Biography
Patrice Leconte (born November 12, 1947, in Paris, France) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrice Leconte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Patrice Leconte, le regardeur
2024
as Self
Simenon est Maigret
2023
as Self
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
2023
as Self - Filmmaker
On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Louis de Funès, this documentary by Jacques Pessis pays tribute to the cult actor by retra...
The Sofa
2022
Author, Director
In a supermarket, in the sofa section, director Fabien Romains comes to choose the sofa that will be the main feature of the set for his next play. Pr...
Maigret
2022
Screenplay, Director
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand...
Une histoire extraordinaire
2021
as Self
Directed By Blake Edwards
2021
as Self
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
as Self
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and c...
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
as Self
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.
Poor Bastards
2019
Director
Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, b...
Le cri du rhinocéros
2018
as Self
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him....
La La La
2018
as Self - Director
When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new elem...
In viaggio con Adele
2018
as Dumonde
Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mo...
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
as Self
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a mak...
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017
as Self
René Goscinny, Our Uncle From Armorica
2017
as Self
The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached to the p...
Do Not Disturb
2014
Director
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have con...
Ballad of Imprisonment: Making Blanche
2014
as Self
A documentary about the making of Walerian Borowczyk's 'Blanche'.
Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
2014
as Self
Tati…par le geste
2013
as Self
A Promise
2013
Screenplay, Director
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, th...
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013
as Self
Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture ...
The Suicide Shop
2012
Director, Lyricist, Screenplay
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to...
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
as Self
Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Voir la Mer
2011
Director, Screenplay
Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long t...
Beauties at War
2009
Director
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
Souvenirs and Evocations
2008
as Self
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
My Stars
2008
as Patrice Leduc
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for th...
Leconte on Leconte
2008
as Self
My Best Friend
2006
Director, Screenplay
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. S...
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006
Director
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux
2004
Director
Director Patrice Leconte weaves an impressionistic, sensorial tapestry of existence in and around early 21st-century Cambodia. Journeying through the ...
Grosse chaleur
2004
Stage Director
On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in...
Their First Films
2004
Director
Intimate Strangers
2004
Director, Adaptation
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, ...
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...
Man on the Train
2002
Director
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetr...
Love Street
2002
Director
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Felix and Lola
2001
Director, Screenplay
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers th...
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000
Writer, Director
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in ...
The Girl on the Bridge
1999
Director
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone...
Half a Chance
1998
Director, Writer
Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one...
Ridicule
1996
Director
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
The Grand Dukes
1996
Director, Writer
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of cour...
Lumière & Company
1995
Director
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
Son of Gascogne
1995
as Self
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
The Perfume of Yvonne
1994
Director, Writer
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye o...
Tango
1993
Director, Screenplay
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to black...
The Drummer of Ravel's Boléro
1992
Writer, Director
Probably no one in the public listening to the orchestra's rendition of Ravel's Bolero notices him but the drummer is a regular hero. For, although hi...
Against Oblivion
1991
Director
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea ...
The King of Ads
1991
Director
A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-...
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a youn...
Monsieur Hire
1989
Scenario Writer, Adaptation, Dialogue
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local...
Tandem
1987
as Le candidat malchanceux
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistan...
Tandem
1987
Director, Screenplay
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistan...
The Specialists
1985
Screenplay, Director
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the ...
Marche à l'ombre
1984
as Man at the Katrina show (uncredited)
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here ...
Pinot simple-flic
1984
as Le voyageur incommodé
The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josya...
Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
1983
Director, Writer
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen p...
Singles
1982
Director, Writer
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night gu...
Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
1981
Director, Adaptation
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.
French Fried Vacation 2
1979
Director
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Cla...
French Fried Vacation
1978
Director, Writer
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, co...
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976
Director, Scenario Writer
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assista...
And my name is Marcel Gotlib ou Tout à la plume, rien au pinceau
1974
Director
Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.
The Happy Family
1973
Writer, Director
An otherwise perfect family find themselves in an abnormal situation.
Blanche
1972
Assistant Director
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his ...
The Laboratory of Fear
1971
Director
All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night af...
Un troisième
1970
as Le stagiaire
Shots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears.