François Catonné Movies

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.

Born with their immune systems damaged, Tom and Lola are doomed to live their lives in isolation, sealed in separate plastic bubbles. However,...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against...

A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work,...

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French...

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment...

A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.

Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to...

A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.

Nick Matthews and his wife and business partner, Jennifer, are in Paris to close a deal with Charles, a Frenchman, to market their perfumes in...

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits...

A woman and a man recount their first sexual encounters to each other as they get out of bed and get dressed.

Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well...

A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.

The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as...

A César award nominated short drama.

African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title...

This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of ​​struggle of the Saharawi people and they...