Jean-François Balmer

To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his roots in the region of his childhood; this is why Régis decides to take his wife and children on a surprise vacation in the Vercors. An old ruined house lost in the forest. No water, no electricity, even less network or wifi. Nothing is going to happen as planned

Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by Gauguin and the other by Munch. The same evening, his daughter Lara, is kidnapped by a mysterious organization, which demands as ransom the publication of texts casting opprobrium on this supposedly virtuous man, while the media is already actively seizing the case.

Durante las gradas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jo, un joven pastor junto con la ayuda de la viuda Horcada, ayuda a pasar de contrabando niños judíos a través de la frontera desde el sur de Francia hacia España.

En la playa de Omaha, Normandía, aparece asesinado un veterano estadounidense de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ejecutado militarmente. La capitana Gentil, de la policía de Caën, ha de investigar el crimen. Lo hará con la ayuda de su padre, del que lleva tiempo alejada.

A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.

Witold acaba de suspender sus exámenes de derecho, y Fuchs ha dejado su trabajo. Ambos llegan como huéspedes a una casa que debería ofrecerles relajo y que, sin embargo, les provoca una cierta inquietud a medida que una serie de hechos extraños comienzan a suceder. Basada en una novela de Gombrowicz.

Australia /// Un joven fotógrafo que lleva las cenizas de su padre de Australia a Grecia se entera de que algo siniestro ocurrió en su familia en relación con un joven judío. A pesar de esforzarse para distraerse mediante sexo y drogas, Isaac se dará cuenta que no puede escapar de los fantasmas del pasado

Un profesor de literatura francesa, desalentado y hastiado por las insulsas y torpes redacciones de sus nuevos alumnos, descubre entusiasmado que, por el contrario, el chico que se sienta al fondo de la clase, muestra en sus trabajos un agudo y sutil sentido de la observación. Este chico, que se siente extrañamente fascinado por la familia de uno de sus compañeros, escribirá, animado por el profesor, una especie de novela sobre esa familia (y también sobre el profesor), en la que es difícil distinguir entre realidad y ficción.

A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.

En 1947, Roger, de 11 años, no muy querido por su madre y despreciado por su padre, es enviado a un internado de un pueblo de Anjou, dirigido por una maestra estricta, exigente pero de buen corazón, conocida como "Mumu"

Lucky Luke, un hábil pistolero, es designado por el presidente de Daisy Town para instaurar la paz en la ciudad.

Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under way. Matteo spends the eve of the festival with Lidia and three other boys from the village. The group of kids begins a dangerous game, bringing up obscure mysteries that are rooted in the past of that mountain valley. Matteo thus goes through a sort of initiation, at the end of which he is able to exorcise his fears, but only after becoming uncomfortably conscious of the existence of evil.

Tokio es una antología de tres cortometrajes de los directores Michel Gondry (Francia), Leos Carax (Francia) y Joon-ho Bong (Corea), cada uno de los cuales ofrece una visión imaginativa y transnacional / sobrenatural de la Megapolis de Tokio.

On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of collaboration with the enemy, the author of successful plays ("My Father was Right," "Let's Make a Dream," "Quadrille") and director of the theatre of the Madeleine was to remain captive for sixty days. His detention took from from the depot, to the Vel' d'hiv', then Drancy, and finally Fresnes Prison.

After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich heiress.

Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert), juez de instrucción, es la encargada desentrañar e instruir un complejo caso de malversación de fondos en el que está implicado el presidente de un importante grupo industrial. A medida que avanza la investigación, se da cuenta de que su poder es casi omnímodo. Pero, al mismo tiempo, y por causa de su adicción al trabajo, su vida privada se tambalea.

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, Jean his law studies. A rivalry is born between the brothers when Jean, the youngest, inherits the fortune of Dr. Maréchal, his godfather, who has just died in the colonies.

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Voilà dix ans que les chemins de René et de François se sont séparés. De l'époque glorieuse où, flics, ils écumaient le quartier Montmartre, il ne leur reste qu'une poignée de souvenirs, l'argent de leurs ripouseries s'étant évaporé avec le temps. Tout à une fin. Jusqu'à ce que ça recommence. René, à la limite de la clochardisation, survit avec pour domicile un bateau déglingué...

Un relato policíaco, a medio camino entre el teatro del absurdo y el cine de Hitchcock, centrado en la insólita relación que se establece entre una ingenua heredera que ve ángeles por todas partes y que, además, ha pronosticado que el día siguiente será el mejor día de su vida, y un asesino psicópata que acaba de escaparse del manicomio y que acaba haciéndose amigo suyo.

Una colección de objetos procedentes de una excavación arqueológica en Egipto se deposita en el famoso museo del Louvre en París, y mientras los expertos utilizan un escáner láser para determinar la edad de un sarcófago, un espíritu fantasmagórico se escapa y se abre camino hacia el sistema eléctrico del museo.

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.

Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) está en su lecho de muerte. Ver fotografías trae recuerdos de su infancia, su juventud, sus amantes y la forma en que la Gran Guerra puso fin a un estrato social. Sus recuerdos no están en un orden particular, se mueven hacia adelante y hacia atrás en el tiempo. Marcel en varias edades interactúa con Odette, con la bella Gilberte y su marido condenado, con el barón de Charlus que busca el placer, con la amante de Marcel Albertine y con otros; presentes también en la memoria están la querida madre y abuela de Marcel. Parece como si vivir es recordar y capturar recuerdos es crear una obra de gran arte. Los recuerdos son paralelos al volumen final de la novela de Proust.

Betty y Victor forman una pareja bastante singular. Él es un hombre de 60 años, justo el doble que ella. Los dos recorren Francia y otros países en una caravana y participan en reuniones y congresos, donde se dedican a desvalijar a hombres ricos que son presa fácil del irresistible encanto de Betty.

Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollution of the Gerson laboratories! Fearless and determined, our adventuress will face the unscrupulous men sent by the laboratories to make her give in. In the jungle where she grew up, she is the strongest. But she is accompanied by Bruno, a clumsy young French policeman.

The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

El film surge de la correspondencia entre Lou Andreas-Salomé y Rainer Maria Rilke; sin embargo, describe instantes y aspectos en la vida de una pareja contemporánea en metamorfosis. Miéville logra mostrar la grandeza y la miseria, la claridad y el misterio. Más allá de las heridas, el tiempo y la guerra de los sexos, lo único que queda es la radiante belleza de las cosas.

This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.

In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickly ignores the interdiction of getting in touch with Chinese people and finds himself drawn into mysterious meetings at the Red Pavilion. MY CHINESE SISTER is a movie about pretense and the mystification of reality.

June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.

A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.

Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.

Un periodista americano se encuentra en Vietnam en el 57º día de la batalla de Dien Bien Phu entre el ejército francés y las guerrillas Vietminh, la cual acaba con una derrota de las fuerzas francesas y la retirada de Francia de Indochina. (FILMAFFINITY)

Adaptación de la novela homónima de Gustave Flaubert. Emma Bovary es la insatisfecha mujer de un médico rural que ansía pertenecer a la alta sociedad francesa. Sus ambiciones y un apasionado affaire con un joven aristócrata la conducirán a una situación de trágicas consecuencias. La musa de Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, encarna a la fatal heroína.

Historia de la Revolución Francesa. En 1789, Luis XVI decide convocar los Estados Generales con el fin de resolver el grave problema de la deuda de Francia. El 10 de agosto de 1792 el rey es capturado cuando intentaba huir de París para unirse a los contrarrevolucionarios. Pierde entonces toda su autoridad y es encarcelado. Durante la Época del Terror, el gobierno jacobino de Robespierre llevó a la guillotina a cientos de miles de franceses, entre ellos Luis XVI, María Antonieta e incluso a revolucionarios como Danton y Desmoulins.

Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.

Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Vichy government. Algerians are being called up for service in the Vichy military, and Jews in the village are in danger of deportation. A beautiful young schoolteacher named Claire Boyer (Veronique Jannot) arrives in town and turns every male head within miles, including 14-year-old Mouloud (Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, the director's son). Simon Attal (Michel Boujenah), a fellow teacher and a Jew, is also attracted to Claire, and so is Mouloud's older brother. Suddenly two murders occur in the village, Simon is in danger of being deported, and the tone shifts from the dreams of boyhood to the realities of manhood.

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin (Richard Berry), a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza (Fanny Bastien), whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau (Jean Francoise Balmer), the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial, en el París ocupado por las tropas alemanas, Helene duda entre el amor a su novio Jean, que trabaja para la resistencia, y el administrador alemán Bergmann, que intenta ganarse su afecto.

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.

Adaptación de una novela de Marcel Proust. Charles Swann, un joven y rico judío que forma parte de los círculos aristocráticos parisinos de la Belle Epoque, vive una inolvidable historia de amor con la bella prostituta Odette de Crécy. Sus tempetuosas relaciones, llenas de celos, pasiones y dudas, las evoca años después Swann, cuando presiente su inminente muerte.

Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) vuela a África Oriental para construir un centro turístico cerca del Lago Williams donde viven los pigmeos. Allí conoció a su esposo Víctor (Philippe Noiret), un devoto conservacionista que la dejó hace tres años para vivir en la jungla. ¿Te imaginas su entusiasmo cuando llega a la conclusión de que el lugar ideal para construir este complejo vacacional es su huerta?

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".

Un agente secreto es enviado desde París a Niza para investigar el asesinato de un policía. Una vez allí, tendrá que enfrentarse no solo con los criminales, sino también con la corrupción policial.

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.

La historia de Albert Spaggiari, cerebro de uno de los mayores robos a un banco de la historia moderna, cuando unos cuantos hombres y él entarron por las alcantarillas en la Société Général de Niza y robaron 60 millones de francos. (FILMAFFINITY)

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.

En París, un psicópata apodado Minos amenaza con matar a todas las mujeres de vida alegre de la ciudad. El inspector Jean Letellier está sobre su pista.

Nicolas Mallet, empleado de banca, tiene un carácter tan introvertido que apenas se relaciona socialmente. Pero un día, inexplicablemente, se siente capaz de abordar a una atractiva mujer a la que conoce en plena calle. Tras conocer lo ocurrido su amigo Claude le propone un curioso plan que consiste en buscar a millonarias para seducirlas.

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...