Patrick Chesnais Movies

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

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

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...

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

When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.

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

Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits...

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

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...

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...

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets...

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its...

In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his...

An upper-class family's dysfunctional harmony collapses when their daughter begins an affair with a cynical cop who unearths a long-buried secret.

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...

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually,...

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him...

Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has...