Gérard Lanvin

The story of a factory owner who meets an actress who is a friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives for an interior decorator who is the wife of the factory owner who would like to befriend with some artists who... (Offline Releasing)

Patrick and Alice are not types who would normally fall for each other, yet between them it's love at first sight. Only one problem: they do not live on the same schedule. Patrick works earlier on the radio, and Alice late. But they both love music...

During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon... (imdb)

Two friends become soft drug peddlers in search of a drugs haul that will keep them rich for the rest of their lives. (bfi.org.uk)

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)

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl... (imdb)

The story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" (The blue parrot). The innkeeper, Gabriel(le) dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father (the magician played by Gérard Lanvin) had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of the Blue Parrot is in their hands. (imdb comments)

The story of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine.

Cécile and Samira can't pay their rent. The two girls see an art gallery reception and finesse their way in. In attendance are Michel, a lawyer, and his wife Viviane. Cécile steals some wallets from coats. The girls are ejected.They try to rob a jeweller but there's a scuffle. Samira is arrested. Cécile needs to find a lawyer. Michel agrees to take the case, since she comes from the same poor neighbourhood he worked his way out of. Viviane suspects her husband has another reason... (imdb)

Tough criminal Moltes lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk. Prison guard Reggio lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket in exchange for his relationship advice. When Moltes learns that he has a winning lottery ticket, he breaks out of jail to claim his money. However, Reggio's girlfriend, Pauline, has the ticket with her in Africa. The action involves the odd couple teaming up to find the ticket while being chased by Det. Youssouf, along with the vengeful Turk and the Giant. (answers.com)

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Secret Défense tells of their secret war through the destinies of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a troubled young man who thinks terrorism will bring him salvation. (imdb)

This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk (Gerard Depardieu) who has some new-fangled ideas about the way crime should work. The film appears in French with English subtitles. (allmovie.com)

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life. (imdb)

Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall. (imdb)

In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. (Allmovie)

Two frowsty middle-aged men, cousins, live and work together. In this ironic satire/drama, they are cowardly, tricky and mean-spirited, but at least they have each other. When they take to testing the alarm system of the bank that they work in after what is for them a particularly scary moment, their boss sends them away on a holiday. They manage to pick up and seduce a pretty hitchhiker before discovering that she is a runaway minor with a reward pending for her return. (Allmovie)

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York. (imdb)

On 24 June 1980 , Max, Serge, Lucien and Henri are trying to rob the jeweler Cartier. The attempt fails and Max is imprisoned. 25 years later, a year after his death, the remaining three accomplices discover that there is a nest egg to share into four, the last portion attributable to Max's, Rémy.

Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse who saves the wrong guy -- a thief (Roschdy Zem) whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety? (imdb)

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors. (imdb)

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television. (imdb)

A former rugby champion and son of a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavaro (Gérard Lanvin), still mourning the death of his adored wife, raises his son alone. Jo wants his son Tom (newcomer Jérémie Duvall) to follow the family tradition. While Tom is excellent at math, he is hopeless as a rugby player and fails to qualify for the local team. (mubi.com)

Two petty criminals without span dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go and work in Poitou as representatives of music encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrives from Paris and just messing. (Allocine)

One evening, after dining at the restaurant with her friend Carina, who works in a luxury perfume, Anthony, second-hand dealer Clignancourt flea, brings her home to the station. But the train that brought her to Enghien, it is attacked by three thugs sinister, Balestra Samson and his two acolytes, Daniel and Michael Verlot Poubennec, in front of other passengers, petrified. A karate chop of the most brutal of them, Balestrat, is fatal to the young woman. (Wikipedia)

A wealthy businessman takes advice from his chauffeur on how to put the spark back into his marriage. (imdb)

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. (imdb)

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering. (imdb)

Jacques is a soldier who is called away from his military leave in order to take part in a secret mission. It couldn't have come at a worse time, as he was just about to propose to his girlfriend. With considerable cunning and guile, this dull-seeming super-soldier gets the whole operation moved. Now ensconced in her hotel, he can keep an eye on his girlfriend and do his job at the same time. (Allmovie)

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation. (imdb)

Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract the mysterious woman Violaine? (imdb)

Nicole Garcia's film shows a family through an adult man's figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons too. Jean Paul visits his father all day. After he divorced his life is unexciting and troubled. He has a lot of dark suits, a good car, a big house but he has some debts, and his private life touch bottom. He has to call his brothers and ask them to help . (imdb)

When new boss Bernard Malair arrives to turn the store around, Louis fears for his job; but Bernard, with his numbers man Paul and his factotum François, invites Louis into an inner circle of long hours of work, nightclubs, and dinners. Nina objects, but Louis cannot say no to Bernard's demands, no matter how personal. In desperation, Nina leaves Louis, but that drives him further into Bernard's orbit. Can anything break this spell? (IMDB (adapted))

When Julien Foucault, headmaster of the very venerable investment bank Berthin-Schwartz, learns his dismissal, he sees the opportunity to realize his dream of always: open a restaurant with his best friend Etienne.

Armorer and firearms instructor with the National Police, Vincent Miles is an expert in combat shooting. At only 22, his skills are envied by elites around the world but in most misunderstood by his colleagues, Vincent stubbornly refuses to include a brigade of ground. His fate changes when he meets Milo Cardena, disorder cop who takes him into an uncontrollable spiral of violence.

Carré is the patron of the BRB (Prevention of Banditry Brigade). Three years earlier, he dropped a big mobster Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who swung.

Jazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora. (imdb)

Camping at Blue Waves, it landed all over France. Like every year, this is the time of reunion around a drink customary for families accustomed. Except this year, Pic not have their location 17, the Gatineau are trying to share, and Patrick Chirac, the playboy of Dijon, is dumped by his wife.

Two cars crash into each other on a deserted road at twilight. Following this incident, a young man talks to a young girl in a college dormitory. She asks the man to explain how her father died. The man begins to tell a story concerning a woman called Alice, who was in one of the cars. (BFI)

In this bittersweet tale of couplings and uncouplings, a group of friends hole up for their annual Christmas gathering in Chamonix. (imdb)

François and Charlotte run a gastronomic hotel-restaurant by the sea, but their relationship is not set in stone: François wants his first Michelin star while Charlotte dreams of a child.

France mobilizes to gain the release of two kidnapped journalists in Iraq, but only the victims know the crime has been faked.

Life is one big party without consequences for 25-year-old Thomas. For his father, the heart surgeon Dr. Reinhard, enough is enough. He forces Thomas to take care of one of his young patients. Marcus is twelve years old and he lives alone with his mother. He has suffered from serious heart disease since birth and his life consists of going to school and regular hospitalizations. The two boys with completely different lives develop a unique friendship that changes their lives forever.

In France, prior to Louis XIV ascending the throne, a young baroness is forced to marry against her will and is caught up in a web of treachery and murder, threatening her and her husband, whom she has come to love deeply. (imdb)

The Morales family is in trouble: Franck and Karine are leaving to work on a cruise and entrust their daughter Camille, who has to pass her baccalaureate but would prefer to leave everything behind, to her grandfather, André, a retired gendarme who is as psychotic as they come. This is without counting on the arrival of Teddy, the other grandfather, back from Mexico where he was managing nightclubs not very frequented. The cohabitation between the grandfathers is going to be complicated... and C

A high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future.

At the Fresnes remand center, a football match takes place in the courtyard. Tibor Kovacs, a young Hungarian, works wonders with the ball. A true football virtuoso, he dreams of playing for the French team.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best! (imdb)