Monsieur Hire / M. Hire (1989)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Director: Patrice Leconte
A Promise (2013)
Drama | Romance
In Germany in 1912, Frederic, a recent graduate, finds a clerical post in a steel factory. Impressed by him, the elderly owner, Karl Hoffmeister, hires him as his private secretary. His health declining, Karl is confined to his home, into which Frederic moves. There he meets Karl's wife, a much younger woman, the beautiful and reserved Lotte. Over time, Frederic falls deeply in love with her, but does not dare reveal his feelings, and a romantic intrigue develops within the stifling bourgeois home.
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray, Maggie Steed
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Mon meilleur ami / My Best Friend (2006)
Comedy
François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers. Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno's chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the "three S's" – being sociable, smiling and sincere – though they don't come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno's naiveté in playing along, but what's the cost of cheating at friendship?
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet
Director: Patrice Leconte
Le mari de la coiffeuse / The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde – also voluptuous and also a hairdresser – with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives.
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin, Anne-Marie Pisani, Maurice Chevit, Philippe Clévenot
Director: Patrice Leconte
Ridicule (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.
Starring: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau
Director: Patrice Leconte
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