Josiane Balasko

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie ...

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own ...

A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and ...

When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only ...

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work ...

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it ...

For the “story of the month,” Coline, a contributor to a women’s magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a ...

Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another ...

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols ...

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, ...

A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. ...

An elderly man’s innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes ...

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier ...

After learning of her husband’s infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever ...

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands ...

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

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family’s home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. ...

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the ...

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, ...

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it’s merely a cover for the labor-intensive ...