Patrick Raynal Movies

Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the ar...

In Saint Gilles, in the Brionnais, country of churches that invites serenity, the atmosphere becomes gradually agonizing, the past playing with the pr...

Cécile has returned to her childhood village. She is going to marry François. But a meteorological phenomenon will turn everything upside down.

A young mother caught up in an uncontrollable spiral of passion after meeting a stranger abandons everything and leaves Paris.

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Adeline...

They're broke and they're going on vacation in a cave, an economical solution...

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

A young miller takes under her protection an orphan brought up by an old woman.

Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his psychoanalyst, Charles, hits him with the news: his...

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

A police captain specialized in Crime History is investigating on the discovery of a corpse found on the beach of Saint-Malo. She tries to convince he...

Based on the novel by George Sand.

A historical television film directed by Jean‑Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, Richelieu, or The Day of the Dupes recounts the political tensions that c...

A child from Senegal is adopted by a French family in the Bretagne soon learns that she is not the only child.