Patrice Leconte

He first came to international attention in 1989 with Monsieur Hire which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Filmography

L'espace vital (short) (1969)
Le laboratoire de l'angoisse (short) (1971)
La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul) (short) (1973)
Les Vécés étaient fermés de l'interieur (1976)
Les Bronzés (1978)
Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Viens chez moi j'habite chez une copine (1981)
Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982)
Circulez y'a rien à voir (1983)
Les Spécialistes (1985)
Tandem (1987)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Le Mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband) (1990)
Tango (1993)
Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994) based upon the novel Villa triste by Patrick Modiano
Le Batteur Du Boléro (short) (1995)
Les Grands Ducs (1996)
Ridicule (1996)
Une chance sur deux (1998)
La Fille sur le pont (The Girl On the Bridge) (aka Girl on the Bridge in the United States)(1999)
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre) (2000)
Félix et Lola (2001)
Rue des plaisirs (2002)
L'homme du train (The Man on the Train) (aka Man on the Train in the United States) (2002)
Confidences trop intimes (Intimate Strangers) (2004)
Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux (documentary) (2004)
Les Bronzés 3 : Amis pour la vie (2006)
Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend) (2006)
Trac (short) (2007)
Dix films pour en parler (short) (2007)
La guerre des miss (2008)
Voir la mer (2011)
The Suicide Shop (2012)
A Promise (2013). He directed his first feature film in 1976 and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France.

Patrice Leconte (born November 12 1947 in Paris France) is a French film director actor comic strip writer and screenwriter.