Josiane Balasko Movies

This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian...

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt....

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in...

Lately, Eric Vincent—an unremarkable man in his thirties—has been gripped by a profound sense of unease. Is it the fear of having a...

In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family are occupied with their...

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew,...

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is...

A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between...

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of...

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel...

Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be...

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the...

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...

An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.

An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover...

Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...