Patrick Bruel
Patrick Maurice Benguigui (born May 14, 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player. Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun. He lived in the... Read full bio →
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Le meilleur reste à venir
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
Un sac de billes
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Sing
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
Ange et Gabrielle
Gabriell is a single mother, her 17-year-old daughter Claire is pregnant, however the child's father Simon has no desire to be involved with his future baby. When Gabrielle takes matters into her own hands and asks Simon's father Ange for help, an unexpected relationship begins.
Tu veux... ou tu veux pas?
A romantic comedy about two Parisian therapists who are so obsessed about getting into the sack with anyone they meet, they can’t ever get it on with each other.
Les gamins
A frustrated young musician finds unexpected kinship with his girlfriend's father.
Paris-Manhattan
Alice, an obsessed Woody Allen fan, meets Pierre in a night-club and falls in love with him. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, things start to get complicated.
Le prénom
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son.
Le code a changé
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
O Jerusalem
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
L'ivresse du pouvoir
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
El Lobo
Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder.
Les jolies choses
Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently projects a backward, reserved, laconic and unassuming attitude. When Lucie receives a covetable French recording contract, a significant problem stands in her way: the inability to sing.
Le lait de la tendresse humaine
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
Lost & Found
In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero. Unfortunately, things do not work out as planned.
K
In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari), Bellamy covers up the crime he witnessed.
Le jaguar
Perrin rencontre un jour à Paris un Indien d'Amazonie, Wanu, accompagné de son interprète Campana. Il ignore encore que, pour sauver l'âme du guerrier Wanu, il va entreprendre une folle équipée à travers la forêt amazonienne en compagnie de l'interprète, qui ne lui est vraiment pas sympathique.
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness.
Sabrina
Un conte de fées moderne où une jeune fille timide et effacée, fille du chauffeur d'une famille richissime, va non seulement séduire le cadet de la famille mais aussi l'aîné, pourtant farouchement hostile à la gente féminine.
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
Profil bas
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
Toutes peines confondues
A young police inspector is sent to Zurich to keep an eye on an important business man.However,things get complicated when the young inspector seems to mix things and people.
L'union sacrée
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Force majeure
Philippe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel (François Cluzet) go on vacation to southeast Asia, where they meet Hans (Thom Hoffman), a resident of the area who acts as their patron and guide. Before they leave to return to Paris, the two present Hans with a gift of their leftover native hashish.
La maison assassinée
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared.
Attention bandits!
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife.
P.R.O.F.S.
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils.
Marche à l'ombre
Francois, routard fatigué, débarque dans le port de Marseille. Musicien hors-pair, il est bien décidé à exploiter son talent dans les studios parisiens. Denis, inseparable compagnon et négatif de Fançois, est un grand spécialiste de l'angoisse et ne cesse de gémir. Vu ce qui les attend a Paris, il n'est pas prêt de s'arrêter...
Les diplômés du dernier rang
The students of a prestigious law school try their best to mess things up.
Le coup de sirocco
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.