François Catonné Movies

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.

Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open...

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against...

Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He...

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits...

A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work,...

Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well...

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.

A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.

African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title...

The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as...

A César award nominated short drama.

A woman and a man recount their first sexual encounters to each other as they get out of bed and get dressed.

This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of ​​struggle of the Saharawi people and they...