilson · Lionel Abelanski

Synopsis Fifty-year-old Jean-Claude Delsart, worn out by his police work, gave up on the idea of life offering any sweet surprises some time ago. But he hadn't counted on just what would happen when he finally got up the nerve to...

Direction Gilles Legrand

Cast Niels Arestrup · Lorànt Deutsch · Patrick Chesnais · Anne Marivin

Synopsis Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup) is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family wine estate. But he has no faith in his son, Martin (Lorànt Deutsch), who works at the vineyard. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son—a dream...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine

Synopsis Constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called Marie decides to become a professional reader. Having placed an advertisement in the paper, Marie is offered work by a curious mix...

Direction Lisa Azuelos

Cast Arnaud Valois · Sandrine Kiberlain · Yvan Attal · Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother..

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Juliette Binoche · Benoît Magimel · Stefano Dionisi · Robin Renucci

Synopsis Paris, year 1832. This is the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice,...

Direction Ivan Calbérac

Cast Cécile De France · Bruno Putzulu · Olivier Sitruk · Estelle Larrivaz

Direction Alexandra Leclère

Cast Christian Clavier · Nathalie Baye · Gérard Lanvin · Geraldine Pailhas

Synopsis Jean-Pierre Ménard, had it up to here with his wife’s refusal to fulfill her “conjugal duties”, decides to halt the money flow by establishing a new rule between them: “No sex, no cash!”. Jean-Pierre Ménard, a rich businessman, has everything...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Gérard Lanvin · Patrick Chesnais · Annie Girardot · Marie-Sophie L.

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Patrick Chesnais · Jeanne Lambert · Ludovic Berthillot · Marc Fayet

Synopsis A depressed and nearly suicidal mooded man in his mid sixties, escapes from his "too much normal life" and then meets a runaway teenage girl.

Direction Jean-François Richet

Cast Vincent Cassel · Patrick Chesnais · August Diehl · Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq, the only man to be escaped of the greatest penal colony of the country, is a legend of the low-Parisian fund. Left for dead after its last spectacular escape, the ex-penal colony prisoner...

Direction Marion Vernoux

Cast Fanny Ardant · Laurent Lafitte · Patrick Chesnais · Feodor Atkine

Direction Alexandra Leclère

Cast Karin Viard · Didier Bourdon · Valérie Bonneton · Michel Vuillermoz

Synopsis Because winter is shaping up worse than ever, the government requisitions emergency accommodation, forcing many French citizens with housing to welcome into their homes the working poor, homeless, without access to housing despite being on a payroll. A wind of...

Direction Cécile Telerman

Cast Mathilde Seigner · Pascal Elbé · Olivier Marchal · Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis The Celliers are just like any other family, every one of its members is as mad as a hatter. Mady, a 60 year old housewife, spends her days with never a good word to say about her children and husband...

Direction Danièle Thompson

Cast Karin Viard · Dany Boon · Marina Foïs · Patrick Bruel

Synopsis So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

Direction Martin Provost

Cast Julie-Marie Parmentier · Stéphane Rideau · Carmen Maura · Nathalie Richard

Direction Brigitte Roüan

Cast Patrick Chesnais · Boris Terral · Nils Tavernier · Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis Diane, a Parisian of 50, a book editor married with two teen children, has an affair with a twenty-something engineer. He's Emilio, the flat-mate of François, a writer she's coaxing through a second novel. Her husband Philippe, who suspects and...

Direction Didier Le Pêcheur

Cast Mathilde Seigner · Marc Lavoine · Virginie Hocq · Frédérique Bel

Direction Eric Besnard

Cast Clovis Cornillac · Audrey Dana · Patrick Chesnais · Claudio Santamaria

Synopsis A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.