Catherine Lachens Movies

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier)...

How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?

The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a...

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats...

During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One...

On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.

Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things...

Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un...

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired...

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger,...

Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.

An intimate report on Paris. A heavy, mysterious night-time Paris: that of a young homosexual wandering the streets in search of desire.

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and...

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers)...

A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state...