Patrick Chesnais Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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 unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le...

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...

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When...

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

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...

A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores...

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

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

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably...

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...

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...

Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son...

This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier)...