Bertrand Blier

Gerard Depardieu plays a bisexual petty criminal named Bob who encounters a married couple arguing in a bar... (imdb)

Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits.... (imdb)

Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous implications of life in showbiz as told by a variety of real-life French actors. (Tracie Cooper, Rovi)

A vivacious girl, stranded in an Alpine ski resort, is rescued by two friends. She finds herself drawn to each of them and complications abound as the men are troubled by her friendliness.

In Lyons, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young... (imdb)

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure. (imdb)

In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses François and returns to his place. But once a whore, always a whore. (imdb)

Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. (IMDB)

A 14-year-old girl, Marion, moves in with her stepfather, Rémi, after her mother remarries. Rémi is initially reluctant to have Marion in his life, but he eventually grows to love her. However, Marion begins to develop feelings for Rémi, and he is eventually seduced by her. Their relationship is fraught with tension and guilt, and it has a profound impact on both of their lives.

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept. (imdb)

Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet) are polar opposites: the former a liberal member of the bourgeoisie, complete with a well-groomed son and an attractive mistress; the latter, a curmudgeonly right-wing ne'er-do-well who lives to upset the status quo. When Leonce's housekeeper Nacifa (Farida Rahouadj) enters the picture, the two become rivals, each attempting to bed (Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide)

What is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. What defines a famous person? Is it their public self or their private self? What is the public's legitimate claim on their fame? With the glitterati of French Cinema starring as themselves, the anonymous faces in the audience gain a glimpse into the downside of public recognition. (imdb)

Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters. (imdb)

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. (imdb)

A vacationing doctor (Bernard Blier) is caught in a web of international espionage after his chance meeting with a medical patient in Poland. He is soon followed by a concerned secret service agent (Bruno Cremer) who warns the unsuspecting doctor that his daughter could be in danger. The physician's chance encounter with the man he treated leads the spies to believe he is in collaboration with the enemy. (Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide)

Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort) run away from their families at the same time. They indulge themselves by eating what they want to, when and where it pleases them. Trouble finds them in the form of their abandoned wives, and the film moves very much into the realm of symbolic and sexual fantasy from this point onward. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)

In this provocative drama, adolescent girl Victorine (Anouk Grinber) struggles with her approaching teenage years while living in a lower-class neighborhood of Marseilles. Her overbearing mother (Myriam Boyer) and her alcoholic father (Marcello Mastroianni) propel her into an almost constant dream world, until she befriends a mysterious woman and later encounters her first love, Petit Paul (Olivier Martinez), with whom she has a brief affair. (www.netflix.com)

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! (imdb)

Loïc and Seb are a couple of local celebrities installed in the Marais area of Paris. Seb is the boss of the quarter's most trendy, most stylish and gayest nightclub. In addition Loïc will realize his dream, he's going to be a father. It was he who gave his sperm. In vitro fertilization. Their accomplice Marie, made this possible.She is three months pregnant, but Marie falls madly in love with Charles, a stranger and a straight as well. (jinni.com)

The film about a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen. (imdb)