Screenplay: Patrice Leconte
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Patrice Leconte. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Monsieur Hire
1989 · Movie · 81 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Michel Blanc · Sandrine Bonnaire · Luc Thullier · André Wilms
Plot 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,...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean Rochefort · Anna Galiena · Roland Bertin · Maurice Chevit
Plot 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,...
6.9
8K votes
6.9
8K votes
Tandem
1987 · Movie · 87 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Gérard Jugnot · Jean Rochefort · Sylvie Granotier · Julie Jézéquel
Plot 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...
6.8
40 votes
6.8
40 votes
Les bronzés font du ski
1979 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Michel Blanc · Marie-Anne Chazel · Christian Clavier · Thierry Lhermitte
Plot 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,...
6.7
397 votes
6.7
397 votes
French Fried Vacation
1978 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Josiane Balasko · Michel Blanc · Christian Clavier · Marie-Anne Chazel
Plot 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...
6.3
302 votes
6.3
302 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
Tango
1993 · Movie · 86 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Philippe Noiret · Richard Bohringer · Thierry Lhermitte · Carole Bouquet
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
5.8
53 votes
5.8
53 votes
The Suicide Shop 3D
2012 · Movie · 79 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Plot 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....
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
Plot 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...
5.6
142 votes
5.6
142 votes
Maigret
2022 · Movie · 84 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Aurore Clément · Mélanie Bernier · Anne Loiret
Plot 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...
5.5
1K votes
5.5
1K votes
The Drummer of Ravel's Boléro (S)
1993 · Movie · 8 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jacques Villeret · Laurent Petitgirard
Plot Probably no one in the public listening to the orchestra's rendition of Ravel's Bolero notices him but the drummer is a regular hero. For, although his mind is assailed by...
5.2
140 votes
5.2
140 votes
A Promise
2013 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Rebecca Hall · Alan Rickman · Richard Madden · Maggie Steed
Plot A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, the pledge their...
5.1
771 votes
5.1
771 votes
Half a Chance
1998 · Movie · 109 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Alain Delon · Vanessa Paradis · Eric Defosse
4.7
189 votes
4.7
189 votes
Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine
1981 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Michel Blanc · Bernard Giraudeau · Thérèse Liotard · Anémone
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Move Along, There is Nothing to See
1983 · Movie · 84 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Jane Birkin · Michel Blanc · Jacques Villeret · Michel Robe
Plot Two cops investigate a routine matter of stolen checks. But a beautiful woman involved muddles everything to woo one of the hounds applied.
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976 · Movie · 74 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Coluche · Jean Rochefort · Roland Dubillard · Danièle Evenou
Plot The feature debut of prominent French director Patrice Leconte is a spoof of the detective genre, done in absurdist, deadpan style. A harmless bus ticket puncher, has been blown up...
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Voir la mer
2011 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Patrice Leconte
Cast Nicolas Giraud · Clement Sibony · Pauline Lefèvre · Gilles Cohen
Plot Two brothers go on a summer vacation to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The plan was to go alone on a brothers' road trip across France, but a charming young...
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Salauds de pauvres
2019 · Movie · 106 min. · France
Direction Christophe Alévêque · Rémi Cotta · Jean-Claude Deret · Charles Dubois
Cast Agnès Akopian · Christophe Alévêque · Prescillia Andreani · Christelle Annocque
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