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Patrice Leconte

Patrice Leconte

French film director and screenwriter
November 12, 1947 (77 years old)
Fr. 2022. Crime drama by Patrice Leconte with Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste, Mélanie Bernier. While investigating the death of a young girl whom no one seems to have known, Inspector Maigret meets a thief who bears a striking resemblance to the victim.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Patrice Leconte with Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valérie Bonneton. A dentist is constantly interrupted while trying to listen to a rare jazz record he found at the flea market.
Runtime: 79 min.

A Promise

V.O.: Une Promesse
Runtime: 98 min.

The Suicide Shop

V.O.: Le Magasin des suicides
Fr. 2012. Animation by Patrice Leconte. A family of shopkeepers specializing in products to commit suicide welcomes with fear the birth of a son gifted with happiness.
Runtime: 79 min.
Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Pauline Lefevre, Nicolas Giraud, Clément Sibony. Escaping from her abusive spouse, a young woman goes to the sea with two mechanic brothers, one of whom is heartbroken.
Runtime: 91 min.
Can. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Mary McGuckian with Donald Sutherland, Larry Mullen Jr., Graham Greene. A thief, who has lost his nerve, comes to rob a bank in the provinces and is taken in by a retired professor of literature in search of excitement.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Patrice Leconte with Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy, Jacques Mathou. A failed actor drags the contestants from his village to a beauty contest that is invariably won by the prettier girls from the rival ski resort.
Runtime: 85 min.

My Best Friend

V.O.: Mon meilleur ami
Fr. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet. Accused of being unsociable by his relatives, an art dealer bets on finding a best friend.
Runtime: 94 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.
Fr. 2004. Essay film by Patrice Leconte. Different slices of urban and rural life captured on the spot in Cambodia.
Runtime: 79 min.

Intimate Strangers

V.O.: Confidences trop intimes
Fr. 2003. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy. An unstable woman confides her marital problems to a lonely tax attorney whom she mistakenly takes for her new psychologist.
Runtime: 104 min.

Man on the Train

V.O.: L'Homme du train
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin. A disillusioned thief robs a rural bank and is taken in by a retired professor in search of excitement.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love Street

V.O.: Rue des Plaisirs
Fr. 2001. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Patrick Timsit, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Elbaz. A simple man who grew up happily in a Parisian brothel falls in love with a young prostitute and becomes her protector.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2000. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Philippe Torreton, Alain Bashung. A bumper car owner falls for a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

V.O.: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre
Fr. 1999. Drama by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica. In 1850, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a man condemned to death became the prot
Runtime: 112 min.

The Girl on the Bridge

V.O.: La Fille sur le pont
Fr. 1998. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis, Demetre Georgalas. A suicidal young woman is taken in by a knife thrower who makes her his assistant.
Runtime: 92 min.

Une Chance sur deux

V.O.: 1 Chance sur 2
Fr. 1997. Police comedy by Patrice Leconte with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant.
Runtime: 102 min.
Runtime: 85 min.

Yvonne's Perfume

V.O.: Le Parfum d'Yvonne
Fr. 1993. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani. In the late 1950s, a young Parisian staying in Switzerland falls in love with an actress who always has her homosexual mentor by her side.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1992. Satire by Patrice Leconte with Thierry Lhermitte, Richard Bohringer, Philippe Noiret. Six years after acquitting an airman accused of killing his wife, a judge forces him to kill his nephew's wife.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Hairdresser's Husband

V.O.: Le Mari de la coiffeuse
Fr. 1990. Mores comedy by Patrice Leconte with Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Maurice Chevit. Fascinated by hairdressers since his childhood, a man marries one of them and spends his time observing her.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Patrice Leconte with Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier. A reserved and unsociable man who is suspected of murder secretly watches his neighbour across the street with whom he is in love.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1987. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Leconte with Jean Rochefort, Gérard Jugnot, Sylvie Granotier. The tribulations of a radio game show host and technician whose daily broadcast takes place in a different location every time.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Patrice Leconte with Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean. Two escaped convicts team up to pull off a daring robbery of an underworld casino.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1982. Police comedy by Patrice Leconte with Michel Blanc, Jane Birkin, Jacques Villeret. Fascinated by a young woman he meets during a routine investigation, a police inspector creates more opportunities to see her.
Runtime: 90 min.
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Fr. 1975. Police comedy by Patrice Leconte with Jean Rochefort, Coluche, Roland Dubillard. An assistant commissioner investigates the murder of a simple bus driver.
Runtime: 78 min.

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