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

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

4.7

189 votes

4.7

189 votes

Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine

1981 · Movie · 85 min. · France

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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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated