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Josiane Balasko is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter French born on 15 april 1950 at Paris (France)
Among those, 23 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Josiane Balasko
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La provence, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Hiegel, Miguel Bosé
Roles Marijo
Rating63%
Laurent (Alain Chabat) and Loli (Victoria Abril) are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. He is an estate agent; she is a housewife. Laurent has extramarital affairs.
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating69%
Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), an investigator well known in Paris, is sent to the small rural university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. The victim's body is found bound in the fetal position and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. Niemans learns that the victim was a professor and the University's librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation to the removal of the eyes. Dr. Cherneze, once on the University staff, explains that the school's isolation led to in-breeding amongst the professors, with increasingly serious genetic disorders. Recently the trend has reversed, with the local village children becoming ill and the college babies remaining healthy. Cherneze hints that the killer is leaving Niemans clues to their motive by removing the body parts that are unique to each individual - the eyes and hands. Niemans questions the Dean and examines the librarian's apartment, where he finds images of athletic "supermen" juxtaposed with texts on genetic deformities. The Dean's assistant (and son) Hubert translates the title of Callois' Ph.D. thesis as, "We are the masters. We are the slaves. We are everywhere. We are nowhere. We control the crimson rivers.
Directed by Alain Chabat, Robert Kechichian
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Association football films, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Isabelle Gélinas, Lionel Abelanski, Josiane Balasko, Caroline Cellier
Roles Commentateur sportif, Jean-Philippe
Rating62%
Jean-Pierre, a soccer agent, has agreed to keep Didier, the dog of Annabelle, a friend who is a film journalist. During the night, the Labrador is transformed into a human, at least in appearance, but Didier is still a dog psychologically. Confronted by Richa from his famous soccer players, Fabrice and Baco, both injured only one week before a very important match against the Paris Saint-Germain. Didier is going to help him and replace the injured players. But the real mission of Didier is to reconcile Jean-Pierre and his girlfriend Maria.
, 1h45
Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette
Actors Coluche, Clémentine Célarié, Maruschka Detmers, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Frot, Luis Rego
Roles Jackie
Rating48%
On arrival in Paris, Paco, an international terrorist, is arrested, while his mistress Laura joins his accomplices. They all belong to terrorist and anarchist splinter group, Ravachol-Kropotkin, led by Paco. Meanwhile, Louie (Loulou) Dupin learns that her grandmother is dead and he is the sole heir of her Paris apartment. He also goes to Paris.
Directed by Claude Berri
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Children's films
Actors Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Charlotte de Turckheim, Roland Giraud, André Chaumeau
Roles Jacqueline Lajoie, depressed teacher
Rating59%
Gérard Barbier was a salesman clothing. Dismissed because he defended a child caught stealing boots, he decided to become a teacher. Once at school, he realized that this teacher profession is not quite like he saw it.
Directed by Patrice Leconte, Stéphane Clavier, Michel Such
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Le thème des vacances, Films based on plays
Actors Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte
Roles Nathalie Morin, la femme de Bernard
Rating66%
Gigi, Jerome, Christiane, Jean-Claude, and Bernard visit a resort in the Ivory Coast, the Club Med village of Assinie. Bernard subsequently meets up with his wife, Nathalie, who has already spent a week there, and they are all welcomed by Popeye and the eccentric emcees, Bobo and Bourseault.
Directed by Hervé Palud, Alain Nauroy
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Valérie Mairesse, Daniel Russo, Thomas M. Pollard
Roles Aline
Rating52%
Renvoyé de son énième emploi, Momo (Jacques Villeret) est violemment interpellé durant son bain, par son père (Michel Galabru) qui l'enjoint à quitter instamment le domicile familial. Aussitôt, il rejoint son ami Manu (Gérard Lanvin) qui est employé dans une cafétéria, vivant également sans le sou. Ils décident de se rendre dans une discothèque "underground" où Momo compte trouver Sammy (Thomas M. Pollard), un homme qui peut leur faire gagner de l'argent facilement.
Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet, Josiane Balasko, Roland Blanche, François Cluzet, Didier Bénureau
Roles Colette Chevassu
Rating66%
Barthélémy Bernard, owner of a BMW car dealership, is married to a beautiful woman, Florence, but he falls in love with a very plain-looking woman, Colette, who has been hired as an interim secretary to his store. This relationship will change his life, as much as Schubert's music.
Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors Jacques Villeret, Daniel Prévost, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier, Suzanne Flon, Gérard Hernandez
Roles Lulu Braconnier
Rating65%
1980, in a rural village in the Lyon region, Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost Joseph Poacher says "Jojo" and his wife Lucienne called "Lulu", nagging shrew and inveterate alcoholic, lead a married life for the less confrontational, in their farm located in a place called "Paradise". One day, Jojo watches on TV a story about a brilliant lawyer who is in his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo will find it. He tells her he killed his wife while he has not yet done so, by a set of very clever questions, is explaining how he would have had to make to be pretty sure to get the extenuating circumstances. Jojo in then returns to "Paradise" and begins to organize, as directed by the lawyer, the staging of the "perfect crime".
Directed by Michel Blanc
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films
Actors Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Roles Josiane Balasko
Rating63%
Michel Blanc is a great film actor. However, he was accused of sexually abusing Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathilda May, had behaved like a cad at Cannes and accept poor seals, such as animations in supermarkets, secretly his agent. The evidence is obvious, but White knows he is innocent. He is assisted by Carole Bouquet to shed light on this matter, and he discovers that he has a perfect double, Patrick Olivier, who, having suffered in his life to be like Michel Blanc, decided to enjoy.
Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Daniel Auteuil, Ariane Lartéguy, Martin Lamotte
Roles Lydie Langlois
Rating50%
Lydie has just paid a considerable rent deposit for a new flat when her boyfriend breaks up with her. Now she is alone in a flat she cannot afford. So she starts looking for a flatmate and finally chooses Eva, a model. Eventually Lydie gets to know Eva's friends and that changes her life.
, 1h23
Directed by Patrice Leconte, Stéphane Clavier
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Le thème des vacances, Sports d'hiver, Ski
Actors Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte
Roles Nathalie Morin, femme de Bernard
Rating73%
Friends of the first part can be found in the ski resort of Val d'Isere where Jerome, Gigi and Popeye work. Jerome and Gigi are now married : Gigi holds a pancake while Jerome exercised in his medical practice. Nathalie and Bernard, reconciled and fairly "new rich" are owners of a time share. Jean-Claude, always in search of a soul mate and still no seduction, desperately trying to dredge anything that moves. Christiane landed with a married man and much older than her, Marius. Popeye is now much less sure of himself: humiliated by his wife cheating on him with his cousin, he claims his friends that he is the manager of a ski shop when it was held by the same couple. During an exit off piste skiing, the group loses before being rescued by mountain peasants, which will make them taste artisan food and drink: first of pussy - a strong cheese soaked in fat , rinds, and wood alcohol for two or three seasons - and the shallot liquor found in garlic juice "because shallot alone, it s'rait too bland" in a parody of the famous scene Tontons gunslingers.
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Gérard Martin, Jean-Claude Dauphin
Roles Frède
Rating57%
Jacques Belin is a famous host of TV game awaits his bride in the cafe of the East Railway Station, it will never come to the appointment. He meets a woman named Fred freshly released from prison and charmless, consuming too in the bar, waiting for his train that should take him to Metz with her sister. Complete opposites, but their respective solitudes push to talk and drink together. There followed an eventful evening and wake ever memorable ...
Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, L'action se déroule en une journée, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, Santa Claus in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier, Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel
Roles Marie-Ange Musquin, présidente de l'association
Rating74%
Pierre a stuffy, self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure.
Directed by Josiane Balasko
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about dogs, Films about pigs, Demons in film, Psychanalyse, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry, Catherine Hiegel, Catherine Samie, Jean Benguigui
Roles Leah Lemonier
Rating56%
Leah Lemonnier (Josiane Balasko), 35 years ols, leads a dreary and depressing life between her work as secretary of a dentist who spends his time in scolded, her analyst (Richard Berry) who sees in it only a source of income, her neighbor, Mr. Schpil, sexually obsessed and party animal (Jean Benguigui) and his mother (Catherine Samie) nymphomaniac, selfish, greedy, narcissistic and contemptuous. But one day, she unwittingly invokes the devil. He have the face of a handsome devil, Abargadon says "Abar" (Daniel Auteuil), who offers her a deal: he starts her service until her death in exchange of her soul.
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Among those, 23 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actress
Add to a movie listFrench Twist (1995)
, 1h44Directed by Josiane Balasko
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La provence, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Hiegel, Miguel Bosé
Roles Marijo
Rating63%
Laurent (Alain Chabat) and Loli (Victoria Abril) are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. He is an estate agent; she is a housewife. Laurent has extramarital affairs.
Scriptwriter
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
, 1h47Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating69%
Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), an investigator well known in Paris, is sent to the small rural university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. The victim's body is found bound in the fetal position and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. Niemans learns that the victim was a professor and the University's librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation to the removal of the eyes. Dr. Cherneze, once on the University staff, explains that the school's isolation led to in-breeding amongst the professors, with increasingly serious genetic disorders. Recently the trend has reversed, with the local village children becoming ill and the college babies remaining healthy. Cherneze hints that the killer is leaving Niemans clues to their motive by removing the body parts that are unique to each individual - the eyes and hands. Niemans questions the Dean and examines the librarian's apartment, where he finds images of athletic "supermen" juxtaposed with texts on genetic deformities. The Dean's assistant (and son) Hubert translates the title of Callois' Ph.D. thesis as, "We are the masters. We are the slaves. We are everywhere. We are nowhere. We control the crimson rivers.
Actress
Didier (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Alain Chabat, Robert Kechichian
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Association football films, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Isabelle Gélinas, Lionel Abelanski, Josiane Balasko, Caroline Cellier
Roles Commentateur sportif, Jean-Philippe
Rating62%
Jean-Pierre, a soccer agent, has agreed to keep Didier, the dog of Annabelle, a friend who is a film journalist. During the night, the Labrador is transformed into a human, at least in appearance, but Didier is still a dog psychologically. Confronted by Richa from his famous soccer players, Fabrice and Baco, both injured only one week before a very important match against the Paris Saint-Germain. Didier is going to help him and replace the injured players. But the real mission of Didier is to reconcile Jean-Pierre and his girlfriend Maria.
, 1h45Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette
Actors Coluche, Clémentine Célarié, Maruschka Detmers, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Frot, Luis Rego
Roles Jackie
Rating48%
On arrival in Paris, Paco, an international terrorist, is arrested, while his mistress Laura joins his accomplices. They all belong to terrorist and anarchist splinter group, Ravachol-Kropotkin, led by Paco. Meanwhile, Louie (Loulou) Dupin learns that her grandmother is dead and he is the sole heir of her Paris apartment. He also goes to Paris.
Le Maître d'école (1981)
, 1h35Directed by Claude Berri
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Children's films
Actors Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Charlotte de Turckheim, Roland Giraud, André Chaumeau
Roles Jacqueline Lajoie, depressed teacher
Rating59%
Gérard Barbier was a salesman clothing. Dismissed because he defended a child caught stealing boots, he decided to become a teacher. Once at school, he realized that this teacher profession is not quite like he saw it.
French Fried Vacation (1978)
, 1h32Directed by Patrice Leconte, Stéphane Clavier, Michel Such
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Le thème des vacances, Films based on plays
Actors Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte
Roles Nathalie Morin, la femme de Bernard
Rating66%
Gigi, Jerome, Christiane, Jean-Claude, and Bernard visit a resort in the Ivory Coast, the Club Med village of Assinie. Bernard subsequently meets up with his wife, Nathalie, who has already spent a week there, and they are all welcomed by Popeye and the eccentric emcees, Bobo and Bourseault.
The Joint Brothers (1986)
, 1h30Directed by Hervé Palud, Alain Nauroy
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Valérie Mairesse, Daniel Russo, Thomas M. Pollard
Roles Aline
Rating52%
Renvoyé de son énième emploi, Momo (Jacques Villeret) est violemment interpellé durant son bain, par son père (Michel Galabru) qui l'enjoint à quitter instamment le domicile familial. Aussitôt, il rejoint son ami Manu (Gérard Lanvin) qui est employé dans une cafétéria, vivant également sans le sou. Ils décident de se rendre dans une discothèque "underground" où Momo compte trouver Sammy (Thomas M. Pollard), un homme qui peut leur faire gagner de l'argent facilement.
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
, 1h31Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet, Josiane Balasko, Roland Blanche, François Cluzet, Didier Bénureau
Roles Colette Chevassu
Rating66%
Barthélémy Bernard, owner of a BMW car dealership, is married to a beautiful woman, Florence, but he falls in love with a very plain-looking woman, Colette, who has been hired as an interim secretary to his store. This relationship will change his life, as much as Schubert's music.
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors Jacques Villeret, Daniel Prévost, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier, Suzanne Flon, Gérard Hernandez
Roles Lulu Braconnier
Rating65%
1980, in a rural village in the Lyon region, Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost Joseph Poacher says "Jojo" and his wife Lucienne called "Lulu", nagging shrew and inveterate alcoholic, lead a married life for the less confrontational, in their farm located in a place called "Paradise". One day, Jojo watches on TV a story about a brilliant lawyer who is in his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo will find it. He tells her he killed his wife while he has not yet done so, by a set of very clever questions, is explaining how he would have had to make to be pretty sure to get the extenuating circumstances. Jojo in then returns to "Paradise" and begins to organize, as directed by the lawyer, the staging of the "perfect crime".
Dead Tired (1994)
, 1h32Directed by Michel Blanc
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films
Actors Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Roles Josiane Balasko
Rating63%
Michel Blanc is a great film actor. However, he was accused of sexually abusing Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathilda May, had behaved like a cad at Cannes and accept poor seals, such as animations in supermarkets, secretly his agent. The evidence is obvious, but White knows he is innocent. He is assisted by Carole Bouquet to shed light on this matter, and he discovers that he has a perfect double, Patrick Olivier, who, having suffered in his life to be like Michel Blanc, decided to enjoy.
Men Prefer Fat Girls (1981)
, 1h26Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Daniel Auteuil, Ariane Lartéguy, Martin Lamotte
Roles Lydie Langlois
Rating50%
Lydie has just paid a considerable rent deposit for a new flat when her boyfriend breaks up with her. Now she is alone in a flat she cannot afford. So she starts looking for a flatmate and finally chooses Eva, a model. Eventually Lydie gets to know Eva's friends and that changes her life.
, 1h23Directed by Patrice Leconte, Stéphane Clavier
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Le thème des vacances, Sports d'hiver, Ski
Actors Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte
Roles Nathalie Morin, femme de Bernard
Rating73%
Friends of the first part can be found in the ski resort of Val d'Isere where Jerome, Gigi and Popeye work. Jerome and Gigi are now married : Gigi holds a pancake while Jerome exercised in his medical practice. Nathalie and Bernard, reconciled and fairly "new rich" are owners of a time share. Jean-Claude, always in search of a soul mate and still no seduction, desperately trying to dredge anything that moves. Christiane landed with a married man and much older than her, Marius. Popeye is now much less sure of himself: humiliated by his wife cheating on him with his cousin, he claims his friends that he is the manager of a ski shop when it was held by the same couple. During an exit off piste skiing, the group loses before being rescued by mountain peasants, which will make them taste artisan food and drink: first of pussy - a strong cheese soaked in fat , rinds, and wood alcohol for two or three seasons - and the shallot liquor found in garlic juice "because shallot alone, it s'rait too bland" in a parody of the famous scene Tontons gunslingers.
Nuit d'ivresse (1986)
, 1h30Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Gérard Martin, Jean-Claude Dauphin
Roles Frède
Rating57%
Jacques Belin is a famous host of TV game awaits his bride in the cafe of the East Railway Station, it will never come to the appointment. He meets a woman named Fred freshly released from prison and charmless, consuming too in the bar, waiting for his train that should take him to Metz with her sister. Complete opposites, but their respective solitudes push to talk and drink together. There followed an eventful evening and wake ever memorable ...
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
, 1h27Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, L'action se déroule en une journée, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, Santa Claus in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier, Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel
Roles Marie-Ange Musquin, présidente de l'association
Rating74%
Pierre a stuffy, self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure.
My Life Is Hell (1991)
, 1h48Directed by Josiane Balasko
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about dogs, Films about pigs, Demons in film, Psychanalyse, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry, Catherine Hiegel, Catherine Samie, Jean Benguigui
Roles Leah Lemonier
Rating56%
Leah Lemonnier (Josiane Balasko), 35 years ols, leads a dreary and depressing life between her work as secretary of a dentist who spends his time in scolded, her analyst (Richard Berry) who sees in it only a source of income, her neighbor, Mr. Schpil, sexually obsessed and party animal (Jean Benguigui) and his mother (Catherine Samie) nymphomaniac, selfish, greedy, narcissistic and contemptuous. But one day, she unwittingly invokes the devil. He have the face of a handsome devil, Abargadon says "Abar" (Daniel Auteuil), who offers her a deal: he starts her service until her death in exchange of her soul.