Noémie Lvovsky
Noémie Lvovsky (born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress. Lvovsky was born in Paris in 1964, the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms. She studied cinema at La Fémis in Paris, notably a contemporary of Arnaud... Read full bio →
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Des preuves d'amour
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
Jeanne du Barry
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Viens je t'emmène
Christmas Eve is ruined by an act of terrorism in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. As the city descends into panic, thirty-something Mederic falls in love with older prostitute Isadora.
Le trésor du petit Nicolas
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart.
Teddy
In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
La bonne épouse
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband.
À coeur battant
At first, they make love even if they are not in the same country. She's in Paris, he's in Tel Aviv. Time passes and over-communication kills their privacy. In the end, they fall in love for the first time.
Un peuple et son roi
Un peuple et son roi crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic…
Les invisibles
Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
Deux fils
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life.
D'après une histoire vraie
A writer goes through a tough period after the release of her latest book, as she gets involved with an obsessive admirer.
Willy 1er
When his twin brother dies, Willy, 50, finally decides to leave his parents' home. He moves to a small nearby town to start afresh. « In Caudebec I'll live. An apartment, I'll have one. And friends too. And you can all go to hell! » Though a misfit, Willy tries to find his place in a world unknown.
Chocolat
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
Rosalie Blum
A warm, witty and impeccably performed comedy about a random encounter. A hairdresser meets a mysterious and lonely woman and becomes obsessed with learning all about her past.
La belle saison
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
Comme un avion
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Tristesse Club
Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
Tiens-toi droite
Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.
My Old Lady
An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.
Jacky au royaume des filles
The film is set in a world, the Popular Democratic Republic of Bubunne, in which women hold the power and men are forced to wear veils and stay at home.
Les adieux à la reine
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Camille redouble
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman.
Adieu Berthe - L'enterrement de mémé
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Présumé coupable
A family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.
Le Skylab
1979. Albertine, 10, and all family members have gathered in Britain to celebrate the birthday of the grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA, will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
A highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele.
17 filles
Dans une petite ville au bord de l’océan, dix-sept adolescentes d’un même lycée prennent ensemble une décision inattendue et incompréhensible aux yeux des garçons et des adultes : elles décident de tomber enceintes en même temps. Ce film est inspiré d’un fait divers survenu en 2008.
Copacabana
Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes.
Bus Palladium
A comedy that follows the break-up of a French rock group.
Les beaux gosses
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
Coco
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
Un coeur simple
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephew Victor. But fate seems to always deny her from any love in return.
Actrices
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. Mais rien n'y fait. Rien n'empêche le temps de courir et de lui imposer ses quarante ans et toujours pas d'enfant.
Le grand appartement
Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them.
Backstage
An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.
Rois et reine
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Ah! Si j'étais riche
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize.
Ma femme est une actrice
Yvan est journaliste sportif et sa femme Charlotte comédienne. Quand un ami fait remarquer à Yvan que vivre avec une actrice, c'est partager la vie d'une femme que d'autres hommes embrassent et que les spectateurs déshabillent du regard, il se met à douter.