Patrick Chesnais

The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career, films, sketches & songs do exist but from someone else!

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves?

The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their experiences and testimonies.

Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.

Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous breakdown, making him unable to practise.

Un compositor comienza a dudar y cuestionar toda su vida y su significado. Aislándose en su casa de Bretaña donde varias personas importantes (su esposa, su amante, su mejor amigo, sus padres, su médico ...) vendrán a visitarlo.

Everyone's favorite fun-loving Granny Aurore goes overboard while partying and has a little accident! She loses her memory and gets put in a nursing home. When her grandkids hear her mention a mysterious man named "Gerry", they put all seven of their heads together to figure out who he is: Aurore's first and only true love who just might turn out to be their long-lost grandfather, too! Hoping to trigger old memories that could snap her out of her amnesia, they join forces to sneak Aurore out of the nursing home and set out into the wilderness on a mission to find the legendary "Grandpa Gerry". But the adventure turns out to be a lot more than they bargained for!

Heloise es la madre de tres hijos. Jade, su "hija pequeña", acaba de cumplir dieciocho años y pronto abandonará el nido para continuar sus estudios en Canadá. A medida que se acerca la partida de Jade, el estrés de Heloise aumenta y recuerda sus momentos compartidos con ella.

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.

París, Francia, a principios del siglo XIX. El legendario convicto François Vidocq vive disfrazado tratando de escapar de un pasado trágico que lo atormenta. Cuando, después de un hecho desafortunado, su camino se cruza con el del jefe de policía, Vidocq toma una audaz decisión que pondrá en su contra a la despiadada mente maestra que dirige los bajos fondos parisinos.

A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son.

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che’s last companions. It was somewhere over there, in Bolivia, in 1967. At least, that’s what he tells everyone...

Lauren, una preciosa it-girl de 29 años, intenta introducirse en el mundo de la moda triunfando en las veladas parisinas. Olivia, una psicóloga de 28 años, tiene dos obsesiones: salvar la confitería de sus padres y encontrar el marido ideal. A la edad de 26 años, Salma, una fogosa joven profesora de historia, todavía vive con su madre en los suburbios. Sus caminos no tienen por qué cruzarse. Hasta el día en que, a la muerte de su padre biológico que nunca conocieron, heredan juntas un espléndido apartamento parisino.

If Paris is the city of lovers, it is also that ... ex! Antoine does not dare to commit, Didier regrets his ex-wife, Father Laurent must celebrate the marriage of his ex, Julie, Serge is harassed by Lise, the ex of his girlfriend of the moment, while Greg consoles With the dog ... of his ex! So many characters whose lives will be telescoped in a joyful disorder and who could fall back in love! But of whom? Whether they obsessed us or loved to hate them, deep down, it is difficult to forget their ex!

After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.

Un invierno excepcionalmente frío obliga al gobierno francés para empujar las personas alojadas mejor para dar cabida a algunos conciudadanos pobres. El decreto llamado "Le Grand Partage" crea algunos problemas entre los vecinos de un bloque de apartamentos de lujo París.

Han pasado diez años desde que Mathieu desapareció en Burdeos. Diez años en los que la familia lleva recibiendo una sospechosa llamada en cada aniversario del Día de la Madre. Cuando la madre de Mathieu es atacada después de creer ver a su hijo, su hija Caroline decide actuar para poner fin al calvario de la familia, y sale en busca de su hermano. Su investigación le llevará al corazón de un complicado caso. Dos jóvenes mujeres han desaparecido, en el espacio de diez años, y todo apunta a que su hermano es el asesino.

When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is giving too long this good fortune will trigger it, despite herself, a hurricane that will change everything. Everything except her.

Driss, carefree, smug and naive, lives off petty theft and minor racketeering. Until he meets Danny, an old crook who takes him under his wing and shows him the ropes. Through knowing him, young Driss will gradually lose his innocence.

The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days later.

Charles and Pierrot are inseparable. When Charles takes early retirement, it seems the world is their oyster. They can spend even more time together. Their motto is simple: "Make the most of life and have fun!». They fill their days with abundant imagination, under the tender and sometimes worried gaze of the women in their lives…

Caroline ha llegado a su temida jubilación, y tiene que hacer frente a la nueva vida que se presenta ante ella. Caroline lo ve todo muy complicado, pues no sabe en qué ocupar todo el tiempo libre que tiene ahora. Se detiene y en su cabeza empiezan a surgir interesantes preguntas. ¿Qué he querido hacer siempre? ¿Romper las reglas establecidas? ¿Buscar nuevos amigos? ¿o alguien especial? Pero también se pregunta: ¿y si sigo cumpliendo con lo establecido y sigo viviendo este tiempo aburrido? Caroline deberá buscar qué es lo mejor para ella y así disfrutar felizmente del descanso que tiene.

Taillandier, un maduro y prestigioso artista que se halla en plena depresión y casi al borde del suicidio, deja bruscamente de pintar. Así las cosas, se va de casa y emprende un viaje en el que conoce a Daniela, una adolescente sin rumbo que ha sido abandonada por su madre. La joven perdida y el hombre que se siente acabado se apoyan mutuamente. De hotel en hotel, como padre e hija, acaban refugiándose en una casa alquilada. Les anima la esperanza de encontrar una razón para seguir viviendo, una razón que les permita alcanzar la paz y el sosiego.

Un hombre experto en hacer vino sabe que tiene que ceder su puesto a su hijo, pero él no ha heredado su talento.

The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

Un grupo de aventureros huye de Guyana con 600 kilos de oro. Cuando su helicóptero tiene un accidente en la jungla, la fiebre del oro hace aparición.

Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.

La historia muestra el interior de un set mientras todo el equipo está listo para grabar un largometraje. El principal inconveniente surge cuando la persona que dirige la película trata de convencer al protagonista de que siga el guion al pie de la letra para representar la secuencia más importante del filme, con la firme intención de que lo que se vea finalmente en la gran pantalla se adecúe a la idea que había desarrollado antes de embarcarse en la consecución del proyecto cinematográfico.

Mady Celliers, una atractiva ama de casa de 60 años, se pasa la vida hablando mal de sus dos hijas y de su marido, un hombre que muestra un extraño comportamiento desde que se ha jubilado. Antoine, el hijo mayor, director de empresa, es incapaz de llevar a buen puerto un negocio: sale de una quiebra para meterse en otra; su hermana Alice pinta obsesivamente madonnas tristes. Annabelle, enfermera en una unidad de cuidados intensivos, intenta desesperadamente salvar a su familia pronosticándole el futuro. Cuando Alice conoce por casualidad a Jacques, un policía solitario y pesimista, estallarán todas las neurosis familiares.

Una noche de verano varios amigos se reúnen para cenar. Cada uno de ellos trata de enmascarar sus problemas personales y pasar una agradable noche de comida, vino y amistad. Sin embargo, las parejas empiezan muy pronto a mostrar su verdadero estado de ánimo, su insatisfacción mutua, y queda de manifiesto que lo que realmente pretenden es vivir una aventura amorosa.

A family’s secret, it’s a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968 protest movement, share the same house since the disappearance of the woman of Albert. When Claire, the Albert’s daughter, come back to home, secrets of their past « Flower Power » reappear …

Dans les années 70 Bruno Caprice a connu un succès éphémère avec "Quand tu t'en vas", son premier et unique 45 tours. Aujourd'hui oublié, il gagne sa vie comme réceptionniste dans un grand hôtel parisien. Mais un coup de fil inattendu va changer le cours de sa vie...

Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild. The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.

A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor de la revista Elle en Francia, sufrió en 1995, a la edad de 43 años, un derrame cerebral que paralizó todo su cuerpo a excepción del ojo izquierdo. Utilizando ese ojo para sacar a la luz sus memorias, Bauby describió elocuentemente los aspectos de su mundo interior, desde el tormento psicológico de estar atrapado dentro de su cuerpo a sus historias imaginadas de tierras que sólo había visitado en su mente.

Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...

Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.

Laurent loves Camille but he can’t bring himself to marry her. Then he meets Elodie and discovers what love really is – not the mild cozy affection he has for Camille but a cataclysmic, thunderous all-consuming earthquake of the soul. The only problem is that Elodie is the girlfriend of Laurent’s best friend, François...

Jean-Claude Delsart, agente judicial de 50 años, está resignado desde hace mucho tiempo a una vida sin alicientes. Hasta que un día decide aprender a bailar el tango en una academia situada frente a su despacho.

Micha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself. Charles, 20 years old, works for a real estate agency and is given a camera to film apartments. Not knowing how to use it, he practices one weekend and of course, he falls on Micha. Charles' camera becomes an audience for Micha's rantings, which finally finds a docile and amused spectator.

The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis.

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

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.

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.

Juliette es demasiado joven para quedarse embarazada pero eso es, precisamente, lo que sucede. Ahora quiere tener al niño ya que lo siente cantando en su vientre. La joven tiene nueve meses para volver a la realidad y poner en orden su vida, la cual incluye a su amante Mathias, temeroso ante su próxima paternidad, su histérica hermana mayor y su propio padre. (FILMAFFINITY)

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.

Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several times over? Why do people tire of each other? What events lead to a break-up? If they could be identified, could we then eradicate them? Four stories delve, by way of personal accounts and illustration, into relationships that went astray before they should have. Men and women of different ages and social conditions recount their stories. Four couples, four break-ups, four attempts at an explanation – combined with the ambitious aim to amuse!

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.

Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will have to utter to Perron's secretary. Perron (Miki Manojlovic) is the producer they have come to bully for ignoring their script seven times in a row. The three guys have a grudge against the entire film industry. What they are looking for is a minimum of interest in their plot, a deign to read their script. So they take the producer and his daughter hostage, then demand a TV crew to make their demands known.

Jean and Sylvia left France with a stolen diamond to start a new life in South America. They land in Lima to live their passion. But the diamond is not easy to sell. They meet a French couple and hope to sell them the stolen diamond.

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.

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.

Comedy drama about an apathetic writer whose only interest is in his psychiatrist's watch which may have belonged to John F. Kennedy at the time of his assassination in 1963.

París, 1832. Dos palabras, "romanticismo" y "revolución" están en boca de todo el mundo. El 3 de junio, una sublevación estudiantil provoca una revuelta, y las calles se llenan de sangre. Ese mismo día, la baronesa Dudevant llega de provincias para emprender su carrera literaria bajo el seudónimo de George Sand. A los 23 años, Alfred de Musset, "el poeta y escritor de mayor relieve de su generación", es el cabecilla de una pandilla de vividores que malbaratan su juventud en una disipación absurda, sin esperanza ni ideal alguno.

Diane, una mujer parisina casada con un abogado y con dos hijos, comienza una relación extramatrimonial con un joven ingeniero veinteañero.

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

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

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

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.

A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.

To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divorced Martin gets into when he and his ex-wife Brigitte, the mother of his children, rekindle their long-dormant relationship and announce that they intend to move back in together. Not only do the children find this whole thing confusing, but the husband's and the wife's lovers are equally befuddled. Add to that the need for Martin to meet Brigitte's lover and vice-versa, and you have the beginnings of a mess. When it begins to seem to Brigitte's former lover that he has offended the Muslims with a book he translated and he is slated for death, the whole thing grows yet more complicated. In this comedy, this list only scratches the surface of the messes these people must confront.

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.

Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.

Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.

Trata sobre la influencia de la Luna sobre varios personajes cuyas vidas, al entrecruzarse, originan historias de amor y ruptura, de equívocos, de sonrisas y de llantos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her life is about to be shattered. So it makes a bit of sense that she is receptive to the possibility of selling her soul for the chance to keep all this from happening. Just as her parents are (of course) getting back together, she wins the lottery and is able to buy their old apartment.

Una hija de doce años, Louise sueña con imitar a su madre venerada, Nora. De repente, se enfrenta a una situación ambigua: cómo seguir amándola a pesar de Helmut, su adolescente amante, cuya presencia se le impone. Pero también por qué no tratar de seducirlo. Los sentimientos de la niña se confunden, recurrirá a un intento de suicidio para hacerse notar, para demostrar que existe, para tener éxito y moverse.

Nunca digas nunca. Jeremie (Patrick Chesnais), casada con un comisario de policía, desea fervientemente tener un hijo. A pesar de que ya tiene a una dulce y hermosa hija de 20 años, engendrada con su primer marido, quiere volver a sentirse viva. Sin embargo, el doctor les confirma a la pareja que no podrán tener niños juntos. ¿Nunca digas nunca? El matrimonio opta por un complejo y largo proceso que les dará la solución: la adopción. Mientras barajan las posibilidades que tienen, la hija de Jeremie les presenta a Joanna, una adolescente embarazada que está dispuesta a darle a su hijo una vida mejor en sus mano.

Constance es una apasionada lectora. Después de leer todas las noches a su marido un libro en el que se habla de una joven que se ofrece como lectora a domicilio, decide dedicarse también a esa profesión.

Víctor, obrero, y Germinal, peluquero, son miembros activos de la Resistencia y no quieren que sus familias se enteren. Sin embargo, un día Blanche, la esposa de Víctor, y Marie, la hija de Germinal, los descubren. Marie, refugiada en la casa de su abuelo y simpatizante de Pétain, se convierte en contacto, mientras que Blanche abre su casa a los hombres de la Resistencia. Ella descubre entonces que su madre Louise, es igualmente un agente activo...

Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.

This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also based on her own concept for the story. The barmaid, played by Berto, has been trying to take care of Bobby, a teenage drug pusher who is in over his head. Before she can put him back on track and get him out of the drug underworld, the young man is killed while being chased by a narcotics agent. Depressed by his death but not derailed, she finds herself trying to help out a gay user who depended on Bobby for his supply of drugs. She decides to procure some drugs for the desperate addict, and is trapped in the bathroom of a bar - with the drugs - when narcotics agents burst upon the scene. Her boyfriend rushes to help her but is killed by an agent who shoots first and thinks later. The barmaid does not face a very optimistic future as the narc arrests her - but releases a parish minister who had been helping her find a source for the drugs.

When her mother dies, a teenage girl decides to find her long-absent sailor father. Together with her five-year-old brother, she begins a long and dangerous quest, which will finally be rewarded.

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.

A journalist very attached to freedom of information conflicts with the management of his channel.

Tres jóvenes con ansias de libertad, en tiempos de la revolución estudiantil del 68. Frédéric y Anne, de diecisiete años, son novios y vienen de estratos sociales muy diferentes. Están dispuestos a sortear cualquier obstáculo que les impida ser felices, así que Anne, presionada por problemas familiares, convence a Frédéric para marcharse de casa. Junto a Bruno, un amigo, los tres parten en coche rumbo a Venecia, desde donde pretenden ir hacia Israel. El padre de Frédéric está enfermo y éste desea regresar. En Italia sufren unos cuantos percances y cuando se enteran de los levantamientos de estudiantes y trabajadores de París, deciden volver...

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Dominique Auphal, un brillante diplomático francés es trasladado a Luxemburgo, donde para los Servicios Secretos, que lo tienen bajo vigilancia, pasa a ser un dossier más: el dossier 51. En adelante, su vida privada será minuciosamente observada y cada uno de sus gestos, analizado y comentado. Una historia de espionaje con pequeñas dosis de humor sarcástico.

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.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.