Luc Lavandier

Movies

Counter Investigation
Mertens
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Nina's House
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
Aurélien
Lucien Morel
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
Justice de femme
Bruno Vanhoven
Les Grands Enfants
Norbert
Tout ce qui brille
Tony
Laurence is 30 years old, has a loving husband and an exciting job. But her happiness is not complete because, despite numerous attempts, she is unable to have a child. Weakened by a miscarriage, her hope is reborn the day she meets Edith, a former nurse who has developed a personal method of care based on energy control. Thanks to Edith, Laurence regains her health and finally becomes pregnant. But there is a price to pay.
Clubbed to Death
Pierre
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict.
Les brouches
Philippe
Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn the farm-work and disturbs the calm.
Elles étaient trois
Luc
Three girls are stopped on the side of the road. A man drives by and stops to meet them.
Diên Biên Phu
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Gallant Ladies
Secrétaire de Brantôme
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.
Stormy Summer
François-Xavier
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.
Travelling avant
Gilles
Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are moviegoers. They will try to realize their grand project: to found a film club. "My film first wants to be a testimony of young people who have lived for a passion. Cinema"
Angel Dust
Gabriel Spielmacher
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Jeans Tonic
Michael