Direction: Patrice Leconte
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Patrice Leconte. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 36
Girl on the Bridge
1999 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Daniel Auteuil · Vanessa Paradis · Claude Aufaure · Bertie Cortez
Synopsis It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower...
7.3
5K votes
7.3
5K votes
Monsieur Hire
1989 · Movie · 81 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Michel Blanc · Sandrine Bonnaire · Luc Thullier · André Wilms
Synopsis Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Dogora - Ouvrons les yeux
2004 · Documentary · 75 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
7.0
35 votes
7.0
35 votes
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean Rochefort · Anna Galiena · Roland Bertin · Maurice Chevit
Synopsis Antoine, a little boy, falls in love with the local hairdresser, so he gets a hair cut every time he can. This situation causes some problems with his parents. However, when he grows up, he is still obsessed with the...
6.9
8K votes
6.9
8K votes
Man on the Train
2002 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean Rochefort · Johnny Hallyday · Jean-François Stévenin · Charlie Nelson
Synopsis A teacher and a gangster meet by chance in a small town pharmacy. As a friendship of sorts develops between these opposite personalities, each starts to envy the other and by the week's end, everything will change for both of...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Gérard Jugnot · Jean Rochefort · Sylvie Granotier · Julie Jézéquel
Synopsis Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him....
6.8
40 votes
6.8
40 votes
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000 · Movie · 107 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Juliette Binoche · Daniel Auteuil · Emir Kusturica · Michel Duchaussoy
Synopsis In 1850, in Saint-Pierre, a small French island near Canada, a man is brutally murdered. The murderer, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to die in the guillotine. But they must wait for the lethal instrument to arrive from Paris. A long...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Charles Berling · Fanny Ardant · Jean Rochefort · Judith Godrèche
Synopsis In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.
6.7
830 votes
6.7
830 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
Intimate Strangers
2004 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Fabrice Luchini · Michel Duchaussoy · Anne Brochet
Synopsis Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is...
6.5
955 votes
6.5
955 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
Lumière and Company
1995 · Documentary · 88 min. · France
Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman
Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan
Synopsis In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the...
6.2
813 votes
6.2
813 votes
Yvonne's Perfume
1994 · Movie · 86 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean-Pierre Marielle · Sandra Majani · Hippolyte Girardot · Richard Bohringer
6.1
458 votes
6.1
458 votes
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Philippe Noiret · Richard Bohringer · Thierry Lhermitte · Carole Bouquet
Synopsis Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they...
6.1
986 votes
6.1
986 votes
My Best Friend
2006 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Daniel Auteuil · Dany Boon · Julie Gayet · Julie Durand
Synopsis An art dealer (Daniel Auteuil) takes a bet: he’s got ten days to find a best friend. He throws himself into a frenetic series of auditions, to finally set his heart on a voluble and friendly cab driver (Dany Boon):...
6.1
3K votes
6.1
3K votes
Felix and Lola
2001 · Movie · 89 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Philippe Torreton · Alain Bashung · Philippe du Janerand
Synopsis Felix is the owner of a horse-gear of bumper car. One day, he is intrigued by a reserved girl but with the wild imagination, Lola: only, she accumulates turns and turns, being made hustle, shake, abuse by the other cars...
5.8
53 votes
5.8
53 votes
The Suicide Shop 3D
2012 · Movie · 79 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Synopsis Life in the city is tough. The routine, the tedium, the overcast sky... So it´s not strange that many people decide to erase themselves from the face of the earth. The Tuvache family has been attending to this demand for...
5.8
714 votes
5.8
714 votes
The Grand Dukes
1996 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean-Pierre Marielle · Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Catherine Jacob
Synopsis Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
5.6
142 votes
5.6
142 votes
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Aurore Clément · Mélanie Bernier · Anne Loiret
Synopsis In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
5.5
1K votes
5.5
1K votes
Love Street
2002 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Patrick Timsit · Laetitia Casta · Catherine Mouchet · Isabelle Spade
5.4
36 votes
5.4
36 votes