Josiane Balasko Movies

Die Eleganz der Madame Michel

74/100

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents ... See full summary »

Da graust sich ja der Weihnachtsmann

76/100

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Sonne, Sex und Schneegestöber

75/100

Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.

French Fried Vacation

69/100

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.

French Twist

64/100

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

Ein freudiges Ereignis

66/100

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't... See full summary »

Let the Sunshine In

60/100

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.

French Fried Vacation 3: Friends Forever

40/100

Movie about friends who reunite after 20 years and a lot of things have changed.

Too Beautiful for You

67/100

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon ... See full summary »

Dead Tired

64/100

What is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. ... See full summary »

A Crime in Paradise

65/100

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 ... See full summary »

Willkommen im Hotel Mama

57/100

Stéphanie, a French architect in her early forties, has to return to her mother after loosing her job. Conflicts with her mother and her siblings ensue.

The Libertine

62/100

The 'philosopher' (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot is part of an aristocratic circle which practices the libertarian principles on the rural ... See full summary »

Das Gasthaus des Schreckens

59/100

In the 19th century Pyrénées, a stagecoach stops for the night at an isolated inn run by a couple of murderous thieves. The husband wants to kill and rob them all, but one of them is a priest whom the wife refuses to see harmed.

A French Gigolo

60/100

A married construction worker leads a double life as a male prostitute serving rich ladies.

The Race

36/100

Absolutely Fabulous

46/100

Actors

58/100

Le maître d'école

58/100

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.

Mein Leben ist die Hölle

56/100

A middle-aged single French woman (Balasko) falls in love with an annoying demon (Auteuil).

Frank - Was sie schon immer über Heiratsschwindel wissen wollten

51/100

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 because they need him for a different ... See full summary »

The Key

57/100

One morning, Eric Vincent, a thirty-something without a past and reluctant about fatherhood, receives a phone call from a stranger proposing him to retrieve the ashes of his late father, whom he never met.

Hanging Offense

62/100

A fifty-year-old police officer, Michèle Varin, finds herself in a highly depressive state due to the death of her young son a few years ago. In one way or another she feels guilty for his ... See full summary »

Nuit d'ivresse

58/100

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée...

Les hommes préfèrent les grosses

48/100