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Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko

French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter
April 15, 1950 (74 years old)

When Fall Is Coming

V.O.: Quand vient l'automne
Fr. 2024. Drama by François Ozon with Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Pierre Lottin. Deprived of her grandson for the summer by her hated daughter, a Burgundy pensioner takes under her wing her neighbor's son, recently released from prison.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2023. Drama by Arnaud des Pallières with Mélanie Thierry, Carole Bouquet, Marina Foïs. In Paris in 1894, a woman voluntarily committed herself to the Salpêtrière hospital, with the aim of finding her supposedly insane mother.
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Isabelle Mergault with Sylvie Testud, Lambert Wilson, Josiane Balasko. Suffering from back pain, an illustrious writer, soon to be admitted to the Académie française, consults a female healer who changes his life.
Runtime: 90 min.

Knock, Knock, It's Mom

V.O.: Un tour chez ma fille
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Éric Lavaine with Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner, Jérôme Commandeur. In the midst of questioning her love relationship, a woman accepts to temporarily house her controlling mother.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2021. Musical by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Mathieu Amalric, Bertrand Belin, Mélanie Thierry. A Parisian drifter, who has followed to Lourdes a young girl resembling the Virgin Mary, is mistaken for the missing son of a 60-year-old woman.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Alexandra Leclère with Josiane Balasko, Didier Bourdon, Marilou Berry. To ensure their two children's presence at Christmas, a retired couple make them believe they have won the lottery.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2020. Comedy by Julien Rambaldi with Josiane Balasko, Nicolas Maury, Léa Drucker. A midwife on the verge of retirement has to deal with an arrogant young obstetrician when five women come to give birth in their maternity ward.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Fabien Onteniente with Franck Dubosc, François-Xavier Demaison, Josiane Balasko. When his fiancée doesn’t show up at the airport, a man flies alone to a vacation resort in the Caribbean, where he has to share a room with an eternal bachelor.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Hector Cabello Reyes with Josiane Balasko, Didier Bourdon, Bénabar. Unable to bring themselves to stop seeing their beloved ex-son-in-law, some parents override their daughter's ban and continue seeing him on the sly.
Runtime: 83 min.

By the Grace of God

V.O.: Grâce à Dieu
Fr. 2018. Drama by François Ozon with Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud. The complaint of a family man made against the pedophile priest who assaulted him 30 years earlier triggers a wave of accusations in the Lyon region.
Runtime: 138 min.
Fr. 2018. Drama by Hélène Fillières with Diane Rouxel, Lambert Wilson, Corentin Fila. Enlisted as a volunteer in the French Navy, the daughter of a famous actress insists on taking her place among the men, which troubles her commander in more ways than one.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2016. Comedy by Diane Kurys with Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko.
Runtime: 90 min.

Back to Mom's

V.O.: Retour chez ma mère
Fr. 2016. Comedy by Éric Lavaine with Josiane Balasko, Alexandra Lamy, Mathilde Seigner. When her youngest daughter, an unemployed architect, has just moved in temporarily, a widow invites her two other children to a dinner party to introduce them to her new lover.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2014. Crime drama by Didier Le Pêcheur with Josiane Balasko, Joseph Malerba, Jean-Marie Winling. A lawyer defends a man accused of murdering his neighbor, a former sports star who had an affair with his wife.
Runtime: 98 min.

Gazelles

V.O.: Les Gazelles
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Mona Achache with Camille Chamoux, Audrey Fleurot, Joséphine de Meaux. A well-adjusted thirty-something leaves her partner to go on a clubbing spree with her new group of single friends.
Runtime: 99 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Éric Besnard with Clovis Cornillac, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot. In the midst of a marital crisis, a paramedic takes a break at the family farm where his mother has taken in the son of an undocumented African woman, ignoring her husband
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2012. Psychological drama by Alexandra Leclère with Mathilde Seigner, Marina Foïs, Josiane Balasko. Two forty-year-old Parisian women kidnap their cantankerous mother in Brittany to force her to reveal why she never loved them.
Runtime: 88 min.
Runtime: 101 min.

A Happy Event

V.O.: Un Heureux Événement
Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Rémi Bezançon with Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko. The difficult pregnancy, the painful delivery, and the post partum depression of a philosophy student, who feels unsupported by her spouse.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2010. Police comedy by Guillaume Nicloux with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Judith Godrèche, Josiane Balasko. A dentist is accused of murdering the owner of the country hotel where he was staying with his frigid wife and wild mother-in-law.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Comedy by Djamel Bensalah with Booder, Issa Doumbia, Steve Tran. A good-for-nothing from the Parisian suburbs is promoted to lieutenant and given the task of leading an investigation into a serial killer who preys on veiled women.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Mona Achache with Garance Le Guillermic, Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa. In an affluent Parisian building, the unexpected friendship between a surly concierge, a suicidal girl and a Japanese widower.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2008. Biography by Serge Le Péron with Josiane Balasko, Maxime Berger, Milan Argaud. In 1948, the doctor and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto takes an interest in two young boys, traumatized by the war and labeled irredeemable by the establishment.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2008. Mores comedy by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière with Samy Seghir, Rachida Brakni, Denis Podalydès. A teenager of Arab origin is forced to leave his housing estate in central France to live with an aunt in a wealthy suburb of Paris.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2008. Satire by Jean-Michel Ribes with Michel Blanc, Yolande Moreau, André Dussollier. The curator of a Parisian museum frequented by a motley crew sees his establishment threatened with destruction by the raging forces of nature.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Josiane Balasko with Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré. An attractive older woman who uses the services of male escorts begins an ambiguous affair with one young man who does it behind his fianc
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2007. Comedy by Gérard Krawczyk with Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot. In the 19th century, in the Pyrenees, a monk tries to prevent a couple of innkeepers from killing and robbing their customers.
Runtime: 95 min.

It's Our Life!

V.O.: La Vie est à nous!
Fr. 2005. Comedy by Gérard Krawczyk with Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, Eric Cantona. In a Savoyard village, the rivalry between two shopkeepers is exacerbated by a truckers' strike.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2005. Comedy by Patrice Leconte with Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel. The catastrophic reunion of an old group of friends in a luxury hotel in Sardinia run by one of them.
Runtime: 97 min.

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

V.O.: J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka
Fr. 2005. History by Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi with Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko. In 1966 in Paris, the production of a documentary on decolonization is compromised by the kidnapping of a Moroccan leader involved in the shooting.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2004. Police comedy by Nadine Monfils with Michel Blanc, Didier Bourdon, Josiane Balasko. A jaded police detective's investigation leads him to a seedy coffee shop where he believes the serial killer he's after is hiding.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Karin Viard. As he prepares to marry his young publicist, a writer sees his ex-wife, eight months pregnant, come into his life.
Fr. 2003. Crime drama by Guillaume Nicloux with Josiane Balasko, Éric Caravaca, Ange Rodot. A policewoman haunted by the accidental death of her young son and by terrifying nightmares investigates the suspicious suicide of an unknown woman.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2001. Satire by Gabriel Aghion with Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain. The antics of two eccentric friends in their fifties who party from morning till night.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2000. Comedy by Gabriel Aghion with Vincent Pérez, Fanny Ardant, Michel Serrault. While writing the article in his encyclopedia dealing with morality, the philosopher Diderot indulges in a life of provocative hedonism.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier. In 1980, a farmer who wants to kill his hateful wife gets a brilliant lawyer to give him a recipe for the perfect crime.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Frenchman's Son

V.O.: Le Fils du Français
Fr. 1999. Adventures by Gérard Lauzier with David-Alexandre Parquier, Josiane Balasko, Fanny Ardant. Eager to see his father, who is searching for gold in Brazil, a Parisian kid goes to the Amazon accompanied by his two grandmothers who hate each other.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1997. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Josiane Balasko, Christophe Lambert, Ennio Fantastichini. Las Vegas mobsters force an indebted gambler to go to France to seduce a waitress who doesn't know she's the heir to a huge fortune.
Runtime: 100 min.

Dead Tired

V.O.: Grosse Fatigue
Fr. 1994. Comedy by Michel Blanc with Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Josiane Balasko. A popular movie actor discovers that he has a look-alike who exploits his resemblance for criminal purposes.
Runtime: 84 min.

French Twist

V.O.: Gazon maudit
Fr. 1994. Sentimental comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1993. Drama by Aline Issermann with Sandrine Blancke, Alain Bashung, Mireille Perrier. The life of a family is turned upside down when the youngest daughter accuses her father of sexually abusing her.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann with Josiane Balasko, Maurice Bénichou, Catherine Hiegel. In 1958, a mother devotes herself to the cause of the Communist Party despite her husband's objections.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1991. Fantasy comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Daniel Auteuil, Michael Lonsdale. A plump spinster makes a deal with a messenger of the devil to be transformed into an irresistible seductress.
Runtime: 105 min.

Too Beautiful for You

V.O.: Trop belle pour toi
Fr. 1989. Sentimental comedy by Bertrand Blier with Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet. The husband of a beautiful woman falls madly in love with a secretary with no apparent charm.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1987. Police comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Jean-Pierre Léaud. A police officer from the vice squad disguises herself as a prostitute in order to infiltrate the prostitution scene.
Fr. 1986. Comedy by Bernard Nauer with Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, France Roche. Fresh out of prison, a young woman meets a drunken TV host who drags her to a social gathering.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Joint Brothers

V.O.: Les Frères Pétard
Fr. 1986. Comedy by Hervé Palud with Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko. Two friends try to sell marijuana in the margins of society in Paris that they stole from a trafficker.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1985. Sketches by François Leterrier with Michel Boujenah, Martin Lamotte, Gérard Jugnot. Illustration of various shortcomings of contemporary man.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1985. Dramatic comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Isabelle Huppert, Farid Chopel. The tribulations of a battered woman, a suicidal woman, and a small-time hoodlum, all three on the run.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1984. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Coluche, Marusckha Detmers, Luis Rego. A man inherits an apartment that is the hideout of a group of terrorists, which leads him on a wild adventure to Mexico.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1984. Comedy by Jean-Loup Hubert with Victor Lanoux, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Lavanant. An unemployed man sets out to find his unfaithful wife in Paris, bringing along his five children and an enamored housekeeper.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1983. Satire by Gérard Lauzier with Bernard Brieux, Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier. The tribulations of a complex eighteen-year-old teenager who is rebelling against his environment.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Jacques Monnet with Claude Brasseur, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Marielle. In order to neutralize the tax inspector in charge of checking her books, a socialite veterinarian sets out to seduce her.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1982. Satire by Jean-Marie Poiré with Thierry Lhermitte, Anémone, Gérard Jugnot. On Christmas Eve, various incidents disrupt the work of the employees of an association helping the needy.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1981. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Loup Hubert with Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1980. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Monnet with Thierry Lhermitte, Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko.
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1978. Psychological drama by Luc Béraud with Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont, Virginie Thévenet. A writer in need of inspiration goes through various misadventures.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1978. Mores comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré with Dominique Laffin, Roger Mirmont, Josiane Balasko. A young divorcee becomes attached to an architect and imposes herself on him despite his reluctance.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 83 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

We Will All Meet in Paradise

V.O.: Nous irons tous au paradis
Fr. 1977. Comedy by Yves Robert with Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme. The joys and troubles of four friends in their forties.
Runtime: 111 min.

This Sweet Sickness

V.O.: Dites-lui que je l'aime
Fr. 1977. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Dominique Laffin. A young man is madly in love with an old friend who has married someone else.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1977. Comedy by Francis Fehr with Josiane Balasko, Martin Lamotte, Jean-Louis Lapasset. A young woman is obsessed with her weight and the importance of computers in her daily routine.

The Tenant

V.O.: Le Locataire
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Roman Polanski with Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas. A man moves into an apartment left vacant after his tenant's suicide and is overcome by anxiety.
Runtime: 125 min.

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