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Josiane Balasko has 35 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by French Fried Vacation 2.
A Boss in the Living Room
2014
Comedy
By the Grace of God
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
15 Minutes of War
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Prime Video · Included
When Fall Is Coming
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 58%Prime Video · Included
French Twist
1995 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 64%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Let the Sunshine In
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 91%AMC+ · Included
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, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Blanc, Christian Clavier
as Marie-Ange Musquin, présidente de l'association · Writer
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit their office.
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Anémone
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
Dir. Mona Achache · With Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa
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 with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Dir. François Ozon · With Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
as La pharmacienne qui couche avec Ralph, un Allemand
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. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré · With Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud
as Josy, Lucien's girlfriend
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
Dir. Yves Robert · With Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Dir. Jean Becker · With Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
Dir. Fred Grivois · With Olga Kurylenko, Alban Lenoir, Sébastien Lalanne
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.
Dir. François Ozon · With Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier
as Frédérique aka 'Frède' · Writer
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 up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Dir. Bernard Nauer · With Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Dir. Josiane Balasko · With Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
Dir. Michel Blanc · With Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret
After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.
Dir. Karine Spreuzkouski, Catherine Ramberg · With Audrey Fleurot, Camille Lou, Josiane Balasko
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 on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Isabelle Gélinas
as Jacqueline Lajoie, depressed teacher
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Pierre Arditi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur
as Mme Bachelot, directrice du collège Saint-Exupéry
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
Dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière · With Samy Seghir, Jérémy Denisty, Rachida Brakni
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Josiane Balasko, Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet
as la mère de Joséphine
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
Dir. Marilou Berry · With Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Medi Sadoun
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 way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?
Dir. Héctor Cabello Reyes · With Josiane Balasko, Didier Bourdon, Bénabar
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, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Alexandra Lamy, Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
Dir. Gérard Krawczyk · With Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot
While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy. These "few days" turn into "a few months". Jacqueline quickly feels at home. She prepares dinners, monopolizes the television, reorganizes the kitchen... She is here, and no one knows for how long!
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner, Jérôme Commandeur
Suffering from empty nest syndrome, two lonely parents concoct a scheme to get their kids interested in them again: they pretend they've won the lottery.
Dir. Alexandra Leclère · With Josiane Balasko, Didier Bourdon, Marilou Berry
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Dir. Rémi Bezançon · With Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.
Dir. Hélène Fillières · With Diane Rouxel, Lambert Wilson, Corentin Fila
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Dir. Mona Achache · With Camille Chamoux, Audrey Fleurot, Anne Brochet
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.
Dir. Alexandra Leclère · With Karin Viard, Didier Bourdon, Valérie Bonneton
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