Biography
Philippe Le Guay is a French screenwriter, film director and occasional actor. He studied film at the IDHEC and began his career as a screenwriter before directing his first feature film Les Deux Fragonard in 1989. He is known for his work on The Women on the 6th Floor (2010), which was well received at the French box office, and the César Award-nominated Bicycling with Molière (2013).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Story of Annette Zelman
2022
Director
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of ...
Quand les bourgeois font leur cinéma
2022
as Self - Réalisateur
The Man in the Basement
2021
Screenplay, Co-Producer, Director
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing ...
¡Ay, Carmen!
2018
as Self - Filmmaker
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...
Normandy Nude
2018
Writer, Director
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them dow...
Florida
2015
Director, Adaptation
Although he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. But his bouts of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming i...
Not My Type
2014
as Le modérateur conférence philosophie
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and ...
Cycling with Molière
2013
Director, Writer, Original Story
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atl...
My Little Princess
2011
Writer
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is ...
The Women on the 6th Floor
2011
Screenplay, Director
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of ...
His Name Was Vian
2011
Director
In a cinema, the day of the premiere of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (adapted from his novel), Boris Vian has a heart attack. During his discomfort, ...
One Fine Day
2006
Director, Writer
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to ...
Textiles
2004
as The regular at the bakery
Sophie and Olivier are a couple leading a straightforward life. They’re bakers in Paris and their lives are regulated by the constraints of their job....
The Cost of Living
2003
Director, Writer
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodig...
Night Shift
2001
Director
A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent gu...
After Sex
1997
Writer
The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.
Tout ce qui brille
1996
Scenario Writer
Laurence is 30 years old, has a loving husband and an exciting job. But her happiness is not complete because, despite numerous attempts, she is unabl...
The Juliette Year
1995
Director, Writer
Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has ...
Urgence d'aimer
1993
Scenario Writer, Director
Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to don...
Août
1992
as The bar owner
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.
Rhesus-Romeo
1992
Director
When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees witho...
Lapse of Memory
1991
Writer
After a terrible accident, a psychatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks we learn that his family had to flee from New York afte...
Overseas
1990
Screenplay
In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gild...
Every Other Weekend
1990
Writer
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's ...
Les Deux Fragonard
1989
Director, Writer
The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and ...
Cayenne Palace
1987
Writer
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft so...
August 15th
1986
Scenario Writer
In a villa by the sea, in August, a woman spends her vacation with another young woman, her son and an au pair. She awaits the return of her husband w...
Les deux Fragonard
1986
Director
The painter Honoré Fragonard lives in a sort of beehive surrounded by attractive female models, of which Marianne, his mistress and muse, is the queen...
Grosse
1985
Screenplay
A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.
Il ne faut jurer de rien
1983
Writer