Dominique Lavanant
Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a French film and theatrical actress. She is known for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to... Read full bio →
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Les vacances du petit Nicolas
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
La clinique de l'amour!
Two brothers who are surgeons fight for the future of the family clinic while being subjected to the throes of love.
Pièce montée
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, and one of the caterers is taking down a flight of stairs falls. The cream puffs are carefully picked up from the floor an arranged as though nothing happened.
Agathe Cléry
The ultimate nightmare for a racist? Becoming as black as the people she abhors. This is exactly what happens to Agathe Cléry: she's struck down with a rare disorder of the adrenal cortex glands that causes the skin to darken inexorably...
Les bronzés 3: amis pour la vie
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
Un crime au paradis
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...
Il mostro
After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.
Grosse fatigue
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.
Ville à vendre
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück
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Quelques jours avec moi
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.
Soigne ta droite
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
L'oeil au beurre noir
Denis et Rachid sont peintres. L'un est noir, l'autre est Algérien et à la recherche d'un appartement parisien. Un jour, ils rencontrent Virginie. Celle-ci propose de les aider en demandant à son beau-père, qui travaille dans l'immobilier, de libérer un appartement. Denis et Rachid vont alors être confrontés au racisme du beau-père.
Agent trouble
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake.
Mort un dimanche de pluie
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance.
Kamikaze
Albert est un génie de l'informatique, Romain un policier de grand talent et Laure une secrétaire d'Etat particulièrement lucide. Ces trois personnages vont se croiser et vivre des aventures hors-du-commun...
Je hais les acteurs
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Rendez-vous
Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
Paroles et musique
Margaux, à l'occasion d'un concert qu'elle organise, rencontre deux chanteurs, Jeremy et Michel. Tous deux sont passionnés de musique et unis par une solide amitié. Jeremy voue un amour fou a Margaux et s'éloigne peu a peu de Michel.
3 hommes et un couffin
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place.
La smala
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship.
Papy fait de la résistance
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!
Coup de foudre
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
Y a-t-il un Français dans la salle?
Horace Tumelat,a powerful politician was raised by his uncle Eusèbe.He has to find a letter written by his uncle who committed suicide.
Hôtel des Amériques
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up.
Est-ce bien raisonnable?
Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.
Le coup du parapluie
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur raté, se retrouve confondu avec un dangereux tueur à gages dont il est chargé du nouveau contrat : tuer à l'aide de la pointe d'un parapluie un riche industriel.
La boum
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Inspecteur la Bavure
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Les bronzés font du ski
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.
La gueule de l'autre
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him.
A Little Romance
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
Un papillon sur l'épaule
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
Les bronzés
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.
Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine
The King of France Gros Pif thinks only of stuffing himself, slumming and having fun and during this time overwhelms the tax people.
Diabolo menthe
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Comme la lune
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.
Marie-poupée
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls.
Calmos
Two men flee to the countryside to escape their sexual duties and settle for a quiet, rustic life.
Les galettes de Pont-Aven
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into.
Parade
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies.
Le grand bazar
Quatre copains (les charlots) se retrouvent sans travail et décident d'aider un petit commerçant qui ne peut faire face à la concurrence que lui fait une grande surface.
Courage fuyons
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!