The best Josiane Balasko’s movies

Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko

15/04/1950 (73 años)
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15 Minutes of War

15 Minutes of War
6.4/10
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.

The Tenant

The Tenant
7.6/10
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
5.6/10
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.

By the Grace of God

By the Grace of God
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/02/2019
  • Character: Irene, Emmanuel's mother
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.

Let the Sunshine In

Let the Sunshine In
6/10
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

French Fried Vacation 2

French Fried Vacation 2
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/11/1979
  • Character: Nathalie Morin
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-Claude, and Christiane.

French Twist

French Twist
6.4/10
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

French Fried Vacation 3

French Fried Vacation 3
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/2006
  • Character: Nathalie Morin
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

The Libertine

The Libertine
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistory
  • Release: 15/03/2000
  • Character: Baronne d'Holbach
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

Volontaire

Volontaire
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/2018
  • Character: La mère
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.

Dead Tired

Dead Tired
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/05/1994
  • Character: Josiane Balasko
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

The Hedgehog

The Hedgehog
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/07/2009
  • Character: Renée Michel
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.

A Happy Event

A Happy Event
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/09/2011
  • Character: Claire
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Santa Claus Is a Stinker
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1982
  • Character: Marie-Ange Musquin
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre.

Beaux-parents

Beaux-parents
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/06/2019
  • Character: Coline Rossi
When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?

The Race

The Race
3.5/10
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...

French Fried Vacation

French Fried Vacation
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/11/1978
  • Character: Nathalie Morin
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

The Roommates Party

The Roommates Party
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/2015
  • Character: La gardienne
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.

Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous

Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/2016
  • Character: la mère de Joséphine
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 26/10/1983
  • Character: la pharmacienne
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

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