Thierry Lhermitte

On the loose in Europe, three wild college grads from America bring their "Daredevil Tour" to Paris in search of some serious fun. There, Andy (Scott) falls for the beautiful and mysterious woman of his dreams (Delpy). The only problem is ... when the moon is full, Andy's dream girl turns into a total nightmare! (Buena Vista)

A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past -- but now, fate is about to bring them together in the unfolding present. (Paramount Classics)

A hilarious story of how one little rumor not only brightens a simple man's life, but also triggers an awakening of everyone around him. (Miramax Films)

Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show. (imdb)

In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Hudson) and Roxy (Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society. Cultures clash and scandals ensue as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up. (Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi)

Rene (P. Noiret) is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail (imdb)

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée... (imdb)

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.

Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre. (imdb)

Simon is a down-on-his luck artist who gets no breaks from any quarter. While out working as a street sketch artist, he stumbles across the construction site for a new museum that is very obviously stolen from a design he created as an architecture student. Enraged, he storms into the office of architect Vincent Porel and demands an explanation, but is immediately hauled out by security... (imdb)

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 nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women. (imdb)

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 succession of casual affairs. (imdb)

Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost. Bull is almost driven to desperation, but then he finds the winning ticket in his pocket to a lottery with the biggest prize of all time: $150 million! With money like that, he can afford to make his enemies eat their plan. (imdb)

This film deals with the uncomfortable topic of incest, yet it is a credit to the director that he conveys the story with grace and subtlety. (imdb)

Sequel to Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation). A group of friends who met in a Club Med for single people reunite to go ski together. (imdb)

The Parisian broker Steph only needs the signature from his wife Patricia for their divorce - but she left 13 years ago for living with Amazonas indians. Steph finds her in the village and gets stuck for two days, where he learns that he has got a son, who grew up as an indian. Meanwhile he promises his son Mimi-Siku to show him Paris as soon as he will become a man. However, this happens next day when the tribe celebrates the children's festival. So both fly back to Paris... (imdb)

Capt. Alfred de Morsac is a French naval officer who is sent to Tahiti in 1914, to persuade the natives to join the French army. However, he finds that the island is ruled with an iron hand by Lefebvre, the French military governor. Morsac attempts to intervene; while earning the admiration of the Tahitians, he ends up in prison for his troubles. But Reia is convinced that Morsac is "Tefa'aora," a leader of local legend who will rise up to lead the Tahitians in a revolt to win their freedom. (answers.com)

An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home. (imdb)

A throwback detective attempts to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a young Parisian student named Rachel in this noirish mystery from director Guillaume Nicloux. His life a smoky and meaningless haze of women and seedy investigations, private eye François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte) agrees to take the case of a missing student in an investigation that grows increasingly complex...(fandango.com)

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts... (imdb)

Five boys and girls, aged 20-25, take on an Interrail trip throughout Europe. After a first stop in Amsterdam, where they meet up with an old teacher of theirs who happens to be gay, they cross Germany and Italy, and eventually end up in a remote island in Greek Cyclades. There, they find a home at Knut's, a faded disco sensation who locked himself up in a beautiful mansion overlooking the sea. During their trip, everyone will discover who they really are...

Eric Vincent never knew who his father was. When he gets a phone call to pick up the ashes of an old man supposed to be his dad, he ends up chased by relentless killers. Catherine Hoffman, a female cop, is investigating the murder of a man who was burned alive. Francois Maneri, a private detective, looks feverishly for his missing daughter. Those three quests will collide in the most unexpected and breathtaking way.

A touching portrait of modern life, whether showing the human dimension of large issues, or deftly detailing the intimate reverberations of a casual love affair. (imdb)

At a boarding school in 1950s Belgium, a 17-year-old student Laurent Matagne still recoils from the pain of his father's disappearance during a 1940 air raid. Vapeur, a wondrous professor who enchants all of the students with his enthusiasm, inspires Laurent to become a novelist. But the story doesn't end there; Laurent begins to suspect that Vapeur is in fact his father... (answers.com)

Max and Riton, two lousy thugs, acting under the direction of Fano. After a missed break, he dismisses them before offering them to remember the biggest coup of the century : to steal funds from the pension fund of SNCF stored in a safe in the Gare de l'Est. To steal money, they imagine opening the chest through the toilets of the station. Thus, under various disguises, they manage to win the booty at the same time as full of surprises will arise during their long and audacious operation ... (Wikipédia)

Everyone thinks that François Voisin is a model executive with a calm and orderly life, but it is only a front. In reality, François is a secret agent, one of the best: in the game he is nicknamed l'Épée, "the Sword". But even as he infiltrates arms-smuggling rings and prevents terrorist attacks, he fails to realize that his wife is bored. One day he discovers she is having an affair... (Wikipedia)

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)

Sam and Momo are two disaffected youths making petty theft. They are sentenced to perform community service in the field of music. The idea comes to them then to organize a concert for humanitarian purposes to divert revenues. (Wikipédia)

The characters from the first two films get together again, 27 years on. Bernard and Nathalie Morin, are the parents of a son who reveals a homosexual liaison; J.C. and Gigi are living together; Jérome Tarayre is divorced and seems unhappy in his new life; Christiane Weissmuller has joined an esoteric sect and wants revenge on Jérome who messed up an operation he performed on her; Popeye has become the proprietor of the hotel where the group has re-assembled, and is as unfaithful as ever. (Wikipedia)

After spending many years in the United States, Bruno returns to Rouen, where he grew up. He meets his old friends to tell them these past years and listen to their stories. But they no longer have much in common and Bruno feels like a stranger among them.

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one. (imdb)

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements. (imdb)

François Lesbuche has become commissioner of IGS. Despite his rank and his willingness to be incorruptible, he does not hesitate to help his old friend Rene, who is a retired recluse on his barge...

Two young women figure out that the best way to be promoted in the company, is to sleep with the CEO.

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings. (imdb)

France under occupation by the Germans during WW2: Two men inspired by a free France radio broadcast perpetrate an act of sabotage with unwitting consequences for them and their fellow villagers. (imdb)

The middle-age detective Michèle Varin is a troubled and depressed woman in therapy because of the death of her eight years son four years ago. She has many nightmares, all of them related to death, and she has thought in committing suicide. When she is assigned to investigate the murder of a woman found hanging on a tree in the woods suggesting suicide, she becomes obsessed by the case. During the investigations, her state of mind gets worse and she confuses nightmares with reality. (imdb)

Maxime, a comic book artist, lives with his girlfriend, Isabelle, a level-headed professional. Although she is happy with the arrangement, she makes every effort to keep from her parents the fact that she is living with a self-centred, a few immature young man who has no income and no desire to lead a conventional life. All is well until the head-strong Isabelle decides to have a baby. he is horrified at the prospect but agrees when his girlfriend threatens to find another man to oblige her. (imdb)

A young unemployed person, nourished by dreams and ideals, loses the pedals in contact with reality and a passion of disenchanted love.

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". (Wikipedia)

All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. (Allmovie)

Sylvia, an honest young woman, buries her aunt. Not far from there, a man who had attended another funeral invites her to lunch and tells him that he works in business. In reality, it is Dominique Leonelli, one of the right arms of Ange Malaggione, a formidable gangster who is at the head of the Corsican clan.

Lydie has just paid a considerable rent deposit for a new flat when her boyfriend breaks up with her. Now she is alone in a flat she cannot afford. So she starts looking for a flatmate and finally chooses Eva, a model. Eventually Lydie gets to know Eva's friends and that changes her life. (Wikipedia)

Adventures of Sheherazade through the legends of the 1001 nights. She meets all the great heroes and kings, and is helped on her journey by a Genie who's living in 1990 London and uses his TV to reach Sheherazade. (imdb)

Jacques-Alain Marty, known as "Jam", is the owner of Vladis Entreprises, a large French group. Everything succeeds, but for a few weeks, Jam is no longer in its normal state. He is subject to crises of anguish, linked to a childhood trauma, to which he must find the antidote.

Imagine that. One fine morning your body decides to no longer obey you. Worse, it takes a cunning pleasure in putting you in the most humiliating situations, and spends time annoying you with the voice of Shrek's donkey! This strange phenomenon is what happens to poor Georges, who has become uncontrollable despite himself.

Like his Abraham Jewish ancestor who abandoned his store of trinkets and religious idols for music, Isaac abandoned the making in the neighborhood of the Sentier in Paris, to create a musical group: Rock'n Torah.

Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for. (imdb)

Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash. But everything goes wrong and they're forced into hiding,in a 13 square meters bunker. There, they will have to test their friendship, their motivations, as every move outside triggers even more paranoia.

A political satire about a dashing, globetrotting French foreign minister whose charm and insouciance mask his utter and complete incompetence. (tiff.net)

3 days in the lives of 6 friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. (imdb)

Hippolyte, an eccentric notary, sees his marriage to Camille as his one great success. He also believes that love doesn't last, and this flummoxes him as they approach their 15th anniversary. To test her love for him, he promotes her seduction by an anonymous stranger, behaves badly to guests, makes love clumsily, sleeps in the guest room. All this breaks her spirit, and she asks him to move. (imdb)

Cannes, the French Riviera. Armand Teillard is happy with life; a busy store downtown, a delightful girlfriend, a magnificent record collection and lunch every day at Sofia and Martial's family restaurant with a perfect sea view. So when Sofia tells Armand that Zapetti, a property developer with mafia connections, is putting the squeeze on her to sell up, he is horrified. Armand is an easy-going guy, but when he gets mad... actually, Armand never gets mad. (imdb)

A man whose family were killed during an attempted robbery in a railway station decides to take the law into his own hands when the police do not track down the killers. (imdb)

As they are gay, Thomas and Stéphane cannot have children. But they love each other and their happiness would be perfect only if they could raise a little one. After failing to adopt a child in Martinique, they decide to hire a surrogate mother. Carole, a very pretty woman, agrees to bear their baby but only through "natural reproductive methods". Which of the two men will sacrifice himself? Will Carole actually give birth to a baby? (imdb)

Bénédicte and Brice d'Hachicourt live in Jouy-en-Josas in the great bourgeois property that Bénédicte inherited from his father. Brice took over the family business (formerly specializing in food paper at the limit of filing for bankruptcy with the arrival of aluminum foil), which he renamed Toilnet.

A transplanted Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte) and an Italian violinist (Maurizio Nichetti) try to avoid work by allowing women to support them in Florida.

Julien, thirty good dough and modest, applications for smartphone maker, is madly in love with Eva, a journalist in the professional press. After accepting the marriage proposal Julien, Eva is obliged to present it to his parents who live on the island of Ré. In a crazy adventures weekend, Julien will blow his future in-laws who were up by lies and pretenses ...

Set in a small coastal village in France, this is a quiet thriller of crime and dark secrets. The opening sequence takes place in a house just put out for sale. In it, the discovery of what appears to be the dead family in the house, implicates the former chief-of-police to the plot. The now-retired chief-of-police, having made a lot of enemies in his past career, is recovering from a car crash which he barely survived. (imdb)

A man, having been unemployed for three years, invites his new boss over for dinner, which leads to a series of comical mishaps and misunderstandings.

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.

Arnaud and his 4 friends are law students. Arnaud learns that he has failed the exams again. He must transplant a third time in his first year - His friends promise to remedy the problem by going to tamper with the results.

A birth takes place at the royal castle. Unfortunately, the queen dies and her baby, Snow White, is female. Even the intervention of a trainee fairy does nothing.

A group of men of all ages find themselves embroiled in a group therapy in the wilderness. Supposed to work miracles, the course is "exclusively for men".

At sixty years of age, two friends in the throes of financial difficulties are going to make the most of their image in the world of fashion and advertising. One is still beautiful, the other never was. But beyond the game of appearances, what does it really mean to be of retirement age today?

Dumped for a younger man by his 80- year old lady friend, an aging gigolo enlists his preteen nephew to help find his next millionaire. (imdb)

Faced with the tyranny of Caesar, who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him. (imdb)

Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.

Flanked by their two children, Adélaïde and Simon decided, like many Parisians today, to leave their two-room apartment for a quieter, more comfortable life in the countryside. They were seduced by a house in the middle of nature: space, a vegetable garden, a wood adjoining their garden and, above all, villagers who welcomed them with open arms. A dream come true! But the young couple are soon disillusioned: the wood is actually a big game hunting ground!

The editor-in-chief of a New York women's magazine is organizing the "Last Romantic Lover" contest to find out if men still have a sense of romance.