Jean-Michel Fête

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To Have (Or Not) (1995)

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laetitia Masson
CAST:  Sandrine Kiberlain  •  Arnaud Giovaninetti  •  Roschdy Zem  •  Jean-Michel Fête

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laetitia Masson
CAST:  Sandrine Kiberlain  •  Arnaud Giovaninetti  •  Roschdy Zem  •  Jean-Michel Fête

Go Fast (2008)

Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Van Hoofstadt
CAST:  Roschdy Zem  •  Olivier Gourmet  •  David Saracino  •  Jean-Michel Fête

Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Van Hoofstadt
CAST:  Roschdy Zem  •  Olivier Gourmet  •  David Saracino  •  Jean-Michel Fête

Corps inflammables (1995)

Juliette loves Bruno, but he does not notice. Perhaps because he is mad about Corinne, and Corinne is not aware of it. She does not seem to love anybody, but she has an affair with Luc. Luc is gay, and he wonders how to tell Bruno he loves him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Maillot
CAST:  Olivier Py  •  Aurelie Rusterholtz  •  Philippe Demarle  •  Céline Carrère

Juliette loves Bruno, but he does not notice. Perhaps because he is mad about Corinne, and Corinne is not aware of it. She does not seem to love anybody, but she has an affair with Luc. Luc is gay, and he wonders how to tell Bruno he loves him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Maillot
CAST:  Olivier Py  •  Aurelie Rusterholtz  •  Philippe Demarle  •  Céline Carrère

Poetical Refugee (2001)

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdellatif Kechiche
CAST:  Sami Bouajila  •  Élodie Bouchez  •  Bruno Lochet  •  Aure Atika

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdellatif Kechiche
CAST:  Sami Bouajila  •  Élodie Bouchez  •  Bruno Lochet  •  Aure Atika

Pigalle (1995)

It's a grim world of prostitution, drug dens, transvestites, junkies and murderers. The seediest side of urban life is examined in this tragedy. The film follows the complex, interwoven lives of four characters as they live their harsh and gritty nocturnal lives on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karim Dridi
CAST:  Véra Briole  •  Francis Renaud  •  Raymond Gil  •  Blanca Li

It's a grim world of prostitution, drug dens, transvestites, junkies and murderers. The seediest side of urban life is examined in this tragedy. The film follows the complex, interwoven lives of four characters as they live their harsh and gritty nocturnal lives on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karim Dridi
CAST:  Véra Briole  •  Francis Renaud  •  Raymond Gil  •  Blanca Li

Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005)

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Tasma
CAST:  Clotilde Courau  •  Thierry Fortineau  •  Jean-Michel Portal  •  Ouassini Embarek

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Tasma
CAST:  Clotilde Courau  •  Thierry Fortineau  •  Jean-Michel Portal  •  Ouassini Embarek

Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (1998)

Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Le Pêcheur
CAST:  Jean-Marc Barr  •  Martin Petit-Guyot  •  Patrick Catalifo  •  Gérard Loussine

Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Le Pêcheur
CAST:  Jean-Marc Barr  •  Martin Petit-Guyot  •  Patrick Catalifo  •  Gérard Loussine

Bleu Catacombes (2014)

The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlotte Brändström
CAST:  Patrick Chesnais  •  Camille Panonacle  •  Jane Birkin  •  Ludmila Mikaël

The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlotte Brändström
CAST:  Patrick Chesnais  •  Camille Panonacle  •  Jane Birkin  •  Ludmila Mikaël

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder (2012)

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine de Caunes
CAST:  Karin Viard  •  Jonathan Zaccaï  •  André Wilms  •  Jean-Michel Fête

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine de Caunes
CAST:  Karin Viard  •  Jonathan Zaccaï  •  André Wilms  •  Jean-Michel Fête

Bâtards (2002)

Returning from a vacation in Spain in September, Agathe, a dental technician, and her husband Alexandre, a salesman, break down on a deserted stretch of freeway. They are then forced to follow a mechanic who appears out of nowhere. Towed to an isolated camp in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frédéric Saurel
CAST:  Vanille Attié  •  Laëtitia Lacroix  •  Fabrice Moussy  •  André Penvern

Returning from a vacation in Spain in September, Agathe, a dental technician, and her husband Alexandre, a salesman, break down on a deserted stretch of freeway. They are then forced to follow a mechanic who appears out of nowhere. Towed to an isolated camp in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frédéric Saurel
CAST:  Vanille Attié  •  Laëtitia Lacroix  •  Fabrice Moussy  •  André Penvern

Exit (2000)

Stan is young, but had already been in hell. Once he was accused in a series of brutal murders, though the evidence was not accurate. The verdict of the court sent him to hospital, where they hold dangerous mentally ill. A few years later at the urging of his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Megaton
CAST:  Patrick Fontana  •  Clotilde Courau  •  Féodor Atkine  •  Serge Blumental

Stan is young, but had already been in hell. Once he was accused in a series of brutal murders, though the evidence was not accurate. The verdict of the court sent him to hospital, where they hold dangerous mentally ill. A few years later at the urging of his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Megaton
CAST:  Patrick Fontana  •  Clotilde Courau  •  Féodor Atkine  •  Serge Blumental

Vaurien (2018)

After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the Agency for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mehdi Senoussi
CAST:  Romane Bohringer  •  Carlo Brandt  •  Moussa Maaskri  •  Pascal Elbé

After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the Agency for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mehdi Senoussi
CAST:  Romane Bohringer  •  Carlo Brandt  •  Moussa Maaskri  •  Pascal Elbé

My Mum, Cancer and Me (2019)

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yann Samuell
CAST:  Émilie Dequenne  •  Lorette Nyssen  •  Miveck Packa  •  Melchior Lebeaut

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yann Samuell
CAST:  Émilie Dequenne  •  Lorette Nyssen  •  Miveck Packa  •  Melchior Lebeaut

Select Hotel (1997)

The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurent Bouhnik
CAST:  Julie Gayet  •  Jean-Michel Fête  •  Serge Blumental  •  Marc Andréoni

The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurent Bouhnik
CAST:  Julie Gayet  •  Jean-Michel Fête  •  Serge Blumental  •  Marc Andréoni

No happy end (1998)

A man and a little girl taken hostage during a bank raid end up trapped in a claustrophobic closed environment. This is the start of a painful prychological confrontation between the two prisoners...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Megaton
CAST:  Morgane Bruna  •  Brigitte Cambay  •  Jean-Marc Delcambre  •  Pascal Demolon

A man and a little girl taken hostage during a bank raid end up trapped in a claustrophobic closed environment. This is the start of a painful prychological confrontation between the two prisoners...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Megaton
CAST:  Morgane Bruna  •  Brigitte Cambay  •  Jean-Marc Delcambre  •  Pascal Demolon

An arrangement (1998)

Alphonse Dutilleux, a Paris Shoemaker, closes shop and makes his way to the Bois de Boulogne, the male pick-up and prostitution scene. His wife and his son are waiting for him for dinner...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Blasco
CAST:  Frédérique Meininger  •  Jean-Christophe Bouvet  •  Jean-Michel Fête  •  Martine Audrain

Alphonse Dutilleux, a Paris Shoemaker, closes shop and makes his way to the Bois de Boulogne, the male pick-up and prostitution scene. His wife and his son are waiting for him for dinner...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Blasco
CAST:  Frédérique Meininger  •  Jean-Christophe Bouvet  •  Jean-Michel Fête  •  Martine Audrain

1999 Madeleine (1999)

1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurent Bouhnik
CAST:  Véra Briole  •  Manuel Blanc  •  Anouk Aimée  •  Jean-François Gallotte

1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laurent Bouhnik
CAST:  Véra Briole  •  Manuel Blanc  •  Anouk Aimée  •  Jean-François Gallotte

Barrage (2006)

Sabine, a 30-year-old woman, has recently moved to an isolated house near to a river with a dam. She is accompanied by her son Thomas, aged 15. As she tries to settle into her new home, Sabine experiences a series of strange phenomena. She cannot bear to see her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raphaël Jacoulot
CAST:  Nade Dieu  •  Hadrien Bouvier  •  Anaïs Demoustier  •  Aurélia Petit

Sabine, a 30-year-old woman, has recently moved to an isolated house near to a river with a dam. She is accompanied by her son Thomas, aged 15. As she tries to settle into her new home, Sabine experiences a series of strange phenomena. She cannot bear to see her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raphaël Jacoulot
CAST:  Nade Dieu  •  Hadrien Bouvier  •  Anaïs Demoustier  •  Aurélia Petit
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