The Girl On The Bridge
(1999)

A girl on a bridge is preparing to take her own life, Adele (Vanessa Paradis) looks determined to jump but a passing stranger offers her an alternative ending. Gabor (Daniel Auteil) is a circus act on the search for a new assistant but is this where all knife-throwers like him find their new...  More

The Hairdresser's Husband
(1990) [M]

At the age of 12, Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions, dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous, middle-aged local hairdresser, who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. However, when he grows up, he is still obsessed with the...  More

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre)
(2000) [M]

The year is 1850. On Saint Pierre, a forgotten small island near Canada, Neel Auguste (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of murder and condemned to death. But in Saint Pierre there is neither guillotine nor executioner to carry out the sentence. While waiting for a guillotine to arrive from France,...  More

Yvonne's Perfume (Le Parfum D'Yvonne)
(1994) [R]

From Patrice Leconte, the director of The Hairdresser’s Husband, comes an intoxicating masterpiece of delicate eroticism.

Victor Charma (Hippolyte Girardot, Manon de Sources) looks back at an idyllic summer on Lake Geneva in the late 50s which he spent with the beautiful aspiring...  More

Man on the Train (L'Homme du Train)
(2002) [M]

A mysterious stranger, Milan (Johnny Hallyday), steps off a train in a place he has never been to before. Looking for a pharmacy to buy some aspirin for a raging headache, he comes across a retired school teacher, Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men are complete opposites. Or at least they...  More

Dogora: Ouvrons les Yeux
(2004) [G]

Acclaimed French director Patrice Leconte presents a series of striking images of the land and people of modern Cambodia, set to the composer Etienne Perruchon's piece 'Dogora.'  More

My Best Friend
(2006) [M]

Directed by Patrice Leconte (The Girl on the Bridge, Monseur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband), My Best Friend is a touching and entertaining buddy film. Francois (Daniel Auteil: The Valet, The Girl on the Bridge), an antique dealer, is told candidly by his business partner Catherine (Julie Gayet:...  More

Tandem
(1987)

Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez's appearance of playful...  More

A Promise
(2014)

A PROMISE is an exquisitely beautiful very quiet film based on Stefan Zweig's novel `Journey Into The Past', sensitively transformed into a screenplay by writer/director Patrice Laconte (Monsieur Hire, The Hairdresser's Husband, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Intimate Strangers etc) and co-writer...  More