Patrice Leconte
Director
Films to Rent
- Monsieur Hire (1988)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire
- A lonely, middle–aged tailor becomes obsessed with a glamourous but suspicious woman, whom he observes from his opposing apartment. Melancholy…
- Hairdresser's Husband, The (1991)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena
- Everything you may love or loathe about French movies is taken to an (intentional?) extreme in this whimsical venture into the one–track mind…
- Tango (1993)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer
- Left by his wife, Thierry Lhermitte hits the road to track her down with the help of his misogynist uncle, Phillippe Noiret. Hitman Richard Bohringer…
- Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani
- A deserter from the Algerian war falls for the charms of a beautiful actress and her gay companion at a lakeside hotel for pensioners. The director…
- Ridicule (1996)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant…
- Delightful Cesar–winning comedy set in the Court of Louis XVI in 1700s France where the King grants favours to those endowed with only the…
- Girl on the Bridge, The (1999)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
- This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch–Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.…
- La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (Widow Of Saint-Pierre) (1999)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Emir Kusturica, Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil
- In 1850, on a tiny island near Canada, an oafish Emir Kusturica is sentenced to die by guillotine.
While waiting for an executioner to arrive from…
- L'Homme du Train (Man on the Train) (2002)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday
- An elegantly amusing role–switching tale that's equal parts social comedy, existential drama and subtle thriller, tinged with melancholy…
- Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes) (2004)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Anne Brochet
- Another stylish excursion into suspensful romanticism for dir. Leconte (MONSIEUR HIRE), here premised on a woman's mistaken assumption that she is…
- Dogora (2004)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
- A filmic mediatation on Cambodia, loosely in the style of BARAKA, for which dir. Leconte travelled to the formerly wartorn country to capture the…