The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes from stressful to insane when she is told that she is a project finalist for the design of a massive European hospital. She and her working husband Philippe try desperately to balance their commitments to their kids, careers, and themselves.

Love Is Better Than Life

2021

French

5.3

Claude Lelouch Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Elsa

Béatrice Dalle as L'avocate du diable

Robert Hossein as Robert Prat

Sandrine Bonnaire as Sandrine Massaro

Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.

With Open Arms

2017

French

5.5

15%

Comedy

france

Philippe de Chauveron Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Daphné Fougerole

Barbara Hellemans as Guest at party

Christian Clavier as Jean-Etienne Fougerole

Oscar Berthe as Lionel Fougerole

Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.

Tout nous sourit

2020

French

5.4

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Mélissa Drigeard Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Audrey Pottier

Rio Vega as Bastien

Stéphane De Groodt as Jérôme Pottier

Anne Benoît as Suzanne Pottier

The members of an apparently happy couple, each with their respective lovers, have the same idea: spending the weekend at their holiday home. Finding each other there is only the beginning of an awkward and hilarious weekend.

Amoureuse

1992

French

5.4

♡ 3

Jacques Doillon Director

Thomas Langmann as Antoine

Elsa Zylberstein as Clairvoyant

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Marie

Yvan Attal as Paul

Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him. She puts him off by saying that she and Antoine have decided to have a baby. When Antoine returns, he becomes vividly jealous of his girlfriend's chaste encounter, which provokes her into having an affair with Paul.

Isn't She Lovely?

2020

French

4.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Solange Cicurel Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Emma

Hélène Vincent as Grand-mère Rose

Roger Van Hool as Grand-Père Jo

Alex Vizorek as Journaliste radio

A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.

Van Gogh

1991

French

7.1

♡ 8

77%

Maurice Pialat Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Cathy

André Bernot as La Butte Rouge

Edith Vesperini as Les filles

Jacques Dutronc as Vincent Van Gogh

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.

Man Is a Woman

1998

French

6.1

♡ 4

marriage of convenience

Jean-Jacques Zilbermann Director

Gad Elmaleh as David

Elsa Zylberstein as Rosalie Baumann

Antoine de Caunes as Simon Eskanazy

Lee Delong as (uncredited)

Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.

Rolling to You

6.5

Franck Dubosc Director

Christophe Canard as Jacques

Franck Dubosc as Jocelyn

Elsa Zylberstein as Marie

Marek Vasut as President of Sparta

Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.

A Bag of Marbles

2017

French

7.3

♡ 9

83%

brother brother relationship

occupied france (1940-44)

War

Christian Duguay Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Anna Joffo

Christian Clavier as Docteur Rosen

Martin Hub as Gunther

Marek Vasut as Patron de l'Hôtel du commerce

At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

Tomorrow We Move

2004

French

5.9

50%

Comedy

Drama

woman director

Chantal Akerman Director

Nade Dieu as Copine café 2

Catherine Aymerie as Dame agence studio

Emmanuel Clarke as Le passant

Elsa Zylberstein as Michèle

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Les têtes de l'emploi

2016

French

5.1

Comedy

Alexandre Charlot Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Cathy Bergin

Serpentine Teyssier as Conseillère 1 (qui bogge)

Franck Dubosc as Stéphane Martel

François-Xavier Demaison as Thierry

Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemployment to save their job.

Actors

Sort

View

Search

Farinelli

Je veux tout

Love Is Better Than Life

With Open Arms

Tout nous sourit

Amoureuse

Isn't She Lovely?

Van Gogh

Man Is a Woman

Rolling to You

A Bag of Marbles

Tomorrow We Move

Les têtes de l'emploi