Catherine Lachens Movies

Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats...

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a...

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the...

In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.

Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things...

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?

During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One...

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it...

On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and...

A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state...

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers)...

A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem,...

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger,...

Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier)...