Screenplay: Alain Le Henry

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alain Le Henry. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Peppermint Soda

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Eléonore Klarwein · Odile Michel · Anouk Ferjac · Michel Puterflam

Plot In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach...

6.9

76 votes

6.9

76 votes

Entre Nous

1982 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Miou-Miou · Isabelle Huppert · Guy Marchand · Jean-Pierre Bacri

Plot In 1942, a young Jewish woman, Léna, marries a French soldier, Michel, to avoid being deported to Germany. Meanwhile, another young woman, Madeleine gets married to an artist, Raymond, who...

6.7

196 votes

6.7

196 votes

A Self-Made Hero

1996 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jacques Audiard

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz · Anouk Grinberg · Sandrine Kiberlain · Albert Dupontel

Plot Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife...

6.5

448 votes

6.5

448 votes

I'm the King of the Castle

1988 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Régis Wargnier

Cast Jean Rochefort · Dominique Blanc · Régis Arpin · David Béhar

Plot Thomas (Régis Arpin) is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widow...

6.2

99 votes

6.2

99 votes

See How They Fall

1994 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jacques Audiard

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean Yanne · Mathieu Kassovitz · Bulle Ogier

Plot Simon (Jean Yanne), a portly middle-aged travelling salesman, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after the shooting of his police officer friend Mickey. Choosing to invigorate his tired life with...

6.2

99 votes

6.2

99 votes

A French Woman

1995 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Régis Wargnier

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Daniel Auteuil · Gabriel Barylli · Jean-Claude Brialy

Plot Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne...

5.7

180 votes

5.7

180 votes

Subway

1985 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Christopher Lambert · Richard Bohringer · Michel Galabru

Plot Having stolen some compromising documents, a man known as Fred (Christopher Lambert) takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro. While the henchmen of the gangster owner of...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Vivants

2023 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Alix Delaporte

Cast Alice Isaaz · Roschdy Zem · Vincent Elbaz · Pascale Arbillot

Plot Gabrielle has just joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find her place among an experienced team of special correspondents. In the heat...

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Women of My Life

1986 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Régis Wargnier

Cast Christophe Malavoy · Jane Birkin · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Béatrice Agenin

Plot Simon, a famous violinist in a symphonic orchestra, becomes a drunkard, he is abandoned by his wife and he is not able to play any more. One night he gets...

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Killing Time

1987 · Movie · 92 min. · France

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Le Grand Pardon

1982 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Alexandre Arcady

Cast Roger Hanin · Clio Goldsmith · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Bernard Giraudeau

Plot With the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.

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Dernier été à Tanger

1987 · Movie · 115 min. · France

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The Big Carnival

1983 · Movie · 130 min. · France

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Cocktail Molotov

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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Elsa, Elsa

1985 · Movie · 73 min. · France

Direction Didier Haudepin

Cast François Cluzet · Lio · Tom Novembre · Catherine Frot

Plot A romantic comedy about a young screenwriter who is put into writing a screenplay based on his own experience as a child actor. The writer's girlfriend, Elsa, leaves him and...

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C'est la vie

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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