Jean-Luc Bideau

Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.

The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.

Grégoire Beaulieu learns that he has a twin brother: Anthony Girard. Gregoire is bourgeois, ambitious and promised to a great career, Anthony has no prospect and lives of shenanigans. The two brothers couldn’t be more opposite. Especially when one is white and the other is black !

Un joven es condenado a servicios comunitarios. Ahora debe trabajar en una casa de retiro.

Two down-on-their-luck strangers become improbable companions in misfortune.

Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film protesting against Swiss military export. After blowing up an arms factory they are brought to justice, but many hail them as heroes.

In the spring of 1970 a small village in Valais experienced unusual turbulence. Is it because of the federal vote on women's suffrage? Or in the upcoming foreign infiltration initiative? No, it's worse: the brass band is falling apart! Half of the village blames Aloys, the other half blames Pierre. What begins as a musical conflict soon leads to a political conflict and even extends to love.

Una madre ansiosa de atención, ya que se acerca a los 50 años, está desempleada y vive con su hija embarazada y su yerno, de repente se encuentra embarazada, también ...

Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…

Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been continuously under construction since 1882.

Francia /// Todo el mundo sabe que Ruben es un cartero mitad francés y mitad finlandés, judío y homosexual; además de un mal hijo, un hermano egoísta, una birria de amante, un turbio asesino y un ladrón con escasa iniciativa… Sin embargo, el propio Ruben es incapaz de saber quién es. En la encrucijada de su existencia, mientras se abren ante él las aguas del Mar Rojo, a Ruben le asalta una duda: ¿debe seguir a su pueblo o el dictado de su corazón?

Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist plot.

Antoine is forty years old. Happily married to a woman he loves, father to two beautiful children, a brilliant lawyer, one could say that he has made a success of his life. But one day Antoine has an unexpected, irrational, and earth-shattering encounter. One that is also a little scandalous as well. Antoine encounters God, something he just did not expect. Not at all ! Nor did his wife.

Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.

IVUL is the extraordinary story of Alex (Jacob Auzanneau), a young man who climbs on to the roof of his house and refuses to ever come back down to earth. His actions devastate his beloved family and we watch as their world falls apart. A dark and mysterious gardener (Tchili from This Filthy Earth) keeps watch over the family but is powerless to exorcise the curse that he feels has befallen them. Meanwhile the twin sisters (Manon and Capucine) provide light but sometimes macabre relief. The world of IVUL is a world of both fairytale and nightmare with the family manor house and forest landscape providing a compelling backdrop to the story.

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds.

When Hugo Pratt passed away in 1995, he was holding an Ethiopian cross in his left hand. In order to understand his enduring love of the black continent, Hugo Pratt’s companion, Jean Claude Guilbert, together with a group of like-minded people, searches for traces of him in the Horn of Africa. Thanks to their efforts and invaluable audiovisual archive material, a new picture of this remarkable artist and his attitude towards Africa begins to emerge.

Violette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany claims her to ensure his defense. In exchange, he will tell her the truth about his father, the late robber José Rocca. The day after Violette's arrival on the island, Stany is attacked, a notable from the region is found hanged and other misfortunes befall the island. While the dead are multiplying around her, Violette is determined to discover the truth.

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.

Un joven, llamado Minor, vive feliz en una tranquila y apacible porqueriza en una isla imaginaria del mar Egeo. Las consecuencias de una inesperada caída harán que los vecinos de su pueblo descubran su gran locuacidad, y de la noche a la mañana es proclamado rey, lo que cambiará radicalmente su vida.

Former school friends get together one weekend a year, this year in the mountains.

Adoptada por una pareja de suizos adinerados con el hijo un poco mayor y su hija, nunca Vinh cortado los vínculos con su país de origen. Postales de la familia adoptiva regularmente transmitida a la madre de Vinh en tranquilidad de Vietnam sobre el calor y el ambiente de consolidación que ella siempre ha deseado para su hijo. Ahora crecido, Vinh se va a casar, después de tantos años, la boda es la oportunidad ideal para que su madre, acompañada por el CAD de su tío, para visitar a la familia adoptiva. Nada podría causar una mayor consternación entre sus miembros. Los padres se sometió a una menos de divorcio amistoso, el padre está en bancarrota, la hermana distanciado, el melancólico hermano mayor, el modelo de familia dividida. ¿Qué puede hacerse para evitar la decepción inevitable y profunda de la madre de Vinh y Dac tío cuando descubren el fiasco?

Alex, a professional tourist guide, is asked to welcome Sacha,a young woman of Russian extraction. She has participated in a contest and, consequently, won a one-week stay in Geneva. From the outset, the young woman shakes up Alex's plans and drags him along with her through a risky and hazardous treasure-hunt at the confines of Eastern Switzerland. Wanted by the police and hunted down by the mafia, Alex and Sacha decide to shake off their pursuers by moving about more slowly than the others: they then advance through lakes and other roundabout ways. While Alex and Sacha sink deeply into an ever stranger Switzerland, they will observe, discover, oppose and finally love each other to the vanishing point.

Delphine is 25 years old. She has a passion for swimming and is preparing her lifeguard diploma with great enthusiasm and diligence. She loves Laurent and lives with him at his father's house in the Drôme Provençale. During a competition, she meets David and falls in love with him. He obtains a transfer to Montélimar, where Delphine lives, to be closer to her. But she is pregnant by Laurent.

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.

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...

A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

En un taller de la Italia del siglo XVII, un maestro artesanal crea su obra definitiva, un violín perfecto y barnizado en rojo, para su hijo a punto de nacer. A partir de ese momento, el instrumento viaja de mano en mano desde Europa a Canadá, pasando por China, hasta la época actual.

A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward.

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.

A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?

En 1645, D'Artagnan envia a su hija Eloïse a un convento, donde presencia el asesinato de la madre superiora. Sospechando que este crimen está relacionado con un complot contra el Delfín (el heredero del trono francés), va a París y convence a su padre de que la Corona de Francia está en peligro. Con la ayuda de sus viejos y ya achacosos amigos (Athos, Porthos y Aramis), D'Artagnan pondrá al descubierto el complot del duque de Crassac. (FILMAFFINITY)

Después de una ruptura difícil y tres años de abstinencia sexual, Eva parte en busca de un nuevo amor.

Lorenzo Fabbri is a guy who is kidnapped and imprisoned in a cave of Aspromonte. After trying every way to achieve liberation of his son, the mother Elena decides to give life to a desperate protest: enchains on the square in a Calabrian village putting up a sign saying "Free My Son." A dramatic challenge of citizens and the impotence of the police.

Stéphane y Maxime fabrican y reparan violines y otros instrumentos de cuerda. Un día Maxime le confiesa a su amigo que se ha enamorado de Camille, una joven y bella violinista. Los primeros encuentros entre Camille y Stéphane son fríos, pero poco a poco ella empieza a sentirse atraída por el frío e imperturbable socio de su novio.

Stéphane y Maxime fabrican y reparan violines y otros instrumentos de cuerda. Un día Maxime le confiesa a su amigo que se ha enamorado de Camille, una joven y bella violinista. Los primeros encuentros entre Camille y Stéphane son fríos, pero poco a poco ella empieza a sentirse atraída por el frío e imperturbable socio de su novio.

A blind man, a returning safecracker and a recently released ex-con organize a heist of a prosthesis factory to get some platinum. But nothing will happen as planned.

A young inspector from the Ministry of Culture has to replace at short notice a theater actor who has broken his leg.

Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

An assassin signs his crimes by cutting off the ears of his victims which he places between their teeth. In order to proceed with his arrest, an expert in criminology is contacted.

This comedy-drama by first-time director and scripter Jean-Luc Trotignant details the exploits of a crass, low-life family. Achille Pinglard (Jean-Luc Bideau) is a factory foreman and his wife Ginette (Michele Brousse) works in a porno theater. Together, they are driving their daughter up the wall. She vents her feelings in her private diary, which her parents often expropriate for their own use. Meanwhile, the son in the family finds himself without a room after his parents rent it out to someone else, and the grandmother is a demented alcoholic invalid.

El cadáver de Raoul Mons aparece un día completamente desnudo en la playa con la palabra cerdo escrita sobre su cuerpo. Mons, era hasta entonces un famoso escritor católico que llevaba una vida austera con su mujer Hélène, su hijastra Verónique, una joven adolescente fruto de un anterior matrimonio de Hélène y el hermano de ésta, Claude.

El protagonista de esta película encuentra a una mujer con una habilidad especial en la cama. Pronto se obsesionará y buscará a otras mujeres que, como ella, posean esa misma característica. Se trata de un filme basado en un cómic llamado "Amor Limpio" de Martin Veyron.

Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum to rape their mother, and then all three men go after the promiscuous woman who lives next door. When it is revealed that the homeless man is none other than the father of the two brothers, the plot slides even further downhill.

A man decides to use the classifieds to replace his mistress who left him.

After a 22 years wedding, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually it seems so, but is the lover for real?

An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.

Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.

Following a bet, Simon has no choice but to participate in the Morat-Fribourg race. The preparation and the race itself reveal painful memories that have been buried for far too long.

A man and a woman get into a car accident with a witch, who takes out her anger on them by switching their bodies...

In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.

Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?

David y Anansa son un matrimonio de médicos que trabaja en un programa de investigación científica en un pequeño pueblo de África. Inesperadamente, ella desaparece, pero la policía no se esfuerza demasiado por encontrarla. Al parecer, ha sido secuestrada por Suleiman, un traficante de esclavos, para ser vendida a un príncipe árabe. Al no poder contar con las autoridades locales, que niegan la existencia de tal traficante, David busca la ayuda de organizaciones ilegales; entonces se verá envuelto en un sombrío mundo donde los rescatadores son tan despiadados como los traficantes de esclavos.

Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future

Cuatro hombres de diferente nacionalidad, escondidos de su pasado en una remota ciudad sudamericana, se unen para transportar una peligrosa carga de dinamita a través de la selva. Remake de "El salario del miedo", de Clouzot (1953).

After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.

Mathieu, un desempleado, consigue trabajo en una pequeña granja llevada por Marcel y su mujer Marguerite. Su mujer Mathilde está embarazada, y quieren llamar a su hijo Jonás. La pareja además se hace amiga de Max, un desilusionado activista político tras mayo del 68, y de Marco, un profesor de historia de métodos de estudio de lo más singulares. (FILMAFFINITY)

A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.

Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.

"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."

In preparation for a feature-length film about windmills, an assistant director travels through the Vaud region to search for locations with windmills. The research leads to a serious engagement with the meaning and purpose of windmills, which has something Don Quixote-like about it in the age of nuclear power stations. The transitions between document and fiction flow constantly and result in a charming and intellectual mixture of seriousness and fun, determination and coincidence, weightlessness and the weight of meaning.

Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.

Después de la muerte de su madre, un empleado de seguros de mediana edad, hereda una pequeña casa de campo rodeada de un jardín. La venta de la casa que está situada en un terreno no explotado cerca del centro de una gran ciudad, lo convierte en un hombre rico y compra una casa grande en el campo. Toma algo de tiempo libre y decide hacer una fiesta de gran jardín en la casa e invitar a todos sus colegas de la oficina. Por culpa del alcohol, las personas se deshiniben y revelan rasgos de su personalidad y las frustraciones que normalmente mantienen ocultas.

In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But when members of the gang start shooting at one another, it becomes clear that he is definitely in over his head.

Mathieu Grégoire es un escritor que vive felizmente en Spa con su mujer Jeanne y su hija Marie, que está a punto de contraer matrimonio. Circunstancias fortuitas lo llevan a descubrir a una joven que se esconde en la linde de los bosques que bordean la Fagne, unas llanuras baldías y desoladas batidas por el viento y donde las tempestades son muy fuertes. Mathieu deduce que la mujer, que no comprende ni una palabra de francés, ha debido de atraversar de forma ilegal la frontera belga. Dado que ignora su verdadero nombre, la llamará Belle. Con un ritmo rápido, la historia se desarrolla ineludiblemente, unida a los árboles, a las nubes, a la lluvia, al barro, al viento. Un extranjero llega a la Fagne, un compatriota de Belle. La presencia de ese hombre, que Belle acoje con temor, desencadena el drama.

Philip M. Santore es secuestrado junto a dos personalidades: un cónsul y un agregado diplomático. ¿Quién es ese hombre, "experto en comunicaciones", que ha trabajado en varios países de Iberoamérica, en los que poco después se han producido rebeliones que han llevado al poder a militares extremistas?

Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.

Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves.

Dos jóvenes escritores noveles aparecen en la vida de Rosemonde, una joven de clase trabajadora a la que conocen cuando se hallan escribiendo un drama sobre un pequeño incidente en el que su tío resultó herido, quizás mientras limpiaba su rifle o, peor, quizás le disparase a posta. Pierre, un periodista free-lance, recibe el encargo de escribir el guión, pero falto de tiempo pide ayuda a un poeta bohemio amigo suyo, Paul.

As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. So begins a series of strange incidents.

Un acaudalado fabricante de relojes suizos decide abandonarlo todo el día del centenario de la firma uniendose a una pareja de marginados.

Mister Freedom es un superhéroe americano que, en nombre de Dios y de su país, roba, viola y mata a cualquiera que esté en desacuerdo con él. Cuando se entera de que Francia corre el peligro de caer en manos de los comunistas, se va allí para impedirlo.

George Randal es un ladrón que entiende y justifica su actividad delictiva como una forma de rebelión contra la burguesía, clase social a la que detesta. El robo es una profesión que Randal lleva ejerciendo desde niño y gracias a la cual se ha enriquecido lo suficiente para acabar, paradójicamente, viviendo al más puro estilo burgués. (FILMAFFINITY)