Josiane Balasko — Actor (18)
The Hedgehog (2009) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Le Hérisson
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Mona Achache actor: Josiane Balasko / Garance Le Guillermic
other title: Il riccio / Die Eleganz der Madame Michel
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 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 janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
The Bonfire of Destiny (2019) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Le Bazar de la Charité
director: Catherine Ramberg / Karine Spreuzkouski actor: Audrey Fleurot / Camille Lou
other title: Le Bazar de la Charité / Der Basar des Schicksals
After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.
When Fall Is Coming (2024) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB 兜伴 TMDB Douban
Quand vient l'automne
7.9 (14 ratings) director: François Ozon actor: Hélène Vincent / Josiane Balasko
other title: Sotto le foglie / Wenn der Herbst naht
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.
A Happy Event (2011) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Un heureux événement
director: Rémi Bezançon actor: Louise Bourgoin / Pio Marmaï
other title: Travolti dalla cicogna / Lykkelige Omstændigheder
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 anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Clara and Chics Types (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Clara et les Chics Types
director: Jacques Monnet actor: Isabelle Adjani / Thierry Lhermitte
other title: Clara et les Chics Types / Clara und die tollen Typen
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
Didier (1997) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Didier
director: Alain Chabat actor: Jean-Pierre Bacri / Alain Chabat
other title: Mein Hund, der Fußballstar / Didier, mi fiel amigo
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
Tell Her That I Love Her (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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.
The Year 01 (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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.
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.
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.
Let the Sunshine In (2017) [Movie] TMDB
Un beau soleil intérieur
director: Claire Denis actor: Juliette Binoche / Xavier Beauvois
other title: L'amore secondo Isabelle / Luk Solskinnet Ind
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
By the Grace of God (2019) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Grâce à Dieu
director: François Ozon actor: Melvil Poupaud / Denis Ménochet
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
director: François Ozon actor: Melvil Poupaud / Denis Ménochet
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.
La bonne étoile (2025) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
La bonne étoile
director: Pascal Elbé actor: Benoît Poelvoorde / Audrey Lamy
other title: La Bonne Étoile
2025 French movie from Pascal Elbé
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
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.
Scoundrel in White (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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.
Hotel America (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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.
French Fried Vacation 2 (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Les Bronzés font du ski
director: Patrice Leconte actor: Thierry Lhermitte / Michel Blanc
other title: Sonne, Sex und Schneegestöber / Les Bronzés font du ski
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.