Patrice Leconte

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

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant

Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he had always known he would marry one, completing his idealized love fantasy.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin

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

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Demetre Georgalas

While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Michel Blanc, Bernard Giraudeau, Thérèse Liotard

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet

Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis

In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Gérard Depardieu, Anne Loiret, Aurore Clément

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden

Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a surprise visit, one of his friends knocks on the door, while his mother keeps calling him on his smartphone. Not to mention that today the residents in his apartment building are holding their annual House Party. Manipulative and a liar, Michel is ready to do anything to have a moment of peace and quiet. Is it still possible, in this day and age, to just have one hour of peace?

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valérie Bonneton

After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel