Josiane Balasko — Actor (26)
Tombé du ciel (2026) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Tombé du ciel
director: Mohamed Hamidi actor: Ilyes Djadel / Jamel Debbouze
Ilyès mène une vie joyeuse dans la banlieue de Roubaix. Seul problème : le bac. Après avoir échoué deux fois, c’est sa dernière chance de l’avoir et de rendre enfin fier ses parents. Mais un incendie survient pendant le bac blanc, et on l’accuse d’en être à l’origine… Exclu de son lycée, il doit quitter son quartier et aller dans le seul établissement qui l’accepte : le pensionnat catholique de Saint-Albert-le-Grand, en Bourgogne. Entre choc des cultures et quête de rédemption, Ilyès va devoir surmonter ses préjugés… Et ceux des autres.
The Red Inn (2007) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
L'Auberge rouge
other title: L'Auberge Rouge - Mord inklusive / L'Auberge rouge
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
A Crime in Paradise (2001) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Un crime au Paradis
other title: Omicidio in paradiso / Un crime au Paradis
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 Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Hotel America (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hôtel des Amériques
director: André Téchiné actor: Catherine Deneuve / Patrick Dewaere
other title: Begegnung in Biarritz / Hôtel des Amériques
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
Scoundrel in White (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Docteur Popaul
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Mia Farrow
other title: Trappola per un lupo / Der Halunke
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) [Movie]
Le père Noël est une ordure
director: Jean-Marie Poiré actor: Gérard Jugnot / Thierry Lhermitte
other title: Da graust sich ja der Weihnachtsmann / Le père Noël est une ordure
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.
Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983) [Movie]
Papy fait de la résistance
other title: Papy fait de la résistance / 'Papy' en la resistencia
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
By the Grace of God (2019) [Movie]
Grâce à Dieu
other title: Grazie a Dio / Gud være lovet
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
By the Grace of God (2019) [Movie]
Grâce à Dieu
other title: Grazie a Dio / Gud være lovet
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Tralala (2021) [Movie] TMDB
Tralala
director: Jean-Marie Larrieu / Arnaud Larrieu actor: Mathieu Amalric / Mélanie Thierry
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
Old Fashioned (2021) [Movie] TMDB
La Pièce rapportée
director: Antonin Peretjatko actor: Anaïs Demoustier / Josiane Balasko
other title: La Pièce rapportée
Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.
The Year 01 (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
L'An 01
director: Jacques Doillon actor: Josiane Balasko / Christian Clavier
other title: L'An 01 / Das Jahr Null Eins
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
Tell Her That I Love Her (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Dites-lui que je l'aime
director: Claude Miller actor: Gérard Depardieu / Miou-Miou
other title: Gli aquiloni non muoiono in cielo / Dites-lui que je l'aime
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.