Jacques Penot Movies

The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French...

Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after...

Charly, a young man in his thirties, is illiterate. He hides this handicap by combining humor and a sense of trickery. Charly found his mode of...

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes...

Two would be producers launch a singer's career.

Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.

In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by doing...

A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.