Tante Hilda! / Aunt Hilda! (2013)
Animation | Comedy | Family
Centers on an eccentric aunt who is everything to everyone.
Starring: Sabine Azéma, Josiane Balasko, François Morel, Bruno Lochet
Director: Benoît Chieux, Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Let the Sun Shine In / Dark Glasses / Un beau soleil intérieur (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Director: Claire Denis
Retour chez ma mère / Back to Mom's (2016)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Alexandra Lamy, Mathilde Seigner
Director: Eric Lavaine
A French Gigolo / Cliente (2008)
Drama | Romance
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Hiegel, Marilou Berry
Director: Josiane Balasko
Die Eleganz der Madame Michel / Le hérisson / The Hedgehog (2009)
Drama
Paloma is a serious, but deeply bored 11-year old, who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits, in her building's grumpy concierge, and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride
Director: Mona Achache
A Happy Event / Un heureux événement (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A young couple decide to embark on the most exhilarating and harrowing experience of their life – having a baby.
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Josiane Balasko, Pio Marmaï, Thierry Frémont, Gabrielle Lazure
Director: Rémi Bezançon
Of Women and Horses / Sport de filles (2011)
Drama | Sport
Enraged by the sale of the vaulting horse that she'd been promised as hers to ride, Gracieuse, a talented rider, dumps her job at a stable. She starts again from zero by accepting work as a groom at a dressage stud farm adjacent to her father's property. The owner, Joséphine de Silène, exploits with an iron fist the international renown of a German trainer, Franz Mann. This former champion, now cynical and worn out, is sought out by female riders the world over, who fight each other for his knowledge – and for his attention. This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most particularly, her determination to succeed. A high tension wire who's ready to stand up to Franz Mann and to face any obstacle, even if it means stepping outside the law, she pursues her sole obsession: to have horse to call her own that she will take to the top…
Starring: Marina Hands, Bruno Ganz, Josiane Balasko
Director: Patricia Mazuy
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Gazon maudit / Bushwhacked / French Twist (1995)
Comedy
A bumbling delivery man must prove he is innocent of murder and accidentally ends up leading a scout troupe into the wilderness on his way to meet the man who framed him.
Starring: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
Director: Josiane Balasko
Le père Noël est une ordure / Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Comedy
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre.
Starring: Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Bruno Moynot
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
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